Rescue greyhound or lurcher. But rescue in general. There are far too many brilliant dogs out there. Both of ours have been rescues.

He was always telling one-upping stories.

My dad calls people like this 'Big Black Catters'. If you told them you had a big black cat, they'd own one bigger and blacker.

It hones the skill of flying very close formation for ten pilots out of I don't know how many, yes. It has the square root of bugger all to do with tactical combat flying though.

(I'm not a knocker.)

On being dumbfounded: "I didn't know whether to shit, shave or shampoo"

When something 'will do': "It's as near as bollox is to swearing"

My mate's dad, on getting a bit peeved: "This is giving me the raging arsehole"

I know it's widely known, but I heard it from dad first: "Measure twice, and you'll only have to cut once" Applicable to all aspects of life, not just engineering.

Petplan too. They covered Ali, and now Ted. Both are lurchers, which is a breed choice on the forms. We ticked 'crossbreed' (because they are one and the same thing) and it's much cheaper.

We currently pay about £16 a month for Ted, and with his propensity to knock lumps off himself we've saved a packet.

Plus, it brings peace of mind. If he should become very ill or have a major accident, our only worry is what's right for him, not how much it costs.

Thanks for the comments. I think this was taken on private land, but at an 'event'. If the guy had permission to shoot from the landowner, I can't see how someone could complain?

he left 'enough' room for an overtake as it was proved.

The stewards disagree….

Yeah, it would have been really interesting if one of those cars had been launched over the pit wall….

clangor

Oops! 😉

Jesus H. Christ, he looks like Olive Oil in trousers.

I forget which film, but "conatins scenes of mild peril" is my favourite.

Monkey – don't just look at the local 'pounds'. Check out rescues like Geyhound Gap (perhaps not your breed, but just using it as an example). Virtually all their rescues live in 'foster' homes. They can therefore give you good feedback as to how any particular dog is in a home environment. They are all assessed for cat friendliness, tolerance of children, whether they are OK to be left alone, etc.

Again, Gr'und perhaps not your breed, but there must be similar rescues for other breeds. Rescue dogs don't HAVE to be hard work! 😆

Oh balls. Nothing worse than a lurcher stuck on it's lead. I hope she's fit again sooner rather than later.

Whatever you choose, please look at a rescue first.

What's up with Kea AA?

That's a beautiful little vid. Who'd have thought you could invest an old toy with so much character?

molgrips – looks like the large AT-AT toy from many years ago. If you look in some of the close ups you can see seams between the parts. I'm thinking it's a mix of CG, string puppetry and stop motion.

It's bonkers isn't it? It's not like they're averaging 130mph on a purpose built track with huge run offs and big areas to go flying in to without hitting anything. It's on proper roads with all sorts of hard, immoveable things to hit if you get it wrong.

Never mind the football. I'm off to watch 55 cars drive round in circles for 24 hours next weekend. What's the point of that? Pure entertainment when it comes down to it.

I'm no football fan, but we'll be breaking off from the racing on Saturday night to watch England v USA, and I'll really enjoy doing so.

My sister's new cocker, Bailey, 9 weeks.

What a cracking little dog he was. I loved Bertcam!

too close to the truth ?

Nope, I don't disagree with the sentiment, it's just a hackneyed, childish and lazy expression of it. Winds me right up.

we didn't get the war crim BLIAR back

Come the next election I'll vote for the first party to make this 'pun' a capital offence….

No, no, no, it's got to bomb before the middle of June to bring the price of beer at Le Mans to a realistic level.

Blimey, it's been 8 years since I've been up there (or, indeed, on a bike, since my knees packed up).

It's a compact area, mostly rubbish in winter as others have noted, but did have the 'Uncleanable Climb'. That did however lose it's name one afternoon :wink:.

I remember an article in the magazine a long time ago about the best 2 minutes of singletrack, or something. One paragraph in and I KNEW it was Hanchurch!

Trousers.

(Or, often more amusing 'trouser'.)

Milk? In coffee? Weirdos…..

the IT staff at Companies House wear smart clothes and ties despite there being no dress policy – and they dress down on Fridays too.

Ok, so there's a load of dicks at Companies House too…. 😉

….IT prick at my work who every dress down Friday still turns up in his suit and tie…..

In my IT department, we have no dress policy. There's a dick here who comes in a suit Monday to Thursday and has his OWN dress down Friday.

He's going to be a big lad! Watch those dew claws, they can be awkward on bigger dogs. Personally, I'd have him neutered at a suitable age and the dew claws taken off at the same time. Ted suffered a DIY job with his previous owner and the resultant 'sprouting' of claw was a ballache until we had them removed.

Puppy classes is a very good idea, as is socialisation with other dogs every day on his walks. You don't have to go over the top with the pack order thing, it's easy to do without being bonkers about it.

I know I've suggested this many times on dog threads here, but google for Nothing In Life Is Free (NILIF). The general principles are a great foundation for a puppy (or an adult rescue) and worked wonders for our Ted.

There's nothing worse than a dog that doesn't want to be pack leader but is forced in to the role by it's owner not assuming the position. Good luck with him, and well done for going down the rescue route. Beautiful pup.

easily pleased

What's wrong with that concept?

