[doganjo]

I've always said that a dog that looks at you all the time (it's called focus) is half way to being a top working dog (like Sandy's chocolate lab youngster, Rhum, she should be worked)

Just took 2 photos and guess who has her eye on me? She nearly always brings me some dead thing from our walks, the other day was some roasted ribs of possibly a Deer, they actualy smelt OK so not long been "poached"

Told you!    That dog is wasted!  Don't suppose she knows it though!    She's perfectly happy as she is!   Such a sweetiepie.

[Cluckinggoodpoultry]

I have a wolf hybrid, a gsd, a rottweiler, a cocker spaniel, a jack russel, collie and a westie. The rotty and gsd a guard dogs in the courtyard, the wolf hybrid is my guard  The cocker spaniel pretends to work, the collie rounds up ducks and chickens and pigs but no sheep. The jack russell and the wolf hybrid do rat as well. And the westie lays there looking cute. All of these are rescues and I wouldn't be without any of them.

[Mel]

We have an 8 yr old Yellow Lab ex gun dog,she is incredibly nervous due to ill treatment from her ex owners.She runs from the chickens and geese though is ok with the ducks.Loves her cuddles and showing off,she really is a Mummy's girl!

[Sandy]

Arh, she looks so gentle too, bless her.

I find my eldest Black lab can be nervouse, particularly if some one raises thier voice, not sure about guns though as she appears confident, my point is, she is never told off, shouted at or badly treated and so I cannot understand why she is like it at all?  If I tell one of the others off, say for eating something they shouldn't, she runs off and needs coaxing to return!!!!!

[Mel]

Arh, she looks so gentle too, bless her.

I find my eldest Black lab can be nervouse, particularly if some one raises thier voice, not sure about guns though as she appears confident, my point is, she is never told off, shouted at or badly treated and so I cannot understand why she is like it at all?  If I tell one of the others off, say for eating something they shouldn't, she runs off and needs coaxing to return!!!!!

She is Sandy,she has had the odd accident in the house in the past,and I always knew as she was hiding and shaking uncontrollably,I have to hug her and tell her,it's ok,it is only an accident!I never shout or tell her off,after all,I think she has already been through enough.Though I have had to tell her,that's naughty and bless,she screws her face up which is so cute.(not her fault she is partial to dry chicken poop!)

[mab]

oops - haven't looked at the dog thread for a while.

This is Jess; a 'strawberry blond' GSD (as my neighbor described her).

She doesn't do anything practical but be friendly to other animals except sheep and rabbits - she's encouraged to chase rabbits, and she was friendly to sheep until Elfie (my tamest ewe) butted her - now she runs away from sheep.

mab

[little blue]

She's beautiful (I know I'm biased!)

[white-blazes]

All are pets. Tammy is a 15year old collie, totally deaf and almost blind.  Smokey and Tyson are sibling yorkies, nearly 9 years old, and the 'asbo' of the family is Cindy, nearly 2 years old, 3/4 cocker, and 1/4 springer (sprocker)

[llamakevin]

We've got two - pets only - a Samoyed about 11 years old now, and past chasing rabbits. The other is a cross between a jack russell & a springer - doesn't know whether he's coming or going. He's quick though - had a rabbit but didn't kill it - waited for the Samoyed to do that for him!

[It-needed-a-home]

I have a 2 year old lab called mephis and a new spaniel pup next week called pippa !!

[waterhouse]

We have Bonnie who is 14 and collie cross spaniel cross same collie and is a lovely dog despite displaying several reasons why in-breeding is a bad thing. Shes mostly deaf and fairly blind and sleeps a lot. RSPCA rescue.

Finn is working ESS type, very timid and neurotic. Shows signs of electric collar training gone badly wrong and has been badly beaten  He's very loyal, affectionate and completely useless. Obsessively spins anticlockwise, terrified of horses and sheep, worried by cats and chickens and loves cars  Blue Cross.

Mikey is a terrier with the colouring of a Rottweiler.   Been abused and stayed with NAWT 3 years cos he bites. Has discovered that responding to affection gets him liked so bites a lot less. Good mouser and rather obsessive vermin hunter but can now be trusted out on his own.

We're suckers for hard cases.

[SallyintNorth]

That's three lucky dogs, waterhouse  

[waterhouse]

They've enriched our lives too.  I never had pets as a kid so making up for lost time perhaps.  OH's fault, of course.

[berni]

I'm a sucker for the problem dogs too, i have at teh moment a staffy x lad, he'd been a stray living on a motorway embankment for at least 4 months, he's a very scared lad he'll be staying for a while until the right home comes along for him and a chi x lad who'd been left in a garden wasn't allowed in the house as he's not housetrained, apparently they train themselves

[littlelugs]

We have two great danes a springer spaniel and a beagle x lab also not the best dogs for a small holding but they are our babies