ROFPML....I see nothing wrong with "slug trails" over my clothing
;)

I also use the sofa as a napkin!

Don't you mean a yorkie LF :D

Any kind of terrier (terror)! and flatfaced breeds, I'm definitely a pointy nose fan!

Would love to own Belgian Shepherd, Greyhound, Saluki, lurcher - ah well, some day
Do own 1 incredibly beautiful and intelligent mongrel and my darling GSD (girls)

Kat

No Staffies or Jack Russells, sorry but they play too rough! No Sharpeis or Chinese Cresteds, don't like the baldness! No poodles either. Hmm, I'd better run for cover too - I do like most breeds, but can't imagine owning anything except spaniels, preferably Cavaliers! :-)

French Bulldog
Amos

I wouldnt want a Kerry Blue.

For all you that dont like smaller dogs - a small dog doesnt know its small, it thinks it is huge like a St Bernard or bigger!!  Hearts of lions and most are incredibly loyal and loving.  We have Labs now and my uncle has Boxers. Boxers slobber and wipe it all over you and its more noticeable when you wear dark clothing or your best suit!  You sit down and leap up - their chin has rested on the edge of the chair/sofa.  I love them!!!!  Labs drool too, somedays when we are eating, its like there are "pools" all round where the Labs are drip drip drooling.  Hey whats a drool or drip - as someone says, just keep a kitchen roll handy.  You aint lived until you been slobberised or drooled on!!

Neeva

i just wouldnt want to upset other breeder and owner who have done a lot of hard work for their breed ,so will not but write down which breed i wouldnt have to offend them,
i just say i like the two breeds that i got at the moment,fcr and swd and gordon setter,even with all that gob from their mouth at times.

anythink small  like a yourkshire terrier or a poddle
or them dogs rich girls have in bags :( 

>or them dogs rich girls have in bags :-(

But a dog is also what you make of them! A fortnight ago I comptered in obedience with one of my Malinos. There was a chihuahua competing in the same class!!!! :D :D In Sweden the first ever obedience champion of any breed was a Papillon (UK import!), and I got mine with obedience in mind. :) My best friend had a Cavalier who was an obedience champion. :) I believe in treating little dogs like DOGS and nothing else, and then you really get the best out of them -they're just dogs like any other, only in small packages.

Hear hear, my Cavs often get picked up and cuddled at home, but outside they run around and get filthy like any other dog (probably more so as their hair is so low to the ground!) and they all have various levels of the GC test!

You guys! Everybody's talking about yappy small breeds.....my Chihuahua never ever barks unless there's someone at the door. And even then he'd do it once or twice while wagging his tail like crazy....... I can't say the same about some Airdales, German Shepherds or Beagles in my obedience class.

Which dogs wouldn't I have? Hmmm, well I don't like massive dogs that drool. That's just sick. My friend has 2 Mastino Napolitanos and a Great Dane. All she does is walk around and clean after them.... not to mention feeding time!! I also wouldn't have Beagles. The way they bark makes me a bit crazy. Cute dogs, but can't stand the noise. Also the ones that look like mops (for some reason my Chi doesn't like them either) Lhasa Apso, Shih Tzu and so on. Also dogs that have tendency to be agressive.

>You guys! Everybody's talking about yappy small breeds.....my Chihuahua never ever barks unless there's >someone at the door.

Yes! I have 2 small dogs and 7 large ones. You never hear a peep out of the small ones!

Border collies are high on my list as they are too hyper for me (give me my hyper springer any day!). Jack Russels (my husband will kill  me as they are his favourite breed) and Westies as I haven't met one yet that hasn't been a spoilt brat. Oh and Cavaliers - too much cuteness going on.

I wouldn't want a dog who:

- coudn't retrieve a sizeable duck from the middle of a fast flowing river or a pheasant from deep in the undergrowth and deliver it to me undamaged!

Just don't like terriers - they always seem argumentative, yappy and antisocial with other dogs. Don't like that funny wiry coat that many of them have.

Love sight hounds but wouldn't have one cos I like adog that will come back when I want it to.

Like most small breeds - even the hairless ones ( did you know that they get blackheads and you have to rub moisturiser into the skin ! )

LOVE all the working/pastoral breeds - proper dogs !!!!

Have to agree with loads of people here:

Anything that yaps, looks like a rat, my cats would want to try and kill and I could stand on which in our hectic household is extremely possible. 

I've said it before and I firmly believe this, that so many people with small dogs treat them like porcelin dolls, don't socialize them, are so worried about other dogs hurting them, don't take them out of the house. That's the mishandling of them which makes them snappy ankle biters. And I wouldn't tolerate that behavior from my dogs. My Chihuahuas wouldn't think of biting anyone. They're terribly friendly....to a fault sometimes/lick, want to be picked up by people etc.

And I had a neighbor who had a couple Yorkies and those dogs were quiet, laid back and sweet. They acted like my Lab. LOL. There's a 6 month old one in my agility class. It's sweet, doesn't yap and runs the course.....too cute.

