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    Quote Originally Posted by Queenslander View Post
    14 when this bloke went and I havent loved anything quite as much.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post


    More cat than dog.
    Is it just this angle, or do you have genuinely (as you once referred to them in the context of mine) 'mahoosive' forearms?

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    Course he does. He’s a former fatty.
    I'm a twit

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    I have good forearms, but they look thicker from being squashed against the dog.

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    Puppy started chundering yesterday. £100 to the vet but he's Ok and is back to himself today.

    Idk how parents do it.

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    If you want to get robbed blind but don't fancy the thrill of having a knife to your throat, just go to the vet.

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    Definitely get pet insurance. Can be insane how much they charge for some things

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    Having a pet is a good insight into what it must be like to have a kid in America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    Definitely get pet insurance. Can be insane how much they charge for some things
    We have it, but they all have an excess of £75-100. This was £102 so not worth claiming.

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    Don't they also have an upper limit on what they'll pay out as well (ie a write-off value for Fido) so, as with most forms of insurance, it's just an absolute scam really.

    Mate of mine has some rescue dog he got from Spain (fuck knows) and it seems to have cost him thousands because something went wrong with one of its legs.

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    Ours has an upper limit of £6000 a year per condition.

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    Going by the price of a normal one, imagine what that ballbag on Channel 4 charges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Don't they also have an upper limit on what they'll pay out as well (ie a write-off value for Fido) so, as with most forms of insurance, it's just an absolute scam really.

    Mate of mine has some rescue dog he got from Spain (fuck knows) and it seems to have cost him thousands because something went wrong with one of its legs.
    I'm not sure I've ever heard of this not going wrong. One of my wife's mates fell in love with a stray in Turkey. Paid a fortune to have it quarantined for 6 months or whatever it was, then paid a further fortune to fly it over.

    It ended up having a worm in its heart and dropped dead a few weeks later.

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    They know we have stray dogs here right? They're basically free too so easily replaced when they croak it.

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    Anyone getting a pet that they’re not rescuing should be banned for being near animals for life.

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    I looked into getting a tortoise once, but seemingly every ailment being an engine out job makes insuring them a ballache.

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    Go go tortoise puns
    I'm a twit

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    My dog was a rescue from the Blue Cross. I'm not sure I'd ever buy a dog knowing how many there are without a home.

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    Our last cat was a stray. Built like a fucking shed, he was. And incredibly gay.

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    Can't believe how much he's grown in a month.

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    That break looks nasty.

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    My leg?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    My dog was a rescue from the Blue Cross. I'm not sure I'd ever buy a dog knowing how many there are without a home.
    I did think about this, but at the end of the day the dog we bought was already born and going to someone regardless of whether it was us. It's more than possible if he went to someone else, it'd be him needs rescuing in 6 months when people who wanted a cute lockdown puppy realises a spaniel from working stock is a bigger commitment than they were prepared for. So I don't feel any guilt.

    I think it's breeders who need to take a look at themselves really

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    Do you mean the breeders that make money selling puppies to you?

    I have no issue with anyone buying a dog, but that seems like a weird justification.

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    This is like me saying that drug dealers are bad.

    And I can’t exactly grow coca leaves in my back garden.

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    It doesn't seem weird to me. The people who are actually putting new dogs into the world when there's loads need homes already would seem to me to be the ones who need to think about what they're doing.

    You can make the argument that if people like me didn't create the demand then they wouldn't create the supply which is a fair point.

    Yeah ok I'm probably a dick for buying a puppy but he'll have a good home and like I said, he could well have ended up a rescue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    It doesn't seem weird to me. The people who are actually putting new dogs into the world when there's loads need homes already would seem to me to be the ones who need to think about what they're doing.
    BECAUSE YOU’RE PAYING THEM TO DO SO YOU MONG. incredible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    My leg?
    Pray tell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    BECAUSE YOU’RE PAYING THEM TO DO SO YOU MONG. incredible.
    I didn't pay them to breed him. He was already born. But yes I acknowledged in the next paragraph that demand of people like me creates supply and that yes perhaps it wasn't the most ethical thing to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Pray tell.
    I had a condition called exertional compartment syndrome. I had fasciotomies on all four compartments of my lower legs so I have two scars like that one on each. There were some gnarly post-op photos on the old board but they're probably lost to the ages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I didn't pay them to breed him. He was already born. But yes I acknowledged in the next paragraph that demand of people like me creates supply and that yes perhaps it wasn't the most ethical thing to do.
    What?

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    I'm not sure how to answer you since that seems entirely straightforward to me.

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    It is a bit of a weird justification. If I wasn't filling my wife in somebody else would be, but they might hit her harder. Just say you didn't want a manky rescue dog with anxiety and watery shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I'm not sure how to answer you since that seems entirely straightforward to me.
    What’s straight forward about you not understanding the concept of a farm?

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    Just own it, you pansy. If anything, you shoulda gone the full Tommy Fury and got one of those retarded ones who can't breathe shipped over from Dagestan and milked the grief when it dropped a week later.

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    That is a very shit justification. Just say you don't give a fuck and at least own it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I'm not sure how to answer you since that seems entirely straightforward to me.
    It is very straightforward indeed. You're the only one that seems to be struggling with it.

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    Look, nobheads, I've said I accept it's probably not the best thing to do. But there's still a difference between buying an already born puppy from a couple of farmers (actual farmers not puppy farmers) who have working spaniels who've bred them twice then had them neutered/spayed compared to paying up front to secure a designer puppy from a full time breeder before they've even been bred.

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    Yeah alright I'm talking shit lmao

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    You've let this distract you from the important things in life.

    Like the fact that Jadon Sancho posted a picture of himself on a private jet yesterday and there was nary a mention of such important news.

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    He flew from Nice to Luton three days ago, back to Cologne the next day, went for his covid test at Dortmund the following morning and flew back to London afterwards

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    Jordan Sancho's parents didn't have him so that Manchester United could sign him, but quite frankly there's plenty of kids in Foster Homes that need a football club.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 31-07-2020 at 07:38 AM.

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    It's not like breeders never hand over damaged goods. Both my sister's King Charles' had horrific heart problems.

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    Don't all pure bred dogs have horrific health problems?

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    Aye, but sometimes breeders don't disclose that to the new owners.

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    Purebred dogs are definitely prone to be high risk for health problems yes. Generally they get screened for the stuff that's common for the breed but that doesn't rule out everything obviously.

    Sprockers don't seem prone to anything too horrific.

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    Brock was from some expensive breeder and he's still donning it.

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