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    Whippet pups

    Had the pack out as usual the other day, the difference though is all the pups got it together. They worked like old hands. It was a beautiful thing.

    Then talking to a guy that has one as a pigdog, well he's having a problem with his.
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    He's running out of freezer room from the pigs it's catching. On it's own mind you, and at six months old. It went out and found then caught three boars over 80lb.
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    Sound like the goods, pig cant out run them either I guess

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    Dad had whippets in his pack back in the 60's and 70's along with his Lab/Boxer/Mastive crosses.

    The Whippets were bloody good finders, intelligent, fast and agile and would nip the pigs on the backside while chasing them in the bush to make them sit or slow down enough for the bigger dogs to catch up and bail or hold them.

    Red was one of his best ever Pig dogs and she accounted for hundreds of finds in her career.

    Morrie Nichol was the Rabbiter at Waimarama for donkeys years and he bred whippets for his rabbit pack along with foxies.

    Morrie let me have the pick of a litter for my 10th birthday

    I picked out a white one with a brown head and called her Slick.

    Slick hunted until she was about 12 years old and lived until she was 17.

    She was an awesome hunting dog on rabbits and pigs but sucked at any birds or the deer as she always wanted to run them down.

    I like them and I'd have another whippet tomorrow.

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    Is that a pure whippet , and what sort of country is it pulling these pigs up in, and I would assume it bails after that ?
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    As the song goes. " whippet good"
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    50% whippet 25 foxie 25 springer.

    Seems it just grabs an ear and doesn't let go.

 

 

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