When you go to shows, where is
your focus? The dogs you appreciate or the ones that you dislike? After reading
all these Facebook groups for some years I think that the focus is so negative
and it feels like the whippet breed will cease to exist in a few years or be so
deformed it can’t live………or…. I go around Sweden as well as Europe and
beyond to judge, show or look at whippets and I can’t see all these
abnormalities everyone is talking about – yes they do exist – but in what
extant? Flat toplines, to much behind, to big, and so on.
The list of what is going wrong
in the breed is long and it seems as dooms day is here…… But again, if 75% have
a good topline and 25% are too long and flat, what do you focus on? The 75 or
the 25? Is it so that the 25% disturbed you so much that they become the norm?
Is it that we can interact more that feeds the negativity or is the breed in
crisis? Wherever I go I see so many nice whippets true to type,
well-constructed and well moving and with a lovely outline.
I do see specimens being too big, too much
behind and so on – the list is long but generally I see well typed whippets.
Sometimes I wonder if I am naive, to positive or just plain without knowledge
but why do I react so much to all these negative comments on FB, blogs and so
on?? But a friend said to me, Henrik you have over 30 years of experience as
owner, breeder and judge of the breed so don't say you're naive or without
knowledge!
