HOW BIG IS TO BIG?

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

There are so many things to consider that its really impossible to say for sure but in my opinion anything over 30 inches is too big for any game. 28 to 30 inches on deer and coyote. 28 and below on anything else in my opinion but no matter the height or the weight, they have to have it all. Speed, endurance, soundness, and brains are very important as well is the way that they run.

[Guest wurzil]

any more oppinions or reasons why you wont keep a big dog? cheers wurzil.

[chartpolski 20,657]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

[huntingalltheway 2]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

you are both correct a whippet is faster under 60 yards than a greyhound but anything over a greyhound slaughters a whippet in straight line speed but both have there advantages and disadvantages whippet can turn better and then have the short burst suited for rabbits and the greyhound has the faster longer distance straight line speed for hare. atb jamie

[romany52 313]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

[chartpolski 20,657]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

Edited March 16, 2010 by chartpolski

[luke2009 9]

my bitch is 25 1/2 tts and shes 7 month old and still got loads of growing the sire is 30tts

[romany52 313]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

[chartpolski 20,657]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

 

You're going back a long way now mate ! Rhinegold was by Good as Gold, if I remember rightly; a Bilko bred dog ! I was into the Whippets back then, had a few Bilko and Blue Peter bred dogs myself. Still enjoy watching the Whippets, but it's nowhere as big as it was back in the '60's and 70's. Back to the subject though; I have a 23" Lurcher and an 8 month Deer/Grey bitch pup, 28" and around 70lb; the wee Lurcher is fast, but cant't outrun the pup !!

 

Cheers.

[romany52 313]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

 

You're going back a long way now mate ! Rhinegold was by Good as Gold, if I remember rightly; a Bilko bred dog ! I was into the Whippets back then, had a few Bilko and Blue Peter bred dogs myself. Still enjoy watching the Whippets, but it's nowhere as big as it was back in the '60's and 70's. Back to the subject though; I have a 23" Lurcher and an 8 month Deer/Grey bitch pup, 28" and around 70lb; the wee Lurcher is fast, but cant't outrun the pup !!

 

Cheers.

I bet the 23" can out turn it though. And Rhinegold was out of Good as Gold. regards mike.

[chartpolski 20,657]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

 

You're going back a long way now mate ! Rhinegold was by Good as Gold, if I remember rightly; a Bilko bred dog ! I was into the Whippets back then, had a few Bilko and Blue Peter bred dogs myself. Still enjoy watching the Whippets, but it's nowhere as big as it was back in the '60's and 70's. Back to the subject though; I have a 23" Lurcher and an 8 month Deer/Grey bitch pup, 28" and around 70lb; the wee Lurcher is fast, but cant't outrun the pup !!

 

Cheers.

I bet the 23" can out turn it though. And Rhinegold was out of Good as Gold. regards mike.

 

Of course you're right about the turning, I only questioned you assertion about Whippets being faster than Greys over 150m ! Just look at the last Waterloo cup, I was there for the three days and that little bitch from America was comprehensivly beaten on the run up, by much bigger dogs, but scored heavily once it was on the hare. I don't have a preference, big or small...it depends what you want them for !

 

Cheers.

[COURSING BITCH 4]

my mates runs a deerhound x bull 30" mate and he is very sharp on all quary takes rabbits out of the seat

[romany52 313]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

 

You're going back a long way now mate ! Rhinegold was by Good as Gold, if I remember rightly; a Bilko bred dog ! I was into the Whippets back then, had a few Bilko and Blue Peter bred dogs myself. Still enjoy watching the Whippets, but it's nowhere as big as it was back in the '60's and 70's. Back to the subject though; I have a 23" Lurcher and an 8 month Deer/Grey bitch pup, 28" and around 70lb; the wee Lurcher is fast, but cant't outrun the pup !!

 

Cheers.

I bet the 23" can out turn it though. And Rhinegold was out of Good as Gold. regards mike.

 

Of course you're right about the turning, I only questioned you assertion about Whippets being faster than Greys over 150m ! Just look at the last Waterloo cup, I was there for the three days and that little bitch from America was comprehensivly beaten on the run up, by much bigger dogs, but scored heavily once it was on the hare. I don't have a preference, big or small...it depends what you want them for !

 

Cheers.

