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Here's Quo, she's a five-month-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier named after my favourite band. These photos are a couple of weeks old and it's pretty hard to get a decent one of her staying still while she's awake!
Here's my old German Shepherd, he was also called Quo (the kids wanted to use that name for our new dog). He was a brilliant dog, still miss him to this day.
Nice dogs, Gav. They look very nice. I lost 2 Golden's and it almost killed me., If I think of them, I still cry to this day. And, I'm not ashamed to admit it. I loved those dogs, just like I love mine now.
Quo 1 is still alive, he's ten now. We had to let him go when the wife fell pregnant with our oldest daughter as the place we were living at the time was way too small for a baby and a big dog. A friend of mine had him as I knew he would be looked after and we still saw him regularly but he's long since moved away now.
It still kills me that we couldn't keep him, he was such a good dog, majestic and very loyal. I miss him every single day, we still have photos of him around the place.
Thanks Bill
I love Alsatians. They are very proud looking dogs. We don't have any now we're not fit enough to be able to exercise them but the last dogs we had were a couple of lurchers.
it's safe to call them 'german shepherds' again. they were called alsatians during the wars with germany as a political correctness. now that we are in the EU and allied, calling them german shepherds is 'in' again.
taking my lurcher (Poppy - see post no.90 above) on walks helps me keep some fitness now that i am retired. she still walks about 5 times further than i do on her long lead. letting her run free in fenced areas also helps keep her fit. i use a tennis ball thrower so i can throw further to make her run & her 'job' is to carry the ball home to our flat. she tends to forget and drop it on occasion when she gets inside, but remembers if i ask her where her ball is, she then goes back for it.
we had one guy in our apt. block that walked his greyhound from a mobility scooter as he couldn't walk very far on his own.
she also helps keep me sane (or at least as sane as i normally was).