gs through various sponsorships/donations etc and when I attended his Christmas show I said to my wife as I went away - that must have cost Des some money. I would suspect his judging will actually cost money because when he was one of three judges at Birr in the FN - he didn't take his expenses that were offered! I don't know whether Des has ever kept whippets but you don't have to keep a particular kind of dog to be able to judge what is a good one - the BIS judge at Crufts doesn't keep all the types of dogs they judge and obviously Des has judged the best of whippets when he has judged BIS