Getting a Dog

[J_B]

All these mixed breeds used to be mongrels years ago now some of them cost a bomb.

Correct, Tramps. In 2003 we had a couple of pups from a Gower farm who were the result of an illicit liaison between a Jack Russell and a West highland White in the barn. We paid £25 each to cover vaccinations already administered. We lost one of them just over two years ago at 16 and a half years old and the other still enjoys life approaching her 18th birthday.

Mongrels tend to live longer, healthier lives and don’t suffer from a lot of the issues that many pedigree breeds do due to concentrated incestuous breeding which the KC are complicit in.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

All these mixed breeds used to be mongrels years ago now some of them cost a bomb.

Correct, Tramps. In 2003 we had a couple of pups from a Gower farm who were the result of an illicit liaison between a Jack Russell and a West highland White in the barn. We paid £25 each to cover vaccinations already administered. We lost one of them just over two years ago at 16 and a half years old and the other still enjoys life approaching her 18th birthday.

Mongrels tend to live longer, healthier lives and don’t suffer from a lot of the issues that many pedigree breeds do due to concentrated incestuous breeding which the KC are complicit in.

18. Wow. Gives me hope for my old boy. He can’t see or hear much these days and is on tablets for congestive heart failure but he still knows where the food is and his nose works just fine.

 

[Jackfath]

Will your house smell of dog? Are you prepared to pick up the excrement (many don't), please don't ever say, when it's off a lead "oh it's ok, they wont bite" when it's hurtling towards a youngster.

 

[3swan]

Post for you on the other site if you haven't seen it

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/forum/267266/fao-blaze/#1

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Bet blaze is enjoying being lectured in the other place. :lol:

 

[JackSomething]

Bet blaze is enjoying being lectured in the other place. :lol:

Some people could start an argument in an empty room. Probably with the voices in their head.

Fair play to Flash though. Helping others out and obviously Rog is happy with his advice.

 

[BLAZE]

I've definitely overreacted but there's a few over there who get right under my skin, and two of them happened to reply to that thread

I mean, if you ask for a bar of chocolate, do you really need or want a lecture on the cocoa trade!?

 

[benny]

Love to get another dog but misses is against it. Youngest desperate for one and has been on and on about one since he was three, 5 years ago. Had two beagles when I was young, such nice dogs but eat everything in sight including my Adidas gazellesback in the day. Know someone who paid a grand for one just before summer lockdown, price rose to three grand after.....dogs aren’t cheap anymore

 

[J_B]

Love to get another dog but misses is against it. Youngest desperate for one and has been on and on about one since he was three, 5 years ago. Had two beagles when I was young, such nice dogs but eat everything in sight including my Adidas gazellesback in the day. Know someone who paid a grand for one just before summer lockdown, price rose to three grand after.....dogs aren’t cheap anymore

The massive price rise is very concerning for anyone who loves dogs. Utter scumbags who see breeding age bitches as money making machines will be on the rise. They couldn’t give a flying f**k about the welfare of the animal.

 

[Ebo]

We have a King Charles Cavalier who just turned 3. Prices for these dogs now are eye-watering and I mean eye-watering.

Lovely dogs though, one of the best temperaments I have ever seen. They just want to be friends with everyone and everything!

 

[BLAZE]

We have a King Charles Cavalier who just turned 3. Prices for these dogs now are eye-watering and I mean eye-watering.

Lovely dogs though, one of the best temperaments I have ever seen. They just want to be friends with everyone and everything!

Here's another for you if you're feeling charitable. Cute little thing but £5k of surgery needed on his heart

https://www.manytearsrescue.org/display_mtar_dog.php?id=29510

 

[Ebo]

We have a King Charles Cavalier who just turned 3. Prices for these dogs now are eye-watering and I mean eye-watering.

Lovely dogs though, one of the best temperaments I have ever seen. They just want to be friends with everyone and everything!

Here's another for you if you're feeling charitable. Cute little thing but £5k of surgery needed on his heart

https://www.manytearsrescue.org/display_mtar_dog.php?id=29510

Same colour as ours.

That is the sad thing about Cavs as they only live to around 10-12 years old and they do have heart problems. Our previous Cav lived until he was 12 and he was rattling with pills for his heart.

 

[BLAZE]

A Lhasa Apso popped up on Many Tears last night that ticked a lot of the boxes. Was gonna give them a call today but by 8.05 this morning it had already been reserved. Demand must be off the scale

Maybe I'll get a goldfish

 

[Squarebear]

Be warned. My goldfish is twenty. Damned thing. It's eating me out of house and home.

 

[BLAZE]

A few questions on the off chance someone here may have experience with a blind dog...

• Would a blind dog be recommended to a first-time owner?

• Can a blind dog be insured?

• Are there other known conditions that go along with cataracts?

• Three pups from the same litter have sight problems - does this suggest bad genetics, and if so, does it put the dog at a higher risk of suffering from other health problems?

• Are blind dogs harder to house train?

• Are there other unexpected drawbacks (or positives!) to owning a blind dog? (ie. character traits; likely to be less boisterous? or more destructive? etc.)

• And probably most importantly, should I run a mile instead of giving this serious thought?