...you have bought for your dog?

I have a thing of commissioning paintings of Mack - he has had 2 done and he's only 4. I have had a painting done from a photo and a digital art type thing. I would put links on here for you to see but I dont know how to do that. They really are good pictures.

I love to look on the web for dog related sites where I can buy him a nice new collar, bed, toys etc etc

Yes I know he is my baby and it has been said before who am I REALLY spoiling!

I dont think it matters as he loves his squishy bed, looks gorgeous with a new collar every season, loves his teddies to bits, and what more he looks gorgeous on my walls!

Umm doggy beds that were $300 each for 2 of my boys, never had a painting done though and i think the cats like the beds more then they do!!!

PS: My boys all have the same lame black leather buckle collars , i think i'm going to shop around for some stylish new ones!

I bought Casey a red leather collar with her name on in brass letters for £25 and wanted one for Charlie but didn't know his size so the next day my daughter was going into town I gave her the size and asked her to get one for Charlie.
It cost £47 but it is gorgeous, with him being rather large they needed a wide collar and therefore the letters were larger. Everyone comments on how smart it is and it still looks like new even though its been through mud and water.
Not very extravagant but when everyone asks where I got it and how much they always say "I wouldn't pay that for a collar"

Well when I can afford to purchase one it will be a van, especially for the dogs :d  It's not really what I want but definitely something I need :d

Mine was £25.00 for a set of boots and had to buy 2 sets cause got 2 dogs £50.00 on boots for the dogs wouldnt spend that on a pair of shoes for myself!!!!!

a ford focus - ok so it wasnt just for leo id wanted one for ages but once we got leo the 3 door fiesta became even more annoying

£40 for a collar for Abby -- only i didnt buy it, she was bought it as a gift (you know who you are :D:D:D ).

That said, its handmade, and it inspired me to set up my own leatherwork business so it was a doubly great gift!

Other than that..... nope, im a skint flint. Most ive spent is £17 on a beanbag bed for the pup.

Em

LOL @ GreatBritGirl.
Same as me, I didnt think of it like that, but yes,
i spent £8000 on an estate car, I HATE estate cars, but Gemma my 8 year old dog couldnt get in my escort so went out and bought a focus ESTATE car :( :( :( Bless her :D
Lea :) :)

A Winnie the pooh real babys travel cot to sleep in , and of course i had to have matching bed linen,lol.

Depends how you look at it as being for the dogs - first a bigger car, then a caravan so we could travel to shows and the dogs could easily come on holiday with us, and then a property with land. :D Okay, we liked them all too, but...

Errm. A larger house?? does that count :D

When Nellie, my Dandie, got to the age when she could not join us on a decent walk we found we were no longer able to go on camping holidays because we could not leave her in the tent, particularly when it was hot, so we bought her a cottage in the Lake District to rest up in a nice cool kitchen while we got out on the fells :)

Probably the Ford Galaxy so I could take 2 dogs and all their kit to a dog show. It is also very useful for taking 2 people and 3 dogs and all their kit away on holiday!!! Other than that, it's just a steady drain as I find stuff I want to buy for them wherever I go!!!

Don't really buy anything for the dogs apart from bones :) BUT - we did buy Tara a table :D

In the lounge we had an old dining table folded up in the corner next to the sofa. Tara used it as her den, particularly when it thundered or there were fireworks. When we redecorated before Xmas we moved the table as it took up too much room. We needed a table there still to put the lamp on, so used an old table of my late MIL's. Tara didn't like it as there was a crossed bar between the legs and she couldn't get under it :( So, we went out and bought a new table. You should have seen the salesman's face when we looked at tables and discussed whether Tara would be able to get underneath it or not :D :D My only and last extravagant purchase for the dogs :D

Daisy

Well....everyone in our family have swapped their cars to accomodate H better.  Parents have just ordered a brand new estate car for him ha ha oh and....a Gucci collar and tag.................. :-D

A few years ago I noticed one night that my old dog was struggling to get up on the bed, so the next day I went out and bought one of those low down japanese style beds. Cost me 300 pounds but worth it to have my boy snug as a bug again :-)  Well, it was either that or me sleeping on the floor with him ;-)

Hmmm, not really for my girl but she is named for the semi-precious stone mined and made into jewellery at Whitby, England and I just spent about $600 after customs and excise and all that stuff is added in buying jet jewellery.

Well, I suppose apart from the 'Workshop' that became their kennel £1,000. It's the Van £10,000 and the £1,000 to cage it out!!! I wonder why we do it huh?? I certainly have never bred a litter of Newfs to 're-coup' costs(although we all know that we probably spend more on a litter than we gain back if they are bought up properly!) Then there's the £20-60 per show depending on how many doggies I take, but usually 2 minimum!!! It's bl**dy expensive hobby huh??? :D :D :D All the best, Dawn XX

A Hagen Travel Kennel complete with accessory box, the delivery alone cost £60 and does she like it?  :(  But her doggy friends just love snuggling down in it when they visit :)

My most extravagent present for them is my van.  If I didn't have the dogs I wouldn't of bought the van :d

Probably the most expensive thing I've bought for my dog is her crate!
Oh, and vet bills of course. But she's a family dog (I do make sure I mention that when she needs a trip to the vet!) so I didn't have to pay them :D

I think the new fencing is going to come in at a few hundred quid!

