Breedia Dog Forum
Posting quickly cos I'm busy and got stuck in traffic for over an hour this lunch time, last thing I needed!! But no, there aren't, yet again...
That would take showing right back to it's roots, before Crufts even existed, a nice thought, but I don't think it's going to happen unfortunately,...
Two examples of slightly longer legged, leaner dual champions from yesteryear, when proven ability was a more important part of the equation .........
Replying quickly because I'm multi tasking, house work, work work and baking bread, but no, having chickens and training him to leave them alone...
From a novice gundog person, I'd just add, recall is one of the most basic of commands you need to get in place, use different training scenarios...
Wow, spend a day away and the whole topic's gotten round to the health testing stuff as well, perhaps the thread title should change to Labradors,...
Genetics doesn't say I'm wrong, but you apparently do. Yellow to chocolate does not necessarily produce poor eye pigmentation, because coat colour...
There is no need to be downright rude and provocative, I haven't a clue why you seem to enjoy bullying and baiting people, or whether you're just...
The St John's Dog was bred to retrieve fishing nets in Newfoundland, but the shooting gentry of the time, paid large amounts to bring some of them...
I have to disagree about the spaniels, if you look at any old photos of spaniels, I personally think the working type aren't the ones that have moved...
If so many are far too light in the bone, and weak in the muzzle, how is it then that they are out working, and not all working folk are queuing up...
Chuckle, the main arguments are (not to go into great detail) working labs are snipy faced whippets, and show Labs are overdone and overweight....
A big sheep with pointy ears you mean??
I like you immensely, or at least your post, all brilliant questions ;-) Showing dogs was a way to market your dog initially, before it ever...
I don't see varying shades as wrong, because they're just chocolate, liver, or whatever you want to call it. I don't think you can judge a colour to...
I don't see shades of chocolate as wrong, because unless you genetically test you don't know what your dog actually carries, a darker shade could...
No, you can't ask me, I didn't start this thread to justify myself or my dogs to you personally, if you have a problem with either, then please keep...
Borderdawn, I think that's slightly presumptuous actually, I've never said either of my two have anything the breed lacks overall, but they do both...
Interesting point, and I know that by no means some would find my bitch acceptable because of her pale colouring, actually, many of the photos I have...
No apologies required, a lighthearted aside is always welcome, but sometimes discussions can get taken way off on a tangent with some of the old, old...
