One of the many reasons I should have stuck with a terrier ;)

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One of 3 dry days, they said...

So I got loads of work done this morning to take Cecil and Bertie somewhere different for a long walk. Cleverly remembered a place that seems never to get muddy so chucked them in the van and off we went. Lovely walk, had the whole place to ourselves, dogs behaved perfectly and were spotless, even paws stayed clean. Quite smug.


Let Bert off his lead for the last bit, almost home when he starts hurling himself waggingly and happily down a bit of a bank 🥰 aww cute.... You can guess what he was doing! Fox poo. Well and truly caked in the stuff.

Back in the van, just as the rain started, half way home he threw up everywhere, the smell mixed with fox shi* was horrendeous

Got home bathed him and turned my attention to the van. Its everywhere and the way Mr P has fitted the guard now means the plastic mat no longer comes out so I have to go back out in the rain and scoop vast amounts of vomit out of the corners 🤢

Bloody hell Bert... 🤣
 
Yeah, one time my Lab vomited in the car just as we pulled into our accommodations on a hiking trip. Fortunately our accommodations had a washing machine.

She then rolled in fox poop a few days later on a trail. Took eyes off of her for a nanosecond I swear! Found a pet supply shop and bought some dog shampoo all while enjoying the aroma of fox poo in the car 🙄

Labs! Who would have them!
 
As you know OP, we have Labs.
We had 2 x JRTs, got them as pups from a friend who bred them on her farm, from a long line of ratters/rabbiters.
Never, ever again!
They were nearly impossible to house-train, which I later found out was a family failing, terrible escapologists, digging and climbing their way out of a Lab-proof garden, had perfect recall on a walk but hopeless if they had escaped, spent most of their time on a lead on their back legs, rolled in anything they could find. Never caught anything, they didnt even seem to know they were supposed to. Fortunately we had some great hunting cats.
They were lovely little dogs but they drove us mad making us laugh and swear in equal proportions. We have loads of memories of them that we still talk about 30 years later but give me a Lab any time. 😀
 
PAS, They sound hilarious! I have heard of a lot who were never totally house trained, my daughters Yorkie X is a bit hit and miss and dislikes the outside world! Our little pair escaped once as puppies when we had underestimated the hole they could squish through in the gate, covered it with chicken wire and neither has ever escaped (or had any desire too, there's a sofa inside) since.

Our older lab has never rolled in anything nasty as i remember. He did used to manage to get excessively muddy, never really sure how but he'd get it smeared all over his head and give himself huge mud brows!

To be fair to Bert, he isn't really trying to escape the garden when he bounces out, he just gets something or says hello to someone and comes back, luckily he's never tried to run away or anything. *touch wood he's not done it in ages either.
 
poiuytrewq said:
PAS, They sound hilarious! I have heard of a lot who were never totally house trained, my daughters Yorkie X is a bit hit and miss and dislikes the outside world! Our little pair escaped once as puppies when we had underestimated the hole they could squish through in the gate, covered it with chicken wire and neither has ever escaped (or had any desire too, there's a sofa inside) since.

Our older lab has never rolled in anything nasty as i remember. He did used to manage to get excessively muddy, never really sure how but he'd get it smeared all over his head and give himself huge mud brows!

To be fair to Bert, he isn't really trying to escape the garden when he bounces out, he just gets something or says hello to someone and comes back, luckily he's never tried to run away or anything. *touch wood he's not done it in ages either.
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They were hilarious! I still see some of their relations occasionally and always have a cuddle they are very friendly little dogs.

One of ours once escaped by climbing up a Ford Fiesta, onto the bumper, then the bonnet, up the windscreen, onto the roof, then onto the low roof of an outbuilding, over the building, down the other side onto a drystone wall and away! The other was a digger.
 
poiuytrewq said:
OH. MY. GOD! That's quite calculated 🤣
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Yes, most of the time she wanted us to think that she was the dimmest dog in the world but she had brains for her own ends.
We used to say that she didn't speak English, in fact she didn't didn't speak dog, just JRT and needed her sister to translate for her;)
She was fascinated by words and wanted to look in your mouth when you were speaking. She loved yawns, as well.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
Yes, most of the time she wanted us to think that she was the dimmest dog in the world but she had brains for her own ends.
We used to say that she didn't speak English, in fact she didn't didn't speak dog, just JRT and needed her sister to translate for her;)
She was fascinated by words and wanted to look in your mouth when you were speaking. She loved yawns, as well.
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Do you have a photo? I love them already 🤣
 
Years ago we booked a dog friendly cottage for a few days, and took my lurcher and our home bred lab who was probably a year or so old and normally kennelled. We were having a lovely time until the lab found a dead porpoise on the beach and rolled in it, you can imagine the smell! Dogs then spent the rest of the weekend living in the back of the pick up and we went home early.
 
My 4.5 month Great Dane puppy just retrieved a dead, rotted giant bird from in the middle of the field.... 2 weeks ago I found her playing with a stick that turned out to be a rotting deer leg!!!!

Never had a Dane like it!!!

I've left the bird for my husband to deal with when he comes home... definite blue job!!!
 
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