Thanks. I hate seeing cats and dogs in rescue centres but sometimes there is no choice, I guess. I will do the best I can for her but just hope she stays away from the roads about here - think she will as she is scared of everything.
Rupert looks a bright, intelligent kind of fellow. Is there a story to do with him ending up with you?
We have a cat called spooky too! The mrs rescued him ten or eleven years ago when he was a kitten he’s the black cat, more recently the ginger one has moved in as he likes our cat and they get on really well. He belonged to the neighbour down the road and he was rescued by their daughter as he got trapped in a house that was empty and up for sale so doesn’t really have a name so he gets called ‘cat cat’ he’s been hit by a car at some point as he’s got a diaphragmatic hernia and breathes a bit funny but is happy all the same. She also rescued a three legged monster which is no longer with us she ended up keeping him after doing the op to remove one of his back legs following what was thought to be from someone kicking him, he would either sit and purr while you stroked him or slash you and bite through the skin I suppose he never really trusted people after that!
It amazes me the amount of cruelty and neglect there is towards these little animals. Your ones look to have landed lucky in the end. Well done.
I crossed paths with very bouncy young working cocker while out on my bicycle yesterday. I was making a fuss of her and having a chat with the owners. I looked closer and noticed she only had 3 legs, front lower missing, apparently a birth defect. The owners told me they got her via a friend at a vets, she had been handed in by a passerby who had found her abandoned in field in a cardboard box. Some cruel f*ckers out there.
I have heard of stuff like that too. Probably done by people who consider themselves decent, upright members of society. Didn't even have the backbone to put the poor animal out of its misery, would rather leave it to die in a box.
We have always had rescue dogs as it seems like the right thing to do. I have to be careful, we choose carefully which to go and say hello to because I know I will want to take them all home. But you never know what you will get, and have to be prepared to put some work in and and just accept some things you'll have to just live with. Our Lab/German Shepard X Toby has been with us for 2yrs now, we were told he was 3 when we collected him, but we're sure he's at least 7 now. He's a wonderful loving thing, and soon gave up being timid around us, but still doesn't like strangers. Our main issue is that he now has massive separation anxiety and hates us to leave him. We've now got him happy at a local Doggy Day Care centre, where he's happy to play with his friends when we both need to be out at work. But even there has one special lady he likes to be with alongside his 4 legged friends. The one thing we've not managed to train out of him is a massive aggressive reaction to anyone carrying a wine or beer bottle, so when friends come round for a BBQ etc it's glasses only. Luckily neither of us drink alcohol, I have a massive allergic reaction, so we don't often have bottles in the house.
I have zero love of cats, cruel nasty creatures, that need keeping indoors IMO, but I wouldn't hurt one. How anyone can simply abandon an animal to starve to death is beyond my comprehensions.
No interesting story tbh. I like cats and managed to persuade the wife into letting me get one, only took 9 years. He was last from the litter. Bought him as an indoor cat but he has control of the back garden. Difficult cat proofing to keep him in but there are too many dangers out in the big wide world. I’d be devastated if any harm came to him
i can highly recommend joining the cocker spaniel uk facebook page (along with the various spaniel rescue pages) your timeline gets turned from utter crap to 100's of pics of beautiful 4 legged creatures instantaneously (and none of them have an f'in clue who trump and johnson are!)
Oh well, it wouldn't be very good if we were all the same. I like most cats and some dogs - probably the best way to put it.
They’re good crack when they’re just with me meeting other Dog’s, just sprint around a lot. Although for some reason the older one when mothers around acts like a complete thug.
Does anyone here have/use a gps collar on their dog? Not the sort of collar that lets you know at all times where the dog is but the sort that prevents the dog wandering off more than a prescribed distance from the house? I’m just looking for any first hand experience as to their effectiveness. TIA.
The sort you lay wires and it shocks the dog if he goes outside? or is there a more modern GPS version? Either way - no experience - but also interested.
Sort off, the farmer next field over shouting expletives is usually indication the dog is no longer in the vicinity of the house. Obviously your not on about something that would cause harm to an animal are you mate because that would be......I’m trying to think of a polite word.
The old systems - basically give a mild shock - never tried it - similar to bark collar (again never tried it) that discourages the animal.... I was interested if there is a better system. my 2 Bernies are too stupid to realise and would just carry on - if they saw someone even if you connected them up to mains voltage... buggers nearly dragged me over 3 times last week when out walking and seen something they wanted to go look at.....
In London we used to have one with the wire laid in the ground, a receiver on the dog’s collar beeps when the dog gets close then vibrates and beeps if they get even closer, they have to be trained to it but it discourages them from crossing the line. We had it to stop them going out into the road and getting squashed. Where we live now is too complicated an area to bury a wire around the perimeter plus there’s newer gps technology. You set a central point for the gps receiver then set the distance, anything from 20 to 1000m usually, when the dog gets to the limit (allegedly accurate to 2-3m) the receiver beeps and or vibrates depending how you’ve set it. It discourages the dog from going beyond the boundary set. It can also be used anywhere, eg when on holiday, so is more useful than the wired or wireless versions which are perma-fixed at home.
