piper's pups

[Johanna Bartos]

Ruanne, Gime and Pako.

Whippets nest.

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[Paws123]

I sat yesterday really bored and was flicking though k9 , when i came to this topic,

i would like to say how much i have enjoyed reading it and all the pictures there great

what a beautiful litter the pups have turned out

Thank you

 

[Vicky]

Just seen the pic of Gimme & the GSD, he might look a bit moor scary if he didn't have the big fleecy coat on lol typical whippet

 

[Scott Frodsham]

I've spoken to John Greenwood tonight and it's with great regret that I inform you that Cracker (Crack On) was struck and killed by a car tonight.

Everybody who knows John will know that she was the light of his life, "Daddy's little flowerpot!".

"Already, in her short life (14 months), Cracker has provided a world weary and cynical old git (me) with more emotional highs and lows than I deserve.

She gives everything she's got, both in competition and in terms of her unswerving loyalty to me."

Our thoughts are with John, Sue, and the girls.

Regards,

Scott,Jo, & Forest.

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[aslan]

I haven't got words ... tears ... so sorry for John & family.

 

[Judy]

Thats really awful news. So sorry for John & Sue - I know they were, rightly, very proud of her and obviously loved her to bits. Don't know what to say.

 

[John E Greenwood]

Thank you all for your good wishes......haven't looked on this thread for a bit....was going to post loads of good news...but now I'm filling up. :b

Anyway....here goes...first Cracker...she won one stake at the East o England Whippet Cpoursing Club, one divided stake (abandond because of bad weather), and one course of the day.....She had made an excellent working dog, and I'm sure that we would have had an exciting racing season in front of us.....She was also selected to run in the 16 dog stake at the Bob Blatch Trophy meeting...billed as a stake to find the top coursing whippet in the country...she was the only puppy in the stake, got knocked out first round (unbeaten until then), but, as always gave her all and didn't let anyone down.

Cracker (Crack On) at the Bob Blatch Trophy meeting

 

[John E Greenwood]

Gime has been enjoying a successful showing season in Germany (afraid that I don't know the details, which shows, etc.....but I think that he is well on his way to becoming a German show Champion)....He has had a health scare recently, but I believe that it was a case of mis-diagnosis. Johanna sent his papers and test results to Mike Guilliard in Nantwich (that man is a saint)...and he has given Gime the all clear......I am sure that Johanna and Gime have an exciting racing season in front of them.

Gimes' pedigree name is DARK CHARGER

 

[John E Greenwood]

Barney was later to mature than Cracker, but I managed to get him to a meeting of the East of England Whippet Coursing Club late in the season, he trialled in, went under the stick and so got his coursing ticket...I will be entering him in competitions next year, he also won a rosette for Best Course of the day...We have decided not to show him any more because of the difficulty of having him fit to work or fit to show (some would say fat ) Barneys' pedi and racing name is Photo Finish

He has his passport and is trialled in for straight and bend....I have just sent the entry form off for the Champs on the 18th April, he'll be in the 30 to 32lb group....We can live in hope, if we die in dispare, as they say.

He is a very steady dog and has made an excellent working whippet....Here he is retrieving live to hand....catching a bolted bunny with his mum....and a nice pic of him, his mum and their best mate Zorro the Plummer terrier, after an afternoons' rabbiting

 

[Judy]

They are a very good looking litter John, I can see why you are so proud of them :thumbsup:

Tell us more about you're little terrier chap. He looks a character

 

[John E Greenwood]

Sue, who has Harry, sorry I have no recent pics of him, keeps in regular contact on the phone. I know that she is very pleased with his progress...(his racing name is Feathers Macgraw, and his pedi name is Bantam Cock)....He has won several Trophies at the Andover Club, including The Flagship Trophy and the Langley Trophy......He has done well showing, winning the puppy class at the Whippet Club Show, and I think I am right in saying a couple of other specialist coursing, racing classes, anyway, Sue tells me he has qualified for Crufts next year, in the coursing, racing section, on the strength of his performance.....I know that some of you know Harry better than I do now.....so please correct me if I am in any way inacurate :wacko:

That's the up date for now..........let's hope that it's all good news after the racing season..

In sport....GREENY

 

[John E Greenwood]

Zorro, doesn't belong to me, Judy, he belongs to my rabbiting chum, a recent convert to whippets, and in the queue for one of Pipers' next litter, you will meet him at a race meeting this year I am sure..........Zorro is a real character, and Paul thinks the world of him....without going into detail, he does everything a good terrier should, and he's Pauls' best mate, as well......who could ask for more?

 

[Judy]

Zorro, what a great name

One of our neighbours is a gunsmith and he has just recently got the most gorgeous little border terrier pup. I've always rather fancied one of them as they seem to have such a lot of character.

His other terrier, came from a local hunt and it's like he belongs to the whole village. He follows the postman about from house to house so the postman used to pick him up when he arrived and take him round the village in his van and then drop him off when he had finished so he wouldn't run him over. That was untill he threw up one day in the postie's van

Our old Bandit looked just like a JRT when he was a puppy and has always had the character to go with it. I think all the terrier genes that was ever in whippets, came out in him :wub: it's that that has made us secret terrier lovers. Shhhhhhhh!

 

[John E Greenwood]

I love terriers, Judy.....I think that whipps do have something in common with them, temperament wise.....I had a jack russel who lived to be 16 years old, a real character, she used to sit outside the milking parlour and wait for me, when I worked on a farm.....she was VERY intelligent, and you didn't have to "give her commands" (in fact, I think that she would have considered that RATHER rude)..you could just speak to her and she seemed to know what you ment...I remember, once a swaledale ewe strayed behind our house with a new born lamb. The lamb was only as big as a rabbit, but VERY fast...we caught the ewe up and put her in a pen, ready to try and find out who she belonged to, but the lamb was as "wick as a weasle" and got amongst the roots and stems of the hedge and we couldn't catch it. Sally the old JR (she had probably reared several litters by then) killed rabbits, rats etc. and led the pack after hare and roe (we had 4 dogs at that time)....but she just walked into the undergrowth and licked the lamb, and it followed her out.......clever or what.

I have also had a pedi smooth fox terrier, who lived to be 15.

 

[John E Greenwood]

I don't suppose Scott and Jo will take much pesuading to give us an update on Forest......I understand that he was the STAR of the show in the Crufts meet and greet department.......He is running well at the Northern.....unfortunately he didn'y get his run at the Dent Trophy, inter-club Coursing, the meet was cancelled due to bad weather.

 

[Vicky]

The pic of Barney, Piper & Zorro is brill.

I'm sure piper's gone greyer since the last time i saw her - bless.

 

[aslan]

Lovely to hear all the good news John - I am a huge fan of Piper and her kids. :wub:

 

[malin]

Wonderful update on Piper's pups!

 

[Scott Frodsham]

I don't suppose Scott and Jo will take much pesuading to give us an update on Forest......I understand that he was the STAR of the show in the Crufts meet and greet department.......He is running well at the Northern.....unfortunately he didn'y get his run at the Dent Trophy, inter-club Coursing, the meet was cancelled due to bad weather.

Forest/Half a chance/El Mundo what can I say...... what a little sod he is! :angry:

I'm sure he has a sixth sense related to the light going on in the fridge. It's spooky, you close the door and there are a pair of big brown eyes staring at you!

Like something off the chuffin Omen! :b

Apart from that he's doing really well at racing/coursing, although he needs to lose a pound or two (28lb at last weigh in).

Don't suppose we could swap "Mummy's little precious" though! :- "

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[John E Greenwood]

I knew you wouldn't be far away, Scott :thumbsup: :cheers: