Björn Wessels - Sachsenstr. 40 - 58708 Menden/Germany - Tel. 0049-(0)2373/ 66776 

~history ~
 

How It Started Off!

Actually I have to be frank, my love for the whippets I owe to chance, not of a conscientious preparation.
While I was reading my newspaper my eye fall on a notice of a litter of sight-hound. It wasn’t far away and so I decided to get in contact.
After the telephone call I knew that it was about a litter of whippets and first I began to think it over. How would I go with this breed? I had always thought of an azawakh or a saluki, than of a whippet. I took my time and when I finally called back 14 days later I had been told that there was just one bitch left. Through storm and snow I made it there. And than there was a little shy creature in a corner and me standing in front of it in another corner. The breeder told me that it was a little more cautious. I kneeled down and it took just one call to make little “Abigail” come running towards me. The jaw of the breeder dropped and the little creature and I, we both decided spontaneous that we belong together from that time on. That’s how Abigail Wild at Heart came into my life and up to now she’s my little sunshine, who’s still holding me every day with all her love, her immense charm and her total affection!
From that day on we are together around the clock and that’s how day-by-day my interests in that wonderful breed has begun to raise.
 

What Makes You Setting Up A Whippet-Breed?

The first show merits followed soon after Abigail has been included in my life. After she had gained a lot of wins and excellent valuations in 1997 in the class of the puppy and the youth, Abigail was very successful in 1998 and won her first three CAC; also she had been in contention for the German championship. In addition to that she got the Res. CAC on the federal champion-show in Dortmund and became the sixth out of 126 whippet bitches of the whippet-top list of 1998. She was the only whippet of that year which received a “ Best in Show” on its flag!
The first whippet you have got is always that one which is teaching you how to handle things, which you haven’t thought to before.
If on a show or on the racetrack it is always a new process of learning where you are never be immune to some surprises.
Of course within the competitions your own dog is the most beautiful, lovely and greatest one to you, but in the course of the years you’ll get a healthy self-awareness and you’ll see your own dog with its strengths and faults.
There isn’t a perfect dog and there will never exist one. That’s why it is important to know how far the own dog could fulfil the conditions of the standard or those of the success in a race.
Who else than the owner, breeder or an enthusiast should in spite of the love to his dog be able to an impartial judgement on it. To me this process of learning has been the cause to say I would like to improve the whippet breed in its exterior and competivity. That doesn’t mean I could say that I have always done the right thing. But still you should learn from mistakes.
The first litter of Abigail I raised in the kennel of  “ Wild at Heart “ which I had rent for breeding. And on closer examination we discovered that the dog Dt.Ch., Fr.Ch., Lux.Ch. Lord Lionheart D´Harcourt had to be the father of this litter. Up to now just Esprit has been displayed out of the E-litter and in meantime she’s Lux.Youth Ch. and the winner of 2 Res.CAC here in Germany!
This bitch is now living in France with Lizzie Gill and that’s a little to far from German show rings. But surely she will make her way in life there. Thank you, aunt Lizzie!!!
So the first move was made but I wanted to be able to stand on my own two feet and so in 2001 the kennel “ Ghan buri ghan´s “ was brought into being and since then the name of our kennel has been international registered.
As I have to different ways of breeding I have to make a little statement. The race- as well the show dog does have the same right of a fellow tenant.
In my experience with both bloodlines I can’t find a difference of being suited for a family dog between them. Beauty is a matter of opinion and therefore it is in the nature of things that a race-dog has to look different for being fast. I’m hoping that one day I get close to the ideal of my idea of a whippet and wish everyone, who knows this breed and values to get pleasure from his dog as well as those who are interested in a whippet a lot of fun rummaging through my homepage.
 

The Breeding Place Ghan buri ghan´s

We are in the very end of the “ Sauerland “, close to the city of Dortmund. There we are living in a house with a garden, in a place called Hennen, which belongs to the city of Iserlohn. Right now I have three bitches, which can be found in another category of my homepage. Surely we are never going to have more than 2 litters a year and in 2002 it had only been one. I’m sure that there could only be an optimal care and socialization of the whelps if I am able to be completely concentrated on each litter. The planning of litters can be looked up in a different category.
The subdivision in a show- and a race line is based on the observation I have made in the last years of the attempts to build up a beauty- and performence line. I haven’t been very happy about the results of the others kennels.
I think in the meantime the difference between both bloodline is to big to reduce it to a common denominator and that’s why there have to be two breeding lines to be successful.
Of course I am very demanding and here in Germany it is quite possible to be successful with a beauty- and performance line although I am matching my skills with the top of both lines.
The future will tell I am able to meet the requirements.