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

That’s pretty awesome

Let lying dogs sleep...

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that looks so lush!

And also, as someone who's about to interrupt a dog's family by putting a new little human into it (assume this is what we're looking at here), any tips/experience you'd share?

We bought a couple of books, and had a zoom call with a dog behaviourist which I remember was quite useful at the time as my wife suddenly got very anxious about it.

Can't remember too much of what we did, but I do recall daft things like playing crying noises in the bassinet before the baby arrived to get them used to the sound. Two years in and they haven't eaten her.

Any have any experience of GPS trackers? My idiot has never shown an inclination to run off, but he's got instincts and we're heading off for 2 weeks in Scotland in April and would like the comfort of tracking if he does. I guess they all work via sim so, unless I'm missing something, will be useless anywhere with no phone signal. Like most of Scotland (spending time in the highlands and skye).

Thanks for this - aye, we're planning on the baby noise thing, and introducing him to other babies in the meantime. At least if he has the baby-eating instinct we'll find out first.

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My dog got pissed off for a few weeks. Then realised the new order and loved the kid. Then the kid pulled his hair loads and now he avoids the kid.
We didn't do anything before.

The dog does growl at the kid if the kid is poking him or stepping on his tail but then gets up and walks off to be alone so I've not worried. Just taught the kid to leave the dog along and not be a prick. Obvs just don't leave then alone.

Nice, this is reassuring, thank you.

Have used https://tractive.com/ before but quickly realised our Whippet is stuck to us like glue so we are a lot more relaxed now.

That's who I was looking at. Don't suppose you happened to use it in Scotland and have a view on the reception issues or otherwise?

We have an 11 month old and she takes great pleasure out of cuddling our whippet but he usually just gets up and moves to another room. We actually got a Whippet as we knew they are very good with kids so we never really put much effort in and it's worked out.

I think the most important thing is keeping their routine up (which is hard) and that will keep them happy.

Not in Scotland but it was patchy/delayed in Somerset. At best it would give you a rough location to search in. I wouldn't trust it 100% but a Garmin equivalent is a lot of money!

Edit... For day to day/city I'd get an air tag

Also depends so much on the dog. My parents have a drahthaar who, as a pedigree hunting dog you think would be a nob, but he's quite happy for the kid to sit on him and ride him around (not encouraged or condoned but it happens). So yeah.

My dogs a nob. Grumpy little nob.

This is comforting, thank you. Same rationale behind our choice of lurcher, the family we got him from had raised his parents and grandparents with children and they were apparently all endlessly tolerant and sweet natured.

My dog is being set up to fail.
Go for a walk, find a quiet bit of grass in my neighbourhood.
No, leave it! A nappy. Full of nappy things. Munch munch munch.

Get home realise I’ve lost something In nappy struggle go back out with Bailey.

Walking back into the house, what is that in your mouth? Fish it out. Oh a turd. Lovely.

This morning, what’s that you’re licking on the floor outside? Oh some eggshells. Come on leave it let’s go to the toilet patch.

Fucking hell it’s a picnic site.

Someone in my block is feeding the foxes. Well lots of people are really because there are lots of people just throwing food out of their house. Some deliberately to feed the foxes others because I don’t know why.

We had a Tractive for our dog who loves fucking off in the woods.
Useless.
Often dropped signal, slow to give you a location, location was vague. We gave up and bought falconry bells so we can hear him running about.

Might have better luck in open areas?

Dog or baby?

Happily I only have this struggle with discarded chicken bones, not nappies.

Apart from the one time he got a raw chicken leg that a squirrel had allegedly fished out of a communal bin and then abandoned.

This is useful intel, thank you. My guess is that all the sim-based ones are probably equally good/useless, and for the sat based ones (Garmin) you're looking at big money. I love the cunt, but maybe not ~£900's worth. Love the idea of belling him up tho. Morris hound.

Dogtrace is the more economical GPS option. I find bells mostly useless beyond 50m and even less if hilly. Best is to keep an eye and stop them running off, easier said than done.

Ooh, thanks for this, far more reasonable. You got any experience of them?

And yeah, there's nothing to suggest he will run off, he's great off lead, stays in sight and always comes when calls. BUT, he's 8 months and used to the parks of SE London, he hasn't had a grouse explode from heather underneath him or caught the scent/sight of deer in the woods etc. If there was a decent and not ruinous contingency available I'd like to have it when needed rather than rue not getting it. If anyone has a review of dogtrace I'd love to hear it!

Honestly id just keep him on a lead...

I didn't buy one in the end but someone on here recommended it and it's also well used in Spain.

I also don't practice what I preach and my dog runs wild, he normally always comes back, when he's ready. But I did have to go collect him yesterday.

I had 10 minutes of this yesterday after he got a whiff of deer (which luckily made its escape)

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Yeah, I don't want him on the lead all the time if it can possibly be avoided. Maybe long lead for the first walk or two, see if he goes wild with the new smells etc. But what's the point having a dog who's great off the lead if you then just keep him on the lead whenever you go somewhere new? Will look into reviews for the Dog Trace. Cheers.