As a child..............

[ChesnutsRoasting]

(for all those who were born surrounded by dogs, look away now) what lengths did you go to be involved with dogs. I once deliberately made friends with a girl at school, just so I could go round to her house and see her dogs

I also agreed at age 8 to be the 'girlfriend' to a boy purely because his family owned a Golden Retriever.
Any similar tales appreciated just to ease the guilt.

 

[Tinkerbee]

I had an imaginary dog since I can remember

And used to try and entice stray dogs over to me, to lure them home

not a good idea in a rabies ridden country.
Used to play with the gardeners guard dog all the time, so the parents eventually got me my own to save the hassle of rabies/fleas.

 

[CorvusCorax]

OT, but I am liking your threads, BS

 

[Spudlet]

I had an imaginary dog, and I treated my andrex puppy toy, Rover, as a real dog too.

Oh, and I used to run about pretending to be a dog.....

 

[FestiveSpirit]

Looking away now as instructed

But PMSL at these stories

Well, I suppose I used to pretend I was a pony until we got a real one

 

[CorvusCorax]

^^^^ same as Gazey. I used to be allowed to sit on a big dog called Fritz, he was an Irish champion, and pretend he was a horse, I then came home and plonked on the back of our 12-year-old bitch, lucky her legs didn't telescope

 

[Spudlet]

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Well, I suppose I used to pretend I was a pony until we got a real one

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**ahem** I used to do that too....

**Goes to hide head in shame**

 

[Tinkerbee]

My cousins and I had a whole riding school/stud full of imaginary horses until I was about 14

And that was with having the real thing as well!

 

[Charmaine18]

Oh, imaginary pets! I had MILLIONS. Three imaginary GSDs, I particularly remember.

And two horses - a dark bay TB called Blitz and a chestnut Arab called Minstrel.

I, too, pretended to be a dog or a pony. My primary school best friend and I used to run around in her paddock, one of us holding a lunge whip and being the "instructor" and the other running around in circles being the pony!

(She had a pony, but it wasn't really rideable so we were both starved of riding!) And I didn't run - I cantered. I actually forgot how to run in a normal human rhythm... I don't know how I managed to achieve a three-beat run when I only have two legs, but I did.

(Am I giving away too much about my abnormally overactive imagination?

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[MurphysMinder]

I obviously didn't have imaginary dogs, I do remember though that I used to pretend my bike was a pony. I can even remember I called it Cloudy. How embarrassing is that, but at least it proves my memory hasn't gone.

( do hope Murphy88 doesn't see this, she will never let me forget it

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