Bear
Those are some great looking dogs. I love dogs too but we tend to have small ones these days. We have a 15 pound chihuahua (wow!) and a Jack Russell terrier, both are tenacious but the chihuahua is the best dog alarm.

Duncan

Well here’s my contribution, Toby and Copper (also known as angry whopper), litter brothers and opposite in every way.

My wife has a little “yorkie-poo” now, and she’s a cute little thing, but I like labs. My yellow lab, Nikki, had to be put down when she was 13 years old a couple years ago. She was a great dog. 🙁

SB, I’ve always liked Sheppard’s but never owned one, I had a neighbour some years ago a police officer whose work dogs were a Sheppard and Springer, the springer was trained as a bomb dog and I used to give him my old powder cans it always worried me to see the teeth marks in them, he loved his job.
My two are always busy the important thing is to ensure they are busy doing what I want them to do, left to their own devises nothing is safe from being explored.
Copper the liver and white is really my daughters dog, when she is home odd weekends he follows her everywhere and when she goes away he sulks and growls at everyone, she says he’s just purring.

Patrick, I also have a lab, 14 years old hips are bad and one elbow is shot but still gets up in the mornings and wants breakfast, we go for long walks but don’t go very far, he sniffs every blade of grass and bush, be nice if he saw another spring.

Mark.

Pothunter wrote:
Patrick, I also have a lab, 14 years old hips are bad and one elbow is shot but still gets up in the mornings and wants breakfast, we go for long walks but don’t go very far, he sniffs every blade of grass and bush, be nice if he saw another spring.

Mark.

I can relate. They definitely become a family member. Yeah, she had congestive heart failure, could barely see, amongst other things. I didn’t even know dogs could get congetive heart failure until we found out she had it. Which explained why she was ALWAYS panting (near the end).