NDRU said:

JoeTyler said:

loud, smelly, hairy, dirty, filthy ass, dangerous, expensive, and full of mental issues...

birds all the way

that said, I love bulldogs (both english and french), bullmastiffs, boxers, and pugs... but I'm not sure If I would buy one of them, probably a black french bulldog...

yes, very cute! I love bulldogs, but I think having to clean them would keep me from getting one.

I've heard that bulldogs need to be cleaned on a daily basis !

My younger sister loves bulldogs. This is her second "beast" as she calls him. His name is Reeses, because he looks like peanut butter. As you can see he's pretty easy to care for!

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reesessleep.jpg[/img:$uid]

My sister calls that photo the "taste" of sleep..

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/Reese.jpg[/img:$uid]

Reeses chilling HARD

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reeserreese.jpg[/img:$uid]

As you can see, he's so active that he needs rest when he can.

NDRU said:

psychodelicide said:

If I were to ever get a dog, this is probably the breed that I would get:

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My brother and his family have a Labrador Retriever, and he's really a sweet dog. Very loving and great with their two kids (the perfect family dog).

yeah I am a big fan of labs. I don't have a dog, but I love just about every lab I meet.

Cutest labs right here!

KatSkrizzle said:

My younger sister loves bulldogs. This is her second "beast" as she calls him. His name is Reeses, because he looks like peanut butter. As you can see he's pretty easy to care for!

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reesessleep.jpg[/img:$uid]

My sister calls that photo the "taste" of sleep..

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/Reese.jpg[/img:$uid]

Reeses chilling HARD

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reeserreese.jpg[/img:$uid]

As you can see, he's so active that he needs rest when he can.

omg! hahaha, that's awesome ! I love the second pic!!!!

psychodelicide said:

I'm dogsitting a mastiff this week. This is the first time I've ever seen a mastiff up close. I never realized how big they are. They are the size of a small horse.

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The dog that I'm sitting has black and tan fur, which is in a kind of a marbled pattern. Very pretty, and this dog is so sweet and gentle.

Do you do dogsitting as a job? i was thinking about doing it. I wonder what it is like to have it like a job.

JoeTyler said:

KatSkrizzle said:

My younger sister loves bulldogs. This is her second "beast" as she calls him. His name is Reeses, because he looks like peanut butter. As you can see he's pretty easy to care for!

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reesessleep.jpg[/img:$uid]

My sister calls that photo the "taste" of sleep..

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/Reese.jpg[/img:$uid]

Reeses chilling HARD

[img:$uid]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p179/mpls319/reeserreese.jpg[/img:$uid]

As you can see, he's so active that he needs rest when he can.

omg! hahaha, that's awesome ! I love the second pic!!!!

Yeah

^ hehehe. whoopsie

JoeTyler said:

XxAxX said:

SoulAlive said:

these are my favorite Golden retrievers,right?

could be. does it matter? they're just so dang cute we could call them tarballs and i'd still want to smoochthem

http://today.msnbc.msn.co...d_animals/

Meet the dog who knows 1,022 words

Can dogs learn like children? Chaser the border collie can find objects by name

They say every dog has its day — and Wednesday was that day for Chaser, a 7-year-old border collie whose owner purports that the dog can recognize 1,022 nouns. On TODAY, Chaser demonstrated that dogs may have some of the same capability to learn as human children.

On bended knee next to the alert-looking canine, anchor Matt Lauer ordered: “Chaser, fetch tennis.” And after just a few seconds of nosing around the 25 items that her owner, Dr. John Pilley, had brought to the set, the dog located a tennis ball and promptly dropped it into a tub on Lauer’s command. Chaser also fetched a peppermint chew toy in response to Lauer’s command — but it was when he instructed her to “fetch SpongeBob” that she really showed her mettle.

“SpongeBob is not out there,” Pilley told Lauer. But in seconds, Chaser wagged her tail while eagerly shaking a SpongeBob flying disc in her mouth.

“No, it’s right there!” Lauer said. Pilley laughed and commented: “She sees better than I do.”

Practice makes perfect
If it all sounds like fun and games, that’s just what it is for Chaser. Border collies are reputedly one of the smartest and most motivated breeds in dogdom. They like challenges and stimulation, and since Chaser is a house pet and not out herding sheep, the dog needs other tasks to complete.

Pilley, a retired psychology professor from Wofford College in South Carolina, adopted Chaser as a puppy, hoping to use her to test some teaching methods he’d devised for dogs. Practicing four or five hours a day for years, Pilley found Chaser could recognize a remarkable array of items, and pick each one out of a group.

Pilley told The New York Times that Chaser’s vocabulary of recognized nouns could have climbed even higher if he himself hadn’t tired of teaching them. So, he moved on to verbs. And sure enough, with training, Pilley could get Chaser to alternately paw, nose or fetch a requested item on command.

Appearing on TODAY with Pilley and Chaser, Pilley’s research associate, Dr. Alliston Reid, told Lauer that Chaser’s impressive achievements may help the world better understand how much a dog can actually learn, and that those findings may be applicable to learning how human vocabulary grows as well.

“We’re very interested in syntax,” Reid said. “For example, does the order of the words matter?

“It’s hard to know whether we can apply it to humans or not,” he added. “We’re trying to understand what dogs understand when we are talking to them, and how extensive vocabularies could become if they’re given a great amount of training.”

Pilley told The New York Times that even after the thousands of hours of training Chaser has received, she still

begs for more. “She still demands four to five hours a day,” he said. “I’m 82, and I have to go to bed to get away from her.”

Pilley told Lauer that he believes he’s done more than teach an older dog some new tricks. “We think it’s science,” he said. “Our primary goal is to try to teach her ‘dog language’ — you don’t call it human, she’ll never get that close — but we’re trying to teach her words and learn how to teach her words.”

