Let's just petition for an "all" option
― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ok so my list is actually
pugfrench bulldogoe bulldogshiba inuakitahuskybernese moutain dog
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post
no way
some dogs suck
for example - really small rat-like yapping dogs. they suck.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
dachshunds are pretty incredible, so ridiculous. i always wonder whether they realise it.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Write-in for "non-Border" Collies.
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/wallpapers/1024x768/c/collie-1352.jpg
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Even prick-eared ones. ^^ <3
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
oh but I remembered two more
brussels griffonaffen pincher
LOOK AT THIS RIDICULOUS BEAST
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/Brussels.jpg
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That last dog looks like a German politician.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
LOLLLLLLLLL
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah Yorkshire Terriers are nasty little shits.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.greatdogsite.com/admin/uploaded_files/1191990474pembroke_welsh_corgi.jpg
Corgis though, all the awesome. Too good to be associated with the Queen.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"i hate yappy dogs" is just a bit of a let-me-prove-my-manliness/coolness cliché to me
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It's Little Man Syndrome. If they were human those dogs would be like particularly repulsive contestants on The Apprentice.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 17 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 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.
― dan m, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
also otm wrt drool
and yeah write in vote for Great Danes, I mean look at this guy
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs033.snc1/2593_1077365584842_1547316516_208999_4396073_n.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
My parents had to put their all-black standard poodle down yesterday because of lymphoma and total system failure, at only about 6 years old. He wasn't the best dog in the world, but he is grieved.
RIP Jackaroo.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Great Danes are fucking amazing. My uncle breeds them and has raised two regional champion dogs; they're just the best dogs.
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
my favourite BIG DOGS are newfies
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.jklgrooming.com/Images06/Photo22/Newfie_After_Groom.JPG
(American) Cocker Spaniel. I had mine for fifteen years, spanning my childhood through adulthood, and he was just the sweetest, most personable dog. Little lacking in brainpower (had problems with concepts like "glass is transparent" and "things that fall on the floor aren't always food", but he made up for it in temperament.
http://www.dogcastradio.com/images/AmericanCockerSpaniel.jpg
― lightning wrangler extraordinaire (Matt D), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i grew up with shiloh shepherds, they are the fucking bomb
http://www.shilohshepherdtssr.com/images/Chewie-1.jpg
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
also huge
Yeah, have always liked the looks of your family sheps, gb.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Would bro down with that newfy. It'd be like having a small domesticated bear round the house.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/1286957573_671bbcd91a_o.jpg
motherfucker @ 6 months
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
way
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lossmaignewfoundlands.co.uk/images/family_144.jpg
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG!!!
He's great.
<3 newfies too
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
awwwwwww they love each other
all you pitbull haters are full of shit.
Some pit bulls were selected and bred for their fighting ability. That means that they may be more likely than other breeds to fight with dogs. It doesn’t mean that they can’t be around other dogs or that they’re unpredictably aggressive. Other pit bulls were specifically bred for work and companionship. These dogs have long been popular family pets, noted for their gentleness, affection and loyalty. And even those pit bulls bred to fight other animals were not prone to aggressiveness toward people. Dogs used for fighting needed to be routinely handled by people; therefore aggression toward people was not tolerated. Any dog that behaved aggressively toward a person was culled, or killed, to avoid passing on such an undesirable trait. Research on pet dogs confirms that dog aggressive dogs are no more likely to direct aggression toward people than dogs that aren’t aggressive to other dogs.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
buying into media lies and savagery and contributing to the enormous population of pits in shelters. just astonishingly bad critical thinking taking place on this issue.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:39 (one month ago) link
oh snap water dogs!! i told about this once before but it's one of my fave dog stories so lucky y'all get to read it again!
