Text 41969, 94 rader
Skriven 2006-10-26 13:18:12 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 41905 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
Ärende: Whippets 
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24 Oct 06 16:42, SHANNON TALLEY wrote to Roy Witt:

 >> Not anymore. :o)
 ST> 'bout time :-)

 >> Hmmmm. Been that route with dogs. Had a salt and pepper American
 >> Cocker Spaniel that won 1st place when she was just 6 months old.

 ST> Fantastic!  I don't really like the "shows"... Too many pretentious
 ST> people there.

Heh. You noticed that too.

 ST> But, it's interesting sitting back and watching the handlers show the
 ST> dogs.  I listen to people talk good and bad about the dogs without
 ST> knowing the owner is sitting right in front or behind them.

An owner should take bad talk as constructive criticism and use it to
improve their dog and take the good as a job well done. You should wait
until you or they are leaving and thank them for their opinion. You wait
because, you want to hear an honest appraisal of your dog, good or bad.

 >> Nicely done. I wish you had put the photo link of Mico while in the
 >> air, behind that picture though.

 ST> I "just" changed things up so that when you click on both Celox and
 ST> Mico's activity photos, the active photo's pop up.

Kewl...I'll have to go back.

 ST> I would have trimmed Mico's down, but the shadow is to the left of
 ST> his center frame and it demonstrates the fact that he really is
 ST> airborne.  He is the one that runs with me. He's done three
 ST> 1/2-marathons with me!

6 miles?

 ST> He's really trained for endurance! I've changed up his training a
 ST> great deal specifically to support lure coursing. It's about 700yrds
 ST> of just 'ass running fast'...

I saw that in the clip you have of it online.

 >> Saw the photos, checked out the forum and browsed more photos. But I
 >> didn't see the link to the memorial mentioned. I was curious about one

 ST> It's listed as a link in the "about us" section.  Click here:
 ST> http://www.wackerwhippets.com/public/whippet/images/memorial.jpg
 ST> It's a really nice memorial for a really nice lady.  The puppy on the
 ST> left is Celox.

Reading the poem, I gather that she was a friend to all.

 >> photo that seemed out of place, unless there's such a thing as a long
 >> haired wippet or greyhound.

 ST> Ohhh.. That's a Borzoi, one of the other breeds of sighthounds.  The
 ST> Lure Coursing events are for sighthounds (wiki:
 ST> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sighthound )  Specifically, sight hounds
 ST> hunt on sight vice scent, which is why we lure course them.

(much later) I went off on a tangent and explored the internet, finding
all manner of dogs. Got interested in adopting a German Shorthair. I used
to have a very good one who liked to hunt. I trained him from a puppy, but
he got so that he hunted on his own when we were away from the house.

 ST> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borzoi)  The Whippet is of the
 ST> sighthound breed long with greyhounds, Italian greyhounds, and a
 ST> dozen or more other breeds.

 ST> I most certainly have more video, but nobody would (in their right
 ST> mind) sit and watch our home movies in flash format on a webpage...
 ST> <grin>  I'm going to get some good footage of an actual 3 dog side by
 ST> side race this weekend at our next LC event and replace the flash
 ST> video I have on the site right now... :)

May I suggest a telescopic lense. The video I watched was too far away
from the action and when the dogs went to the far end of the field, all I
could see was the lure.

 ST> Well -- I'm off -- going to go see the Elephant Man done by the
 ST> Hurrah Players at an old theater in Norfolk tonight.

There's a movie theater downtown that has been converted to a playhouse
with concerts at times (not rock-n-roll). We've always planned to go, but
we havn't made it yet.

               R\%/itt




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