Doug Tait

No idea about all that, I'm a mere child, saw it on a history programme!

Flat top back in fashion!

Morning all. Calm here for now, rain due to start shortly and the wind building from lunchtime is to be gusting 60mph later. No plans to go out except walk the dog unless there's a call out to work. I know some of you guys are expecting worse so batten the hatches. Have a good one folks.

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I'd have had the egg in it and made do with watching someone else's figure, best of both worlds.

Enough with your excuses Mark. At some point you need to pull up your pants, straighten your fannypack and start thinking like a yank! England expects.

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Morning all. Early start today, dropping the oh at the airport before work, last day then I've a week off to spend with the dog. Doing school jobs today as they're on hols, mix of reductions, crown lifts and a dismantle. Have a good one folks.

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Now I'm wondering if the issues hiking with the bf in a forest occurred on the same weekend the wife was out with her friends.

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Rarely have one Les, my go to (a Friday night special) is a battered sausage wrap with salad and garlic mayo, perfection, probably just a Scots chippy thing!

Morning all Looks like being a decent day again, calm and sunny. Heading to Northumberland coast today for a change of scenery, a Yew removal and a Sycamore reduction. Have a good one folks.

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Great clip Peds, that was Santi's theme tune! Miss the old bugger 😞

No insults coming from me Sviatoslav, I wasn't saying you were wrong and I'm happy to have different opinions without being enemies. I know from your previous posts on dogs that we are mostly in agreement on the subject. Many people can make the cage work for them well, as Rich Rule does, quite possibly you do too. I stand by my own experience though, with working dogs, pets and fostering over a dozen problem dogs, many of them had problems created by long periods alone and they just didn't do well in kennels. And I promise you I don't just work a couple of hours a day, I work hard!

I've never agreed with cages. They're usually used as a prison and people excuse this behaviour by using the 'safe place' claim they've heard about. A safe place is somewhere, anywhere, the dog associates with safety, not necessarily a cage. There are countless dogs in kennels that would really disagree that a cage is a safe place! I'm not sure why a nice comfy bed where the cage is situated wouldn't be just as safe a place for the dog. I suspect it's more about someone controlling the dog without having any ability to teach it how to behave. Igor (Mick Dempsey's) dog clearly considers the front seat of the pickup his safe place, as do others mentioned in the thread. I've had many dogs at work with me before as I fostered problem dogs for years, took the back seat out the pickup to make a dog area, every one I've known considered that a safe place, also their bed in the corner of the workshop was popular. To my mind very few dogs thrive in an environment they spend 8 or 9hrs alone, but going everywhere with me, spending a few hours in their pickup safe place then getting a walk somewhere new, somewhere different, they enjoy that, and a pack is meant to live life together. This thread has brought up some good memories of the arbdogs I've had. Some might remember old Santi, my ultimate arbdog, he accompanied me around the south of Scotland, parts of England, and a couple of times to France for work. His safe place was anywhere he could see me, either lying under the pickup watching me chipping or next to my bag when I climbed, or in the machine I was operating, and he appreciated most of all being rewarded for his patience by exploring in a different place after work every day. A cage on his own would've been so detrimental to him, not a safe place whatsoever.

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You Mark, I consider a wordlegod today!

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