Dog fanciers? (2 Viewers)

[CitySickness]

Listen Mister, my girl Roxy (the dog, not the Thumpeder) is a Rhodesian Ridgeback cross with a bowel problem, and she'll have somehting to say about that. And I can tell you now, it won't come out of the upholstery.

Favourite ever bumper sticker, spotted in Dublin city centre:
HONK IF YOU LOVE RHODESIAN RIDGEBACKS

There wasn't a whole lotta honking going on that day though. You'd get a higher success rate out of HONK IF YOU'RE A GOOSE.

 

[therealjohnny]

My girlfriends mother is afraid of big dogs, so when she took in a stray she insisted it was a labrador cross. a labrador with a fondness for the gym. With a strange marking on it's back.

 

[magicbastarder]

at least dalmatians aren't as aggressive as heifers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6918619.stm

 

[jane]

Ah, Rhodesian Ridgebacks. I didn't even think they were common enough to fall into a category for 'dangerous breeds'.

But this is a good excuse now for me to post pictures:



Roxy's still sick, though. They still aren't sure if she has cancer, but she seems to be responding to mega-doses of medication, and my dad says she's just as sprightly and happy as ever, just with a very bad pooping problem.

But look at her face! IS THAT THE FACE OF A COLD BLOODED KILLER?

 

[Pantone247]

Guys I just got a HOT DVD of a bulldog riding a shitsu, anyone fancy grabbing a few cans and heading round mine to check it out?

 

[CitySickness]

Guys I just got a HOT DVD of a bulldog riding a shitsu, anyone fancy grabbing a few cans and heading round mine to check it out?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

also, dalmatians are part-albino, and melanin (missing in albinos) is used in the brain as a signalling molecule; human albinos are also more aggressive. at least according to temple grandin.

I thought Temple Grandin made slaughterhouses?

 

[magicbastarder]

she writes books on animal behaviour too.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I didn't know that. Interesting lady.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Here she is speaking on Animal Slaughter.
She's a lot more relaxed speaking than I expected her to be.

 

[magicbastarder]

I didn't know that. Interesting lady.

i've read animals in translation, which is good. she also has a book called thinking in pictures, which is more of an autobiography, i believe.

she looks relaxed because she has learned her speeches that way - her relaxed manner is actually fairly set in stone, she's not able to deviate from it.

 

[cpr]

this is my dog, boris, on his first birthday this week in the park. he is a samoyed and so sweet and gentle and lovely. i've had people practically jump out of their skins when they see him but he wouldn't harm a fly. since this new dog law thing came into effect a number of people have stopped me in the park saying "excuse me is that an akita because blah blah blah" it is fucking wrecking my head, yet the same people walk by big blokes with pitbulls and say nothing....

we have met a number of lovely ridgebacks at obedience class and they are beautiful...would love one as a playmate for boris. have actually thought about showing him but don't know if i will yet..

 

[therealjohnny]

snow mongrels are one of my favourites


Where is the obedience school cpr? Would you recommend it?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

 

[cpr]

snow mongrels are one of my favourites


Where is the obedience school cpr? Would you recommend it?

i go to the one in clochran
http://ikc.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=23&Itemid=38
but there are a few around the place. i must confess me and b haven't been there in a while but we are gonna start back soon as one of us is very humpy at the minute!!and it's not me.

 

[cpr]

oh yeah and snow mongrels (love that story) are notoriously difficult to train cos they are very stubborn and don't like taking direction!

 

[therealjohnny]

i go to the one in clochran
http://ikc.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=23&Itemid=38
but there are a few around the place. i must confess me and b haven't been there in a while but we are gonna start back soon as one of us is very humpy at the minute!!and it's not me.

Cheers cpr- our alsatian is getting a bit big, and now would be a good time to put some manners on him

 

[cpr]

apparently there is a deadly training course in sallins but it is a little too far out for me at the minute. especially since boris hates cars and barks all the way!

they are quite good in clochran but groups can be big so you really gotta fight to get yr problems addressed!

good luck

 

[therealjohnny]

apparently there is a deadly training course in sallins but it is a little too far out for me at the minute. especially since boris hates cars and barks all the way!

they are quite good in clochran but groups can be big so you really gotta fight to get yr problems addressed!

good luck

no problem, i find by starving Dennis( our alsatian) and singing off key to him it makes him really aggrressive- we're bound to get seen to first!

Sallins isn't a million miles away from us- might try there

thanks again!

 

[Zeelander]

dalmatians are up near the top in numbers of attacks on kids in america apparently, mainly for two reasons - disney, and they're aggressive.

Where did you hear that? The reason there's so many dalmatians in the US certainly has something to do with Disney, but they're one of the least agressive dog breeds that there is.