Whippet – Full History
The history of the Whippet, from ancient Greyhound ancestry and working-class racing dog in Victorian England to modern show competitor and devoted family companion.
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👉 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:51 Ancient Origins and Greyhound Ancestry
2:27 The Poor Man’s Greyhound
3:57 The Birth of Whippet Racing
5:30 From Mines to the Show Ring
6:34 Whippets in America
9:00 Popularity and Rankings
10:03 The Modern Whippet
11:35 Legacy of the Whippet
7 Comments
From coal mines to couch life at 35 mph.
If you own a Whippet, are they more racehorse or professional blanket burrito? Let us know what your Whippet is really like. 🐕💨
A new one on Boston Terrier please, would like to see the fancy recent video style (even though you've done one it's time for the best breed ever (imho :->) to have a refresh.
I’d go to a whippet race. Bring it back.
It's amazing how many times you can say the same thing in twelve minutes!
Whippets we're not created to suit the working class because of there small size and cheaper cost to keep and they certainly weren't catching hares with them either 😂 it was illegal for the working class to own greyhounds and hunt with them all the way up to the 19th century! They were the result of runts from greyhound litters being disowned and crossed to create a breed small enough to distinguish from a greyhound so you wouldnt get in trouble for hunting with one and to small to hunt deer etc. So they were basically small lurchers used for hunting rabbit's and poaching before they became the whippets of today. It had nothing to do with being better suited to the working class it was all about English hunting laws. Greyhounds were considered symbols of high status, and legislation (such as Forest Laws dating back to 1014) reserved them exclusively for the nobility.
My vote goes to sarplaninac for sure. An amazing guard breed
Greyhounds have been genetically linked to sheep dogs not Saluki type Middle eastern breeds….