Ideal Whippet?

[mackem 26,321]

Whippet types from when i was a kid,loads of them around the north-east back then,always usefull.

[jeemes 4,481]

great pic mate,are they non ped?

[mackem 26,321]

Yes mate,just local dogs i dont think we knew what a pedigree was back then as long as they could catch gear.

[bobza 910]

I have seen some very good working whippets bred from MB stuff(SS lines,Soul Boy,Strike while the Iron`s hot etc,etc).These produce dogs around 21" tts and 30+ lbs.The ones I`ve seen are really strong with a huge prey drive.I`ve not seen better as rabbit catchers.They are like heat seeking missiles on bunnies.

, Edited April 17, 2016 by bobza

[morton 5,368]

It's a well known fact, especially on here, that whippets are useless as working dogs. Just get a bull cross, WILL catch everything, pre ban or otherwise, mice to red deer

Its a well known fact that they are not the hunting dog of choice because they lack to much in the field.IF they are worked to their working potential they are as honest a dog,in the field,as many.The problems arise when the Whippet is portrayed as the ultimate hunting companion,the same problems never arise when the Whippet is portrayed at what it excels at.Im a big Whippet fan,especially with the honest posts a Whippet owner on here posts.Id not own a Whippet,or a cross because of what they lack in the field,id own one tomorrow if i hunted within in their honest constraints.

[TAXI DRIVER 549]

 

I have seen some very good working whippets bred from MB stuff(SS lines,Soul Boy,Strike while the Iron`s hot etc,etc).These produce dogs around 21" tts and 30+ lbs.The ones I`ve seen are really strong with a huge prey drive.I`ve not seen better as rabbit catchers.They are like heat seeking missiles on bunnies.

very good line and now the line I have in my kennels ,bred a litter last year and the stuff came out that line was true to the breeding ,today ive just seen a black dog I bred and hes going to be 22tts and looks just like soulboy ,strong stuff bred to work ,atb bobza

 

 

Nice one mate.

[TAXI DRIVER 549]

 

I have seen some very good working whippets bred from MB stuff(SS lines,Soul Boy,Strike while the Iron`s hot etc,etc).These produce dogs around 21" tts and 30+ lbs.The ones I`ve seen are really strong with a huge prey drive.I`ve not seen better as rabbit catchers.They are like heat seeking missiles on bunnies.

There's been pure whippets as big as that, and bigger, long before MB started breeding his dogs, which incidentally are derived from a lot of laguna breeding. I owned a bich 30 years ago that was 21.5" tts, that was mainly nimrodel, cockrow and nevedith bred. And the sire and dam of my last whippet, different breeding, but with some same dogs in pedigree, 24 years ago were 22.5" and 21.5" respectively. Big whippets are not a recent or rare thing.

Not being funny, just highlighting that there's pretty much always been big, and small, purebred whippets about

 

 

I agree with what you`re saying mate,you have a lot of experience with whippets. I was just saying that some of the whippets that have really impressed me in the field have been bred down from the dogs I mentioned.They seem to throw a similar stamp of dog which I think are an ideal size.

[Moorside 642]

Whippet types from when i was a kid,loads of them around the north-east back then,always usefull.

Nice to see old pics thanks for sharing pal.

[jeemes 4,481]

Any decent litters about

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[Moorside 642]

 

 

It's a well known fact, especially on here, that whippets

are useless as working dogs. Just get a bull cross, WILL catch everything, pre ban or otherwise, mice to red deer

 

 

Its a well known fact that they are not the hunting dog of choice because they lack to much in the field.IF they are worked to their working potential they are as honest a dog,in the field,as many.The problems arise when the Whippet is portrayed as the ultimate hunting companion,the same problems never arise when the Whippet is portrayed at what it excels at.Im a big Whippet fan,especially with the honest posts a Whippet owner on here posts.Id not own a Whippet,or a cross because of what they lack in the field,id own one tomorrow if i hunted within in their honest constraints.

All crosses have there limitations fact, some more than others. To be fair reading the threads like this on whippets and whippet xs etc no one is really making out like they are the answer to every running dog mans prayers.

[bobza 910]

 

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Edited April 17, 2016 by bobza

[jigsaw 11,863]

heres another of Trevor jumping in a 5 and a half foot high window,lol hes got some spring in him...

 

http://s67.photobucket.com/user/ld387/media/UOWX7945_zpsgrpaitsz.mp4.html

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

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Made me chuckle that lol not for me, I'm just being nosey and besides I know a breeder that would gift me one. Tho I'd be more interested in a non ped if I'm honest and was seriously gonna get onee

You thought about whippet X lurcher? As in one parent a racey lurcher and the other a whippet?

 

Just chucking the idea out there. Might be a shit idea. Lol.

 

Saw one a few years ago and it was a belter. Think the Dam was collie/bull/whip/grey and Sire racing whippet. Was a really nice animal. Looked like a strong 22" whippet.

[shaaark 10,729]

 

 

 

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Made me chuckle that lol not for me, I'm just being nosey and besides I know a breeder that would gift me one. Tho I'd be more interested in a non ped if I'm honest and was seriously gonna get onee

You thought about whippet X lurcher? As in one parent a racey lurcher and the other a whippet?

 

Just chucking the idea out there. Might be a shit idea. Lol.

 

Saw one a few years ago and it was a belter. Think the Dam was collie/bull/whip/grey and Sire racing whippet. Was a really nice animal. Looked like a strong 22" whippet.

 

Gaz.that's been done a LOOONG LOOONG time ago. And some VERY good hare killers have been the result, and gone into some very good hare coursing strains/lines, whether the owners would like to admit or not. Whippet?! oooooh!

[Somewhereyournot 1,117]

Everything in them coursing dogs, proper mongrels lol