What is a good child friendly breed of dog?

jackieglasgow

cleopatra4485 wrote: »

Really? I only see them once in a blue moon. They are quite expensive, I thought staffies where neds dog as they look a bit 'hard' and not very expensive to buy?

They aren't expensive now because of overbreeding, and they are all moving onto Huskies and similar looking dogs. Dog Bling, my husband calls it. They are expensive, and they can say "Guess how much Troy cost me!". Shame, because no doubt in a few years the same thing will happen, they'll be overbred and filling the pounds.

Hi bargainbird, she is great, has taught herself a new trick of throwing her lunch across the garden then running and catching it. Kepping me amused, anyway. Where've you been hiding?

jenhug

Can I just say, Mastiff's ROCK? They are such a loving breed.

hethmar

No, "huskies" are turning up a lot in rescues now, no longer a rare breed. The breed rescue are calling it a crisis:

http://www.shwauk.org.uk/

Jackie/fc, on RDR forum where everyone has experience of staffies, them being the most that turn up in the pound, its called "staffie singing:)

jackieglasgow

Well, I tell you it's certainly NOT music to my ears! :rotfl:

Bless her though, wouldn't swap her for anything. She's snoring in the hall like a good'n right now!

hethmar

I was saying to the people on RDR a few weeks ago, as I was walking through out little town I heard a noise like a sheep baaing and I thought who on earth has brought a sheep into town. When I got nearer, pmsl, it was a staffie tied up outside the dog food shop, head back, mouth wide open and making this really weird baaing noise. A woman walking the other way burst out laughing too and said she had thought someone had left a lamb in the little town garden.

foreign_correspondent

... they have some wierd and wonderful animals over on your side of the pennines hethmar! Let's just hope its not the new 'designer "sheep-dog" hybrid'!

Soubrette

When my daughter was very little, someone on our patch had a bedlington terrier.

"Why is that man walking a sheep?"

"It's a dog"

"No it's a sheep"

"It's a dog that looks a bit like a sheep"

"No, its a sheep"

It used to puzzle her every time we saw them

Sou

jackieglasgow

Did you all see those pictures of the "Sheep pig" online a few weeks ago? Funniest looking things.

Person_one

hethmar wrote: »

I was saying to the people on RDR a few weeks ago, as I was walking through out little town I heard a noise like a sheep baaing and I thought who on earth has brought a sheep into town. When I got nearer, pmsl, it was a staffie tied up outside the dog food shop, head back, mouth wide open and making this really weird baaing noise. A woman walking the other way burst out laughing too and said she had thought someone had left a lamb in the little town garden.

My parents dog does a great cow impression. They live opposite a dairy farm and he's obsessed with watching them, I'm sure he's trying to communicate!

hethmar

Our Parson Russell is in love with cows - he isnt fussy, if there isnt one about he will quite happily let a horse kiss him instead. Its quite worrying as we have to watch him all the time if we are near any fields with them as he would whip in given a chance.