Does anyone have a breed of dog that seems to be the next "in thing" in their area?  It was always staffies and rotties near me but there is suddenly quite a lot of Akitas.  There are 3 in my street alone.  It used to be the in cars and kids toys that everyone had to have, now it seems as if its dogs.

CG

We have a few dog's around here, but most of them are always in the back garden and we have never actually seen them!

There is a yapping one a few doors down, which I have only seen once when a parcel went there by mistake, it looks like a yorkie-cross.

There is one up on the corner, I think it is a Spitz breed but not sure which one, it is pure white, and again I have never seen it anywhere but in the garden.

Then there is a bloke down the lane who has greyhounds, he is always out walking them, but he has that many I have never been able to count because all those legs make you dizzy!!! :D

There are a few dog's we see on their daily walks, but they are all different, one of which is a gorgeous Collie, and we have a few Labs going by, but none that I would say are for 'fashion' reasons.

We have noticed there are more Staff's cropping up down in the town, but this may just be that we are looking out for them, with being more aware of dog's on the whole at the moment!!

So no, we haven't really got a 'fashionable' dog crisis here! :D

Staffs are most definately the "in" breed here. They're all over the place.
There's also a lot of dogs that looks like Staffy x Akita - they all seem to be around the same age and look similar so I expect they're all related. They seem to be very popular among the people selling the Big Issue in the town centre...

Well I wondered if someone had got a "job lot" of puppies and sold them all on the estate!  They're all lovely dogs but I'm just surprised there are so many of them.  Some people do seem to be using them as a "look at me and my big dog" kind of thing.  Not the breed for me though, too strong.

CG

Staffs and Staff Xs are still the most common in my area but Akitas are increasing among the types who want a 'hard' dog as a status symbol :rolleyes: And there are loads of adverts for Akitas being sold without papers at £300-350 so I suppose that makes them cheaper than a well bred Staff too.

Its rotties round here within the last year theres got to of been at least another 8 of them appear. I dont often see them being walked though mainly kept on a chain in the garden.

Pretty much the same here.  Though the border collie and their crosses are very common as are Terrier types.

Border collies, springer spaniels, terriers and lurchers here but in the country I suppose it's what you would expect.

Ooh-arh, and all that. ;) :D

You can't see it but I am blowing raspberries at you ;-) I am actually technically a "townie" but I have spent more than half my life living in the country and have spent most of it mixing with cuntry people so I guess I deserved that. I have to say though that at least my parents weren't related to each other BEFORE they were married kissing cousins seems to be the order of the day round here

ROFLMAO :D :D :D The only reason I can get away with it is I grew up in the countryside and yes I did get it in the neck a lot at school. The most popular one was, 'she's doin' it with her 'orse.' The fact I didn't have a horse seemed to escape their notice, plus the fact that I didn't turn up for school every morning walking like John Wayne should be been a clue but that's what you get for living in Planet Thanet, the inbreeding capital of the South East. :rolleyes: 

well here it was ESSs ,now staffies .but as you come to mention it there are a few atkitas about (including a gorgeous white pup)

Certainly a few staffies around here - but they are mostly well controlled, so I have no problems with them. Still a choc lab area - they are the biggest problem as I've lost count of the number of times I've been covered in mud with them jumping up at me :D

Daisy

Staffs are very common where i live and always have been, couple of years ago it was westies now here to Akitas are increasing plus Sharpeis, Dogues and i've seen a few pit bulls.

Warm regards Susan

In the country here, so outnumbered by labs and springer spaniels...BUT have noticed a few more staffies about.  I remember years ago there were loads of Afghans around, that was definitely an IN Fashion thing, now I hardly ever see one.

JRs and other terrier crosses are the most common, with several staffies. Other than that it's mainly gundogs or collies - it's a rural area.

Im rural too and there are mostly labs and springers (some with tails) in my village.  There are a couple of staffs and a couple of sibes too, and a leonberger but it is mostly gundogs.

Lots of Terrier type crosses and quite a few staffies around here with the occasional Lab, GSD, Akita cross, Husky, Retriever.   But I have noted that Springers are starting to pick up in the area recently.  

I think to have a 'pedigree' dog is seeming to be the equivalent of having a nice car at the moment, and working Springers are so cheap even 'with papers'. It won't be long before they are all in rescue :(

When I told my nextdoor neighbours that we were getting a dog, she asked what 'type' (her words!!!) and I said Australian Shepherd, she said oh is it one of those fancy ones that fit in your bag? - 'nuff said I think!!! :rolleyes:

Just wait until you get the 'collie know-it-alls' who INSIST that you've got a collie without a tail :D :D :D

Daisy

LOL I have been warned already!! It's funny though when I first saw Aussies, I didn't think they looked like Collies at all (maybe because I had a collie growing up) but it took my hubbie ages to see the difference. (Of course when he couldn't see the tail end!!!) Now he can even tell the difference between the show and working strains!!!! :D LOL

Labradors around my way, usually black or yellow.

While I was out walking in Windsor Great Park the other day I saw a dog which I can only assume was a Viszla as the shape and almost the colour were right - but the colour was very 'faded', and it's amazing how different it made it look to a normal Viszla.

Is this something that happens within the breed, or is it a new breed to me?

M.

Labradors and Golden Retrievers around here............well we are near Tunbridge Wells so they go so nicely with the 4x4's :D

My block consists of 9 goldens (4 are mine) and about 6 westies and a mastiff. Oh and one GSD, this is only one block can you believe it

Dog parks i see whippets , GSDS and dalmations alot.

Hi CG,

Around our way there's been a sudden population explosion of Dogues :(  We had the Rotts, then Akitas, then Shar Peis so I guess the DDB was only a matter of time.  Wouldn't mind if any of their owners looked like they knew the slightest thing about owning ANY pet but ......

