I was just wandering how many people had lots of dogs!!

Only one at the moment but I dream of a big place in the country with a couple of acres and lots and lots of them!! It WILL happen.

Hi

Me too:D

What dog do you have?

Michelle:)

Hello

I have 15 dogs mostly bull breeds (Bulldogs and Bullmastiffs) , which is a lot to some people but normality for me and my daughter , we have a few crossbreeds too , and a Rodisian Ridgeback that could never leave the confines of the farm we live on.
We have other animals as well , Veronica our pot bellied pig who is currently snoring in the kitchen !
Life wouldnt be worth living without the wonderful creatures that we have around us.
Dean

Hi Dean:)

I am so jealous not only do you have lots of dogs but a pot bellied pig!! they are my fave. It sounds like you have lots to keep you busy! . I have got just the one dog a black lab called Jazz but I wouldnt be without him. I would love to have a houseful of dogs but the problem is I would have trouble picking which breeds.

Michelle:)

hi, I have 4 dogs, a great dane and 3 dachshunds. I used to have a lovely miniture domesticated pot bellied pig.

Not lots, only 4! Have had 5 in the past, and would like more now, but it simply isn't practical at the moment.
:)

i only have two and if my will power wasnt so strong or i had a bigger house, id have more

when i win the lottery..........:D
i keep hoping

Hi

I know what you mean with willpower/bigger house:D. What dogs do you have? I have black lab but would love another lab or a newfie!!. If I won the lottery I always say that I would set up rescue kennels the problem is no-one else would be able to have them:D:D

Michelle

6 at the mo - plus assorted cats!!

Margot

Hi

6 at the mo does that mean you want more?:D:D what breed/s are they?

Michelle:)

4 DOGS & 8 CATS

BRINNYx

Hi

What dogs do you have? I think alot of people would like more, I know I would!!

Michelle:)

English springer spaniels, and as said above if i won the lottery i would det up a rescue!!! If i could i would have more but the other half doesnt agree... Although we have the land we live in a mobile home and there isnt room for 2 really!!!!!!LLOL. My cats are all farm/ferrel and the youngest are 3 kittens about 3 weeks old that appeared about 2 days ago with Mumx

The other half is my problem! He would only have another 1 max, wheras I would have dozens if I had the room

Michelle:)

Mine are all dalmatians, Michelle - mum and pups from various litters. (I made enquiries the other day about a particular litter I heard of - just about the perfect bloodline for what I want but all the bitches were sold. Probably just as well!)
:)

ive got bullmastiffs, been looking at the puppy pages on ch dogs and if i wasnt having my new kitchen fitted, id have one, but cant afford both :(

maybe i can just buy new doors and the cooker is okay really..................:D :D :D

I'd better not tell my best friends daughter you have 4 dalmatians, she will want to come and see them!!. I get into enogh trouble as it is friends daughter is only 5 and already has 2 guinea pigs, 4 fish and wants to be a vet. The problem is her mum isn't an animal lover (strange woman!!)

Michelle:)

Hi

I have 3 dogs a Great Dane x Irish Wolfhound and two Staffordshire Bull terriers.
Dean i envy you i love pot bellied pigs too ! she sounds a real sweetie.

ok 4 with parents (used to b 5) where i live

and 6 with grandparents, where i live when it suits me!!!!

Ice

Hi,

I have two CKCS's and 5 cats.
Dean you are soooo lucky, I'd love to have enough room to have that many animals!

Hi. I have three, would love more, but there is the grooming to consider.

Hi - I have 2 Danes. I wouldn't want any more dogs at the moment though :)

.....maybe just a lickle one.... just a nice, harlie bitch... aaargh, I'm doing it again

We have 4 akitas and am buying a new breed in jan/feb.We hope to buy a small holding in a couple of years then i'm REALLY going for it!!Oh and we also have a variety of pigeons,

hi i have 10 ckcs 8 adults and 3 puppies all are loved very much we live in a fairly big house

Three staffords at the moment, thats enough to try and keep my eye on whilst they charge around the woods, but I must admit one more would balance out the walking on the lead problem, left arm is slightly longer than the right :)

I have four dogs, one red staffie called Bella, two Bulldogs called Paris and Oscar and a Pied French Bulldog called Bonzo although im looking for a fifth dog, probably a boxer or an American Bulldog, i had Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Samoyed and Keeshond when i was young i also have two cats.

