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9 hours ago, troyboy17 said:

Ray was a good friend until we disgree on someone  putting non ped in ped whippets and it split the whole whippet racing and I never  raced again

Curious about this. Do you mean introducing whippets without papers into the line, or dogs that aren't whippets?

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Il start.. 2 year old. Bred from worker to worker, mostly ferreting, lamping mooching dogs, 21" pics have been put up before.

My whippets. Dam and son                  

Hopefully these few old pictures and some of recollections from my early teens (the late 1950’s and early 1960’s) may be of some interest. They’re all old style “rag whippets” and pre date the require

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In which case I suppose it could be argued that provided the resulting dogs meet the breed's weight and size specs, then a smattering of greyhound blood might actually improve the whippet breed by making the dogs faster and stronger and widening the gene pool. I don't know about whippets, but I do know with border collies that if the dog in question had won a specific number of ISDS sanctioned trials,  the International Sheepdog Dog Society would, at one time, have allowed for the registration of an unpedigreed dog - thereby giving it kosher breeding papers to let it into ISDS registered lineages. The argument went that the border collie breed was about working sheep, and so it would be self-defeating to exclude a well-proven sheepdog from the gene pool simply because  its owner was missing a bit of paper. The sole criteria was working performance. But of course that was 25 years ago, and maybe the ISDS has gone all kennel-clubby these days.

However,  like I say, I don't know whippets or how those who race them judge the breed, so maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges. But one thing's for sure. In anything from dogs to cattle, to geraniums probably, among aficionados breeding out is always going to bring up the 'pollution' v 'improvement' controversy and raise hackles. So it's probably important to bear in mind that there are real and legitimate arguments with merit on both sides, and not to allow differences to become personal or friendships to be destroyed. Life's too short. After all, when all's said and done it's just dogs chasing after stuff...

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In which case I suppose it could be argued that provided the resulting dogs meet the breed's weight and size specs, then a smattering of greyhound blood might actually improve the whippet breed by making the dogs faster and stronger and widening the gene pool. I don't know about whippets, but I do know with border collies that if the dog in question had won a specific number of ISDS sanctioned trials,  the International Sheepdog Dog Society would, at one time, have allowed for the registration of an unpedigreed dog - thereby giving it kosher breeding papers to let it into ISDS registered lineages. The argument went that the border collie breed was about working sheep, and so it would be self-defeating to exclude a well-proven sheepdog from the gene pool simply because  its owner was missing a bit of paper. The sole criteria was working performance. But of course that was 25 years ago, and maybe the ISDS has gone all kennel-clubby these days.

However,  like I say, I don't know whippets or how those who race them judge the breed, so maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges. But one thing's for sure. In anything from dogs to cattle, to geraniums probably, among aficionados breeding out is always going to bring up the 'pollution' v 'improvement' controversy and raise hackles. So it's probably important to bear in mind that there are real and legitimate arguments with merit on both sides, and not to allow differences to become personal or friendships to be destroyed. Life's too short. After all, when all's said and done it's just dogs chasing after stuff...

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