hawkthescoobslayer

Chester

JimmyRB5PRO

a mate had one and before they knew what to call it it got used to coming when people shouted Oi ( dont know how to spell it) but u know what i mean !
Ours is a black lab so it got called Merlot ........lol..

Buckrogers

Handy though, when you need to give them medication!
Our's cracked his k9 tooth, became infected and had to be removed (£440 lighter! ). Still he loved his anti-biotics (SP?). Big round red pill takes it right out of my hand and eats it!

Brendan Hughes

Lucky you! Our one that just passed away (bless 'im) was an expert with the nose. We'd feed him his dinner (dry biscuit buttons) and scrape some of our leftovers into it occasionally, mixing them in well. After five minutes you'd see the bowl polished clean except for six peas sitting folornly around the edge.

Buzzer

So c'mon Brendan, have you at least got a shortlist now

Brendan Hughes

Shortlist makes us sound organised , but I can see a definite gravitation towards Jasper...

Buzzer

andypugh2000

Frankie (four fingers)

andy

Brendan Hughes

And the winner is...










Tucha! (pronounced TOO-chah).

It's the Russian name for a rain/storm cloud. He's a little grey bundle of trouble - who at present leaves wet patches where they aren't wanted - so we thought it was quite appropriate.

He almost had Jasper, but we thought the name of a red-brown stone wasn't so apt for a grey dog, and he almost had Zippy, as the irregular line of fur on his neck makes him look like a stuffed toy that hasn't been fully zipped up , but in the end we settled for Tucha.


....but thanks to all for the suggestions!!

Brendan Hughes

Hoping this (cameraphone) pic works...

Markus

A rather fitting name then, and the picture does show a rather lovely wee grey beastie.

So how is he doing, apart from the wet patches? Penchant for soap?


If I'm a really good boy I might get to play with Maggie and Tia later this month

Alas

He obviously needs a **** as his legs are crossed
He looks really cool & cute.
My red psycho dog was never either. Just thick/mad/obstreporous and a thief. At present in his bed are 1 lead, 4 shoes(assorted), 1 padded shirt and 9 stone of slobber(him).
Alas

RobJenks

These dogs are fantastic.
I love them.
We had one a while ago , but unfortunately he was run over by accident when my young daughter took him for a walk.
Not many dogs can catch a hare - mine did and he ate it . The lot.
He went a bit strange after that .
Always perfectly behaved with the family , but was always looking for a fight.
I remember taking him out for a walk on Epsom Downs - Why did I ever leave?
We had a massive snow storm overnight -must be back in 1978 and snow had drifted over a metre - He totally lost it. He'd drive into a drift - and then jump out above it .Then dive back in . Had a massive grin on his face.
We called him Ali.

Brendan Hughes

Obstreporous is certainly one word - he's a real cocky sod. I said he was called Tucha, but Tucha-no seems to be his usual moniker. How the hell do you train these things? He's found his bark and hackles already, quite impressed with that

No soap yet, but absolutely loves concrete and plaster - and as the house has been re-finished outside recently, there's enough of that lying around. Little bugger even started to gnaw a small patch out of the living room wall! Also views flowerbed bark chippings as a delicacy - can't get enough of them - and soil, so he raids the indoor plantpots. Slightly worrying also is his taste for silicone mastic, but that's less pronounced, and although I thought silicone is poisonous, I'm sort of hoping that once mastic is set it is inert, more or less. Still, I try to keep him away from it.

He's a few days short of 3 mths old, and weighs about 9 kilos now. We'll be taking his tail off soon (I feel a bit sorry, but they do look remarkably weak, and I know they're hell to mend if/when injured) and vaccination timetable is set so he should be allowed his first day out on Christmas Day!

Brendan Hughes

Rob - first time we introduced our weimaraner (different one) to snow, he couldn't understand it. Threw a stick, and he wasn't sure what to do. Eventually he worked out that if he ate enough of it, it would reveal the stick

We want to take this one up to the mountains to try to show him snow this year

bigsinky

what about duncan or dunc for short.

Buckrogers

Ours loves licking concrete floors. Does not have a taste for plaster, thank god! It's difficult but you have to keep an eye on them as much as possible and tell the little fellow off if he is up to no good. Apparently you should keep all commands to one syibol (SP?). Raise you voice when they are being bad, shouting "NO". If they do it again straight away give him a smack, not too hard, depends on the size of the dog. I swear Harveys backside is made of iron! He knows now when he is doing wrong. Generally he is pretty good now.

