Dogs in prams

My neighbours have a lot of dachshunds. Hard to know how may but we estimate around 12 at the moment. They bark. a lot. Sometime they start barking in the garden at 5.30am. My neighbours are not popular in the street.

There are 5 (yes *five*) breeders within a 10 minute walk of me. Which is amazing as there are only about 60 houses within 10 minutes walk…

King Charles, Red Setter, Bearded Collie, Pyrenean Sheepdog and some massive bushy black dog breed.

(We’ve got Huskies and Irish wolfhounds about 10 minutes away).

So i feel your 5:30 am pain. Thankfully not too many yappy, earpiercing dogs.

As a kid we often put football kit on the dog for a garden kick around. You need shorts with a fly so you can put the tail through it.

Rover’s kit by any chance?

Rover’s kit by any chance?

😂 Here’s your coat, see yourself out!

Even see couples, each with a Doggy Babboe with a dog up front. That’s up to 2000€ taken from taxpayers to transport a dog. FFS.

Depends how you look at the subsidy.

How much does it cost them to provide a parking space at the dog park over ~5 years, expand the road infrastructure for ever increasing numbers of cars, health and social care impacts on sedentary lives and polution, etc.

Especially as in the UK car taxes all go to central government, but the infrastructure costs  are borne by local government.

Getting political for a moment it’s one of the reasons Reading Council likes bus lanes.  It owns the bus company so when it’s looking to invest money it actually sees a payback on that investment when it’s invested in lowering car dependence, whereas the car infrastructure just costs it money.  The fact that people are idiots and still drive is unfortunate though.

Dogs are the least of your worries there. Are you just home from Desert Storm or are you planning for an eventuality we need to know about? 😁

I don’t follow, that’s just working dress, although slightly faded.

I was in a static ops job at that time, so I had a chat with the big boss about wanting to foster and if bringing the hounds into work would be okay.

It was, had a stream of them over the next two years. Huge stress reliever having puppies roaming around the ops/int cell I can tell you.

Not so much when they took a piss on the floor though. Rug doctor got some use for sure. 😂

But to the op, short of medical reasons, it’s **** daft. I wish people wouldn’t do it and let their dog be a (well-behaved) dog.

Like this:

RM, I think I’ve said before on here I’m ‘greyhound curious’.  We’ve been dogless for a year and are planning to actively start looking at another this autumn.  My wife used to volunteer for the Cinnamon Trust and walked a lovely ‘lurcher’ bitch (90% Greyhound) for an elderly lady for a couple of years.  We were both smitten. We are looking at lots of other options but a greyhound or scruffy lurcher is high on the list.

My little mate, 13 year old whippet with arthritis and chronic kidney disease. Happy around the house and pottering in the garden but couldn’t manage anything too long. This was on a family outing up the Malverns with other younger dogs a month or so before we had to take him to the vets.

We borrowed the buggy from a friend who used it for their Alsatian when it was recovering from an injury.

@blokeuptheroad

Long dogs are the best.

We’re societally quite happy to accept that I’m sat on a cushion, farting away last nights biryani in sweaty lycra after a few brisk laps of the park.  But the line’s drawn at the dog.

Yeah, I’m not sure that many people think that’s acceptable behaviour from the cyclist anywhere outside their own home. 😀

Yeah, I’m not sure that many people think that’s acceptable behaviour from the cyclist anywhere outside their own home. 😀

Could stand next to the table I suppose.  But that might put people off their sausage rolls.

Many years ago I saw a wheelbarrow used for a disabled dog. It’s front end worked so sometimes it would be half in, trotting away with the front paws. Smallish wheelbarrow largish dog. Looked to be enjoying life.

I have also seen a CAT in a rucksack. The rucksack had a window with a hole in it which was big enough for the cat to squeeze through, but it seemed happy enough sitting there.

I am chuffed that this slightly tongue in cheek, observational thread has been so good humoured. Mostly 😄. Educational even – I’ve realised there are often perfectly good reasons why people do this. Thank you for not being arsey, and thanks for gratuitous pictures of dogs – always welcome!

My hound mocking the doggos getting pushed in prams wearing pink onesies.

How much does it cost them to provide a parking space at the dog park over ~5 years, expand the road infrastructure

@thisisnotaspoon

I hear your argument, but this is Munich. There are next to zero free parking spaces in town and as far as I know zero dog parks.

Other friends of mine were turned down when they said they would use a bike for getting to work and doing the weekly shop. 🤔

Did anyone else read the thread title and immediately imagine it being sung to the tune of “girls in film”?