DOGS

dunno what half these look like

someone do a pictorial guide

this really hasn't been done before?

where is the Shiba Inu?!

Write-in votes also accepted

oh God you just reminded me that I had a dream last night in which I had a dog but really didn't want it and kept asking myself "why the hell did I get a dog?"

The Shiba Inu is looking sad at its exclusion from the poll. As is the St Bernard.

http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_courtney/st-bernard.jpg

:(

SO SAD!!!

OK out of the choices listed here in no particular order

pug
corgi
boxer
old english bulldog
husky
akita
lab

I'm just going to use the Swiss mountain dog as a stand in for the Bernese but I do so under protest.

I had a Jack Russell growing up so I suspect mine will be the only vote.

http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs/anonymous/3542/200805083542_1.jpg_w450.jpg

I am so gay for Jon's dogs :'((((((((((

and and write ins for shibas and bernese mountain dogs

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44426000/jpg/_44426529_flag_dog_credit416.jpg

http://www.alphadogcoats.co.uk/Staffy_Hoodie_Burberry_-_Large.jpg

WRITE-IN VOTE FOR SHIBA INU

my mother's dog is a tibetan spaniel, where are they?

http://my-doggy.com/images/articles/Tibetan-Spaniel.jpg

OMG WAIT

I can't believe I forgot a very important one

FRENCH BULLDOGS

Let's just petition for an "all" option

ok so my list is actually

pug
french bulldog
oe bulldog
shiba inu
akita
husky
bernese moutain dog

x-post

no way

some dogs suck

for example - really small rat-like yapping dogs. they suck.

dachshunds are pretty incredible, so ridiculous. i always wonder whether they realise it.

That's right E, I forgot about chihuahuas. My sister had one that you couldn't even pet and it just pissed everywhere. Useless animal!

Write-in for "non-Border" Collies.

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/wallpapers/1024x768/c/collie-1352.jpg

Even prick-eared ones. ^^ <3

oh but I remembered two more

brussels griffon
affen pincher

LOOK AT THIS RIDICULOUS BEAST

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/Brussels.jpg

Yeah I'm not too keen on chihuahuas

I was in the park with Benson the other day and this little asshole chihuahua came out of nowhere and started barking and nipping at him. The thing was so nasty! I had to pick B up because the little jerk was really starting to bite him.

That last dog looks like a German politician.

LOLLLLLLLLL

Shiba Inu stans can vote Akita Inu if they want, it will be counted. I went via images on Wikipedia so obviously the whole size thing got a bit confusing.

i'm not going to stan for small yappy lapdogs but i feel they often get unfairly slated cuz of their rep - cuz they're such girly dogs, and have those associations w/being kept in handbags etc

way prefer them to pitbulls or whatever

See, okay, that ridiculous beast is actually a puppet/mask from The Dark Crystal. Look, you can almost SEE where the hairs were glued on around the eyes. DQ.

lol laurel

Yeah I hear you Lex but I've just never really met a little yappy one that I loved whereas I have met some really awesome pitbulls (who also get unfairly slated).

English Bull Terrier is surely the worst dog. I saw someone walking a huge one the other day, it was about the size of a small pig.

http://mywhitepaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/bull_terrier_h03.jpg

I also automatically assume that everyone who owns one of these is a racist.

Small dogs: I really really hate the lack of dignity in the small dog that insists on bullying and shouting down all other dogs. Some people think this ridiculosity is "cute," apparently? I think it's repugnant, and my first reaction is to want to hurt them until they get a better idea of their place in the world.

I also think "ugly" means "ugly," and not, "Gather round and pity this creature before we put it to death for its own good."

Yeah Yorkshire Terriers are nasty little shits.

http://www.greatdogsite.com/admin/uploaded_files/1191990474pembroke_welsh_corgi.jpg

Corgis though, all the awesome. Too good to be associated with the Queen.

lack of dignity in the small dog that insists on bullying and shouting down all other dogs

Yeah, I know. I don't think I'd ever really noticed this before recently but it's pretty horrible when they do this. I hate Yorkies.

