DOG

[BigV]

We had a Malamute once, they're very high energy dogs. They howl, not bark. A good dog, but I don't think I'd have another one.

[DanaC]

I wouldn't make a very good Malamute owner, I don't think. They're the kind of dog that needs to know its person is indisputably in charge. I mean, all dogs need to know you are the leader, to feel safe, but Malamutes need that more than most. Add that to the very high energy levels, and it can be a bit of a disaster for all concerned, if they find themselves in the wrong household. I think they do best with a family, especially if there are a couple of youngsters about to help soak up that energy.

Gorgeous dogs though. The less rational part of me would adore one :P

[Carruthers]

We've been entertaining our neighbour's Viszla for a few hours a day recently.
The social distancing rules and regs are observed as the neighbour lets the dog go at the top of our drive and she makes her own arrangements from there.



Apologies for it being slightly out of focus, but it's what we hip young things know as a selfie.

[DanaC]

Awwww, man, Viszlas are beautiful dogs. There are a couple of them round about the village. One of them has a real thing for Carrot - always comes over to say hi.

They always look to me like they could sit right between a Weimaraner and a Rhodesian Ridgeback in looks.

I have a particular fondness for the wirehaired vizsla - which you don't see many of, I think I have probably only ever met 2 or 3 my whole life.

[Griff]

Pete's cousin has always had them. They are really smart trainable dogs.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I have a particular fondness for the wirehaired vizsla - which you don't see many of, I think I have probably only ever met 2 or 3 my whole life.

I don't think that I have set eyes on even one example of the breed.

I wonder, do you ever watch Countryfile?

Adam Henson has two of the wirehaired variety.

There's more about them and his other dogs here:

LINK

[xoxoxoBruce]

Great idea...

[Happy Monkey]

Have you seen this dog?

[Griff]

I have.

[BigV]

I have now.

[fargon]

I saw several Dogs until it showed a Hyena then the pictures stopped coming.

[xoxoxoBruce]

10 months of sweat equity...

[Carruthers]

From the Obituary of Sir John Birch, Ambassador to Hungary.

Political visitors included Margaret Thatcher, six Cabinet Ministers and, in 1994 for a conference, the Prime Minister John Major.

Major arrived in Budapest with a heavy cold and was comforted in the British Residence by the attentions of Birch’s two handsome Hungarian Vizsla dogs, Flora and Daisy.
He was dreading the formalities of the conference, particularly the concluding lunch, and asked Birch to find some pretext on which to extract him from it after an hour.

Birch duly arranged for his Counsellor to bring him a note which he would pass to the Prime Minister, who would then make his apologies.
The note duly arrived and Birch, without reading it, passed it on. Major unfolded it and held it at arm’s length.
In large letters, clearly legible to the heads of state and government around him, it read: “Prime Minister: Time for walkies, Flora and Daisy”.

LINK

[Carruthers]

Jenson, a Border Collie from Somerset, has a lookalike playmate, Margo-a five-month-old Guinea Pig

One for Benny!

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

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One for Benny!

All rodents are food according to Benny.