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Jake
I didn?t really want you,
I wasn?t really sure,
And I?ll admit I had my doubts,
When you first came through that door.

Not small, or cute, or fluffy,
With big, soft puppy eyes,
But tall, and thin, and bony,
With bald, pink, bulging thighs.

You weren?t the kind I had in mind,
Not in any way,
?Perhaps it would be better if I took you back today,
Before we know each other,
It really won?t be kind,
To keep you here for one more day,
And then to change my mind.?

But against my better judgement, I decided you could stay,
And quickly I discovered you were kind in every way,
Your gentleness and patience, they really stole the show,
?Why these dogs are wonderful, I must let others know!?

For you?re my gentle giant,
Who just needed the chance,
To show us all what you could be,
To wipe away that history,
And dispel our preconceptions, which put us all to shame,
And so we come to know and love,
What lies beneath that frame.

And now I?ve come to understand,
What I missed right at the start,
That greyhounds need that great deep chest,
To house their great big hearts!
By Denise Dubarbier
:)

I felt a little bit grown up in March. Didn't last though thank goodness.

I'm even more ancient.

I can't measure mistlehound as she's upside down on the sofa next to me. But she is using two of the three seats of the sofa....

Jessie also seems very long for her height too. She is a whippet x grey, but seems to be made out of random parts from both (Igor style) rather than being a scaled down grey. She's only 23 inches tall, but seems proportionally longer.

You're only as old as you feel! My grandma's probably around my age even though she's 73 :o

Minus his head, Sprocket is almost a square. He's 30" back length (base of his neck to the top of his tail) and 29" from shoulder to floor.

Haven't measured whippety boy for a while but I know when he was younger he was 17" tall and about 21" long. He's about 22" tall now but I can't get him to stop trying to eat the tape measure long enough to find out any more .

Well, the Butter household is in a state of considerable excitement (although that is being expressed by a great deal of excited sleeping by the hounds ). Their human puppy cousins visited on the weekend and a very nice time was had including an outing to a local charity dog show. We all got very wet but were v happy. But I am old fashioned and think that the combination of small boys, mud, dogs and a picnic is an unbeatable combination that will never go out of style.

And of course on Thursday we have a very special houseguest arriving all the way from the frozen north. Only three more sleeps...
We've laid on a packed programme of events including a visit to our local sighthound walk, hte greyhound field for some off lead zoomies and a relaxing stroll round John Lewis. Along with plenty of chat, relaxing, greyhound tickling, and possibly a few bottles of wine.

Your planned weekend sounds absolutely blissfull Scuttle.

I was awoken this morning by a lurcher arriving on the bed at speed and flinging himself down beside me. After some words about humans who let the dog upstairs when I'm sleeping, he snuggled against me and went to sleep. This was rather nice, but I note that for a relatively small dog (23' coat), when he stretches out like that he is the length of the bed.

Not to rub it in Scuttle but we actually have gorgeous weather here at the moment :o it's warm enough for Sprocket to go without his coat and for me to go with just my jumper on!

:o At cmotdog! They do manage to spread out over 5x their actual size don't they?

I will add that I go out with other clothes on too, not just my jumper :o

Gorgeous weather? We have gales and grey sky at the moment.

YY to the amazing stretchiness!

Slightly boggled at Cunny's adventures in minimal clothing You might get arrested and it would be pretty draughty!

I had a t-shirt on as well as my jumper! :o

I hope it was a long jumper!

Come west Scuttle, come west, it is glorious here and the sky above the river is filled with dancing swallows just arrived from Africa. glosses over the bit where the dogs found a rather ripe ex fox on the beach

It just skimmed the top of my bum Magrat :o

MrS that sounds lovely, so picturesque. at ex fox.

You've just reminded me actually, my friend told me a hilarious story the other day about her Whippet. They were walking on the field and passed a pile of fox poo, Whippy v. interested but told to leave it. They carry on walking and then Whippy was just mooching around. My friend was watching her and then suddenly realised she was at the fox poo and before she could say or do anything, Whippy dropped and rolled. My friend, obviously fearing the worst ran over to Whippy girl to discover she'd rolled about half a foot away from the poo completely missing it :o a lucky escape or what!?!

He didn't roll on the fox but did find some of it's poo the day before , I don't know how I drove home without vomming. He did however do his own poo on the dead fox mush and for the first time in my life I didn't pick up I just couldn't. Anyway, I figured if anyone managed to stand in it the least I their worries would be the poo!

I just nearly spat water all over the computer laughing, Mr Slant.

Aw, Cunny, that's endearingly dim of the whippy

That more or less sums up Whippys - endearingly dim .

Eeeuuuwww, MrS.

Snort at the Whippey Poo stories and endearingly dim sums them up perfectly.
Whilst Sam is endearingly dim in most aspects of his life: he tripped up the patio (there is one tiny step) from the garden the other day and badly grazed his feet; he falls off the sofa regularly; he is incapable of wearing a housecoat and manages to get at least one but frequently BOTH front paws stuck through the neckline , he has, sadly, managed the art of fox poo rolling. Rather to well [vom] and shows of his unrivelled talents frequently [double vom]

Good job we love him!

Our previous dog managed to find a badger's latrine on one memorable walk. I wouldn't walk anywhere near her. After 20 mins she was trying to rub it off, even she felt it was too awful! We had to walk back near a stream and get the worst off as she couldn't have gone in the car as she was.

Who was daring insult the intelligence of whippets? Please note it is the tiny fluff ball who has the coveted bone.

I just googled badger latrine [the vomit emoticon]

Yup, fox is fine compared to badger

Oh heavens, Mr Slant - I was brought up by badger activists and so I've spent more hours than I care to think of counting badger poos, identifying latrine spots etc on surveys.