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
no way
― 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
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5249/5268490339_e4f9489916_b.jpg
aaaaand here he is on thanksgiving
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
awwww
when i was 13 or so we stayed in vancouver w/family friends with a newfy puppy, and it kind of was!
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I want a tiny house bear.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
newfie = house beardane = house horse
― dan m, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I like dogs that galumph. I'd also like to be able to put lamps and ashtrays and things on tables, though. With a Great Dane, do you pretty much have to give up on things on tables?
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
food things (unless you are there to keep watch): yesother things: mostly OK, his tail is not the destructor it could be, but there are infrequent collisions
keeping him off the couch/bed is a pain in the ass, esp since he grew up with a dedicated twin mattress to chill on that we don't have room for these days
― dan m, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTWqGVqO5uQ/TNhXBVUY6SI/AAAAAAAAADc/7oh0wwS1VJ8/s1600/Afghan_Hound.jpg
This dog is such a loser. I bet it likes Vampire Weekend.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Sarah_Jessica_Parker%20-%201%20-%20The_Family_Stone.jpg
― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my old dogs basically just hung out outside all day, tbh. my parents were really good about training them not to beg or get crazy food ambitions, so the only time they ever sniped food was if you really made it easy/tempting.
the only time it ever seemed like an issue was when they'd get all riled up and start jamming through the house, back and forth from the kitchen to the porch, because my mom had a china cabinet and i swear i could hear things breaking whenever they'd go by it. clancy, on several occasions, also beelined right for it if you made the mistake of putting a toy in front.
NB---we only had one dog at once, if that wasn't clear
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00226/16-foonew-ashdown_226884t.jpg
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also tully, the new one, is really dumb, esp compared to the old dog (who figured out how to open the back door). plus i honestly think he might have some bizarro brain damage. he refuses, REFUSES, to use stairs (really), and is occasionally terrified about passing through doorways. i actually turned up a possible neurological explanation for this while studying for school once but forgot it :-/
he's a sweetheart, though
― kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Most favouritest dog breed
― mizzell, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
CorgiPugBasset houndPittie bullStaffy bullFrench bulldog
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone needs to post the Buzzfeed Top 30 Dogs of the Internet here
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
On yr computer, planning ILX takeover:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/354111117_1d2127ab94.jpg
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The bulldog gets my vote for his PATCHWORK REPRESENTATION here:
http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=21&Sub=87&PID=4836
Muji, all my hats, they are yours.
Also write in for SHIBA INU!
I am now about to spam you with baby wolves! ONE MOMENT PLEASE
― superpitching, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
baby wolves!!! yes.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lurcher or weimaraner, I think
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the noble samoyed imo
http://i.imgur.com/nZWuv.png
they're fun to brush, afterwards you have what amounts to a trashbag full of teddy bear stuffing
― Pussy v. Sperguson (Princess TamTam), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a shameful amt of dog photos favourited on flickrhttps://img.skitch.com/20101217-a31ag2sxbdqcdbk4p84nr84tw.jpg
https://img.skitch.com/20101217-nut9uatq269s9n9u9qe5tn2idq.jpg
https://img.skitch.com/20101217-8a2dqst2bjf43bmir6aine9bmf.jpg
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
and of course this lil guyhttps://img.skitch.com/20101217-g3dqj8ya6ax1f84jx59fepd89n.jpg
https://img.skitch.com/20101217-8rxurm8yhfqgcx1aucht17shge.jpg
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
forgot about the samoyed
here is my favorite one ever:
http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs/anonymous/tintin_samoyed03.jpg_w450.jpg
his name is tin tin. he says hi to you.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
sad sweater pug yes!
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
That is the indiest pug ever.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man I can't work ilx these days. Anyway, please watch this video (you'll have to sit through a few seconds of cute Japanese popstress but I promise you a PUPPY that is worth it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkY2CShbIog
And here are some shiba inu pups:http://www.littlewolf.com/3redpupsMarch06.jpg
Would... it be wrong of me to sign up to puppy forums on ravelry when I have no dog? I would just be signing up for the pictures? But, heck, knitters know how to take good photos!
My favourite pugs are still the Bloomsbury Pugs - they walk around Bloomsbury in pairs with their owners and they wear necklaces! I have deduced they are from somewhere east of Liverpool Street as ONCE I SAW THEM ON THE TUBE and it was very exciting!
― superpitching, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait - what's this about necklace pugs? I used to live not far from there and never saw any pugs in necklaces. Not fair.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Here is a place I would like to visit:http://www.dog-cafe.jp/
Their slogan is "with dog, with eat, with drink, with relax, with enjoy"!
Of course it is!
Just look at all the happy dogs!
http://ameblo.jp/mfukuoka/image-10537262685-10545868954.html
xpost: ENBB! They get taken on walks in the general Bloomsbury area! I work around there and have enjoyed spotting them for years. I have even given one a surreptitious cuddle when the black one was tied outside Boots on Tottenham Court Road one day. It was a highlight of my year!
― superpitching, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I work in Holborn and have never seen these Bloomsbury pugs. Do they venture that far South?
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post awwww. I am jealous! I would like to see these sharply accessorized pooches. My pug would let you cuddle him. He likes that sort of thing. He doesn't have a necklace but he does have an awesome dog tag that says "wiggle butt".
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think so - I've only really seem them in the triangle between Torrington Place, Busaba on Store Street and the Fitzrovia Tavern on Goodge Street.
Here is a photo I took of Sidney standing on a stump and looking particularly silly. She is GRATE. Her powers of eating EVERYTHING are something us humans could really aspire to, in your face that woman from 'love food hate waste' who was on ready steady cook earlier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robot_starry/4827962972/
― superpitching, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Sidney.
― ENBB, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
And this is when Sidney met a pug!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robot_starry/4827351835/
xpost: oh dear this is what people with babies are like isn't it... *sigh*
― superpitching, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Luckily he's only 11 lbs, if he was a large dog he surely would have been euthanized by now.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2024 18:35 (two weeks ago) link
One of our dogs is a long-haired Patterdale terrier. The kind of dog that's more a type than a real breed. In Ireland at least, you still mostly find them killing rats on farms or going out hunting rabbits and whatnot. You can tell they're a serious kind of dog, because auld lads are always looking at Bittser admiringly and telling me what a grand little dog he is. "I bet he's a great ratter," they'll say. Or, "I bet he keeps you on your toes." He does not. He has his run around off the lead for about an hour in the morning, and sometimes he'll chase pigeons in the garden for a while in the afternoon, but otherwise he snoozes all day in our ancient cat's bed, and then cries at me if I don't put a blanket over him in the evening. I was saying this to a woman today and she said, "You obviously have the other kind of Patterdale. Probably why he was dumped." Her sister had a Patterdale for a while and had to give it away because it attacked her red setter and almost killed it.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:05 (one week ago) link