Superb dog.  I wants it.

I regularly try and kidnap her, but my dad's wise to it now.

I'll get her one day, old man!

Ahahahahahaha yussss.

Nope. Google best cry ever.

There's a husky round the corner from me that howls like that every day. Sirens usually set him/her off. I love hearing it from a distance but I imagine the neighbours must hate it!

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There's a husky round the corner from me that howls like that every day. Sirens usually set him/her off. I love hearing it from a distance but I imagine the neighbours must hate it!

Yeah, that'd suck. Roxy only does it when teh rag-and-bone man comes round – about once every couple of months. Guessing it must be something to do with the specific pitch/frequency?

Pip looks snuggly

LOOK AT HIM!

If i approach Clay when he is in chill mode he automatically rolls over for belly rubs now. Sometimes he wont even open his eyes.

Sometimes me walking in the room is enough.

The boy likes his belly rubs.

Moar

In other pet news.
Some of you may remember my parents have a pair of minituare schnauzers and that the second is a rescue named Ted.

Ted is about 5 and spent his prior life as a stud at an abusive puppy farm. Sadly this meant he came with issues. He was hard to approach needing the gentler of touches.
One of his weird quirks was that he will only walk on your left if on the lead and if spooked he will pull away from you.

My dad was walking him on a path next to a road not long after I left the forum. A lorry went past, spooked Ted then he jumped in the road, the car behind hit him. Without thinking my dad jumped in the road and dragged Ted back to the path.
Unfortunately Ted went into a kind of survival mode, he felt pain and panicked meaning he bit my dad's hands something wicked.

15 minutes of my dad trying to flag down a car, scared to death for himself, and the two dogs, all three covered in blood, thankfully a Salvation Army van pulled up and took them to the vets.

There is a happy end to this. Ted had a shattered knee, spent a month recovering in a cage and is now as good if not better than ever. We were super worried about it setting him back emotionally but actually he has softened more than before and is becoming a real house dog, even jumping up onto the sofa and learning what play is.

My dad's hands. Well he was an exquisite painter, and a marksman in the RAF, I don't think he will ever get that level of dexterity back but he is far from an incapable and probably still better than your average.

I will be giving to the Salvation Army this xmas, if anyone wants to give and not sure who to give to I would be happy if you considered them.

Cheers Shabby.

Yeah getting the right toys is important. Clay isn't so much destructive, more he finds the weakness and exploits it.
Most "tough toys" get meticulously unpicked by the stitching.
Nerf and Kong are no match for him. Oddly all the toys that last seem to be xmas themed. I got him a stuffed reindeer a month ago, stuffed toys normally last a day. My Granny got him a rubber xmas tree last year that is still going as well.

Strong stuff Live, next time I give it'll be to the Salvation Army.  Was it a busy road?  Obviously not everyone wants to pick up a bleeding man with two dogs, but it's hard not to find this part particularly unsavoury - 15 minutes is a fucking long time to wait for a lift in an obvious emergency.

Ffs, for some reason I didn't even think of the car that hit him.