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hi all I have a 5 year old Belgian Shepherd called Jake He is daft as a brush thinks cats are animals which live on the garage roof but doesn't associate to cats being the ones we have in the home (Zorro and Merlin) Great dog in the winter though he lies on your feet and keeps them warm! great for thoses long nights of searching! Jan x

Hi all My name is Lady, l am a Bull Terrier cross and have had liver probs. My mum has got my diet rite now, eventhough l'm not to chuffed with CHAPPIE,but l still keep being sick in the nite or early hours, not every nite,but most!!! We have been back and forwards to the vet - they poke me about and take more blood tests,which they want to do again soon (to keep a check on the liver enzymes) but no one really knows why l am sick.My mum l]kept saying it could have something to do with the fact that l am hungry and after 2 visits the vet decided she could be rite(my stomach makes awful noises) - so l now have 4 meals aday,the last one about 10.30,this has helped abit,but not always - grrrrrrrr blooming frustrating(l'm not growling cause l'm not a bad tempered dog, just grrrr fed-up). Byee Lady x

hi everyone its annie here,back from the hospital.mummy and daddy picked me up at 9.30 this morning.i was so excited i nearly knocked mummy off her feet...lol its sooooo nice to be home.i hope you all had a lovely new year. i'll speak to you later when ive calmed down a bit.im soooo excited to be back love you all annie

Meow, it's me, Jaws. Sorry to barge in on the dog site, but I was curious about what you dogs have been talking about (sorry, it's just our nature to be nosey). Annie, even though you ARE one of THEM, I still was happy to see that you feel well enough to type. Your paws must be bigger than mine; I'm only able to type things like lkm and oik, with my dainty little paws. Makes mum really irritated sometimes, too. Don't you just love it when they get mad? Oh, right, it isn't in your genes makeup to irritate your owners. If you need any pointers I would be glad to teach you how to sit on newspapers when mum is reading one; or sit in front of the computer screen -- but only when it is on and someone is typing -- don't EVER sit in front of the screen when the computer is off; or, jump in the middle of the bed when someone is changing the sheets. Anyway, I'm off to nose about the house. Wish you a speedy recovery.

Hi All, especially Annie This is Lady - well it would appear that l have a mate, be it temporarily - mum found a stray today and u got it, brought him home!!!!! He's a rather large Yellow Lab,younger than me and was really smelly. Mum tried to bath him, but like me he would'nt even go in the bathroom - he backed straight out!!! mum used her nozzle and did'nt persevere. We all went into back garden armed with buckets,blankets and shampoo - fink mum came off worse!!! lol Its quite an adventure when we both need walks cause l go off the lead and he wears mine threaded through the hand strap,my collar won't even reach right round!!! if l go off in front,he pulls mum so he can keep up with me!!! Mum says if he's not picked up by tomorrow,she'll have to take him to vets cause he's got a warm nose and a jippy tummy and his nails are all warn right down - mine are short,but his - well!!! Tonite mum is giving him my spare bed!!! (which is the spare bed)and l'll be in with mum and dad - should be interesting!! Anyway thats it for now,will let you know what happens tomorrow. And yes mum would love to keep him,but Dad's not too keen - rather expensive!! Lady xx

Hallo. I've been watching and reading all the things other dogs and cats have been doing and saying - and I now feel confident enough to introduce myself. I am Clover, and I am a whippet. My human says I am a very cat like dog - I am aloof and very wary of visitors initially - and I like to curl up in soft snuggly places and go to sleep inside carrier bags. I don't have a 'doggy' smell, (I don't smell of cats either!), and I don't like getting my feet wet - unless I am chasing rabbits. I usually wear a fleece coat that 'mum' made for me when I go out - I hate getting cold and wet. I have a Burberry pattern one for when its really cold - very fetching it is too. I enjoy playing with most of the other dogs we meet on our regular walks by the river - I can outrun most of them anyway, and turn much quicker too. Mind you the retired greyhound we met the other day was a bit of a challenge - it was quite a workout for both of us - but we did enjoy it! I met another whippet a week or two back too - which was nice, as there doesn't seem to be too many of us about. He was a very handsome grey brindle and quite a lot bigger than me. He is a show type whippet, whereas I am built more for speed. Well I've said far more than I intended already - which is very unusual for me - I am a quiet sort of dog - I quite like my 'own' cats, particularly the Alzheimic elderly one called Jasmine, but strange ones have no place in my garden! And as for the squirrels that keep walking the fence - I'd like to give them what for! Okay - that's it- back to my warm corner - o and 'mum' says it's bedtime. Night night!

