whippets

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I remember a discussion about this some years ago and some thought it may have been the extender that the semen is placed in for storage. (May have just been a myth) Good luck and let us all know how it turns out. Yes from the people I spoke to the collections were done early 90's I think, maybe 80's. I don't think many have done Frozen A.I's recently with semen collected within the last 5 years. I could be wrong. I think, all other things being equal, the collection is the most important and they have come along way with collection techniques. Anyway today = baseline prog CHECK and vag culture CHECK

I state the price of pets on my webpage and DoL when I am selling. It really does cut down on all the "price enquiry only" emails. I don't see the point in wasting anyones time. If I want a quality bred dog and really really want a pup from that line then I am more than happy to pay higher than the "average" going price. Same goes for using studs. I don't see the point of travelling along the road of mediocrity just because something is not in the price range I want.

lol I want that t-shirt.

I've desexed 12 week old whippets before placing them into pet homes. 2 years on and there has been no issues.

I can hook you up with a teacup greyhound

There's nothing wrong with her, she looks fine for her age. You won't get muscle tone on a puppy

There are quite a few good show dog articles from the site where I got the Gammill article a while back. HERE The "flash in a pan puppy", "breeding choices", "pick the right puppy" and "free stacking" are also good reads.

My guess is that your opinions are more widely held than you might think Whippets. We all know what goes up and it takes patience and belief in your dog to show anything else. Not so long ago I was at a show. BOB was awarded in my breed. As we left the area a fellow hound exhibitor asked "are Whippets supposed to have a flat back?". I told her about the breed standard requiring "Broad, well muscled back, firm, somewhat long, showing graceful arch over the loin but not humped" (or words to that effect). "So why did the BOB have a flat back" she asked. "You tell me" was my response. ;) Personally I think the "all breeds judge" system fuels awarding high profile dogs and putting up type that comes through to General Specials. Its challenging for anyone to know type inside out in so many breeds. Judges can tell me but I guess they form a picture of what they think type is and colour becomes an important part of that. I think the push to gain credentials for Groups, not individual breeds, fuels this. Then there is "exception" judging - promoting the existance of a single characteristic or putting down the existance of a single fault without weighing type in the balance. I know size in an issue in Whippets today but when you see a dog go through that's a good size but the moves like a harness pony you really have to shake your head. I'm a novice in this breed but for a dog developed to run, incorrect movement is the greater fault IMO. Then there is the issue of too much muscle bulk (commented on by Editha Newton when she judged here as a problem with some dogs she judged). They're Whippets, not SBTs but gee some dogs look damn chunky. Excess muscle bulk holds too much heat - hardly an asset for a sprinter. How many chunky cheetahs do you see? :D Flat toplines is an issue but more so are straight fronts and short upper arms coupled with high stepping front gait. Fronts is the biggest problem IMO. The generic whippet show dog is rampant now. I rarely show under local judges, I can mark the catalogue before dogs go in the ring.

I have a copy of that article from two years ago (I think). It's a pretty good read. As to my opinions on whippets being bred for "flash at the expense of function" and preferred coat colours that judges like....well I'll keep those opinions to myself

I'll go even further. If you can't stand the thought of crowds of people around your dog and don't think you can be civil to members of the public who've paid hard cash to see the dogs then you really shouldn't be there. The Royals aren't just about prestigious wins for dogs. They are important showcases for purebred dogs and a chance for the dog fancy to promote breeds AND responsible breeders to the general public. If folk can't act in a manner that supports those aims then please don't go. You reinforce negative stereotypes that drive folks into the arms of the puppyfarmed designer dogs. Every family with a fairy flossed toddler that wants to pat your dog is a potential home for a purebred pup. Try to behave in a manner that might make them consider a purebred dog. Those people are key to ensuring the dogs we care so much about don't continue to decline in numbers. There's safety and security and then there's coping with the sheer chaos of such shows. No one's holding a gun to anyone's head to get entries. Lets treat these shows as the special events they are and remember that its both dogs AND breeders that are on display to the public. You are so self-righteous. Every other animal exhibit area is closed off to the public for the safety and comfort of the animals and dogs should be the same. I think there maybe one cattle pavilion but definately not horses. The public can see the dogs in the ring just like they do for every other animal at the show. Who said anything about being uncivil to the public? Just because some people, me included, can't stand the chaos, disorganisation, fairy floss laden kids and poor facilitys for the dogs doesn't mean we sit there and grunt at the public like heathan cavemen.

