Re: ASK THE EXPERT
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:56 pm
You forgot snipe down at the animal shelter.
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Pip, I can't imagine Kofi being happy with being represented by a cross-dressing son of a bitch. Russ on the other hand seems perfectly happy as a slack jawed, bat earred arsefoon of a dog.pip14 wrote:Baggy, help me out please. Since you posted above that you have three dogs you must know your stuff about such an animal
I'm thinking about purchasing a new dog myself? Which one should I get?
The first ones name is Kofi...
The second ones name is Russ...
Please help, I can't decide
Steady on Merv, you & I could fall out***, Rory is a magnificent dog in all respects, his sister is a bloody genius, admittedly wee have one Bichon-mini-poodle cross who is thick as pigshit. As for cost, they aren't cheap, we have spent about £1500 or so on 4 and running costs, food & insurance etc would be £150 - £200 per month.big mervyn wrote:Consider a rescue dog if you are really thinking of getting one. The dogs trust have some brilliant dogs for rehoming. The wee pedigree designer dogs are inbred, outrageously expensive and invariably stupid as feck. I've got a lab/collie cross that I got from the pound 9 years ago. Smart as hell. Dreading the day when she's gone tbh.
Of course, they don't *have* to cost such extortionate amounts.BaggyTrousers wrote:As for cost, they aren't cheap, we have spent about £1500 or so on 4 and running costs, food & insurance etc would be £150 - £200 per month.
Yes Yin, you can pay considerably less.OneMore wrote:Of course, they don't *have* to cost such extortionate amounts.BaggyTrousers wrote:As for cost, they aren't cheap, we have spent about £1500 or so on 4 and running costs, food & insurance etc would be £150 - £200 per month.
I'm in the Big Mervyn supporter of rescue dogs camp. Our collie cross cost £45, and we buy food to the tune of £10 for a 15kg bag every few months, and he gets whatever scraps are leftover on an evening. We get him jagged every so often (every couple of years or so, to date) by a mate in the business who calls it his Christmas present to us. We used to pay a license until one year the council decided they needed paperwork to support the claim he was neutered. I said they were welcome to come and have a feel, but no such paperwork existed. They've never contacted me since, and I haven't contacted them. That was about 3 years ago. Like a clergyman who's trying to be down with the kids he doesn't wear a collar anyway, so seems a nonsense to me.
He lives in the house and casts like feck (though I'm currently winning our hair loss competition, seems he had a somewhat furrier starting point), but you get over it. And try to encourage children not to eat off the floor.
Pet insurance I cannot fathom. I love the wee man, but when his time comes it comes. Not paying some gobshite for the privilege of pocketing my hard-earned.
Farmers, eh? I know one or two, splendid gentlemen by and large Wee Woman but they tend to look on all "God's wee creatures" as either profitable or not. No time for townies sentimental approach to beasts.Wee Woman wrote:I have a rescue collie, rescued from a farmer who had no use for him so was planning to turn a gun on him
He was never going to make it as a working sheepdog but he's the most gentle big bugger who loves his comfort, walks & fetch. Wee Girly had the eyes poked out of him & handfuls of fur trailed out of him when she was a toddler & never once did he react. He sleeps on a mat at the foot of her bed every night. He's the best dog I've ever had.
If you are getting a dog, definitely get them insured from the start. We got a full pay out of nearly £2,000 when the dog did his ACL during the summer, we'd have been stuffed without it.
I believe I may know the fine gentleman to whom you refer.LastKnightoftheproms wrote:I know one who drinks here.BaggyTrousers wrote: I have it on good information they all drink in pubs called "The Culled Badger" or "The Shreaded Fox" or the "Hound with no Head", feckin' charming.
http://www.thesquealingpig.ie/Monaghan
As for the rest of this thread, when there's no Ulster Rugby on this site goes to the dogs.
Yes Merve. Being from farming stock and much as I love our mongrels, I'd not be one for keeping them going on all sorts of medication that they know nothing of other than it giving them a sore tum every day. But I insure purely on the liability front, they've been known to wander on occasion and should they startle a horse or cause a bump on the road, it'll be worth the £50 pa.big mervyn wrote:You've got to have pet insurance.
Mine's got hip dysplasia. Manages very well, but the meds and ongoing treatment run to £60 a month, all paid for by Sainsburys. Then there's 3rd party liability - essential in this increasingly litigious society.
Actually it is an interesting thing the difference between pets and farm animals as sometimes pets are kept going on drugs that if they were a farm animal you could be accused of cruelty for not putting it down, suppose it's a fine line.ColinM wrote:Yes Merve. Being from farming stock and much as I love our mongrels, I'd not be one for keeping them going on all sorts of medication that they know nothing of other than it giving them a sore tum every day. But I insure purely on the liability front, they've been known to wander on occasion and should they startle a horse or cause a bump on the road, it'll be worth the £50 pa.big mervyn wrote:You've got to have pet insurance.
Mine's got hip dysplasia. Manages very well, but the meds and ongoing treatment run to £60 a month, all paid for by Sainsburys. Then there's 3rd party liability - essential in this increasingly litigious society.
I can assure you I regard that as several steps too far.LastKnightoftheproms wrote:Aye Rooster, my wife's uncle in law spent a fortune on chemo for his Jack Russell to get another 9 months. Then had it cremated and he flew back to his home place for the ashes to be sprinkled on the hills around the farm.
There's the humane thing and the human thing. As you say, it's a fine line.