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Post by SunFlash on Oct 23, 2004 9:38:35 GMT -5
Ya, I heard it was because of a Pitbull attack on a guy. Couldn't they have considered it was a planned attack by the owners? There isn't a Pitbull ban in England. The United Kennel Club finds the American Pitbull Terrier an actual breed (Other kinds of Pitbulls are mutts with other bully breeds. Most likely Heinz 57s, or unknown mixes). I swear, we need a nice little protest.
GSD=German Shepherd Dog
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Post by Shadow on Oct 23, 2004 10:52:27 GMT -5
My Mom's niese has a dog kennel behing her house on the border of KY/TN, and she boards dogs. Non of the large breed dogs there are ever agressive. Just the small breed ones. The dobes, leonbergers, huskies, rotties, and such are always very nice. The smaller ones, occasionly dachs, will bite (I can handle dachs, we have 2 back at my parents house one of which will bite some people, but not me anymore). The only danger from the large breed dogs is one of the saint bernards might jump on you, and at 220 lbs that can knock you down.
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Post by SunFlash on Oct 23, 2004 11:09:07 GMT -5
My aunt was jumped on by 2 one meter tall Irish Wolfhounds. They can get in around 200 pounds too. I just laughed my head off. Leonbergers aren't really agressive dogs. Most Mastiffs (Bullmastiff, English Mastiff, St. Bernard, Bernese Mountain Dog, Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, Rottwieler, Newfoundland, etc) don't really bite, they just drown you in their drool or love you too much that they jump on top of you.
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Post by Shadow on Oct 23, 2004 11:18:47 GMT -5
Itchy the dachshund can be more agressive or intimidating then a doberman; there was a UPS man who would always leave the package at the door when he heard the dogs barking. He got one good look at Itchy slamming himself against the screen door and making it rattle like thunder, and decided not to wait for the door to open. Itchy barks like a doberman when you are outside and he is in. The funny thing is when you get inside he licks you to death. Until you are dripping wet. But for some reason he does not like children; I think he is jealous.
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Post by Gabriel on Oct 23, 2004 11:38:36 GMT -5
Dogs have problems ya gotta fix em...
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Post by Shadow on Oct 23, 2004 17:34:04 GMT -5
All the dogs at my parent's house are fixed, get regular heartworm shots (or pills), rabies shots, and regular vetinary care. The two dachshunds also have ran my parents up a small fortune in vetenarian bills in the past few years; almost a couple thousand of dollars; I keep telling my parents there is pet health insurance, and it does pay off; we treat our dogs as members of the family, and we take very good care of them. Itchy has epilispy (seizures), apparently slipped a disc we didnt know about a while back and it calcified to where it will stay that way (he is back to climbing stairs and jumping on the chairs/couches again now). Penny has had sneezing fits (blows snot sometimes), a chest lump, as well as swollen glands and a pinched nerve once. Lighting (the corgi, who is a little older than 1 year) has got a pinched nerve from jumping so much (he thinks he is a bunny, so he is always jumping. For some reason he wont eat raw carrots; I gave him one). Lightning is well behaved and only barks when playing (unlike the 2 dachshunds), and the only problem he has is if he is left inside alone he will chew things (seperation anxiety; atleast he does not go inside, and is well housebroken). Itchy is housebroken (yueah; he broke the house), and so is Penny. Just Penny will not hold it forever and if you dont let her out she will go (generally on a dark part of a carpet where there is little light and you are not likely to see it; I think she likes lating land mines, seeing if anyone steps in one). Itchy only goes inside if he is having a seizure (when he is, he has no control of his body, and squirms on the floor, and he will drool; which is the onnly time any of the dogs will drool). If his seizures are bad we usually drive him to the vet immediatly. He has medication for it, it just doesnt always work. He is kind of heavy, a size 28 waist (I am a size 32 and I am 5'10" 154lb), and he is a dachsund! That is huge; he can still run and jump; if you leave something on the edge of the table (which is a good 3 feet off the floor) he will drag it off the edge. If someone leaves a chair out he will jump on the chair, and then on the table.
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Post by Gabriel on Oct 23, 2004 19:20:58 GMT -5
I know what corgi are...
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Post by Shadow on Oct 23, 2004 19:22:34 GMT -5
I didnt say you didnt; I just wanted to show you a picture of Lightning; I dont think I have shown him on this board. And that is a lightning bolt symbol hanging from his collar.
Yes; 101 Dalmatians II movie
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Post by Gabriel on Oct 23, 2004 19:29:45 GMT -5
Oh in what show/seris/movie, 101 dalmations I predict?
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Post by Shadow on Nov 1, 2004 18:55:56 GMT -5
I told you my parents dont like dobes, I got him (who I named Rowf[from the movie the Plague Dogs] in 1996 from FAO Schwarz online for $28 plus shipping. He has driven my parents crazy. I love dobermans.
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Post by SunFlash on Nov 1, 2004 19:45:24 GMT -5
*pets*
He's so cute *hugs doggie plushie*
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Post by Gabriel on Nov 1, 2004 20:10:16 GMT -5
That thing is so Cute!!!!
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Post by Shadow on Nov 1, 2004 21:46:24 GMT -5
Him; Rowf (from the movie and book the Plague Dogs (by Richard Adams, even though he was a lab mix, and by lab I mean both labrador and lab as in animal testing lab), is a he. I keep telling my parents its a him. Not an it. Or at very worse, they will say "Take that thing to your room and leave it there."
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Post by King Sejong of Joseon on Nov 1, 2004 21:49:00 GMT -5
Yes, he is very cute!
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Post by Gabriel on Nov 3, 2004 11:57:21 GMT -5
Where did ya get that!
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