Has anyone had a whippet lab x as a hunting 🐕 ?
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Has anyone had a whippet lab x as a hunting 🐕 ?
Sounds like a good combo. Have you got some on the way??
Plenty of them chasing pigs.... Pretty much the Lockley breed.... Greyhound lab in various percentages. Good mate has whippet crosses and they are two of the best finders I've ever had pleasure of hunting with.
what do you want to do indicator pig dog heres the rub whippets are in the family of sight hounds aka ridgebacks Saluki Afghan - its is an inbred hunting trait with those sight hounds to want to chase whatever runs from them - so long as you can control that urge with them if you want an indicating dog then all good - as a pig dog long standing cross used to get some speed in a pig dog although grey hound a bit more common - watch those whippets crosses around cats dont mix- they love cats
Nothing on the way or planned, Wife has pedigree whippets, I have a lab x heading indicator bitch. Just wondered what would be result if a mistake was made and to that end if anyone had had one. I've had whippet xs before, that were great pig dogs, but nothing like sighthound bird dog at all.
sight hounds are not bird dogs they are bred to run prey down just saying that may be a streak in a whippet that could make it hard to train as an indicator they may want to break away and chase
Well it would be fast as a streak of weasel piss and love to eyeball stuff before trying to eat it!!!! It certainly wouldn't be silliest cross being used out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matakitaki
if you want a good cross for a deer indicator then heading dog close to border collie mix across a spaniel - thats a good mix
Just my experience. watch them around sheep, goats etc. You will think they are stockproof and then one day a sheep will run out the corner of their eye and the sight dog will take over.
My current deer dog is a whippet cross. I got a DNA test done and sent it off to Massey. The results came back as American Staffordshire Bull Terrier, English Bull Dog and Whippet.
This combination of breeds went back for 3 generations…so clearly a dog some might use for pig hunting.
While this is not a Lab/Whippet cross, it is the traits of the whippet that have prompted me to contribute to this thread.
I was aware that whippets are site hounds, however I wasn’t prepared for just how incredible their site is.
I have been hunting with Bella for 2 years and there have been many occasions where she will see a deer before I do. I have managed to shoot a number of deer because she has alerted me to their presence by her intent gaze and by her growling.
I currently hunt a forestry block where the pine trees are about 2.5m tall. It is quit open country, and the shots are generally 300-450yds. So, the deer that she spots are usually quite some distance away.
So, after observing her for 2 years, I now spend half my time glassing and the other half watching her, to see where she is looking.
I decided to contribute to this thread because of what happened on our last hunt.
I was glassing a face covered with patches of Manuka. I couldn’t see any deer. But then Bella starts growling and looking intently…so I knew it was a deer. I was franticly trying to find it in the bino’s. Finally, I spotted it. I ranged it at 325yds; by the time I got the rifle set up, it had grazed into the Manuka. I waited for a couple of hours, but it never reappeared.
As deer hunters, we want a dog with a good nose, if you get a whippet cross you get a good nose, but they also come with a pair of binoculars as well.
I don’t know if all whippet crosses would inherit this exceptional eye site. But when I got this rescue dog off Trade Me, I had no idea just what an asset she would become.
I'll chime in ..... my (retired ) deer hunting mate is a whippet mix from what I've gleaned off her behaviour most likely heading dog and a splash of terrier . I wouldn't try to extol them as a great indicator in the traditional sense as you see in the pointers or some of the scent/sound hounds, but if you can read their behaviour they have their own way of letting you know.... mine would lock up and after what seemed like an eternity she would get down on her belly and slowly stalk in (think heading dog ) on one occassion she disappeared into the undergrowth above us and got round behind a sika hind and herded her down to us ...on another similar thing she brought a decent boar to us as a 17kg dog she showed no fear . I tried her on following a blood trail once but the animal wasn't far away and let out a kick which caught her attention so cant say she was great at that or not ... the other pros were small enough to carry out if the worst thing happened ,light on her feet very quiet in the bush with those dainty little feet , patrolled the camp perimeter keeping rats out and fits nicely in a sleeping bag on those cold nights, my one wasn't food driven so very easy to maintain in the bush.
as for cats ......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlaeXlLmsQ4
you should see a whippet bully or whippet foxy bailing big boar...awesome animals and watching your nutjob on that cat...yip thats how they keep boar occupied.
she stopped harrassing the cat after a couple of years ...that particular cat wouldn't take any shit he grew up with a ridgeback but at that point he was getting on and was over itQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
We have a whippet cross at work. I think she is the smartest dog here :)
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