Hi, Do you guys know any kid's pool is good for GR? Since I do not have a swimming pool at home and Elmo keeps sneaking into my Koi Fish pond to swim until one of my koi fish jumped off from the pond and suicided. Any recommendation?
One more thing, for those of you who own GR, do you discover any black fur on your GR body? I found a very small bunch of black fur on my GR (5 mths old). It's a very small bunch of black fur, hardly visible only if you pay real attention, especially when u bath or brush him. I'm worried if the black fur will grow further more. Elmo also has one black dot on his tongue. Does this mean that he's not a pure GR or it's simply just a birthmark? Please advise. If yes, I'm going to bleach that small bunch of furs before my parents discover. Elmo
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Hi Elmo,
I currently have skye (7 months old male GR). So far, I haven't seen any black hair on him and no dot on his tongue too, but I guess you shouldn't need to worry too much as it should be just a birth mark . Important thing is he is healthy. I don't think the dot on the tongue has anything to do with whether he is a pure GR or not.
Is the black bunch of hair really very visible?? If it is not, I don't really see a need to bleach it.
Do you have any photo of your GR with the black bunch of hair? It might be easier for others to judge by really seeing it from photos.
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Since I do not have a swimming pool at home and Elmo keeps sneaking into my Koi Fish pond to swim until one of my koi fish jumped off from the pond and suicided.
lol. very funny. btw, i'm hoping to get a kiddy pool for my boy too. i'm hoping to get one that costs below 40 bucks. hopefully with thicker walls.. and base. if not it'll puncture fast
my GR do has black hair occasionally, but not a bunch. only strands of it. normally i'll just pluck it off (like pulling white hair ). which part of the body did u discover the black fur? don't have to bleach la. just let his hair look naturally.
as for the tongue, not to worry, it's really normal. have seen not only GR, but other dogs with the spot on their tongue. even hunter has it, but it's really far behind of his tongue and not really visible
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hehehe, I won't bleach his hair lah.. maybe will just pluck the black hair out like Hunter said.
Hmm..will definitely take a picture of the 'evil' hair and have you guys judge it...
Btw, I think I saw the pic of your GR in the pool. Is it a kid's pool? those portable one? I think Hunter and I would like to have one for our GRs... Elmo
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i found one that i could redeem with my points earned with Real Rewards, the brand is 'Aqua'.. the diameter is 5 ft.. And I also looked at those in the mall.. diameter of 183cm (costs 70 bucks). Hmm, but i dunno how durable are those and if they are suitable for my 'crazy' Elmo.. He might try to dig a hole on the base of pool later..
Actually, the Koi fish was just disappear without the corpse found. Hmm, maybe Elmo buried it..
Ohh, abt the hair.. it's on the side of the body near his armpit area. Ok loh, won't bleach it, I'll just tell my parents that it's very common to have those blackie hair for GR, so they won't feel that they spent too much to buy Elmo in the first place. Btw, Elmo looks pretty much like your GR. At least the hair color is so much alike. Elmo
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That's interesting coz Billy has a black spot in his tongue. Just when I tot that was unique and that I do not need to microchip him .... just look at his tongue for identification ........hahahahaha ..... now gotta go microchip him !
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Hello,
Hope u don't mind me adding something here.
For the pool...hehehehhehe...build a pond! nah..I'm just kidding. It'll end up really dirty unless u can clean it up every few days.
Anyway, as for the black fur, I guess things like these happens. Think it's genetic since GR's were once not purebred and were crossed with other dogs (perhaps they were in other colours) and sometimes their colours just appears in one of our modern day dogs. I hv seen long coated rottweilers pups appear in a perfectly normal litter from a proven bitch. If I'm not mistaken, looooooong time ago, rotts had longer coats to protect them from the cold from their native country.
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Think it's genetic since GR's were once not purebred and were crossed with other dogs
can u tell me which breed is PURE by nature ?
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there u gooooooooooooooooooooooo
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yea i know white la. but hunter is pretty much white all over his body.. so i had a thought that there *might* be a possibility it's the opposite. hence black hair lo.. heeeheheheee...........
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Hi, I dont have a GR, but I used to have a small pond with local Japanese carps in the enclosure for my 2 Beagle puppies. Sometimes the puppies playing can be very boisterous and can sound more like horses. It is real fun to watch them hahahaha. But it frightened the hell out of the fish. The fish cowered in a corner all the time, ate very little and one died every fortnight. I also worried that the puppies may drown if they find a way through the wire mesh into the water when I was not watching. After a month I concluded that dogs and fish were incompatable. I removed the fish and the pond is now a sand pit for more doggy play rah rah rah. The human children love the sand pit, too. Best regards,J
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no worries, just give him sometime. the fur will gone eventually (i hope). my black ECS also had a "bunch" of white hair at the chest when she was a few months old. (the mother and the elder sister before her batch are pure black). so after a year, she is now a pure black girl. my black beauty.
by the way, yeah, dogs and fish pond doesn't get along well. my dogs drink from the water lily pot if they r really thirsty and lazy to run back to their drinking bowl. yucks....
(This post was edited by makrawl on Dec 5, 2003, 2:06 AM)
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yeah brinkley also gets black hairs occasionally, and we thought it must be due to stress... like when people with dark hair get grey hairs, well, she'd get them but not in a patch, just single strands here and there. Hey how is Hunter doing, still training for agility?
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lol, so how's brinkley? has she been a good girl? am sure has grown huge already (she was already huge the last time i saw her)
hunter is doing just fine :) no agility though.. doesn't seem to have agility classes this time around :/ he's now training for intermediate, but dunno if he's heading anywhere. can't see any improvement :( uhuhuhu...
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nah brinkley's not that big... she's nice and "feminine" sized *hehe*. She is really a darling, will be brinign her to the coming gathering at KK. She is so obedient she doesn't need class, but what I find is that she only listens when I talk to her like a human, in long full sentences.
Like when I say "Come" she ignores me, but then when I say "Why don't you come to Mummy?" then she jumps up immediately.
Or when I say "Up" to get her ont he couch, she doesn't get it, but when I say "hey why don't you sit over here brinkley" then she comes up. So weird!!!