I know what you mean about a lot of terriers and other toys being feisty. The things that some of those were bred for....catching vermin and such can make them that way. But what really contributes I think is lack of proper socialization and discipline. Chihuahuas were bred to be lap sitters and not much else. But they can have terrier like tendencies.

But the mishandling of any dog can produce aggression.

Carrie

There are definitely grounds for unfair discrimination here against small dogs. 

LOL LOL LOL LOL....Yes, I'm getting to be like my Doberman Pinscher....won't back down, will defend to the end. LOL

I would never have any gundog or terrier breed No reason I just don't like them for me & I know some nice terriers & gindogs) & I could never own one of the fragile toys or ponderous  breeds

Most definately a standard poodle, just seeing them with bare bums and bobbles

All you people against small dogs, just haven't seen a Pomeranian in action!!  They are real characters, not yappy, not meek and mild, they are definitely big dogs in a little dogs body.  Many of my friends with gundogs once they've seen some of my Pom's soon change their mind about them, even my vet thought that they were small and didn't understand what people saw in them until he met a couple of mine.

Just because they are small doesn't mean that they can't do what some bigger breeds do, you'd be surprised :d

I like Pomeranians( Papillons too), and I don't have a problem with other Toys.  I know they can do many things, I've even seen a Papillon herding cattle. :D   It's just that they don't fit in with both my lifestyle and the dogs I have already.


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Quote: 'a standard poodle, just seeing them with bare bums and bobbles'

Have to agree that poodles aren't my favourite example of canine beauty but I have to confess that a former colleague had a Standard Poodle that was not subjected to the traditional poodle cuts and he was gorgeous.

For my own list of 'no thank yous'

Small, yappy, snappy, hairy/no hair varieties of dog do nothing for me....Neither do the varieties that need to be taken for very expensive hairdos every couple of weeks...

I prefer my canines to be muddy, dog odoured and generally doggie  ;-)

Funny , most people think the little dogs are the yappy ones.

We have never had a complaint ever about our dogs barking etc as we train them not to.

Our first ever complaint was about 3 months ago, it was the 6 month old lab.  She was howling and barking even left for 10 mins. She is getting a lot better of course with training , oh and never being left unattended :-))

Dogs.  I think you have to live with a breed to get to see it's true character.

Nothing small, yappy, fluffy, long-haired or slobbery :D

Small dogs I would trip over - Dobes hit you around the knees so are difficult to trip over.
Yappy - gets very irritating
Fluffy or longhaired - I have enough housework with short hairs and mud - don't want more.
Slobbery - no thanks

:D

I was one of those that stated that I wouldn't want a toy dog and I do understand that there are some real little characters of toy dogs out there but I don't think I could justify having a dog that stands smaller than my cats! :-)  I know toys can be robust, but what if I did tread on it - I would cause damage and I'm a clumsy person, I can tell you! ;-)  I do trip over my dogs but there substantial enough not suffer and if I tripped over a Chi or Pom or trod on it, I would break it - the poor thing would permanently be at the vets!  My cats don't tend to run around near my feet so don't get trodden on!

Our pom is evil the devil encarnate and I allow him to live in MY house note the MY lol.  He bullies my schips, it's like the opening of the black sea when he goes out growling at them, he sleeps in their beds, he steals their chews and toys at every opportunity, he SNORES, he wakes them all up when the paperboy comes - actually it's not the schips that bark first it's always Damien the devil dog!  He's going to university with his MUM I don't care what the housing officer says about dogs in halls of residence he's not a dog really pmsl.

You don't fall over or step on a pom they're wayyy to quick for that and as for the cats they just know better than to mess with him even if it is THEIR food he's eating lol.

Sorry to all the JRT owners but i spent my childhood running after a JRT and a Patterdale and i couldn't cope with that breed again.
I have a not so yappy Yorkie who was accidently knocked about (so we bought it a bell on it's collar) but they are very adaptable and know when to move out the way.
I also have a slobbering, snoring, lazy Great Dane who knocks us about and leans on everything and is covered in emulsion as i speak. :)

A corgi  or a pug , yuk!

Actually I can't imagine having any other breed but the one I have.

Some types I couldn't live with at all would be those with heavy floppy ears (Spaniels) or anything drooly. 

Small dogs also would be out as I would have difficulty with not hurting them, couldn't see them on walks and would tread on them in the house, and frankly would prefer a different small pet, I like my dogs medium to large, but not Giant.

Temperamentally I can't handle needy or overly hyper.  I like dogs that know how to chill, and how to save their energy for their walks, and that are reasonably emotionally self sufficient.

>Some types I couldn't live with at all would be those with heavy floppy ears (Spaniels)

Oh dear oh dear, Brainless! One day you'll come to your senses and realise that sticky-uppy ears are just ... wrong! ;) :D :D

Ah but you don't have heavy drag in the mud type ears that get smely in the spotty's.  Sticky up ears are the original template and still the best design :D :D

Tchah! You know naasing (said in best faux-Spanish Manuel accent)! Spotties don't have smelly ears! They have soft, strokeable, cuddleable ears, not nasty rigid ones. :D :D

No it's those low to ground spaniels that get smelly ears, yeuch and mouths. :D  Cant get more velvety than my Tula's ears :D

Quite right Brainless, I could live with any dog - as long as it had pointy ears, pointy nose & a curly tail :D
Jeangenie - sticky up ears are what nature intended dogs to have ;)

I agree with JG, floppy ears, big sad eyes, and a long plume of a tail. Hmm, perhaps... a Cavalier!!! :-D They're certainly big dogs in small bodies! And my boy only yaps if he hears someone else bark first!

