We have an Irish Setter, Pizza, and an English Springer Spaniel, Fionnula. Both love chasing the seagulls on the beach and are known by name by the dog catcher in town. The kids would take them on the beach for a run, but the dogs were out of sight in no time and we would have to pile in the car and drive to the other end of the island to get them. They are to old to do that trick now, but still love the beach and the water.

Lulu

Enigma...love it!

lulu4804:

We have an Irish Setter, Pizza, and an English Springer Spaniel, Fionnula. Both love chasing the seagulls on the beach and are known by name by the dog catcher in town. The kids would take them on the beach for a run, but the dogs were out of sight in no time and we would have to pile in the car and drive to the other end of the island to get them. They are to old to do that trick now, but still love the beach and the water.

Lulu

Enigma...love it!

Hey, Lulu Lombard, Happy Maw's Day to ya and a special "woof" to Pizza and Fionnula (love the names).

Must confess, I had a lovely apricot miniature poodle in my younger days, name of "Noelle."  Smart, lively dog, but delicately bred, perhaps overbred?  Don't think I'd take on one again.  More drama than a day in the Poli Forum when meds have been overlooked and not enough Happy Coffee consumed.  ;)

Currently I have two terrible twin tomcats sneaking up on age 14, foolish and energetic as kittens.  I love dogs but nowadays tend to focus my attention on 2-legged hounds instead.

;)

Hetty 

Thanks Hetty, everyday is Mother's Day.

I took the two woofers down the beach with their Frisbees after I posted.  They have been a ton of fun to have around, they were so naughty I had to enroll them in doggy military academy. Fionnula had two litters before she was fixed, I was cross-eyed during those times, and the kids loved every minute of it.

Yep, Mother's Day is everyday.

Lulu

lulu4804:

Thanks Hetty, everyday is Mother's Day.

I took the two woofers down the beach with their Frisbees after I posted.  They have been a ton of fun to have around, they were so naughty I had to enroll them in doggy military academy. Fionnula had two litters before she was fixed, I was cross-eyed during those times, and the kids loved every minute of it.

Yep, Mother's Day is everyday.

Lulu

Happy mother's day to Fionnula too.

;)

Hetty 

I'm having a nostalgic moment.....

Lived close enough to my elementary school to be able to walk every day. There was a collie named Bosco who lived next door to me. Every day after school he would lay on the concrete steps in front of his house and wait for me to turn the corner to my house. That very minute he saw me he would jump up and gallop down the street to greet me. I would walk him back to his house, spend time with him and leave him laying on his steps again. I always wondered how the dog would just stay there and not stray off.

BTW, his owner Barry was HOT!  

 ET

Why are "hunting dogs" named Blue? 

Collies have been down at conformation dog shows as well.

It's sad how breeders have all but destroyed the breed.The nose on a collie looks as though it went through a pencil sharpener.That in turn helped cause an eye problem in collies as they are very suceptable to cataracts and blindness.

Same goes for the colors of collies.I seldom see a standard collie that is mahogany anymore,or even a tri color.Now they are mottled with every imaginable color there is.

Tears ago breeders did a good job by breeding to set standards of various breeds.Today though,they just screw the standards up.

Ray 

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 ET

Why are "hunting dogs" named Blue? 

He was half beagle, half blue-tick, thus blue in color.

Berner:

Collies have been down at conformation dog shows as well.

It's sad how breeders have all but destroyed the breed.The nose on a collie looks as though it went through a pencil sharpener.That in turn helped cause an eye problem in collies as they are very suceptable to cataracts and blindness.

Same goes for the colors of collies.I seldom see a standard collie that is mahogany anymore,or even a tri color.Now they are mottled with every imaginable color there is.

Tears ago breeders did a good job by breeding to set standards of various breeds.Today though,they just screw the standards up.

Ray 

I believe you mentioned you judged dogs, or is my memory faulty. 

ET, 

Thanks for the info on Blue

Here's an interesting description on the breed 

You don't need it - but there may be others like me 

Till I was enlightened, I wouldn't have known.

I glad I asked.