just for fun - dog breeds!

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Catherine Williams — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:01:35 GMT

NFCs are getting more common. They're very handsome, haven't met a dodgy tempered one yet and my 2 have so much personality...but they are probably the 2 most demanding cats in my house - and there is nothing they wont climb - Avi loves to see how far he can get round the room without getting below head height - he's a rather petite NFC and walks along the water pipe 12" below the ceiling....I've given up worrying, he bounces if necessary....

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Bob Russell — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:46:34 GMT

We now have a 2 yr old GSD. Not a breed I would have gone for until we rescued an old blind one. He was great fun but nothing compared to this one. He is magic with children (frightens the parents!!) and as close to bomb-proof I have ever known despite years of keeping different breeds.

The greatest risk from him - being knocked over - he is clumsy!

He will be a very difficult act to follow

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Vikki Halliday LLB — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:40:13 GMT

I'm currently swithering between getting a Maine Coon or a Ragdoll. But I have to say NFC's are also ace, but bit rare up here.

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Catherine Williams — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:26:56 GMT

Norwegian Forest Cats!

love Maine Coon but my boy is rather dim

My NFC boys charm everyone they meet, are active + playful (though terrible thieves) and really affectionate.... and they worship my dogs!

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sandra taylor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:20:46 GMT

If we are doing cats too... british short hair and Maine coon are my fav

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chrisdj — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:25:20 GMT

Can we continue this thread for cat breeds??? I love dogs but do not have the space or ambition for one...

However I love and own a Siamese!

Some people I know will say I have met my match...

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sandra taylor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:49:20 GMT

Mine is the CKC, I did have one once and she was fab. Have yet to meet a nasty one too.

I also love pugs. I like Jugs(cross jack russell/pug and also I saw for the first time last week a puggle, which is a cross beagle/pug.

I currently have a jack russell, 2 rottweilers, and 3 cats one of which is a british short hair....rescue I might add, and she has no breathing difficulties as her nose is not so flat that she cant breathe.

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Amie Glaves — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:47:02 GMT

I've just got my first ever dog - an 8w old English Pointer and he's gorgeous! Every other breed I fancied has a list of inherited conditions as long as your arm. As far as I have read, Pointers can get epilepsy, atopy, cherry eye and hip dysplasia.

Interestingly enough, my neighbour is looking for a small, furry toy breed and asked for my recommendations. As much as I think a Cavvie (? spell!) would suit them down to the ground, she would never forgive me for the lifetime of MVD medication it will no doubt need!

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svn — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:09:46 GMT

My soft spot is Border Collies. Especially the hyper drive 'worky' ones, that try and herd anything that moves! I'm rubbish at behaviour though, and have poor complience with training, so should probably never be allowed to own one!

At the moment I have a loopy BC cross - we think with corgi (hmmm - a collgi perhaps? a border corgi? ) - she looks like a short haired BC with the legs chopped off, plus a curly tail, and the big corgi neck. She is ace - just loves everyone, and no behaviour problems apart from a tennis ball fixation!

I quite like the teeny tiny JRTs, and staffies are lovely too.

As a rule I can't be doing with little dogs (teeny tiny JRTs excepted )

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salome2001 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:26:11 GMT

If I was to get a dog with kids, I'm sticking in another vote for the CKCS. For older kids, a greyhound.

However, as hubby informed me last week after 6 years of marriage that he can't stand dogs, both seem unlikely to happen any time soon!

(Luckily he has no such bias against cats, though my love of Devon Rexes is definitely not shared)

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Fiona French — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:36:56 GMT

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Shih Tzu - look absolutely daft, but great in every other respect.

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I have a hole in my finger from a shih-tzu I met today! No redeeming features at all!

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Edward Jones — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:23:48 GMT

Shih Tzu - look absolutely daft, but great in every other respect.