back in the 60s the russian navy wanted the perfect military water rescue dog so they crossbred newfies + a couple types of fiercely protective shepherds and created the Moscow Water Dog, who would swim out to drowning sailors and bite them, oops lol
― nḏm (cat), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:45 (one month ago) link
Any dog, no matter their apparent breeding or temperament, is capable of attacking a person. They’re animals who run on instincts, not reasoned-out decisions. But it’s pretty easy to reduce the chance of an attack ever happening to zero if you’re a responsible dog owner: don’t let your dog off leash outside your secured yard, don’t leave your dog unsupervised with a child or another dog, teach your children how to act responsibly around dogs (don’t fucking approach and/or touch strange dogs without asking the owner if it’s ok, don’t loom over them, don’t touch their heads, don’t grab them), get to know your dog so you understand their triggers and signals.
When I was a kid, a child had his face savagely bitten by a friendly and charming Labrador. The dog was in a car parked outside a party, with the window rolled all the way down. Kids were running around and one popped up suddenly in front of the open window and startled the dog. He reacted on instinct and attacked.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
Yep, we fostered an adorable little JRT once. Took our eye off her for a second around a small kid, small kid tried to pull the dog onto her lap, dog got a fright, nipped small kid in the face. It was all fine, the child had forgotten all about it by the end of the visit, but it could all have gone a very different way.
they look marvelous d-mac. Makes me glad my dog hates water and mud though.
Have I told the story about the woman I met one day with her pure-bred cocker spaniel? She keeps him in show-dog condition at all times. I said "but is that not very impractical around here, with the beach and all?" And she said no, he hates to be dirty, and won't go in the water at all. She looked at my four wet, sandy dogs and asked me "how do you keep your house clean?" and I said, "I don't, my house is absolutely manky." Which is true. I don't think she believed me.
Deems, that is an awesome dog picture.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
my dog had an early period of jumping in the canal and wading through mud, but soon decided this stuff sucked. And I'm glad.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:09 (one month ago) link
Poodles (the clue’s in the name, comes from pudel which means ‘to splash’ in German) are really German water dogs. The French water dog is called a Barbet.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:11 (one month ago) link
how do you keep your house clean?
keep towel at door, got a robot vacuum, gave up besides
fuckin saving up like mad for washable paint mind
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:33 (one month ago) link
love cat's russian dog tale
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:34 (one month ago) link
I never seem to have the foresight to buy some mudsplash coloured paint.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:39 (one month ago) link
dmac wins the dog photo competition.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:11 (one month ago) link
It's one of those little miracles of the universe that we were born in different time zones xyzzzz__, so I don't have the opportunity to actively engage in your foolish posting lol. Go get a dog, it'll make you happier
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:22 (one month ago) link
Also sorry I engaged in my bit first dmac, but yes i concur, wonderful doggo who clearly knows a think or two about exfoliation
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:25 (one month ago) link
In awe of any dog owner that keeps their house clean. Peach isn't a dirty girl, but the daily beach trips brings an ungodly amount of sand into this house.
Witnessed a jack russel going turbo speed trying to catch a seagull at the beach today, really didn't know they had that energy in them. Can absolutely see how they could tear through anything the same size/smaller than them that doesn't have wings.
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:34 (one month ago) link
guys its ok i was just tryin to distract the scrapping posters
all the dog pics are good, all the dogs pictured are good dogs
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:34 (one month ago) link
Depends on the owners.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:36 (one month ago) link
fuck off, good lad
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:52 (one month ago) link
You don't sound happy. Get a cat
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:53 (one month ago) link
lol touche tbf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:57 (one month ago) link
It's alright, will leave the thread. You all behave with the cat posting, though. Peace.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:00 (one month ago) link
He came in like a bulldozer, but left with style and grace. Peace returned
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:12 (one month ago) link
My anxiety around dogs has eased in middle-age, perhaps in inverse relation to my anxiety around ppl, who knows. Anyway, I've encountered some charmers recently...
