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Following on from my previous post, for which I would like to thank all those other obsessesed dog lovers when children and beyond, comforting to know I wasn't the only one! - who responded. I would also be interested in what fictional or non-fictional dogs inspired you as children. I think my obsession with border collies from a very young age was initiated by the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. I loved Timmy the Dog, owned by George(ina). How I dreamt he was mine...................
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Timmy! I wanted Timmy!

Also Buck from Call of the Wild, and White Fang - I got an anthology of Jack London books one Christmas and I loved them.

And Sam, from Search Dog. Made me cry every time
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And Pongo and Perdita from 101 Dalmations.

And LOADS of dogs from Joyce Stranger books! Loved all of them! Ven the little police dog! And Gemma the Guide Dog! And the sheepdog with the little boy with the limp, what was his name?

Quite a few really
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And Pongo and Perdita from 101 Dalmations.


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What about Missis, who was actually Pongo's Wife, until Disney got their claws into it and ruined it
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and Prince who was Perdita's 'husbaand'
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(I love the Disney version, but the changes annoyed me, even as a small child!)

I loved Timmy, and Scamper the Cocker Spaniel from The Secret Seven.

I loved Buck from Call of the Wild, I always wanted him!
 
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And Pongo and Perdita from 101 Dalmations.


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What about Missis, who was actually Pongo's Wife, until Disney got their claws into it and ruined it
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and Prince who was Perdita's 'husbaand'
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(I love the Disney version, but the changes annoyed me, even as a small child!)

I loved Timmy, and Scamper the Cocker Spaniel from The Secret Seven.

I loved Buck from Call of the Wild, I always wanted him!

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I knew Perdita was wrong, but couldn't think why
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I preferred the book, but it was a looong time ago
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ahh.....the Littlest Hobo

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

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Rowf and Snitter, the Plague Dogs, also a great book!

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The book made me cry like a baby
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It's the bit at the end, when they find Snitter's owner.... I'm off again just thinking about it!
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Rebel from Champion the Wonder Horse, and of course Littlest Hobo.
Spudlet, a couple of Joyce Strangers books were based on my mum and her dogs. Never Count Apples has a dedication to me in the front
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Copper from the Fox & Hound, and Tramp from Lady & The Tramp (Did he have a name?, I've always called him Tramp
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Oooh and Lassie, A man round the corner used to have two 'lassie' dogs and they were always so clean and soft
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Joyce was a lovely, if slightly eccentric, lady. She got her first GSD Puma from Mum.
Re Timmy, in my famous five books he wasn't a collie, he was a golden retriever type
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MM I loved Puma
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lovely type, even today IMHO.
Cheetah's character reminds me of a certain big grey chap
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Rin Tin Tin. I love the story about him biting a co-star, who returned the bite on his ear, hard. Rinty never bit again!

OH bought me a Littlest Hobo t-shirt for Christmas. The dog who played him was named London and he and his progeny had very high levels of intelligence and the Shiloh shepherd (NO COMMENT
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) breed is based on his looks and intelligence.

Rebel was the dog that made my mum want GSDs and she named her first one after him. She used to gallop her loan pony along thinking he would run along beside her, but he just kept grabbing Flash's tail and making him bronc
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Rowf and Snitter, *sniff*
 
Next time I pop home, I think I will have to brave the bendy ladder and go into the attic and find all those books! There are loads up there somewhere
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We had a Rebel too, I think there were a fair few about at that time.
Puma was a sweetie, with hindsight her breeding not the best, by Ch Tarquin of Dawnway. Mum kept a gorgeous litter brother who I adored, he died of lead poisoning, and Joyce wrote Never Count Apples based on the experience.
 
I loved the dog from Fire,bed and bone but i cant for the life of me remeber her name....im not even sure she had one...
anyone know?
i knew she had a puppy's with an odd name like Flea or something like that and blackberry or bramble...trys and fails to remember

Great book very well written from the point of view of a dog!so sad in parts though..

Loved and wanted Timmy,Buck and White Fang and Lassie to...
was there a film with a Laddie in it to?who was one of lassies puts and had something to do with WW1 or 2
 
oooooh, now I'm confused! Timmy was definitely a Border Collie in the TV series. Oh my god, for all these years I've blamed by BC fixation on Enid Blyton. Please tell me this isn't so
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Found this:

Timmy is just a dog, and a mongrel at that—but what a dog! Lassie eat your heart out. Whereas Lassie would go and fetch help to rescue the imprisoned children, Timmy would go several steps farther and make the villains tie each other up and lock themselves in a room, and then recover the stolen plans, find a lost cave full of treasure, and finally go off to the police station to ask for CID rather than bother with the useless bobby on the front desk. Timmy is described as a brown mongrel with an unusually long tail and loving brown eyes, although in the 1970s TV series he mysteriously transmogrified into a Welsh collie, or border collie as they're called in the USA. He stuck in this guise for a long time afterwards, his distinctive black and white fur instantly recognizable from afar. I grew up with this image of Timmy, and assumed the original Eileen Soper artwork was wrong, but now I've come to terms with the fact that Timmy really is quite a funny looking thing.

From the Enid Blyton website.

Oh well, regressive therapy for me now!
 
Definitely Buck! I must have read The Call of the Wild at least 50 times in the last 13 years (yes, I first read it when I was 5
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Following on from my previous post, for which I would like to thank all those other obsessesed dog lovers when children and beyond, comforting to know I wasn't the only one! - who responded. I would also be interested in what fictional or non-fictional dogs inspired you as children. I think my obsession with border collies from a very young age was initiated by the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. I loved Timmy the Dog, owned by George(ina). How I dreamt he was mine...................
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I was so obsessed with Timmy that I called our Jack Russell puppy Timmy in the hope that he would miraculously turn into a collie.. Deluded child.

aged about 9 I actually wrote to the owner of the dog who played Timmy in the Famous Five TV series and got a lovely letter back. His real name was Toddy Woodgate
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Finn the Wolfhound. I read the book as a child and wanted a wolfhoud for ever after that. An amazing story, Just managed to buy a second hand copy off ebay as I had looked for it for years. Re read it and now want a wolf hound again.

And don't forget Greyfriars Bobby, moving story.
 
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Finn the Wolfhound. I read the book as a child and wanted a wolfhoud for ever after that. An amazing story, Just managed to buy a second hand copy off ebay as I had looked for it for years. Re read it and now want a wolf hound again.

And don't forget Greyfriars Bobby, moving story.

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OH MY WORD, I had completely forgotten that book! That started a love affair with wolfhounds for me as well! If they didn't have such short life expectancies, they'd be my perfect dog.
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Also, that reminds me of Gelert in that old legend where the hound protects the king's baby from a wolf attack and is killed because his master thought he had killed the baby... what a story.
 
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