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Jenny Smith — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:29:35 GMT

I own a boxer, even though I should know much better, especially as my last one had DCM. They're a very addictive breed, you have one and you can't have any other dog! I do also have a secret soft spot for pugs, it's the fact they're so so ugly that makes them so so cute. Cavvies are pretty high on my list as well - they seem to be such a sweet mild mannered breed

Jenny

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Lucy K — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:44:27 GMT

Hmph! I've met several nasty cavaliers, and I wasn't even in a vet clinic at the time! I wonder are they picking up on my prejudicial vibe!

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Michelle Tapp — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:07:56 GMT

I think the best family dog is the Cavalier! I also have rarely seen a nasty one - they're about the one breed you can spoil rotten, do all the wrong things (ie sleep in your bed, have curled up on your lap all day, feed from the table) and get away with it! As long as they're insured to the max for life then they're brill!

I see the Pug is mentioned a lot and though I haven't met lots of them, I've found the ones I have absolutely full of character!

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Colin Cameron — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:23:46 GMT

[quote user="Rob Reid"]I have to confess that I too like a nice Cavalier. I have yet to meet a nasty one,[/quote]

I actually met a nasty one last year! The one and only in 30 years of practice

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Catherine Williams — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:14:54 GMT

Personally, in love with Italian Spinoni, they're such great dogs , go anywhere, do anything (eat anything?!) and love everybody. However you do get fed up with explaining that they are not labradoodles. I did think that they were a healthy + unspoilt breed but one of mine has atopy and IBD and the other is hypothyroid with a pulmonic valve murmur and KCS so maybe not so good....or maybe that's just the vet's dog effect.

Really like deerhounds and wolfhounds but my bed's not big enough and I want more than 7yrs with a dog, love flatcoats but can't face the tumours, have a soft spot for Bullies but they are just wrong (but so many lovely characters), fancy a husky but just don't have the energy (I need a dog with an off switch)!

I wander around Crufts either listing the numerous health problems or "I'd love one but....", I can find something to love in most breeds but I have to say some of the little clutch to the bosom types are just too much of a challenge (and the owners always seem to feel that just because he's small it's funny when he tries to take your fingers off )

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Lucy K — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:53:38 GMT

Woohoo, I'm totally with you on the wirehaired Viszla Claire. They are absolutely fabulous dogs.

I have to say I have a major soft spot for Newfoundlands and Bernese mountain dogs.

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Claire York RVN MBVNA — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:45:09 GMT

I'm ashamed to say it but Pugs, Boston Terriers, French Bulldogs, Chinese Crested Dogs and Wirehaired Hungarian Vizslas

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Vikki Halliday LLB — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:31:20 GMT

I'm partial to a pug, inspite of their terrible affliction for Tiacil and corneal flaps, and also a bit of a closet Cavalier fan, in spite of their inherited vetmedin deficiency.

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emma o'connor — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:09:24 GMT

Despite all the obvious breed related faults I'm another fan of the pug, cavalier and the minnie wirehaired dachshund, all three of which my other half has refused ever to be seen in public with!!!!!!

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Kirsten Simpson — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:39:59 GMT

I love the really ugly stupidly bred breeds such as my top three of:

Pugs

Boston Terriers AND

French Bulldogs.

All are amazing! So ugly and badly bred but pretty good personalities

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Rebecca MacMillan — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:06:19 GMT

I think Irish wolfhounds and deerhounds are lovely, as are Newfoundlands and St Bernards. I also quite like boxers even though most of them are crazy!

And on the other end of the scale, some pugs can be quite sweet!

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Tim Cheyne — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:06:50 GMT

Whippets are marvellous dogs but very much 'one man'. They look thoroughly miserable in company of anyone else. The same goes for the Salukis, or 'Desert Dogs' that we get out here. I have heard people say that greyhounds make good pets but have never owned one myself.

Tim.

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Mary Thomson — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:47:17 GMT

I am also a closet cavalier king charles fan......shhhhhh!