Pets

CdrJake

Too old for this wrote:

Weve got 1 x 12 year old boxer who thinks its cool in his retirement to snore and fart all day :shock: :shock:

Sounds like my kind of retirement

benno68

We've had German Shepherds for over 12 years. Sadly Tasha died last October and Fanto (her brother) died 2 weeks ago.

We picked up a German Shepherd girl from the local dogs home this week, very underweight at 26kg and her claws were at least 2 inches long which caused her problems walking.

Took her to the vet yesterday, claws clipped, eardrops for mites, booster and worming tablet.

Now just need to feed and exercise her well to get her up to a healthy 35kg. We've named her Lola.

EKE_38BPM

Benno68 wrote:

We've named her Lola.

Is she a show dog?

mkirby

Parents have a border collie and a ring neck parrot.

I have Penelope the skunk


Pouchy (how original) the gambian pouched rat.These things are used to find land mines.


And a tonne of fish the best of which is this one


Now i really must get a digital camera so i can take my own photos

benno68

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Benno68 wrote:

We've named her Lola.

Is she a show dog?

Haha - she is in my eyes but the guys at Crufts wouldn't agree.

marchant

We welcomed a new addition to the household last week; Ollie



Beloved by one and all, here he is showing he is more spaniel than Cavalier King Charles

taff..

three of these



one of these



and plenty of these





many of our weekends are taken up doing this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cukupvLihbQ&feature=related

Ben6899

RichardSwt wrote:

We have one cat, picked him up yesterday from Batersea Cats & Dogs Home.





He made himself at home within minutes. Last night I fel asleep on the sofa and he fell asleep on top. Really sweet little cat.

Richard, he's a little beauty. Miss6899 reckons you should call him Maverick as he looks as though he has a few tricks up his sleeve!

We have a cat, Winifred, and I/my parents have a JRT called Milo and a cat called Maud. We're hoping to get a friend for Winifred, a little Tom called Jens (after the one and only).

Corporate Camper

This is Miia, she's a Finnish Lapphund (not a Husky!)

Tom Butcher

Belgian Shepherd, Manchester Terrier (a right pain in the arse) and 4 rescued guinea pigs in a big run in the garden. Why I got another terrier after the last two died I will never know.

lost_in_thought

Border Collie, who's just getting over a bout of vestibular syndrome, the poor little thing.
Also, a blonde german shepherd, a great dane, and a doberman. Oh and a murderous cat, 3 chinchillas, and 2 fish that look like piranhas but aren't.

NGale

We have a cat called Nelson who looks at you like you own him an explaination when you put down food which isn't his usual.

team47b

rjsterry wrote:

Do the three slow worms in the compost heap count?

I don't know are reptiles good at maths?

Ben6899

Winifred, Milo and Maud as mentioned earlier...

mroli

Ah - great thread and am loving the photos.

We have a flat coated retriever - Hobbs. Friends of ours live right down at Lands End and bred their dog for "fun". They had 6 girls, 2 boys and we went down when they were tiny and chose our dog. We then picked him up a month later at the end of a JOGLE and it made me forget my aching legs instantly. He's just lovely, we have had a little girl since getting him and he is good, but a bit jealous - when she is in bed at night and I'm sat on the sofa, he'll come and look at me until I sit on the floor so he can get on my lap and have a cuddle. He weighs 35kg!



Amazing what a difference a dog makes to your life - we love him a lot.

MichaelW

If you need a dog with a deep section but UCI compliant aerodynamic section (3:1), I recommend a minature dachshund.

Jay dubbleU

A pair of Bichon Frise - both mad as a box of frogs - will swim anywhere

CYCLESPORT1

Ella, not quite a Staffie in looks, but 75%, but 100% staffie in mind
A rescue dog from Cheshire Dogs Home

Twostage

Well.
We have two horses, two cats (one as per avatar), two goldfish (one actually white), eight hens and one of next door's cockerels.
When we got the hens (ex-battery) they looked scrawny like this :-

Hens_Then by twostage, on Flickr

They now look like this :-

Hen_Now by twostage, on Flickr

We chucked th cockerel out twice but he seemed determined to move in so :-

Interloper by twostage, on Flickr

Twostage

By the way - Undercoverelephant, that is the best picture of a dog I've ever seen.

mudcow007

i think i have already uploaded this pics

but an addition to the Mudcow residence

Twostage

Historical one here. This mog was mine. Caught after the act having licked clean a yoghurt carton left on the floor leaving the 'smoking gun' of the spoon dangling from the cat flap magnet on his collar :-

Wasn't me by twostage, on Flickr
He used to spend most evenings asleep on me. If my wife and I swapped places he would come in, settle down on her, realise his mistake, get up and move across to me. Daft as a brush but irreplaceable.

Headhuunter

This is Angus, the Westie we looked after for 8 months... We still miss him!

il_principe

mudcow007 wrote:

man alive i want another collie, best dogs in the world

+1 Grew up with a collie called Kep. Her Dad was a proper working sheep dog, Kep amused herself by attempting to round up cars and humans.

I'd love a dog, but really don't agree with having one in London.

Headhuunter

Il Principe wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

man alive i want another collie, best dogs in the world

+1 Grew up with a collie called Kep. Her Dad was a proper working sheep dog, Kep amused herself by attempting to round up cars and humans.

I'd love a dog, but really don't agree with having one in London.

Nothing wrong with having a dog in London per se, it's only a problem if you're out for 12 hours per day with the dog alone at home... We looked after Angus for 8 months and he was alone between about 8.30am and 6-7pm ish, however we had a dog walker who took him out for a couple of hours between around 12 and 2pm ish, not really ideal but we had no choice. If someone's at home all day then it doesn't matter if it's London or the rural outback.... You don't even need a garden, we have one but we barely ever let Angus out there as we weren't sure if he'd escape. If you want a dog and only have a small flat in London then just don't get a Great Dane or something...

mrc1

Henry our Border Terrier - he's 11.5 weeks old so we've only had him for a week and a half but he is already firmly part of the family. He'll be a very well travelled dog given that he is the Le Domestique Tours mascot so he's going to have a fantastic life playing in the mountains and showing all the French cats and dogs who is boss!

rml380z

team47b wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Do the three slow worms in the compost heap count?

I don't know are reptiles good at maths?

Not sure about slow worms, but adders are very good at maths

Our pet mouse;

UndercoverElephant

Twostage wrote:

By the way - Undercoverelephant, that is the best picture of a dog I've ever seen.

Aw, thanks. Here's another for you:



Yes, he was wearing one of my daughter's socks, as he'd broken his toe and it worked as a bandage.

benno68

Great photo UndercoverElephant - he looked like a smasher!

I posted some months ago about Lola (our rescue GSD), we got her up to a healthy 34kg (from 24/26kg skin and bone), sadly she broke her leg in December and then 3 weeks later had a massive fit which she didn't recover from.

We now have Max (age 11) who we took on as a rescue in October and Stitch (a bitch around 6 years old) who came to us a couple of weeks ago - both GSD's.

I forgot to mention that we have Sinbad the tortoise who is currently hibernating in the greenhouse - how could I have forgotten him, Mrs Benno has had him for over 35 years!

graham.

This is "Boots". We got her from the rescue at 6 months, she was 17 last November.
Just realised that "One Dog And His Man" is on the other side!




Graham.