Joshua Wheeler 60 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 ????? Heavy weight boxers allways get knocked out, lightwieghts go the distance and take 100s of blows. Bone is bone, which will break the bone? 10 kg at 30mph or 30kg at 30mph Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 Your spot on about the sickening noise mate ... The bitch hit the stump somersaulted over and lay still ... We looked at each other and said she's dead ... By the time I got to her she was starting to get up and an hour later after resting in the truck she was full on to go again ... It was a few days later that the injury started telling on her ...... 2 Quote Link to post
eastcoast 4,175 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 The arguments regarding a whippet's suitability as a rabbiting dog will, hopefully, continue long into the future. My take on it is what is your reason for owning a dog that can catch rabbits ? If a person NEEDS to catch rabbits, for whatever reason, then a whippet will probably not be the best breed type. That's why lurchers exist. If a person just LIKES to catch rabbits then a whippet can be a rabbit dog without equal. 4 Quote Link to post
Phil Lloyd 10,738 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 (edited) True words,...few canines can match a well schooled whippet, when it comes to quicksilver reflexes,... Been around these keen little jukels since my early days as a rabbiter.... I've, raced, coursed and hunted, with whippets, both KC registered types and Hard Blood, Non-Peds.. They are great fun and most of my contemporaries kept them for the ferreting game... However,..comparisons with other types need not be made....it is foolish.... Nowadays I choose to keep, what I term as a Cur dog,...a whippet based animal, heavily influenced by Herding dog genes... Such a critter lacks the lightening speed and strike of the whippet,..but not by much,....and the tractability and basic intelligence of such a purpose bred canine, is not on a par with a working Collie or Kelpie,....but not by much.... Whippets or Lurchers,...for me,...they are all the best of creatures,... Edited July 4, 2016 by Phil Lloyd 9 Quote Link to post
matt1979 766 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 Any running dog that hits a tough object like a tree head on Is living a charmed life and we should be thankfully if they survive. But to think it's breed specific and a whippet would have died in the same scenario as opposed to a lurcher surviving is fooling yourself in my eyes, purely down to luck. A millimetre the other way on impact and it's goodnight for any running dog no matter what stature. Yes some are more robust than others some have better feet than others but when it comes to a big collision it's purely like as to where they impact and how they fall IMO 2 Quote Link to post
green lurchers 16,729 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 (edited) folk who work a decent whippet never compare them to lurchers as most have owned /worked both , they accept they got a handy little animal,, folk who make sweeping statements on the feet coat lack of stamina hitting trees or suchlike just havnt seen a decent whippet , folk who generalise often have little knowledge and do just that generalise Edited July 4, 2016 by green lurchers 7 Quote Link to post
Trev70 5,185 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 The arguments regarding a whippet's suitability as a rabbiting dog will, hopefully, continue long into the future. My take on it is what is your reason for owning a dog that can catch rabbits ? If a person NEEDS to catch rabbits, for whatever reason, then a whippet will probably not be the best breed type. That's why lurchers exist. If a person just LIKES to catch rabbits then a whippet can be a rabbit dog without equal. The lurcher was bred to catch with the least amount of effort possible to fill the pot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnbNaCGDy7g Quote Link to post
Trev70 5,185 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhbSwO-WxE Quote Link to post
Trev70 5,185 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozco1i_0UP0 Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 folk who work a decent whippet never compare them to lurchers as most have owned /worked both , they accept they got a handy little animal,, folk who make sweeping statements on the feet coat lack of stamina hitting trees or suchlike just havnt seen a decent whippet , folk who generalise often have little knowledge and do just that generalise Lol .... Shivery weak footed windy useless fukcing things ...... Quote Link to post
green lurchers 16,729 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 folk who work a decent whippet never compare them to lurchers as most have owned /worked both , they accept they got a handy little animal,, folk who make sweeping statements on the feet coat lack of stamina hitting trees or suchlike just havnt seen a decent whippet , folk who generalise often have little knowledge and do just that generalise Lol .... Shivery weak footed windy useless fukcing things ...... I thought your pups looked ok from the pictures 2 Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 folk who work a decent whippet never compare them to lurchers as most have owned /worked both , they accept they got a handy little animal,, folk who make sweeping statements on the feet coat lack of stamina hitting trees or suchlike just havnt seen a decent whippet , folk who generalise often have little knowledge and do just that generalise Lol .... Shivery weak footed windy useless fukcing things ...... I thought your pups looked ok from the pictures Them pups are hardier than a fully grown whippet ....... Quote Link to post
bobza 910 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 30, 2016 by bobza 11 Quote Link to post
socks 32,253 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 started off as a good topic then you get other people coming on talking a loads of s.it ,lets get one of your collies out with my saluki x for a night on the lamp and bring you daft mate with his supa camras and my red dog will put them to shame ,cant belive what I'm reading on this topic ,was a whippet thread and trying to compare with this and that is doing no good ,lets compare collies which ive owned in the past to my saluki lurcher ,there steady have a good brain maybe to much ,good feet ,good coat ,and can be very good dogs in the right hands ,what they havnt got is an extra gear for the big land they don't no how to go up and down the gears ,most will cock on the teeth ,for the big stuff there just one step or maybe 100 yards behind a good saluki lurcher ,I will never keep a collie again there nowt but jackers maybe not all but the ones I have seen or ran they were and or on a different wave level to a good running dog ,collies have one gear just like a whippet and the rest is in the heart ,my whippet has put plenty gear to sleep more than my sh.t deerhound ,I thought when I got a deerhound it was going to be plain sailing but no what I thought was wrong she never made the grade ,I got a whippet for bunny bashing but she ended up taking what my deerhound was supposed to be taking ,all the people that need to compare dogs have got to start looking at there selfs ,theres nowt to prove in this game and them dogs will hit something that makes them die one day ,RIP RIP that's what we all say ,and socks you come on here and slagg them off much as you want , don't give a f.uk you've been on here for years with all your posts and pals to back you ,you are a sad man ,even seen you putting pics up of your pups scran lol my pups eat this and that ,if you were any good dog man you wouldn't need to run to the butchers for a bit meat, sort your head out and stop being a child ,whippets are canny little dogs in the right hands ,bobza Well it's lucky my dogs are collie grey saluki grey with a dash of whippet then ... According to your amazing insight I have the best of everything in my dogs lol ... Your the only one one on here throwing challenges out with your super red dog ... And I only put up pictures of what my pups eat in the hope that people like you will learn something lol .... Shivery fukcing useless things ....... Quote Link to post
tb25 4,627 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 That bit of bull ken as well .lol Quote Link to post
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