Not sure which is cuter....
Mar. 13th, 2004 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arwen_luneWe're kind-of sort-of looking at dogs. Not to take one, according to my parents. Just... looking.
Saw a lot of Kooiker-dogs today (Dutch breed). Cute, but many were a little too much lapdog and too little active-dog-to-take-cycling-and-riding kind. We liked the larger types though. The differences in behaviour were very diverse, from bouncing and licking "Hi-who-are-you-will-you-stroke-me" to very reserved "look-don't-touch" and one even growled at my father. Many, many dogs looked too heavy to us, in need of a little less food and a good cycle every day. The one dog that really appealed to us was usually found 'too thin' by the breed-organisation, according to the owner. It looked good and healthy to us.
Have now taken an interest in Icelandic dogs, which is a breed that's a nice size, a bit more robust than the Kooikers, of gentle character and very lovely. A huge advantage is that these are not hunters. Considering that any dog of us would spend time walking loose in and near the forest, a lack of tendency to disappear after the local wildlife is good.
They also look utterly adorably woolly as a pup... And they go well with cats, or so I'm told.
*melts*
But we're not getting a dog. Apparently.
Saw a lot of Kooiker-dogs today (Dutch breed). Cute, but many were a little too much lapdog and too little active-dog-to-take-cycling-and-riding kind. We liked the larger types though. The differences in behaviour were very diverse, from bouncing and licking "Hi-who-are-you-will-you-stroke-me" to very reserved "look-don't-touch" and one even growled at my father. Many, many dogs looked too heavy to us, in need of a little less food and a good cycle every day. The one dog that really appealed to us was usually found 'too thin' by the breed-organisation, according to the owner. It looked good and healthy to us.
Have now taken an interest in Icelandic dogs, which is a breed that's a nice size, a bit more robust than the Kooikers, of gentle character and very lovely. A huge advantage is that these are not hunters. Considering that any dog of us would spend time walking loose in and near the forest, a lack of tendency to disappear after the local wildlife is good.
They also look utterly adorably woolly as a pup... And they go well with cats, or so I'm told.
*melts*
But we're not getting a dog. Apparently.
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Date: 2004-03-13 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-13 02:51 pm (UTC)It's not like it is actually that difficult to slim down a horse or a dog a bit. Cats, now that's harder. You can't take those for a long walk...
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Date: 2004-03-13 04:32 pm (UTC)And you're right on the cats... One of ours is a porker and the other is skinny. We can't even put the fat one on a diet or he just eats the skinny one's food.
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Date: 2004-03-14 11:50 am (UTC)