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Viewing Single Post From: Frank, Staffie X Bulldog, 3 years old
piwoodhouse	Jun 24 2009, 11:52 PM
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 3,970 Group: Full Members Member #282 Joined: August 18, 2006	Absolutely agree on some of that Dawn- a poodle is highly intelligent and very trainable and a patterdale is high energy and hard work! And if the rescue had taken advantage of the dog's outward appearance to offload a "difficult" dog then to me that is gross misrepresentation. The chasm between breeds that would broadly be described as "bull" types though is appreciatively narrower and so the characteristics of one would be pretty like the other. Anyone adopting one probably wouldn't have any unpleasant surprises. (Awful story and I'm thankful we have a non-destruction policy) Problems will inevitably arise when we simply don't know what the breed is. I can remember when Lorna first joined and invited us all to guess Mustard's breeds. There were LOADS and at the end of the day we were still none the wiser! Plus of course the picture is confused further because a dog's dam and sire could be quite poor specimens of their breeds and stand a distance away from the breed standards anyway. Recently I've been picked up (nicely!) because we advertised a dog whose former owner claimed was a Parson Russell. It may have been that but some thought it was more likely a long legged Jack Russell. I'm not intending to mislead anyone but the fact is, I don't know enough of the nuances between the two to make the distinction. And I can tell you that if ever we have a dog in with a broad white horizontal stripe across it's tail, it usually ends up being described as a Border Terrier cross!


Frank, Staffie X Bulldog, 3 years old · Dogs looking for homes