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It’s already dark when I come in from work now so our walks are via more suburban parks and green space, rather than tramping through open countryside - saved now for weekends. This means we encounter new dogs. Sometimes exciting. Sometimes hideous.

Recently, the corgi mafia have befriended a new dog in our slightly more suburban park walks.

From what I had seen, the dog resembled pippin from the cbbc program. It is one of the most sensible and bright little creatures I have ever met. They tend to gambol around for a bit and then go their separate ways - a bit like when you’re half cut in a pub or nightclub and see someone you vaguely know, it’s exciting for about five minutes.

Yesterday, we frequented the same park during hours of full day light and met said dog again. Up close, he really does look like pippin from the children’s show and really was even more sensible and bright than I had even originally thought. I thought a cross, maybe with some poodle/Tibetan terrier/etc in.

-sound of family fortunes our surveys says buzzer- incorrect. When I gently asked his owner what breed he was I was astounded that he was in fact a Chinese Crested, powderpuff (the hairy version). I have met these before but they’ve always had their faces shaved and look a very different dog. This little chap was not in any clip, and wonderfully charming. I don’t think I’ve ever met such a sensible, mild mannered yet innately clever dog - all the steadiness of a gun dog with the brightness of a herding breed.

I could have taken him home. Yet they aren’t a breed I would have ever even looked at before, purely because the look didn’t do much for me - which is really shallow and pathetic. I now want one. Well, one in particular - him!

Please tell me I’m not the only one who has met a breed they’ve either discounted or never looked twice at before and ended up smitten?

This is dangerous territory for me. A bit like when I found a mob of tri colour Pembrokes at Crufts and became smitten despite never being particularly bothered by corgis before. And look how that ended up.
 
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This is going to sounds mad but... Labs ?

My teenage boyfriends family had labs and they were all very smelly, clumsy and eating things they shouldn't and requiring surgery, bashing into me and none of them took to me.... Until I lodged with a lady who had two beautiful (slim) clever girls who brightened a winter on my own away from my friends and partner.
 
I never actually got one but Australian silky terriers. I don’t like terriers and I don’t like toy breeds but this enormous hairy miner in Outback Oz used to have one called Muffin. He did 7 days on 7 days off so Muffin often stayed with us. She was adorable. I so wanted her.
 
Cloball said:
This is going to sounds mad but... Labs ?

My teenage boyfriends family had labs and they were all very smelly, clumsy and eating things they shouldn't and requiring surgery, bashing into me and none of them took to me.... Until I lodged with a lady who had two beautiful (slim) clever girls who brightened a winter on my own away from my friends and partner.
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Funnily enough I am the same - having been around LOTS of them most of my life and never ever being sold. Then a friend acquired a keeper bred lab bitch (of a very fashionable colour which sticks in my throat to say a little - that wasn’t the motivation for getting her, they wanted a bitch and there was only one bitch) and I would happily have her. Prior to her they didn’t really do much for me, as had found most were either a bit dopey and bull in china shop!
 
I often think some of my OH’s working beardies remind me of Pippin ?

For me it’s probably an English springer spaniel. Friends had them when I was younger but gundogs have never been my thing. Then I walked with a lad who took his bitch shooting and I looked after her while he was away. She was so well behaved, absolutely no trouble, totally neutral to people, dogs and the environment in general. A real pleasure to have. Quite a change from the challenging GSDs. I’m not sure I will ever own one but I’d have happily kept that one (Sally) forever.
 
There is a lady in local park with toy poodle, I've always dismissed them as lapdogs, boring, something for old people with stupid haircuts etc (sorry poodle people!),

Omg, it's a such a fab little dog, so bright and quick to pick things up, it's a whizzy little thing and I'm almost considering putting it on the list to consider when the time comes to get another dog.
 
I was probably a pedigree dog snob uñtil I got my first Labradoodle. I was browsing a pet selling site as like to be nosey and saw a puppy that took my breath away. A few weeks later she was still available and getting her was one of the best things I had ever done.
Before getting her I had always had smaller dogs - Jack Russell, Pembroke Corgi and two Mini Schnauzers. When i got her home she was bigger than the 2 Mini Schnauzers, but they accepted her straight away?
I am on my third Labradoodle now, all the non-fluffy "rejects" nobody bought as they wanted the heavily coated ones that won't shed.
 
I've only ever known one and I was a nasty piece of work, it bit me on the backside (drew blood!) when I thought it was in the house.

Toy poodles/poodles in general were on my never list until I met a friends who does sports with hers. He's a fab, well balanced little guy who's really switched on. Very tempted!
 
I met my first powderpuffs through a ringcraft club and they were universally merry, sensible, smart little dogs. The coat isn't for me though, I don't do floof!

I didn't know what a schipperke was until, at an agility training day, one jumped into my lap and stuck its head in my bag of crisps by way of introduction. 8 years later I have that dog's grandson.
 
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