Chaser was so impressive that comic actor Russell Brand — who followed the dog on TODAY to promote a new movie in which he provides the voice of an animated Easter Bunny — seemed a bit jealous. When Meredith Vieira noted how hard it is to follow a dog act, Brand remarked: “It’s pretty easy, actually. I could put all those things in that tub. I was watching Chaser and thought, ‘That’s easy!’ ”

To learn more about Chaser and the latest developments in animal intelligence, watch “How Smart Are Animals?” on NOVA scienceNOW, Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

XxAxX said:

http://today.msnbc.msn.co...d_animals/

Meet the dog who knows 1,022 words

Can dogs learn like children? Chaser the border collie can find objects by name

They say every dog has its day — and Wednesday was that day for Chaser, a 7-year-old border collie whose owner purports that the dog can recognize 1,022 nouns. On TODAY, Chaser demonstrated that dogs may have some of the same capability to learn as human children.

On bended knee next to the alert-looking canine, anchor Matt Lauer ordered: “Chaser, fetch tennis.” And after just a few seconds of nosing around the 25 items that her owner, Dr. John Pilley, had brought to the set, the dog located a tennis ball and promptly dropped it into a tub on Lauer’s command. Chaser also fetched a peppermint chew toy in response to Lauer’s command — but it was when he instructed her to “fetch SpongeBob” that she really showed her mettle.

“SpongeBob is not out there,” Pilley told Lauer. But in seconds, Chaser wagged her tail while eagerly shaking a SpongeBob flying disc in her mouth.

“No, it’s right there!” Lauer said. Pilley laughed and commented: “She sees better than I do.”

Practice makes perfect
If it all sounds like fun and games, that’s just what it is for Chaser. Border collies are reputedly one of the smartest and most motivated breeds in dogdom. They like challenges and stimulation, and since Chaser is a house pet and not out herding sheep, the dog needs other tasks to complete.

Pilley, a retired psychology professor from Wofford College in South Carolina, adopted Chaser as a puppy, hoping to use her to test some teaching methods he’d devised for dogs. Practicing four or five hours a day for years, Pilley found Chaser could recognize a remarkable array of items, and pick each one out of a group.

Pilley told The New York Times that Chaser’s vocabulary of recognized nouns could have climbed even higher if he himself hadn’t tired of teaching them. So, he moved on to verbs. And sure enough, with training, Pilley could get Chaser to alternately paw, nose or fetch a requested item on command.

Appearing on TODAY with Pilley and Chaser, Pilley’s research associate, Dr. Alliston Reid, told Lauer that Chaser’s impressive achievements may help the world better understand how much a dog can actually learn, and that those findings may be applicable to learning how human vocabulary grows as well.

“We’re very interested in syntax,” Reid said. “For example, does the order of the words matter?

“It’s hard to know whether we can apply it to humans or not,” he added. “We’re trying to understand what dogs understand when we are talking to them, and how extensive vocabularies could become if they’re given a great amount of training.”

Pilley told The New York Times that even after the thousands of hours of training Chaser has received, she still

begs for more. “She still demands four to five hours a day,” he said. “I’m 82, and I have to go to bed to get away from her.”

Pilley told Lauer that he believes he’s done more than teach an older dog some new tricks. “We think it’s science,” he said. “Our primary goal is to try to teach her ‘dog language’ — you don’t call it human, she’ll never get that close — but we’re trying to teach her words and learn how to teach her words.”

Chaser was so impressive that comic actor Russell Brand — who followed the dog on TODAY to promote a new movie in which he provides the voice of an animated Easter Bunny — seemed a bit jealous. When Meredith Vieira noted how hard it is to follow a dog act, Brand remarked: “It’s pretty easy, actually. I could put all those things in that tub. I was watching Chaser and thought, ‘That’s easy!’ ”

To learn more about Chaser and the latest developments in animal intelligence, watch “How Smart Are Animals?” on NOVA scienceNOW, Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

AWESOME! Dogs are awesome.

KatSkrizzle said:

bulldogs. she loves them. Always getting them from rescues not breeders.

ehhh sorry but I can't/don't believe ya, ... Bulldogs are too cute/expensive/charismatic to be abandoned...

JoeTyler said:

KatSkrizzle said:

bulldogs. she loves them. Always getting them from rescues not breeders.

ehhh sorry but I can't/don't believe ya, ... Bulldogs are too cute/expensive/charismatic to be abandoned...

Sometimes the dogs don't mix with other dogs in the house. Which is usually the case. My sister got her first one because the alpha kept attacking her. So the picked on dog went to my sister to care for. She got the second one because HE was not mixing with the new dogs. There are rescues for all breeds, as I found out. But yup, she adopted her Reeses because he wanted to be the head honcho and the new dog was becoming his prey.

I think the over spoiling can make them terrors. Cesar Milan has a lot of bulldog cases that I've seen on his show. And I have reasoned that it's the owners that over spoil.

Where is JohnArt and his pictures of his cutie doggies?

KatSkrizzle said:

JoeTyler said:

ehhh sorry but I can't/don't believe ya, ... Bulldogs are too cute/expensive/charismatic to be abandoned...

Sometimes the dogs don't mix with other dogs in the house. Which is usually the case. My sister got her first one because the alpha kept attacking her. So the picked on dog went to my sister to care for. She got the second one because HE was not mixing with the new dogs. There are rescues for all breeds, as I found out. But yup, she adopted her Reeses because he wanted to be the head honcho and the new dog was becoming his prey.

I think the over spoiling can make them terrors. Cesar Milan has a lot of bulldog cases that I've seen on his show. And I have reasoned that it's the owners that over spoil.

oh ok then, I've heard that bulldogs are very complicated dogs, headstrong and stuff like that lol