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| Bernice |
Strange posesOur 9 month old Tommy relaxes in a very strange pose ! Front legs flat on the floor and bottom in the air - he seems very content. Does your dog do this? Is this a Breton thing?Bernice 
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| johnhod |
Hi Bernice
This just looks like a play pose, an invitation to join in the fun that he has in mind. Does he hold the stance for a long time or move off after a few seconds of no one responding to him? |
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| Bernice |
Yes, he is very playful, you are probably right about it being a play pose. He frequently adopts this pose and seems very relaxed, he stays like it for several minutes sometimes. We have noticed a Breton who lives nearby also does it. Interestingly our other dog (a 10 year old English Springer) had never "posed" like that before in her life but has recently started to do it as well !
Bernice |
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| .:HayleyH:. |
That looks like the position Moss takes when he is about to pounce at something.. Or someone 
He also stretches like that, but I've never seen him relax like that. It's quite a unique pose! 
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| Bernice |
Watching him more closely I would say that Tommy starts off as a stretch then obviously feeling comfortable he just stays like that for a while. This frequently hapens in front of the radiator - warming his bum no doubt .....
Bernice |
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| guy |
On the theme of strange poses.. look no paws - notice where the shadow is
or pretending to be a bat 
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| .:HayleyH:. |
Wow I love the bat one
Hayley |
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| Bernice |
Tommy used to be a bat too when he was a puppy ........ 
Gill 
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| guy |
Bernice - FYI the background village is Serre 03500 | ||||
| Bernice |
Guy, is that in the Auvergne? Beautiful region, we went there a few years ago. Bernice |
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| guy |
Allier. just outside St Pourcain about 30km from Vichy. Might just have to have 'open house' there around next years National which is being held just outside Bourges. | ||||
| Victoria |
Gaston does 'the pose' too and alot of this too!!
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| Annie as admin |
Yes, that's why I have leather furniture too - easy to clean up! 
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| Bernice |
Tommy likes to relax in an armchair ..... 
Bernice 
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| Mugi |
Chase, flying through the crop .
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| Victoria |
Wow!!!
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| johnhod |
Is any bird safe now that Brittanys have learned to fly? | ||||
| Lin Dyke |
Is it a bird  Is it a plane No  It's Super Dog
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| guy |
Does Chase spronk ? | ||||
| Dogsbody |
You reading that book again.....
Jan |
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| guy |
Nope - Topaz used to when he was a puppy in certain length crops - young wheat springs to mind. I saw him do it again the other day across a bramble patch :-)
Spronking for those who think I have swallowed a dictionary is the name for the action often seen in gazelle. They seem to bounce up equally on all four legs move forward and then down again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNC5OUQ5vjs |
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| Mugi |
So glad you put in the explanation Guy as my google search brought up a whole different definition .
In answer to the question, no he doesn't that I have noticed, he bulldozers through whatever is in his path as though it weren't there!!! |
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| Victoria |
My does spronk down the hill when they are full of the joys!! The Pointer and Setter Club are holding their Christmas Bash at one of the North Islands most noted pheasant preserves this coming Saturday, at which we will be enjoying a 50 clay shoot. Thought I better get some practise so hired the clay launcher, bought a box of clays and ammo, and we descended on a friends hospitality being loathe to discharge such rabid volleys at home ... might upset the guinea fowls!! The noon repast,Quiche Lorraine etc was taken under a ancient hazelnut tree in which quail are wont to rest in...Gaston entertained us beautifully by walking the entire circumference of the tree on his back legs whilst nosing the scent of quail. The Labrador man mumbled that G should be on the stage which was enough to encourage me to shoot better and so I beat him soundly in the next round!!!
Talking of interesting words, my father used the word saint john (sin jin) to describe a bull or pig sitting with their rumps on the ground but with their front legs vertical as a dog sits
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| johnhod |
What is this Google? Surely everyone uses Easysearch now, to raise funds for the club |
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| Mugi |
I was at work at the time John so only allowed Google .