The hide is (or was) at Melbourne Museum. The heart is in Canberra and is in a to delicate state to move. Carbines skeleton is being set up somewhere (forgot where) for the spring carnival. It's great that they organise these things but it makes me worried that something awful could happen during transport plus dismantling and putting together the skeletons. I think why Phar Lap is such legend is because he gave Aussies so much hope in a time when there was very little of it (great depression). I read somewhere that the guy who did the taxidermy on the horse used twine to create veins under the hide. Pretty fascinating stuff for nerds like me

We are doing our first frozen semen implant next week with imported semen. We need all the luck as whippets have been notoriously difficult to get in whelp, with this method, for other breeders in this country. I'm still trying to fathom why as I know breeders in the USA and Scandinavia who do this with success and have large litters.

My Whippet show prospect cost $800. Breed prices vary a fair bit and not every breeder sells show and pet pups for different prices. I wasn't talking about my own breed.

I've never understood the whole 2 different prices thing, and I'm pretty certain at this stage, unless someone convinces me otherwise, that I will sell all future WSSD puppies at the same price (unless it's under a partnership agreement or something.) I figure that regardless of pet or show, the same amount of thought & care is put into each puppy, they all cost the same to raise, feed, worm, vacc, and only a matter of a few dollars difference between main & limited rego. Well look at it from this angle then. The breeder spends many years of dedication,showing, feeding, rearing, importing quality dogs and making sure that the best possible dogs are bred from. When someone buys a show prospect they are making an investment in all that time and effort someone else has put into the breeding of their dog. Thus a $1,500-$2,000 is a good investment on a quality, well bred dog bred from someone elses blood sweat and tears. The pet buyer on the other hand wants would include a sound, healthy, well tempremented dog. They don't want to have spend $2,000 on a dog because, and I've read many pet buyers say on this forum all the time, they are buying a pet and don't want to breed or show. Thus the breeder LOWERS the price for the pet buyer to say around $500-$800 and get a limited registered dog. IMO they are getting a bargain, especially since alot of show quality dogs DO go to pet homes and a good home is usually preferred regardless.

Royal shows. I hate snotty nosed kids putting their sticky fingers all over my dogs I hate wading through the crowds to get to the assembly area I hate that fake grass my dogs have to gait on, and if it's a hot day the horrible fake grass gets hot I hate that my dogs have to pee and poo on a 3 metre by 3 metre digusting bit of dead grass already laden with pee and stinky straw bail that reeks of pee placed in the middle. We didn't enter this year Every year I hear of an exhibitor getting something stolen and I remember in the late 80's a dog almost got baited with meat laced with powdered glass. The exhibitor was at the end of the bench row from where I was and he was lucky his dog was a finicky eater and didn't touch it. There is no security there, only that old guy that runs around telling people off for swapping bench numbers.

Yes get a mentor or 2

They breed them because they can make alot of money out of them..............That's all

My guess is that its cow (but male of course) penis. I thought they called those "twizzles". They make me sick. They smell like stale pee. edit to add: Here is the place HERE they call them whizzers. Maybe it's the pig ones they call twizzlers

I don't buy any of those doggy treats made in China. For all I know my dogs could be chewing on another whippet. I get my dog treats from that aussie treat from aussie livestock website. offhand can't remember the name.

I'd say a keen raced trained greyhound has a very strong prey drive. We've have also been able to control that drive later when they were retired. Same as the whippets and I can train them to recall and stop a chase. As for my 2 JRT's...not a chance in hades of getting rid of their "vermin" prey drive. The mice around here would agree with you, if they were alive.

I don't bother with potential buyers who treat a puppy purchase like they are buying a second hand fridge from the trading post. I don't want my dogs to go to bargain hunters. This is another reason why I don't give out my phone number when listing puppies. To be blunt, I just don't have the time for tyre kickers. Only genuine people and they are the ones that take to the time to go through the lengthy "Adoption Application Questionaire". The others, I send out the Questionaire and that is the last I hear of them. Which is good.

Wow, it is hard to explain just how angry this makes me. x2 eta - Could something like this be handy to have to deter people from either BYB, to show the potential costs involved, or from buying from a pet shop/puppy farm, so show them the sort of testing many Reg breeders do ad all the possible things their DD could have? Gawd. Imagine (which isn't hard to do with stuff like this) the costs that would have to be passed down to the puppy purchaser. As the poster above said, they'd have to take out a personal loan to buy a PET.

Is Interceptor a chew or tablet? I'm switching from Sentinel once the tablets have run out. I can't split doses with the chews.

Was it you that wanted the original recipe for the Lolly Cake slice?? My memory fails me too often A packet of Malt biscuits, a tin of condensed milk, a packet of Pascall Fruit Puffs (from NZ only I think) or a packet of coloured fruit sticks. Crush biscuits, chop up fruit sticks, mix in condensed milk and form into a log. If mix is too sticky, add more crushed biscuits or dessicated cocnut. Roll log in cocnut and put in the fridge for a couple of hours to set and then slice. Voila!! VERY SWEET!!!! YES me