Your favourite dog breed?

[wheelnut]

Tell me about it, it’s bad enough as is but the wife is stubborn and definitely wears the trousers so I’ll just have to put up with it

If we’d have got them at the same age I think we may have got two but she’s 10 now and set in her ways - I don’t think she’d appreciate having a puppy running round.

[Couchy]

5!! You’d need earplugs for when the door knocked.

This is ours. Fantastic little dogs; stubborn, independent, hugely intelligent, and real characters. She’ll be 10 this year.

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Intelligent ? Ours is thick as mince and thought that was the breed in general. Def the wife’s dog but he tolerates me !. People always look nervous when they hear the bark till the door opens. Scared of his own shadow too, tbh he’s no trouble especially now he’s an old man as going out isn’t his thing anymore

[v8-powered]

Had a few over the years, family have always had dogs too.

My personal favourite was my Patterdale Terrier who succumbed to the big C about 6 years ago. Lovely temperament, bit hard to train (local farmer saw him as a pup, said to me "Patterdale? Good luck with that!")

The prey drive in those things is off the charts

Mine wasn't too bad, the Border Terrier I had also was 10x worse!
Friends have a Patterdale still - there's on the other hand is a nightmare! He ended up down a fox hole for 2 days, ended up having to pay specialists to come in and dig him out - cost them a fortune.
I used to live on a farm - my Border got the scent of rats under a shed, she actually chewed though the wood she'd panel to get to them. She also loved the farm chickens

[Taipan]

Always had a soft spot for Springers as I grew up with one. As a toddler I used to have my afternnoon nap with my head on her as a pillow! Since then its been Jack Russells. I love 'em. Feisty, loyal protective little buggers. Super territorial and will always let you know when anyones about and they hear things you dont. But our current one will be our last as our French Bullldog has stolen the wife's heart, well all of ours really. Such a funny dog with the sweetest of natures. Never known a dog like it. Cant see the wife ever having another breed now tbh.

[mangocrazy]

A cat.

[G.P]

We've got 2 Mini Schnauzers. Real chararcters. They arethe first dogs Mrs GP has had so she was reluctant to have large dogs.


I'm a sucker for dogs, basically I love'em all. My brother used to have Danes which are Gentle & daft. Would have one if I had the space. Same goes for a sheppard and a boxer.
If Mrs GP gets her way we'll probably just keep schnauzers. I really fancy a Springer next or if we're keeping Schnauzers, a westie thrown in would be good. I had one as a kid and have a real soft spot for them.

We should all get a rescue to go with whatever breed we choose though

[wheelnut]

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Intelligent ? Ours is thick as mince and thought that was the breed in general. Def the wife’s dog but he tolerates me !. People always look nervous when they hear the bark till the door opens. Scared of his own shadow too, tbh he’s no trouble especially now he’s an old man as going out isn’t his thing anymore

Doxies are very difficult, if not impossible, to train in the way that you can train a lab, but they are independently intelligent iyswim*. They are also known for being brave to the point of recklessness (which may contradict the first statement )

*Example, if the conservatory door is open, and it’s raining, she’ll think ‘fuck that’ and pisses in the conservatory.

[dern]

I know it's a free country and all that but if you actually love dogs I struggle to understand why you would pay through the nose for a specific breed dog than a rescue dog that's close to what your ideal dog would be. Lots of reasons thrown around such as you don't know its background and so on but there's a lot of backup with rescues and no guarantee you'll get an easy to look after animal no matter how much you pay for it.

I can't tell you what my favourite breed is but the two dogs we've adopted are amazing pets and companions. One is a lurcher and one is a greyhound. Brilliant dogs.

[wull]

I know it's a free country and all that but if you actually love dogs I struggle to understand why you would pay through the nose for a specific breed dog than a rescue dog that's close to what your ideal dog would be. Lots of reasons thrown around such as you don't know its background and so on but there's a lot of backup with rescues and no guarantee you'll get an easy to look after animal no matter how much you pay for it.

I can't tell you what my favourite breed is but the two dogs we've adopted are amazing pets and companions. One is a lurcher and one is a greyhound. Brilliant dogs.

We originally were trying to go down this route but there just wasn’t what we wanted, and when there was the criteria was ridiculous.

[demographic]

I know it's a free country and all that but if you actually love dogs I struggle to understand why you would pay through the nose for a specific breed dog than a rescue dog that's close to what your ideal dog would be. Lots of reasons thrown around such as you don't know its background and so on but there's a lot of backup with rescues and no guarantee you'll get an easy to look after animal no matter how much you pay for it.

I can't tell you what my favourite breed is but the two dogs we've adopted are amazing pets and companions. One is a lurcher and one is a greyhound. Brilliant dogs.

Its a good point and we gave serious consideration to taking on a rescue dog.
Thing is, we also have a couple of cats and wanted to have a dog from a pup so he grew up with them and with luck wouldn't eat em.
Our 25 kilo Bull Lurcher is still scared on our 3 kilo cat, they get on but the cats the boss and the other cat mostly keeps out of the dogs way but hasn't been harmed.
Another point was how old it might be, I'm kind of hoping for 12 or so years out of this one, currently two years into that so if I got a six year old rescue it would be eight by now.
I'd like it as much but it's a hell of a loss when one dies, I'd rather it wasn't too often.

[Greenman]

Cats rule Dogs just droool

[Slenver]

Bernese Mountain Dog.

55kg of hair and cuddles.

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[porter_jamie]

black labrador. we have had 2, and my missus had loads when she was growing up. she spends a lot of time training him and in consequence he is mostly very well behaved. has a very strong retrieving instinct though so will fetch anything, including things you might not want him to.

[Wreckless Rat]

Lurcher - currently have two...

Boxer.... hard to beat the boxer, although now they have full tails, they look odd.

[Horse]

Westies. Special needs dogs.

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@dern although Filly is keen to eventually get another pair, we have been looking at rescue options. We rehomed these Westies when their owner couldn't keep them.

[Horse]

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[derek badger]

I like mixed breed/mongrels and prefer a bigger dog rather than a ratty little yappy thing.





I'd also rather rehome rather than buy from a breeder but saying that the wife had just arranged to get a spocker/cocker cross pup from a friend of hers who's bitch is due to give birth to a litter next week.

[KungFooBob]

I dunno, they all taste the same to me.

[Bigjawa]

Bernese Mountain Dog.

55kg of hair and cuddles.



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One of them near me, every time I walk my girls past it's house it hurls itself at the fence barking like mad, my Misty let out her battle roar and tried getting over the fence at it. The people who own it walk it without a lead and when it sees my two, it literally tries to hide behind anything and everything. It's all mouth and no trousers. A lovely looking hound though.

[David]

my fave dog breed is a cat. Any cat .