I have only 3 dogs but might be 4 next year if Robbie gets a girlfriend. Susan

at home i have
a labrador - tess
a sprocker pup - jack
a ckcs - toby
three pygmy goats - minstrel, lily and her baby jessie
two cats - Arnie and Barnie
a rabbit - dixie
a canary - tweety
four zebra finches - eny, meny, miny and mo

i also look after 15 dogs at work, rottis, GSDs, springers, labs, GSPs, a springerxGWP and a jack russell, look after the health/feeding requirements etc of 40 dogs in total, rottis, GSDs, springers and the brother and sister to my sprocker,
2 trakenhers, an arab, a welsh cob, a shetland
2 peregrines, 2 lanner falcans, a gos hawk, and a harris hawk
and a cat called cat :D

Hi gundogsrbest, one of my CKCS was called Toby, he was a Tri colour, stunning looking dog, he unfortunatly died when he was eight. What colour is yours.

Hi, I've only got 1 at the mo. I would love a companion for him one day but would ideally like an older dog but I don't think the rescue places will consider us as I have young children. It may have to wait a bit :-(

I dont see why rescue centres wouldnt consider you, if you found a older dog that had lived with children their would be no problem, if you look about im sure you would get hold of a lovely companion for your dog.

There are lots of older dogs in rescues who will love children, so don't let that put you off. The right dog is just waiting for you to come along. :D I have only one at the moment too and would love another but how do you pursuade a husband when he keeps changing the subject? :(

Kath.

Hi all, what a lot of dogs some of you have! :D I have three one goldie and two flatties, I was just wondering what sort of houses you all have because although I own my own house I have heard that our council have rules and regulations on how many dogs can be kept in one house. where I am it is a max of 4 dogs, so I have been told. Do you have to have some sort of licence for more dogs or some sort of inspection to make sure that you have enough room for them all, just curious as I would like to get just one more :D Sarah

Hi Sarah,
I would imagine that different councils have different by-laws so might be best to check with them. Probably any inspection or licence would be for businesses but there again, I'm not sure. We live in a big old farmhouse so have room for lots more dogs (big hint to husband! ;) )

Kath :)

Thanks Kath, Id love to live in the country, been a townie all my life but have had enough now and want more of a quiet life if thats possible. There must be some sort of law, whats to stop someone in a 2 up 2 down terrace having 10 dogs surely this should not be allowed. I live in a terraced house, but it is very large, built 100 years ago with huge downstairs rooms and five bedrooms and has 120ft garden, loads of room for the three I have got. How would the council know how many dogs I have got unless someone complained, I could have 20, as long as they were well looked after and kept in clean conditions, so no one complained they would never know!! Are you classed as a business, even if you are not breeding? or making any money from your dogs in anyway. If I had 20 dogs would I be classed as a rescue maybe? I dont know!! so many questions! I just think its a shame when you read some awful stories about to many dogs being found in bad dirty conditions and the people being taken to court for keeping dogs like this when there seems to be nothing stopping people having this many animals in their houses in the first place. I am not having a go at anyone as I know all of you on this site are genuine dog lovers and look after your dogs how they should be looked after but what is stopping all the people out there that need educating and just bite of more than they can chew, with christmas just around the corner I find it quite worrying. :( Sarah

Hi Mason...you might as well buy a kennel or open one then you'll be all set...lol I have 2, a Lab and a Weimie both relatively young the Lab
is 10 months and the Weimie is 4 months still pups but please don't ask me what color they are because the color issue has finally been abandoned in earlier postings......boy that was a tough tough issue!!!!however if you would like me to send you pictures of my two boys
I'll be more than glad to do so then you'll have an idea to why the color issue was a tough one to swallow!!!!man ho man...

