Tropicals & Tender Perennials: OT, but absolutely hilarious!, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Carol, yeah ... I love the Newfies but don't think at our age we will end up getting a giant breed, just too much to handle and I can only imagine how much one would have to be brushed daily with all the shedding!

We definitely believe in obedience training for dogs of any size and I think it's extremely important with large and giant breeds. It's hard being at my sister and BIL's. Their huge dogs have never been trained. They are very friendly and lovable, but always vying for attention, one tries to garner all the attention from the other's and they end up jumping and knocking you down in the process to get petted. My brother in law jokes about the yellow lab saying he flunked out of puppy kindergarden because they did take him for training as a puppy, just never reinforced it.

We fell in love with a mixed breed dog at the Humane Society last week and if we didn't have 3 old cats I KNOW we would have brought her home. She was a labrador/shepherd mix and sooo friendly! The info on her cage said she loved cats and kids and everybody but I don't think our kitties would love her back!

Oh, another picture of my sisters Mastiff. He is so heavy that it is difficult for him to lower himself to the floor ... his legs shake like crazy when he goes down. So, most of the time when he is ready to sit, he just walks over to the sofa and sits ... if a human happens to be sitting there, they sometimes get sat on! This is my sister with her dog Bubba ... she had to scoot over to the edge because he did sit on her lap!