Crufts

[bitsnknots]

Is anyone watching Crufts on Channel 4?  There's some lovely dogs on this year.

[ed_blackadder_1]

We watched the agility they were so faat.

[bitsnknots]

I agree ed.  The agility dogs are brilliant.

[soppysofty]

Hopefully a 'proper' dog will win it this year, that black lab is gorgeous!

[ilove2patch]

A Standard Poodle won BIS last year. 

[5129frederick]

Nah - we 'ad more than enough of 'em at work!   MCP am I not 

[dark_castle1]

Would not know as had no television since early evening Saturday and will likely not have any viewing until Monday evening if we are lucky.

Already missing the Quest channel.

[bitsnknots]

Sorry that you've had no telly DC. 

Must admit that I like that black lab as well.  I see the supervet is on tonight.  

[5129frederick]

How terrible about the Cruft's poisonings

We had an alsatian out in Cyprus (Nicosia) which we bought to stop the peasants stealing the washing off the line.  He was so good at his job, the doctor refused even to get out of his car let alone walk up to the house unless my late mother would lock him into one of the rooms and accompany him into the house, and yet so dependable was he my father made a very small ladder on which I'd climb onto his back and ride him like a pony.  Nobody was allowed to speak to him in Greek which heightened his job even more.  Unfortunately he was just too good a guard dog.  The same fate befell him.  Sadly I can't remember anything about him.  People are very wary of the alsatian, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with the breed - there is no dangerous breed.  It's down 100% as to how a dog is raised and controlled.  Not once did he grownl at any of us.

[cee-dee]

Although that's usually true, dogs can be like people.

A family can all be really nice people......... except for one! (The Black Sheep?) Never been raised any different from the others but has been bad from early times and grew up to be a most obnoxious adult.

Some dogs can be like that too. No matter how you deal with them, they'll suddenly bite or be aggressive for no reason.

Alsatians (I can't get on with "German Shepherd") are very intelligent, protective and loyal but you wouldn't want to argue with a "nasty" one?

As to the poisonings at Crufts, the reaction by the owners seems very strange. I think I'd want maximum coverage and the perpetrator found then severly dealt with. The attitude and reaction of Crufts seems to be very defensive to me?

[2017clearout]

I always get on very well with dogs, who seem to take to me - but I was bitten on the face as a child by an Alsatian, and I have never really liked them since.  I was walking on the pavement, and it bounded out from a garden and just sunk its choppers into my cheek.  Perhaps it just didn't like my frock?  Anyway, I tend to avoid them where possible now - I know they can be incredibly well trained, and can be very talented working dogs, but I just don't like them.

That red setter who was poisoned was a beautiful dog: I simply don't understand what has gone on, though - there seems to be more and more cases coming to light, and yet apparently, no-one has yet asked the police or the Kennel Club to look into it (according to the papers today, anyway)

[captainbovine]

funny that the same thing happened to me, I was feeding him a bone (his owner said it was OK) when he opted for me and took a chunk out of my cheek.

I don't mind them, I have a very relaxed attitude to dogs because I love them....

I cannot abide cruelty to animals, and I think the Kennel Club should look into this poisoning more thoroughly, it's terrible, and that guy in the car park punching the dog...gggrrrr what I wouldn't do to him if I met him.....

[bitsnknots]

I think that there was something in the paper either yesterday or today which said that the food was still in the dog's stomach when they did the autopsy so I take it to mean that it happened after Crufts.

[2017clearout]

I've just seen something too, books, in the paper, that said he was actually poisoned back home in Belgium - it's all very odd, and so sad that it's the poor dogs that suffer as a result of idiotic people's stupid pride.  Or whatever it is that makes someone thinking that poisoning a dog is a good idea 😞

[bitsnknots]

Pride is a terrible thing Hefzi I agree.  How anyone could do that, I just do not know.

[myraandjim]

IF it was poisoned back home in Belgium there is a chance that it could have been accidental, people maybe putting out poison for foxes etc? I thought that food took 7 to 10 hours to go through a dogs system (could be wrong) so to know that it was in chunks of meat must mean that the food wasn't even digested when the autopsy was done. So sad whatever happened.