Fare enough mate, I know the whippets I refer to were quality, but know nothing of the greys other than they got beat. I prefer agility and acceleration to out and out speed but somebody's got to home and feed the big dogs

[chartpolski 20,657]

hello guys my 3quarter grey x 1 quarter bull pup is 9 months old and already 27+ tts so i suspect he might make 29 eventually, now i dont specialise in any quarry just general work and mooching. do you guys think this dog will be ok for that job or do you think he might be to big? yis wurzil.

 

I,m,o, 29 is too big,I would not want a dog over 26 for any job with the exeption of maybe deer. A wagon can't slow down and change direction as easy as a mini,the strength to weight ratio is higher in a smaller dog, and a smaller dog gets up to speed faster. I've seen whippets easily beat greyhounds over 150mts. A realy big dog hasn't got the stamina of a smaller dog. Having said all that, a tall lightly built dog will perform better than a heavily built one. So I guess it's more about weight than hight.

 

Romany, I don't know what whippets and greyhounds you have seen; but I have NEVER in 45 years seen a Whippet beat a Greyhound, (never mind "easily") over 150 metres ! A Ped Whipet would be murdered over 150 m, even by an average grader Greyhound; and the very best non-ped Whippets, which are heavily Greyhound blooded anyway, would struggle to beat a Greyhound over 150 m, never mind beat one "easily" ! At my local track the Peds are doing around 10 seconds, the Greys do around 8 1/2 seconds !!!

 

Cheers.

 

Admitedly the whippets I saw were non peds, and the track was uphill,which would have given the whippets the advantage, the greyhounds where coming back fast at the finnish but there was no way they were going to beat the whippets. I'll forget the easily bit, but you know what I mean,a whippet reaches its top speed quiker than a greyhound does and the top speed of non ped whippet is only about 4mph slower than the greyhound.

 

No problem mate ! I used to be the handicapper at a couple of tracks in the North East, and have seen many money matches run betweeen Whippets and Greyhounds, and I know which my money was on every time !! I think you are from up here? Come allong to Westerhope Whippets on a saturday, you'll see one or two of the very best non-peds, a few Peds and even a few lurchers having a run. The track record holder, an F1 grew, does around 8.7, my 23" Lurcher does around 9.4 and the peds don't break 10 !! Its an uphill heavy track, but the full Greys are the fastest, the clock doesn't lie!! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

 

I'm not disputing it realy mate just useing it to illustrate a point, I'm going back years mate, the track may have been only 120, the bloke with the grews just turned up one day, had a few in the pub then started mouthing off.He definitely got beat. A good dog ran at the club called Rhinegold, don't know if you've heard of it.

 

You're going back a long way now mate ! Rhinegold was by Good as Gold, if I remember rightly; a Bilko bred dog ! I was into the Whippets back then, had a few Bilko and Blue Peter bred dogs myself. Still enjoy watching the Whippets, but it's nowhere as big as it was back in the '60's and 70's. Back to the subject though; I have a 23" Lurcher and an 8 month Deer/Grey bitch pup, 28" and around 70lb; the wee Lurcher is fast, but cant't outrun the pup !!

 

Cheers.

I bet the 23" can out turn it though. And Rhinegold was out of Good as Gold. regards mike.

 

Of course you're right about the turning, I only questioned you assertion about Whippets being faster than Greys over 150m ! Just look at the last Waterloo cup, I was there for the three days and that little bitch from America was comprehensivly beaten on the run up, by much bigger dogs, but scored heavily once it was on the hare. I don't have a preference, big or small...it depends what you want them for !

 

Cheers.

Fare enough mate, I know the whippets I refer to were quality, but know nothing of the greys other than they got beat. I prefer agility and acceleration to out and out speed but somebody's got to home and feed the big dogs

 

I've never been "breed blind" or worried about size; I've had Whippets, Greyhounds, Saluki's, Lurchers, and enjoyed them all !! Had most X's; Collie, Saluki, Beddy, Deer, and can't pick a favourite, (although I am not partial to Collie X's). Love to see any dog work, be it Spaniel, Lab, Pointer or running dog ! Just being out there doing it doe's it for me !!

 

Cheers.

[aisling3 11]

i have a deer x grey 1st cross,he is 31 1/2tts and as he hasnt been run over a month,he is 44kgs=96.8lbs,and can still pick bunnies at his ease on the lamp he has feet like a crocidile and is always injured,but theres something about him i LIKE,when my new pup comes im gona retire him and keep him as a pet,his running during the winter weight is 40 kgs=88lbs

Edited March 16, 2010 by aisling3