If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Here are some more hints... she has more prey drive than my other two. No
insect, lizard, or frog is safe in her vicinity. Also, she's fairly velcro. Her coat feels slightly coarse. Under her chin is some loose skin. She has black spots on her tongue. She can rip a kong apart. (Of course, I realize I'm never going to know for sure. :} PetsMart Pet Trainer My Kids, My Students, My Life: http://hometown.aol.com/dfrntdrums/m...age/index.html Last updated June 27 at 10:00 a.m. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
Under her chin is some loose skin. She has
black spots on her tongue. Maybe some Chow in there as the black spots kinda matches the straight stifles.. Dogstar716 Come see Gunnars Life: http://hometown.aol.com/dogstar716/index.html |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
DogStar716 wrote: Under her chin is some loose skin. She has black spots on her tongue. Maybe some Chow in there as the black spots kinda matches the straight stifles.. Dogstar716 Come see Gunnars Life: http://hometown.aol.com/dogstar716/index.html That's what I still think. I can kind of see it after fostering Chloe the PB/chow mix. Who definitely showed more traits of PB but did have some chow traits as well. Total black tongue which of course doesn't always mean chow. Other breeds can have the black tongue. But her ears were chowlike not PB like. Her fur was somewhat thicker and a bit longer. Anyway I can see the possibility of chow. Then again Mac could be several combinations. No matter she is a nice looking dog for sure. Gwen |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
Leah wrote:
Here are some more hints... she has more prey drive than my other two. No insect, lizard, or frog is safe in her vicinity. Also, she's fairly velcro. Her coat feels slightly coarse. Under her chin is some loose skin. She has black spots on her tongue. She can rip a kong apart. (Of course, I realize I'm never going to know for sure. :} I'm too lazy to walk over and plug the pc in (the only way I can view an AOL site).. but based on what you just said...maybe she's like Zelda..part Shar Pei? Zelda has wrinkles under her neck (remnants from when she was a pup...then she was really wrinkly).black spots on the tongue, curly hair..stiff guard hairs and soft undercoat (creamy). [http://www.wtv-zone.com/momisty/Transfer/Zelda2.jpg] (you can just see the wrinkles under her neck in this shot=B9) Zelda weighs ~42 lbs. She could stand to lose ~5 more if it was "turned" into all muscles but she's also part Lab? and that gives her a broad chest. She looks sort of German Shepherdish.. the stand up ears and dark muzzle coloring. When she was a bit younger her fav hang out was on the back of my chair.. just like a cat. She loves to "hunt" squirrels and rabbits.. but has no clue what to do with caught prey (like mice right by her feet ;-) Shar Pei are very velcro dogs. My sis' male wants to be in on the action and mopes if he can't be outside playing with all the kids. So.. maybe Shar Pei/? ~misty N~Zelda =B9 I have a ton more pix of her on disk.. now to get the boyz to allow me to dump "Diablo" so I have room for the camera's photo program..it's gonna be either a fight..or big time bribery ;-} |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
did
have some chow traits as well. Total black tongue which of course doesn't always mean chow. What does it for me is the stifles. Both the Shar Pei and the Chow have very straight rears. But the pigment can help identify if the rear i straight. Shar Pei crosses are usually easy to spot as they usually have the straight stifles, the small ears, the "hippo like" muzzle traits somewhere on them Dogstar716 Come see Gunnars Life: http://hometown.aol.com/dogstar716/index.html |
#16
|
|||
|
|||
DogStar716 wrote: What does it for me is the stifles. Both the Shar Pei and the Chow have very straight rears. But the pigment can help identify if the rear i straight. Shar Pei crosses are usually easy to spot as they usually have the straight stifles, the small ears, the "hippo like" muzzle traits somewhere on them Dogstar716 Come see Gunnars Life: http://hometown.aol.com/dogstar716/index.html Absolutely. I totally agree. Not just straight ears but smaller ears than say GSD or corgi! Flying dumbos LOL. As do some of the other northern breeds. Sammies come to mind. And Shar Pei crosses are very easy to spot IMO. I love that "hippo like" muzzle. Gwen |
#17
|
|||
|
|||
"Melanie L Chang" wrote in message ... I'd be interested in trialing on cattle if my dogs had a chance to be around them a lot and get to understand how to work them, but since they don't, cows are just too big and too powerful for me to risk my dogs on. That's my theory as well. At my parents a few weeks ago, Bodhi saw my Grandma out walking her Peke. They were down the driveway, alongside the fenced (electric--3 lines of it) turn out pasture. Bodhi saw them, and went to greet Grammy & Dolly. The cows saw him trotting, spooked (they aren't worked by anything but my dad on foot!), and Bodhi's interest suddenly turned to the cows in the pasture. Split through the fence (turned out the bottom line wasn't hot), split the cows, and then proceeded to try to regroup them. I was a good 40 some feet away. Coda saw the action, ran to the fence (but remembered the hot wire, it has zapped his tail last summer while running with Molly, Dad's Lab), and barkbarkbarked at them all. I grabbed his lead, and ran to the fence gate, and went in, trying to get a recall. HA! He's circling the lone cow that had split (there were 3 others--they were all yearlings), trying like hell to get them together. It kicked, but he was a good distance back. I called him again, and said, "Bodhi, WAIT!" He does a "down" on wait as well, so he went stopped and went into a down when the cow was headed back (basically when he stopped moving, the cow went back toward the others). He stayed there until I went to him and slipped the lead on him to lead him out. Needless to say, that was enough cow action for me for a long time. Just watching that one kick scared me, and it was no where near him. Luckily, he was trying to herd (how he knew), and wasn't chasing. No cows. Not until both he AND I are MUCH more experienced! Shelly & The Boys |
#18
|
|||
|
|||
"Stafford A. Rau" wrote in message ... "Shelly & The Boys" writes: I've not watched any cattle trials/tests before. If we can get the whole "finding a trainer that's not forever & a day away" under control, then hopefully we can iron out some of the things so we can enter our first trial later this fall (On sheep). Find me one too? So far, all I've found are one in The Dalles and one allegedly in Scio, both of which would be about an hour and a half to two hours from Portland. That trial this Sept. in Sandy is going to have cattle, IIRC. It's the weekend of the 20th. I'm meeting w/ some of the people hosting it this coming week, so hopefully I'll have found a closer trainer, and found out more about the trial. Good luck though - and do post some more pics of Bohdi chasing sheepie-butt! I don't have any new ones...I've been handling him myself, and go alone, so no one to take photos! :-) Shelly & The Boys |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
Yup. But for some silly reason, it bothers me not to know what to call her -
a rottie mix? A dobie mix? There are a lot of choices - mongrel, mutt, heinz-57, cur, pariah, mix, blend, Of Mixed Heritage, shelter special. You could always make something up. Max, who in reality is an F1 Cavalier x Cocker, is a West Virginia Rat Spaniel, or Rat Spaniel for short. There seems to be a small colony of night squirrels living in the alley behind my building, and brave Max has made it his duty to dispose of them. People do believe me, BTW, when I tell them he's a purebred Rat Spaniel. He is a good looking dog, and I suppose he looks like he ought to be a pure something. Jana |
#20
|
|||
|
|||
I'd be interested in trialing on cattle if my dogs had a chance to be
around them a lot and get to understand how to work them, but since they don't, cows are just too big and too powerful for me to risk my dogs on. Yep. Too dangerous. I know of dogs that were killed or brain damaged. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|