Charlie
Can you see that look ?
This is actually what made us have a crush on him; that little I-know-what-I-mean look...
Well, (too) soon it became you-throw-my-ball-at-once-or-I'll-throw-a-tantrum !
When reading breeders' descriptions of how the average whippet behaves, we do feel we are living with a fraud !
Charlie loves tarking ( = barking + talking.) He knows how to stare at you and loudly ask !
Do not say that dogs don't think for he has got loads of ideas, which he expresses by a whole range of noises that go from the hard breathing sound (as if his throat had magically been reduced to the size of a straw) to the big ugly bark, without forgetting the teeth clattering (when hungry), the annoyed sneezing and of course the chewing-howl (imagine a wolf that has found a chewing-gum, well that's the kind of weird howling he does when he sees strangers that he can't run after.)
The "no" word doesn't have much effect on his brain, it's just a funny sound that doesn't prevent him from stating his viewpoint.
The only thing we have found that really stops him barking is splashing him with a little water. We always have a little bottle half empty at hand in the different corners of the house just in case.
And when he happens to be a bit wet (which is a real fit for the human beings that we are for we must be really fast to catch him without showering the carpet), he reproachfully looks at us as if he was telling : "how dare you transcend my constitutional right to be dry ?"
Lots of breeders told us that black whippets tended to be naughty (how dare they speak about our poppet in this way !)
This is actually quite true, but he is wittily, charmingly naughty.
He is a born tennis player : any flying things are super great, whether they be balls, apples, or whasps (which are a little too spicy and threaten to kill him each time.)
At last, sleeping is a big issue according to him.
He can growls at his blanket, scratch it into a mess to finally take it in his teeth and cover himself with it in order to be not too cold...
His great energy led us to think : why not adopting a baby brother or sister ? Whippets appreciate company, like any dog anywhay - see the Swiss law which prevents solo adoptions to make sure pets have interactions with other furry pets so that they won't become nuts in their old age.
As we totally sympathize with this idea and since a sad dog is more depressing than no dog at all, we decided to adopt ...
This is actually what made us have a crush on him; that little I-know-what-I-mean look...
Well, (too) soon it became you-throw-my-ball-at-once-or-I'll-throw-a-tantrum !
When reading breeders' descriptions of how the average whippet behaves, we do feel we are living with a fraud !
Charlie loves tarking ( = barking + talking.) He knows how to stare at you and loudly ask !
Do not say that dogs don't think for he has got loads of ideas, which he expresses by a whole range of noises that go from the hard breathing sound (as if his throat had magically been reduced to the size of a straw) to the big ugly bark, without forgetting the teeth clattering (when hungry), the annoyed sneezing and of course the chewing-howl (imagine a wolf that has found a chewing-gum, well that's the kind of weird howling he does when he sees strangers that he can't run after.)
The "no" word doesn't have much effect on his brain, it's just a funny sound that doesn't prevent him from stating his viewpoint.
The only thing we have found that really stops him barking is splashing him with a little water. We always have a little bottle half empty at hand in the different corners of the house just in case.
And when he happens to be a bit wet (which is a real fit for the human beings that we are for we must be really fast to catch him without showering the carpet), he reproachfully looks at us as if he was telling : "how dare you transcend my constitutional right to be dry ?"
Lots of breeders told us that black whippets tended to be naughty (how dare they speak about our poppet in this way !)
This is actually quite true, but he is wittily, charmingly naughty.
He is a born tennis player : any flying things are super great, whether they be balls, apples, or whasps (which are a little too spicy and threaten to kill him each time.)
At last, sleeping is a big issue according to him.
He can growls at his blanket, scratch it into a mess to finally take it in his teeth and cover himself with it in order to be not too cold...
His great energy led us to think : why not adopting a baby brother or sister ? Whippets appreciate company, like any dog anywhay - see the Swiss law which prevents solo adoptions to make sure pets have interactions with other furry pets so that they won't become nuts in their old age.
As we totally sympathize with this idea and since a sad dog is more depressing than no dog at all, we decided to adopt ...