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Loved it! Thank you piperspal! :D

He is too adorable! Love all the pictures of his ears going every which way! Looks like he is keeping you very well entertained! :D

and make millions of dollars playing American football!

Yep my Boxer boy does it too when someone pats him, almost as if he likes the patting soooo much he just can't stand on his own four feet! :laugh:

What was the reason why you stopped training your dog? I started volunteering at the club and so stopped taking my dog because he was in classes that started an hour and a half after i had to be there and i didn't want to leave him in the car all that time. I should add thought that he was allowed to be out with me but i wasn't comfortable with that. Do you feel your dog is well trained enough? He is trained enough (and extremely easy to live with) for my own standards! :D Did you not get results from previous training attempts? We had fantastic result's from previous training after we found the right club for us. Is training too far away/ too often/ too expensive? Yes for the particular training club i would like to go to it is a little too far. It wasn't an issue in the past but now that Bomber is at a level where i think he doesn't need training and we simply do it because he likes it, i feel it is a little too far. Are you simply too busy? No! Just lazy! :laugh: Did you find training boring? Not at all. What would prompt you to start training again or would you not start training again regardless? I would love to start training again but it comes down to time and cost's at the moment.

The photo's are pure gold Hort's! The last one gave me a good giggle! He does look really offended! :laugh:

So sorry to hear of Atlas's passing Teebs.

Ahmazing photo's! The Eagle Ray looks so majestic. I think i would want to touch everything. It all looks so tactile and i would be fascinated and want to see how it feels! Which is a little weird and probably totally not on! :laugh:

Gawd Trina i can understand you being shook up, very scary! Not only the thought of having someone walking around your property but have they got into the house, and what about Bruno. I would have been beside myself! Glad to hear your neighbour was vigilant. And don't worry Bomber is more of a love not a fighter too. He will always bark at people if they come into the front yard but is all over them for pats once they are in the house. One can only hope if people did try to break in that they would initally be scared off by him barking and carrying on and not actually make it into the back yard or house! :laugh:

Fair enough Padraic and ofcourse you are entitled to your opinion. I made the mistake of thinking that you were talking about all pig hunting dogs. But again i don't think that what they showed on the 7:30 report was true representation of all of the pig hunting community.

No, I wouldn't say. A dog that has had its prey drive activated and sated on prey larger than a child, that has been encouraged to bring prey down and that has mauled and torn at that prey and that cannot (due to inadequate socialisation) differentiate between a pig, a child and other animals is going to be a lot more likely to harm a child than "any type of dog". The use a dog is put to and its level of socialisation with people are two key factors in what makes a dog dangerous to humans. To pretend otherwise is to ignore that socialisation and experience as as important as genetics in making any dog what it is. There are many pig dogs that are as safe as houses with kids. But they know what kids are. If you do not allow a dog to form a bond with other humans (or small humans) and you encourage it to attack any and everything it sees, then that is a dangerous dog and the attack statistics support it. Generally i agree with you. But i still think it is scare mongering to say things like - (and yes i am paraphrasing) "oh no, the dog might end up living next to a child". Really? And? Any number of dogs might end up living next door to a child. So should we be worried about all dogs? I just think it was an extremely silly and short sighted statement that i felt i couldn't let pass. Maybe you know people that use dogs for pig hunting so you know they don't socialise with kids, adults, all and sundry. But i always thought that most (obviously not all, because there are bad dog owners in every kinds of groups of people) kept the dogs as pets as well as using them for pig hunting. I am happy to be corrected in that regard. I would also have thought that being that these dogs work in tandem (for want of a better description) with humans whilst pigging that dogs that are not human tolerant or likely to lash out at just anything would not be used. But anyway, that's kind of completely off topic isn't it!

Perhaps not, but a pig dog that hasn't been well socialised with kids might confuse a child for prey. It's happened before. Remember this tragedy? Your right but i still fail to see how someone can make the massive assumption that just because a dog is a pig hunter that it will definitely kill a child or need to be kept away from children? Maybe Padraic has some experince that she is basing her opinion on, but i doubt it. Given that there are rescues that never have dogs out of kennel runs before they rehome and/or that hold dogs only for days before placing them, it could happen. Yes it could happen, and it could just as easily happen with any type of dog wouldn't you say?

Agreed. What sick mind would find that fun? The same minds that enjoy and participate in dog fighting? Where are you going with this Padraic? Are you trying to say that the child would then be in danger if a pigging dog was rehomed next to it? How you can equate a dog that is a pig hunter to a human agressive dog that will attack a child i will never know. It's not the same thing. Also don't you think that any rescue worthwhile would pick up before a dog is rehomed, that it has behaviour problems and rehome accordingly?

I'm not at all surprised that RSPCA here in SA do not want to know about. It seems they are filled with incompetant boobs. Perry's Mum if you have a standard letter you would like me to email to the relevant people please forward it to me and i will do so. Maybe if they have enough people questioning why this person is in operation it will give them a kick up the bum to do something.

Geez they do not look like they are in good shape! Will see if i can get some money together. Really wish i knew where in SA this scum bag was operating. I would be inclined to go and put a big massive sign out the front naming and shaming them.

I can't speak for Jed andreww but my boy definitely knows that "finish" means play time is over and to give it a rest :laugh: As always great advice Jed!

Love the last photo where Acheron has his paw on the toy! :laugh: Bomber does exactly the same thing. I always tell him it's cheating! :laugh: You have a very nice pair there!

I'm so pleased for you, he looks like a real sweetheart! Welcome Rolf! Love his name and the pictures!

Love these! Love Sid! I can understand the need to get the duckie as Bomber has the exact same toy that he loves with all his might. :laugh:

Amazing photo's kja! Can't pic a fave as i love them all!

Awwww i've seen Chance on Facebook. He is totally adorable! :D

Sorry but i do have an issue with breeders putting to sleep their white Boxers. It has already been said that those white puppies do not even have to be born if breeders think carefully and consider colour genetics in Boxers before they breed them. To my mind it is unethical to breed puppies knowing that you will get whites only to then PTS them. That doesn't mean to say that i think all breeders who choose to PTS puppies are wrong or unethical. Everyone has their reason's for PTS and every circumstance is different but knowingly breed something because it is desirable in the show ring and so what if you have to PTS some that are white. That just does not sit right with me. At all.

:laugh: Try teaching yourself to skip with a Boxer who thinks he needs to run in and save you from the nasty rope everytime it does a turn!

We always ask our dogs how their day was. :laugh: Me too! "So what'd you do today, did you have a good day? Oh you threw yourself into the clamshell and slept on your bed!? Your such a good boy!" I am convinced Bomber would be devastated if i didn't talk to him! :laugh:

If you want to read a great book on the development of the Boxer breed in Germany i can thoroughly reccommend My Life With Boxers by Friderun von Miram-Stockmann. Great book and some awesome pictures in it! In the book Friderun Stockmann is credited with keeping the Boxer breed viable during the two World Wars! It is her biography so the book could be a little biased though ;) :laugh: