Can we have a dog thread?

My! What big ears you have!

Roksy has had her dinner, but never quite satisfied…..

Dogs are funny the way they have different characters….. it’s nearly a year since our white schnauzer Rafa passed….he thought he was human….but Roksy seems to think that we are dogs…

They’re funny. Our hound carries on like she works a high-pressure 40 hour week.

Kiwi’s hair is coming back. She is less itchy and the Malassezia (yeast) infection is going so she isn’t as smelly! DNA test been taken for a bit of entertainment. Total of 40kg of dog on the sofa now! 

Warning – spaniel incoming. Huey off the lead and heading back at full chat.

It’s a long way from here to the beach, so an open field has to suffice most days, but when I call and wave the bag of carrots, he’s generally pretty good on the recall. ‘Generally’ being relative. Sight of a rabbit or hare would probably change that very suddenly.

That’s Max that is, waiting for a bit of faggot at the Tywi Bridge Inn.

Sadly, we had to say goodbye to our 17 year old Welsh Collie on Wednesday. Her health had been failing for the last few months, and we’d been warned by the vet that the end was drawing near. We had a great week’s holiday with her up in Braemar, visiting some of her favourite spots, including this lovely afternoon at the Linn of Dee, where she puddled about in the water and watched our young Collie chasing balls and swimming. She took a turn for the worse on Sunday night, so we came home on Monday and, after a trip to the vet on Tuesday morning, we knew the end had come. Wednesday was pretty emotional; she wanted to go for a little walk round our neighbours, then came home and fell asleep wrapped in her favourite blanket in our back garden, while I cuddled her in my arms in the sunshine. She slept peacefully until it was time to take her to the vet one last time, where she was gently helped into her final sleep. We miss her massively, but so glad she had such a gentle ending.

What a lucky dog, one last paddle, one last lap and a cuddle.

She looks like a very lovely hound.

And 17 too, that’s impressive. She was very lucky to have you that long

@ditch_jockey- tough times but she’s clearly had a brilliant life. Outliving your pets is so damn hard.

We have muddy active dogs, and lazy, sleepy dogs today

A Cockerpoo wearing a head torch. No, I’m not sure why, and neither is Henry by the looks of it.

Those 2 on the hill again. Nice evening

This little chap will be coming to live with us soon!

This little chap will be coming to live with us soon!

Oh wow

Tiny! What breed is he?

Been a muddy week walk wise. Roxie had been re-introduced to the (warm) hose before being let inside. After which she heads for her favourite bean bag 🙂

It’s a slow start here today.

Kiwi DNA update. Mostly terrier but with a few oddities thrown thrown in there too!  JRT is clearly dominant as she gets bigger and the hair is coming back.

She now refuses to wear a jumper and instead uses her big brother for warmth instead

That mix must be about the most pure breed mongrel possible!

That’s an ace photo.

My dog really, really loves a tennis ball.

I’m not sure I want to go out. So instead I’ll stand in the dog door and bring the cold inside.

PSA : just ordered a Crumb tag for the hound. It’s a QR code that you set up with your dogs details, currently free to order and the postage was £3.

We’ve just come back from dog central AKA Whitstable in Kent. Dogs are hugely popular and welcome in the vast majority of places, we had a fantastic weekend with a special shout to the Twelve taps who made Herbert “dog of the day” and had a wonderful array of beers and gins.

Tags arrived today. The wire loop that connects onto them is a bit flimsy but they’re otherwise good. Setup process was easy enough, though they try and trap you into a £7 a month subscription.

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You have half a vault for a dog flap??  serious though where did you get that and how does it operate?

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PSA : just ordered a Crumb tag for the hound. It’s a QR code that you set up with your dogs details

My missis got one. I asked her what the point was when he has a tag on his collar with a phone number.

“Ah, but he doesn’t always wear his collar!”

Er….

And yeah, free tag is a loss leader just to get you to sign up for the monthly subscription.

We are starting to regret the colour of Roxie 😉 If only for wear and tear on the hosepipe!

@Sui that is a petwalk dog door.  It’s the only passive house approved pet flap I’ve found. I’ve had dog flaps for years in various houses and been increasingly frustrated with how utterly crap they all are. They’re a security nightmare (I used to climb in our old one to scare the wife), always leak air like they’re not actually there and end up covered in mud and hair. The petwalk is electrotonically activated by rfid tags on the dog’s collars so there’s no need for them to touch it, sealed from the weather like an Austrian front door and is generally beautifully engineered. The dogs just approach it and it does the door man thing for them automagically. I even get a notification on my phone to say “Cassie opened the dog door from inside”. You can change how long it stays open for, get it to disable itself when its raining or trap them outside for a while if you need. It’s bloody brilliant.

When we moved in here, with it’s stupendously bad insulation, I couldn’t bring myself to hack a hole in the wall that I knew I was going to spend weeks sealing up with Kingspan, foil tape and new plaster, so I hid the exuberance in with some building materials. Quite a lot of building materials. Still, it was cheaper than a log burner…

It’s been 10 years since I lost the lad and not a day I don’t think about the good days.

thanks @hot_fiat , that’s quite the investment for a dog flap, though can undersand why you did!

Oscar knew I had some cheese in the pub.

Pre hair cut and nail trim.. he’s so cute with longer hair, but he’s a little stinker!!!

Lovely evening walk tonight.

Now, this dish tastes of the best cheese sauce and cauli, so I REALLY don’t mind having my recently washed and coiffured ears tucked into my collar in the slightest.

Our house grew by 4 paws yesterday with the arrival of the gorgeous Cyril, a lab x golden retriever who is almost as tall as our german shepherd. The boys are getting on famously well, we’ll see how there first walk together goes (should be fine as we meet up for a weekly walk usually).

We have been out and about this week, stopping off for a coffee in Findra.

Many questions about breed as per usual. Always surprised when I say she’s pure Mongrel ?

Lost our old lurcher 6 months or so ago, still miss her everyday.

Annual trip to St David’s to see friends, Bert loves a good walk here and obviously a nice snooze afterwards!

Huey’s first day back on the sand in Lower Largo at the start of a fortnight of (mainly) beach walks. He’ll get a day or three in St Andrews, probably a trip to Edinburgh on the train and an assortment of coast path wanderings. Fish n chips in Anstruther is a fair bet too