Dog breeds known for their health.....

DabDab, I extend an invitation to you (after all the lockdown stuff is over) to come and let our JRT know that she’s not allowed to so much as look sideways at a chicken. Oh, and if you could tell her the same about guinea pigs, that would be grand :). Not that I currently have any piggies, but it would be nice to have to option to, in the future.

I have taught her to ignore cattle and sheep, but small feathereds and furries are proving to be much more of a challenge :oops:.
 
DabDab said:
'Prepared to humour me' is the relationship I strive for with all my animals.
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Now get a Labrador as they’ve think you are amazing! Except my Tawny who knows I am inept and only suffers my company as she can’t read the shoot card and doesn’t know in which order we are doing the drives.
 
Tiddlypom said:
DabDab, I extend an invitation to you (after all the lockdown stuff is over) to come and let our JRT know that she’s not allowed to so much as look sideways at a chicken. Oh, and if you could tell her the same about guinea pigs, that would be grand :). Not that I currently have any piggies, but it would be nice to have to option to, in the future.

I have taught her to ignore cattle and sheep, but small feathereds and furries are proving to be much more of a challenge :oops:.
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Haha, I think I would be hopeless with other people's dogs sadly. All I have at my disposal is a good angry voice, which only works with her because she a bit overly attached to me and doesn't want me to be cross, bless her.Theory never tested with Guinea pigs, but both terriers did once live with a house rabbit - he used to chase and bite them ?
 
I guess an example of what I was thinking is when folk go on the husky pages with something like "my new husky pulls really hard on the lead, what can I do to help?" and gets piled on by 100 disgustingly smug posters all going 'bUt ThAt's WhAt tHeY wErE bReD tO Do!!!!!"

Which, ok, yeah. But if you're in the UK, even if you do harness sports with it (and you should) your Siberian husky is still a pet dog. You probably don't have access to one of CC's magical dream compounds. At some point in its life you are going to want to walk it along a footpath, around a park or at the very least in and out of the vet's waiting room. Why make life harder for yourself by not training it, just because it's somehow more speshul than a gundog or a terrier?!

I mean, they are of course very speshul, but they can bloody well walk on a lead and collar like anything else. :p I've never met one that wasn't at least moderately smart, most are towards the scarily intelligent end of the scale, they can and do understand the difference between working and walking.
 
Aaaaaand another thing - schipperkes have a propensity to bark. Historical watch dog, barking is what they do, that's fine.

However, to my mind that means two or three barks when someone crunches on the gravel drive or knocks the door, then shutting up once I've acknowledged the threat.

To everyone else, it seems to mean that it's expected they will throw themselves about in a frenzy of INSANE frantic yapping for whole minutes just because a sparrow farted 5km away, and that it's acceptable for them to continue doing this while benched at a show. o_O
 
blackcob said:
Musing (I've got time on my hands... :p) - where do we draw the line between accepting breed traits and dogs being allowed to get away with dickish behaviour because "that's just what they do"?
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No dickish behaviour allowed in my house ? But as I always say, it’s up to me to remove the potential as far as possible to allow them to do very bad things.... (murder cats/wildlife etc)

I appreciate it is natural behaviour, and I wouldn’t PTS/send back a dog for doing something like that - it’s my fault for letting it happen!

Because all my hounds are lean, mean speed machines....?

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DabDab please can I send you 2 rather dim greyhounds, a very hunting-orientated lurcher and a terrier I don’t even dare ask about so you can get them used to Guinea pigs? I’ve always wanted a GP or two again.... I’d never dare ?
 
You all are too funny. My wire fox terrier used to sit next to the piggy crate and Harvey, his name, would groom her through the wires. She was murder on wild things and outdoor cats but respected my cat. They worked as a team to knock over the garbage can in the kitchen. Caught them in the act one morning, dog rooting around in the can and cat sitting contentedly on the turned over surface.
 
We did used to have 'fort guinea' when they were on the yard and we had 1 JRT, 1 yorkie and 1 mini dasch with liveries.
The second fence was added when the JRT (resident) pup thought she might be able to chew her way in (it's a very heavy run made of pallets). The top section (which doesn't show too well) was added when said JRT worked out she could clear the fence and have a go at the run from on top. Squeakers never really cared and I did threaten and entertainment fee.
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Levrier said:
NCL, DCM and cancer apparently.... and the fact they are a little bit batty? ? But amazingly beautiful ❤️
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I can vouch for batty - I am on Salukis number 4 and 5. All mine have had zero recall and a tendency to chase anything that moves and all have been quirky. My current Salukis (nicknamed play-pest and ASBO) are beautiful but nothing like normal dogs. It often feels more as if they are large cats.
 
lme said:
I can vouch for batty - I am on Salukis number 4 and 5. All mine have had zero recall and a tendency to chase anything that moves and all have been quirky. My current Salukis (nicknamed play-pest and ASBO) are beautiful but nothing like normal dogs. It often feels more as if they are large cats.
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I’m sort of envious but not? ? They are so gorgeous, I’d love to have the strength of character to have one.... but over the years I’ve even avoided lurchers with saluki in them just in case ???

any chance we could have pictures? ??
 
Cortez said:
I adore salukis, but when I asked a breeder friend what they were like off-lead she said she didn't know as she'd never let one off (outside the fenced paddock). She may have prefaced that with "are you insane?".....
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There’s a breeder on here, I swear her last set of Black and Tan pups were the best looking dogs I’ve seen for a long time.
 
Meowy Catkin said:
When I was young ;) I can remember that a lot of people had very attractive mongrels that were black and tan (like a chunky, courser furred Doberman, although what breeds were in them I have no idea). I can't remember any of those dogs struggling to breathe or dying young.

Where have the b&t mongrels gone? I haven't seen one for years.
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pics of 2 black and tan mongrels from my past. the first one was from petticoat lane in london roughly about 1955 ish, she was my first dog and i went with my dad and chose her from a stall with about 10 puppies milling about, she lived till 15, that was the last photo i took of her when she was quite old... the other one was bought for my sister in about 1972 and she lived till 16P1010753.JPGP1010741.JPG
 
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Fabulous pics splash girl ? I love the black and tan dogs.... and I adore deerhounds, I’ve always wanted one ❤️❤️❤️

ETA - just did a google search - I remember wanting an Ardkinglas deerhound ??
 
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i thought you might like the deerhound ones levrier she was a fab dog but lost her before she was 10...too soon...... the black and tan girls were both great dogs but very different in temperament, mine was a bit of a hunter(it must be my influence) but my sisters was not really interested in squirrels but loved a tennis ball, both very healthy until the end...
 
Used to have Deerhounds but the osteosarcoma is a bastard. I think the healthiest dogs I've ever had were Patterdales - bred two litters and I'm still in touch with the friends who own a 17 year old from the first litter and a 15 year old from the second. Hard to keep at home though as they were master escapologists and off ratting or rabbiting. Lovely with people, other dogs, chickens and cats but a fluffy thing was fair game.
 
Levrier said:
Fabulous pics splash girl ? I love the black and tan dogs.... and I adore deerhounds, I’ve always wanted one ❤️❤️❤️

ETA - just did a google search - I remember wanting an Ardkinglas deerhound ??
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i did as well but she didnt seem to sell many so mine came from gnosall in staffs from a well respected breeder but i cant now remember her name, it was 50 years ago
 
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