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Originally Posted by Tog_
And I agree with Doodler on how fragile the seem. I grew up with Irish setters that outweighed me by up to double. It's not a real dog unless you can grab one leg and through your body into it's shoulder to tip it over. Every time I touch a whippet I think I'm going to snap those little legs in half.
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I had an Irish Setter as a child. She probably weighed about 25 kg, but she was amazingly strong. She loved to play tug-of-war and she could close to drag me around if she wanted too (let's say I was about 12 at the time). She wasn't greyhound fast, but she could certainly leg it out and easily out run me. We had a six foot (~ 2 meter) high fence around the yard and she liked to jump up so she could take peeks over the top, which she could do pretty easily (the neighbors told us it was funny to see this red head bopping up and down over the fence). You could give her a fresh bone or piece of rawhide and she could actually completely chew it up. But on the flip side, she could retreive things so gently that even breakable things wouldn't be broken and would hardly be damp.