Dogs

[Alchemist]

Just so the posties know. My little guys would never rip your clothes. If you have a terrier you need to understand it is a total nutter. It needs exercise everyday. Mine get between 1-3 short walks in the day and a 6-8 mile run with me in the evening. They are bread to hunt Fox, Deer, rabbit etc and need that level of stimulation. Again, people need to understand breeds and get one that is in tune with their lifestyle. PS- if you know the difference it is a Parson JR Terrier

 

[Cairodel]

I completely agree with Alchemist, even though I own two Alsatians
In fact, if they will stay still long enough, Skye will even play with cats.!!
This is only because she has been corrected when neccessary.

 

[running bare]

if a dog has a good bite on you a good trick to get it to release is to put your hand over its snout and your thumb firmly over its nostrils, he cant breath that way and will release its teeth. there is 1 or 2 breeds that can breath thru their mouths when they bite but for the life of me i cant remember which ones

 

[innocent bystander]

When i was doing the cub scout thing many moons ago, i did some gardening around the local pub on bob a job week. The landlord had a huge GSD called sabre. Sabre walked up to me - i made, what i thought were suitable noises like "nice dog, good dog" etc. Sabre then put his mouth over crutch and sat there with his mouth open.
I damn near sh@t myself.

He was a nice dog though, apart from that one experience.

When i was at primary school in the village, every breaktime a local chap would take his dog for a walk. It was a huge boxer called bilko. And every break time he would open gate and let bilko chase us around the playing field
Luckily he was the world soppiest drooling lump....

 

[BorderReiver]

IIRC the groin is the favoured target of captive wolves.

 

[innocent bystander]

I reckon they can smell the hormones in the occasional dew drop that gets left behind

Either that, or they like cheese