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 on the large size for the breed, robust and not a shiverer. He doesn’t mind the cold and wet too much. He likes chasing squirrels in the park. In Sussex, he once rounded up half a dozen sheep and drove them into a river.As a two and three year old he had an astonishing turn of speed. He is a bit of a show-off, but very well mannered. He always offers a present to whoever is about to feed him – either a stray sock or a soft toy. He makes soft growling noises of appreciation and affection, which are sometimes oddly close to speech.
You could say that we are very fond of him.”
Does he sound a bit like Chewbacca when ‘talking’?
I found my little Whippet rounding up a herd of cows in a ford near Hungerford once,,,,,,she had escaped round a corner, and there they were, all in the middle of the ford.