Cant speak for other whippet owners, but ive been amongst working dogs for many a year, but the whippet i own, isnt your average thin skinned reared on a shivering tit whippet, considering all i do these days is bunnies, in which she excels, then i will stick to what i have, yes i have for some time considered a beddy type lurcher, just for summat different, theres a guy near me we a collie cross, it cant hold a candle to my whippet, quite a few whippy owners i know have summat else in their kennels apart from whippets, perhaps those whippets are performing, i dunno, as for me, mine does, you