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

What Japes.

My pup has finally noticed the pigeons in the garden. He's sticking to pointing for the moment but he's already fast so wouldn't surprise me if I'm essentially in the same boat.

This idiot ran into something in the garden somewhere and tore two holes in his side - one of which has now been stapled by the vets…

At least he gets a snazzy suit - he goes loopy if you try and put a cone on him, will literally backflip to try and get it off…

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The inflatable collars are good for stopping them chewing their stitches out but you can’t beat a suit really.

We are now at that time of year when every walk takes twice as long so Mr Toughguy Ratkiller can eat the low hanging blackberries.

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Pup spent most of the morning vomitting and then sleeping literally on me, making attempting to work a bitch.

Assume he ate something in the garden he shouldn't have so will have to Google lense every plant in the garden.

Silly mutt.

Cat shit probably if ours are anything to go by

Yeah - anything that goes over his head he really doesn’t like, so think we will stick with the suit

How old is your pup?

Mine used to love eating every leaf/ plant/ blade of grass in the local park and then throw up for last 10 minutes of our walk.
TBF he was always "fine" in himself, so wasn't overly concerned.
If yours is off their food/ not drinking, I would recommend giving the vets a call.

Our 3yo Border Terrier had the shits recently, started on a Friday night, he was fine, just horrific turds.
Next day it carried on, but he was still chasing a ball, eating as normal, etc.
Sunday rolled around and still persisted so we called the vets, they were not concerned as his nature wasn't affected, but did give us some probiotic paste ("give" lol, they charged me £21.88 for it) and that sorted him out by Wednesday.

Tl;Dr - if your dog is out of sorts call the vets for a professional opinion.

Remember some insurance does a “virtual vet” - ours does free video call consultations for stuff like this

Pro Kolin is the stuff we have for Dolly, not needed it yet, but it’s in the doggy first aid box.

This works brilliantly for when Crumpet drinks a load of swamp water and ends up passing a load of swamp water. Clears it up really quickly!

This evening Dolly has been having a play date with Barbara ( @RunRabbitRun ) it’s safe to say she will sleep tonight.

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Jealous of that tunnel

My back garden is cat and fox shit free. It's like a reverse mullet here, the party's at the front.

Seems some of our bushes are not great and my wife bought a small potted azalia for the patio so he probably munched on that.

10 weeks on Thursday.

He was fine after sleeping it off and giving him some bland food.

This evening Dolly and I set out for our regular 5km walk, but she had other plans. She had to eat every plum, blackberry, cherry and fig that she was too quick for me to stop her getting to. And then came the perfect moment to make a break for freedom. As I was busy picking up a very ripe poo, she ran and pulled the lead out of my hand. Away up the track between the fields she went, then through the hedge and into the mint field and away. I walked up the track a little bit calling her. She has zero recall when out. I could just make out a little white flash way across the field. Then a hook a breath remembered the chat with Gavin and Amy, I turned round shouted FUCK YOU DOLLY I’M OFF FOR DINNER! and started to loudly walk back down the track towards the road. A minute or so later Dolly came tearing down after me and stopped long enough for me to grab the lead and give her a treat for coming back.
I know this all sounds a bit undramatic, but last time she got away it was a 2 hour mission to get her back as she ran ever closer to a mainish road. If I’d returned home on my own I’d be packing a bag now, not typing this.
Little bugger!

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Hart in mouth moment there. Glad she came back .

It's always good to remember that a dog is more likely to come to you if you walk away from it. Run away and the little bastards will likely bowl you over.

Hart in mouth moment there.

Not sure a dog that size is taking down a deer.

Yeah I think I aged a few years right there.

She more a rat, rabbit or pigeon kind of girl :D

Snoopy seems to have discovered his howl between the hours of 12 and 3 every night. Of course my wife is sticking with "he has to cry it out".

She wouldn't let me do that when our kids were babies though.

Our terrier was never very food motivated and those first 18 months he was very prone to moments of 'fuck you, I'm off chasing that thing'. Once he'd discovered chuck-it balls he barely leaves my side now.

Little scamp.
When I was growing up my family had a dog that would leg it as soon as she got a whiff of any sort of animal. We lived in the middle of nowhere so that happened pretty much every day. The problem was that she would run so far away that she'd get lost and it could take hours to get her back as you saw her getting every closer to the motorway.
I'm very glad that Crumpet gets upset if she's more than 10 metres from us. Dogs are so stupid.

In Crumpet news, she decided to treat me for my birthday today by waking me up at 5am to throw up on the carpet and then attempt to kick the front door in for a gargantuan shit in the garden.
Still, I'm sure a 7 hour first aid course will perk me up a bit.

Same experience growing up as well. We had 3 terrier type mongrels and they would always run off. One of them once got out and got herself stuck inside a pipe quite deep underground in a field owned by the Portsmouth water board. Fire engines came out at night and this massive pipe had to get dug up. I can't remember how she got out in the end, I think they cut the pipe. She was covered in mud and very tired.