Verdun I would never normally have bought a dog of that quality breeding, and anyway I'd been looking for a bull-mastiff to guard the smallholding, but a labrador breeder/show person moved into our village and I saw Boss and his siblings when their eyes were just opening and again when they were about 6 weeks old.
He waddled over to me and and sat on my foot - I was smitten - Boss joined our family and stayed with us until he was a venerable 14 years old
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I still miss our dog. My husband was a fireman and got her out of a fire. She was very young and imprinted on our cats. She would go up a ladder a d get stuck. We would regularly get a knock on the door from total strangers telling us our dog was out on the windowsill
Ten years later, if we're out for a walk, I expect to see her out of the corner of my eye, rushing out of the undergrowth. She was a poodle cross before they became fashionable. She was spookily intelligent and we still miss her.
Would love to have a dog again but we live in suburban London and don't want to provide a snack for a killer dog that lives on a balcony.
I've got one of those dodgy tumble driers which might catch fire unless they modify it and I'd like to rant about the d**kheads who keep telling me to phone another number and press button for option 2 and I sit in another queue with stupid music and it's still the wrong number and then another number and option 3 and .....................
I've got an aging fridge freezer but I'm reluctant to buy a new one in case it burns the house down. We'll nurse it along for the nonce and hope things get sorted out before its demise.
It's the not knowing that fills your every waking minute. I "lost" a 16yr old mong on a clear bright frosty Feb night and I was demented. She was stone deaf and almost blind and managed to find a hole in the fence. I slept on the kitchen floor with the back door open just in case and went out searching again at 5 in the morning. I just knew she was in a ditch waiting for me to come and rescue her.
I got a phone call around lunch time from a very nice man called Mr Ramsey to tell me that the bold Thursday had spent the night by the range, had pooed politely in the corner and had eaten 4 sausages for breakfast! We had four more happy months together and she died a month before her 17th birthday.
I hate to see fat dogs. Mine are like Whippets and all the better for it. My old girl is 15 and on her last legs but she still has a go at charging round the pond! The young one is a monkey in a dog suit!!!!
We help a labrador rescue charity by looking after unwanted labradors until a home can be found. Our latest lab is a real stunner, and we have really fallen for him, so much so that we have applied to keep him...
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Yes Verdun, my husband has me running all over the South Downs in training for our 100 mile walk in July.
Verdun
I would never normally have bought a dog of that quality breeding, and anyway I'd been looking for a bull-mastiff to guard the smallholding, but a labrador breeder/show person moved into our village and I saw Boss and his siblings when their eyes were just opening and again when they were about 6 weeks old.
He waddled over to me and and sat on my foot - I was smitten - Boss joined our family and stayed with us until he was a venerable 14 years old
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I still miss our dog. My husband was a fireman and got her out of a fire. She was very young and imprinted on our cats. She would go up a ladder a d get stuck. We would regularly get a knock on the door from total strangers telling us our dog was out on the windowsill
Ten years later, if we're out for a walk, I expect to see her out of the corner of my eye, rushing out of the undergrowth. She was a poodle cross before they became fashionable. She was spookily intelligent and we still miss her.
Would love to have a dog again but we live in suburban London and don't want to provide a snack for a killer dog that lives on a balcony.
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I've got one of those dodgy tumble driers which might catch fire unless they modify it and I'd like to rant about the d**kheads who keep telling me to phone another number and press button for option 2 and I sit in another queue with stupid music and it's still the wrong number and then another number and option 3 and .....................
Anyway, new forum's nice innit
(or maybe not)
I've got an aging fridge freezer but I'm reluctant to buy a new one in case it burns the house down. We'll nurse it along for the nonce and hope things get sorted out before its demise.
I think it's worse wondering what happened to her. But at least you can hope that someone found her and looked after her.
It's the not knowing that fills your every waking minute. I "lost" a 16yr old mong on a clear bright frosty Feb night and I was demented. She was stone deaf and almost blind and managed to find a hole in the fence. I slept on the kitchen floor with the back door open just in case and went out searching again at 5 in the morning. I just knew she was in a ditch waiting for me to come and rescue her.
I got a phone call around lunch time from a very nice man called Mr Ramsey to tell me that the bold Thursday had spent the night by the range, had pooed politely in the corner and had eaten 4 sausages for breakfast! We had four more happy months together and she died a month before her 17th birthday.
I hate to see fat dogs. Mine are like Whippets and all the better for it. My old girl is 15 and on her last legs but she still has a go at charging round the pond! The young one is a monkey in a dog suit!!!!
We help a labrador rescue charity by looking after unwanted labradors until a home can be found. Our latest lab is a real stunner, and we have really fallen for him, so much so that we have applied to keep him...