Post Your Pets

I'm away from home for a few weeks and catless, so have made friends with a regular visitor to bothwell's garden.

So why is bothwell no longer a regular visitor here? I think we should be told. :)

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Colin just got rid of his plaster cast and cone of shame after a nasty infection. He's just talking me through the experience.

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How do you upload photos from phone? I keep uploading the file and getting an error message...

Internet search says it's just because Samsung phones are pieces of shit.

Pictures are probably too big. There's a 3MB limit which most modern phone pics exceed but the error message isn't informative. Various apps are around to resize

Milly goes swimming

Not mine (wish it was as it was so cute & had the softest ears), although I do love it when people bring their pets into work.

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Like @BareNecessities im cat free so makinng friends with street cats here.

Yap, beagles ears are the best!

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Back home now :-)

@BareNecessities your cat knows you been with other cats and is now plotting your downfall.
@Dammit great photos love the top one

Thanks - James has become a big fan of the "stare out the window", here he is doing it this morning:

james going pro at stare out the window.

Convinced Nic's mum to get a puppy... here's Hazel and Groucho

My two ginger delinquents

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My new addition, Chester, caused me major panic yesterday....
I'm lucky, as I have loads on fields and woodland literally on my doorstep for walkies, but we have to cross one busy road and go through a hole in the hedge surrounding the rugby club. Normally, I get them to sit until the road is clear, then we enter the field and I can let the three of them off the lead and they can run around to their heart's content.
Mr Riley and Lola are very good when it is time to go back on the lead and head home, and up until yesterday, so was Chester, but he was reluctant this time.....the bugger kept bouncing around, just out of arms length, and had clearly not had enough walkies! I didn't know what to do, and was in the middle of calling my son to come and help round him up, when he decided that he knew the way home, and made a dash for the gap in the fence at full speed.....I literally put my hands over my ears and squeezed my eyes shut, as I didn't want to hear him getting run over.....nothing happened, so I looked through the gap after tying the other two up to a post, and he was sitting on the kerb, with cars whizzing by, looking at me.....to cut an even longer story shorter, I pretended to feed the other two food, and caught the little git.
So it looks like separate walks, with Chester on a retractable lead for the foreseeable......I hate having to keep them on when they don't have to be.

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After what you've been through, that must've been a hell of a moment. One of our guys is mustard near roads, so we have to make sure they're well away from them before the leads come off.

Cute little fella - massive schlong too.

Ha! That's an antler....he loves chewing it, but not as much as chewing Lola's face!
I took that picture because he had it dangling out of his mouth and looked like a sabre toothed fox.....but he smiled and dropped it. That's right, the sneaky bugger smiles at you when he has fucked up, to make you go 'aaaaah'

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Looks like a right nutter!

try using a 10m training lead, it can be dragged along by the dog but is much easier to grab than a jumping hound. they can be useful to help keep a dog a little closer to you, you can give commands like "easy" and apply gentle pressure to the line when they are getting too far away, and train a "stop"command where you actually put your foot down and get them to stop

then when you want to go home swap to a normal length lead.

Does anyone else have a dog that persists in eating everything that nature has to offer at this time of year and a little later? We've had strawberries and raspberries straight from the plants in the garden but as always it's blackberries he's waiting for. He's a bastard addict for them. Next will be sweet chestnuts and acorns throughout the winter. He plumps up at this time of year.
Here he is having his ears syringed which is another thing I don't get.

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I might try that....I've seen a pal of mine using one for his lab. It's so frustrating though...up until yesterday, he was perfect (apart from hanging off Lola's tail when she chased her ball!). He would stay close and I would regularly recall him and he would come back, I'd stroke and praise him, then he'd jog off again, to join the others. I've had a few dogs over the years, including a boxer, and have never had an issue getting them to do the basics....I don't want a show dog, I just need them to come back when I call them, pretty much. I hate having to have a dog on a lead when he doesn't have to be....ill take one of the kids with me next time, in the hope that I break his memory of yesterday's incident....we just might be able to get him back to where he was!

Love all of this. :)