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  1. Sighthound Winter Auction For Tailends

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    SWT auction now open...

     

    Sighthound Welfare Trust's Winter Auction is now open.

     

    You can visit the auction here; http://www.sighthoundwelfaretrust.org.uk/forums/index.php?showforum=38

     

    As there are over 280 items we decided to extend the auction and decided to open early in order to minimise overlap with Greyhound Gap's online auction and to ensure the finale remained on the special 26th November, when we will be celebrating the 4th anniversary of the online forums!

     

    A big thank you to all who have donated items to the auction. Let's make sure we can give a great Christmas present to the hounds at Tailends.

     

    The auction will finish as planned at 9pm on Thursday 26th November.

     

    We look forward to seeing you at the auction!

     

     

     

    Sighthound Welfare Trust

    Registered charity no. 1114709

     

    www.sighthounds.org.uk & www.sighthounds.org.uk/forums

  6. Giles Coren - What A Bl**dy Tw*t

    in Animal Chat

    Posted

    The article is irritating on so many levels:

    - calling for the extermination of an entire species. Are there other species Giles Coren feels are 'unnecessary'? Or just ones that happen to irritate him? The elephant, perhaps? If he thinks living around dogs is annoying, maybe he should try elephants for a bit. Or is it OK for people to have to live alongside elephants because people who have to adapt their lives to elephants are mostly poor and foreign, perhaps, and elephants are nice spectacular things for Giles Coren to admire from a distance?

     

    - the sheer nastiness of his views on people who didn't happen to have a nice easy start in life due to having a Daddy who was editor of Punch. Something tells me that if you want to get a column spouting mildly-amusing tosh in the Times, that helps quite a bit...

     

    - The focus on poo as if it were, say, genocide. Poo is nasty, I agree. People should pick it up. But come on, have some perspective! There are worse things in the world than poo! If poo really bothers you that much then one can't help wondering if you have toilet problems of your own.

     

    - the perspective is loony - to the point where I did wonder if this was actually the point he was trying to make, but I don't think it is. Of all species of mammal, the dog is one of the least likely to kill, when you take into account how many of them there are, and the fact that they live inside our houses. The fact that a baby has been tragically killed does not mean that dogs are generally dangerous. It points up the fact that millions of babies don't get eaten by dogs, and that, say, falling off a table is probably a greater risk.

     

    - The idea that it's a good idea to throw away 13,000 years of social adaptation and evolution over which people learned to live with dogs, and dogs learned to live with people, because of approximately 40 years worth of high technology. Because progress IS a one-way street, civilisations never collapse, and technology will inevitably go on getting better and better. not.

     

    - The idea that technology is a complete substitute for dogs anyway is clearly flawed. Leaving aside the companionship argument,which he dismisses with the glib assurance of a healthy young man who has probably never had any difficulty finding human companions, I'd rather like Giles Coren to spend the night on a mountain top with a broken leg, hoping that the Search and Rescue dogs will turn up quickly. Or perhaps he would like to spend a few weeks blind, wishing he had a guide dog...

     

    Victoria, you always put things so well. Please send this to The Times :flowers:

  8. Giles Coren - What A Bl**dy Tw*t

    in Animal Chat

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    I'm afraid I've let his comments ruin my day :mecry: Never before have I read such an awful, damning condemnation and hatred of dogs. I cannot believe The Times have printed such nasty rubbish. Amazing amount of comments in support of him too :axehead: He should be arrested for incitement to kill dogs :mad: I am now going to have to drink loads tonight :(

  9. Strictly Come Dancing

    in Non Animal Chat

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    I think if the public is just voting as a popularity contest though then what's the point of them even learning to dance? They might as well just turn it into some kind of celebrity Big Brother or that thing in the jungle or just some kind of general celebrity show :unsure:

     

     

    Agree entirely. Apparently there are various stupid DJ's whipping up their listeners and urging them all to vote for John Sergeant with the sole intention of ruining the show :grrr: I love Strictly but having to watch a very smug John Sergeant shuffling around is not my idea of entertainment and definitely not dancing!

  24. Does Your Dog Get Mistaken For Another Breed?

    in Animal Chat

    Posted

    I've not yet had any outrageously daft suggestions from adults - just the usual "are they whippets"? :rolleyes: but kids are another matter:

     

    "Mummy, why has that lady got goats?" and "Daddy, are they foxes?"

    Ellie goat

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    Barley Fox

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    Seriously though it's quite obvious that most people don't have a clue what most breeds look like so is it any wonder that all these newspaper reports of dog attacks have people stating "It was a pit bull" Going by this thread, they could have been just about anything :wacko:

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