It's on channel 6 and I've tried moving our stuff around but it doesn't get any better?

Sorry, this should have been worded better. I've moved our router from 'Auto' to 1 and 11, going any higher seems top stop my repeater connecting.

Thanks for the replies though.

I really need to get out with the camera, it's hard to find a pic of Ted the longdog that hasn't been posted!

He's been to the vet with his waxey earhole today. Just spoken to Sarah and she says he had some wax loosening gunk massaged in to the offending lughole (which he loved) and proceeded to shake (like dogs do) and shower her, the vet and the consulting room with foamy, brown, stinky, sticky goo. Good old Ted!

Time to wheel out my favourite science quote ever. Brian Cox, quoted in the Telegraph:

"Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a tw4t."

(Not aimed at you thepurist :o) )

A chap on a scale model forum I frequent built this Lightning.
It was a prize winner at a few competitions last year.
(Looks like Hora's dog has tagged it.)

Thanks Woody. Those were shot on a D50 and D3000, with Sigma lenses. I find for shooting dogs in action you need to have a shutter speed of 1/800 or faster.

Useless as a guard dog but if you get a big one thats got deerhound blood in it it will scare burglers just by standing up!

Cue Ted:

He keeps airborne invaders at bay:

There isn't a frizbee in the land that can get past him:

Seaweed rarely sneaks up on us at the beach:

He's got a very impressive bark, but he's a total chicken. He scares the crap out of the pizza man though, but only ever stands wagging his tail while I pay. (He's delivering food after all, Ted's second favourite hobby.) Despite ted's benevolence the man repeatedly asks me to 'keep the dog away'. I'm making an assumption that the delivery man is a muslim, and the Quran teaches that dogs are 'unclean', except the saluki. Ted has saluki blood in his breeding and I have considered telling the chap that he could conceivably stroke a part of Ted's ear, or perhaps his tail, and not have to perform purification, but it's far more complicated than I want to make a pizza transaction! 😆

with owners that adore them.

Yet punch them in the head. Karin has a dog with fear aggression, just how do you think it will react to a bit of a beating for expressing that fear?

that's 21 human years!

Please be trolling…..(and tell me you don't own a dog.)

so he punched it in the head, it bit him twice more then started to realise that snapping resulted in a punch and not to bite the hand that feeds you.

Oh dear….

Karin, don't give up on your dog. It's taken us over 3 years to get Ted where we're happy with his behaviour most of the time. The biggest step forward was going to basic obedience classes. Not for getting him to sit etc, he could do that, Rather for him to socialise with the other dogs, and learn to concentrate on us when there were so many distractions.

It does sound as if your dog is home alone for too long. Is there any way you could go home in the day? Do you have a neighbour who could walk her, or perhaps a professional dog walker who could walk her at lunchtime?

Fear aggression can be overcome, but it's not easy. As hard as it can be, do not lose your temper with her. Very hard to keep it all inside, especially when you are frustrated, but I know from experience that one loss of temper can set you back enormously (usualy before you even realise you've made progress)

More than anything I think you should (if you haven't) find STW for dobermanns and join in there.

There is some debate about the idea of establishing yourself as packleader. I personally think it's a good place to start, but Mr Smith's methods are so wrong I can't believe I'm reading it. Try googling NILIF for a more humane approach.

Ultimately, if you don't have the time you might have to consider rehoming her. It needn't be a tragedy, you both might feel enormously happier after a short while. (Been there, done it with a saluki lurcher several years ago. It broke my heart to hand him back, but it was best for all of us.)

Time spent with your dog is your most valuable tool, perhaps bite the bullet, go for longer walks / several training sessions per week (Costs, I know) and give up / cut down on the riding? (Until you see some progress at least.)

Most of all, I hope it all works out for you and Missy. My dog is the source of enormmous fulfilment, but it's been a bumpy ride to get here. Try as hard as you can, but don't make both of your lives a misery if it's just not going to work out.

I took my lurcher racing at the weekend. 3,2,1 there off, apart from Kea who lay down cause she's too well behaved to run away from me!!!

Hehehe! You found somewhere then.

I gave up lure coursing Ted, he was very keen and all that, but if he got ahead of the other dog he'd just barge it to a stop and start a bit of a scuffle halfway up the course.

I just go to take pics now.

I'm a lifelong F1 fan (I remember Hunt's championship season).

I'd budget cap the teams (severely) and draw up a formula with driver protection and safety at it's core. After that, anything goes. Turbos, massive wings, moveable aerodynamic devices, refuelling, KERS, traction control, ground effect skirts, turbines, CVT, ABS, warp drives, whatever.

If you can design and build it in budget, you can race it.

Alternatively, the higher your declared (and audited) budget, the fewer the points you score per position.

It'll carry on as it is though, corporate junkets and hospitality being it's prime mover.

Leonoid whatsis name, Herman Munster Motorcade;
Birthday party cheetos, pogo sticks and lemonade;
You symbiotic stupid jerk,
That's right Flanders, I am talking about you!