The human gets to skive off on Fridays so there are no more Friday posts! Oh, the horror!
Actually, the human has a question for you: What breed is your dog and why/how did you choose that breed? Answer that in the comments below, alright!
And if you’re looking for something to read and you have amazingly read everything here, let me share a mix of easy-reading and some longer posts I liked during the week from the other bloggers! Here goes –
- Donna came with her birth-date written wrongly on her vet records, but she can’t beat these Scotties that will never grow old again
- Yes, Will it is just your dog but Jake makes it an art form
- How do you decide whether or not to get a second dog?
- Perhaps when the dogs need company to go outside together – butt talk and the dogs go “tsk” – what are you, primary school girls??? :P
- Perhaps it’s all got to do with Socialisation – Kelinn’s first puppy class
- What happens after you’re done with obedience classes? In Switzerland, Momo trains her dog for Avalanche Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. How cool is that?
OhMelvin
I love when you point us to other blogs to love on! And when you share ours – thanks love!
OhMelvin
Oh, and I wanted another lab after I lost Max (fell in love with Melvin and all his problems). I never wanted a smaller dog, even when I saw Jake’s photo I thought ‘cute, he’ll find a home’. Then i met him and realized he was the biggest dog I’d ever met!
weliveinaflat
Guess sometimes we never know what we want until we met them ;) Your stories always crack me up or make me go OMG! So I must say the chemistry between you guys… sizzling!
Kali
I have a mutt, a former streetdog from Nepal (so not too far away from Singapore ;) ). I found her in a temple, pretty sick and half starved so we took her along.
Thanks for linking back to us!
weliveinaflat
Awesome, it’s great to learn more about you! It must have been an amazing journey from Nepal to Switzerland!
1st World Dog
I’m a mutt too. But purposely bred that way. Lab x Cocker…. so they call me a Spanador. But that makes the assumption that I am a dog and as you know I rarely act like it.
weliveinaflat
That makes you a designer dog! But still a dog, except maybe those times you were walking backwards… :P
1st World Dog
It’s funny Donna. Mum rarely even uses the ‘designer’ term Spanador anymore. While she LOVES the mix she has an issue with the ‘breeder’ which she got me from. Initially she went to the effort of contacting them to let them know my progress and with the odd question (she wanted to know if my parents had breed papers so she could prove I was a gundog) they wouldn’t make the effort to even return a phone call. Compared to other breeders we know these folks definitely seem like a puppy farm unfortunately. So hence not using the ‘designer’ name and instead my mutt name of lab x cocker… I’m cool with either as long as I get pats.
Sassmuffins
Happy, happy first anniversary! I absolutely adore your blog. My little dog is a cairn terrier, and I guess I went with this breed originally because of that film terrier named Toto! Turns out these little dogs have the PERFECT personality (big dogs in little dog bodies), and they are scruffy and cute too! The are well-mannered, play hard, sleep hard, and are great with kids and other pets. They are rough and tumble little dogs (my husband says Gracie is “tough as a boot”!).
weliveinaflat
Thank you, Christy! :) Gracie always looks adorable and sweet in the pictures I’ve seen of her so far, so I haven’t really seen her tough side yet! ;)
Kyla
I’m a Scottie. When They looked for a dog, They wanted a terrier because They believe both the terrier and the humans are happy when terriers are with terrier peeps. They didn’t care about gender or terrier breed, just that the terrier was in trouble and needed a good home. I’m the first one They saw and the rest is history. I was probably born in a puppy mill in Guadalajara, Mexico and brought to Arizona by a student who couldn’t keep me.
weliveinaflat
Oh the human knows about such students because the human once brought a stray kitten home and couldn’t keep her as well!! But we didn’t know you would be Mexican… makes me think you need to wear one of those hats for your pictures. :P There’s two terrier humans in the comments so far so terriers must be some lucky little dudes ^__^
Janicia
Hi! I have a Sheltie! He’s adopted! Family didn’t want him anymore. I guess I’m more inclined to shelties cos they are in my list of “breeds I don’t mind having”. Criteria was: hdb-approved (as much as I wanted a mongrel), biggest possible for hdb-size (don’t like small dogs), preferably med-long fur, long snout (not flat face like pug or squarish like labradorite – they tend to drool more). Based on that, I kinda had 2 choices left – Sheltie or Jap Spitz! So happened that Mango came my way, so I’ve got a sheltie! Sorry for the long comment haha
weliveinaflat
No worries, I love detail ;) And it’s good to know the back story for Mango!
And I know! We are very law abiding as a people (at least we used to be over here :P). I didn’t want a small dog either but we didn’t meet any dogs like a sheltie or jap spitz available for adoption when we were looking. Who knows how things might have turned out then? But yes, we did consider drool, shedding and maintenance with the hair, so maybe we would have ended up with a mongrel anyway, Idk. Hah!
janicia
Haha I guess the criteria came from years of researching for an ideal dog! Been wanting a dog since forever. Used to be my New Year’s resolution every year that that will be the year I get a dog. Went through much thinking from observing my friends and other people with dogs and also volunteering at gpf to figure out what I wanted in a dog. I’d say waiting was a good choice for me! I’d want a mongrel if we didn’t live in a flat (or with my grandparents).