Hello its Lady l wrote this just before my walk,so mum can let you know whats happening and l can't see her crying!!!:(((( My mate has gone, the dog warden came about half an hour ago,he's off to some kennels where the vet will check him out,after 10 days he will go to NCDL or Animal Trust as its now known. The dog warden reckons he had been thrown out and possibly with the other 2 labs.His nails were unuaually short and he had rough area's on his elbows,where he'd been left on concrete flooring - poor lickle man.They will let mum know whats happening to him and how he is, so l will let you know when l know!!:(((( Mums still crying:((( Bye - Lady x

Hello and Hello to all of you from both of us. Us being Milly and Molly, that's our everyday names, our Posh names are Graceful Amy and Castletina Lady. Mum says we are neither graceful nor lady like, huh don't know what she means. We are West Highland White sisters and have lived with our Mum and Dad for almost 4 years. It's really hard work keeping these humans in order and getting them out for exercise. Mum keeps sitting at this puter thing and Dad, well, he goes off to somewhere called work, sounds nasty doesn't it, hope it's not a 'rude' word!!! Our favourite games are chasing the rabbits when we go for walks through the orchards or on the hills and chasing cats that come into our garden, not our own cat called Holly, she's not very nice to us and will smack us if we get too close to her. Molly loves to play fetch with a ball too but she's the naughty one and hides it under the coffee table and then shouts at Dad to fetch it himself, lol, you should see him trying to get down to it now. Milly here, When we go out for walks Molly always looks for the smelly places to roll in then gets really upset when Mum brings her home and puts her in the bath, Oooh she really does smell something awful some days but she never learns. I really feel embarrased walking home with her when she's dirty and smelly. Shove over you and let me in, it's Molly here, Milly is a lazy thing, she won't play ball with me and it takes her ages to run across the orchards, she eats far too much, always on the lookout for crumbs. Mum gives us lovely meals but is Milly happy, oh no, must be looking for more, she's putting on a bit of weight too, that's why she can't run as fast as me. Mum says it's time we looked for husbands!! she said a few babies would sort us both out, don't know what she means! Well, better go, cause Mum's back, Happy New Year all you canine friends, from Milly and Molly Woof Woof

hello lady im soooo sorry your mates gone,sob,sob.mummys really upset now,i can see her fighting the tears!! i dont like it when mummy cries. is there no way that mummy can have him back after the 10 days is up. i would miss my archie and bella if anything happened to them.even though archie is a pain in the a...e....lol hello clover how are you.mummy and daddy used to have a lurcher which is like a long haired whippet.he was called tyson and he was just as skinny as you...lol one day while daddy was taking him for a walk a lady started shouting at daddy and accused him of cruelty because she reckoned that tyson was being starved!!!i do wish people would read up on dogs and wat they looked like!!humans eh!!! hiya jaws yes i am one of THEM...lol but i am so cuddly and soppy that even the cats next door play with me.but archie(hes an american bulldog) and bella my sister chase them.daddy goes mad then cos they trample all over his flowers.lol hello milly and molly my mummy and daddys son in laws nan has got one of you. shes got china ones all over her house. i do like your posh names!!mine is jamori amazing grace and bellas is beldoon dotty darling.do you think they are posh names...lol mummy and daddy used to breed shar-pei(they were chinese).all full of wrinkles.ahhh bless.mummy always used to end up keeping one of the babies!!shes soppy like that. ruby only died 3 months ago.mummy and daddys kennel name was klankruga.that sounds posh as well. bye everyone speak later annie xx

Penny my 18month old dog says Hi to all the other dogs on this site she's a mongral and a phycho who likes to do the wall of death round the garden fences, we took her of a friends hands who got her for his daughter and she didn't want her she had had three homes in as many months so you can imagine the problems we have had with her but a more loving dog you couldn't find, New Years Eve I had to sit up with her until two as she was so frightened of the fireworks. but she's worth it. oh and she loves meatloaf (the singer) and Elvis. Sue

Hello - Kate here. Happy New Year to all animals and their owners. The last time I went to the vets the nurse changed the dressing and put a red bandage on my poorly paw and some white cotton wool round the top to make it look like a Christmas stocking! Today, Hooray...! I've just come back from the vets without the bandage on my foot, but the bad news is I have to have one of those awful plastic things on my head to stop me licking my paw - it's driving me mad! I keep bumping into things and the cats are looking at me as though I have just landed from Mars! Anyway my human mummy says it can come off for good in a few days - good! Can't wait to go outside and play again. Love and Licks, Kate.

Hi Kate, Rossi the Black Lab here. It's usually Pan, the cat downstairs, who does all the typing, but he's busy right now having his face washed by Kitty and then he'll do hers and then they'll probably have a fight. They usually do. Crazy cats. That Pan is so stuck up. He just tries to ignore me, and if I get too close he belts me in the face. Kitty's much nicer. She always comes up and gives me a kiss. Anyway Kate, just wanted to tell you I had to wear one of those awful things round my neck. I had to have an operation on my eyes, cos my eyelids were turned inwards and my eyes watered all the time. We Black Labs often get that. Then I had to wear that thing, but boy did I destroy it. I rubbed up against everything and crashed around till it was nearly falling off and they had to keep fixing it with string and tape. Like to see one of them walking around like that and not being able to scratch their ears or their heads. Human beings, huh, hard to live with sometimes but you can't do without 'em. Hope you're better soon Kate and Annie too. Hope your bottom feels better Annie. Woof, Rossi. PS. Grandma let me use her computer tonite cos my Dad's using his. Grandma doggy-sits me in the daytime cos all my family are at work, and she gives me good liver cookies. Yum!

hi kate thankyou for your message.my bottom feels fine now.mind you it still feels a bit sore sometimes and i cant go to toilet properly!!.the vet man stuck some bullets up my bottom and then i couldnt stop going.thats why im sore i reckon. last year i had to have my tail taken away completely because it had grown inwards and made a hole in my bowels(watever that is).the vet told mummy and daddy that that is probably why im having trouble now with my bottom bottoms eh ,...lol oh well,mummy has just got in from work and she gonna get the hoover out so i'll speak to you all later love annie xx

Just a quickie - This is Lady and mum has just phoned the dog warden to find out how Cracker is (thats what mum called him),but the warden did'nt know anything, he did say though that no one had made enquiries for him!!!:((( Mum did'nt realise that if you lose a dog and the warden takes it in, you have to pay to get it out again - £25 initial fee, plus £5 per day kennels,plus any vets fee's, plus booster jabs - praps thats why no one has made inquiries. When he is re homed it will be out of the county - infact he's out of the county now,so l'll not see him again,nor will mum:(( Will keep u up to date if mum hears

hi lady im sorry to hear about cracker.i bet you miss him.i know i would miss archie and bella if they went away.:(( youve still got me you can talk to if mummy doesnt hog the puter...lol lets hope cracker soon finds a nice new mummy and daddy lots of love annie xx

Hi i am a belgium sheperd age 5 called Wallace i know ,dont ask wheres grommit i came with the name this mum and dad i have now are my third owners., no i have not been a tearaway its just that my first home was a scrap yard bought as a gaurd dog i was only small and very frightened untill this couple came and took me away they felt sorry for me. I stayed with them for a while but i started to grow and they had another dog as well and a very small house, i stayed with them until this mum and dad that i have got now came to see me their golden labrador had not long died. I am a vey happy dog now can get away with anything they are right softies when mum is on the computer i lay asleep by her feet but as soon as dad gets on the computer there i am poking my nose up under his arm he soon moves as i know she wants to get on looking for her ancesters on G/C. Bye for now Wallace (i nearly got named William)

Hi Margarate and Wallace Its so nice to see someone else own a belgian ! They are fantastic dogs to own extremley loving and protective dogs. Extremely giddy dogs even at 5 they act like puppys bouncing about im still waiting for him to calm down he even wears the kids out when we are on the park he tries to herd them like sheep you have to see it to beleive it!! People think he is a german shepherd cross with a collie but no they are breed within their own right. Jake is a Terveran just like wellard from Eastenders (except the puzzling thing is wellard is in fact female!! males have a big thick mane). I was going to ask Jake to say a few words but in true Belgian form his is bounding around the garden!! love Jan and Jake xx

Hello, Bon Jour and Howde-do-de! It's Toby the stupendous here once again. I've had a fab Christmas and New Year - tons and tons of presents (all fattening of course) - I have yet to find out who gave me the rather stupid Christmas Pudding Squeky thingamibob - I will reward them with a look of distain and possibly pee of their foot - haven't decided which yet! My human mummy says I'm an "ungrateful little wretch" but what's a boy to do with a Christmas Pudding that isn't edible? I might give it to my friend Faith who is a black cocker spaniel bitch (pardon my french) but she is only really interested in her belly (or so my mum says!) she might try to eat it. As I will not be requiring this "toy" do any of you boys and girls want it? I will exchange it for 1/2 ton of Good Boy Chocdrops or 2 Packets of Schmakoos. The rate of exchange varies each day, depending on the mood I'm in. All answers (preferrably with a tin of Pedigree Chum (Rabbit flavour) to Toby (dog) (a.k.a Star Veld Carousel Chief) The Prettiest Boy in Tollerton Your replies will find me as even the Postmas thinks I'm beautiful (now..........I wonder if he gave me that Christmas Pudding?..............)

Hi veryone. Its Dede, back from our Xmas and New Year visits. We went to stay at my human brothers house in Vancouver. We aren't allowed, Clooney and I, upstairs when we visit there as they have white carpet. They also have 2 small people, I don't mind them so much, Clooney is afraid of them, they can be quite wild sometimes, especially as they got lots of toys over the holidays. Before we went to visit them we had the other kids here for a week, pandemonium, thank goodness we are back to peace and quiet now, just Mum and Dad. Its very cold here in 100 Mile House at the moment, -42 last night, we don't go out much. Dad has to force us to go for a pee, we like to sit in front of the fire and manage to force down the occasional treat. Not so many treats around since the kids left. I feel sorry for the outside animals, Mum and Dad have to keep going out to make sure the water isn't that weird solid stuff they call ice. The water freezes in a couple of minutes here at the moment. I hope all animals in the world are warm and well fed, that's my New Years wish. Bye for now. Dede and Clooney.

hello everybody mummy and daddy have just had a phone call from the vet man.the biopsy showed that i have got an infection(watever that is)in my colon.it is probably caused by an allergy,so the nurse is gonna phone mummy tomorrow and let her know about my new diet.uuummmm,i hope its chicken!i love chicken.ive also got to have some more tablets to get rid of the infection.mummy always puts them in a bit of cheese for me. must go now as its walkies time byeeee love annie the bulldog