How to improve recovery?

[Black neck 15,189]

1 hour ago, sandymere said:

In answer to your previous query at the mo I’m running a coursing type  

but I do have a little experience of whippets and their hybrids as well as greyhounds and have run both in conjunction,  in truth I wouldn’t particularly want either as working dogs. Pure greys are just too much of a racing machine and whippets don’t have the size for the lamping that I do and alas it would be much the same for my day time stuff. A hybrid betwixt the two would be nearer the mark but with this breeding it’s a gamble on the stamina side, a high percentage lack stamina for longer stuff, and I’ve had enough of gambles of late losing a ¾ whippet with too much heart and not enough stamina recently.

 

Prior to this spent many a time with a few of my brothers dogs, pure whippets, and had good fun with them chasing long ears over the years but unless the law was much reduced they weren’t really reliable catchers, as ever its horses for courses.  Indeed  my first ever lurcher, 50 years ago, was a 1^st cross whippet X collie,  lovely bitch taught me more than I knew and forgave my many mistakes but alas to slow to catch a cold, straight lined by rabbits… since then two of my favorite lurchers  have had a 1/4 whippet and both were decent dogs but had no more stamina than others without the whippet.

I’d agree that many whippets do punch well above their weight but in reality doing this day in day out is not a realistic choice so I’d stick to my ¼ whippet in a mix being enough, bringing the size/body mass  down can aid recover but then again so can breeding for a lighter built larger dog.

As for science waffle I’m always open to learning, 30 years ago I thought myself very knowledgeable about running dogs but have since learned that there’s always room for improvement and something new to learn. Better to be ready to learn more than it is to know it all.

Regards hartly.

 

 

Lot to be said for a dash of whippet 

[Black neck 15,189]

Sorry about first pic jag of ridge tiles pressed wrong thing

[sandymere 8,261]

22 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Sorry about first pic jag of ridge tiles pressed wrong thing

Just a dash mind their muck work is a little sloppy:)

[billhardy 2,341]

Nice pics sandy  thanks fa sharing ,like you I believe no one man woman will ever need to know it all I believe that ain't possible ,what I do believe with each and every jukel Irrilevant of xs ,we learn ,they are all individuals , what I also believe his this we get the experience to realise a type to suit individual requirements and go with that ,even though they individuals we need to approach with different methods the ability of gas by the handler can and does usually define the outcome .its the same had the man with a non grader whippet ,but can kill forty rabbits under the beam ,or the coursing dog with only two minutes in the tank that can kill sixty rabbits under he beam , experience can his only gig from hands on and being round a variety of types and even then they not only surprise but at times confound you ,that livestock .atb bill

[Black neck 15,189]

1 hour ago, sandymere said:

Just a dash mind their muck work is a little sloppy:)

Cheeky begger 

[two crows 3,342]

hope you bedded them and not just pointed em

[two crows 3,342]

bill a good dog man sees his dogs limitations and works with it to get the best out of the dog.

[Kerny92 1,246]

Get it on some anabolics.

[low plains drifter 9,577]

8 minutes ago, Kerny92 said:

Get it on some anabolics.

Do you reckon the ridge tiles have reached their natural potential, or just hit a plateau ?

 

[Black neck 15,189]

8 hours ago, two crows said:

hope you bedded them and not just pointed em

Yes the crow no lipstick