The New Offical Mutts of the House thread

[pete mctree]

Enjoying an afternoon @ my parents

 

[Peter]

Looks like a GSD on steroids, behaves like a Malamute.

If you reversed those characteristics you would have the perfect dog!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Stig, interesting what you say about training constantly. I have a little Cairn terrier, they can be an absolute nightmare to train, extremely stubborn and selective hearing. Because he's with me constantly, and I do the same as you describe, he's brilliantly behaved. Like you say, he can't do a lot of tricks or commands, but his recall is instant and he knows to sit, stay, go to bed, go away, and does them instantly.

 

[stig]

Yup. Just integrate training into your daily life and it stops being a chore and works much better.

Pete, That mutt just melts my heart. Amazing that the mental side of the shepherd hasn't come through more.
All my dogs except the late Thais have been ½ shepherd ½ something else.
Usually in my experience the shepherd part makes them easily trainable.
The Pyreneean part of Sam showes through a lot.
He never runs off but he'll always be roaming a little further off than I care for if I'm not on his case.
He'll guard the home constantly, always monitoring the perimeter to see if there are predators coming in.
I was laying in the sun with Margot and him a couple of weeks ago and noticed how he constantly placed himself so he was between us and the drive way.
I would absolutely hate to have to train a pure pyreneean, but the shepherd part makes it work.

 

[Peter]

Would you not have a pure shepherd?

 

[stig]

My last dog Thais was a pure white shepherd.
At age 1 he had to have an operation because one testicle wouldn't descend,
at age 6 he succumbed to that hereditary deterioration of the crucial ligament thing.
A wonderful, super well behaved dog.
No more pure breds for me, thanks!

I am, and always have been, a firm believer in hybrid vigour.
Only reason I got Thais was because my ex-wife liked white shepherds and that way I could talk her into getting another dog.

One thing though.
If you can't train a white shepherd, you probably shouldn't own a dog.
Man, they are easy.

 

[FireFighterZero]

That is why I married a kiwi chick. Hybred vigor. Mix some Eskimo with some welsh, watch out world.

 

[Mick!]

I put it to you that when you said you had finished your sandwich you were( to say the least) being economical with the truth.

 

[FireFighterZero]

 

[squisher]

Lol. I had to run off a neighbors dog today. Not enjoyable but I don't abide random mutts hanging around. I got enough of my own.

 

[Bodean]

Rad dog Becasse.



Here's my rat.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Penny!

 

[Bodean]

Rat dog loyal as heck but a fiend for cat poop. Rat dog!

 

[squisher]

That dog has got a smile and a half.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Is rat a Red Heeler/Australian cattle dog?

 

[Fiddler]

Some nice looking canines on here!

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[Bodean]

Oh Pig doesn't know she looks different...


Penny is a Australian Cattle Dog cut with something, I think Pitbull, but the vet says
she's probably all cattle dog, being it's a mix of 5-6 breeds.
I don't know she's from the pound and ain't got no papers.

Penny smiles because she knows she's got a second chance.
She had an appointment to be put down on a friday and I picked her up on the thursday before.
She was only 3 and they were gonna nuke her. She's 9 now and holds her own here in the city just fine.

 

[Mick!]

Great story, good for you and her. When I see pictures of dog homes it seems the problem is people picking the wrong breed. Staffordshire bull terriers for example. The shelters are full of them. Lovely dogs in the right situation. Not in a council flat with kids. Chavs use them and other "tough" breeds as status symbols.
A pox on them I say.

 

[Tucker943]

Wrong dog for the wrong home is a death sentence. Discretion and judgment are everything.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

+1

 

[squisher]

Yah. It's crazy. I was cutting and cleaning up some limbs between two homes the other day. These two young guys couldn't control their two pittys from attacking each other while defending the fence. Ridiculous, they were scared of their own dogs.

 

[inztrees]

Pennys looking good I'm up to 3 ACDs 2 red girls and a blue boy

 

[Bodean]

Thanks, thats got to be a bout, who's the boss?

......here the pound is loaded to the gills with chihuahuas. ....

 

[squisher]

Chee wah wah! I just like saying that word