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Back in the day,..we used whatever jukel that was available...they had to work,...we made them work....it was emotional... Nowadays,  we breed what we want from a massive gene pool,...the hunting

First cross collie whippet 

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When i started out these little pocket rockets were what everyone in our area used all looked like well built whippets with only the odd few with broken coats  , i say collie but could av been any cur in the mix but all were similar.build and all did there job be it ferreting bushing and ratting  , when the gene got small think they must have just kept goin back to who ever kept whippets as folk didnt travel far then not even to work , anyone out there still keep these little rockets excluding beddy crosses as they have seem to have taken there place i know coz i got them aswell ? 

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Don’t understand why there aren’t more collie whippets bred, to many people obsessed with bull blood. In a rabbiting dog (which is all we can legally do!) just no need for bull blood, I have always wanted a 3/4 whippet collie but whenever I have been in the market for a dog they just aren’t available...anywhere! Got an absolute cracker of a dog whippet at the moment and in time I may try to find him a collie bitch or a collie/whippet. 

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8 minutes ago, Bobtheferret said:

Don’t understand why there aren’t more collie whippets bred, to many people obsessed with bull blood. In a rabbiting dog (which is all we can legally do!) just no need for bull blood, I have always wanted a 3/4 whippet collie but whenever I have been in the market for a dog they just aren’t available...anywhere! Got an absolute cracker of a dog whippet at the moment and in time I may try to find him a collie bitch or a collie/whippet. 

what do you think a collie x whippet will be better at than a bedlington x whippet? first cross or three quarter? 

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51 minutes ago, fred90 said:

what do you think a collie x whippet will be better at than a bedlington x whippet? first cross or three quarter? 

I have owned beddy whippets and worked with other people’s and also seen collie greyhounds work etc and just feel the collie x’s have a bit more bid ability and intelligence than the beddy’s. My beddy was a very intelligent dog mind and I would 100 percent own another in a heart beat I just always fancied a collie x whippet. I think either beddy or collie x whippet are fine rabbit dogs, personally not a fan of the bull x for rabbits though. 

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3 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Iv had both terrier crosses an herding type crosses an there ain’t a better type lol??? can’t belie anybody would even ask that question, yet it pops up all time on here

what you saying katchy?. there ain't a better type than the herding type? 

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I put the post up as a nostalgia thing really as they were the only type lurchers around our way at the time , its not a competition about what x is better than another  nowt wrong with beddy crosses or i wunna have one myself but at the time most rabbiting lads i doubt would ever heard of one let alone seen one ?

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