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John Stevenson:

--- Quote from: Darren on December 30, 2008, 06:17:19 AM ---
I personally feel that many dogs are not suitable as pets. I'm not talking breeds here, more the individual dogs themselves.

It's interesting that a farmer may shoot several sheep dogs before he finds one to keep. This of course is not something pet owners tend to do and as a result we are left with some problems. I could go on, I love dogs but it's hard to find a good one.



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I have to agree with that, we have had 7 Old English Sheepdogs now and will the exception of the first pair they have all been rescue dogs. I don't believe in buying from breeders, they just compound the problem. If you can have a child for nothing then I'm damn well not prepared to pay £400 to £500 notes for a pedigree dog.
Why does it even need to be pedigree ? does it eat less ?

Of the rescue dogs all had problems but not enough to be overcome and make good dogs.
I have the public coming here every day and young children so I can't afford to have a fierce dog.

In the UK we have  big show called Crufts which is the highlight of the dog world here in the UK, this year the BBC have refused to show it on TV as the organisers, The Kennel Club have not done enough to stop breeders breeding for show and not for the dogs sake.
We have dogs with inborn hip problems because they want them to stand a certain way, we have King Charles spaniels bread with a brain too big for their skull because again it's all about looks.

Pity you can't put these wankers down instead.

JS.

Circlip:
Hope the other half or the duo is soon recovered John, has the perpetraitors owner OFFERED to pay the vet's bill??  Hmmm, brought up and training, that one is always going to be a pile of worms, and I can speak as an owner of Ally's for over 40 years, and no, I don't think they give me enlarged Testes, I also drive a Fiat Punto.

  Just to relate, and I'm not suggesting that you were in any way in error, one of the best dogs we had was one I bought for the Missis to try to replace one that had been stolen. Looks were enough to  stop her in her tracks, (the DOG, not the Missis) Ace round kids and the whole gamut, untill she was pregnant and the grandson managed to "Fall" on her. T'only thing she did was show her teeth, and that was fine untill the grandson was told to apologise to the dog by the daughter in law and she bared her teeth again. At this point I went apesh7t with the D.I.L cos last time the child got anywhere near her it hurt so was a natural reaction. We had a litter of 12 pups, Oh what fun, and everything was fine for months untill other son came with his two daughters who then proceeded to get too close for the dogs comfort and she showed this by baring her teeth again, no bites at ANY time. The following day, with an extremely heavy heart, my next best pal for six years was at the vets and killed, but that was our choice as resposible owners as if she'd actually bitten anyone elses kids, that would have been devastating.

   It's surprising how large some dogs "Territories" are, and yes I know it was a public access area,but dogs don't understand this. In another life, I used to compete in toy RC thermal competitions and we used to load the gliders and our kids into the car with one of our Scotties (now THEY are tenacious little bu**ers). He would religeously "Guard" my gliders where they were parked well behind the flight lines and once let off after a kid on the other side of the field, he didn't bite him, but certainly improved his school sports day times and luckily his father found this rather amusing. "A dog that don't like kids can't be ALL bad".

 Anyroad, best wishes to bandit and give him a bonio or a piece of Wenslydale from me.

   Best regards  Ian.

sbwhart:

--- Quote from: bogstandard on December 30, 2008, 06:50:53 AM ---I am sure he will make a full recovery, this sort of breed are hard as nails.

But some of his inbuilt traits do show at times, like when the cat brings home a live mouse, five seconds later, goodbye mouse.


John

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I think this will ammuse you all and lighten the day.  :lol:

We have some friends who emergrated to Squamish Canada about 50 miles north of Vancuvour, they had two dogs a Yorkshire terrior, that were origonaly bred for rat catching, called Scotty and a X Labradore. One day they were walking along the river and being greenhorn Brits, they didn't know there was  Salmon Run on, and where ther's Salmon ther's Bears. You can imagine the panic  :bugeye: when a Bear apeared out of the woods some way in front of them, they started to beat a hasty retreat, calling the dogs to heal, the Lab obeyed, but not Scotty, he made a bee line for the Bear, he was going to sort this big rat out that had crossed his path, our friends could do nothing but leave Scotty to his fate, but the Bear was either to full of Salmon our thought a 5 oz Yorky, full of agression, not worth the trouble, he jumped into the river and swam across leaving Scotty on the banking barking, who then swaggered back to his owners with a cocky ness that said that bl**dy big rat just had a narrow escape.

It just goes to show "You can take the Dog out of Yorkshire but you can't take the Yorkshire out of the Dog"

 :lol:     :lol:     :lol:

Cheers

Stew

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