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Ive also contacted Gwyn concerning my PRT who has a prosthetic for a missing paw and an orthosis for a part missing paw.

So very sorry to hear this. You and your friend must be heartbroken. Run free boy

We are very lucky to have them both and having followed Diggs story on RDR Id have travelled many times further than Dunstable to meet him, somehow I knew he would be right for us and he is PERFICK

He certainly IS cute - we get stopped all the time when we are out with them people asking about both of them, bless.

Kazz, many thanks - once someone advises me on a digital camera to buy you will get some more pics - lol. I am useless at photos and the fuji camera OH bought some years ago (very expensive at time!) for sons graduation is beyond me. By the time Ive fiddled with the knobs the moment has gone. So Ive put a query on the photo board here for advice Oh hi EGAR,

Oh and Id also like to publicly thank zico's mum - who was the kind person who first pointed out Diggs to me when I was looking for a companion! xx

Oh - didnt consider sheep being loose? Ralph LOVES sheep, horses and cows - he has to go up to field fences to be sniffed at/blown on by them. But Im not sure about the prospect of him seeing them without a fence between him and them. Thanks for that, something to certainly think about.

Oh Laura, not a poor little soul, he holds his own I can assure you.LOL I have just climbed over them as they tusselLed very loudly over one squeaky toy (out of at least a dozen thrown about) and Ralph wont give way to Digg's insistence - lol. Its lovely to see them cuddling up in front of the fire asleep together. I think we have been extremely lucky to have such a wonderful pair of dogs.

Hi guys, many thanks for the welcome - lol, Diggs pic doesnt look like him now - I must put him on a diet! All those intrigued by Ralph's disability - he was conceived by accident to an ex breeding bitch at a kennels. She was of mature years and only one baby developed - my Ralph. The pregnancy wasnt noticed til it was well under way and the breeder, who is a good guy (and had given up breeding/showing at Crufts) told the kennel maid to watch her closely while he was out and to call the vet if she started to whelp and seemed in distress. Unfortunately it appears the kennel maid was not that vigilant and found mum whelping an extremely large baby and during her difficult delivery she had chewed at his feet, I assume to try to deliver. Owner arrived to see this carnage and called vet in - vet said to give pup a chance. We had lost our 16 year old Parson Russell a few weeks previously (yes, we had said "no more" - we couldnt take any more pain) so when we got a phone call about this boy "You are the only people I could think of who would take him on" we originally said we couldnt do it. A week of nightmares - literally - and I phoned to see if anyone else had been found to adopt him. I was told they hadnt and that the vet would be coming the next day to "sort it all out". Well, I knew what that meant. Put down the phone, asked OH "What do we do?" OH sighed and said, "We drive 80 miles and pick up a disabled puppy" and thats the story guys. I rang the kennels and said cancel the vet and we got Ralph home. He was a wonderful puppy, full of life and of course all puppies fall about. He manages very well on rough ground because he finds his own level - in fact when he chases rabbits you really couldnt tell he had anything wrong with him. But we had noticed that other dogs had begun to shun him/pick on him as they realised it was not puppy clumsiness but he was disabled. We were quite shocked (and upset) by this and as time went on and he so obviously craved friendship with other dogs but started to get nervous of approaching them, we decided a companion - in his own pack/home - would be a good idea - enter Diggs, the most brilliant dog we could have ever found for the position. We all love him to bits and the boys hit it off as soon as they met.

It was a terrible tragedy, as was the death of the child this time last year but I cant helping seeing the similarity in the circumstances. Both times the dogs appear to have been kept as "guard dogs", both times babies have been left with people who with hindsight probably werent the most capable and we really dont know what happened to alarm the dogs into a state where they became that aggressive. Absolutely awful situations but it would be so wrong to blame the breed. I used to have a wonderful rottiexlab - I can truly say that girl was the most gentle loving dog Ive ever owned and my boys, loved her to bits -as she did them - I looked out the window one snowy winter to see her pulling them around the garden on a sledge they had fitted to her harness - bless her she was wagging and grinning. We lost her when she was nearly 16 and it broke our hearts.

We have Ralph, disabled Parson Russell and Diggs, RDR Rescue Border Terrier. Ralph had one rear paw and part of another chewed off by mum at birth but he is a healthy happy boy only 2 and half years old. Now he finds it a real struggle on hard ground - so we only ever take him on rough heath, parkland or beaches. As there is often some misery on beaches who complains about dogs being off lead (Ralph runs better - in fact its hard to tell that he is disabled at all! - than he walks) we have decided on a little break with the boys but that moorland would be the best choice. As my elderly auntie lives in Somerset and we havent seen her for a few years Exmoor would seem the best choice - we think - but we have never been there. Can anyone advise whether the dogs could run free without any probs please and if anyone knows of suitable accommodation? Thinking of going in the next couple of months. As its only going to be for a few days, cost is secondary to suitability for the boys. Many thanks.

Forgive me, if am I old and suspicious, but why would someone stand outside Tescos trying to sell a mangey puppy? Wouldnt that be more a pub car park in the dark job?

Hi everyone, I live in Norfolk and have 2 rescues, a Parson Russell with 2.5 feet ( ) and a little Border Terrier that I adopted through Rochdale Dog Rescue. Just re read my title - is that Freudian???