Predujice

[RealMadYid]

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Down my local club, luckily dogs are allowed. and, I take Rory over there most afternoons, have a beer, and he has a satsuma! Anyways a few other regulars take their dogs too, in particular, a collie and a lab and I always get comments like 'he needs a good meal' etc. My argument, and it has led to few heated rows is that he can race and chase, can the collie herd sheep? can it ****! Can the lab retrieve? Well you all know the answer. Even my vet says if all dogs were as fit as my whippet he'd be outa work...does anyone else suffer this kinda predujice from owners of fat and useless dogs?

Paul

 

[*Caz*]

Havent had many comments from adults-only a few in passing which ive ignored & put it down to sheer IGNORANCE :rant:

The main ones have been children~ urgh look at those skinny dogs :angry: and i put that mainly to the adults above.

think in the main its true what you have said the other dogs havent had the pleasure of doing what they were bred for

Caz x

 

[sadieandco]

When i have comments like those said to me when i'm out with mine i just reply by saying "well you don't see many fat athletes and racing whippets are athletes - slim but fast". And before i have any comments i know my whippets aren't fast - but they are faster than the people with the comments :b (well most of them) lol

:b

 

[mtotos]

we have had the odd remark as the odd person walks past-sorry i should have said the odd ned!!,when they grow up the may become more informed-but i really doubt it-and the blame lies squarly at the feet of their parents.

 

[»Tina«]

move to my little village in N.Wales, everyone around here loves my lurcher girl Chance, (kids come rushing over to pet her) I never get any comments like that and to be honest I hope I never do!

it would make me feel very upset if they did though, so I do understand where your coming from, people can be so cruel sometimes.

 

[jimmy]

As a new whippet lover/owner i've only had positive comments and of course they all love our jack anyway :huggles:

 

[PheonoM]

we get the comments all the time, but i dont nessacerally think its people delibratley being ignorant/offensive. i think its more of them not knowing or understanding more than anything, we all know to the normal person that our dogs do look skinny, people will naturally comment. because our sport isnt the most popular thing in the world not that many people will understand it. when i tell my friends that we own whippets the ususal reaction is "whats a whippet?" so to save long storys i just reply with "its just like a smaller greyhound". they usually can picture it then.

at the end of the day people dont know they are race dogs, they assume they are pets only, and im sure they dont mean offence.

its just the way our dogs were bred years ago. great danes are big, spaniels have big ears, and our dogs are just skinny.

:thumbsup:

 

[Paws123]

About 12 years ago when we moved into the house we still live in we had a older couple (pat and Cyril) living opposite they were very nice and had a very over weight Labrador.

They both commented on how skinny our whippets were but not nastily, pat would call over regular for a coffee and alway brought the dogs chew sticks, during the straight racing season i wondered why the dogs we never on there weight, when one day we were out shopping and came home to find pat in the garden with a pan feeding the dogs in the kennel there leftovers..lol

After explaining to her about yard per pound racing she always brought her left overs but gave them to me to add to the dinners.