Author Topic: Dogs (Read 852 times)

lowlife · « **Reply #30 on:** May 23, 2007, 08:00:23 AM »

I'm just waiting to see how much longer it will take for this thread to get skewed enough for someone to post beer as their pet of choice.
I've begged for beer, but can you imagine a beer begging for you?

Okay, I'll take the pink pill now and get back to work.

Ellery (Lowlife)

jacko · « **Reply #31 on:** May 23, 2007, 08:04:37 AM »

Ok Ellery. In the North east of england, newcastle brown ale is known as a bottle of dog, possibly because the drinker would tell his wife he was taking the dog for a walk when in reality he was off to the pub. Due to its strength, it's also known as 'journey into space' after the radio programme.

hope this has left the thread suitably skewed. Can't think how to intoduce bikes though ;-)

Graeme

bracheen · « **Reply #32 on:** May 23, 2007, 10:32:00 AM »

rraymond · « **Reply #33 on:** May 23, 2007, 05:28:29 PM »

Dogs? Beers? How about...

Woof!

bassjigga · « **Reply #34 on:** May 24, 2007, 09:21:23 PM »

Get a border collie! Great dogs. Medium size. Very intelligent. Very athletic. Playful fun dog. Good lookin. I love em.

glocke · « **Reply #35 on:** May 25, 2007, 03:05:20 AM »

yeah, they are actually on my list...where I work there is an outfit called geese police that comes on to chase the geese away, and they use border collies....great looking dogs...

jacko · « **Reply #36 on:** May 25, 2007, 03:13:11 AM »

Alot of the farmers over here use flocks of geese or ducks to train their border collies instead of using sheep. It's pretty funny when you see them demonstrating at highland shows. My uncle had a couple of BCs that were worked really hard but always seemed to have more energy in reserve so be prepared to get alot of exercise yourself ;-)

Graeme

57basstra · « **Reply #37 on:** May 25, 2007, 04:21:01 AM »

lowlife · « **Reply #38 on:** May 25, 2007, 05:55:06 AM »

Closely related ( or so I'm told) to the B.C. is the P.O.N. (Polish Lowland Sheepdog). Males are about 40 pounds, females about 15% less, very agile, great memory (pattern recognition), good companion, very territorial. Check out http://www.cponc.com for more info.

jacko · « **Reply #39 on:** May 25, 2007, 06:04:22 AM »

Ellery, that looks more like an old English sheepdog. This is a border collie..

graeme

jacko · « **Reply #40 on:** May 25, 2007, 06:07:44 AM »

Here's an old english sheepdog..

Graeme

lowlife · « **Reply #41 on:** May 25, 2007, 06:21:11 AM »

Graeme you right, I'm thinking of another dog that may have a name similar to the border collie, looks like a sheep dog, and has a long fan tail but is less than half of the size of a standard sheep dog. Also used (at some point) in northern England as drover dogs, but apparently the name escapes me for the moment.

Ellery (Lowlife)

(Message edited by lowlife on May 25, 2007)

speicky · « **Reply #42 on:** May 25, 2007, 06:42:52 AM »

my wife is serious about adopting a Shiba-Inu...

lowlife · « **Reply #43 on:** May 25, 2007, 07:03:30 AM »

Christian, all I can say is Wow! What a pose, what sharp looking dog. I'll bet that he could probably chase that stick all day long and not get tired. Just hope that the stick doesn't turn out to be the neck of one of your bases (LOL).

Ellery (Lowlife)

son_of_magni · « **Reply #44 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:23:27 PM »

All my neighbors have dogs. Most of them tie them up outside and they stand there barking all day long. What is wrong with these people?

And yes, I am also a cat person