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Bareve
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: Leics, England
Breed: German Wirehaired Pointers
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| Ghilliegumdrop wrote: | Not likely, that would have been asking for trouble  Friend of mine, who has moved up to a nursing home in Scotland, used to breed show greyhounds....must have been mad, they are as thick as two short planks and daft with it  |
Never a truer word Jan  The show Greyhounds are "nice but dim" and they are so accident prone it's untrue. We had one that broke a leg playing, one dog went through a glass door, one who broke two toes whilst exercising and where we got our's from they never made old bones with him due to accidents and injury 
Just out of interest what is the name of this friend of yours as we may know them?
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Ghilliegumdrop
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Location: Herts
Breed: Brittany
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:46 am Post subject: |
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You probaly do Sharon as it is Daphne Gilpin of the Wenonah's. Do you remember that she used to come with me quite frequently when I was showing Jaffa  She [or rather her daughter] sold up the house near Claire after her mom went into a home near there. However Daphne's brother got wind of this and came down and took Daphne back up to Scotland with him. She is now in a retirement home near him. I have been told, so I don't know how true it is, that all Daphne's remaining dogs have been put down and her daughter has moved to Ireland [without her partner ] It's very sad considering how much thought, time and money went into building up that kennel.
PS If there was ever a case for docking it's greyhounds....every time they wagged their tails there was blood everywhere. The amount of money spent at the vets must have been enough to keep him in beer for ever 
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Bareve
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: Leics, England
Breed: German Wirehaired Pointers
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Ghilliegumdrop wrote: | You probaly do Sharon as it is Daphne Gilpin of the Wenonah's. Do you remember that she used to come with me quite frequently when I was showing Jaffa She [or rather her daughter] sold up the house near Claire after her mom went into a home near there. However Daphne's brother got wind of this and came down and took Daphne back up to Scotland with him. She is now in a retirement home near him. I have been told, so I don't know how true it is, that all Daphne's remaining dogs have been put down and her daughter has moved to Ireland [without her partner ] It's very sad considering how much thought, time and money went into building up that kennel.
PS If there was ever a case for docking it's greyhounds....every time they wagged their tails there was blood everywhere. The amount of money spent at the vets must have been enough to keep him in beer for ever |
Oh no I didn't realise this had happened to Daphne - she was always lovely to me when I first started to show Greyhounds  The last time I saw her she was very fragile but still going to shows with the daughter showing the dogs. Daphne has spent lots and lots of money bringing in new lines so that is awful to think of her lines just dying off in that way.
As for the tails - you are right there too  The Hortendale (sp) people had a lovely brindle dog they made up and he had to have the bottom of his tail amputated due to injury and Barbara Wilton Clark's dogs always arrived at the show with their tails bandaged which were replaced as soon as judging finished. We only had the one damaged tail in the years we had them but so many people had to take preventative measures with them in the house and in cars.
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Ghilliegumdrop
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Breed: Brittany
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She was a stuck up little madam if ever there was one....got a lot of people's backs up, and she bullied her mom. She did try to do it once when I was there.....she never did it again tho' [at least when I was with Daphne] There are several people who have told me they couldn't stand her, including a lot of the greyhound people Still it's nice to know that Daphne is now with people she likes and trusts.
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chiendog
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Does anyone have a current email address for Jonathan Shaw? I understand he is in South Africa now.
A private message would be fine.
Thanks!
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