We've always had lots of Staffs and Pit Bull look alikes and by and large they are all kept nicely under control but the ones hell bent on finding the latest "in" breed just don't give me the same feeling of confidence!  Funnily enough all the previous ones mentioned only seemed to be around for a max of 2-3 years and then never seen again - probably replaced with the next whim even though their owners couldn't manage their first breed

Teri    

The poor DDB and the Neo. Mastiff are very popular in the Manchester area and of course Staffies.

Talking of working Springers, I know a woman who is getting two who is not suitable to have any kind of working dog and I wonder what will happen to them in a few months time.  They are from a litter of 5 off someone who didn't have homes for any of them!

Why do people do this?

There appear to be chockie Labs everywhere round here at the moment, but that could be because they are being bred in large numbers by one or two local people :(

Also appear to be quite a few cockers about of late, although I have to say that on the whole there dont appear to be quite as many new pups in the village this year as in previous years.

What always worries me is the number of 'disappearing' puppies :( I meet quite a lot of new owners - see them once or twice and then never again :( (I live next to the local dog walking fields so can also see from my bedroom :D ) . What happens to these pups ? After the novelty wears off, do they just never get walked ?? :(

Daisy

I guess there are some that dissappear, but ours is a big enough village that it is sometimes hard to notice. There was one however that I was quite glad not to see any more. A lab that from the first tiem I saw it clearly had all sorts of joint problems (at 16 weeks) I saw him about for around 6 months and the owners swore that the vet had told them there was nothing wrong. Sadly as he grew things just got worse and in the end even the vet agreed that there was little they could do except put him out of his agony :(

>I live next to the local dog walking fields so can also see from my bedroom) . What happens to these pups ? After the novelty wears off, do they just never get walked ??

Their owners are probably frightened to go out because of the local stalker ( peeping Daisy)   :D

How did you know ?? I'm sitting up in my bedroom as we speak, with my binoculars :D :D ;)

Daisy

It is Labs of all colours here but mostly blacks, all brother and sisters from one bitch plus a few cockers here and there. The occasional JR and a few GR's.

Most of the Labs are working types as there a quite a few shoots and breeders around here :)

Lucy
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We have a 'new' breed of lab round here it is normally chocolate, but does also come in black and yellow. I have christened them coffee table labs, because they are so big and fat that they would make perfect coffee tables. Most of them also move at about the same speed as said item of furnature :o

That is one thing I can say about the Labs around here and that is you hardly ever see a porky lardy Lab :)

They do keep them quite fit which is good thing as I do hate seeing fat Labs :(

Lucy
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I hate to see any dog that is too fat, somehow it just seems that it is always Labs. Good job mine dont take after their owner :D

Same here although Dudley has a wobbly belly like her owner :D

LOL Perhaps we should take after them and run up to every one we come across, jump up, lick their face then run back to where we started. Do you think that would get us thin (more likley arrested :D) 

That is fine but I would draw the line at sniffing their bottoms :D :D

LOL Lucy I wouldnt DREAM of sniffing bottoms, Im a LADY - I roll over to show mine off :D

Well in my village there are several other boxers beside mine, tow GSD and a mastiff. But in the next village they seem to be all boxers with the odd Labrador that walks on a di used railway line

My local park in Edmonton is riddled with GSD's and various terriers. I always thought Cavs were supposed to be popular, but I only see them at training club. Mind you, about a quarter of the dogs there are Cavs at the moment!!

Oooh I almost forgot. There is somebody with a bull mastiff and a boxer. They live in a huge house with lots of land, they also have horses. I know them cos the footpath splits their land from the house. The garden is about an acre and they suffer from the usual bull breed prejudice :-(  They used to have 2 of each but have lost the other two. They just like these sorts of dogs and they have the space, time and money to deal with them. It's a shame they get grief off people about it.

Well here in my little area it is black labs and rottie's but the chocs are creeping in now seen at least 3 the other day all puppies.

I think Beagles must be in somewhere I get about 5 phone calls a week for them!  I have got it posted everywhere I dont breed them but nobody bothers reading it!!!!

In this area we are inundated with Blue Roan cocker spaniels, westies and cavs. 

I live on a housing estate and staffs are definatly the in dog here.  Unfortunatly they are owned by the wrong people, young couples without a clue and out of work, drug addicts and as status symbols.
Its getting a nightmare trying to get my dogs out for a walk.  I've had 3 dogs attacked by them now and have spoken to a few other people one of whom won't walk her dog any more as it was attacked 7 times.

bev

Are you a trekkie?  The Star Trek prequel series 'Enterprise' may have had something to do with lifting the breeds profile in the last couple of years.  Captain Archers pal is a Beagle.

And a gorgeous little dog he is too, I always like watching the episodes he particularly features in! :-)

I never realised that Beagies were in Star Trek.  Perhaps they want another one. 

I am blowed if I know why we get so many phone calls I always tell them to ring the breed clubs.  Lucky was 4 months old when we got her and we had a choice of 3. 

I have another problems breeding dalmatians I dont think I am ready to take on the world of beagles although I dare say at some point Charlotte will want another one but hopefully not for a long while yet. ;) 

It is certainly staffies in our town in cumbria, they are all over! I must admit i never liked them because they always seem to be accompanied by two or three teenagers and the dogs are never on a lead. However in the last few years i have changed my mind as i met three lovely staffies and realise you cant tar them all with the same brush! Its not the breed it is the type of owner that is often the problem. I know one person who has now changed staffies three times hoping to get a better example of the breed. How can you just get rid of dogs like that.. they are just a status symbol to her!

yes there are always staffs about but im noticing a lot more douge de bordeaux about to