National Puppy Day - let's see your pictures!

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  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,244 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    what a wonderful thread to see on a monday morning, what lovely dogs everybody has😍

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing

    Oh yes my fifi snores so do I apparently I think pugs are such sweet natured dogs noting seems to faze them if I won the lotto I'd get a big farm in the country and rescue animals

  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 8,875 Championing

    Awesome photos of the dogs

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,809 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Loving these adorable pictures! 😍

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing

    @Ranald thanks, looking forward to reading it, can imagine the half re politics could be hard going Luddites and all that, not sure if it's going to be a bit over my head tbh but I'll give it a go. Magnifying glass at the ready!! Purchased his biography can't member author's name but he was a emeritus professor at Birkbeck.

  • DogMama
    DogMama Online Community Member Posts: 25 Contributor

    Hi Ranald, is your puppy elderly? I've been very blessed to have friends with dogs, i look after the other dogs a lot so there are four of them in a wee pack. Although Fhian is very nervy he's very social and happiest chasing round the house or garden at top speed, jumping on and off the furniture! πŸ˜‚ Good job everything is old and tatty!

  • DogMama
    DogMama Online Community Member Posts: 25 Contributor

    Gosh that is difficult. My dog is hostile to other dogs he meets outside, especially males.... out of fear. These three dog friends are all female and he's known them since puppyhood. I wouldn't attempt to introduce him to another boy dog.

    I also take him on evening walks when people are usually having supper and the street and fields are quiet.

    I also can't afford a doggy psychologist, and the vet keeps suggesting it because he's so fearful....but he went to all the puppy classes and socialization groups at that same vet, to no avail!πŸ™„ He's never been traumatised, he's just naturally nervy and timid. My last two dogs were so chilled out and the same breed, trained the same way.🀷

    It's hard having a neurotic dog but we do our best for them and at least they have us. As a mentally ill woman that society rejects I'm not going to reject this dog for having similar problems, we can be misfits together. πŸ˜‰

  • LadyTinks
    LadyTinks Online Community Member Posts: 38 Contributor

    Oh how lovely all these puppies young and old! I miss all my babies over the years. I would love to have a dog but things are tough and more so if the cuts go through. Puppies of all ages are a joy in one's life and make life brighter

  • birdwatcher
    birdwatcher Online Community Member Posts: 187 Empowering

    My puppys 13 this year. But she's still my puppy! I wish I knew how to upload photos but I don't. She's the height of a greyhound with the body of a Labrador so she's my big little girl. And an absolute sweetheart! I've not been too well this past couple of weeks but she's been gentler than ever. Had trouble with my leg and although she's come close enough to sniff she's never attempted to actually touch it. When I have a bad arthritis day she always knows where it's most painful, she looks, she sniffs ,she doesn't touch. She did the same to my neighbour when she'd got a painful hand. Don't know how she knows, just does. The nurse came out earlier to see me and was asking background questions. I told her, my dog's the reason I keep getting up in a morning. May sound daft but it's true

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    I've had dogs in my life since I was two, the longest I've been without is three years & that was my last dog that I still miss/ed dreadfully. I was going through a really bad patch & had to resort to antidepressants. My GP knew I had always had dogs & suggested I got another, a dachs as they don't need loads of exercise. It would be good company & get me out, plus talking to people (and she now is a people magnet, too much of one!). I knew having another would give me something to live for, so Hattie is that pup. Even though times are hard, she is my focus & I will go without so she thrives. The difference she has made to my life is truly worth it & sometime soon, I'll hopefully drop the antidepressants.

    @Ranald, Hattie might be smaller than yours, but she is rather good at ripping my arm from shoulder when she scents something. 😏

  • DogMama
    DogMama Online Community Member Posts: 25 Contributor

    Hattie is such an adorable puppy Jessiej....what a cutie.πŸ’–

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,366 Championing

    Thank you, @DogMama, I'm biased, but I agree. ☺️