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Run, don't walk to your nearest bookshop (or let your fingers do the running and use Amazon) - get hold of Dr Ian Dunbar's book 'Before and After Getting Your Puppy' and read it from cover to cover as soon as you can.... He describes in detail the stages you need to go through to create a good...

My old lurcher killed deer this way (back in the days when it was legal) - she'd run up alongside, grab the neck wherever she could reach and shoulder-barge. They'd fall and break their necks. It was stunningly efficient - I didn't believe it first time I saw it.... so there's a long, long...

Annie - have you read 'Control Unleashed' by Leslie McDevitt? It's my latest new 'find' and is quite easily the best of the current crop of useful, sane clicker training books applied by people who understand dogs *and* the science. she has two things that might help = training the 'whiplash...

There's a very good internet list 'Britbarf' on Yahoo which has one of the most knowledgable list owners I've ever met and a wealth of others with good experience. I'd recommend joining that to get all the information you need e

To begin clicker training with your first pup this early is fantastic - they're always easily distracted and have other ideas at this stage, but if you can work with 'the Idiot's guide' book then it'll help enormously - keep up the rate of reinforcement, find various, variable reinforcements and...

There's a very, very good book called 'Control Unleashed' by Leslie McDevitt - she's also brought out a set of DVDs and there's a yahoo support forum. It's the new wave of intelligent, articulate clicker-trainers who have understood what makes a dog tick and really applied the latest thinking...

These are stunning. If they turn out as nice as they look, I could be a convert from a beardie/whippet person to a poodle/whippet person... thank you! e

Gosh... and we're in Clungunford... we could have a very small K9 clique down here... :) and yes, Cardingmill valley is wondrous - and I'm lucky to have a lurcher who isn't interested in sheep. Life is very good (except that she's just dislocated her hip - the perils of old age... surgery...

Hi I don't have a whippet (yet), but do have a lurcher who went through a very brief chewing phase as a pup - but given that I'm puppy-hunting now, I've just re-read Dr Ian Dunbar's book 'Before and After getting your Puppy' for about the 6th time. It's easily the best book on the market...

Did your vet run any diagnostic tests? 106 is pretty close to the fatal limit (I've never seen anything live over 107) and feels pretty hellish from the inside, I imagine. Infection is right at the top of the list, but I'd be checking for other inflammatory diseases - the fact that it dropped...

That's an interesting point. My gh/beardie was a clodding carthorse who turned like an oil tanker and was [expletive deleted] useless as anything but an ornament if I'm honest. I've seen one or two beardie/whippets which seems a lot fleeter of foot. If I'm going to do agility, I want the...

Thanks, guys.. make sure the collie is Optigen tested for PRA - or at least one half of the mating is - there's PRA in sighthounds now and no point in breeding a blind dog for the sake of it. If I get a whippet to put to Hancock's dog (not bothered about working ability - my step-son catches...

It works! You star.... thank you.... tho' I now heartily regret offering to work out the CoI for a friend... all that typing (!) -(not whippets, so don't anybody panic) I've only done one so far but it came out with 1.625%, which seems fairly straightforward... thank you hugely m

Thank you all - what's good to know is that it isn't all whippets and their hybrids - and yes, I think you're right, he's still very shut down - if they want to go on with more (and they may not, he's not my dog), I'll do as you suggest. I've been reading 'Control Unleashed' by Leslie McDevitt...

Thank you! I think the garlic-liver bake should do it... all I have to do is persuade Faith she doesn't mind the kitchen stinking of baked liver for an afternoon or two... :)

Hi Just spent a while this evening discussing clicker training of sighthounds in general and whippets in particular with a friend... I tried to click my step-daughter's new rescue lurcher. He's a stunning lad - whippet x terrier - and astounding on the lamp, walks nicely on a loose lead, is a...

Does anybody know of any downloadable (aka free) software for calculating CoI - that will work on a Mac? thanks Manda

Definitely not given up, though not giving up on the idea of a nicely bred whippet either.... but I had a beardie x greyhound once and she was a star - soft as butter in the house but trainably excellent outside - tho' she did have an odd, almost spaniel-like habit of trailing things with her...

Does anyone know of anyone breeding good, well tempered whippet x working beardie pups? I know David Hancock has a good working beardie now who produces sane pups, not too hard-headed, but don't know if he lets anyone use it over a whippet, or if anyone's interested.... thanks, all Manda

He's a lemon roan, I'd say... and gorgeous. Good to know that they go well with whippets - this is becoming my dream - to have one of each... ;) Anyway, he's a delight, well done with him e