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

Majestic.

Holly has killed two squirrels, years apart but in exactly the same patch of trees. If we walk near them you'd better believe she's putting in the work to get number 3.

Yeah but beautiful regardless

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Hello,
Apologies, this has probably been done to death in the thread, but this feels like a hive mind kind of question; We are potentially looking at a new pup (working dog lineage, not that it matters). We have had a dog before, some time ago now, and went with Insurance which quite literally never got called upon.
So what do people do? Insurance policy or monthly into savings account? or other options.....dilemma.
It's a while since I have had to look, so if it's insurance any recommendations.
Cheers

All insurance is licensed betting. I have never bothered and 35 years and 8 dogs later I am massively quids in. Others on this thread have taken out insurance and are very glad that they did! I am lucky to always have been in a position to afford the vet bills that never happened. If you are not, get insurance.

We've got for Petplan for our pup, the covered for life 4k one, may bin it off at some point but I'd want some money set aside for it first. I was mainly worried about deciding just to put money aside then having her break a leg before any is really saved.

Insurance.
My pup broke his leg last year, £5000 operation.
Christmas time he had developed a pretty bad cough, and had some severe gastric issues.
The gastric stuff ended up coming to £4000 (multiple scans, tests, extended stay in the vets)
The cough turned in the pneumonia, and he still isn't right, our insurance covers upto £8,000 per ailment, and we just got a £5000 bill from the vets that the insurance isn't covering for the pneumonia/ breathing issues because we have already reached the limit for this case.

Our insurance (was) £300 a year, and we have had nearly £15,000 out of it.

Have had a few minor claims, but overall we're subsidising people who've had bad luck like @DethBeard. Still, wouldn't want to be in a colleague's situation - got a new pup, told me insurance was a mug's game and after 10 months it needed 2 x £4k operations on its hips.

Getting insurance is gambling a smallish stake each month that your dog will get ill. Not getting insurance is gambling against a potentially huge loss. What's your appetite for risk?

Insure insure insure.

Worth also saying that insurance has its limits. If your dog develops a long term condition, you'll end up paying for it one way another. Dog ownership is expensive.

Odies been woofing at night. He sleeps in the kitchen, which opens out on to the garden so he can hear all the cars and foxes that rock up. Lately it’s been every night and it’s wearing thin a little!

What can I do? Do those ultra sonic anti-woofing things work?

Is there a specific trigger or is it any noise at night time?

Do those ultra sonic anti-woofing things work

They work amazingly well in the short term, but our dog quickly learnt that not wearing it was permission to woof, though she'd stop if you fitted it (even without batteries). Eventually she gave up caring about the beeping.

No substitute for actual training, whatever that might be.

(we bought a cheap beep/vibrate only one. Not ultrasonic or electroshock)

He’s getting set off at night, when he’s in his crate in the kitchen. I’m assuming it’s noises from the garden - there are a few cats nearby and we get foxes too. He’ll just have a bit of a woof for a while, then stop. It was every few days, but lately it’s been every night and sometimes a couple of times in a night.
It’s definitely ‘I’ve seen something I want to investigate’ barking as opposed the being distressed.

@grams actually that would be fine in this instance. It’s literally just at night when he’s in the kitchen. I was thinking of trying one of the free standing units and just putting it out of reach near his bed.

Do people limit how much time there dogs veg out in the sun? Coming from Cyprus Nori is loving catching some rays in the garden but it doesn't take her long to start panting and looking a bit fooked.

I've met many stupid dogs, but never a healthy one that would do themselves a mischief by overdoing the sun. My old lurcher would eventually move into the shade if they overheated. I reckon as long as they have water and shade available I wouldn't give it a second thought...

I've met many stupid dogs, but never a healthy one that would do themselves a mischief by overdoing the sun.

You never met my first Stafford, he would do this all the time. My parents were looking after him once and he overheated to the point that they had to put him in the bath with cold water covering his feet and an electric fan blowing cool air on him. I'm surprised they didn't just throw the fan in with him and be done with it.

What were the symptoms of overheating that made it clear such extreme treatment was required? Sounds like he might have just wanted the attention....

I wouldn't give it a second thought...

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Extreme/noisy panting, going limp. He had to be picked up when it happened - he was normally a typical and lively Stafford. Got him checked out for any underlying cause or related condition and the vet found none. He was otherwise the healthiest dog I've ever had and lived tillvery nearly 16.

The advice was to do what my parents did that time - obviously trying to avoid it in the first place was a better option.

This was him

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I've met many stupid dogs, but never a healthy one that would do themselves a mischief by overdoing the sun.

Our whippet regularly tries to bake himself to death in the summer if we aren't careful.

By which I mean he'd choose to die of heat stroke instead of moving to the shade.

Wow. It seems many dogs are even stupider than I gave them credit for.

I guess my immediate question is whether you're misinterpreting the signals/symptoms, surely no animal can reach a point evolutionarily whereby they genuinely risk their health via exposure to the sun? I guess maybe domestication has bred this instinct out of them by restricting their movement so much but it still feels unlikely.

He's a beaut!