Dog Appreciation Thread

[Smaland]

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[Aino]

Canine freestyle. When I first saw this video, I got tears in my eyes. Then I got inspired to practise this with my now deceased dog. It was a fun addition to the obedience training I did with her, and she loved both with the joyful manner that was so typical of her. Our instructor once said that she should videotape us as an example of how heeling can be fun and how much a dog can love doing it.

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[Osweo]

The birth of five puppies. AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Quite moving in a way)
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Could do without the captions and so on, but AWWWWW, the lickle babbas!!!!!!!!

They're more grown here, and 'kissing' each other;
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[Aemma]

Oh wow I hadn't seen the above yet Oss. Niiiice!

Here's a wee passage I came across when reading some William James a few nights ago. It just put a smile on my face. Taken from the aptly titled essay, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings:

Take our dogs and ourselves, connected as we are by a tie more intimate than most ties in this world; and yet, outside of that tie of friendly fondness, how insensible, each of us, to all that makes life significant for the other! we to the rapture of bones under hedges, or smells of trees and lamp-posts, they to the delights of literature and art. As you sit reading the most moving romance you ever fell upon, what sort of a judge is your fox-terrier on your behavior? With all his good will toward you, the nature of your conduct is absolutely excluded from his comprehension. To sit there like a statue, when you might be taking him to walk and throwing sticks for his to catch! What queer disease is this that comes over you every day, of holding things and staring at them like that for hours together, paralysed of motion and vacant of all conscious life?

Indeed! And the same can be said of our computers too!

[Germanicus]

When i was growing up my mother bred Shetland sheep dogs (Toonie dogs)
Her champion bitch was called Sophie, of all the dogs i grew up with she was the genuine article how a great dog should be.

[Smaland]

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Charity's Website

[Amapola]

She is my oldie, Gala (Galatea).

what can I say? she's just sooo pretty

[The Journeyman]

Brave dog rescues dumb wog!

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[Wanderlust]

Unlike many people, I love this breed..

[AussieScott]

Our last dog. She was grand, she was a great guard dog, for some reason she would go nuts at people of colour. Don't know why, she just did. She was cremated and is still in a box.



Dog I grew up with



Now we're thinking about getting a smaller dog, for rabbiting.