Getting a Dog
Aug 10th 2013, 3:29 am
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Re: Getting a Dog
If anyone is interested, guide dogs occasionally need rehoming - https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/support...g-a-guide-dog/
Also, if you can't have a dog of your own, you can sponsor a puppy on it's way to being a guide dog
Also, if you can't have a dog of your own, you can sponsor a puppy on it's way to being a guide dog
Aug 10th 2013, 6:32 am
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Aug 17th 2013, 9:34 pm
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Daughter and I are taking Dog up to Ettrick Bay. Lots of new smells and other dogs around ! There was nothing like this in Saudi Arabia ! A fat tax-free salary is not everything !
Aug 18th 2013, 11:05 am
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Aug 18th 2013, 8:54 pm
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They get a range of breeds but lots of them are Staffordshire Bull Terriers
Aug 20th 2013, 1:41 am
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Yes, I noticed the high proportion of bull terrier types. They seem to be very popular with a certain type of person around here who I imagine wouldn't see them as an investment for life.
Interestingly, when I lived in Tennessee, a high proportion of dogs in the pounds and rescue centres were medium sized black dogs, either Labs or Lab mixes. They were very difficult to place because they were seen as "common" (not very special).
Interestingly, when I lived in Tennessee, a high proportion of dogs in the pounds and rescue centres were medium sized black dogs, either Labs or Lab mixes. They were very difficult to place because they were seen as "common" (not very special).
Aug 20th 2013, 7:25 am
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When the owners go to Barlinnie, the dogs go to the pound !
Aug 27th 2013, 5:43 pm
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It's odd (though not when you think about it) that different areas have more of certain breeds. When I was in the Midlands, the rescue home had more greyhounds than anything. Here in France it's hunting dogs, we're adopting a hound puppy in 2 days time (what am I letting myself in for!). I think he's a griffon bleu de gascogne cross, so being a scent hound we've had a rushed few days putting up higher fencing and wondering if I'll ever be able to train him not to disappear into the distance after wild boar
Black dogs are unpopular here too as they're considered unlucky
Black dogs are unpopular here too as they're considered unlucky
Aug 27th 2013, 7:22 pm
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So ironic, we currently have a "bad dog" in the village and it turns out it came from Milton SSPCA, where it had been dropped because its owner had been sent to, you guessed it, Barlinnie. Poor bugger is having to be taken back because it's torn the ears off half of the local dogs. Classic case of a dog coming from a bad home and being sent to yet another bad home (new owners are a right bunch of scallies).
Aug 27th 2013, 11:39 pm
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Dunroving - you really should live in a more salubrious neighbourhood and move out of Drumchapel !
Aug 28th 2013, 7:45 pm
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In Scotland the title is Lord Provost. We will have to investigate Dunroving to see if he has blended into Scottish Life.
As for the "Cat and Dog Home" at Cardonald (SSPCA) I assume that a huge part of their expenditure goes on rehoming those Staffies belonging to dealers sent off to the Bar-L. And the re-homing them AGAIN after the rescuers are found to be unsuitable or themselves end up in "Durance Vile"
As for the "Cat and Dog Home" at Cardonald (SSPCA) I assume that a huge part of their expenditure goes on rehoming those Staffies belonging to dealers sent off to the Bar-L. And the re-homing them AGAIN after the rescuers are found to be unsuitable or themselves end up in "Durance Vile"
Aug 28th 2013, 8:15 pm
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In Scotland the title is Lord Provost. We will have to investigate Dunroving to see if he has blended into Scottish Life.
As for the "Cat and Dog Home" at Cardonald (SSPCA) I assume that a huge part of their expenditure goes on rehoming those Staffies belonging to dealers sent off to the Bar-L. And the re-homing them AGAIN after the rescuers are found to be unsuitable or themselves end up in "Durance Vile"
As for the "Cat and Dog Home" at Cardonald (SSPCA) I assume that a huge part of their expenditure goes on rehoming those Staffies belonging to dealers sent off to the Bar-L. And the re-homing them AGAIN after the rescuers are found to be unsuitable or themselves end up in "Durance Vile"
Are you going to post a picture of your pooch?
Aug 28th 2013, 8:55 pm
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Will have to ask my technical adviser (12-year-old daughter)
