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Originally Posted by CherryBrandy
how fantastic !!!! and omg he is bull whippet ! amazing. I would find out what he favours ie I have a terrier but he is half Border Collie , he looks like a terrier and it was only when he kept nipping the back of my ankles I found out he was half border collie (spent his life in a cider barrel at his former owners - don't even think about it Gordon !), and his nipping is how border collie's move the ship..in back of ankles too !! ooh it hurt, anyway I channelled this into teaching him how to behave as a border collie and it did the trick. I have had dogs all my life but he is the reason I took my qualification as a dog behaviourist as I could not work him out. Commands need to be hands with him not voice. Dogs are amazing. Also the SSPCA - Brilliant ! more weight than the RSPCA , they are the heavy weights of reducing and detecting animal cruelty. What a story Rocco has ! Whippet X .X ..!
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Yes it is great to know the mix as it will help understand his body shape (thin back end for a Rottweiler but not if there is whippet in there), and yes great to know he did come from a happy home! But you get evidence of that in his training and good nature!
SSPCA are good, yes their vets frustrated me in the last few months but, their staff are so dedicated and have to work hard with the amount of farmed puppies coming in through the Scottish ports. Easy to forget that RSPCA do not operate north of the border!
I am looking forward to the summer, I think I have a good pub dog on my hands!