Dogs

[Daggers]

Have you seen the price of Retriever pups?

 

£2500

 

Insane.

[weller54]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Have you seen the price of Retriever pups?

 

£2500

 

Insane.

Think I heard on the news today that Wilko have had to call in the retrievers today? 

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, weller54 said:

Think I heard on the news today that Wilko have had to call in the retrievers today? 

MODDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FoyleFox]

The dog has a lump, antibiotics haven't worked so, he's been referred for a CT scan.  For a competitively priced £1800!!!

 

[Tommy G]

27 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

The dog has a lump, antibiotics haven't worked so, he's been referred for a CT scan.  For a competitively priced £1800!!!

 

Hope you’ve got petplan…

[FoyleFox]

10 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Hope you’ve got petplan…

He's insured, but it's highly unlikely it'll cover the whole cost of finding and resolving the problem. I'm just astounded a scan can cost £1800.

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, FoyleFox said:

He's insured, but it's highly unlikely it'll cover the whole cost of finding and resolving the problem. I'm just astounded a scan can cost £1800.

Best of luck with it, that does seem pricey.

[filthyfox]

Search warrant completed today for an unlicensed dog breeder.

Prosecution pending.

The conditions were horrendous

[Daggers]

55 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

Search warrant completed today for an unlicensed dog breeder.

Prosecution pending.

The conditions were horrendous

Send me puppies. 

[filthyfox]

6 hours ago, Daggers said:

Send me puppies. 

You DONT want these.  They will be riddled with parasites and disease.

[FOXYTALK]

I think vet bills are the biggest money making scam going. 

Edited 10 August 2023 by FOXYTALK

[Daggers]

6 minutes ago, FOXYTALK said:

I think vet bills are the biggest money making scam going. 

Took my Springer on Monday as he’s got arthritis setting in.

 

5 minute consultation and a month’s medicine - the best part of £100.

 

Not to mention you never seem to see an actual vet these days, it always seems to be some kid doing work experience…although that might say more about my increasing age than them 

[FOXYTALK]

Took my cat unfortunately on a Sunday evening. Cost 200 quid to be seen. Plus a 1500 quid operation cost after a consultation. The words pay up now or your cat gets it was the general tone. 

[filthyfox]

HAHA!  The advert window has the EXACT puppies I was investigating!

I didn't have time today- I think I should ask them to take it down.

[FoyleFox]

8 hours ago, Daggers said:

Took my Springer on Monday as he’s got arthritis setting in.

 

5 minute consultation and a month’s medicine - the best part of £100.

 

Not to mention you never seem to see an actual vet these days, it always seems to be some kid doing work experience…although that might say more about my increasing age than them 

Ours has arthritis in his elbows. Been on You Move senior, extra strength for a couple of months now. It's made a significant difference. 

 

Vets, like policeman and Dr's etc,  all look about 15 after you turn 40!

[MPH]

On 08/08/2023 at 18:12, FoyleFox said:

The dog has a lump, antibiotics haven't worked so, he's been referred for a CT scan.  For a competitively priced £1800!!!

 

 

On 08/08/2023 at 18:40, Tommy G said:

Hope you’ve got petplan…

 

On 09/08/2023 at 05:43, FoyleFox said:

He's insured, but it's highly unlikely it'll cover the whole cost of finding and resolving the problem. I'm just astounded a scan can cost £1800.

 

 

sounds like the American healthcare system..

[Daggers]

17 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

Ours has arthritis in his elbows. Been on You Move senior, extra strength for a couple of months now. It's made a significant difference. 

 

Vets, like policeman and Dr's etc,  all look about 15 after you turn 40!

The You Move snack type meds are brilliant. He's never eaten a pill - had to ram them all down physically - but these he loves. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

I'm not really a dog kind of guy, but I was delighted to meet a little Yorkshire Terrier today who was being walked off the lead for the first time past our house, and on seeing my wife and I coming out the door, suffered a near catastrophic breakdown in discipline and bolted across the road for no reason other than he thought we looked great and wanted to be friends. I don't think I've ever seen a living thing look so happy.

 

I'm convinced that our paths will cross again and that we'll go on a series of adventures of some sort

[WigstonWanderer]

 

 

We said goodbye to our lovely cocker spaniel Coppa today. She's been with us for thirteen and a half years. It was very sad but we felt the time had come where she had no quality of life.

 

[Jabfox]

10 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

 

 

We said goodbye to our lovely cocker spaniel Coppa today. She's been with us for thirteen and a half years. It was very sad but we felt the time had come where she had no quality of life.

 

Deepest condolences mate 

[Thefox81]

1 hour ago, WigstonWanderer said:

 

 

We said goodbye to our lovely cocker spaniel Coppa today. She's been with us for thirteen and a half years. It was very sad but we felt the time had come where she had no quality of life.

 

Sorry to hear that. Never easy always heartbreaking. Take care

[Sly]

After losing my long time best friend in March, I’ve decided this weekend was the right time to introduce a puppy.

 

Wow, it’s like having a child again. This was easier in my early to mid 20s. In my 40s, getting up is a right grind. 
 

The wife has gone to sleep at the other end of the house 

[Tommy G]

Mine is having his nads lopped off next week, 15 months he's had them but its time to go - hoping it will calm him down as at times he's absolutely nuts

[LanguedocFox]

On 03/09/2023 at 06:07, Sly said:

After losing my long time best friend in March, I’ve decided this weekend was the right time to introduce a puppy.

 

Wow, it’s like having a child again. This was easier in my early to mid 20s. In my 40s, getting up is a right grind. 
 

The wife has gone to sleep at the other end of the house 

I feel your pain in both ways.

 

We said goodbye to our big blond Labrador Barney - that's him in my profile picture - a week before last Christmas. He was 12 and a half, and he'd been a part of my life all that time - as you said, my best friend. We decided not to get another dog: apart from anything else my wife and I are both in our late 70s (I'm 78 a week tomorrow) so the chances are that a dog is going to outlast us.

 

By March, my son was begging me to get another dog. Apparently I was miserable and unsmiling all the time (just normal, I thought) and he said he'd pay for it and committed to take it on if my wife and/or I die before the dog. Apparently we agreed, because a week or so later, he found someone offering 75/25 Lab/Border Collie cross puppies, and on 30 March I had a two-week old little boy in my arms - didn't even have his eyes open!

 

Billy the Borador (apparently that's what a Lab/Border Collie cross is called) came home in mid-May, and is now coming up to six months old. He was hard work to start with, but he gets better with every passing day, and he's an absolute joy to take out for a walk every day. Cost me a fortune to put up fencing around the plants in my garden (little sod loves eating leaves) and Billy will not leave my shoes alone, but I can tolerate all of that just for the unconditional love he shows me and my wife (and, to be honest, everyone else he comes across).

 

Stick with it, Sly - it will be worth it.

 

[Tommy G]

Had my lab castrated last Thursday ( 5 days ago) after a day of feeling sorry for himself he’s gone nuts - almost like a puppy again. 
 

I thought it was supposed to calm them down? So far it’s done the opposite!