Are there any breeds that just don't ' do it ' for you ?

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I don't have a real like of spaniels or collies of any description but can't really tell you why, possibly cos friends have had them and I haven't taken to them.

I absolutely love Bull breeds and will always have them.
 
Lol, I am the complete opposite!
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I love gundog breeds and collies, have flatcoated retrievers and a collie x golden retriever.

Really don't like staffies, I know some lovely ones, but aesthetically I just don't find them attractive, sorry
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Let's face it, there wouldn't be so many different breeds if we all liked the same thing.

Same with horses, I love my TB's, a hairy coloured just doesn't do it for me.
 
Same with horses, I love my TB's, a hairy coloured just doesn't do it for me.
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Am so with you on this one, I have two sport horse types and although I've had nothing but problems in terms of looks nothing else compares.

I have a British Bull dog and he is fab in my eyes but I do accept they are an acquired taste
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At the risk of GinaB's wrath, Labs. Really don't like them
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Never met a nice one and they all look the same.

On that note, any breed which is just solid colours with no quirkiness
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Or anything v small and flufffy and poncy
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Tbh if it's not a terrier, pointer or spaniel I'm not interested
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My Jack Russell. Pathetic creature, does not do what it said on the tin and wouldnt buy another one. In my experience they are either nuts or neurotic. Mines neurotic, scared of everything.

I have to lump it tho.

Um I hate poodles and toy dogs and not that keen on labs or spaniels - labs - all the same and spaniels generally nuts too.
 
Not a toy fan, anything smaller or around the same size as my cat...... cant really class it as a dog (personally!)

I don't like dogs that have had bad biological traits bred into them, just for the ethics of it rather than the dogs themselves as I know a number of lovely dogs ofthese breeds (not naming any)

I have a border collie and I love the breed, but if I had the space I would have two so that if I am busy for a moment they could entertain each other! hehe

Like spaniels too!
 
Anything that doesn't have a proper bark - so another vote for toy breeds I'm afraid. Don't really go for breeds with a squashed face or too many wrinkles either. Don't mind them hyper, but got to have some fun, personality and most important is a gentle temperament for me (even my chicken-murdering labrador is a gentle soul, honestly!) Love GSDs and springers all the way.
 
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I'm the opposite - don't like bull breeds at all
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There's quite a few breeds I'd just never consider owning - the first one that springs to mind is a doberman...
 
I dont really like toy/lap dogs, although my mum's JRT x Chiuwua (spelling - sorry) is great fun and my grandad;s pomerainian is just cute.

Personality and temperment is more important to me, rather than breed (as someone who wants a rescue dog at some point). Saying that I do love Greyhounds and Ridgebacks.
 
i dont like pekinese or pugs i think there horrid looking....not keen on cavelier king charles either but that cos i think they have way to many health problems!and i keep hearing the sob storys:(
 
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You've never met mine, if you did you'd know you'd met nice ones
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OK breeds that don't do it for me would include JRTs, 'designer breeds' which are really mongrels. Actually there are a lot of breeds I wouldn't consider owning
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I am very set in my ways! Lol
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You've never met mine, if you did you'd know you'd met nice ones
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OK breeds that don't do it for me would include JRTs, 'designer breeds' which are really mongrels. Actually there are a lot of breeds I wouldn't consider owning
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I am very set in my ways! Lol
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Definately "Designer Breeds" they fill me with rage
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I have to say, if it's not a Spaniel, or at least a Gundog, I'm not interested!

They're are lots of exceptions to that rule however, but usually only because someone on here has one I love (Stella and Beastie are the two that stick out!
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I used to work in Boarding Kennels, and on that basis would never have,
Staffies - the majority were rude, and the noise they make drives me up the wall!!
Collies - need far too much mental stimulation! I don't like any animal that is smarter than me
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I mean all Collie breeds.
 
Can't stand toy dogs esp chihuahuas (spl?), pekinese, pugs or those horrid hairless fighting dog things - eugh, turn my stomach!

I have to say i like my mongrels - loads of character. However, if I were to choose a pure bred it'd be something like a doberman or giant schnauzer and for a small dog a patterdale or something similar. I'm a sucker for most waifs and strays though if I'm truly honest!!!
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Oooh this is a tricky one as I have met a lot of breeds and the majority of them have been absolutely lovely so it really isn't personel but I dont really like GSD's although I do like long haired ones better in Black and in White (not to fussy then.lol), cocker spaniels as my friends two drive me up the wall with their incessent yappy barking. Anything thats below knee height so I fall over it or tred on it and wire haired dogs as I dont like the feel of it.
I like proper big dogs (says she with a gorgeous old lab I wouldn't change for the world and a scatty Weimeraner that is the mutts nuts)
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ah right gotcha!

Mongrols are great, but as you say, not always worth vast sums!!

However for people with hair allergies etc things like ladradoodles are good cause of no malting etc, so kind of understand people shelling out for that respect......
 
But you're not garanteed that a labradoodle won't cast. You can get a mini schnauzer for £250 and know for a fact they won't cast. And they rock. Well, Beastie does anyways
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But you can't guarantee that they won't moult. I used to groom one, and it had a long curly coat like a Poodle that needed clipping, yet it still shed!

I think that what annoys me is the assumption that crossing two breeds will give you the best of each.
 
I love them all. I could have a Pit Bull, and I could have a Maltese--there's good and bad within every breed, and I care much more about personality than aesthetics. I'll always have a Boston, though--best little characters going. Because I live in the city, I couldn't imagine owning something too large to handle. We met a six-month-old Great Dane yesterday, and he pulled his owner down to the ground in an attempt to say hi to Stella.

I actually prefer small dogs. I love being able to fly with Stella in the cabin, take her on the subway etc. No offence to the GSD owners on here, but it's a breed I'm still very wary of. They were the snarling guard dog of choice during my childhood, and all the ones we meet at the park seem to have terrible leash aggression.
 
Question for you Prose, actually two questions,

we don't have pit bulls over here much and are they as fierce as their reputation and secondly the dog whisperer talks about going to the ' dog park' what are they ? literally parks where specifically dogs can go or something else.
 
Im not a small breed person, but I do like the more energetic smaller breeds, as opposed to the fluffy poncey variety
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Im not a cocker/collie/springer spaniel person, but heir have been acceptions when they have come through the rescue.
I dont like overly deformed bull breeds either or bassets, well not that I dont like em, just would not have them.
 
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