Whippet Snippets

Super Speedy Sentiment

Know someone who's feeling a bit under the weather lately?

Send 'em an e-card wishing them well, whippet-style, courtesy of the Town Crier community newspaper in Toronto. It's easy, free, and whippet-fast.

Ain't too proud to beg

The dinner table from the DPOV (dog's point of view). Allow Girl to clarify. This is Ribsy's point of view. He is the moocher in the pack.

Mirabel would like to go on the Snippets record that she does not beg. This is proof.

How big can those round eyes go? Hmm, it's not working. Time to switch up positions and apply a bit more pressure. Literally.

Oh Ribsy. Dignity goes out the window when food's involved.

Wordless Whippet Wednesday

Lego Whippet

5-year-old Roman the whippet, who lives with his people in Connecticut, can lay claim to something rather special. He's been immortalized as a LEGO model. LEGO Roman's job? To remain loyally by his camera-toting owner's side to keep her from falling over.  

What a good whippet boy!

So where are they now?

Lego Roman & his person are hanging out with the rest of their two-legged and four-legged family at the Lego Imagination Center in Florida's Downtown Disney:

Photo from Flickr user BrittneyBush

To Have and to Hold

Ribsy and Mirabel's beloved red Kong frisbee gets featured on this blog almost as much as the whippets themselves. That's because the duo is obsessed with catching it. There was never any need to use the training guide that Kong put together for dogs who aren't as naturally inclined to chase and catch.

However, that isn't to say that Ribsy and Mirabel are perfect frisbee players. Particularly Ribsy. He's a chaser, not a returner. He often mistakes the game of fetch for a game of football, in which he's the hero running to the endzone for a touchdown. Sometimes he doesn't even bother heading further downfield - the thrill of the snatch is enough for him to treat himself to a congratulatory on-the-spot drop of the disc.

And during those miraculous times when he does brings it back, he usually doesn't want to let his prize go:

Mirabel, on the other hand, is much more inclined to bring it back...after taking a victory lap...or two...or three. She eventually does come back to Boy and Girl after she runs dizzyingly around them, and dipsy doodles tauntingly near the slower Ribsy.

Lately, however, it's evident that she's getting influenced by her slothy brother. Increasingly she zooms after the frisbee, snaring it spectacularly in mid-air, barking menacingly just incase Ribsy is nearby trying to catch it too, but only to drop it on the ground if she's all alone.

That means Boy and Girl must play the part of returner. With a heavy sigh they trudge through the grass, averting sneaky unpicked-up poo along the way.

We can't do all the exercising, Ribsy pointed out. We've got to train you too.

Two Amazing

Here's a Friday warm-and-fuzzy for you. Dominic runs, plays and acts like a typical whippet (although the video says as a greyhound) except for, well, two things: he lost a pair of legs in a car accident. But that never slowed him down. He even has a girlfriend.

Two-legged Dog Dominic - Even More Amazing! - Click here for more blooper videos

Wearable whippet

Girl wants as soon as it's available. No particular reason why.

The Calamity Jane from Smoking Lily.

Wordless Whippet Wednesday

Whippets by Whyn

This painting is by Whyn Lewis. When Whyn was a student at Glasgow Art School, her whippet Indie was her constant companion. So much so that she only painted him, using his expressiveness to portray all kinds of human emotions. While she paints other animals using the similar style of detail against simple colored backdrops, it is clear that whippets are her true inspiration.

(The whippet in this piece actually reminds Ribsy of Santos, the pretty whippet puppy in Vancouver.)

Here are a couple more, from Whyn's MySpace page (which appropriately enough, is peppered by a whippet background):

Dreams:


The Therapist:


Thanks to that eagle-eyed RNOF (Ribsy's Number One Fan) who has a knack for hunting down beautiful whippet things on the Internet, for passing this along.

Blur: The speed of change

Although Girl still can't see as well as a whippet, she can now at least tell who's who in the morning. Ribsy and Mirabel are a bit fuzzy with her new unaided eyes, but on the whole, she can see so much better. She'll spare you the traumatic details of the surgery, and will just say that she's glad it's done with!

That's you, Mirabel!

Nurse Ribsy is tired from giving reminders to Girl to take her eye drops at regular intervals:

Life is quickly coming back into focus...