Is your dog a wimp or a lion

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Diesel has skagged his side racing through the yard and tried to turn by some farm machinery and caught his side on it. I never heard a whimper and when I got home and was drying him off he has skinned himself all along his side. It was bleeding and very sore but dosnt require stitches, he just stood still whilst I bathed it with salty water and never flinched. While I was doing this I was thinking back to when Darcy cut her paw the first I noticed was blood all over the floor. She stood quietly while I stood her paw in some salty water and never moved or murmured.

So what do you have?
 
Wimp!! A Blackthorne between his pad, made him look like he had a broken leg! As a puppy he refused to come, then I noticed he had got himself in a patch of stinging nettles, so wasn't coming as didn't want to be stung! Had to walk over and pick him up :)
 
I have two total weirdos.

B is incredibly stoic to the point that when he is unwell we never find out until it is quite bad :o but he is insecure, defensive etc in everyday life, leans on me, sits on my feet, etc.

G is like a tiger in training, was taking stimulated stick hits and doing proper escape bites and long attacks at six or seven months - but has the tiniest little cut on his pad at the moment and is acting like a total wimp!!!!
 
Harley's very brave when he hurts himself.

But I wish I'd had a camera when we bumped in Father Christmas the other night!! :) :)

We were walking through a car park and Father Christmas was waiting with other Rotary people to do their float. They said hello and I stopped as they all said hello to Harley. He was very happy and friendly until FC approached then he shot back with his tail between his legs!!! FC persevered trying to talk to him but Harley was having NONE of it! Was sooooo funny!
 
1 lion border collie, 1 wimp but a lion when it comes to injuries border collie and 1 total wussy wimpy GSD (he caught a tail hair in the car door the other day, was asleep in the boot for about 15mins and then when he moved round it must have plucked it out and I thought he was being murdered!!)
 
Dobie is a total wimp, any minor thing and she is whimpering, shaking etc, wont go out in the rain, needs a coat on in the house .... :rolleyes:

Collie, tough as old boots, wont let a sore cruciate ligament stop her, chased the horses and took a kick to her leg, still rounded them up ....

Takes all sorts ... :D
 
Well my whippet (little one) is rock hard:D she has fractured her jaw, kept playing, returned home and took food from neighbours and munched it up on the lawn and then came home and ate her tea (OH told me he though she has lost a tooth):rolleyes: I came home from work the next morning to look at this "lost tooth":rolleyes: to see a massively fractured jaw:eek:
She broke the base of her tail (not a mention of pain) and smashed 3 ribs just a few weeks back (not a whimper) she just looked very crabbed and hunched and was going rather blue in colour:eek:
She has had rips and tears larger than my hand (not a word) she is officially rock hard and is my smallest most fragile dog.
 
My springer bitch is very brave when it comes to injuries like cutting her paw, bad cuts in her eye and usual injuries that you get from chasing animals all over the place!! but at home she is a total whimp! we have just got a tiny little kitten which Lace (dog) will not go near nor either look in the eye!!! Quite funny really!!
 
I have a 4 year old JR total whimp at everything, has to wear a rug out walking slightest cut ect whimperd and howls.

My new 5 1/2 month JR pup is as brave as a lion every fall and bump hes gets straight back up running. Despite having a thinner coat than the older dog is not needing his rug anytime soon!!!
 
Sprout all my Dobies were lions my last one was the bravest of them all, vet had needles in, tubes all over the place and the vet told me he was the bravest dog he had ever known. I went in to say goodbye and couldnt believe it, he was stretched out and I spoke to him and he lifted his head and wagged his tail, the nurses were in tears and he had never whimpered once. I held his paw while he slipped away.
 
don't call her a Wimpadore for nothing!! Actually, she is only wimpish when it comes to guarding - if she barks she acts like she is scared of her own bark and shoots backwards, but may defend her patch by putting her useless hackles up, tail between her legs yet wagging followed by death by lick!
she often hurts/cuts herself, but then she is very brave and hardly makes a wimper.
She is a whippet x labrador for the record.
 
