Your pet (& pictures) thread

[goat starer]

he is a he... that said he doesnt look so cute on the halloween card i made..



perhaps better on the christmas card...

[Darlica]

 

_{Note to self:
Goat starers back, stop drinking hot tea while reading on TFM...
Hot tea in nose is uncomfortable...} 

[Opsa]

What? No easter card?

What are those green things in front of Santa Bun?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

He looks to tasty, (I mean,) so cute...

[pieces o nine]

Valentine's Day Card?     

[Lindorm]

...and that's what a life of heavy carrot abuse leads to. Remember, kids: Just Say No!

[goat starer]

What? No easter card?

What are those green things in front of Santa Bun?

sprouts 

[roystonoboogie]

Meet Milo:



...and Molly:



A pair of right energetic hounds, as you can tell.

[Opsa]

They are adorable! Are they as sweet as they look?

[Darlica]

That is two very relaxed doggies.

What breed are they?
_{(Not that it matters I know heaps of lovely, lovable, loving, mutts)}

[Opsa]

Is that your cute doggie, Darli?

[roystonoboogie]

That is two very relaxed doggies.

What breed are they?
_{(Not that it matters I know heaps of lovely, lovable, loving, mutts)}

Milo is a Staffordshire bull terrier / collie cross. He's amazingly smart, a great problem-solver, a fantastic communicator and a complete poser for the camera. Molly is a Staffordshire bull terrier / boxer cross. She's as dumb as a sack of hammers, and as neurotic as hell. Very sweet when she's calm, but if she gets riled up she's a nightmare. She's about twice the size of Milo, too.

Where Milo will work out how to open a door handle by a process of trial-and-error and observation, Molly will dig a hole in the door with her claws and jam her muzzle into the gap, barking frantically. Milo wants to be everyone's friend, Molly wants nothing to do with anyone she doesn't know and trust.

We've had Milo since he was a puppy, he was very well socialised as a youngster. We got Molly as a rescue dog when we moved to a house with a garden, to keep him company during the day when we were out at work. We suspect she was a puppy factory, creating the kind of dogs that people who shouldn't have dogs want, to make them look tough. It's not her fault, but she's not been socialised properly and she has huge trust / abandonment issues. When I come home from work she will literally pin me to the wall to say hello.

[Darlica]

Is that your cute doggie, Darli?

The family dog yes, he lives with my mother and her hubby. He seems to consider me to be his big sis, wrestling fella, and personal squeeky toy...

He's not really the cuddly type, but every time I visit he will pester me untill I have chased him, caugt him, and carreid him to the couch where i put him on his back in my lap. After 30 seconds he givs up, rest his head against my chest and closes his eyes, says "mmmmnf" and fall asleep.
If he gets to chose we'll be sitting like that for at least 30 to 45 minutes.

I'm pretty much the only one allowed to turn him on his back for other means than cutting claws or pick ticks.

He's more than happy to share the couch and have his head in someones lap or sleep beside you in the bed, but I'm the only one who get to treat him as an over sized teddybear. He has days when he's "mommys dog" and days when he's "daddys dog" but when I visit he's my dog.

[roystonoboogie]

Darlica, is he an Irish Terrier? It's hard to tell lying down like that - could be an Airedale or a Welsh Terrier, something like that. It's nice to hear that other terriers have the same loyalty / trust things going on as my two have.

In the future, Mrs O'Boogie wants to get a couple of Border Terriers, like Andy Murray the tennis player has. Apparently they are terrible diggers, which doesn't go down so well with the whole garden thing.

[Darlica]

Yup. He's an Irish Terror eh Terrier.
There are more pictures of him earlier in this thread.
I think all terriers are diggers. It sort of comes with their rat and rabbit catching ancestry. Ludvig here does his fair share of garden rearrangement every year but mostly in areas of our yard where we have field mice. He does catch some too...

He is very loyal and trusting, when my mother or her hubby are sick he won't let them out of his sight. He goes out does his business and then come straight back in and if one of them is in bed due to a cold or something he can lie on the bed watching over them for hours.

One time W (the hubby) slipped in the bathroom the dog opened the door from the outside, took a quick look at "daddy" and then rushed away to fetch my mother who was outside. He was barking in a high pitched voice circling her and then running back and forth between the house and her. She got the message loud and clear. No one has ever trained that dog to do anything like that...

Unfortunately he's been having a bit of health problems lately so he has spent quite a lot of time at the vet. clinic last time the nurses didn't really wanted to let go of him, it seemed like he had charmed them all, being the perfect patient letting them take blood samples and give him shots with no need for a nose-mussel or other restrictions. He just wagged his tail and gave them a kiss.

The laying on the back thing I think that's a question of dignity... He sleeps on his back when he's inside the house. He just don't like having to sit in somebodies lap like that and unless the claw nipper is out or we are picking ticks of him he just will wiggle his way out of the hold.
He never growl or show teeth, he'll just give you the stinky eye and shrug (one can almost hear him say I ain't a darn puppy!) and then he goes to another room. He does this to me to sometimes too, when the novelty of me being back at my mothers house has worn of...

Do you think Milo has inherited his smartness from his collie parent?
A lot of Stafforshire terriers, Pit-bulls and Amstaf's I've met are really sweet and loveable creatures albeit a bit on the thick side...

I meet a lot of dogs at work (at the underground) and I always ask if I can greet them. I make a bit of a point to do that. As I'm a person in uniform, I think me greeting dogs like Staffordshire terriers, Pit bulls, Rottweilers and what not helps bringing down the nervousness some people feel around these dogs, of cause I always check with the owner first and I also try to read the dog.  Few persons say "no", one who did was contradicted by his dog who put his head in my lap before the owner could answer (I was sitting on the seat next to them on the train).

I'm sad to hear about Mollys insecurity, but I think that's quite common with rescue dogs it sounds like she has found a good home now at least.