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Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 3:43 pm
by michael scuffil
Great Plum wrote:The houses that looked identical to the housemaster houses (but are internally quite different) are 1902 houses. The rest of the houses on King Edward's Road and the Close were built (at my guess) in the mid 1960s when the extensions to the rear of the houses were built and the houses in the Gun Copses built...
The houses in the Gun Copse roads predate the extensions to the boarding houses by quite some time. The former were there when I was at CH, and had been occupied for two or three years at least, but the latter weren't. There weren't any new houses in King Edwards Road while I was there either.

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:02 pm
by Hannoir
Rosie the sausage dog was my fave. she was got as a puppy about 3 months before i left but i used to dog sit her occasionally whilst doing a-levels :D

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:34 pm
by Great Plum
The Bawtree's dog?

I tried to feed her the other day... That was er... interesting...

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:38 pm
by Hannoir
ha ha, why?

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:18 pm
by Great Plum
Well, she didn't take to me too kindly and I ended up finding her under the piano in the sitting room... she still wouldn't eat the food whilst I was in the house!

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:35 pm
by Chay_z11
The best dog I've known at CH, and still know, must be Oscar, owned by Mr and Mrs Phillips. He's a chocolate brown lab, and I've known him since my first days in Peele A.

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:52 pm
by Great Plum
Oscar is a gorgeous dog... very well tempered!

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:20 pm
by Mrs C.
what about my dog??
she might not like Holdsworth dog, but she loves people!! (and Oscar)

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:49 pm
by J.R.
......... and on the subject of dogs !

When our family were down for the sixth form open day recently and we were walking round the school.....

Behind the dining Hall, Counting House side, next to Peele....

One of the 'new' houses, my GD saw a beautiful huge dog sitting in the small garden and would have loved to make friends, especially as she is the co-owner of one of the largest Rotties I have ever seen in my life !

Details please, Janet !

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:01 pm
by Mrs C.
ah that would be the Andersen`s Rhodesian Ridgeback - they have 2 .
My mongrel doesn`t like them either!

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:44 pm
by J.R.
Mrs C. wrote:ah that would be the Andersen`s Rhodesian Ridgeback - they have 2 .
My mongrel doesn`t like them either!

Youngest daughter said she thought ir was a Ridgeback. I wasn't near enough.

Quite a rare dog, these days !

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:49 pm
by huntertitus
The ex-F1 racing driver Jody Scheckter (one of my clients) has 2 of these very nasty dogs.

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:27 am
by J.R.
I can't understand why certain breeds of dogs are described in the press as 'Dangerous' or 'Nasty'.

It's the owners/trainers that make them that way.

I think I've only ever said 'Hello' personally to two Ridgebacks, and they were both fine, if memory serves !

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:54 am
by huntertitus
Some types of dog are bred purely to be aggressive, such as guard dogs which are surely bred to be unfriendly to people they havent met before without being trained to do so. These ridgebacks were snapping and fighting with eachother, and were pretty menacing to me, though the owners treated them with love and I am sure they were affectionate dogs to the immediate family.

Re: CH dogs

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:04 pm
by jhopgood
huntertitus wrote:Some types of dog are bred purely to be aggressive, such as guard dogs which are surely bred to be unfriendly to people they haven't met before without being trained to do so. These ridgebacks were snapping and fighting with each other, and were pretty menacing to me, though the owners treated them with love and I am sure they were affectionate dogs to the immediate family.
Where I got my Jack Russell, they also bred Ridgebacks, but I was not interested because I had seen them in Madrid.
A friend had one and his neighbour complained that the Ridgeback was continually getting out and "molesting" his dog. Since my friend lived in a house with a tall wall around the garden, he waived off the complaint until he saw his dog leap and scale the 2 and a half metre gate.
Not the dog to have in a flat.