New Law For Dogs.

[Raven]

Beautiful, all black n tans I see. Mum looks tired but proud. 

[Mups]

Thanks Raven.    The lighter ones are pure sables.  Gold hair with black tips.  I used to love those.

I think we've bored everyone else with this thread now. 

[Raven]

Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind, as the Sgt Major said.

[muddy]

No you haven't bored us , it's an interesting topic 
I wrote a long email re this subject but it erased itself and I could not be @rsed to do it all again ! 

[Scrumpy]

I'm not bored with this thread.. I enjoy looking at the pics and reading about the many dogs that have been around .. in the past
They are all lovely creatures..

[Mups]

Thank you Scrumps. 

January 26, 2025, 01:10:21 PM


You can't see Mum very well,  she is the silver grey one,  playing with her pups.
Bedlingtons are all  black when they are born,  then they begin changing colour after a few weeks old.


January 26, 2025, 01:13:15 PM


Some of my Beddies.

[Mups]

A couple of my all-blacks.  Mother and son.  ' Dot & Duggie'.





January 26, 2025, 01:23:41 PM

This boy loved his 'Mum'  and I always had lots of big kisses!




January 26, 2025, 01:25:54 PM

Last one - honest.

This boy was the love of my life.  The most gentle, kind, devoted dog I ever had.

[muddy]

Beautiful photos Mups 🙂

[Scrumpy]

Lovely memories.. 

[Mups]

Thankyou  Muddy, and Scrumps. 

[dextrous63]

Lovely indeed Mups.

Truth be told, I don't know how you recover from when they pass away.

[Mups]

It hurts very, very deeply Dex.   And I never, ever forget any one of them.

I am dreading anything happening to the two I've got now,  and I am frightened I will probably be too old for another,  and I have never been without dogs around me in my entire life.  I can't imagine it.



January 26, 2025, 07:29:39 PM

Another example of useless laws to protect animals was in today's paper.

A 27 yr old thug of an owner, beat his l6 month old puppy up so badly,  he broke her cheek bone, her jaw bone, and not content with that - he went on to break three of her legs  . . . . and then he dumped her.

Fortunately she was chipped, so this vile specimen of manhood was traced.

His punishment?   An 18 month suspended sentence, banned from keep another, and a piddly £154 victim surcharge.
They also have got him on a 3 month  8am - 8pm electric curfew.   Why the curfew?  He beat the living daylights out at home!

The puppy had to be put to sleep.  The vet said she would have been "in unfathomable pain."

Anyone who can do that to a 6 month old puppy can do it to anything  else, too.

[Cassandra]

Yep,  I understand where you're coming from. 

One of my Shepherds went down to the Met. police once.  He came home again after a while because they couldn't get him to bite!    I told them mine were bred for temperament,  not for biting people.
It's only that this copper was recommended to me that I let him go there in the first place.

I once had a Doberman Pinscher whom had been trained as an attack dog in the South African Diamond mines and he (Bruno) was indeed a fearsome looking creature with massive fangs. However he'd been repatriated to England as although well 'trained' he just wouldn't bite. I took him on aged about 6 and he was a wonderful friend. He would growl frighteningly (Smile was the command) but in the inevitability wouldn't go. He was a very big boy. When our Birman cat had five kittens, he wanted one too and used to steal his favourite from his best friend's basket, who was never the least concerned. He'd then carry it very gently in his huge jaws across to his blanket, where it would snuggle up to him for hours on end. He passed after five years, aged eleven in which time he'd made many friends in my profession and was well known on the circuit. I had him essentially for protection, following an assault where I'd been shot after a court case ended. Although probably technically useless as a guardian within a physical scenario; he looked so evil with his bared teeth and stood up ears that even if he fired 'blanks' he was reassuring to have with you. I recall once he became highly aerated with a Parking Warden in Eton Square and his skin went as taught as metal, as he chewed the recalcitrant jobsworth's hat to shreds. I remember it was full of cardboard, one of his weaknesses I'm afraid! A super dog and a loyal friend always to me. Also capable of weapon grade farts, with no warning issued ...

[Alex]

"Weapon grade farts" one of your best descriptions Cass        Bruno sounds a great companion, even with the farts !

[Cassandra]

"Weapon grade farts" one of your best descriptions Cass        Bruno sounds a great companion, even with the farts !

Couple of pics I found after the post reminded me of him, the bottom on was taken by a lovely lady who was an usher at a Crown Court, with whom he'd reside whilst I was 'appearing'. This was taken after he'd heard somebody outside her flat entrance. He apparently howled and she said it was the most chilling sound she'd ever hard! He loved both her and my late wife to distraction. The breeder who sold me him, said he wouldn't have wanted to test his resignation to bite, had either of them been threatened.

Just the look of him was enough I found, but all the locals at the Pub I used then in Sussex thought the world of him. I hated his poor little snub tail though, so cruel but the 'fashion' then in the 80's, today thank goodness the practice has been outlawed.

The First pic is him with one of our 'rescue foster' cats (they all became permanent residents somehow) he was great mates with all of them and their kits too.