Just An Observation!

[JAX]

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>As for letting people know you have a litter of pups on K9,The people that are saying it shouldn't happen are the same ones wanting to see pictures.

Well of course people might only be being polite or kind. :- "

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Noone has to be polite or kind about my dogs if I want someones opinion I will enter under them for that, if I feel its an opinion I want.

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Phew , thats a relief :huggles: :clown: :cheers:

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you didn't highlight the latter part of the sentence, if I feel its an opinion I want. :thumbsup: :clown: :cheers:

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:* :huggles: :*

 

[~whitecross whippets~]

it seems to me that even if i started a thread about the weather....the same old few k9ers always end up making the same point about the same thing -_- ... oh well at least they are predictable...but ever so subtle! :thumbsup: however it seems i have found the answer to my original question.....as with most things on k9.....it seems if you have the right friends you can do what you like and if you havent .....well...... i think its obvious :thumbsup:

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You asked a question and you got answers I personally refrained from posting on this thread.

What do u mean about the same old K9's and there so called friends? after following this thread and many of the others u have posted I cannot see where u are coming from. People who dont normally post on topics like this have joined in and given u an answer.

I dont know wether you are just trying to stir trouble up again or wether you genuinely dont know u are doing it??

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Trying to stir up trouble? For goodness sakes she asked a genuine question regarding an observation she had made. How can you call that stirring up trouble? Her original question from what I can gather was this

On K9 she had noticed that ped people jumped on those who were trying to rehome a ped dog. Yet non ped dogs were coming up for rehoming a lot more and yet nothing is said on that post...her question was why the ped people jumped on those rehoming ped dogs but not non ped dogs.

If I have taken this completely wrong then Im sorry but I dont know how you can say that whitecross has been trying to stir up trouble.

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thats right lynn...thankyou :huggles: .....i was not "stirring up trouble again!" i was asking a perfectly reasonable question about my observation......the fact that it wasnt to your liking or to anyone elses.... for that matter... does not make me a troublecauser!

 

[~whitecross whippets~]

Most of you probably know I rehomed my older boy Jasper and he is now Kaz's Casper.
  Kaz contacted me by email and not through k9 asking if I knew of any older whippets available. At first I replied that I did not know of any but after 'talking ' to Kaz by email for some time and learning more about Kaz and her family and Gypsy her whippet pup my husband and I offered her Jasper. He was our first whippet and we said we would never part with him but he was not a show dog he was a pet and was often left at home on show days.

  I spoke to Kaz about him and arranged to meet so she could see him. Gypsy and Kaz took to him immediately and so he went home with them. I would not have let Kaz take him if I had not been convinced she would look after him the way I would want him to be cared for.

  Casper is now one thoroughly spoilt boy who wants for nothing :thumbsup:

We know we made the right decision to let Kaz have him but does this make me a bad person it was not a spur of the moment decision to part with him the above took place over several weeks

One thing was Kaz asked me why I had not posted on here that I was rehoming him my answer was that I had seen people slated on her for rehoming older dogs and this was not going to happen to me. I did what I did to give Casper a life were he was going to be given more than we could give him and because he had so much love to give in return.

I have one other thing to say and that is to Kaz-

:cheers:   Thanks for giving the old boy such a loving home I know he's giving you and your family as much love as he gave mine he taught me a lot about whippets and showing and I would never have let him go to anyone I did not think would love him as you do :thumbsup:

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thankyou helen :huggles:

 

[Richas]

As a newbie ped owner here is my twopenneth.

The reason I chose a ped was not really to show her (though my 5 year old daughter may take her to a show sometime) it was more about checking the quality of the breeder and the dog. Mine was the last pup available but I knew I would have her if the breeder was fine (as both sides undoubtedly were for Lady).

I have no problem with non ped whippets or racing whippets but I do like the KC limitation on number of litters in a year. I wanted a well socialised pup for my young girls and part of the reason for picking a ped whippet is the temperament that is common, almost universal in peds and by getting a home bred KC registered pup and visiting the local breeder several times I could be sure of what I was getting and that I was not supporting a puppy farmer.

