I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

@HatBeard I know almost nothing about dogs. However felt moved to post as my parents have a cockapoo and while great e.g. super loving verging on needy, doesn't shed, good with children, pretty obedient/trainable, it is very high energy and requires approaching 2 hrs exercise a day. Suspect it is a bit of a lottery, as with the size, as to how much cocker and how much poodle you get. I 'think' (might be a lie) cavapoo's are meant to need less exercise but have many of the same traits. Worth also noting the neediness can make it hard to leave them for may length of time, though probably not a major issue for your mum by the sound of it.

Agree with this.

We had a terrier chihuahua cross from when he was a puppy til he was about 4 (tragic story, dog walker let him off lead despite us asking not to, got spooked, tried to run home, hit by car), and although we absolutely loved him and were devastated at losing him, he really was the boss of the house.

After some time we rescued a 5yo grey from Battersea and it feels like she has adapted her life to suit ours, and not the other way round. She has been for the most part the easiest loveliest dog. I would say that owners should expect to do some work with them, and no matter how much recall work you do, it will always be undone by a squirrel/fox/cat. Insurance is also essential with a grey. In the 3.5 years we've had ours she's had thousands spent on having a corn removed from her hind paw, and more recently induced vomiting due to eating what we thought was a conker.

Aside from this she gets three 20 minute walks a day, and pretty much sleeps the rest of the time. She came to us toilet trained which made life so easy (having once trained a puppy). We let her run maybe once or twice a week but she's definitely slowing down.

We thought she didn't care much for us at the beginning but she's become super affectionate and needy (in a not overbearing way).

We had her with bellyrubclub in Camberwell a few days a week (highly recommended if you're in the area), but I'm now fully home based so get to hang out with her all day!

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yes - insurance essential. let me tell you (again from bitter experience), MRI scans are......... expensive. like, "good bike" expensive

in the interests of continued balance - greys can also sometimes suffer from separation anxiety (so do many dogs). think this is because ex-racers are used to having people (trainers etc) round most of the day. in our case, this manifested itself as quite loud howling when left during the initial period after we got her (quite a big issue when you live side-by-side with neighbours in a tenement flat).

we eventually trained this out of her over a course of a few months, using frozen kongs packed with treats and liver paste. this took her mind off our absence at least for the most difficult first 15 minutes

It’s only one dog rather than a statistically significant sample, but my cavapoo is a wild thing, a massively energetic hunter who needs a couple of hours proper exercise daily. Inside the house, however, he’s a complete lapdog who can’t do without physical contact.

Even our toy poodle needs a lot more exercise than most sources say for them. He is however a very big toy. 20 minutes twice a day just doesn't cut it.

another good thing about greys is there's an ancestry.com for them. here's our old dog:
http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=abbey+leigh&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland=

pmsl she had a brother called "johnny two cans"

That sounds similar to my parents, often you will be doing something link the washing up and realise he is stood behind you just to be close! Internet suggests I am 'right' but also of the lottery of the mix meaning difficult to have certainty.

My sister kept a greyhound for years. Great big soppy (and lazy) thing, but it's farts were another level of rancid. Could clear a room with a twitch of its tail.

Greyhound fart problems should be taken into consideration.

Our whippet used to fart so badly that i swear the air in the room turned green. We lived with this for the first year of his life and did our best to get used to it.

After we switched him to raw he stopped doing it. The weird thing is that we miss his gas.

Autumn is here so we're choking on the fumes of chestnuts and acorns roasting in a sleeping Sprollie.

My GF and I are looking more seriously at finally getting a dog. Have people got good rescue homes for recommendation? Thanks!

Well we’ve now re-homed a little 16 month old French Bulldog. He came from a family in East Ham who had 3 kids under 4 years old the youngest just a few weeks. With everything going on they decided he was probably better off with a family who could give him more of what he needs.

He’s been such a little trooper so far :)

After 2 years since our previous pooch died at the age of 15, we've finally found ourselves a new doggo.

Meet Dexter

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Border terrorist?

Meet a lot of puppy Dexters and Walters - you can tell the parents' viewing habits.

One of mine is called Colin, after the schnauzer from Spaced. It was very serendipitous to see him playing with Peter Serafinowizc's new puppy recently.

We think so. A friend of a friends grandad had him and then died. He was living with the daughter but her other dogs were bullying him so he was advertised on fb.

Loved Spaced.

You shot me in the bollocks Tim.

Probably time to introduce Benny my "mum's" cockapoo. We got him 12th October at 12.5 weeks so we've had him 6.5 weeks now.

loads more pics: https://imgur.com/a/Uc7BpXx

He also has his own instagram https://www.instagram.com/doglikedex/

I couldn't help myself

Wow! he is gorgeous, look at that face.

And this is Marni, who’s now been with us for about 11 days. He came to us as Armani but we both agreed it needed changing. He loves a nap.

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Marni looks awesome!

Digging Dexters look with his little bandana scarf!

So Benny now has most of his adult teeth through at 5 months and has decided that when he gets excited or bored the best way of getting our attention is to nip/bite any body part he can get his teeth on. it's definitely in the realm of play biting but most of his teeth are edged like slivers of glass at the moment so he cuts the skin when he does it and it's not pleasant esp if he pinches your flab which hurts like a mother fucker.

Since we got him we've done bite inhibition training of yelping and immediately disengaging then replacing with an acceptable chew toy but when he's wound up he doesn't give two shits about that and will ignore the chew toys to carry on trying to bite.

it's clearly an energy thing and he's after attention but he's getting more than enough exercise as I walk him for 45 mins twice a day (he stops a lot for sniffing so we're only going 1.5-2 miles in that time tops) and he will sleep like the dead (see above photos) but if anything gets him even slightly excited or he thinks he might be on for getting some food (even after he has just been fed) he just goes super saiyan for 20 minutes and requires all eyes on him no matter how tired he is.

anyone got any decent tips for helping him break the habit like decent training exercises? if we can get him to settle properly the rest of his behaviour is pretty much all good.