Happy 1st birthday!

Happy 1st birthday to the Gali x Quincy kids...
Francois, Tommy, Apollo, Barkley, Elle, Mercury & Spencer

Dido news...

We discovered on Sunday night, after we got home from coursing - that Dido is in season! We are showing in Lima, OH the end of this month, and hopefully she finishes there... if not, we will still breed her and try and finish her shortly after she is bred or wait until she has the pups - she only needs 2 singles to finish so she is so close. But she will be 4 this year and with our performance litters planned next year, we would have to wait until 2010 for her if we pass on her this year. So she will be breeding her to both Quincy & Brooks (see previous Litters post from this month or visit the website for information) in a few weeks! Mom is taking Quincy, Brooks & Scarlet to have their hearts done on Friday - so let's hope for the best for their cardiac exams. Scarlet is due in season anytime and we plan to breed her to Bowie, so we hope to have some fall puppies - it will be over a year soon that we had puppies last and we are so excited! These will be the first Whippet pups born in the new house and I can't wait to see what we have!

Apoll - almost 8 weeks old!

My baby girl is almost 8 weeks old - these pictures were taken 2 days shy of her 8 week birthday and she is just adorable. I can't begin to explain how spunky she actually is! She also already has her own special show lead for when she is old enough to show (got to wait another 4 months!!!!) which I will take pictures of today - it's just gorgeous! Anyway - here she is :)

Happy 1st birthday - a little late....

Forgot to send happy birthdays to the Bosley x Raku babies on May 29th - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Here you guys are as tiny babies :)

Happy 1st birthday!

Happy happy happy birthday to the 'About' litter :) Rupert & Fiona's kids turned a year old today!!! (June 15)

Happy birthday to...

Helen, Brom, Romero, Christian & Imagene

Here they are as tiny wittle babies :)

GiGi goes BEST IN FIELD

We are so proud of our little GiGi :) She took Best In Field yesterday at the Rocky Mount, NC AKC Lure Coursing trial!



Saturday...
Open Stake (15 dogs)
Choo Choo took 2nd and collected his first 3 points towards his AKC FC!
Rupert placed 4th
FC (7 dogs)
GiGi won and took Best of Breed and then onto Best in Field!!!! Adding 5 points towards her LCX
Tigger placed 4th

Sunday...
Open Stake (15 dogs)
GiGi placed 3rd for 2 more LCX points
Rupert placed 4th
FC (5 dogs)
Cuda placed 2nd
Bosley placed 3rd
Tigger placed 4th

Isaac was tied for 4-5 along with Rupert and two other dogs - since Isaac needs a 3rd place to finish, we pulled him. But we are so proud of him as he ran so wonderful after having 2-3 years off and not being in running condition yet - we didn't run him yesterday due to the heat and course plan, but we are so proud of him today. Isaac is back here at Shannon Down to finish up his FC and Ch. - needs a major in the show ring and 2 points in the field and he will be a new Dual Champion! We are so proud of the kids this weekend - even with the heat and a bit of rain today, it was a great weekend!

Oh - and little Miss Helen ran today (on her birthday) for her first leg of her JC!!!! She had a beautiful run and we think we have another Rupert on our hands!

Krys

More heights

Got some more heights...

Quincy - 20.25
Murphy - 20.75
Brooks - 22
Choo Choo - 22.25
Cuda - 21.5
Hummer - 22
Tigger - 22.25
GiGi - 19.5
Viva - 20.5
Anna -20.25
Winnie - 20

Dog heights

I've decided to measure everyone's height to post on their pages on the website, I did a few tonight and will probably do more in a bit but this is what I found...

Scarlet - 19.5
Charlize - 19.5
Lola - 20.5
Rupert - 21
Sweet Pea - 19.75
Gali - 19.75
Isaac - 21.25
Dido - 19.5
Leigh - 19.75
Bosley - 21

How I did it was I took the larger wicket for each sex, put it on them and measured the space between the wicket and the withers and subtracted from 22.5 inches (males) or 21.5 inches (females)

And we already KNOW that Delite (Winnie x Bosley) is 17.5 inches and Francois (Gali x Quincy) is 18.5 as they just measure in with the small wicket.

Will post more later and the ones I have done so far are posted on their pages on the website.

Krys

Litter plans this year

Our litter plans have changed here and there but I think we have the final plans all laid out :) We haven't had any Whippie pups in almost a year and we look forward to having our summer litters, none of the girls are in season yet - but Scarlet and Dido are due in pretty soon.

Scarlet will be bred to "Bowie" - Multiple Best In Field, DC Snow Hill Indecent Proposal MC, LCX-2, LCM I am so excited about this litter - though we may not have many pups, I am still excited about seeing the quality in the few pups we have. This will be Scarlet's 3rd and final litter, her first litter she had 1 pup and her second litter she had 2 - so we don't expect a huge litter from her at all. Bowie's first and only litter at the moment, all 6 kids are pointed in the show ring from the puppy classes! With Bowie's wonderful coursing career as well - we expect to have beautiful show puppies that will excel on the coursing field! Bowie is up to date on all his health testing (heart, eyes, ears and hips) and Scarlet will be updated on all of hers shortly (heart & eyes and will also have her ears checked before breeding)

"Scarlet"

"Bowie"

Dido's litter will be a bit more complicated - she will be bred to BOTH Quincy and Brooks, our boys - we are going to attempt a dual sired litter and have figure out how we are going to do it. We are going to breed her to one of the boys naturally and artificially inseminate her with the other the same day and then the next breeding day we will switch the boys. Both boys are DNA tested already, we will be sending Dido's in before she is bred and all puppies will be DNA tested to detemine which puppies belong to which father. I am sure whatever pups come out almost solid colors will be sired by Quincy as from his first litter all of his puppies were solid colors except for their faces and feet. This will be Dido's first litter. Dido and Brooks have had their heart and eyes done and Brooks has had his ears done, Quincy has had his eyes done and will have atleast his heart done before he is bred to Dido.

"Dido"

"Quincy"

"Brooks"

Leigh's litter will be much later this year as she was just in season not to long ago but we have picked the boy out for her - this will be her last litter and will be bred to "Hudson" - Ch. Harmony's Andauer Lover Come Back. Mom saw some of his pups at the National and decided this was the boy for Leigh :) Hudson is up to date on his heart, eyes and ears and Leigh will be updated but has had her eyes & ears done and has had her heart echo'd 3 times and all have been clear.

"Leigh"

"Hudson"

So that is what we have planned for this year - next year we will focus on our race/performance litters, but the breedings are still a bit up in the air - will post when we are certain of what we are doing :)

Check our our Current Litters page on our website for more information on these 3 litters.

Asheville, NC Sunday show

Nothing much - but the dogs showed wonderful, even in the scorching heat.

Isaac won his BBE class and Choo was 2nd in his Open class and probably showed the best he ever has - we were so proud of all the kids for showing so great!

Krys