To think this kid has been photoshopped

[Flymetothetoon]

Onto the photo to give the appearance that the dog is not on a puppy farm?
Other photo on the add shows the dog with puppies in a barn style setting with a heat lamp.

There can be kids on puppy farms

Fox red seems to be all the rage for labs now doesn’t it? Even the slightly ginger yellow ones are having and extra £500 slapped on their price for the latest fashion. People are strange

I don't know about photoshopped, but it certainly doesn't look as if the dog and the child had any relationship. Why is the dog on a short lead?

When I was young, fox red Labs were considered an abberation! You couldn't give them away! Now, because they are slightly less common, they are 'sought after'. Tch. Still just Labradors.

Yes like silver labs! Now costing a fortune and ruining the breed breed lines!

Fox red lines are traditionally maintained by the shooting set (Although still much rather than blacks) and usually bred from working types not show types. From the right breeders they are the most beautiful athletic creatures!

I've never seen a show-type lab that's fox red, I believe they all come from working stock don't they, where colour never really mattered as much as body type and health?

Silver labs are the new "thing" though they're controversial in themselves as many people believe they're not "natural" and had to have been mixed with Weimaraners to achieve the colour.

I don't think they are mixed with wiemraners I think its a faulty black gene

Come on people, stop buying bloody puppies please!!

Plenty of lovable dogs at rescues (even puppies now apparently )

We've had our rescue dickhead for 8 years now and she is the love of my life (don't tell dh...fuck it, pretty sure he knows)

No training/toilet accidents in the house either! Skipped that bit whoop.

My friend has outside kennels with heat lamps for their dogs. I dont think a puppy farm would bother with heat lamps. My toddler also used to try grabbing my dogs tail. Its what they do, I told her not to of course, but my dog never ever flinched. I dont see photoshppped at all

I “photoshop” for a living and I’d say the photo is legit. The kid is fair, white hair and light clothes. Pair this with a strong light source, it will make the kid stand out (and lose contrast and look different) in comparison to the rest of the elements.

I would only have my dogs as puppies when the kids were small, so I knew what I was getting! And rescues wouldn't let me adopt as I didn't own my own home.

Ended up getting a four month old pup that the owners couldn't keep and he turned out to be the best dog ever. Then got our terrier as a pup from local breeder. Current dog was also bred by friends (working dog).

Rescues aren't always the answer. They can have problems that you can't deal with in a family situation. But I agree that puppy farms should be wiped off the face of the earth and anyone who wants a puppy should go to a REPUTABLE breeder only.

If anything needed to be photoshopped it is the man and the rope lead, he actually makes the child seem more urchin-esque than he/she is.

I don't think it's photoshopped. I think the child has bent down to gently stroke the tail rather than grab it. But the dog looks a bit tired, heavy tears and doesn't look quite like the red fox labs I've seen. And I would be put off by his dirty appearance. If your gut tells you this isn't right, then don't waste the time going.

Either way, photoshopped or not, it's more than likely just someone with dogs breeding for extra finacial gain. Adopt dont shop!!!

@ITonyah

I don't think they are mixed with wiemraners I think its a faulty black gene

It's quite a controversial topic though isn't it?

I don't know what to believe, there are arguments on both sides. It's just interesting how you never, ever saw silvers until recently and now people are charging huge sums of money for them, whereas fox reds always existed, they were just mainly confined to shoots and farms.

I mean, to me the breed is irrelevant so long as the dog is healthy and well-bred, but I don't think the type of people who specifically breed dogs with faulty genes (or dogs mixed with Weims, whichever you want to believe) in order to get a litter of rare silver pups are going to be the most scrupulous of people!

INTERESTING DISCOVERY..
using the original pic op posted and some wizardry the picture bounced back to Google as not an original picture.. It bounces to op's thread only...
*not an actual wizard just used some tech teens showed me!!

@CaptainButtock

Come on people, stop buying bloody puppies please!!

Plenty of lovable dogs at rescues (even puppies now apparently )

We've had our rescue dickhead for 8 years now and she is the love of my life (don't tell dh...fuck it, pretty sure he knows)

No training/toilet accidents in the house either! Skipped that bit whoop.

The problem with this is lots of people try and rescue but are turned down for rather spurious reasons. Making people feel bad for buying puppies doesn't really help anyone.

Lots of rescues have super-strict requirements and they don't always help themselves. We've been turned down because we work (even though I can take the dog to work with me, or it can be looked after at my in-laws if we're out for long periods), because our garden is apparently too small (even though we live within 20 minutes from several beaches, nature reserves and a national park) and because we have cats.

Of course rescuing is great but rescue dogs often come with issues too - it's not always the easy, straightforward option people like to make it out to be.

There are many small rescues with more common-sense criteria than some of the big ones.

@Palladin

There are many small rescues with more common-sense criteria than some of the big ones.

No rescue within an hour of us would consider us - both large and small, and I hear lots of people saying the same thing.

I do think rescues have lots of blanket rules that cause more problems than they solve.

And fake grass. Whoever they are they clearly don't care about their appearance, the dog, the child or their garden. I'd give them a wide berth if I was you.

Yuck the state of his trousers!

My thought, knowing little about photoshopping: So, there's a shadow between the man's feet indicating a light source from the left.... Where's the dog's shadow?

Yep...our local rescue were a massive pita (as verified by numerous other people)

The Blue Cross, however, were fabulous.

And admittedly we could've got very lucky with ours as she was our first....who knows?

Dog's tail looks like part attached to dog, two separate squares of tail texture, one under each giant toddler hand...more tail?