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Just because we love them; not because we necessarily have them...
Norwegian Elkhound (canine perfection)
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My Border Collie Meg.
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Tibetan terrier.
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Who farted !! 🙂
Border collie for sure. Lovely dogs.
Cavalier, Clumber, Sussex, Field.
Flatcoat retrievers - smell like a newly oiled shotgun. Hmmmm.....
Chocolate Labs. My Oscar
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Mongrels
Always been partial to GSD. A very majestic breed in my mind. More robust in their crossed varients though.
Staffies. Really suffer from bad PR but you'll never meet a bigger bigger bunch of cuddle monkeys in your life.
Anyone crossed a staffie and a gsd? That could be a pretty awesome dog.
Staffies. Really suffer from bad PR but you'll never meet a bigger bigger bunch of cuddle monkeys in your life.
This 😀
Lurchers ftw
bearded collie in full flow (lovely intelligent good tempered dogs to boot if you can cope with the fur! )
in their natural habitat
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Is there anything on the planet cuter than a siberian husky puppy?
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Anyone crossed a staffie and a gsd? That could be a pretty awesome dog.
My friends had one. Build and temprament of a nice staffie. Size of a large GSD. Terrifying when it ran at you but very lovely.
My mate's got a lurcher - staffie/greyhound. He is awesome 😀
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Cavalier,
Eddie is a fine example... 🙂
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A Staffy/greyhound isn't a Lurcher.
Spaniels. Just spaniels. They are absolutely awesome.
LeeW - Member
A Staffy/greyhound isn't a Lurcher.
You sure?
I mean, not that I really give a monkey's, but...
[i]While not a pure breed, it is generally a cross between a sighthound and any other non-sighthound breed,[2] usually a pastoral dog or terrier[/i]
Greyhound=Sighthound
Staffy= terrier.
Maybe you should correct the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurcher ]Wikipedia[/url] page.
Newfoundland - mine - probably the most impractical dog but very entertaining.
A Staffy/greyhound isn't a Lurcher.
It certainly [i]is[/i].
Our Ted is a bit [i]niche[/i] being a longdog. (Sighthound x sighthound.)
He's an idiot, but lovely.
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If I had my way we'd have a pack of Deerhounds / wolfhounds lolling about on our sofas. Maybe once the wee man grows up a bit... As it is, we have one lovely lurcher / terrier mongrel dog. Much loved.
bearded collie
^^This
always loved chow's
now I've got one love them even more, Can't see me having anything else
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A Staffy/greyhound isn't a Lurcher.
yes it is, its a chav's lurcher though, does your mate where trackie bottoms all the time? 😆 Pit bull greyhound crosses are desirable for lamping foxes and deer. The collie cross is a far less chavy lurcher.
WORK IT BABY (she's saying)
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I don't think they're actually a standalone breed, just a colour variation, but I've never met a white boxer I didn't like- all slobbery, daft, strong but gentle- lovely.
Some lovely pictures on here, but I was rather hoping for more. I should have specified that I was looking to start an eye candy thread.
Breeds + pics please!
I love so many breeds. Cocker and springer spaniels, for their general spaniellyness. Airdale and Welsh terriers, for being square. Huskies and malamutes for being domestic wolves. Scotties for looking like little broom ends, Schauzers for looking like permanently cross gentlemen.
But obviously, the best dog is the Tibetan Terrier/Cocker Spaniel cross that lives with us. Sheer chance we ended up with him - we went to the Dogs Trust planning on getting possibly a collie of some sort, ended up with a former Irish stray that was found emaciated and matted (yet also completely house trained and with the most loving, beautiful nature).
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My boys!
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He also never farts, which is really, really weird.
Has LeeW apologised yet?
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Shiba Inu
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Icelandic Spitz
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Ooo, I like that Icelandic Spitz.
Tollers. They are helpful and give you cuddles when you are hungover.
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Black Labs, even wet stinky ones...
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Can't beat an old, heavyweight black lab... Still strong but slow and patient. Especially if they know how to do The Lean. You know, when they walk up to you and just sort of topple over against your legs, I love that.
