I don’t recall such a thread. But who has a hound in the house? We are thinking of getting one. It will be a first for us and only the second for me since the early 80s. We have been talking about it for a while. Mrs Ash wants one but there are drawbacks aswell as pluses. We noticed a new pup can be quite expensive now since lockdown. I am expecting @oss and @bigmac to say they don’t have one.
had dogs over the years. mostly dobermann pinschers x 4; whippets x2 and a cross breed. but none since my 2nd wife died. that was 13 years ago. word of caution--a lot of so called rescue dogs are in fact wild unsocialised animals rounded up and imported by the lorry load to the UK--for money. its just a business.
Oh, so just a few. I did notice they are importing dogs from Europe at the moment cos of high demand.
our x breed was a feral from southern ireland. put us through months of misery. they are wild animals rounded up--trapped--and caged up for euthanasia--or go into the supply and demand chain. customers think they are getting a vetted pet. its criminal.
ive seen home-bred cross breed pups advertised on facebook sites for big money. its mostly back yard breeders doing it to augment their social security handouts.
Every foreign holiday from the day you get a dog becomes an expensive problem because it is not going with you.
or--in my case--no foreign holidays for 22 years. late wife wouldnt put her dogs into kennels for a holiday.
When we had ours back in the Eighties we put the dog into kennels a couple of times. Seemed to come back with a severe cough each time and snarled if we went near while it ate for a week or so.
The last dog I ever owned was snatched and eaten by some drunkards in the Philippines according to local gossip. Had a few birds of prey as a kid, got a hand-tame budgie and some rabbits now.
Note that I deliberately said 'foreign' try to go on holiday in the UK and you have a whole new set of problems, Caravans are a possibility but a lot of other potential properties will have issues with pets.
Indeed, last time I went camping was 40 odd years ago, but yes a few hotels will accept pets, but a lot won't, important to ask.
The biggest change since I had a dog in the Eighties is or are the dog fouling laws. They didn’t exist back then and we all know the consequences. Dog’s kack everywhere. Those days are pretty much gone. The flip side of course is that as a dog owner now we have to pick it all up! Which brings me to my greatest reservation about having another and have had to explain it in no uncertain terms to Mrs Ash and 7 yo girl. What’s worse is the 7 yo firmly places the responsibility on me! So it’s in the balance right now. 50/50. Do they have dog fouling laws in the Philippines?
We had a Golden Retriever from pup to the age off 16, a wonderful dog, with a young family (which my 3 boys were at the time) became very much part of the family, and had a great family gelling effect with long walks in the countryside for all the family. Gets you out of the house to for exercise as she used to sit there looking at you with big soppy eyes saying "take me for a walk" She is missed and still talked about 8 years on
it can do! see guidelines https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pet-tra...71&gclid=CL70wI-nn-sCFQ8-GwodrrwLrg&gclsrc=ds
We have three dogs, two are Askels the other a Maltese terrier. These are pets but double up as an intruder alarm.
