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We're looking at getting a dog for the family. We don't want anything too big and the local pet store recommended a Wookie Dog as being suitable to what we are after.

Anyone got any experience with this breed?

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Don't know the breed but pictures look very cool! Apparently the Star Wars look a like of the dog world!

BUT please don't buy from a pet shop. They often use "puppy farm" style breeders. When buying a puppy you really should meet the parents and puppies take a lot from the early environments, a 2 ft wide perspex box doesn't do much for them! There's many, many lovely registered breeders who take a lot of time and pride in breeding healthy, happy puppies!

Rant over, big pet hate! :frown:

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No, I can't stand them! I will go to a pound or rescue centre.

I must say from googling, it does look like a cute dog

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No experience with that breed but I have a multi shitting poo which I had from a puppy and a Lhasa Apso x which was a rescue pup. Got the rescue last year and she was 15 months old and had been poorly treated. She is a joy as is the other one.

Neither dog moults and both are easy to keep. Have you considered a rescue dog? I got mine from www.petrescue.com.au

Picture of Nellie (the rescue attached)

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My kids have a petting sitting business and we're always taking different types of dogs (having had kelpies of our own in the past) and I agree the shitsu crossy little guys are really fun and nice to have. One of our regular customers actually thinks he's human and I believe him, I think he's like that cat in Sabrina and has been banished to a human body.

The Wookie does look cool though, hope we get one of those as a guest soon. We have two poodles at the moment and when they leave us we have a pug booked in.

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my god i can see why they got the name. that dog looks exactly like chewbacca!

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Yeah, funny hey!

How long before people realise this is a wind up?

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wow. I almost thought it was photoshopped.

any second now i imagine

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Dunno about wookies (that *is* a great picture)

but for any kind of 'easy to manage' family dog you cant go wrong with a Cavalier Spaniel. Any vet will recommend them... and they are hellishly cute and cuddly.

http://melbourne.adoodau.com/adpics/...3354f64df3.jpg

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Can I reiterate the pet shop/ puppy farm thing....????

How many years has it been since dogs were sold in pet shops in the uk? for many, many reasons.....

i would be going to a reputable breeder and meeting mum and dad before buying a "new" puppy.... Or as WE did, going to the pound, local resuce centre and getting their advice... tnere are too many puppy farms and concerns from buying from a pet store are hatyou dont know the puppy history, they are separated from eir mothers early and may have socialisation issues.... As well as issues tracing back genetic problems that some breeds are prone to... Eg hips in alsations, deafness in dalmations, stupidity in weimarannas....


if you havent owned a dog before they will give GOOD advice on the kind of breed that would suit you... They DO get puppies, if you're fixated on the puppy thing, but they road test older dogs to makesure they dont make mistakes when homing them..... They will look at your circumstances/ family make up and try and match you with a dog that will meet your needs.... they personality test them and everything.....

All my mates at work have got theirs through the same rescue centre and not one of them has taken a dog back because it was wrong for them, or had unnatural or antisocial habits... Unfortunately we're in WA... Or I'd say deffo go to K9 rescue......

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cute:eek:


These look cuter:lol::unsure:

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Lots of genetic health issues with Cav King Charles though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalie...harles_Spaniel

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You want a great family dog (that isn't a woose dog? :D)

Go for a Staffie pup - they are great with kids, brill family dogs. :thumbup:

Though I will say, you have to research where they have been bred. From past experience, you want evidence they are from English heritage, right down the blood line.

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Take a test...


http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/search.htm

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that would be my advice too.... Also Known as the Nanny Dog.... Wouldnt have touched one with a barge pole in the uk, but Socket choose us...it wasnt our decision.... And he is BRILLIANT....