Rebanne

isn't she a wonderful girl, very clever cookie Charlotte and 4 and 4, very well done :D

your poll doesn't allow multiple options

My experience in GSD's have shown me there are good and bad breeders who may or may not be a member of their breed club. Ethics come from within and I don't believe you have to be a member of a breed club to have them.

RuBIG in group 3 was an ESS not an Am Cocker. sorry, didn't see it myself was going by what I was told, will triple check next time

At Kyabram today Brantarby Winter Crusade got baby of breed (greyhound) loved, owned and handled by Sarah Kennedy, a newcomer to our sport. Baby of grp 4 was the deerhound

congratulations!

congrats

and oh so cute! heard the judge talking to the steward afterwards saying how much more settled he was in sweepy's Warrior was happy to lay down and relax

I don't think a greyhound would be suitable so I'm glad they "creep you out" a bit :D I reckon a beagle might be good.

excellent post I just counted off 62 showbred greys in Australia, being generous with numbers in a couple of cases where exact numbers aren't know. So at the very most there would only be 100 in the country, more likely 80. And I know most of those wouldn't have taken the survey, so adopted race bred greyhounds win hands down

But what would you know?? :p

excellent news, now go enjoy your family holiday

Anyone who'd say that many sighthounds aren't willing to take risks has never seen them after prey. And that includes a lot of pet owners in the burbs. There's a reason younger Greyhounds end up in GAP... injury is one and lack of desire to chase is another. Those who test well with cats and small dogs (if they haven't been socialised with them) will be those with lower prey drive. That's another factor that may affect the "boldness" quotient many pet Greyhound owners observed in their dogs. Actually you might be surprised to know that some big winners have tested ok with cats and small dogs.

so the dictionary is wrong?

google bold: Adjective:(of a person, action, or idea) Showing an ability to take risks; confident and courageous. Noun: A typeface with thick strokes. Synonyms: daring - audacious - brave - courageous - hardy hmm seems to be some words that are very similar or even the same as what was in some of the breed descriptions

what's the definition of bold?

but who really knows?

you know, I wonder how all those ex racing greyhounds ever manage to not only find homes but thrive in them when they are all so timid

except Corvus actually thanked everyone and told them their input was valuable I think it goes more like... Dog people: we chuck tantrums when we're told stuff we don't like when we are told stuff that isn't true

if this is science then you can keep it.

I still haven't come to terms with this statement above given it has been acknowledged most of the sight hounds in the survey were greys. So greyhounds now are a good representive sample of all sight hounds and only non racing greys were surveyed? or no-one bothered to find out whether the greys surveyed were ex racers as the vast majority of pet greys are but we will then make the assumption that they aren't ex racers as it suits our "research" better. Given the accuracy of this statement, and we are only hearing about sight hounds (what assumptions are being made about other groups, I would have to say I am concerned about the validity of anything that comes out of this survey. I've seen stuff, maybe it was survey's, put up by Corvus in the past, no idea if I saw this one, but no way I would reply to anything put up by them as I have never had any confidence they knew what they were talking about and this just proves it to me.

yep, sighthounds, and greyhounds in particular, are going to be labelled nervous nellies, no matter what their background or how they were raised.

LIKE :D

I could care less what corvus thinks if she believes her study was vaild when the majority of dogs in her sample were of one breed and mostly were reared very different to most pet dogs