Ah, Mick the Kerry Blue Terrier. I remember him well…that furball beat out my beloved Dallas, World’s Most Awesome German Shepherd ™.
Yes, 2003 was a good year for Not-Poodles.
Easy.
“NO! Dammit, stop running into the wall! NO!!”
See?
This is the best idea to come along in years.
Point system:
Head sticking out the window: 20 points.
Head sticking out the window and jowls are puffed out by air: 35 points
Barking like a maniac the entire drive: 50 points.
Barking like a maniac out the window the entire drive100 points
Barking only at the police officer who is writing you a ticket: 100 points
Laying in the backseat with head hanging out the window while sleeping: 40 points.
Randomly licking the closed window: 10 points
Nose prints: 10 points
Getting head almost stuck between the seat back and seat cushion trying to get the very last mummified french fry that is wedge down there: 75 points.
**Sitting in the front passenger seat looking straight forward: **40 points.
Laying in the front passenger seat, head on Humans lap to be petted: 200 points.
Sitting between two captains chairs in a van, perfectly still for the entire drive: 125 points.
Trying to sit in the drivers seat while human is driving: 1000 points.
**Sitting in the backseat, window open, going through a drive thru and getting a treat handed directly to you from the staff because you are such a good boy : 1000 points.
**Sitting wedged between two car seats with two sets of goobering hands touching your fur while Mommy takes you for a ride and you don’t eat any of the children: ** 100,000 points.
Sitting in the backseat, put entire head into the McDonald’s bag that is sitting between the two front seats: 125,000 points.
You forgot:
attempting to squeeze entire body through partially open window in order to chase the squirrel spotted across the street: 10000 points
And politely making that small whining noise on long drives to let the driver know “it’s time”: 5000 points
Oh, what about barking so loud through the closed window that the dog in the next car over on the freeway hears it through their closed window and barks back: 150000 points
My dog would be a serious contender in this competition.
:snerk:
Looks like something that could be from a Dave Barry column. Kudos!
Attempting to squeeze entire body through partially open window to chase the squirrel spotted across the street and ends up somehow wedged on the back window deck thingie with its entire body blocking drivers rear view like a lunar eclipse.: 5000 points.
Human has to use brakes to get dog down from back window deck thingie when said dog is rather befuddled on how to do this on its own: 10,000 points.
And they clean themselves like cats.
Don’t you think John and Patsy Ramsey would be showing dogs if they were childless.
Yeesh…gives me a shiver to think it!
I have been showing dogs for years. You’re right - if you want to win in the show ring - especially the group or BIS ring, you need a poodle - of any size - a toy breed, or a terrier.
Don’t even try with a retriever (or any sporting dog) or a working/herding dog. With a few very notable exceptions, they rarely win in the best in show ring.
I just wish they’d stop turning poodles into Doggy Topiaries.
Gimme a wash-n-wear dog, any day. A dog who still has function.
Poodles were freakin’ RETRIEVERS for god’s sake. Now they’re classified in the toy or non-working groups! They’re not functional anymore! What the hell, I ask you!
Then again, finding a multi-BIS (MBIS) dog with “titles on both ends” is fairly rare.*
Freakin’ poodles!
E.
*Titles on both ends: the Championship title on a dog goes in front of their name. The titles after their registered name usually are functional titles: agility, obedience, tracking, herding, weight-pulling, schutzhund, etc. Some functionality titles at the “championship level” (super super advanced) will also go at the front of the dog’s name, but few are those who get there.
For some reason, everytime I list the Pit threads, and see this title, I think this is a political thread…
But then, in the previous post, I read the phrase as “titties at both ends” twice, before finally rereading and parsing it right.
Yes, I need help. The 2004 election season is taking far too long. And so is my wife’s post-partum healing.
(me, getting the news from the OB: “Six weeks!?!” :eek: )
Nice to know I am NOT the only one! It was a visual I blush to think about…
And Shirley I think my Bo would do just fine in your show, this half shepard, half husky will try to rip the heart out of anyone who DARES step foot on his property but turns into a whining, shivering pile of dog fur when faced with having to get into the truck!! I changed vets just so we could WALK to the vet for his shots. :o
and for the neighbors dog:** Launching herself off the top of the fence in a graceful arc to land at my feet when I walk outside to feed my dog: 10,000 points**
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
I made threadspotting!
Whooooooo Hooooooooooo!
Thanks Baker! You rawk!
About time 
I don’t think that you should say that about the Red Sox 
RIGHT HERE.
Max that dog is simply awesome! You could enter in BIS whilst sleeping on the couch arm.
“Bichon Frise”? Isn’t that a kind of quiche?
I’ve started calling those sculptured shrubberies “poodle bushes”.
Now that’s one of the most doisturbing things I’ve read here.
My aunt had a chihuahua named “Binky” (shudder) that she doted on, doing things like feeding it in her lap at the dinner table. The rest of the family loathed it. It was territorial, vindictive, and paranoid. It terrorised us kids. We only had peace during thunderstorms, when it would hide under one of the beds.
Later, it died. We were happy.
Then she got another chihuahua and named it “Chicky” (double shudder). Later, it died too, and we were happy. She got another dog, but this time it was a Lhasa Apso which was actually kind of cute, and we got along with it. It did have a tendency to hump anything within reach though.
Are all small dogs nerotic, or is that just a side-effect of certain owners?
Misleading title. I believed I had won something…
Side effect.
We’ve got a small dog (Bichon Frieze cross Tibetan Terrier, looks like this ) and the only time he goes annoying and yappy is when we get the leash out. As soon as it goes on he shuts up. At all other times he’s more like a breathing teddy bear. He can also keep up and give his own in playfights with our other dog, a Maremma about 10 times his size.
Watching a full grown Maremma get pinned by a dog that only reaches it’s knees is very entertaining!
{Milo Perrier}I’m not a Frenchie…I’m a BELGIE!{/Perrier}
Sorry…I couldn’t resist!