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welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
My dog and cat are long gone. However i never treated them like kids. They were pets and slept in their own bed in the conservatory. Well fed and taken care of and well loved. I hate when people nowadays dress dogs up in dresses and jumpers and god knows what else. People must be really sad to do that
 

Willd

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Rugby
Sod carrying ours, he's 25kg & can use his own 4 paws, he also has a very effective fur coat, which must be suitable for at least minus 10 degrees (even if bits of it do keep falling out everywhere) :wacko:
 
I think that dogs need to be dogs (and cats, cats) BUT on the subject of 'dog clothes' and hair ribbons and stuff like that, well we made them skinny with thin fur so of course we need to supplement that in winter (a woolly jumper) and we bred them with hair that grows all over their face, so it's only fair we tie it back so they can see out.
We wash them so often that we remove all the protective grease and oils from their coat, and cut their protective coats short, so they need some sort of weather protection in the rain ... and so on and so forth. Even the dog prams have legitimate purposes - if a dog who's always gone on regular walks becomes unable to do so, for reasons of normal ageing, and especially if the dog was used to being walked in company, then a pram will help the dog to still participate psychologically in the 'going for a walk' exercise.
It might also be necessary to help a dog on part of a walk if any problems might occur. I know someone whose dog has occasional, fairly mild and short, epileptic seizures, generally well-controlled by drugs. He's too large a dog to be carried for any distance so she takes him out wheeling a 2nd hand toddler pushchair. If he does have a seizure (I think he's had a couple in two years while out walking) she can wait it out, then when he's 'come to' she lifts him into the pushchair and home they go while he flops around held in place by his harness. Vet says it's much better for him to be out exercising and socialising and risk an occasional 'out of the home' seizure than keeping an active, intelligent dog cooped up, and this is the solution that works for them.

I had a darling cat who loved being dressed up and the local kids used to 'borrow' her to wrap in a shawl and a little hat, and push about in their dolly's prams! I would never have pushed her about in a pet pushchair though LOL!
 

Accy cyclist

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"Engurland Engurland", before the England v Germany Euro' finals game, in my local pub last year.


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"Does the Barbour wax jacket fit well enough for you sir".

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Accy cyclist

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We’ve literally just lost the most loved dog; and huge part of our family for the last 15 years……

However amongst all of that, we treated our dog; like a dog !

I’m guessing the OP’s new-found friends don’t yet have kids of their own (?)

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My parents has 'Sophie' the West Highland Terrier for ten years. After my dad died she seemed to be lost without him and died 6 months later.
 

sevenfourate

Devotee of OCD
My parents has 'Sophie' the West Highland Terrier for ten years. After my dad died she seemed to be lost without him and died 6 months later.
Wow. I’m sorry to hear that. But kind of not surprised per-se….

‘Ruby’ was bought to help cure / help my middle sons fear of dogs. And be our first family pet. She soon became the absolute epicentre of our family. Didn’t think I’d ever be a small dog guy. But loving, loyal, intelligent, easy to keep, relatively hair free, vocal of strangers on your property, trustworthy around children etc etc did it for me. And yes she locked onto and doted on me too.

If ours was absolutely typical of the breed - a terrific family pet.
 

Accy cyclist

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Wow. I’m sorry to hear that. But kind of not surprised per-se….

‘Ruby’ was bought to help cure / help my middle sons fear of dogs. And be our first family pet. She soon became the absolute epicentre of our family. Didn’t think I’d ever be a small dog guy. But loving, loyal, intelligent, easy to keep, relatively hair free, vocal of strangers on your property, trustworthy around children etc etc did it for me. And yes ours locked onto and doted on me too.

If ours was absolutely typical of the breed - a terrific family pet.

You've last a loving pet and family member. I'm seriously sorry for your loss. Will you get another one, albeit it in time?
 

sevenfourate

Devotee of OCD
You've last a loving pet and family member. I'm seriously sorry for your loss. Will you get another one, albeit it in time?

Thankyou very much 😉

It’s been a couple of months. I’m at home alone far more than my wife. And I’d get another dog now. Probably a rescue.
We live right by the sea, relatively in the Country - and I’m an outdoors guy. ‘We’ could have so much fun together. For my wife however it’s still very raw.

In no way will / do we think we’re replacing Ruby. But she’s just left such a huge void behind……

Damned ‘pets’ !!!
 

oldwheels

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Location
Isle of Mull
We had a neighbour who was pretty old and not very fit.
He had a Bedlington which I think is a kind of whippet. He went for short walks and the dog used to race around enjoying itself.
When he died the dog was taken in by his daughter and husband who were certainly good to it but it never settled and pined away until it died about 6 months later.:sad:
 
a Bedlington which I think is a kind of whippet.
It's actually classed as a terrier, although there it's almost certain that some whippet was used to 'improve' the breed in the past.
My mother's Jack Russell terrier went into a severe decline after mum's death and I eventually had her pts as she simply didn't enjoy life anymore even though there was nothing physically wrong with her that we could discover.
 
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