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Your pets in the garden
Monty features Nigel in his progs. I have a 9 year old golden lab ....spike....who plods around here owning everything but respecting paths, etc and knows where he can and can't go. Your pets? Garden respecter or ruffian?
Mine is called spike after the tv cartoon prog, that I suddenly have forgotten. Whats your dog or cat or rabbit or whatelse called and is it a part of your gardenIng duties?
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Family of pet slugs "living on borrowed time.".
No pets verdun. G.pigs arriving soon next door, little girl says I can go and play with them.
..I like labradors very much... I have a greyhound, male, and thinks of nothing but food and sex... he's not neutured I'm afraid... so gives us a difficult time when females in the neighbourhood are on heat... which is frequently around here...
during such times he is liable to bite off a stem of a treasured plant, I just saved a Hosta flower the other day from his jaws.... he also likes to dig pits where he knows I've been digging...and he knows exactly where I've been even if he was asleep at the time...
otherwise he's lovely company and we wouldn't be without him... he was a good racer too but of no value for stud purposes... but it's a real thrill to see him gallop at full speed which we are able to do occasionally, off the lead in a secure area... there's nothing like it, they're the fastest dogs on earth...
No pets here (OH get's wheezy if there's fur or feathers in the house, although we both love dogs). However, we have nightly visits from the neighbourhood hedgehogs and some overwintered in the little houses we have here. We also have lots of birds come to the garden and bluetits nesting here.
We do have visitations from one of next door's cats Pippin - he's a lovely cat but we try not to encourage him into the back garden - but we make a fuss of him if we see him at the front.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Salino- your dog- just like men then?
KEF- slugs...snails for me! You'll get a good supply of poo for the compost if you keep in with the neighbour then
No pets now Verd- used to have cats and the girls had an assortment of small 'rodents'. Hamsters and little mice were nice, and we had a chinchilla which got out and chewed the phone cables etc . He went....
Didn't care for the guinea pigs much. They lived in a hutch in their playhouse and I made a mesh screen door so that the proper door could be open in the hot weather and GPs would be safe. See - I just enjoy the projects really!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
..yeah, definitely like men.... although their priorities are the other way round I think...
KEF, tell little girl next door she can put all her guinea pig poo on your compost heap - it is absolutely the best activator there is - some big guinea pig breeders sell it!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Salino i held a professional greyhound trainers license for 20 years raced dogs all over the UK make great pets sold my last 2 pups on Tuesday at a sale in Ireland. Gave up training because of ill health but loved working with the dogs father had them before me so been around greyhounds since a young boy but boy can they dig up the ground used to barrow loads of soil into there paddocks to fill in the holes they dug.
We did have a golden retriever called Ollie for 12 years,he was respectful of the garden,and enjoyed nothing more in his later years than stretching out in the sun on the warm patio slabs.
His worst bad deed was when he was just a puppy,and he pulled the low voltage lights out of the pond by the wire and chewed them all.He looked so guilty we forgave him,(really pleased he had,nt hurt himself),we never put lights back after that.
His ashes are now in a pot ,in one of his favourite spots in the garden,planted with a dog wood.
Happy memories.
I don't have pets - I already have 2 children and a full-time job so I decided many years ago I would not have another hassle. When I retire I'm having a dog (either a Staffordshire or an English Bull Terrier, haven't decided yet!) but woe betide if it digs up the garden or eats the plants.....
Andy... what a coincidence!... that must have been a great life for you, all those years, you must have had some good dogs in your time I'm sure....
if you're interested, and I hope you will be, here is a you tube link to one of the races our boy won.. he was running around Yarmouth mostly and was a marathon runner - 800 or 900 metres plus was his best trip...
he's actually quite a famous dog as, you might recall, there was a triple dead heat in a race at Romford a couple of years ago - he was one of the 3, and the bookmaker Coral put up a £2000 race a week later for these 3 to meet again, this time he won that race.... we didn't own him outright then,- syndicate dog...
here he is winning a small race at Yarmouth, trap 2 - Droopys Djokovic.... [Droopys - the stud in Ireland where he was bred and Djokovic after the tennis player],
he's last most of the way - trip too short really... I hope you like it... we call him 'Djoki' now... the race starts about 1 min 20 sec in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpbsfEuDwrI