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Soggy doggy having a quick sit down after some epic zoomies chasing fat pigeons in the long grass.

New Guinea Pigs, Nightmare and Trampoline-Star.

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Very cute! I miss my pigs, very underrated pets, much more personality than you might expext!.

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Thou shall not touch the bike today...

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Irresistible. :)

Rehomed a Savannah last night, he seems to be settling in!

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I have chance of picking up some African snails as pets. Anyone got some advice?
Apparently easy...

From a friend's childhood experience, I think you'll end up with rather a lot of them rather quickly - which is probably why you've got an opportunity to get some.

You could get them out and they'd crawl up your arm though, much more interesting than the stick insects that I had.

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My boys.

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Murphy, now a little over 5 months old.
Having a blast at doggy day care yesterday.

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Benny getting acquainted with the door mat at the pub the other week when it was still warm and dry enough to sit outside. It's all laminate indoors so he goes mad for a good shagpile, always raises a smile in passers by.

edit: couple bonus cliips from his trip to the beach too...
https://i.imgur.com/rI63tmt.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/OEXsGWQ.mp4

Do people have advice about adopting dogs?

I’ve had family dogs my whole life but almost all (7/8) have been from puppies (including breeding our own). Now my fiancé and I are looking at getting our first dog as a couple, and today we visited a dog that is fostered in our village. The dog was rescued from Romania and is (probably) a collie cross about 6yr old. He was a total sweetie and was very chilled when we met him in the foster garden. We also went for a walk together and met up with my mum to introduce him to one of her dogs. 99% of the time everything was good he walks great on the lead and was mostly disinterested in other dogs. However there were two moments when he suddenly became very defensive with vicious growling towards my mum’s dog. I’m not sure what set him off, certainly my mum’s dog didn’t provoke him in any ordinary sense, but my guess is that both moments were when the foster owner moved to talk to my mums dog so maybe it was some kind of possessiveness.

We’re committed to getting a dog and understand that the dog has likely had a hard life making behavioural issues inevitable. But my question is how trainable these kind of behavioural issues are? It would simply be unworkable for us if the dog couldn’t socialise well with others and an additional consideration is that we are hoping we might have kids soon. Maybe growling is just a short term and understandable case of anxiety. But our one other adopted dog (rescued from an abusive farm aged 6mo) has never grown out of an extreme fear of “bangs”... we weren’t even able to walk past a local cricket match until she went dead aged 15!

Nightmare and Trampoline-Star are getting bigger.

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There'll be a good meal on those by the Yuletide feast.

Grrrrrr

...aaavvvy to go with them ?

Thanks.

Son's crying.

Maybe I shouldn't have eaten them in front of him...

Friends dog, borrow him for walkies,,,excuse to get out early morning

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Cavy, shirley.

Does anyone want some free dog dry food? Amazon has mistakenly sent me 2 bags x 1.5KG of these and I don't have to return them. (I have ordered cat food but then got it wrong twice!)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Wellbeloved-Complete-Adult-Small/dp/B005FVBEJA/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=james+wellbeloved+dog+lamb+1.5&qid=1608694963&sr=8-5

Keen to shift them this week as they are taking up space.

I don't go out much these days as being clinically vulnerable, so if you could pick up from my home in Camberwell, it would be ideal.

Got the Giants and they’ve gone to nursery. We get them back at the holidays. They’re pretty fascinating and easy to take care of. I’ve had eggs but no hatchlings.

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