A visit to the Dogs Trust
After 2 years with no dogs (2) when we go off in the caravan, we lost them due to old age and ill health after 15 years. Now after the visit to the trust we have a 9 month old Lurcher and caravan training starts this coming weekend.
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A brindle lurcher boy! Lovely chap, Chris. Our lad is a lurcher as well - greyhound x collie we think. I'd recommend doing some research on sight hounds if you're new to them. We leart a lot from the likes of the Retired Greyhound Trust which helped us understand
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Lovely news, our collie came from the Dogs Trust too. Hope caravan training goes well.
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Had our re-homing meeting this evening with the trust, and Zach is now home, training starts tomorrow!! after a good sniff around the house and garden onto the settee and he went to sleep.
Thanks for that info Tinwheeler will look into it. You are right mouslesy, caravanning is not the same without a dog.
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That's the thing with sight hounds, they do need their own personal settee. Ours has his own and Zach is in the usual sight hound position
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Great choice Chris, hope he takes to 'vanning as well as our new addition, he's been out three times now and loves it. whenever we go out of the gate to go on a walk he stops by the M'home steps thinking we are going away....
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Chris, how has Zachs first night gone?
Good luck with the caravan training.
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No problem, good so far, woke me up at 5.30am, let him out into the garden, did what he had to do, then back to bed. Then at 6.30am took him for his morning walk.
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A well done Chris Zac looks a lovely dog. Wish I could be brave enough to go to the dogs home to choose a dog. We lost our dog just before Christmas and we miss her big time. I know i'd want to bring them all home if I ventured inside...feel so sorry for
them all..how can you choose when they are all looking at you with hope in their eyes. Good luck with Zac...and Zac your one lucky boy to have found a good home.0 -
Lovely dog. He's very like our brindle lurcher type Henry, also from the Dogs Trust. He will want to chase everything that moves fast or makes a noise, bikes, rattly cars, tractors etc. He will spot things that you can't even see such as a pheasant quietly
hiding in a barley field fifty yards from where you and he are standing. We got Henry's dna done (just google dog dna) it cost about £60. Henry is 25% whippet, 25% collie and 50% border collie. Not a trace of greyhound - to the surprise of us and everyone
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A well done Chris Zac looks a lovely dog. Wish I could be brave enough to go to the dogs home to choose a dog. We lost our dog just before Christmas and we miss her big time. I know i'd want to bring them all home if I ventured inside...feel so sorry for
them all..how can you choose when they are all looking at you with hope in their eyes. Good luck with Zac...and Zac your one lucky boy to have found a good home.Write your comments here...You could try a website like Preloved some nice dogs on there needing homes due to the owners changed circumstances. There is a dog out there that needs you
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Got back from Zach's first caravan trip, a caravan rally (with the C&CC) at Gargrave Football Club next to the Leeds / Liverpool Canal, so some good canal side walks. Lots of dogs on the rally, good socialising and all went well even the coffee morning, no problems at all. It's nice to get back into those 7am country walks with a dog!.
He seems to have got the priorities right!!
What's cooking?
I agree with Pippah45, lots of good dogs that need an owner, due to all sorts of circumstances.
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I told you they like their comfort.
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Another rally at Fraisthorpe (Bridlington) field next to the quiet beach, so plenty of off lead training and play time!
The following day the beach was very busy, it was the 'Annual worldwide whippet walk' anyone heard of it? walks in various locations on that day, so the beach was full of whippets, lurchers, greyhounds and their owners!
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Great pics, Chris. Does he do that trick of running straight at you at full speed then veering off at the last moment? You dare not move for fear of colliding with him.
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Great pics, Chris. Does he do that trick of running straight at you at full speed then veering off at the last moment? You dare not move for fear of colliding with him.
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