It has occured to me that my Whippet is not very bright...

[DooinMeCleanin]

Put a lampshade collar on the deveil dog and he appears to think "Yippee I can bash things with my head without hurting myself. Oh this is good. I can scrape this along the floor and make noise that will piss them off. Oh wow I can bash them in the legs with this. Yay, I can wedge this in doors to stop them locking me out."

Put one on my Whippet and she seems to think "Oh no. They have put something on my head. I can't feel my legs. I can't walk. Whimper"

Give the devil dog a new coat and he thinks "Yippee. Wakies" Put one on Whippy dog and she thinks "Oh no. They have put something on me. I can't feel my legs. I can't walk. Whimper"

Give the devil dog a new collar and he thinks "Yippee. Walkies" Whippy dog thinks "Oh no. They have put something on me. I can't feel my legs. I can't walk. Whimper"

I am begining to notice a pattern here. Food helps Whippy dog with her lack feeling in her legs until she remembers there is something on her. Then she her legs give way

poor whippet dog, is she an ex-racer?

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NO we have had her since she was 10 weeks old. She had a jumper and a oact in the first week we got her. And a collar. She was fine with those. It's new things that effect her ability to walk.

She has a lampshade on atm. She is fine for a while, then it hits something and she reemebers it is on. Then she can no longer walk, she can only sit with her head hung and whimper until someone rescues her and sits her on the sofa

I think she's having you on

nannynob that is a hilarious blog, thank you very much for sharing!!

I love whippets

I almost cried with laughter reading that blog, it's wonderful.

Dooin, how can I put this delicately? Sighthounds are precious creatures, but they are drama queens of the first order and most of them were behind the door when the brains were being handed out.

I took senior greyhound bitch to vet last week for injection (routine, for arthritis) - she made so much noise ([pathetic, heart rending shrieks of agony) that all the vet nurses AND the vet came rushing out to see what hideous trauma was being inflicted . I felt desperately sorry for the vet nurse who drew the short straw of administering.

Whippy is a frail, delicate creature who just needs to recline on her chaise longue/sofa, be hand fed chicken and adored unconditionally (or so she'd have you believe..)

See I was correct all along!

That's obviously why that racing dog that worked out to save himself for the last lap was so highly esteemed.

A sighthound with brains - clearly a very rare thing indeed!

Yes she is tad precious. Although this could also be because she is dd1's dog, so she is generally kept on the sofa, handfed chicken and gazed at adoringly.

The princess syndrome is not helped by DH nursing her in his arms as you would a new born.

It's a hound thing. It's what they have those huge liquid-chocolate eyes for - to guilt you into submission, where more 'traditionally intelligent' dogs would do some clicker-trained signing.

Puppy Basset: 'A harness? For me! Yay! I look like Geoff Capes! Get me, in my big boy harness! Walkies!'

Lady Basset: 'A harness? Does it make me look fat? It makes me look fat. I can't walk. No, it's so unflattering I can't even leave the house. I'm going to have to recline here on the sofa and be handfed chicken.'

On the contrary your whippet has you right where she wants you and is therefore clearly very bright!

Our greyhound is currently resting on the sofa snuggled up to DH. This is the same dog that wasn't going to be allowed on the furniture when I was begging to get a dog... When she arrived she instantly attached herself to him and lo, sofa priveleges are instantly granted. I'm not so sure she's as brainless as I first thought now.

Yay for Hyperbole & a 1/2!

Don't ever try to move house

Oh GOd that blog is priceless. It could have been written about my beautiful, daft, loving boy Greyhound.
Henrys - we are even worse with ours - he has his own sofa. I know, we are pathetic. But it happened because he licked it and now no-one wants to sit there. So who's stupid?

smalldog is much the same - i was only remarking earlier that he was a dog of very little brain.

if it's less than about 28 degrees his legs don't work.

if bigdog is lying in his path his legs don't work

he forgets how to jump up on to the sofa/chairs/beds despite not being allowed on them (ha ha - cradled in DHs arms/underneath a cardi)

yet he has managed to perfect the game of 'drop the soggy teddy' he drops it, then barks until it is picked up for him (repeat 5000 times)

git.

I have a part whippet who has damaged his cruciate ligament. He is supposed to be kept quiet and have 2 little walks on a lead and no running, the vet hoped that four calm weeks would mean we could avoid surgery. I suspect knee surgery awaits, and a spell in a lampshade. This isn't going to be easy