Winston (ginge) and Churchill (idiot). Got Winston from Fresno whilst living in San Fran, got Churchill when I moved to the Netherlands.
Iggy enjoying the last village cricket match of the season as few weeks ago. He absolutely loves tagging along to games with me as he’s hyper-gregarious and not only gets to have a love in with my teammates, who all adore him, but he also meets at least 11 new human friends on the opposing team. Most of the time the oppos make a big fuss of him while I’m out in the field and they’re batting (ie: there are 10 of them hanging around waiting for their turn to bat), but occasionally we get the odd team who are miserable c*nts, who ignore him. When that happens he usually spends the whole innings barking at me from the boundary, which can be quite annoying, but on one memorable occasion in July, he took particular exception to being ignored by the opposition, so he pissed in two of their kitbags and ate one guy’s lunch
5 is the new 4, the new perfect number as it will be known from now I am hoping my pair have another "accident" then ill join you in club 5 as wish I had kept one of our last lot now. Sadly, the beagles got to have surgery on her knee on Monday so a week of mayhem trying to keep her calm and stop her taking buster collars and bandages off every 4minutes coming up
My queen got attacked by one of these dogs earlier (a female too) never seen her so angry/scared. Literally covered her in spit and started mounting her. Owner of course did absolutely fuck all apart from a weak arse “come here”. so many dopey twats that shouldn't own dogs about these days
Horrible little gremlin creatures. And that’s just the owners. Frenchies give me the creeps as the noises they make are borderline demonic and they always seem to have behavioural issues.
Sorry to hear that @Red899 - hope it doesnt put her off going out there again. Nala (my beagle) wouldnt hurt any dog, she's just a curious sniffer hound or chase me dog but she had a run in with one of those things at one of the parks we dont go often, but next time we went she remembered and just wasnt herself. Took a few walks for her to realise it was a one off
They always strike me as being not quite right in the head. The family across the road have one, it's had to have nose/face surgery due to its pig like snorting and snoring. It has also recently been castrated, as it was constantly humping anything it could wrap its legs around. Really don't see the appeal.
Exactly. It’s as if they have really severe autism. There’s one round here that I sometimes run into while walking Iggy and it’s really odd. It completely ignores other dogs and humans (even if you try to give it a treat) and has a kind of weird obsessional intensity about it as it is freakily fixated on its tennis ball and screams if it can’t have it.
There’s a guy round my way with an absolutely enormous South African Boerbel mastiff and I’ve never seen a tea towel holder quite like it on this beast. The eye can’t but be drawn to it, which is quite disturbing. He also has a quite tremendous set of testicles.
'Docking' is illegal in UK now I always think when a dog's 'starfish' is on open display, they look like a pencil sharpener
The problem is that all dogs have the same length (in proportion to breed size) of soft palate. So the 'breeds' that have been selectively bred to shorten the nose, still have a soft palate as long as it would have been when/if they had long(er) snouts. As there's now insufficient room in their mouth, it's forced to fold up 'concertina style' and constricts their airways. Lots of Bulldogs/Pugs/ Frenchies/Boxers etc. are needing surgery to remove a 'slice' of their soft palate so they can breathe more normally. Many of these same breeds also have heads too big to be whelped naturally and so need Cesarean intervention. I find it all disgusting, as is the KCs reluctance to intervene and get these f'cked-up breeds back to where they should be 'type' wise.
Some old oil paintings depicting hunting scenes from merry old England clearly show what a Bulldog used to look like. Much more inpropotion, without the massive head/face.
