Whippet breeders are very protective of the breed. Most will ask you to sign an agreement that a puppy sold as a pet will not be bred. This precaution is to safeguard the quality and health of whippets as a whole. In popular breeds where careless or uninformed breeding is common, temperaments and appearances vary so widely that it's hard to believe that some of the dogs are even the same breed! Careless or ill-informed breeding has made many breeds shy, snappy, and unstable. We don't want whippets to go there!
Winter in Paris Litter
Juliet delivered 9 puppies on December 12th, the "Winter in Paris" litter of 7 boys and 2 girls. Learn more about this litter on their blog.
Litter Plans
We are planning a spring litter. We are happy to refer people to fellow breeders who might have puppies sooner.
We are a family hobby "kennel" with homes in southwestern Virginia and central South Carolina...a kennel in name only, as our whippets are all housepets. We raise our puppies underfoot along with our adults, and all of our dogs are happy, healthy pets first and foremost. We keep the number of dogs at home limited, so every one can have as much attention as he or she needs.
Our emphasis is on temperament and health, in the belief that to be a happy dog, a whippet must be a good pet. After that, we breed for soundness and "type," those qualities that make a whippet look and act like a whippet. Please see About Us for more on our breeding philosophy.
It's a family hobby, with parents Sharyn and Walter Hutchens in Virginia mentoring daughter JohannahHutchens Gage and husband Derek near Columbia, SC.
If you're near Virginia or South Carolina and are interested in our puppies, please complete our puppy questionnaire.
The Timbreblue Puppy Watch email list is open to anyone who'd like to be updated about our current pups and plans. We're always happy to provide information and answer questions about whippets, regardless of where you plan to get your dog. If you're trying to decide whether a whippet is right for you, check out our website, the others we recommend, and contact us if you have further questions.
Give us a week or so to respond to email. We try to answer promptly, but life gets in the way sometimes and we can't always keep up with it! If you haven't heard from us in a week, write again. Mail does occasionally seem to just disappear, and in the constant battle with spam and virus/worm-generated messages, we've been known to delete things accidentally.
Visit our About Whippets section for guidelines on how to find a healthy puppy. We also strongly suggest joining the Petdogs-L email list. It's a moderated forum where you can ask any question at all (no matter how "dumb" you might think it is!) and get polite, knowledgeable responses.
The whippets pictured on this site are dogs we've owned, bred, or in some instances rescued. Some still live here at Timbreblue and some are loved and cherished in the homes of our friends who bought them. We're proud of the whole Timbreblue family and are happy to feature them here along with our own dogs. We hope you'll enjoy the website and come back soon!
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 September 2011 16:43 )