Also I know you hate ugly dogs but the thing is that I don't think pugs, frenchies or bulldogs are ugly at all - I think they're adorable. You want ugly?

This is ugly:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/16/article-1339113-0C81AC84000005DC-395_634x908.jpg

I really really hate the lack of dignity in the small dog that insists on bullying and shouting down all other dogs. Some people think this ridiculosity is "cute," apparently? I think it's repugnant

i think it's sweet!

i like bolshy attitudes

re: pitbulls — There's this awesome pitbull I would visit every day in the summer who lives down the block who would always have his head stuck through the bars of the metal fence in front of the building. Once I was walking to the bus stop and I saw his owner walking him and the doggie recognized me instantly and jumped onto me, mortifying his owner.

"i hate yappy dogs" is just a bit of a let-me-prove-my-manliness/coolness cliché to me

It's Little Man Syndrome. If they were human those dogs would be like particularly repulsive contestants on The Apprentice.

I think it's more that people dislike things that show their fear so blatantly. Like a giant Great Dane is probably the most loving thing ever but probably not afraid of anyone.

Stayed with a friend in Spain who had a Yorkshire terrier, a German Shepherd and some kind of bloodhound, and the Yorkshire terrier was the undisputed leader. It was weird but possibly not uncommon.

http://www.we-love-dogz.com/boxer.jpg

Repping for boxers here. They're like a pug's older cooler brother. Manly without being thuggish.

I LOVE boxers (but the pug is just as cool ;p). There is one who lives next door and he's the cutest thing ever.

I esp love boxers with normal flappy ears like that one. :)

Love boxers as long as they belong to other people. :D I just couldn't make room for that much drool in my life, but I'd like to visit it occasionally.

Like when they've just been at the water bowl and then you sit down and they trot over to put their chin on your knee and gaze up at you...and that's the end of whatever your knees are wearing.

I think it's more that people dislike things that show their fear so blatantly. Like a giant Great Dane is probably the most loving thing ever but probably not afraid of anyone.

― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, December 17, 2010 10:03 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

Since moving in with my gf and her Dane I am continually amazed what a giant lovey doofus he is, but some people are just fucking terrified of the dude. I don't know if it's possible to be licked to death but that's probably the extent of the damage he could willingly do. He does tend to knock things over occasionally.

also otm wrt drool

Specifically Philadelphia low-fat cream cheese in our case, because higher-quality cream cheese is not as gluey.

wow thx. til

why would that be rude lol

Neko would eat literally anything - all veggies, fruits, even limes and lemons - except goddamn pills.

yeah it can be an advantage, foodwise. Mine will eat broccoli, carrots, sprouts, apples*, cabbage ... anything. It's quite easy to get his on 5 a day down him.

*cuts of apple, someone told me the pips can be poisonous to dogs. Not sure if this is true.

we used to struggle to give our toothless chihuahua her vitamin/arthritis pills at meal times but since we moved in Feb she has been eagerly sucking them down. Thank god.

Did you do anything special to get them into her when she was reluctant? Any toothless dog tips?

someone told me the pips can be poisonous to dogs. Not sure if this is true.

Yeah, I've heard this also, but I can't remember where. So many things are poisonous to dogs. You wonder how they get by, sometimes.

as a last resort we would blow in her nose to trigger her swallow reflex, like we do to stop inverted sneezing

shes mostly easy as pie, only eats soft food, treats for her are not as easy to find but she loves these soft meatball things when they’re broken up.

apple pips, as well as avocado pits and cherries etc, contain amygdalin, which when in contact with stomach emzymes produces Cyanide.

just fyi, that’s why you can’t just chuck a whole apple at a Labrador, as much as he might want the whole thing

I have thus far managed not to kill my pony by letting him eat all of the apple (or just the core that I myself declined to consume).

He weighs 1040 lbs tho

Are doggy suppositories a thing?

what dyou think doggystyle is

Are doggy suppositories a thing?

Good question.