30 years ago I had my first whippet. A ped that had been run on for 6 months and lived in a home from a breeder we knew (a breeder in the pedigree of my latest pup as a surprising bonus). I was old enough then for my parents to be confident that missing those 6 months would be OK. For my next whippie I have no problem with taking a ped that is not going to be a champion at 6 months, my girls will be older then and a well socialised, house trained non chewing, trained dog might just be perfect.

As for being harder on ped than racers/non ped maybe ped owners are - I think I would be - what of it? We know that working dogs and racing dogs are more likely to need new homes than pedigree pets and that ped breeders should be responsible breeders - that is the whole point of having the pedigree so if they are running on to many then struggling to find homes for them they should be told. The racing fraternity have a similar social pressure to make sure good homes are found and I suspect K9 is part of that.

I suspect whippets are not really the problem for puppy farming anyway. If I were the sort of person who wanted to farm puppies I would pick by far the most popular breed - Labs - a breed with lots more health issues than whippets and a breed that is not really that suitable as a family pet anyway, especially given that they seem to be sold in pairs more often than not.

I took Lady to a puppy party recently. Labs everywhere - 5 of the 10. The three owners all had small kids, none of which could hold the pup on a lead yet lady will walk to heel for my 5 year old already and not risk pulling her over (not at 6kg anyway).

So to sum up, yes I would make pointed comments to and about a ped breeder who is overbreeding and/or running on too many. Yes I would rehome a neglected or abandoned dog (with older kids) and yes I would happily take a pedigree pup at 6 months. I'm not sure if that is what you were saying was somehow reprehensible, if so I plead guilty.

 

[~whitecross whippets~]

As a newbie ped owner here is my twopenneth.
The reason I chose a ped was not really to show her (though my 5 year old daughter may take her to a show sometime) it was more about checking the quality of the breeder and the dog. Mine was the last pup available but I knew I would have her if the breeder was fine (as both sides undoubtedly were for Lady).

I have no problem with non ped whippets or racing whippets but I do like the KC limitation on number of litters in a year. I wanted a well socialised pup for my young girls and part of the reason for picking a ped whippet is the temperament that is  common, almost universal in peds and by getting a home bred KC registered pup and visiting the local breeder several times I could be sure of what I was getting and that I was not supporting a puppy farmer.

30 years ago I had my first whippet. A ped that had been run on for 6 months and lived in a home from a breeder we knew (a breeder in the pedigree of my latest pup as a surprising bonus). I was old enough then for my parents to be confident that missing those 6 months would be OK. For my next whippie I have no problem with taking a ped that is not going to be a champion at 6 months, my girls will be older then and a well socialised, house trained non chewing, trained dog might just be perfect.

As for being harder on ped than racers/non ped maybe ped owners are - I think I would be -  what of it? We know that working dogs and racing dogs are more likely to need new homes than pedigree pets and that ped breeders should be responsible breeders - that is the whole point of having the pedigree so if they are running on to many then struggling to find homes for them they should be told. The racing fraternity have a similar social pressure to make sure good homes are found and I suspect K9 is part of that.

I suspect whippets are not really the problem for puppy farming anyway. If I were the sort of person who wanted to farm puppies I would pick by far the most popular breed - Labs - a breed with lots more health issues than whippets and a breed that is not really that suitable as a family pet anyway, especially given that they seem to be sold in pairs more often than not.

I took Lady to a puppy party recently. Labs everywhere - 5 of the 10. The three owners all had small kids, none of which could hold the pup on a lead yet lady will walk to heel for my 5 year old already and not risk pulling her over (not at 6kg anyway).

So to sum up, yes I would make pointed comments to and about a ped breeder who is overbreeding and/or running on too many. Yes I would rehome a neglected or abandoned dog (with older kids) and yes I would happily take a pedigree pup at 6 months. I'm not sure if that is what you were saying was somehow reprehensible, if so I plead guilty.

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good reply :thumbsup: