Advice Please

Josephine appears to be a rather special little dog. She has done very well showing and exceptionally well lure coursing. She is a brilliant little working dog and wonderfully athletic.

Having thought hard about it we think we're unlikely ever to have as good a dog again we would like to carry on her line. She's due to come into season in the autumn when she will be three, and we think it would be a good time to have puppies.

I would really appreciate some advice in choosing a stud.

Josie is a 22" rough coated black lurcher. I don't really know her breeding as every time we ask her breeder he changes his mind as to whether she is whippet X grey X beardie or whippet X grey X beddie. Which ever it is she's line bred and mainly whippet (I think only two of her litter were rough, but mum is rough and mum's last litter, from same father were mainly rough).

What we really want to produce is more of the same, but a little faster if possible.

What sort of dog would you advise? I was thinking of using an extremely nice, very fast non ped whippet that I know, but the people who have asked about puppies all seem to want rough coated and I'm not sure we'd get any from that.

Here are a few pics of her.





Lure coursing in the finals of the NLRC winter series



With her trophies from above











Her mother (she's now 9)



With brothers and sisters

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she is lovely very similar to Amber (my lil whippet x) when i bred from her everyone wanted rough pups too :sweating:

good luck finding her a man :luck:

1/2 WHIPPET GREYHOUND ON ITS BACK WILL DO THE TRICK,DID THIS WITH MY BEARDED COLLIE GREYHOUND PRODUCED VERY FAST STRIKERS ON LONG AND SHORT EARS :thumbsup:

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1/2 WHIPPET GREYHOUND ON ITS BACK WILL DO THE TRICK,DID THIS WITH MY BEARDED COLLIE GREYHOUND  PRODUCED VERY FAST  STRIKERS ON LONG AND SHORT EARS  :thumbsup:

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Which bit of the pic is whippet and which bit greyhound George :lol:

me personally would do the same as you said OEH i`d put her to a straight whippet,keep the size down. (little rockets)

now she is a nice lurcher,i have the same breeding greyhound whippet beardie x2 and gh whxwhippet bedlington and i would throw a ghx wh over them are a 3/4gh 1/4 bull, max 1/4 bull definatly no more as mine are light framed thanks mark

Brilliant photos, I love the first one, and the one of her on the move :thumbsup: :wub: :wub: :wub: Whether they are rough or smooth Im sure they will all be gorgeous :thumbsup:

Put a pure collie on it. Mark is always telling us that a collie x is so good, so give it a go.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A nice non ped racer.......Now that would be good

Josephine looks very much like some of the lurcher to lurcher bred dogs local to me that were mainy whippet/ greyhound with a dash of beddie. The last generation were sadly not bred from, but they are both excellent pets and workers. Most of them live in the same street and are often out rabbiting in the fields behind and are 100% reliable with live stock. I think there were only two rough coated, and not very good coats at that. There was one lovely looking smooth blue though. Most were about 21", but there was a big un at about 24" that was heavily built. I know the smallest one best (18") and she was a good ferreter and excellent lamper that could turn like no other- brilliant on rabbits along hedges and fences. Tragically, she smashed her front leg in a rabbit hole on open ground. Even though she' s an old lady now, she still does a bit of ratting and ferreting (we have to help her over the fences nowadays). What I' m trying to say is you might not get rough coats and there might even be some funny sizes, but the non- ped whippet sounds like a good bet for a uniform litter. If their parents are top notch dogs, chances are they will be too.

If it was me I would be looking back at the line and finding a dog that had been outcrossed to something quicker already and cross the progeny back. The outcross should bring some of the speed you want and you should retain most of the other good traits from the line. If that dog was not available then I'd go for a non ped whippet with good stamina.

Why this desire for speed? Brains and the ability to read a hunting situation are just as important as raw speed. The Elk hound has both of these qualities, and oeh, i think this cross would compliment jo jo perfectly.