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    Jetro, there are quite alot of whippet dogs around the 22ish and bigger mark, even a few at 23, and bitches well over 21 to just under 22, all kc the last 30 ish years. The sire to my lad's kc whippet bitch is 22 3/4" tts. Her dam is exactly 20". His pup is almost 20" at the moment, and isn't 7 months til 2nd feb. I've owned some real crackers over the years that were all pretty big, with even the bitches being well over 21". I don't know, as I've never been into racing, but I'm thinking that alot of the assumptions about whippets being small, fragile etc, came about from the yard/weight
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    As above mate, most beddy/whippet bitches end up around the 19" tts mark, some a bit smaller, genuine 1st cross bedlington/whippets that is
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    No, the hedge isn't that thick. But they were in amongst it and not getting ripped. On almost every post about whippets, you ALWAYS bang on about how easy they rip, even if they practically just so much as look at anything sharp/thorny etc. You must've seen some poor whippets to base your assumptions on. And the fact you say every whippet you've seen is too small, fragile, shivery etc, leads me to believe that you've not seen that many whippets actually working. I can assure you that there are plenty of whippets around that are anything but small and fragile, and don't get cut any
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    ?! and yor whippets didn't get ripped to shreds?! Well blow me down, they were in amongst it AND catching, AND NOT getting ripped to pieces! There are people on here that will be thinking you must've coated your whippets in kevlar Lol
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    Correct me if I'm wrong trev, but is that hedgerow some type of thorn, blackthorn, hawthorn?
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    Owned a couple of these, and seen seen several over the years. ALL been good, very capable dogs on all sorts of quarry. Cracking types
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    Nice, that one out of your 3/4 bitch mate?
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    Not having it, you've photoshopped those pics to make it look like your whippet can handle bad weather! Everyone knows whippets CAN NOT handle snow, freezing cold winds and harsh ground/weather etc, ask socks he'll tell you
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    Definitey, if fed still fresh
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    Agree with you fdr. There are a couple of farms we have permission with, and I can assure anyone, they'd not get out of their car when some of their collies are loose in the yard
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    Oh deer

    shaaark replied to scothunter's topic in General Talk

    I meant your 3/4 deer/grey pup. Fine looking dog he's turning into
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    Oh deer

    shaaark replied to scothunter's topic in General Talk

    How's your big pup coming on mate?
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    Oh deer

    shaaark replied to scothunter's topic in General Talk

    Was going to say 'I need to get to specsavers' lol. They roe or fallow?
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    I agree with you here mate. But if you were to breed some of the now fashionable and trendy sounding litters of crap which people are doing these days, you could clean up. I bet there'd be a good demand for whiplington x beddypoos, or maybe some greydoodle x schnauzukis! Anyway, I digress, I agree, I don't think around the £300 mark is too much for a well bred lurcher pup
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    Scottish hare hunter on here has a cracking looking youngster of this breeding, think it's 13 or 14 months old now. Quite a popular type up until about 15 years ago. There are a few pics on here if you do a quick search.
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    Could be a couple of reasons as some of the lads have suggested. Might also be the fact that some dogs, like one I used to own, prefer running particular quarry and not others. Mine would barely try to catch rabbits, even though he could've done so easily, but would try his guts out at hares and would literally pull my shoulder out of it's socket if a deer was on the cards. Some dogs work out pretty quickly what they prefer to run, and/or what they percieve to be more worthwhile for them to run, and perhaps this bitch has decided that hares, if it's a predominantly coursing bitch, ar
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    Brindle whippets are faster
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    Is that one of those broken geared suzuki crosses?!
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    Hahaha this subject of new phrases to describe dogs has been on here a couple of times. Dentist dog = likes 'teeth' Pings fences = will jump Crap at driving = no reverse gear etc etc etc and one of my favourites ....... PILOT DOG!!
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    With you 100% there allan p. I think a 'chancy' pup/litter depends on how much bullshit is told about the parents of certain lines, which sometimes won't even be in the said pups line
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    Laughing my nads off at this reply walshie! Lol . I don't know much at all about ridgebacks, but they don't look like your typical african type of dog. Were they developed by european settlers from the dogs they took with them? The short answer is yes. There's allsorts in their blood. It was Dutch settlers who took their bloodhounds, great danes, greyhounds and other breeds with them to South Africa. The locals had a partly domesticated hunting dog that happened to have a ridge. A mixture of these became the early ridgeback. Later on it was tweaked with other breeds to produce the
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    Laughing my nads off at this reply walshie! Lol . I don't know much at all about ridgebacks, but they don't look like your typical african type of dog. Were they developed by european settlers from the dogs they took with them?
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    Far too many people take working dogs too seriously. Apart from pest control, in certain situations, no-one these days needs a dog, or two or three or more, to provide food for the table. Everything now seems to be catch as much as you can, whatever the weather, ground conditions etc, to outdo everyone else. For me, to go out for a few hours watching a dog or two pushing a rabbit around a small wood for half an hour or so before catching it, is far more enjoyable than walking for miles at night with the lamp and catching 10,15 or so rabbits. You don't see hardly anything apart from what's
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