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53502319792_fe5b874c26_c.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49139200976_3ac468b167_c.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52577717597_4e27a6e853_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:42 (one month ago) link
Recovering-dog-with-too-much-energy has taken to barking desperately from downstairs beginning at 7am
I drowsed awake thinking that her cone had turned her into an autophonograph, a fusion of both dog and phonograph from the HMV logo
I did sit and think “I wish in the mornings I was dealing with an ‘I am your hat’ cat, or a ‘kneady-paws’ cat, anything but this desperate ‘look at me now’ alarm clock dog”
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
our young one has a physiology that predisposes him for this vomiting syndrome, so I have to feed him a snack and take him out before 8 most mornings unless we want a pile of bile on our rugs. i wake up early so don’t totally mind, but February cold makes it especially yuk.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link
Have you tried a little snack/treat before bedtime? Widget gets a treat right after we come back from last call, so no bilious voms in the morning.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
Oh! Good idea, suzy— yeah, he is a foxhound mixed with something, so has similar physiology to a whippet. I will try late night snacks! The problem is that his older sister is an AmStaff and will also want a snack, but she definitely doesn't need one lol.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:55 (one month ago) link
wife and I inherited a one year old kokoni spaniel who wasn’t really getting the structure or amount of exercise he needed… he’s an absolute sweetheart and he kinda resembles chucky from the rugrats. Super intense separation anxiety, poor thing whines and hollers even when I just go take the trash out. Also an absolute champion tugger on the harness, full on world’s strongest dog under 20 lbs.I am getting way more exercise than I have in a long ass time. Going to have to take up running again to take care of this bad(ass) boy. Lots of great places to take him through/to where I’m at, though.
― brimstead, Friday, 8 March 2024 22:38 (two weeks ago) link
I’m looking after 2 adorable but terrible corgis for 3 weeks
https://imgur.com/a/XuOAXZx
They bark at every little sound, the little one needs her ass wiped after every poop, the bigger one has intense anxiety.
― just1n3, Friday, 8 March 2024 22:58 (two weeks ago) link
Xp that's so great. Dogs such a great way to force yourself into doing that stuff we all know is a good idea for us: getting outside + exercise. Nice to have an accountability partner whose judgements of you are so sincere that they pierce right through to the heart. Have fun with your spaniel! He's young top, the separation anxiety and crazy-energy will probably recede over the year (maybe)
Good luck just1n3 lol
― H.P, Friday, 8 March 2024 23:09 (two weeks ago) link
Nara, the little girl, has a hole in her heart and sleeps 98% of the day, the other 2% is spent going absolutely wild: humping and ankle-biting her brother, pouncing around like a kitten, generally being a tiny terror. Tsunami sits and stares at me a lot, likes to carry a sock around in his mouth but sometimes the sock-carrying triggers an anxiety attack and he has to come up beside me on the couch or bed, shivering and crying, and bury the sock in the cushions/pillows. Then I have to ASMR him with a soft whispery voice till he calms down. They don’t appear to like each other very much but if you try to separate them, they absolutely freak out. They also can’t be separated from me or my husband - they follow us around very closely and have to be in our room at night. Tsunami freaks out if he sees us even cuddling. Oh and Nara has to take 4 medications 3x a day.
― just1n3, Friday, 8 March 2024 23:52 (two weeks ago) link
:(
All my love to zara and tsunami.
― H.P, Friday, 8 March 2024 23:54 (two weeks ago) link
Nara
My sweetie Roux has had varying degrees of separation anxiety since I adopted her over a year ago but about a month ago she started getting incredibly nervous and destructive in the middle of the night trying to escape. I took her to the vet and now we're a few weeks into weaning her onto doggie prozac (flouxetine). It seems like it's helping some and she's at least not being destructive at night even if she makes a racket whining and trying to get into inaccessible places. I'm really hoping that when we wean her onto a higher dose it helps her calm down and be happier, though. She shouldn't have to be nervous about anything, poor thing.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:26 (one week ago) link
Do you let her sleep in your room?
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 15 March 2024 22:04 (one week ago) link