druid
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Springer!
One dog per household
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twiggy2
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If i was retired and could only have one dog then maybe a cairn terrier or just the scruffy little mutt that finds me.
Zoeypxo
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Alaskan malamute, second choice would be a Samoyed
EllieBeast
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Rotties always had my heart and I’d love one again if I had the time to give it a job alongside also working the GLPs.
However, if I could only have one - as long as I had a job for it to do in this strange new one dog world
- it would have to be a German Longhaired Pointer. My boy is a (fun!) challenge but I’ve never had a dog just ‘get’ me like he does. His enthusiasm for training and his absolute zest for life is infectious.
They’re so in tune with their people, and just beautiful to boot
- obviously I’m not biased!
Erik-
However, if I could only have one - as long as I had a job for it to do in this strange new one dog world
- it would have to be a German Longhaired Pointer. My boy is a (fun!) challenge but I’ve never had a dog just ‘get’ me like he does. His enthusiasm for training and his absolute zest for life is infectious.They’re so in tune with their people, and just beautiful to boot
- obviously I’m not biased!Erik-
honetpot
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The breeds of dog I have had perhaps have reflected the stages of my life. When I was just married I had an anxious but fathfull colliex, that needed hours of my time and a labx which although good with my children would escape at the first chance, so I spent hours chasing it around the village. I then had two self centred lurchers whose only desire was to take up as much room on the sofa as possible, and have an short burst of a run. They just ignored the children unless there was food involved.
For a guard like dog the RottieX, who had the perfect temprement, although she looked the part, kind to everything and everyone. Her 'fault' was she was so heavy that she would just sit and you could not budge her if she didn't want to do anything, like have a bath.
Now at the less active period of my life, I have a smaller short coated lab doodle, who is happy to chase a ball, have a sofa cuddle, but does all the mud wrestling and has the dirty water obbesion.
I suppose the easiest to care for is the cast off smooth coated dashund, unless it decides to go hunting, it doesn't bring in dirt, a mooch around the sheds rat hunting is its main amusement. Spends most of its spare time under a blanket on the sofa, but its a devil to pick up, like a muscular wriggley smooth brick.
So if I had to have one dog, it would make sense to have a small one, with a smooth coat, but the labdoodle is a people pleaser, and although he likes a walk, fifteen minutes of chasing a ball and he is done. As you get older you need a companion more, so it would have to be a dog that actually wanted your company. The labdoodle has a teddy face even if he is bored with you he looks like he thinks you are the centre of his world, even more so if you have a ball.
For a guard like dog the RottieX, who had the perfect temprement, although she looked the part, kind to everything and everyone. Her 'fault' was she was so heavy that she would just sit and you could not budge her if she didn't want to do anything, like have a bath.
Now at the less active period of my life, I have a smaller short coated lab doodle, who is happy to chase a ball, have a sofa cuddle, but does all the mud wrestling and has the dirty water obbesion.
I suppose the easiest to care for is the cast off smooth coated dashund, unless it decides to go hunting, it doesn't bring in dirt, a mooch around the sheds rat hunting is its main amusement. Spends most of its spare time under a blanket on the sofa, but its a devil to pick up, like a muscular wriggley smooth brick.
So if I had to have one dog, it would make sense to have a small one, with a smooth coat, but the labdoodle is a people pleaser, and although he likes a walk, fifteen minutes of chasing a ball and he is done. As you get older you need a companion more, so it would have to be a dog that actually wanted your company. The labdoodle has a teddy face even if he is bored with you he looks like he thinks you are the centre of his world, even more so if you have a ball.
HuskyFluff
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A malamute or a samoyed. Huskies need to come in multiples!
dogatemysalad
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Guess my neighbours would have to register my second dog and I'd just borrow it.
NinjaPony
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I’m a one dog at a time person so I’m good with that. I’d really like a rough collie.