We're getting a puppy

[Mick F]

Latest photo.

[Mick F]

Latest photo taken by the barmaid in The Rising Sun.
She gives him biscuits when I drink Dartmoor Legend.

[al_yrpal]

Calls for a speech bubble! Over to MM...

Al

[Mick F]

It's usually "Hello Sailor!"
Also, "Touch your collar for luck?"

[bigjim]

I like dogs, a lot. But I don't want to have to care for one or pick up it's mess. So I don't have one. I'm not so keen on many dog owners. Most, IMO, don't have the slightest idea how to look after or train their animal. A well trained, cared for dog as a companion must be a delight. Most are nothing of the sort. I have a regular running route nearby. A forest track that I love to run in, if not out on the bike. I've had to give up using it because of out of control dogs. off the lead and the owner busy on the phone or shouting uselessly after them. I've been attacked too many times. Not to mention all the dog poo littering the place.
As a boy I lived on the small family farm in Ireland. The dog slept in an open barn. When i left the house to go wandering or bring cattle in from a field, it would look up, stretch, yawn and come over to trot alongside me for the duration of my trip. Happy times and I was lucky to experience 'A boy and his dog'.
The fashionable, hysterical, nonstop barking creatures, I see paraded around my area, bear no resemblance to that loyal laid back canine friend from my childhood.

[mercalia]

Latest photo.Sailor Chair 1.jpg

ears are rather over sized?

[Mick F]

I'll get the scissors out then.

He's a tremendous personality, and his ears are just part of it.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

I like dogs, a lot. But I don't want to have to care for one or pick up it's mess. So I don't have one. I'm not so keen on many dog owners. Most, IMO, don't have the slightest idea how to look after or train their animal. A well trained, cared for dog as a companion must be a delight. Most are nothing of the sort. I have a regular running route nearby. A forest track that I love to run in, if not out on the bike. I've had to give up using it because of out of control dogs. off the lead and the owner busy on the phone or shouting uselessly after them. I've been attacked too many times. Not to mention all the dog poo littering the place.
As a boy I lived on the small family farm in Ireland. The dog slept in an open barn. When i left the house to go wandering or bring cattle in from a field, it would look up, stretch, yawn and come over to trot alongside me for the duration of my trip. Happy times and I was lucky to experience 'A boy and his dog'.
The fashionable, hysterical, nonstop barking creatures, I see paraded around my area, bear no resemblance to that loyal laid back canine friend from my childhood.

We owned dogs for nearly 25 years...........we don't at the moment.
But now we have all are neighbour's cats
Owning your own dogs and cats is different from neighbour's cats.
Cat poo in our gardens which I have to pick up.......................dead birds.
Our dogs kept 99% of cats and some dogs away, the same cannot be said today.

The difference is that you can pick up a dog poo if you are looking after your dog.
The same cannot be said for cats...............

Sorry I seem to have gone on a rant about cats, my bad