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We all should know this but....
Yesterday my colleague announced she was adopting a Greyhound (we have 2 Whippets), in conversation we got down to talking about their running speed and I quickly googled 'Fastest dogs' and found a top ten video from the USA. Whipps about right at ~35mph and all was well until at #3 was the Jack Russell at 38mph! Faster than a Whippet???
So I double checked and on a few top 'fastest dog' sites, loads of them- and there again, top speed of a JR Terrier was 37/38mph. Now I know they're might plucky and give a good chase, but they are in no way faster than my Whippets, this I know, even the longer legged Parsons Russell will not out run a Whippet. So I dug deeper and then on a JR specific site it said 'Top speed of about 20mph' and a bit more delving into JR specific sites found broad agreement which seems realistic, 20mph is pretty good for a small legged terrier!
Did you see what happened?
Did you see how the error spread?
Did you see that no common-sense 'fact-checking' is going-on?
This my friends is the simple peril of the internet, trust nothing and even when corroborated, trust nothing.
Yesterday my colleague announced she was adopting a Greyhound (we have 2 Whippets), in conversation we got down to talking about their running speed and I quickly googled 'Fastest dogs' and found a top ten video from the USA. Whipps about right at ~35mph and all was well until at #3 was the Jack Russell at 38mph! Faster than a Whippet???
So I double checked and on a few top 'fastest dog' sites, loads of them- and there again, top speed of a JR Terrier was 37/38mph. Now I know they're might plucky and give a good chase, but they are in no way faster than my Whippets, this I know, even the longer legged Parsons Russell will not out run a Whippet. So I dug deeper and then on a JR specific site it said 'Top speed of about 20mph' and a bit more delving into JR specific sites found broad agreement which seems realistic, 20mph is pretty good for a small legged terrier!
Did you see what happened?
Did you see how the error spread?
Did you see that no common-sense 'fact-checking' is going-on?
This my friends is the simple peril of the internet, trust nothing and even when corroborated, trust nothing.