Dog Show Disease

We have identified a new disease, probably caused by a virus among dog owning people. It apparently has been in existence for a considerable time, but only recently has anyone identified this disease, and begun to study it. We call it the Acquired Canine Obsessive Syndrome (ACOS). At first, ACOS was originally considered to be psychological in nature, but after two young researchers here suddenly decided to become show breeders, we realized that we were dealing with an infectious agent. Epidemiologists here have identified three stages of this disease and typical symptoms, and they are:

A. You have the early symptoms (Stage I) if:
1. You think that any show within 300 miles is nearby.
2. You begin to enjoy getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning to walk and feed dogs.
3. It is fun to spend several hours a day grooming dogs.
4. You think you're being frugal if you spend less than £2,000 a year on shows.
5. You can't remember what it was like to have just one dog.

B. You definitely have the disease (Stage II) if:
1. Your most important factor when buying a car is how many crates you can fit in it.
2. When you look for a house, the first thing you think of is how many dogs you can kennel on the property.
3. Your dog food bill is higher than your family's.
4. You spend as much on veterinarians as on doctors.
5. You have no money because of showing dogs.
6. You have to buy more than one vehicle a year, because you keep burning

> out the year or 70,000-mile warranty going to shows.

7. You have more pictures of the dogs than of your family.
8. Your idea of a fun vacation is to hit a show circuit.
9. Most of your conversations revolve around the dogs.

C. You are a terminal case (Stage III) if:
1. You wake up in the morning and find out that you put the kids in the crates and the dogs in the beds last night.
2. You know each dog's name and pedigree, but can't figure out who that stranger in the house is; it turns out to be your husband/wife.
3. Your neighbors keep insisting that those kids running around your house bothering the dogs are yours.
4. You keep telling the kids to "heel" and can't understand why they won't, and why they keep objecting to the choke collar.
5. You cash in the kid's college trust fund to campaign the dogs.
6. You've been on the road showing dogs so long that you can't remember where you live.
7. Your family tells you "It's either the dogs or us"; you choose the dogs.

Do you have this dreaded disease? Well, there is hope. In the course of our research, we have found that most cases seem to stop at Stage II, and remain chronic. We, with great difficulty, managed to acquire several Stage III ACOS patients. They are currently in our isolation wards, where we are studying them to gain a better understanding of this disease. It is a sad sight, seeing these formerly vibrant people as they shuffle around their rooms in endless triangle or L-patterns, making odd hand motions (as if holding a lead and baiting a dog), and making chirping noises.

Merely saying the word "Crufts" can send them into an uncontrollable frenzy.
Unfortunately, there isn't much hope for these cases, but with time and research to further understand this disease, we hope to come up with a cure We are now attempting to isolate the causative agent, and may be able to develop a vaccine in the future.

An interesting sidelight of this disease seems to be that exposure at an early age has an immunizing effect. Several people afflicted with ACOS at Stage II and Stage III have close family members (children, husbands, wives who have absolutely no disease. It is thought by some of our researchers that this may be due to environmental effects, to an aggregated immune function, or to the fact that those at these stages of the disease tend not to associate with their close family members possibly due to the memory deficit induced by the disease - that is, in that they don't remember that they have close family members! What can you do to prevent this disease? Until a cure is found, prevention is the measure.

Avoid kennels advertising "show stock," since it may be that dogs are carriers of the disease. Leave town on those days that the local newspapers inform you of a show in the area. If you inadvertently come into contact with an ACOS-afflicted person, leave as soon as possible (they do tend to cling), and thoroughly shower, preferably with germicidal soap. If you are living with an ACOS-afflicted person, take comfort that, if you haven't succumbed yet, you are probably safe...

Glad I'm not the only one!  Am looking for an estate car for Chance at the mo, and finished painting his bedroom on Sunday - it's now magnolia with chocolate brown pawprints marching across the wall!  He has his best dog in the world certificate on the wall and a picture of a particularly lovely lady mastiff (he is a teenager now!)

I opened my Birthday present from my husband to find a sapphire and diamond (chips) puppy collar?????  It had cost hubby £850 but I had no puppy!!! He then put me in the car and we drove 400 miles, stayed in a hotel and then he took me to get my first baby...... a GSD. (It was love at first sight and hubby was promptly put in second place.)  But that is the most extravagant thing I have ever had for a dog, it only fit him for 5 months, and is now in a showcase. And was the best Birthday present I ever had.

2004 land rover range rover for the wife and the goldens , and just recently 2006 ford explorer for myself and the goldens!! Most money well spent goes to the 2 $20 matress i bought for the bunch at a garage sale :) they love em!

^Bella would just loovee a diamond encrusted collar , i wouldn't love getting her one though :p