Seeing as I took one look at the shar-pei when they first came into the UK and said "I'D NEVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE BLOODY THINGS!" I've learned never to say never. I can't stand the thought of not having at least one peiby in my life now.

Must admit I couldn't see myself with anything under 40 pounds in weight, a terrier, scruffy coated or with hair over it's eyes. I love spitz breeds and the big mountain dog types the most, but it's always some breed out of the ordinary that seems to take my eye.

Nothing smaller than whippet or beagle sized for me - I'm clumsy, I wouldn't want to break them!

Otherwise - anything with the squish-faced look - bulldogs, shih tzus, lhasas, that sort of thing; also the huge mouth/jowls thing, like staffs or mastiffs (except tibetans).  Just not my thing - I like racy looking athletic dogs, such as gundogs or the leaner working dogs (dobes, malinois, that sort of thing).

Not too keen on rediculously drooly dogs either!  I'm not houseproud, but it really does get my stomach going!

German shepards (like um but couldnt own one), shelties (just wouldnt own one), Border collies (need a strong owner and Im a push over), Westies (most I have met have been angry little fellers), Red Setters (too crazy). Would own any other dog or mongrel.  Im a terrier lover thru and thru :-)

second that actually, I wouldn't own a GSD either.  Nothing against the breed as a whole - the ones that don't look their back end is about to collapse look really nice to me - but I've known so many iffy ones round my way, nervous or even aggressive, since I've worked in kennels, that I'd find it hard to compeltely trust one - unless I'd spent years finding just the right breeder!

I think I could imagine most breeds if I had to (say I ended up with a dog in really bad need of a home) except one -staffy. Never. It's not that I dislike them as such (I know a few really nice ones), it's just that there is absolutely nothing about them that I DO like. I don't like the size, being neither small nor big nor really medium sized either, I don't like the really short coat, not my type, it's not my look of dog, nor the temperament.

We have a saying in Sweden -taste is divided, just like the bottom. :D Thank goodness it is eh, or we'd all have the same breed!

Dogs should not be judged just on how they look, surely temperment is the most important thing, a staffy would always be the first to offer you the "paw" of friendship, shame people feel the need to slate them purely on appearance .........

The only breed i wouldn't have would have to be the human ..

I mean, would any dog use a human as live bait for sport?????

I couldn't have a dog with a curled tail (Spitz type tail) I like all the bits 'n' pieces covered by a lovely fringe of hair!  Nor a 'macho' breed, I like soft & soulful expressions and the nature, gundog breeds have.

Ah but the Spitzes ahve their bits all nicely covered in fur, no great dangly goolies on the boys and nice neat dark pigmented girly bits nestling discreetly, and always got nice clean bums with their tails nicely out the way :D

I don't have Spitzes - but do have a dog that might have a bit of Spitz in him as he carries his tail up and over his back :D and one that doesn't have a tail at all :D Nothing gets broken in the house as we don't have the side to side wagging and although Tara has pantaloons, she (and Bramble) always has nice firm poos, so no botty washing needed either :D :D

I couldn't bear to have a dog that needed a lot of fussing, grooming-wise. If it can't eat, see, poo etc without it's coat getting in the way then I wouldn't have it - it's not a proper dog, just a fashion accessory :D :D :D (duck)

Daisy

I have clean botts with the Munsters too, I'm just used to that continual line down the back over the tail (Well if they hold them correctly that is!!! ;) )

Having had a GRoenendael as my first dogs I like my tails tidy either curled up tight like the Elkies or held low.

I think this thread is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek about ones dislikes in dogs :D

I am sure no-one wantd to be insulting to someone elses ideal or pride and joy.

The beauty of dogs is that out of all the species we have domesticated they are e the most varied, and that dogs of different breeds can be very different and the differeneces are more than skin deep, so reseacrch is needed to endusre you choose a good match.

>Dogs should not be judged just on how they look, surely temperment is the most important thing, a staffy would >always be the first to offer you the "paw" of friendship, shame people feel the need to slate them purely on >appearance .........

Erm, if you read what I said I said I don't like their looks OR temperament. It's just not my kind of temperament. (And please don't think I'm saying "all staffies are nasty"- I'm talking about the correct good staffy temper -it's not the sort of behaviour I personally like. I like dogs that are eager to please and eager to work. Staffies are a bit too boisterous and silly for what I like.)

What's wrong with not liking a breed's temperament? Like I said, it's a good thing we don't all have the same preferences or we'd all have the same breed. (Oh wow wouldn't the world be interesting! FULL of Belgian Shepherds!! :D :D :D )

no long haired or curly haired ones, nothing toy sized with the exception of a smooth haired daschie nothing humungous but i do like medium to large dogs and i absolutely adore beagies.