Thread: Another retrieve down for Ellie

Took out Sika, the little miss Ellie and the missus to jump a couple of dams the other day. Another retrieve under her belt, think this was number 10 for the season for her. A proud dad indeed!
Missus also got an action shot of Sika the whippet jumping a fence which I thought turned out pretty good.

Good pics. Be careful with dogs jumping netting. See how the trailing leg is heading for the top gap. That can be terrible if it happens.
It's hard to manage, but I won't let my dog jump. She has to wait and I lift her over.

Sounds pooftery, but even when I had 12 sheep dogs I would take them to a gate or find a gap for them.
Vets can cost a fortune, and stifle repairs seldom fully recover.

Cheers

I know exactly what you're talking about mate. Over here though we do a lot of fox hunting with dogs so its sort of a prerequisite that they're able to jump fences in order to be able to do it and keep up so everyone trains their running dogs to do so. It's in the past for me though as I dont do that stuff anymore.

Ellie on the other hand I am never teaching to jump, I lift her over everything and its going to stay that way.

what does the whippet do? whats its strong points?
iv heard of them being crossed for pig dogs but no nothing about them as far as working or hunting.

We use them for hares, rabbits and foxes, over here they're what we call running dogs, along with stags, deer hounds, wolfhounds, greyhounds and crosses of them and others.
Basically go spotlighting and find hares or foxes (which are the main ones we chase) and get up close and let the dogs off. They chase the animal under the light as we drive around following and trying to keep the animal in the paddock and the idea is they can catch and kill it.
Pure whippets are good because they're quick, they're what we call the catchers, then you have bigger dogs like my brothers stagxwolfhound or bullygrey/stag that are slightly slower that come in and kill the animal.

Most people love using them on foxes (as do I) but hares are the hardest to catch and the most fun. Love watching a good team of dogs work as a pack too.

From the pic you can see my whippet Sika has half a tail. Grabbed the back end of a fox and it swung around, chomped on his tail and bit straight through! hanging on by a shred of skin.

oh I see, he did look fast.
so its kind of like our pig hunting. the dogs chase, and in your case kill too.
out of interest do you also spotlight and shoot without dogs, are you legally aloud?

Yeh similar, pigdogs and pigs are up north and they use different breeds than running dogs. Yeh we can spotlight most things here with a rifle, except for deer pretty much.

Good pics. Be careful with dogs jumping netting. See how the trailing leg is heading for the top gap. That can be terrible if it happens.
It's hard to manage, but I won't let my dog jump. She has to wait and I lift her over.

Sounds pooftery, but even when I had 12 sheep dogs I would take them to a gate or find a gap for them.
Vets can cost a fortune, and stifle repairs seldom fully recover.

same mate i knew a guy who actually spent time teaching his dogs to ''get thru'' a fence
you havent lived till youve had a big beardy huntaway tangle in a fence then bite the shit out of you while your trying to help the dopey bastard.in the finish the swannee went over his biting end and i lifted him and had to get his hind leg free at the same time.its not something i,d wish on anyone or to repeat bill was a big bastard. fortunatly he did himself no major damage but it frightened the shite out of me and accidents always happen to the good dogs or those going well the sooners never get injured.