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  1. wuyang
    Found this on Youtube......maybe an Italian Greyhound, but it certainly has working whippet attributes... http://www.youtube.com/user/Gabban38
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    SCUM
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    Nice one pal, wish there more like you.
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    Any pics?
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    Don't know how it works for me but i just put them in photobucket them copy and paste them...seems to do it all for me...never had to resize...don't know why.
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    Sorry to hear it pal. How old was he?
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    I think a reasonable price is £150, but a recent look on epupz out of curiosity shocked me...grey/bed pups £300...what!!!!! You can tell which ones breed for the money. I know a lot of people rave about kc working whippets, but the prices some people ask to me is silly money, i know they are a pedigree, but at the end of the day you are buying it to work and not put through crufts. You can get a top class racing whippet puppy for much less than what most people are asking for a working whippet..seems crazy.
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    I think you are going to have your work cut out, its not as if you can gradually get him used to them. I used to work a full collie bitch, she was always mad for work, but if she sensed thunder well that was it game over. There was nothing i could do to get her over this. On the other hand if my collie/greyhound sees or hears somebody in the park with a remote control aeroplane it does distracts her loads more than my other dogs, although she wants to chase it rather than run from it. Good luck.
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    So everybody whos out there working their lurchers and only occasionally gets one for the pot is wasting their time and owns frustrated lurchers? Come on fella ya better than that.
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    I work a collie/greyhound first cross alongside my terriers when bushing for rabbits. We don't chase many and catch very little of what we do chase, but we do have some great sport. Most of the land i work comprises of small fields, woodland and disused railway tracks. I would probably catch more if i just worked terriers, but i enjoy watching the lurcher run. I may be getting another lurcher soon to work alongside my ageing bitch, but haven't fully decided what.. maybe collie/greyhoundxwhippet......bedlington/whippet x collie/greyhound or maybe a whippet, but i do think whippets or over price
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    Nice dogs mate. Does the whippet leave the bed/whip for dead, or not much in it?
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    I always was led to believe that a puppy shouldn't leave its mother until the age of 8 weeks and the last two weeks from the age of 6 - 8 weeks are very important for the puppy. I can understand that the seller may want to off load as soon as, and the mother may have had enough of the pups, but at what age is it best to take a puppy from a litter from the buyers point of view? Any opinions.....
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    Nice looking dogs, how much collie in the merle?
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    Some whippets yap, some don't.... you need to be patient and try to find a place where the dog has a good chance of catching, putting all the odds in the dogs favour. Its not the end of the world if the dog does the odd yap out of frustration. My whippet used to yap more when he was younger, not so much as he got older. It was more often in small fields, not so much in open land. Was never a problem for me, helped keep me on my toes. atb
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    Cracking looking dog..is it a Hancock? if so how much is he charging these days.
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    I personally wouldn't trust any dog with a young child now matter how well they act around a dog. Mine are never left alone and won't be until there much older. When i worked with dogs for a living (although only in a grooming parlour) it was amazing the amount of owners who thought you were lying when you told them how snappy their dogs had been. The worst most obvious breeds were the spoilt toy breeds...these would snap without been provoked, but then you would get the odd other breed of dog that would be happy as larry and then suddenly out of the blue go psycho. Like as already been said i
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    Never needed to own a bull cross but i saw some lovely ones at the edrd show this summer. Now this would have never entered my head until recently, but do you trust yours or your mates bull lurchers with your kids. Now i know anydog can snap and some of the most unusual dogs are at the top of the list for biting, but do you trust yours?
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    Never owned a beddie/whippet lurcher, but always fancied one and they seem to always be quite popular, but not as popular as the whippet seems to be at the moment. I would be interested to know comments by people who have seen or worked both and which they think is better at daytime rabbiting the...whippet.....1/2 beddie whippet or 3/4 whippet 1/4 bed. Cheers.
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    I used to buy and sell motorbikes like some people go through bloody lurchers. Its a case of never been satisfied with what they have, always thinking there is something better around the corner. Too many people have the opinion.....if it doesn't work i won't keep it in my kennel, i have never owned a failure. Then again i haven't had that many dogs in all the years i have been hunting.....because to me there like one of the family..here to the end.To me its the owners that have failed, not the dog. People treat them like disposable commodities. It stinks.
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    My first dog was whippet who was ok on rabbits, but struggled with catching a hare...which is fair enough. When i first started rabbting i latched on to two old blokes who i came across hunting the same fields. Every Saturday morning i would rush to the fields hoping to bump into the two blokes with their three dogs...a small blue whippet, a first cross whippet/greyhound and a big rough haired thing. These blokes were out and out rabbing men and the one thing they always swore was that a good whippet/greyhound bitch took some beating at catching rabbits and that the whippets they had owned wer
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    Good of you to take the time to post all the pics...it must of took you ages....cheers
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    Not 3/8...5/8 but, Hancock border/grey, 50/50,......23 inch bitch. Sire was billy clinton collie. I personally think they are better than whippets for all round rabbit work...plus much more hardy. Also had 25/25/50, beardie border/ greyhound....very high prey drive, but quite a bit larger dog.
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    I work a collie greyhound 1st cross bitch and like poacher3161 says, although she is quick when bushing in small fields you need something even sharper than she is. I have no doubt she would have made an excellent lamping dog, but for bushing where i do the dogs get one chance to pick up the rabbit... two if there lucky enough to turn it. I do favour my collie/greyhound over my old whippet though, he had the speed, but tended to chase rather than strike, until he got older that was and then the penny dropped. Was wondering Whin are the grew/collies straight first cross, and do you find the
  25. wuyang
    Very nice
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