My Basset Hound rescue, Lilly, chomping down on a knuckle bone that she took from the Great Dane, Zeus.
My Basset Hound rescue, Lilly, chomping down on a knuckle bone that she took from the Great Dane, Zeus.
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Nobody ever says, “What’s the point of (Breed X) of cats?”
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A very interesting and informative DOGGIE PING!
Mrs. Hugin used to call her dog a Golden Receiver because it didn’t retrieve much, but it sure liked to receive treats.
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I have a chocolate lab and her job is to retrieve the newspaper from the driveway. When it’s minus 20 and the end of the driveway is 150 feet from the front door you really appreciate that kind of service.
I’ll stick with Briards! One of my old neighbors had a Poodle without the french haircut. It was beautiful, and loved the water!
Not so. Mine is a fabulous watch dog.
I’m good with any dog that doesn’t present a threat to innocents, otherwise get a cat and shoot the dog.
Poodles. Don’t laugh. As I type this, Emma and Rufus are making sure what I type is nice.
Beagles I beg to differ
Excellent pack to keep white tails moving.....
I’ve a Mastiff family Rottweiler....he still does what’s in his DNA....guards aggressively....with strange men that is
My American Bulldog RIP....same thing....my stud pony was yanking me around on a 10 foot lead role and she came thru the fence and running across the pasture and jumped up and tagged the horses lip
It froze and immediately lowered its neck down with her braced as such
She had zero training....pure gut instinct...it just popped out when provoked
Some breeds are still just fine thank you
Pugs are good watch dogs, but not very good guard dogs.
What’s Up With Pugs?
When bull and bear baiting were outlawed in early 19th century England, of course the bulldog was sent looking for work.
(Butchers often owned `bulldogs’ and used them to bait steers & bulls believing the combat tenderized the beef)
With its `weight-forward physique, undershot jaw, slim haunches and powerful bite, the bulldogs would launch themselves at the bull’s tender nose or mouth and attempt to force the animal onto its knees and into submission. There were often several launched, one after the other at the bull, which was tethered to something sturdy. The owners often would try to catch a dog with their aprons, when the dog lost its grip and was thrown into the air a dozen or more feet.
There are accounts in Roman manuscripts mentioning a bulldog like dog, derived from the Molossus, an now-extinct breed which was used by the Romans in combat. The Romans required that if the breed was allowed in public that it had to be secured on a metal chain.
Having outlived its primary function, owners started breeding the bulldog with pugs and terriers, producing, respectively, the English bulldog and Pit bull terrier, and other bulldog=terrier hybrids for ratting and dog-fighting.
They found the bulldogs didn’t like to fight one another, or other dogs for that matter, but when they did, other similar-sized dogs didn’t last very long against them in the ring.
The pit bull terriers, however, took to fighting other dogs and ratting with enthusiasm.
Pugs are of course much smaller than the old English bulldog and pit bull terriers are about 1/2 to 3/4 their size.
Bulldogs transported to this country almost died-out as a breed. The American bulldog was recreated by two men, Scott and Johnson, who produced two similar dogs closely resembling written accounts, rare photographs and lithographs of the English dog, with the Scott being more agile and speedy while the Johnson is stockier and more closely resembles a bull mastiff.
They were being used for the most part in the south, as stock dogs, varmint killers and guard dogs, and they made good family dogs, and were good with people they knew. Both Teddy Roosevelt and Helen Keller owned American bulldogs. The RCA Victrola `Listening dog’ was an American bulldog, with the quaint characteristic of the breed demonstrated in their ad: cocking their heads to one side when listening to something interesting.
All right then. If you will put your notes away and open your blue exam books ....
Mighty excellent dog breed post you generously spent your time on.
Thank you!