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

We moved in to a new house with a garden coming from a flat with a balcony. The living room floor is carpeted and there's now quite a few shades of yellow patches by the back door where mine came down in the night and there was no-one to open the door. She won't do it on hard floors so hopefully when we eventually replace this carpet with some wood she'll stop.

Got chatting to somebody who lives in the Fizzy Lewisham building while walking otto earlier.

Fizzy Lewisham is the rental building I mentioned that allows pets. Apparently the communal areas, lifts and roof terrace are constantly pissed on by dogs and the cleaning company are not keeping up on it. He said that the roof terrace was unusable because of the smell this summer.

Sounds lovely.

well worth the 50% hike!

Anyone had any success with a dog living between two homes?

My two smaller dogs spend most of their time with my ex, and a week or so a month with me. They love it coming here and my family and other dog love having them. So, I guess that's success.

Thank you. Sat with my relatively anxious dog here feeling very sad for her and moving between homes. It's all bit preemptive, she might deal with it okay, but yeah not entirely convinced

Benny splits his time between our place and my mums spending about 3-4 days with her every 2 weeks or so.

he loves it, he gets super excited about the journeys when he's picked up and knows when he's within about 2 miles of each of his "homes" and will start to whimper and whine from over stimulation as he vibrates with energy in the backseat.

Cool, thank you. Fingers crossed it goes okay.

Yes, I have done it before. There is a transition where the dog is anxious, possibly more reactive.

Once mine got into the routine of it they were fine. Mine actually looked forward to going to the other home ("Oh I am going there! Amazeballs! It means I get to cuddle X and play with Toy A and Toy B! Amazeballs!).

It helps if you both talk through and are consistent about rules and dont try and bribe the dog to be favorite or use the dog to play other games with each other.

Spotted earlier today in Reading’s Famous Reading

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@crossedthread, this is great.

Thanks for all the greyhound chat a few weeks back. On Saturday we revisited the kennel and reserved Rupert, a 22 month old ex-racer. After walking 5 different dogs in total he was the most chilled, affectionate and walked perfectly on the lead. This weekend we will be having a home visit by the kennel staff then fingers crossed we can collect him shortly after. Just need to make some improvements to the fence in the garden, but myself and Mrs Jambon are beyond excited.

My garden has no fence, my dog refuses to walk on a lead, and he disappears for hours at a time.

Keeps life exciting that way!!

Hope you pass the tests and Rupert comes home with you.

Good work! One of my chums here has a rescue greyhound called Reg. Rupert sounds a bit more upmarket. (Reg is a lazy bastard.)

@skinny @Jung thanks both. Still not convinced I'm dog person, but definitely a greyhound person. They just seem so chilled, apart from when they're running 40mph. Will let you know how it goes.

What a good boy

I wasn't a dog person until we got one, now I love having one (mostly). It's great to get out early at the weekends with him and find some woods to walk around. He loves running around trying to find squirrels, I love the peace and quiet.

What make of dog do you have? Life seems to be getting busier so will be interesting to see if having a dog changes things, I'm all for carving out peace and quiet. Imagine it gives a healthier perspective, picking up dog eggs does that I imagine :)

A cockapoo. Little fucker has graduated from a run-at-the-squirrels-and-hope approach to a stalk-them-and-catch-one-now-and-again approach. I can't take him to the local park any more as he's reduced the squirrel population there by two.

I've had two babies so picking up dog eggs is a walk in the park in comparison.

Are you not allowed back to the park either? Two of each is pretty good going.

Walking the dog is the best hour of the day.

Having got divorced from my dogs and wife nearly two years ago. The Savage household is meeting and getting this Vadger Hound from Battersiah Windsor. His name will be Frankie.

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omg he's amazing. Is he a miniature or full sized?

16 years ago when we got our Sprollie he was an utter twat. He couldn't resist charging up the garden and as he stopped would go balistic by woofing at real and imagined squirrels. He would also lunge forward on his lead if there was a chance of snagging a squirrel in the park. Around the same time on a Cesar Millan show I saw him resolving a similar problem but with people and dogs passing the owners garden. He had an empty 500ml plastic bottle with a handful of pea shingle in it put in it. He then went behind a tree by the fence of this garden and waited the dog was let out and as a couple passed he charged towards the fence and tree. As he started to bark Milan chucked the noisy bottle onto the ground near the dog, the dog stopped. Then he took the dog on a walk and shook the bottle once as the dog was about to go loopy at a passing dog walker. It worked but was obviously edited.
Or was it?
We did the same and it worked almost as quickly. The garden issue was slowed down and quiet immediately. I took the bottle with me on the walks in our squirrel infested park for a week and shook it twice properly and tapped the pocket it was in three or four times. Problem gone. He used to spin chasing his tail and barking. The dog never went out without being on a lead so was never far from the bottle. He lived to 17 1/2.

Meet Frankie. He's shiny and new.

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What a cutie!

The breeder we got Dora from has had another litter (KC working Fox red labs).
Lovely breeder- exemplary I’d say, and Dora is amazing.
Pm me if interested, think they’re at about 6 weeks.
Nothing in it for us- we’d really like another, but not the best time!

Some photos of the pippers:(and one of Dora)

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