Yep but get a Flatcoat retriever and you have all of the above without the stink!
Staffies. Really suffer from bad PR but you'll never meet a bigger bigger bunch of cuddle monkeys in your life.
Same with EBTs. Get away from the tough guy image and they are very loyal and loving as well as stupid and funny dogs.
Got to be a Border Collie, Fin is now 8 months old. She is loving it out on the trails
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Golden retrievers are the best. At least my lion maned one is. Then black labs, cos that's the OH's dog who loves cuddles, the my lads Jack Russell is tiny, but with big attitude as she keeps the boys in check. And she sleeps on top of the retriever....brilliant members of the family.
Black labs.....top trail dogs. This big guy is the sweetest, most gentle dog ever and does almost anything he is asked.
His latest addition is a bright orange jacket for night rides which he loves putting on.
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Love a black lab, the Mother in Law is getting one a week this Saturday after losing her last one a few months ago. My favourite has always been my current.
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Dogs awesome!
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Dad and daughter
So many to choose from but this thread needs a great dane or two (blue for preference). 100kg of dog thinking its a lap dog.
Our old mongrel was the most wonderful gentle creature lovely brindle colour with a mix of lab and gsd type features. Took him on when he was about 9 (rescued as a stray), he had colitis and chronic bronchitis all the three years or so we had him but never really complained. It broke my heart when we had to have him pts.
DezB - Member
Has LeeW apologised yet?
Ok, I rephrase. A Staffy/Greyhound isn’t a traditional lurcher. I have a whippet/collie which wouldn’t be recognised by some as a traditional lurcher. I also have a lurcher/cocker cross which is technically a tumbler rather than a lurcher.
Staffies weren’t even a recognised breed until just before the war where lurchers have been around for hundreds of years.
Do people still bother with Wikipedia?
I didn't think there was any specific breeding for Lurchers, they're just a Greyhound crossed with a terrier or another breed such as a Collie. Kind of the first mongrels with a comedy name.
Recognised by the Kennel Club??? Well that is not the greatest accolade.
I met a Staffy/Lurcher thing a couple of years ago 😆 the daftest looking dog I have ever seen, it was a lurcher body, not as skinny as some with a Staffy head 😆 it looked ludicrous but was super friendly and could leap a bar gate with out thinking.
Always had Black Labs as a youngster and grew to adore them, and sort of thought I understood the breed a little. When it was time for our own family dog, much as I wanted another lab, I thought I wouldn't be predictable and just fancied a different challenge and personality and went for a cocker spaniel, and he's been all of those things and more. A challenge (hopefully won 🙂 and a personality X10. But he's ace, friendly as heck, stubborn as a mule, daft as a brush and I loves im.
as a pup
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Cockers are great little dogs.
[i]Do people still bother with Wikipedia?[/i]
Only when someone says "You're wrong" for no damn reason whatsoever.
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Cockers are great little dogs.
And that's one hell of a fine one there! Cracking hound!
Cavalier,
Eddie is a fine example...
Indeed he (I assume!) is. Lovely shape to his skull and nose. I must admit that a Blenheim is my least preferred colour, but he's ace! My last one was a ruby. We're just letting the second child get a little but older/more mobile before we plunge in to another dog, and this thread isn't helping! 😀
And that's one hell of a fine one there! Cracking hound!
Thanks Flash, he's definitely eye candy apparently, or so I have been told. A local cocker shower had said he has "great confirmation" so I presume thats a dog show speak for "good looking cocker :)" But I never wanted to show him, bottom line he's my mate, and we go out and get muddy in the mountains and stinky on the beach, so would rather that for him than anything else.
I don't have one, but if I did I'd want a Patterdale/Lakeland Terrier cross.
Lab crosses and Collie Crosses are awesome. But did someone mention spaniel?
Meet Nell, 8 weeks old springer. The first real "breed" we've had and our first puppy. She's lots of fun.
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and with her big brother, Alfie:
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and just because he's feeling left out, less big brother Charley:
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I'm pretty certain that when/if I get another dog it will be a Parson's Russell
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