We're having good luck with syringing the meds into her. Husband holds her mouth open and I dart that sucker in. The great thing about her is that she doesn't bear a grudge. The second it's all over and you give her little face a wipe, she's your best friend again. She's such a little star, really. And she does that super cute thing of cocking her head from one side to the other whenever you talk to her, which definitely adds to the charm.

I know I'm a hater but.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jul/30/sinister-shocking-rise-of-dog-attacks-on-postal-workers

if my dog bit off Alan Johnson's finger, he'd get a treat! But tbh I've never kept a dog that would be a danger to a postal worker and wouldn't keep one if they were.

any large dog during a fight or flight response can be dangerous. When mine was getting put under for his castration op it took 5 of them to hold him down and he almost bit one of them in the face. I did warn them he becomes ultra-heightened at vets and would put up a spirited defense but that was a bit more than I thought he was capable of.

Widget is friends with our postman because we always see him on his route and stop to allow W to say hello to him.

A dog bite can have consequences for the dog and dog owner, too. “If something happens, it’s horrible for everybody,” Lloyd says. Repercussions can range from Royal Mail suspending delivery until a problem is resolved (this can affect whole blocks and sometimes streets) to custodial sentences. The owner of the dog that attacked Hobson was sentenced to 140 hours of community service and received a 10-year ban on owning a dog. That was fairly lenient: dogs can be euthanised and, under section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act, owners can face unlimited fines and up to five years’ imprisonment if their dog bites someone (rising to 14 years for a fatal attack).

This is me whenever a dog barks in my vicinity.

It’s frightening,” says Anderson. “Every day after, for weeks and weeks, you hear a dog barking and you think: where is it? Is it loose? Is it going to come up and is it going to bite me?”

As the piece is kinda saying a lot of owners need to be trained to own a dog.

My small dogs and I were attacked by a free roaming large dog in 2013 and I still feel reverberations of it to this day. I don’t remember a lot aside from screaming so loud and much that someone came running out of their apartment to see if I was dying. It’s not controversial to suggest that people need to know how to control their animals. It’s important!!

One of my dogs had to go to ER to get a tube inserted into his neck. It was absolutely awful.

That's terrible. As someone who had to care for an animal I am really sorry to hear that.

My latest concern is that a loud barking dog will bust through a window to jump at me. I was also body checked by a large dog on the sidewalk last year now that I think about it!! The guy was looking at his phone :-/

There are a lot of selfish dumbass dog owners in my neighborhood

https://i.imgur.com/7eybpzZ.jpeg

get 'em

There was an article in the Irish papers recently about the proposed ban on XL bullies, and the dog warden in Cork made some really good and sensible points about dog ownership and people's expectations of dogs. Some dogs are simply not designed to fit in with modern suburban and urban life, where they are left alone for many hours in the day, their exercise is curtailed because there's nowhere for them to really get a good run, except maybe at the weekends, they don't get to socialise freely with other dogs or with people, and they also don't get to spend any time alone. Everything in their lives is on the humans' terms, and there are a lot of breeds that are not designed to cope with that.
For example, about fifteen years ago there was a lot of talk in dog rescue circles here about "cocker rage", because a load of people were buying cute little cocker spaniels from shitty breeders and keeping them in their houses twenty-three hours a day, only taking them out for a walk on a lead for an hour. Cocker spaniels are designed to go all day long. They're not a toy dog. So they started biting people or destroying property or generally being ungovernable and getting dumped in rescues. But because they didn't kill anyone, it never really made the general news.
I know when I was a kid, you didn't touch a dog if it was asleep, or eating, or in its kennel. You always let a dog come to you. A lot of people seem to have forgotten those rules.
I love my dogs. I love everyone's dogs. But there are too many dogs now, and their lives are too dog-unfriendly, and it's not working out for anyone.

Good post, and as per article its interesting how the pandemic has exarcebated these issues.

