Parker's Pupsters

22/09/2024

Obi and Geoff. Seems smaller in here...

27/03/2024

Something to consider when you’re thinking about getting a dog
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Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.
Like David Attenborough Fans for more:

26/02/2024

Dora trying, unsuccessfully, to play with Bertie.

He was having none of it.
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19/02/2024

Woody doing zoomies in the flooded field - also starting Geoff, Dora, Chloe, Forrest & Bubba
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15/02/2024

Highlights from today’s two walkies - including Milo with an unsuitably large stick, lots of paddling in the waterlogged field, the first of the spring flowers and some wet & tired boys on the way home.

Starring Milo the border collie, Geoff the cockerpoo, Forrest & Bubba the greyhounds, Chloe and Dora the frenchies, Murphy the springer spaniel, Woody the pointer and Paddy the gsd.
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13/02/2024

Traffic jam on the A14 en route to … the Pupsters are well accustomed to being stuck behind lorries trying to overtake up hills…
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01/02/2024

Dora and Chloe
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Geoff and Ozzie
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26/01/2024

Forgotten classic of Frank singing
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26/01/2024

Whose pose is the most gorgeous?

You have Frank the Pomeranian posing, Geoff the cockerpoo, Bubbles the Dalmatian, Tia the French staffie and Woody the chihuahua (before and after he fell on his head in the mud)

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08/12/2023

Anyone the Brownsover side of Rugby with a Tesco delivery scheduled this morning can expect delays…

30/11/2023

Letting the devil in shortly…
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05/11/2023

“Here is the news for dogs, with me, “
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31/10/2023

Alfred in full effect!
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14/10/2023

My Saturday night … watching Ireland vs the All Blacks in the surrounded by tired woofers (Geoff the cockerpoo and Frank the Pomeranian are out of shot and also fast asleep)
Rock n roll huh?
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02/10/2023

How to get so many loons posing beautifully..?
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Cheese, obviously!
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27/09/2023

Poor Woody…
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22/09/2023

The first dog I ever walked professionally… what a way to start!
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22/09/2023

I’d forgotten how small Milo was when he first joined the Pupsters

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