Anonymous wrote:SHIBA INU....... Worst dogs ever, they're all assholes! Terrible personalities.

This!

Anonymous wrote:I would never adopt another adult dog from a shelter. Puppies can be socialized and trained quite easily, adult dogs not so much in my experience.

Im sorry you had a bad experience. I have adopted 2 adult dogs and they turned out just fine. It did take some work and a ton of patience. The first one took about 6 months to train, the 2nd took over a year. But you can teach an old dog new tricks and sometimes it takes professional help from a trainer or even a vet to establish health issues.

Jumping dog? Cover one of their front paws with your own foot (slight pressure, no weight). Repeat every time they jump up.The jumping will stop.

I would never adopt another adult dog from a shelter. Puppies can be socialized and trained quite easily, adult dogs not so much in my experience.

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Anonymous wrote:English Bulldog for health/happiness reasons. They are bred to basically be miserable carrying out the activities of daily life for a dog.

+1 Our neighbors have an English bulldog. They paid $3K for her and she always looks so damn unhappy.

+2 I've known several and they are miserable and plagued with health issues.

$3K??? OMG.

My french bulldog cost was much higher.

Friend of mine said he paid $5k for a Frenchy. Seemed to have a lot of allergies, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Collies. When I was 9-? our family had a collie. Snotty, mean sort of dog that never warmed up to me and did whatever it liked. Which was devastating as I had grown up watching Lassie on the tee-vee. It was my dad's dog. I took it personally that the dog never was warm to me and don't even remember noticing when it died sometime while I was away at college. Lassie indeed.

I have heard this about collies

We’ve had collies for years and have one now. The females tend to be more standoffish but all our males have been very affectionate and family-oriented, bonding with everyone in the family. We currently have a large male collie, 1 year old, one of the sweetest, fun and gently playful, trainable and responsive dogs i’ve had. When we’re in separate rooms, he’ll position himself in the middle of the hallway to be near all of us, until he can’t stand being away from us and will pick a person to be near.

Growing up, our neighbors down the street had a collie. That was the nicest most sociable dog in the neighborhood. Everybody loved him. I'll never own a Chesapeake Bay Retriever though. I've never met one that I liked.

When I was young, maybe 6 or so, we spent the summer on my grandparent's farm. A neighbor lent them a collie for a few weeks to do farm work. The collie and I became fast friends. One of my earliest memories is walking back down the lane to the house, with the dog holding my hand in his mouth, the sun setting behind us, creating a long shadow of me connected to the dog. When it was time for him to go home they had to sit with me and explain that he didn't live there and needed to go back. I remember being quite sad.

Anonymous wrote:Siberian husky. Love her to pieces. She needed a home and we took her in. I didn’t go out looking for one. The fur drives me insane! It’s never ending. No matter how often we brush her.

Should not be this bad. Consider feeding more fish, supplements, thyroid test. I had a long coat husky, and he shed twice a year.

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Anonymous wrote:English Bulldog for health/happiness reasons. They are bred to basically be miserable carrying out the activities of daily life for a dog.

+1 Our neighbors have an English bulldog. They paid $3K for her and she always looks so damn unhappy.

+2 I've known several and they are miserable and plagued with health issues.

Yup, my best friend has one. Cherry eye surgeries, allergies and a bad back, it’s 2 years old!

Siberian husky. Love her to pieces. She needed a home and we took her in. I didn’t go out looking for one. The fur drives me insane! It’s never ending. No matter how often we brush her.

Chow-huahua mix. Friend's dog, a rescue.

Dear god, why.

We had a Norwegian elkhound. That dog barked all day long everyday for 13 years. Neighbors complaining about his barking while he was in the House (sfh). He shed like crazy too. Like honestly nothing you’ve ever seen. My DDs first two words together were “stupid dog” which she learned from me.
I swear he was probably fine on a farm but good gosh I hated that dog.

Anonymous wrote:I currently hate my Jack Russell Terrier. She will be 1 year old this week. She peed on the floor last night during the election. She runs through the house like an insane creature whenever she is out of her crate--She's out of her crate 6-8 hours a day. She gets an hour of flat out running and tussling with other dogs at the dog park every day. She never gives any warning that she needs to pee--she just pees. She is impossibly cute with a scruffy muzzle. I hate her but yeah, I am her slave.

You keep her crated 16-18 hours a day? No wonder she has issues. Poor baby.

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Anonymous wrote:English Bulldog for health/happiness reasons. They are bred to basically be miserable carrying out the activities of daily life for a dog.

+1 Our neighbors have an English bulldog. They paid $3K for her and she always looks so damn unhappy.

+2 I've known several and they are miserable and plagued with health issues.

$3K??? OMG.

My french bulldog cost was much higher.

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Anonymous wrote:English Bulldog for health/happiness reasons. They are bred to basically be miserable carrying out the activities of daily life for a dog.

+1 Our neighbors have an English bulldog. They paid $3K for her and she always looks so damn unhappy.

+2 I've known several and they are miserable and plagued with health issues.

$3K??? OMG.

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Anonymous wrote:English Bulldog for health/happiness reasons. They are bred to basically be miserable carrying out the activities of daily life for a dog.

+1 Our neighbors have an English bulldog. They paid $3K for her and she always looks so damn unhappy.

+2 I've known several and they are miserable and plagued with health issues.