Yup all true and super-visible post-pandemic - cockers and their crosses (especially where you can see a lot of working cocker expressed) are probably the nuttiest dogs that I regularly meet in South London - not the running in big pointless circles, that's obviously funny and charming pure cocker flushing fun, but head height leaping at me (friendly), aggro towards other dogs, narratives of behavioural problems. I like them but you can see, exactly as you say trishy, that people have an all-day working breed when they thought they were getting a nice little flat-sized dog with a bit of character.

holding hand up here, i'm one of those spaniel owners. in my defense once i realised what i had on my hands i worked every day for months to train him, and he he gets 2x hour-long walk a day off the lead. i'm very lucky to live near a huge park, with a culture of off-lead walks

i had the fear of god put into me by a book on hunting dog recall, where the author said spaniels are by far the most returned dogs to shelters, because their owners can't handle them once their hunting instinct kicks in. they will run 4 miles in the same direction after a squirrel, a bee. she compared it to buying a horse if you had zero experience with horses.

tbc Tracer the committed owner/cockerish combos are great - it is a great joy to see a cocker rip around a big field for no discernible reason. And I'm not a million miles off the same - my boy needs about 2-3 hours a day in the big parks round here - a bit of setter in him tips him over into a dog who'd ideally be out all day in a field, in my vicinity.

Also lol a bee. DON'T EAT THE BEE, that is my catchphrase.

holding hand up here, i'm one of those spaniel owners.

Hey, I have no beef with people who don't know. People simply don't know. I wouldn't know if I wasn't such a dog person.

And one of my favourite things is to sit up on a high point at the beach and watch a spaniel or a setter run five kilometres for every half a kilometre its owner walks. Out and back. Into the sea, out of the sea. Over to this dog, over to that dog. Back to the owner to check in. Repeat process.

above pic taken on our local racecourse which has an entire fenced in enormous area with (as tracer words it nicely) a culture of off shield walking after the horses are done for the day at 1:30

running the little bastards to exhaustion is key, particularly the not so little bastard

have literally never seen my spaniel exhausted. he does get hot though.

Woody is one of the best-trained dogs I’ve ever met.

Widget’s recall is good for a whippet, but his favourite summer activity is to spot park picnickers 300m away, zoom over at 40mph, and snatch a croissant. This peak sighthound behaviour is why I try to be out of that sort of park before 11am and whack him on a lead whenever I see a bunch of kids in forest school tabards sitting down together in wilder places.

I didn’t know any of that shit about spaniels until I inherited one. He seems really happy to me but maybe I should just let him go and he can walk around the town 24-7.

i think American cockers might be different? I adopted an adult male when I was 23 and he was 5 and he was a total marshmallow. My sweetest and most cuddly dog by miles. His worst behavior was peeing literally everywhere, which stopped once i got him fixed.

sorry for reactive semi-aggro post, I’m just trying to be the best dog dad I can be under the circumstances

The other thing you have to remember about most spaniels is that they’re not smart dogs

Whoo that's the truth. Mine was a lovable gorgeous dumdum.

This is probably breed dependent though because my perspective is very skewed by our dog, who was 3/4 ckc but incredibly stupid

our lil dude will often get scared if he sees plastic bags or tarps blowing around in the middle distance, I think he thinks they are sentient. Same with things like bike racks if shadows are cast on them in a certain way.

idk what your mean by smart - this is my first dog so i don’t have much to compare to - but i think of mine as very smart - too smart really. he has all our routes memorised so he assumes i’ll always be right behind him. most of the time i am but.. not always. when he thinks it’s time for a walk he’ll go find his harness and bring it to me. he’ll then go get my shoes and bring them to me. when i was training him he got what i meant very very quickly.

also definitely not aggro at all. would be useless as a watchdog. thinks everyone is his best friend. i have heard of the “rage” syndrome, i think i read about it somewhere and they were suggesting it was a rare genetic thing but i wouldn’t be surprised if that was wrong, and really just a symptom of neglect.

Mine was terrified of horses and fireworks, not at all afraid of eating an entire bag of powdered donuts

xp that is so sweet that your dog gets your shoes? that's like storybook shit, Disney dog

i know, it floors me every time!

my anecdotal stuff is strictly English cocker & (aiui) working rather than show lines - they're v different and most show-looking cockers I meet just cruise around on lead looking good.

CKC either are not very bright or none of the ones owned by family members have been properly trained, possibly both.