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[electricland]

So I'm thinking that January shall mark the start of Operation My Parents Need To Get Another Dog. My mother's retiring next year and they should start looking for a puppy right away so they'll be ready. Because we wouldn't want my mother to get bored.

I reckon I'll start with this.

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[moonlightjoy.livejournal.com]

oooh!!! those dogs are soo pretty! i know nothing about dogs, though =P, so i can't help you!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

They are wonderful dogs -- very lively and smart and funny and bouncy. And pretty!

Our last (well, only) dog died nearly 4 years ago. I think it's time!

[moonlightjoy.livejournal.com]

i have a friend who has a miniature schnauzer.. those are pretty, too. although hers is a nervous wreck!

[cretkid.livejournal.com]

the thing with the human giving the dog a treat ... we do that with my sister's dog (australian cattel dog, with one leg missing) hehehehehe

wouldn't dare do that with my lab... not if I want to keep my face in tact

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

Your last dog Brandy died pretty young didn't she? Something hard about getting a new dog that will remind you so much of the last one. I'd suggest getting a different breed, but that might just be me and my faint dislike for my second dog Rory due to getting him I think like 8 months after my first dog passed away.

4 years is for sure a goodly long time to wait before getting another dog. And before retirement is for sure a good time to be thinking about and getting said dog, so that there is some continuity between the two states and stuff..

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Brandy was 11 when she died. And I still miss her lots, but I don't think it would stop me getting another Airedale -- all dogs being different!

Actually if I'm honest Operation MPNAND has now been in action for about 3 1/2 years -- all my parents' Airedale-owning neighbours have been campaigning for quite some time. Even the non-Airedale-owning neighbours, come to think of it...

2 cents...

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I vote for Operation Puppy, as it is simpler to say, and I may actually REMEMBER the acronym... ;)

Re: 2 cents...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

you may have a point...

[raithen.livejournal.com]

when our second Boxer, Blue, arrived on the plane, and Mom opened the crate, and he looked almost EXACTLY like our much loved, died-to-soon Sheena it had been about a year since the cancer got Sheena, Mom was wigged. BUT, BLue was TOTALLY different in personality, and became VERY much loved before he succumbed to cardio-myopathy 1 1/2 years later. We only changed breeds because the boxers always stole our hearts, then left way too soon.

The famille electricland will do well with another airedale, of this I am convinced!

And our pups get their Christmas baths -- one tomorrow, one Friday, so they can be in the house over the holidays! YAY!

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

My families first dog was a Border Collie, German Shepard (Alsacian) and perhaps something else corss. Our second dog was almost a pure breed Border Collie and just about pure jet fuel. The damn thing never really felt like it was sitting still unless it was sleeping or pooping.

Ayredale's very much different though, quite true... thankfully not all dogs are quite as much of a jittery nervous and strange pile of energy as Border Collies :)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

um, firstly: GO TO BED! Is 3Am chez vous, and as a motherly type, I shall lecture!

secondly: your border collie needed something to herd. Sheep would have been good. I watched a collie work our sheep a few weeks back -- AMAZING. The dog was SOOO happy to have a purpose that she had none of that nervous energy I have seen in other collies. They really are bred to work.

And, now, I shall take my own advice and to bed shall I go!

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

Firstly: Christmas break is all about not having to get up tomorrow :)

Secondly: Not my choice of breed. I'm much more fond of the idea of an Olde English Sheep dog if it had to be a herding dog. Something that would sleep for 10 hours and then take a nap to recover from so much hard work at least on the days when we didn't have time for 3 walks a day. Every time I looked at our dog I was reminded of the first one.

Oh and BTW, this comment is almost without purpose was just showing my rebellious and stubborn streak :P So don't feel you have to reply :)

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Airedales are WONDERFUL! When my husband and I get a house, we're getting one. I had one as a child - she used to 'watch' me in the backyard and if I fell down, or cried, she'd run barking to get my grandmother and bring her out to me. My husband also had one as a child, and she was addicted to cheese. They're one of the best breeds, IMO.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

They are great, aren't they? They have so much character. Brandy was my first (so far only) dog and she was wonderful -- my dad was initially not at all keen on the idea of having a dog but she had him wrapped around her paw inside about a month.

(And now -- a gratuitous dog story!) My mother had an Airedale, Becky, when she was a teenager -- this was back in the days when dogs could roam free, and my grandmother could never figure out why the dog wasn't hungry very often until she and Becky went into the butcher shop one day. The butcher said "Oh, is this your dog?" Turns out Becky had taken to coming into the shop on her own, putting her paws on the counter and looking hopeful, whereupon she would be rewarded with some nice filet mignon!