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  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    Peter333 wrote: »
    We are agreeing again Georgie! This HAS to stop! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    I know! I was just thinking the same thing! :rotfl:
  • Peter333
    Peter333 Posts: 2,035 Forumite
    I know! I was just thinking the same thing! :rotfl:

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    You didn't, did you? :rotfl::rotfl:
  • sheramber
    sheramber Posts: 22,584 Forumite
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    But lots of gundogs and sheepdogs live in the house with the family and police dog handlers have the dogs living with them at home as well.

    "All of our dogs are kept at their handler's homes to ensure they remain bonded.

    All of our police dogs receive holidays alongside their handler. This will usually be spent at home with the handler or in our police kennels.

    General purpose dogs are usually retired around seven to eight years old. Specialist dogs are retired at around ten years old. The handler is allowed to keep their dog and many choose to do this. However if this is not possible, the dog will be re-homed with a suitable family for the rest of its life."
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    Note they say 'at' not in.

    Police dogs are kept in kennels in the handler's garden.

    Q. Do police dogs live with their handlers?

    https://www.herts.police.uk/hertfordshire_constabulary/about_us/specialist_units__operations/beds,_cambs__herts_dog_unit/dog_faqs.aspx
    A. All the time. The handlers have a large kennel in their garden. This amount of contact makes for a great bonding between handler and dog. Obviously if the handler is going away on holidays the dog goes to approved private kennels for that period.

    http://www.yourdog.co.uk/The-Your-Dog-Blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-police-dog-handler.html

    Getting ready for work

    PC Mick Judge goes to the kennels in his garden to greet his colleagues.

    http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/departments/dog-section

    Dogs live at home with their handler in a specially built kennel in the handler’s garden

    Do Police dogs live in the house or a kennel?

    http://www.nationalpolicedogfoundation.org/#!faqs/cso7
    Normally after working a full shift they go to their kennel where they eat and get the much needed sleep and rest they will need for their next shift. However, it is not uncommon for them to come in the house on their days off, or even daily before or after their shift begins.
  • Mrs_pbradley936
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    edited 25 April 2016 at 9:08PM
    But lots of gundogs and sheepdogs live in the house with the family and police dog handlers have the dogs living with them at home as well.

    "All of our dogs are kept at their handler's homes to ensure they remain bonded.

    All of our police dogs receive holidays alongside their handler. This will usually be spent at home with the handler or in our police kennels.

    General purpose dogs are usually retired around seven to eight years old. Specialist dogs are retired at around ten years old. The handler is allowed to keep their dog and many choose to do this. However if this is not possible, the dog will be re-homed with a suitable family for the rest of its life."

    Yes I know all of that - my point was that not all dogs are kept so that owners can shower them with love and affection. While I personally do not think the person with the 5 Huskies is doing well by them I doubt anyone could accuse them of ill treatment.
  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    Hi all,


    I'm not looking for advice just hoping that maybe someone else as experienced when I am feeling.


    Six months ago I agreed half hearted to buy a dog for the children. My dh and the kids love the dog but I cannot stand it in the house. I work stupid hours to buy lovely things for my home and its already ruined one settee. I hate the hair and smell and generally try my best to keep away from it if I can.


    We are now in a lucky position to completely upgrade our home after years of saving and I dread the dog being in it.


    The dog generally is good and I know its now its fault. I just cannot click with it and I desperately wish I had not agreed to it now.

    Is there anyone at all who has felt this way?

    No, I have never felt that way - but I have sensed when one partner has been more reluctant than the other to have a puppy - and in circumstances such as these, I have refused to let them have one of my precious puppy.

    As your puppy breeder/seller did not do the same as I would have done, I feel that my suggestion that you go back to the breeder, tell him/her that the puppy is not fitting into your life and lifestyle will be wasted as it would appear that you bought your puppy from someone just looking for the cash.

    Poor puppy! Not his fault, but now will be put into Rescue somewhere - please choose carefully and DO NOT advertise him "free to good home" on a site such as Gumtree where, in all probability he will be used as a bait dog.

    And do not ever, ever, contemplate getting any live creature to live with you - your home is obviously far more precious to you than another living creature - fair enough - but don't think that "another puppy would be different". It won't be.
  • Mrs_pbradley936
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    Person_one wrote: »
    The legal minimum standards for keeping a dog are just that, a minimum. If you do that and no more you are categorically not doing a good job of dog ownership!

    I agree with you - but you cannot legislate for kindness. Your idea of kindness is someone else's idea of sentimentality. Your idea of brutality is someone else's idea of good discipline.

    I have helped to rehome countless dogs that have been allowed to grow into young adulthood with out sufficient socialising and training.
    If done from the time they are 8 weeks old you never have to be more than firm. Many breeds if only fed, walked, loved and taken to the vet when needed grow up to be a nuisance and find themselves needing a new home.
  • toniq
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    image_4.jpeg My boys asleep on my bed as I read this :eek:
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • theoretica
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    If experts - from the zoo/animal psychologists/wherever - tried to devise the very best environment for a dog what would it look like? At one extreme you have wild packs of dogs, outdoors, no human involvement. Contrasted to this you have a human home with only human companionship and scheduled walks out. I knew one dog which had a dog flap - she chose to be out a lot of the time, though far from all of it. If we assume there is an ideal how far from it should you be before saying that no, the dog is better left in a rescue - where it might need to stay for ages?

    Dogs have been domesticated over a long enough timescale that they are different to their wild ancestors, but we haven't had modern houses for most of that time. How we treat animals seems to be a matter of custom as well as differences to benefit the different animals. Some people keep pigs or horses in the house - but most don't.
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  • Huskyrunner
    Huskyrunner Posts: 542 Forumite
    But are the huskies working dogs though, I don't think that was mentioned.

    The trouble with treating a dog as a "useful animal" is what do you do with it when it's no longer useful? In many countries where they have this philosophy and lots of dogs work, when they can no longer do so they're just dumped or put down. This can happen to hunting dogs, guard dogs and even lap dogs when an elderly owner dies.

    Fortunately, in the UK we take a less utilitarian attitude to animals and there's many an elderly collie allowed to end its days sleeping in the sun or dozing by the Aga when its herding days are over.

    (Not that we don't have problems of our own here but they're different problems and for different reasons, some of which are shown in this thread.)

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    my profile name is kind of a give away lol we from september too april race them all over the uk.
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  • Huskyrunner
    Huskyrunner Posts: 542 Forumite
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    Feral_Moon wrote: »
    I think the clue is in the name! i.e. Husky "runner" ;)

    His dogs run in trials teams and competitions. They're doing what huskies are bred to do. And nothing wrong whatsoever in keeping them crated at night or during short periods home alone. Do you know how destructive a pack of huskies can be when left to their own devices :rotfl:


    Finally someone with common sense thanks feralmoon.


    Our huskies are raced october too april we train them 4-5 times a week on a mountain bike or rig during this time. We race 1-2 times a month during this date range. I suggest the people commenting re crating go on you tube and just type in the words husky damage, then husky moulting.

    We once went out too asda and our huskies escaped there crates and came home too carnage our 3000 sofa was shredded, magazines books were eaten, my sons teddy bears, carpet you name it ripped too bits.

    I have too be honest here guys my dogs welfare is not in question here but it bloody seems in it is, i am not the one giving up a dog here remember, i am just the one who rescues huskies from people like the op. 2 of my dogs are rescues that were in a right state before coming too us, if posters that no it all want i will post before and after pics of a 12 kg male husky we have who was 3 when we got him he is now 22kg and healthy.

    I will upload pics in a moment of my dogs then you can judge there welfare lol

    your all showing your ignorance
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