Hey all..

Unfortunately had to say goodbye to my good old faithful dog of 15 years over the xmas period..

Has been talk in the household of Puppies of recent, maybe not immediately but just thoughts.

Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations of where to find/look? Any good or bad experiences of places/breeders.

Ideally word of mouth or friends of friends would be ideal to source one, however open to ideas.

Personally Id like a Lab..but open to ideas.

Cheers :)

Daschund.

Haha - I meant more if anyone knew of any I was open to ideas, not just to suggest types of dog, or we'd probably be here a while :)

Rescue dog.

There's so many dodgy breeders out there you might as well help a dog out who's had a rough time rather than lining someone's pockets.

Personally, I'd always have a cross breed. You always seem to get the best bits of each breed without the health problems. My last one was alsatian cross irish woolfhound. He pretty much had the wolfhound body (size, strength, good joints) with an alsatian head, looks and brains/trainability.

rescue center so many nice dogs there, we saved our jack russell from being put down ,nothing wrong with the dog most calm and friendly jack russell I've ever seen. the owner said they couldnt find anywhere for her to go, i think they were talkin shit

Yeah our previous two dogs have been rescue dogs, to be honest you do find people trying to get rid of a lot of really young dogs as they don't realise what they have taken on

Oh, and last one was a cross, Staffie cross with a greyhound or a whippet, was never sure. Was a top lad though and a right mentalist back in his day haha

I'd go for rescue personally they seem to be more hardy than pure bred pedigree,

I have used the dogs trust with great results currently have two Jack Russell's and a very convincing Heinz 57 Airedale,

I prefer Terriers........

Best way is to phone the kennel club, they will give you a list of accredited breeders. That's all the highest, well known breeders with good lines throughout their dogs, from championship showing dogs in the family tree to successful working dogs :-)

Ps get a sharpei.. Beautiful bundles of fun! You have saw mines on Instagram 😝

Be wary of rescue dogs, SOME are nasty.

Think it's already been mentioned above but from my own experience pedigrees can be host to loads of health problems. Many generations of cross breeding doesn't do good to any creature. I had a rottweiler pedigree and she suffered badly with arthritis and tumour, where as my Jack Russle mongrel is bomb proof. Even a slight mix is good enough to help with health problems.

Again, I'll go with the crowd and say rescue dog.

I'm all for rescue dogs, and it's still an option - but just looking for puppies at the moment.

Eils there's some Sharpei Lab cross puppies local to me at the moment aha :)

I'm all for rescue dogs, and it's still an option - but just looking for puppies at the moment.

Eils there's some Sharpei Lab cross puppies local to me at the moment aha :)

Doooooo it, such fun dogs to have! I call manny my little peiby (pei baby) hahaha!! I like him more than I like people lol!

Youngest rescue you can find me your chosen breed, though if you want like a chocolate lab then you'll be lucky.

Just don't go for the currently fashionable terrier variety. Breeding is gettinI out of control, and you'll be seen as a typical 'staffs and babies mix just fine' campaigner.

Cue arrow to Google images of this year's child dog bite victims..

It's not the breed it's how they're brought up.. No kid should be allowed to hang around a dogs neck to 'cuddle' it regardless if they think the dog will 'never harm anyone'

Staffys and kids are brilliant if the dog is trained around the kid, and the kid has been taught around the dog :-)

So many dogs have bad reputations, when really it's the owners not the dogs fault

Correct.. It's a shame on the dogs because no dog is born with the want to attack!

A mate had a couple of Sharpei's, one of them literally tried to kill anything that moved (and succeeded on a few occasions too). It finally got a shovel round the head after it tried to rip the throat out of its breeding partner.

Very cute dogs but people seem to not realise they are fighting dogs, if one turns then you are in deep shit because they will go straight for your throat

They are also susceptible to skin infections due to the rolls of flesh they have.

But yeah, get a rescue dog, surely it's the best time of year to pick up a pup from the rescue center?

Correct.. It's a shame on the dogs because no dog is born with the want to attack!

Unfortunately thats just not always the case. Just like some people, some dogs are just born vicious. That's not to say that a lot of the time it isn't the owners fault, but even dogs raised well can turn nasty or just be nasty from the outset.

I find the worst dogs are those stupid little rat Yorkie terriers. Horrible vicious little bastard things, but because they are little and they don't kill kids it seems to somehow be socially acceptable for them to be walked on a lead with no mussle trying to bite anything that moves. Generalisation I know, but I've had a lot of bad experiences with the

Edited 30 January, 201412 yr by Mclovin

Yeah, I know what you mean tbh guy, at the end of the day no matter what generation of breed they are. It's still an animal you're keeping, maybe a "pet" but roots back to a wild animal like

Yeah, I know what you mean tbh guy, at the end of the day no matter what generation of breed they are. It's still an animal you're keeping, maybe a "pet" but roots back to a wild animal like

Yeah exactly. Don't get me wrong I know that "dangerous" dogs can be loving as fuck. We had a rotty for a while and she's was absolutely brilliant with the kids, she probably weighed about 8 stone but thought she was a puppy still, used to sit on my lap to watch telly . Unfortunately when the misses got pregnant she got a bit funny (kept pooing on the kids bedroom floor :-/) so she had to go. Still miss her now

I find that really you need to treat each dog as a individual rather than just assuming that because of its breed it will be good or bad or whatever. You can generally tell pretty easy early on what sort of temperament a dog has tbh

Yeah I know a lot about dogs, I train them, do working trials, obedience and agility :-)

Any dog could snap at any point regardless of the breed, but no breed is any less vicious than another sadly! It's all about the environment a dog is brought up in!

I don't agree with that. The two Sharpei my mate had were brought up together in exactly the same way, living in the same environment, fed the same food ect, ect. Yet one turned out be vicious, and the other turned out to be a softy.

While I do agree that a lot of the time it is through neglect ect, there are some dogs that are just naturally vicious (not breeds just the dog itself). Dogs are no different to any other animal on this planet including us, some are good and some are bad regardless of anything else, that's just how nature works.

You train dogs to do stuff, have you ever had to train a dog how to have sex? Dogs are probably the most domesticated animal on earth, yet when they fight they instinctively go for the throat. No one's teaches them this, they don't know biology so have no idea that this the best way to kill another dog. They just instinctively know both of these things from birth, they are programmed deep in their brains. Training is just teaching a animal how to do something, it doesn't over ride it's basic instincts. We can't control nature no matter how much we want to believe we can, some things are just naturally bad.

Edited 31 January, 201412 yr by Mclovin

I did say in my last post 'any dog could snap at any point regardless of the breed' .. Never once said the dogs were brought up different I'm just stating a mere point that majority of dogs that attack are either hassled by a kid because the parent thinks it'll 'never' hurt anyone or they are mistreated.

Didn't say them all but I value your opinion :-)

Edited 31 January, 201412 yr by Eilswilliamsx

It was the " It's all about the environment a dog is brought up in" comment I was disagreeing with, I should probably of made that more clearer.

I do agree that a lot of it does come down to the way they are raised, just not that that is always the case

Yeah true!

Sharpeis are very timid dogs too and don't take well to strangers straight away!