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Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 13 11:54 am Post subject:

Sally Too wrote:

Love your dog Rosie.

Thank you

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 13 3:34 pm Post subject:

Green Rosie wrote:

Sally Too wrote:

Love your dog Rosie.

Thank you

I think my Finn looks quite like your dog... do you see GSD in Finn's face?

Melli-Jane

Joined: 09 Mar 2011
Posts: 272
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 13 4:49 pm Post subject:

right, after a succession of disgusting smells last night I am now going to try him on Skinners field and trial puppy, supposed to be wheat and gluten free so we'll see. images below

the top one was taken on saturday, I was busy checking on our sow when she was farrowing so he went digging in a puddle, the second was taken the first day we had him...about 7 weeks ago. He was born mid-June. Dad is a white german shepherd and mum is a siberian husky...I suspect an element of bat!

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 13 8:25 pm Post subject:
He is lovely... so cute as a tiny pup and now a big strapping lad!! Love those ears!

in the hills

Joined: 19 Sep 2013
Posts: 8

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 8:08 am Post subject:
He looks like a really loveable rogue. Love the ears.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 11:36 am Post subject:
Awwwww

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 11:59 am Post subject:

Come GSD experts.... what do you think? Any GSD in here, or is he just a big Border Collie?

Adore him as he is, and not really going to make any difference, but.... I wonder.

Sally Too wrote:

I've a new pup here too. He's 4 1/2 months now. Supposedly Border Collie, but he's growing quite big.

Some have voiced a suspicion that he may be half GSD

What do you all think? His weight is quite high if he's pure collie....

No matter what he is I think he's the best pup - and ideal for me. (Perhaps not what I thought I'd bought, but hey ho!)

in the hills

Joined: 19 Sep 2013
Posts: 8

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 13 1:55 pm Post subject:

Not an expert on anything but I would have guessed a collie cross .... going on head shape . He is lovely and only a baby so will change yet. They go through lots of different growing phases don't they?

My farming neighbour breeds,trains and trials collies and his dogs vary a lot in appearance. Taller, heavier types, whippety ones , different colours and different coat types. So .... who knows. As long as he is right for you

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 13 2:32 pm Post subject:

Melli-Jane, I would keep, and always have kept, my dogs outside and only let in on special occasions. I don't have any dogs right now, and with age, I'm not planning on getting another, but never say never and this is the longest I have been without a dog in tow- 3 years next May. Meg was a lovely natured girl and was always happy to see me, and never seemed to resent being outside. Let's hope the diet sorts your dog out!

hedgepig

Joined: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 97
Location: In a spin

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 13 3:15 pm Post subject:

Sally Too, do I see a suspicion of a beauty spot to the right of his mouth in the second picture? I'd always understood that was an Alsatian trait. Does he have any black spots on his tongue? Apparently that's another but I'm not sure if they're born with them or they appear later.

Apart from the white bits, he looks pretty similar to our current mutt (of mostly unknown parentage but definitely quarter Alsatian at least) when he was a puppy in which case, beware - he's turned out *very* hairy

Woo

Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 13 4:10 pm Post subject:

all lovely dogs.
Sally i can see what you mean about the GSD. i think it's the markings around the face that make you think it.
like the others said puppies change so much i think its difficult to be sure. our dog Woody had a Labrador mum and we were told dad was labrador cross GSD but i can see none in him. he is more like a labrador x pointer type. he is taller than most labs but has the old english gate when he lies down and webbed feet. he runs like a whippet, flat out faster than any lab or gsd i have had.

as to the trumping. Woody is spoiled rotten and fed posh food, partly to make up for the hay bale filled barn/kennel we have for him to live in! partly storage.
i havent noticed any trumping, although he does smell of dog!
i think the dry food suits him. he has a lovely shiny coat, good teeth and loads of energy to chase the deer at any opportunity.
do you think the trumping is just more noticable when you are with him.trumping is a normal, important part of mammels digestive behaviour.even a queen trumps, if she didnt there would be a problem! perhaps they are just posh enough to have someone to take the fall for the bad smells

or is that the corgi's role

Melli-Jane

Joined: 09 Mar 2011
Posts: 272
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 13 4:29 pm Post subject:

hi again - sally your dog is beautiful, looks quite collie to me, that's a very forgiving look on his face in the first pic. my brothers dog is lab x GSD but he just looks like an oversize lab!
Scooby has webbed feet too, Woo - that is apparently a husky and GSD trait so he didnt get any option there!
he is still guffing and trumping - noticeable in confined spaces - car and caravan at the weekends, and when he lies down under my legs. He does eat his weight in goat poo when we walk round the fields, even on a a lead he is grabs the freshest, greenest stuff - yuk. I suspect that if we avoided certain fields the smell would diminish!

Woo

Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 13 4:40 pm Post subject:
Nah, he would find it anywhere. i had a retriever once who could find stinky mud at a considerable distance and roll in it before i got over the gate! Woody went through a spell of eating all the dead mice the cats left lying around and any poo he could find.

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 13 10:22 pm Post subject:
Thanks for all the lovely comments about my Finn... he's a real pet - great temperament. However - interesting comment about the webbed feet - he has skin between his toes like this... (I almost daren't ask if collies have this!)

Melli-Jane

Joined: 09 Mar 2011
Posts: 272
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 13 12:30 pm Post subject:
the webbed feet is where there is skin between the toes - huskys, GSDs, lab retrievers, water spaniels and newfoundlands also have it, as far as I know collies don't - so you may well be right with the GSD mix in there somewhere! oh - and a websearch reveals my boy to be a Gerberian Shepsky - what a gobful! (an amercian site mind you!)

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