I seem to have that effect on dogs, I visit 10 customers a day, half of those have dogs and half of those I’m told “have issues” be that they don’t like men, don’t like strangers, are very nervous etc and yet I get to work and within 10mins they are usually sat next to me like I’m their best mate. I should really be working with animals and not domestic appliances, I think a lot of times the animals would be easier to fix (or should that be their owners?)
Had one of my old work mates over for a few beers and a natter on Saturday and he bought his 13 month "ye olde english bulldogge". Absolute nightmare hyper and didnt stop barking til gone midnight. I honestly dont know how people live with noisy dogs, id either slit my own wrists or the dogs i think.
You see it all the time dont you. Theres a lady i say hello to over the field who has a really badly behaved cocker poo and she wonders why "oooohh please stop doing that" isnt working. She even bought a spray to spray at him when he wasnt doing what she wanted ffs. Im fairly sure they think dogs come ready trained and need no effort whatsoever.
What a striking looking dog. I discovered a startling but quite unsettling factoid recently, which is that creatures (including humans) that have two coloured different eyes or their left side is a different shade to their right side (heterochromia), are often “chimeras” who started life as twins but one embryo absorbed the other.
This may be a controversial opinion, but my experience of cockerpoos hasn’t been great as quite a lot of the ones I’ve encountered have been highly strung and snappy, bordering on nasty (towards Iggy, not me), and they definitely don’t inherit that from their spaniel lineage. A guy I play cricket with often brings his CP along to matches and he and Iggy need to be kept well apart as the CP snarls at and sometimes tries to attack him and even once chased him onto the field in the middle of play. Having said that, Iggy and I just met 2 CPs plus a bichon/cocker cross about 15 mins ago and they were all delightful.
Ooft, now you’ve started something. As a life long staffie owner I’ve had some run ins with other dog owners. My current two are as soft as grease and only ever want to play with other dogs and people. I’ll only ever put them on a lead for their own good. Like if I think they’ll get attacked when wanting to play… That said, I’ve owned staffie’s that have been buggers with other dogs. It’s an owners responsibility to control any potential situation. IME collies are snappy types. If I spot one, I’ll contain my own two. Same goes for any powerful breed. Better to be safe than sorry.
I've found that Staffies are either daft as a brush or devil dogs, with no in between and you can usually tell which they will be by looking at the owner. Iggy is really nervous around other dogs, probably as a result of being attacked twice in quick succession when he was a puppy and again by a greyhound last year. I also suspect that him being intact makes him smell different to a neutered male and sets off a negative response in some dogs. He tends to be much more relaxed around them if he isn't on a lead, presumably because it gives him the option of running away if threatened. He generally hides behind my legs though, which is nice for me when a huge German Shepherd that looks like a wolf is running at him full pelt from across the field. And yeah, I agree that Collies can be a bit bitey, but don't let @Jonnybiscuit hear you say that
Here's a pic of a 'bitey' Collie (Gracie) savaging my youngest granddaughter ..... And another (our Gwen) tearing my eldest granddaughter to shreds .....
I’m not saying all collies bite… but I’ve been bitten 3 times at work over the last 10 years, and it’s a 100% collie strike rate It’s like it’s just inbred to herd things even if they have never been a working dog. Most recent one was a customers dog I’ve known for about 6 years, and had been on site for around an hour walking back and forth to the van. As I was ready to leave and walking back to the van, the thing charged out the back door bit me on my upper thigh and legged it back indoors again ! definitely more wary of collies than any other dogs… well apart from the Alsatian that appeared at the gate barking in my face today after customer got a dog and didn’t warn me, small amounts of poo came out as I did feckin combined high jump/hurdles back into the van
Forgot …. Photos of my two idiots, mum and daughter. Mum Lila is 4 and young Mouse is now 1 and nutty as a box of frogs !
Thankfully, I know the dog in question, he’s just young and very boisterous and there was no intent behind the charge, but by f*ck it was scary watching him bear down on us at 30mph. When the owner caught up to him and restrained him by his collar, he ended up getting dragged along for about 5m as the dog is so powerful.