My Newfoundland doesn't like getting her feet wet!! Full imerssion in water is fine, but get her to go outside when there's an insy bit of rain and she needs a bit of persuasion. Definately a wimp, bless her little cotton socks ( she needs some)
 
All complete lions when it comes to injuries but other things 2 are complete wimps. One of my dogs was scared of my glasses case the other day and is scared of stupid things like that. Oh and chicks!!! Oh dear lord they are terrifying!!!
 
My schnauzer x is a lion both towards injuries and situations, my jrtx is a lion when t comes to injuries but a wimp in situations.
 
Betsy is pathetic :o
When she was a puppy she ran through a patch of nettles and howled for the rest of the walk, she had a wasp sting on one of her pads last summer and I had to go and pick her up out of the bushes because she was just sat whimpering away with what looked like a broken leg. I go the sting out, dosed her up in piriton and she was right as rain.... except the permanant pose of 'have you seen my poorly paw.... look at my poorly paw... my paw is still poorly'. If she is being very needs and sttention seeking she will still hold up that bloody paw.

She has had a huuuuuuge boost of confidance around other dogs recently and has decided she does not like the dog that is kenneled next to her barking at me (Akita... I swear his legs are the same size as mine) so she gobs off at him every day :o So she is a wimp with a teeeny lion streak.
 
My friend has a ridgeback who must be the biggest wuss on the planet, frightened of cardboard boxed (except Amazon boxes which must die, by being ripped into confetti), the stove holding the living room door open (was there when he came into the house as a puppy), but when my friend dressed up as a lion for a fancy dress party, the dog then launched itself at him (well he is a ridgeback:) )
 
My jrt x chihuahua is a total lion! He guards me and my house to within an inch of his life bless him, even my OH cant look at me the wrong way, if he has to go to the vets or have anything done he just freezes still until its done. He is the bravest little thing I've ever met and he was bought as a guard dog for the house so is doing his job well :)
 
My Dalmatian is a wimp, scared of everything :o

Springer is very good with injuries, he tried to jump over a fence, got his head stuck on it and cut a chunk behind his ear and didn't even squeak.
I did think he had broken his leg yesterday though, we were walking through the woods, I heard a huge crack and he cried, I ran over to him and he limped toward me holding one leg up, I picked him up to run home, Collie then decided she was going to wander off into the undergrowth, got her back put Springer down to see if he could hop home and he ran off into the bushes absolutely fine :rolleyes:

Collie is a tough cookie, she's had her cruciate repaired, she's had a stroke, had a lump removed from her side the size of a grape fruit and still going strong at 16.

My last dog, my wonderful Retriever x was a wimp with some things, if you trod on his tail hair or he caught his dew claw he would scream the place down. But he ran through a barbed wire fence when he was a pup and nearly died and made no noise, then his stitches came out and the vet stapled his leg shut and he just licked the vets nose.
 
bulldogs feel no pain... square up to parked lorries/large objects and scare away the pesky doorbell ringers...

i think i have a lion...! :p

the only time i have seen or heard her in pain is when she damaged her sacroiliac joint... if she yelps then something is definately very much broken! :D
 
hmmmmm 2inch thorn in paw "MUMMMMMMMMMMM get this out so we'z can carryz on our walk pleaz" - not even a flinch

Single puncture would to chest " You iz going to has to lift me onto the sofa, I is nearly dead" - big wuss!
 
A 7 month JRT bitch who is a lion when out on walks, charging through undergrowth, chasing squirrels and playing rough and tumble, seems oblivious to getting hurt but a total wuss with strangers and the cold.
 
I've witnessed lurchers have the most crashing falls, whilst coursing, including cartwheels, in series. They're up on their feet and running, without a murmur.

Scruff them, and you'd think that teeth were being drawn, without anaesthetic!!

I've had GSDs, which in full attack, are fired on by pain, but when settled, scruff them, and they melt.

Terriers, on the other hand, couldn't seem to give a stuff, no matter what happens!!

Alec.
 
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