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Well got the link from Vicki (my darling you), thought I would ask some questions as I would love to be owned by a whippet some day :- "

As i am used to GSD the most, and have been able to let them off leash.. this is the main worrie, I love to see them run and be free on our walks.

But can I do that with a whippet, I mean I will be living around woods and stone beaches soon.. and just thinking can I give the whippet freedom as I will with my GSD?

Jess
 
Yes most definately, mine has forgotton what it's like to wear a lead :)
 
our lacey only weres a lead when she has too near roads and any other angers she has a charge about when we got somewere for a run then happly muches along with us the rest of the time no problem and shes a racing whippet
 
AW thanks girls... I hate to see a dog on leash for the rest of their lifes and never being able to run among others :huggles:
 
My dogs certainly are pretty reliable on recall. But you do have to be careful with Whippets, they do move so fast, they can be across the road before you even open your mouth. You have to start working on their recall training the moment you get your pup. Sighthound response is different to the one of GSD, I find them learning very fast but if I try to repeat something too much theygett bored quickly and start ignoring me. :)
 
No probs off leads for our lot either, early training in a quiet safe area. I would say the dogs are heaps better than the bitches at this.
 
Mine are all fine off lead but I would only let them be off lead in an area where they can't run into danger ie near road, livestock ect and I always put them back on lead if there are other people around after all not everyone wants to wear 4 whippets (w00t) and they can be over friendly with other dogs which to a lone dog could be scary seeing a pack of 4 nutty dogs bounding towards them :wacko:

Welcome to K9 :cheers:
 
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Mine rarely wear a lead and are pretty good at recall (not fantastic). The only time I worry is if I can see a road on the horizon, they move so fast, I am always afraid they will just keep going. Food seems to be a great way of getting them back. I don't personally carry tit-bits but my pair have worked out who does at the park. One lady has a small tin with biscuits in, one shake of that, and she has 6-8 dogs sitting at her feet, she only owns one :p :p :p
 
Joanna said:
Mine rarely wear a lead and are pretty good at recall (not fantastic). The only time I worry is if I can see a road on the horizon, they move so fast, I am always afraid they will just keep going. Food seems to be a great way of getting them back. I don't personally carry tit-bits but my pair have worked out who does at the park. One lady has a small tin with biscuits in, one shake of that, and she has 6-8 dogs sitting at her feet, she only owns one :p   :p   :p
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:lol: :lol: :lol: that happens to me if i take chicken i have a whole group of dogs that walk round the field with me ...while the owners are shouting them back from the other side :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
>I mean I will be living around woods and stone beaches soon.. and just thinking can I give the whippet freedom as I will with my GSD?

Hmm. Just thinking of the environment where you are going to be running your whippet. I let my show/coursing bred whippets off the lead in the woods around here but I don't let my racing breds. This I've learned from experience. :( I run my racing breds in fields only oh and on sandy beaches of course.
 
Alfie will usually please himself once off the lead and on the meadows near where we live, usually giving it the big sprint to anything with 2 or indeed 4 legs that is moving in the distance, :- " but when i've had enough i say "TIME TO GO HOME NOW" and he comes back for his piece of cheese and to have his lead on, what a good boy o:) ( it's only taken us a year to master it) ha ha (w00t)
 
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Mine is off leash in the woods, down by the beach and anyplace far from traffick and any kind of danger. I don't let ANY dog off leash around cars etc no matter how reliable. They're not machines and they can make a mistake once (even machines do, actually.. just ask my computer or car :blink: ) - and I don't want that happening around anything dangarous either..

As for the environment - if my whippet has been running around in our woods since he was a baby and he's doing fine. I see other whippets that are used to open spaces will have a bit of trouble steering around tree trunks etc in the beginning so if you intend to run him loose in the woods I'd start him getting used to it right away when his speed isn't the greatest. :thumbsup:

Oh.. one more thing. With any dog, and whippet(sighthound) in particular, letting them off leash is always a bit of a risk. You've got to aknowledge that, but the enjoyment they get out of it (and I get out of watching them) is worth it to me. He's got reliable recall and he's never run off - b u t I know deep down that he might some day get hurt running and in that case I've got to live with it.

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Our whippet loved to run on the beach at Blackpool. I remember one day in the 1980s a Rottweiller owner coming down to us and warning us he was going to let off his dog so we should get ours on a lead as he always chases other dogs and he might "eat him".

I just laughed. "Be my guest" I said. Partly as the Rotti looked less tough than the owner. Looked a nice pup really. The big tough owner was a bit taken aback at the nonchalence but it was really funny watching the Rotti chasing around sliding all over and our Blue literrally running rings round him. They loved it with blue even tripping the pup.

The big tough owner was just so embarrassed at his warrior dog playing (and losing) that he ended up having to get me to get Blue back on the lead just so he could get his pup back and walk off down the prom looking roughtie tuftie again.

Whippets are fine off the lead, just not in traffic, like all dogs they need to be trained to come back!
 
Thank you all, (sorry for my late replay) I have enjoy all your answers and even made me giggle some of you :lol:

Its nice to hear positive comments like this, and although I am dying to get one, I am no fool and def not a naiv person..

I cant wait for this..
 
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