Sincerely
Vic

toby is a tricolour as well, a cavalier wasnt my choice of breed, i prefer big dogs to the smaller breeds, but toby used to belong to my nan, one day she asked me to come round to clip his nails and trim his toe hair as she couldnt get him to the groomers, when my mum and me got there we was disgusted to see how much weight he had put on in a year, ( ive known toby since he was 6 months as he belong to my boss, my nan bought him off of my boss, when it was discovered that he had a severe heart murmur and couldnt be used for stud, and then started fighting with the new dog she bought as stud [ckcs were inthe house and gundogs in the kennels] so my nan bought toby off my boss) my nan had him for two years from the age of 18 mths, but in the second year she had him we hadnt seen him that much, he was so fat all you could see of his legs was about two inches, (he was eating the same as tess and our ess at the time plus extra in the form of trests) he was spolit rotten he even had his own setting up the table, he came to us nearly two years ago when we said we would look after him while my nan was on holiday in a year he lost 6 kilos and is now at his right weight, he never went back to my nan mainly because he liked the company of our two, we think it was a bit of a shock to him when he first came to live with us as he couldnt have full run of the house and he had less food and he was run ragged by tess and polly. My nan now has a westie x either a shih tzu or a lhaso (can never remember which think it is a lhaso) he is now on a strict diet and comes for walks to the woods and lake with my three,
tanya

I've got 4 SPanish Water Dogs although my young lad is at his grandma's at the moment because the girls are in season. I know that if I had a bigger place I'd have loads of Spanish but as I live on my own and work full time 4 is more than enough, unfortunately!!!

Well in an ordinary 3 bedroom house five is lots of dogs :D Actually I own five and a 1/4 dogs :D :D :D But my quarter of a dog lives with the other parts with one of his other joint owners, :)

Hiya, I have two dogs - Baillie our golden retriever and Diesel our Dane puppy :D
Sharon
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Hi, I have 8 Labs with the eldest 9yrs to the youngest 2yrs 5mths. 1mongrel aged 9yrs & a rescue GSD aged about 4/5yrs. 1 cat about 4& half yrs, 14 hens & 1 bantam cockral. Loads of univited moles, shrews, mongooses & flocks of gorgeous coloured birds that come & go when they please but it would please me more if they wouldn`t use my dogs kennels as their nests of a nighttime! :D We`ve got about 20acres so enough room for all of us :)

Christine, Spain.

English Springers are my favourite and I have 5, 2 B&W and 3 L&W, I would love to own a farm and not have to work then I would set up a rescue for them.

I have 5 we use to have 6 sadly she (Cuervo) passed away awhile back at the age of 9. But they are a lot of work and do keep you busy hell its like having more children and I have 2 of them also. Plus 2 birds and 2 hamsters......:) I wouldn't change it at all.

Hi There,

We have a private rented semi, 3 b/rooms, in there we have 5 dogs, Ragga(Mastiff),Vinnie(Bullmastiff),Sid & Sqweg (JRT's), Robyn (rescue x-Terrier).

We also have 4 cats, 1 being a rescue, others being all one family, mam, son, nephew (his Mam was stolen).

3 Degu (rescues).

2 ferrets (house pets).

1 VERY UNDERSTANDING LANDLORD.

We wouldn't be any different. We love them all.

D4wn.

Hi jazzywoo,
we have 4 bordeaux's ,a gsd a shiba ,one siamese cat and my beloved moggy oh! and not to forget the 3 guinie pigs(don't think i've spelt that right) ,we are very lucky as we live in the country with plenty of land.so plenty of room for my zoo!

I've got 8 Danes they range from 8 years down to four and a half months and one horse.

Hi All

After reading how many dogs people have I am so jealous. I am getting my beagle pup soon, and mayb 9n a year or so we might get him a little beagle friend.

My dream is to live in North Wales (my husband is from N Wales and my family are there too - Colwyn bay area) and have a big welsh cottage loads of lands and to be able to have a pack of five beagles and to take loads of walks on the beach with my babies and maybe to breed them and give the pups to people who will love and adore them. Got to win the lottery first or wait for hubby to retire.

You lucky lot having so many dogs,I would give my right arm to have lots of "fluffy" children.

We have 2 Bordeaux at the moment, 2 Tibetan Mastiiff's another one on it's way through pet's passport. 2 Newfoundlands one black one Landseer, 1 Yorky, and a tibetan Spaniel, 2 gerbils,1 hampser and 2 cats and if I had my way a lot more, when we breed the bordeaux I want to be able to keep a puppy but that will not be for another 7 month, but I would love a long coat akita althou a know they are not to standard but they look live fluffy little bears