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There was 4 day dog show here last week and I got to see some dock diving dogs! I think it's my new favourite thing to watch :) This dally was awesome!

Edited because i can't technology today. Everyone's photos are great! So wish I actually had a dog to work with at the moment, all in good time I guess.

Sighthounds look so weird when they're pregnant! Lose that characteristic shape and then look really uncomfortable. She's gorgeous Kirislin, I'm very much looking forward to seeing photos of her pups :)

Also Meg from D and D dog coats on Facebook. She mostly makes dane coats but does smaller ones on request :)

So many lovely photos. Huga I LOVE yours, that's sheer boy/dog love personified. Gorgeous. Gapvic, i love your creative brain, you do storytelling so well. Love your dog in the bath too Cat! Just out of curiosity - what breed? Here's my second for the year. And yes, my last one was a cardinal - I love watching that splash of colour flying around here :) And who uses what hosting sites? Are any better or worse than others? I need to find one that I like - suggestions welcome.

Late already oops! Although it is still Sunday arvo where I am.... Hopefully this will work and be somewhat viewable. May have to investigate the flickr or similar option. Anyway, this is my new favourite backyard bird - I love seeing his bright flash of colour. Oh it's tiny!! Oh well.

I'll give it a crack! I need to push myself more so this should help. I won't go with a theme, it'll just be whatever I can see and shoot! Fingers crossed I make it through :)

Oh! Those are AMAZING!! how very talented you are. Thanks so much for sharing them :)

It's nice to hear good things about them too :) we normally have big dogs, rottis, a dane and a greyhound so it's quite a departure in dog type for us. So I'll be doing a lot of research first to make sure we'll all be cool. I do love the look of the wires, a beardy eyebrowed face is awesome! I've heard they're the clowns of the coat types, so that is also appealing :)

That's pretty much what I was wondering Haredown, I thought it might be a sign of an unethical breeder type. Thanks for the ANKC regs link, i'll have a look later on. If we were staying here in Aus, then I'd be ok with sussing out breeders, it's just that we might be moving to the US so was just starting some preliminary research. Also researching to see if we really want one, they're very different to all the other breeds we've had so far. I'd love a wire coat but also like the black and tan smooth coats, it's a tough one! The wires are supposed to be quite fun, or so I've heard :)

That will be interesting to see then. I guess to me it defeats the purpose of having the different coat types? But that's me as an outsider!

Thanks for your reply - that's interesting. I had wondered why! Do they show those ones or is it more a pet thing? Just curious :)

So for various reasons I've been researching dachsies as a future pet. A few of the breeders I've looked at in the US are breeding long coats to short coats and I wondered if that was the done thing, as my limited research here in Aus suggests that the coat types are kept a bit more separate? So it's just a curiosity thing I suppose as it's a breed and country that I have no contacts in! And not having any contacts makes me nervier about finding an ethical breeder, when the time comes. So any thoughts and discussion would be appreciated :)

That's made my day Gapvic! So very very pleased to hear it :) have also been checking the fb page and am so pleased with the support.

Really Rebanne? People have been abused when walking greys? That's terrible but it is one of the things I was worried about. It's bad enough walking a muzzled foster anyway. Am so sorry Gapvic, it's such an awful situation and I think you and Rebanne are right, a lot of damage has been done to the breed's reputation. And after all the hard work that's been done over the years to reverse the idea that greys are savage, it was really starting to pay off and then this happens. It's always the dogs who lose