A question for those who actually like dogs.

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What are your favourite breeds?

she's very cute boris, my kids are weird too

BorisTheBold, I love that photo of your three all stacked up on the sofa! Gorgeous :)

I love dogs and am not scared of them and positively do NOT want to slap dog owners who dare to presume to let their dogs off a lead in a wide open country-type space . However, my hands are full with an elderly cat and three very rotund guinea pigs (not to mention 2 x dc and a huge dh) atm, but I might have a dog later on.

I like the medium-sized black and tan curly haired dogs with a beard. What are they? I want to say Airdales but I'm probably wrong.

I also love love love greyhounds.

Thanks Trinity - like your wee specky one!!

Cheers Spider, we've now decided that a collection of whippets should be called a "couch", in the same way you get a "herd" of cows or "flock" of birds - a "couch" of whippets just seems right

Oh yes! English bull terriers. What an amazing animal.

My absolute favourite is a miniature short haired dashchund.

I also like ugly dogs, pugs, british bulldogs etc.

My Bulldog is on my profile, he was a tiny pup then and anything but ugly. In my totally unbiased opinion :o

thanks boris, thats my little grand-daughter

rhodesian ridgeback - soft,friendly and very bright.

Everyones dogs on their profiles are gorgeous. It's making me want a dog now!

Do you think it would be rude of me to askmy family to all chip in to buy me a dog for my 30th?

Aww she's a wee cutie!

Yes public not pubic sorry.

He's lovely Trinity. I love crossbreeds and mongrels.

I love the whippets too.

Actually all of the dogs.

I'm suffering from serious dog withdrawal at the moment though I'll be petsitting a boxer pup soon for two whole weeks. I can't wait.

Proper dogs, do Golden Retrievers, Labs, GSD, Beagle, but my absolute Fave is the Border collie. They are one of the most amazing breeds out there

Loathe ankle biters- having had my ankles bitten by several while I was a papergirl.

i have this breed of dog, a Bernese Mountain dog

I defy anyone to tell me that they are not beautiful. Only downside is they are very shortlived. My girl is now 5 and still in good health...she is warm, loving and affectionate. She comes over, fixes you with brown limpid eyes and places a huge paw on your knee beseeching you to hug her. She would really love to be a lap dog but at circa 8 stone that's a bit of a stretch!

Im not keen on small dogs tbh, but dont mind them. I love my labradoodle though he is like a massive teddy bear

Mine include...

German shepherds
Boxers
Any of the 'bully' breeds really. Bulldogs,Staffies, English bull terriers, mastiffs etc.
Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Italian Spinones
Giant Schnauzer
Standard Poodle
Toy poodle
Pug
Tibetan Spaniel
Wire haired fox terrier
Long haired chihuahua
Italian greyhound
Greyhounds
Borzoi
Pomeranians
Papillions
Airdales
Border terriers
Westies

There are very few breeds that I don't like.

And mongrels of course.

Weimaraner
Scottish deerhound

My favourite breed is the Golden Retriever

then
Border Collie
Border Terrier
Bulldog (ridiculously cute!)

and I'd love a greyhound. They always seem such gentle souls

Weimaranerare beutiful but one nearly killed my puppy a few weeks back and now cant get passed that :(

Love rotties and labs to :) Collies are mad but lush

I'm sorry to hear that Lisa. How is your pup doing now?

labradors
shetland sheepdogs
whippets
border terriers
japanese spitz
samoyed
bearded collies and briards
tibetan terriers

LTBR his doing ok, had lost loads of blood and had punchures to the face a ear but his doing better now and he is still just as friendly. Havent come across another Weimaraner when out with him yet, so hopefully he'll be ok when he does :)

Poor thing. I'm glad it hasn't traumatised him too badly.

Staffies.

I was very anti-staffie before we got our lovely, soppy staffie - I see now why they're are called nanny-dogs. Our staffie Meg loves to run around with dd and play ball, dd feeds her tidbits whenever we aren't looking, they are the best of friends, and Meg is very protective of dd. To the point where Meg will raise the alarm if dd looks like she is thinking of opening the garden gate to bugger off disappear. She sees any strange dog or unknown adult as a potential threat to dd and tries to be brave. This would be easier if she weren't the kind of dog to be slightly intimidated by cats, and on one memorable occasion, the kind of well 'ard staffie that ran away from a fence panel that made a slight noise when the wind blew...