And she cared for him, along with a whippet named Jason, until she died at age 74 in 1995.
Now the score is settled, the Big Dog can finally accept that the whippet is the winner.
On a short course the whippet is faster than a racehorse, covering the usual 200 yards in about 12 seconds.
Red Kerry was built on the lines of a whippet, but carried the equipment of an Irish terrier.
Long first and second thighs are a sine qua non in the whippet.
Two chains there were, like double-leashes to a whippet's throat.
A whippet tank crunched over the wreck and covered the group with its multiple pom-poms.
In his excitement he squatted down on his haunches, for all the world like a man encouraging a whippet.
I was dropping asleep when a rabbit rushed under the blanket, all of a shiver, and a whippet dog after it.
The machine, yielding to the urge, tugged forward, straining at its bonds like a whippet eager for a race.