He is 6 months old now and approx 28 Kilos. He is going to be a big dog!
Oh, if he is a Dog and you are thinking about getting him "done" this apparently stunts (SP?) their growth? We were going to, but not now we have heard this.

The only thing he does occasionaly do which really annoys me, is eat his own sh!te.....

Brendan Hughes

We've smacked him so many times we're expecting Social Services to knock on the door...

Flatcapdriver

Try throwing a snowball then. The dog's response will be the full scooby doo "huh?" shrug...

Very funny to watch.

Alas

Cos ours was a rescue he had to be retrained. I've had dogs all my life but this one did the opposite of what you want all the time. You could hit him and he did'nt seem to feel pain at all - just came back for more. Woman in the kennels (where we put him when we need time off) introduced us to bribery. I was dead set against it but have found he now wants to please (most of the time) and is no problem. He's still mental and goes off on one frequently but now knows when to stop as a frolic will be winging his way. These are great things as its only dog food but we've got him convinced they are treats
Trick was rewarding him at the right time eg for sitting down and not for nicking a jumper/trousers/underwear/remote control/mobile/toilet roll/shoes/yucca plant
Alas

wah

Lol and I thought it was just ours that was just retarded, he has no pain barrier and when you give him that stare ( you know the one ) he fookin snarles at you and grumbles, he will eat anything in site great fun picking **** up that has chrisp packets, babywipes and other various things he has consumed.

Buckrogers

Sorry, if the dog is snarling at you, at that point he needs to be told who is boss. The dog needs to know who is "top dog". Dogs are pack animals, you need to show no weakness and who is leader of the pack.

So far, Harvey, has only snarled a few times at me. Noramly, whne he is lying on his back. I just ignore him!

Buckrogers

Do you smack him straight after the "offence"?

G-STAR

I'd have gone with Thumper.
(Another shameless 'Little Britain' comment)

Daft Lad

What about Steve? Steve the dog.

Markus

Brendan,
Lol, he's a right little devil then, lovely. Am told that ickle Jack is now back with Suzy, so that means I've got three buggers to play with! I'm told he's totally laid back though, unlike the girls, so this could be fun

As for snow, yeah, I remember taking Mag out in the snow, she went crazy, but loved it. I recall building a snowman and her wanting to eat it lol

As for training, well, patience, and a hell of a lot of it! No, as you well know by now seems to be a common word I don't think Maggie has ever learnt that if you sleep by the open fireplace embers will fall on you and will burn your fur. Dozy hound!

Keep us posted on the lil chaps progress.

Oh and if anyone hadn't noticed, I'm a sucker for weims

wah

ok then Buck you come round to our house and try and sort him out I would like to see you try !!!, as for telling him who's boss trust me don't think I'm some kind of light hearted dog person because I'm not I know how to put a dog in it's place and he just doesn't give a ****

Karl 227

Car Park

Alas

Hi m8
as you probably read in my previous post our rescue dog was exactly the same as yours (except for the snarling). He would try to stare you out, wanted to play all the time very roughly and would'nt stop when told.
You could hit him as hard as you want- did'nt feel it
You could shut him out - went to sleep for 10 mins then started again
You could shout till you were hoarse - did'nt care
etc etc
He only did it with me though (not the wife) obviously thinking I was the competition in the house. He was close to being put down which would have been terrible but he was driving me spare. You could'nt do what the experts say which was ignore him when he started as he weighs 9 stone and is extremely fit.
Eventually after the woman who owned the kennels told me how she dealt with him he started to get better. Rewards for doing things right. Walking away before the mayhem started as I was obviously the trigger for him. Lots of other things too. Suffice to say it worked. He's still mad, scary, stupid, stubborn, slobbery & obnoxious but at least he now does as he's told most of the time.
Still scares the absolute sh*t out the postman though
Alas

Buckrogers

Oh dear!

Have you got a "kennel"? When he is bad stick him in the kennel for 5 to 10 mins. We made "Harveys" kennel a good and bad place to go for him. He gets treats a night in the kennel, because at the moment, thats where he sleeps at night. When he is bad and uncontrollable he gets dragged into the kennel with nothing in it and left for 5 mins, then let out.

As above, when he is good reward him.

I am far from any expert, we seem to be lucky with ours, he is turning out to be pretty good. If only I can stop him from eating his own sh!te!