The British Museum has 14th century paintings that show small, “greyhound-like” dogs remarkably similar to the dogs owned by British miller workers, tenant farmers and coal miners in the 18th and 19th centuries. These dogs known as “the poor man’s greyhound” came to be called Whippets (a term which in 1550 defined “a lively, young woman”), and though Great Britain had them first, the ‪#‎AKC‬ recognized the breed sooner. A lot sooner. “Jack Dempsey” was the first Whippet registered in America in 1888, but England’s Kennel Club didn’t officially recognized the breed until 1980!