Cheers for the replies lads and lasses :cheers:
Heres some pics of my new longdog pup and his sire travellers stuff.
Both my dogs go back to stuff i owned in the eighties but the credit for the breeding goes to vicky off here and geoff fury from wales.
Anyone interested in a coursing...
Eating grass is quite normal however if they are vomitting bile each time they eat it then its probably down to fitness. A hard working dog hasnt got any phlegm or bile to bring up best way to get round this without exercise is adding veggies to the feed especially mashed potato.
you can shout em down itll get easier with age but at the end of the day running dogs love to run and theres been many an accident especially when lamping youve got more chance being bowled over then than at any time i hunt alone and one of my mates he does the same he had his leg broke by his...
Why did you buy a pup if the whole of the kennels had the squirts it was obviously a bug and in a pup thats not a good thing especially if your gonna work the dog pups that get bad stomach infections often end up being hard to keep weght on when their older either way id be talking to the...
Got an e mail from K9 this morning if so dont open it its a virus too bad whoever sent it i always scan my e mail the link said new tool if you want to play ill play too and we will see who suffers!
Im not knocking anyone who works their whippets the ban could work to the whippets advantage as a lot of people will get more into hunting bunnies instead of all game this might see a turnround and as regards the class thing we the working man used to be frowned upon for our mongrel greyhounds...
A breif history of the whippet as i remember it
Started out as a rabbiting/ratting dog super fast and super game excelled at rabbits in cover and raced on a sunday morning [before the pub] 100 yard dash to a hand wound lure
Then progressed on to greyhound tracks running bends [the appearence...
sorry but the whippets of today just arent the same as they were when i was a kid they were 14 to 16 pounds in weight would strike in bramble and dog rose i aint seen whippets like them for over twenty years people have gone for an increase in size which makes em unsuitable for working heavy...
It would be interesting to see what the judges say on this do they work their dogs? i know when i was judging in the eighties i always chose working dogs as i thought that ought to be their main quality next i looked at condition then conformation if they didnt look like theyd done a bit i would...
Dont worry about protein in a pup just good food and plenty of it most important thing for a pup is calcium a good supply is essential imo for the dogs bones flesh is no problem and protein when they are doing it!
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