Dame Aussie

Many times I tried to direct people to breed specific rescue or their breeders but most of the time it was "easier" for them to surrender at the pound. Just because someone buys a pedigree dog doesn't necessarily mean they're more likely to look after it. I also think that it can be about pride, they know they're doing the wrong thing but they don't care. We used to have people bringing in " strays" which we would later find were chipped to them.

I'm saddened to hear they mellow out. The 6 month old we have is feisty as hell and I LOVE IT!! Makes for a fun obedience/agility companion. And yes, she loves to jump and jump high! Edited to add, that I encourage cheeky, boisterous behaviour (as it's what I personally want as a mellow dog to train in sports is harder work!) and she bounces off my Labs like she's on crack. Love it

Maybe wait till your kids are old enough to not be knocked over?

Yay!!! Awesome news

I have 2 dogs, one is a rescue and one is a purebred dog from a breeder, and I have been criticised for buying the dog with a pedigree. I just ignore it. I have never, and will never dunp a dog, therefore I see no reason why I should feel guilty for buying a dog from a registered ethical breeder. ETA: That video is ridiculous.

Purebred with papers or just looked like a particular breed? Whilst it may look like a purebred dog without papers you have no idea, not to mention the rest of the litter could look the complete opposite. No, no papers, that's why I said we were going by what they looked like. To be honest pounds will rarely if ever know if a dog is actually purebred as they would never get to see papers, only what's on the chip, if the chip says it's pure, who are they to disagree? Chip details can also be wrong - My pedigree Affen was chipped as an Affen X I know a Dane who was chipped as a Greyhound - simple error on the person entering the data into the database. Of course they can, but the pound only has that to go on. I had many dogs come in chipped as something and obviously something else. It seems that data entry errors are fairly common. One of my cats' microchip company details had his name completely wrong, my name wrong, and my address wrong. I also found that even though I had carefully, in block letters, filled in the correct breed details for Tarja for her council registration they had entered her as a different and even rarer breed, a Finnish Spitz! Yes, very common, we came across countless data entry errors, phone numbers, addresses, names, breeds, you name it.

The DD's were getting more and more common towards the time I left my old job. Most common were definitely Spaniel x Poodles and CKCS x Poodles, almost all from pet stores.

I always thought single 'n', but then I don't think I've even seen one in the flesh so my opinion doesn't hold much weight The older members of my family always used 'Alsation' rather than GSD too. Yep, I know quite a few people who still use Alsation!

Purebred with papers or just looked like a particular breed? Whilst it may look like a purebred dog without papers you have no idea, not to mention the rest of the litter could look the complete opposite. No, no papers, that's why I said we were going by what they looked like. To be honest pounds will rarely if ever know if a dog is actually purebred as they would never get to see papers, only what's on the chip, if the chip says it's pure, who are they to disagree? Chip details can also be wrong - My pedigree Affen was chipped as an Affen X I know a Dane who was chipped as a Greyhound - simple error on the person entering the data into the database. Of course they can, but the pound only has that to go on. I had many dogs come in chipped as something and obviously something else.

Exactly Sway, we could never have proper stats because pounds just don't see papers. What you've suggested could work though.

Purebred with papers or just looked like a particular breed? Whilst it may look like a purebred dog without papers you have no idea, not to mention the rest of the litter could look the complete opposite. No, no papers, that's why I said we were going by what they looked like. To be honest pounds will rarely if ever know if a dog is actually purebred as they would never get to see papers, only what's on the chip, if the chip says it's pure, who are they to disagree? That's what makes me a bit sad...dogs that "real & papered" purebreds are lumped in with the ones that "appear" purebred & that is why a lot of people say "I would never get a purebred, because they are this or that....." Yep, it's frustrating, but what is even more so is the general publics perception of what is "purebred". Apparently the most sought after purebred dog is a Maltese Shih-Tzu :rolleyes: . Problem is that anyone chipping a pup can fill in the form as whatever they want, no-one checks and says "Well no obviously this is a cross".

This got me googling - found this interesting snippet - Reference here Hmmmmm interesting, I have always spelt it with the double n.

Purebred with papers or just looked like a particular breed? Whilst it may look like a purebred dog without papers you have no idea, not to mention the rest of the litter could look the complete opposite. No, no papers, that's why I said we were going by what they looked like. To be honest pounds will rarely if ever know if a dog is actually purebred as they would never get to see papers, only what's on the chip, if the chip says it's pure, who are they to disagree?

OK, this will be a long post I have only worked in one shelter so can only speak for that one but we would frequently get "Purebred" dogs in. What I mean by this is that the dog was obviously a particular breed, some would be chipped to pet shops some to owners and some to breeders. In about 70% of cases the breeders had owner details and were very helpful in getting the dog home or willing to take it if we could not locate the owners. In the other 30% of cases however, the "breeder" was no better than a pet shop or BYB and didn't even have records of who they'd sold the dog too. From my experience I would say about every 2 out of 10 dogs that came in was purebred. From the rest of the crosses the most common would have to be either JRT/Foxie crosses or SWF's. Second to those two breeds was the SBT crosses. Labs and GR's were common as were Ridgeback type crosses. Having said this I saw at least one of every breed in my time there including a beautiful Pharaoh Hound that none of us could believe was in the pound with no ID. Some breeds seemed to be particularly prone to escaping over and over and these included SBT's, Huskys and Malamutes and all types of Spaniels. I agree it depends on where the pound is, more rural pounds seem to get more pig dogs, cattle dogs, Koolies and the like. Anyway that's my experience. I will also say that at least half of the animals we got in were surrenders, and more often than not they were from pet stores or so called "breeders" of designer dogs.

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Yes, it was disappointing that the rangers wouldn't even discuss it with the RSPCA Inspector. It's impossible to arrive at any conclusions based on the few facts that seem to be clear. Terribly sad case and I can understand the owner's grief and wish for further information. BP, I agree with you about the vulnerability of the big dogs for being viewed differently, & so treated differently, when on the loose. But accidents happen in the best of circumstances (look how my 2 precious tibbie girls were let out!). My hope, tho', would be that any big dog (who's really a good dog in normal circumstances) would be lucky, and meet people who are dog savvy enough not to leap to conclusions based only on their size. And I include rangers in that. Just a general comment (& not about this particular case), I wonder what kind of training in dog behaviours and management rangers get. I have seen cases where no-one was available so parking inspectors from the council were sent out to do the rangers job. Most of the actual rangers I met hadn't a clue. That is why I don't necessarily trust their judgement on dog behaviour.

Gorgeous

Yeah, it's definitely covered, that's the main reason I use Sentinel, I'd be informing your vet that she is incorrect, other people may not check and unnecessarily give their dogs more chemicals than are needed.

Is she yours saxonpup??? She's ADORABLE!

I agree. I have had experience with quite a few different council rangers and every single one I dealt with didn't have a clue about dogs. I'm suspicious.

Squeeeeee! Now I want one!

Dusty doesn't do dress ups. I told her to pretend the Santa hat was a princess crown but all I got was her very best evil eye. My husband says Dusty doesn't need to talk cos she makes her feelings known all over her face! They look gorgeous Gayle

Some people are idiots

Mosley thinks that anything organic is treasure, it ends up on our living room rug :rolleyes: Not to mention the amount of burrs around this year, I'm finding them all over the house

I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole, not with that many breeds