ArbDogs? Pics!

[AHPP]

That brown one is a handsome beast. What is it? If I had to guess, I'd say some kind of Rhodesian/Vizla Pitbull mix. Fully prepared to look stupid when you give the actual answer.

Edited April 4, 2024 by AHPP

[monkeybusiness]

28 minutes ago, AHPP said:

That brown one is a handsome beast. What is it? If I had to guess, I'd say some kind of Rhodesian/Vizla Pitbull mix. Fully prepared to look stupid when you give the actual answer.

Rhodesian ridgeback - he is a good looking dog but more importantly he has an incredible temperament, a real softy. 

[monkeybusiness]

They are all super-gay though!

[AHPP]

1 minute ago, monkeybusiness said:

They are all super-gay though!

[AHPP]

24 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Rhodesian ridgeback - he is a good looking dog but more importantly he has an incredible temperament, a real softy. 

 

Nice. Strong looking head. I performed one of my most successful/blasé bits of dog whispering on a ridgeback. Saw it across a park while walking my mum's shepherd years ago. Went over to say hello. The bloke on the end of the lead was terrified. It was his son's dog and apparently nobody could go near it without significant violence. Wan't convinced. Left the shepherd with my friend, walked straight up to it, said something along the lines of, "Behave or you're not getting tickled." Ten seconds later, it's on its back and I'm rubbing his belly. Bloke is stunned. My friend's heartbeat is still audible from twenty feet away. Introduced the shepherd without event. The episode helped imbue me with a fairly cavalier attitude to dodgy dogs that I'm sure will one day end up with me getting mauled, but it hasn't happened yet.

Edited April 4, 2024 by AHPP

[AHPP]

Standing there cheerfully and gormlessly while a Honda GX390 clone turns him surely deaf.

[Doug Tait]

We're missing the old boy, would've been 17 today.

 

[Stephen Blair]

You loose a part of yourself when you loose a dog that you were close with.  They are a very special animal.  

[Stephen Blair]

Oakley trying to play it cool knowing he’s about to go a walk with me in the woods. 

[AHPP]

The philosophical dangers of cheapening the status of genius aside, I'm a genius. Sailor cut a pad, probably romping through the broken glass that is the style around here. Wanted to press the flappy bit of pad back to the paw so it can bond back to the gristle (weird stuff...) underneath. Stitches generally not advised and would have probably required knocking him out. Pressing it in with a tight bandage and a stiff block of wadding was working but the flap would pop back off when I went in to disinfect. Ended up borrowing technique from composite repair. Instead of fibreglass cloth, steristrips. Instead of resin, superglue. The first one I settled for a rather baggy one but the rest of them I got fairly good tension on and started knitting it all into place. I reckon I've bally done it. Should be robust and waterproof enough to inspect and spritz with disinfectant. Updates as they occur. 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 19, 2024 by AHPP