Friends of the Famous

"Our glorious mother whippet, Lunabella, had eight puppies in Spring 2014, we kept two, Lottie and Roo. Three is quite a handful it has to be said, but they are all so gorgeous. This is a photo taken, unbeknownst to me obviously, of Lottie having a snoozy snuggle...

Enidmouse lives with British portrait artist Stuart Pearson Wright and family: "Enidmouse has been a steadfast part of our family since 2008. She is a gentle dog who never reacts adversely to the indignities brought upon her by our three year old son. Yet that...

Sebastian Faulks, highly successful author of Birdsong, On Green Dolphin Street, The Girl at the Lion D'Or and A Possible Life, among many others. He is photographed with his whippet Hector. "Hector is a seven-year-old blue whippet from Yorkshire – where else? "He is...

James Palumbo is best known for founding the Ministry of Sound nightclub, which has developed into a global music and entertainment business. He is also an author and was made a life peer in October 2013.

Continuing our series on whippets who live with famous folk, meet Zaffy beloved companion of Lindka Cierach, couturier and fashion designer. Lindka has graced our small screens in television programmes such as Ladette to Lady but is best known for the dresses she...

Art critic Brian Sewell’s new autobiographical book, Sleeping with Dogs, will be published in October here in the UK. Over his eighty years Brian has lived with and devotedly cared for seventeen dogs, many of them rescues and a number of them whippets or whippet crosses.

"We have three dogs, Tombi, a Jack Russell, Pickle, a lurcher and a little whippet called Beans. We adopted Pickle in August 2008 from the RSPCA after he was found abandoned and starving, tied up next to two dead dogs. Beans was found wandering by a canal in November...

I’m sure many of our readers will be aware that actress and comedienne Jennifer Saunders has a much loved whippet friend, Olive, but I wonder if you know about Olive’s best mate, Pip, a JR rescue whippet who now lives with Jennifer’s mum, Jane.