I would be in Bow Walker catagory. I take my dog to work, but I do the work. I may hunt with my dog, but just as a companion or hunting partner. To me dogs are family. I also prefer labs, but like most all dogs. The same cant be said about people.
I would be in Bow Walker catagory. I take my dog to work, but I do the work. I may hunt with my dog, but just as a companion or hunting partner. To me dogs are family. I also prefer labs, but like most all dogs. The same cant be said about people.
dogs don't have to be pure bred to compete, achieve titles, etc.
many of the "dog people" i hang around with have dogs with more letters after their names than your average doctor... and those dogs were somebody elses' garbage. heck, just recently a good friend of mine and her dog won agility Silver Award of Merit and Expert Silver Standard titles. she's the first Am Staff in Canada to achieve this title. that dog had her ears cut off (not a vet crop), was overbred and thrown away like trash before my friend got her out of the shelter.
i have put a massive ammount of work/time/money into my dog. she's treated like family, but she's still a dog. due to her poor conformation, we don't compete in anything, but i'm damned if i'm going to let her become some fat couch potato that's good for nothing! she's 6 years old now, and we're still doing classes continuously. she loves to learn. we just started tracking this year, and i hope to get some K9 nosework started up here in Canada (it's a big sport down in the US).
guess i've got a foot in each camp, if i had that many feet.
I think I fall into all the above categories: I have a Chihuahua, he is my pet, part of the family, purchased specifically because of his breed, his size and for me to have as my own, he is my baby (my kids are more independent so I felt a need to fill the void. Then I also have the worker, my black lab, she was purchased for hunting, to be trained (it hasn't been a perfct relationship but we love her even with her slight abnormalities) and then the rescue, we have our newest rescue aquisition, my blue heeler, she is a gem and has fit into our family as a new pet. 90% of the animals we have or have had are rescue animals and usually suffering from some sort of condition. The main focus we have in our family is all our animals from the gold fish to the dogs are family members and when we lose one of them it is heartbreaking.
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This is why i put Agility into Catagory 2, sorry if i missed some other names for it but i think your friend is Cat 3/2
rescuer with work. more to 3 then 2 because if she was all cat 2 she would have got a PB border collie. Sorry i know nothing about agility, As i have said this though of mine is VERY general. But i am sure there are people in agility that would look down on the Bit bull in agility!
I think a border collie is enough of a challenge!!!!!
true. i couldn't live with a border collie unless i could buy him a really expensive toy... like a sheep farm.
There are many types of dog owners thats why there are many breeds and they should be properly matched with the right owners wheather pure bred or not.