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| Annie as admin |
OK you're excused but see below!
Christmas is coming - use Easyfundraising and Easy search!!! NOW!!!!! Earn money for YOUR club. It's EASY- just register and start shopping. It's SAFE- just register and start shopping. It's HANDY- just register and start shopping. Come on Guys, there are still an awful lot of you NOT using this easy way of making money!!! Annie |
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| .:HayleyH:. |
Annie, I'm going to ask my dad to show me how to use it, because I don't have a clue!
I'm currently still a google user
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| Annie as admin |
Yes and I should think you should feel embarassed
Your Dad should have shown you how to do this long since. I thought you were the computer expert anyway?
You can have a second browser - download Mozilla Firefox for free from teh 'met and make easysearch the default home page on there. It's handy to have a second browser anyway. Annie |
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Forgot about the Tommies spronking Guy Ghillie does it on the spot when she is in the maize etc., most of the other beaters fall about laughing...BUT the birds come out like bats out of hell 
How about Shoat or Stirk for words to drop at a party
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| Annie as admin |
Ok - I guess these are Englandshire words - meaning please?
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| Lin Dyke |
Shoat: recently weaned piglet: cross sheep/goat: shiver:
One of Josh's nicknames was piglet, Rudi climbs like a goat, and they have all shivered when excited
but what the h... is STIRK
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| Victoria |
Sort of the bovine equivalent of a teg, perhaps????? 
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| Lin Dyke |
It is the bovine equivalent of a teg  . With thanks to Victoria and my OED ref' dictionary
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Heifer or bullock between 1-2 years of age. Boy, is this going to get the old brains working....anyone got any more
Here's a good one....matutinal....and it is in my New English Dictionary printed in 1932 what I bought in France at a car boot sale
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| Lin Dyke |
You'd have to be up in the early hours of the day to appreciate this one
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Go on Lin, get the old brain in gear
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| Annie as admin |
She just did - that's what it means you dopey dinah "relating to the early part of the morning"
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Well, actually, in MY dictionary it says pertaining to Matuta the goddess of dawn..... I notice you never got it Annie before you start on me again
OK here's another one for you; redondilla and, just for good measure ...reduit. |
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| Victoria |
Reduit - is that what Leonardo said when he noticed he had given an cherub on the Chapel ceiling two left hands...'bahgar iffa armuh gunna re du it?!! | ||||
| Ghilliegumdrop |
Boy that's good for this time of day...wrong, but good
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| Lin Dyke |
Spanish verse in stanza. Fortified defence positon. Now I really must get back to the Telegraph crossword
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Flipping heck are you still doing it? I finished ours Saturday
Here's another one.....drogue. Shall we start a new thread
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| Annie as admin |
Yes, please, start a new thread - there might be someone out there trying to say who they are
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Who are what
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| Lin Dyke |
Jan, we are currently in the "who are you?" thread. Which is for new members to introduce themselves. Not for the likes of us to go off at tangents
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
OK, I thought we were in Strange Poses Just goes to show..........
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| Annie as admin |
Some tattie boodie added a new thread to 'who are you' called 'strange poses' I think it was Bernice in her excitement at finding us Don't suppose you lot know what a Tattie Boodie is?
Anyway, new thread started in General Chat, sub topic called 'strange words, puzzles and crosswords' Have fun
Annie |
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Daft bat
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| Bernice |
Some tattie boodie added a new thread to 'who are you' called 'strange poses' I think it was Bernice in her excitement at finding us Don't suppose you lot know what a Tattie Boodie is?
I don't think I'm a Tattie Boodie ...... not the right weather for standing around in fields .......
Bernice |
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| Ghilliegumdrop |
Or in Annie's case, falling around in them as well
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| Annie as admin |
Join the club, Bernice Try to think up some real brainstorming words for these guys in teh other thread. Did I say brains?
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