What a talent!

I am in awe of this dog! What a great trick to be able to pull.



I thought I'd share it with you... Have a great weekend, and fellow dogs do practise this one at home, imagine pulling this stunt when you get your nails clipped or have the nasty kennel cough up the nose vaccine at the vets!

Or imagine doing it if someone pats you without asking your owner first...! Wouldn't that be hilarious?

A new photo competition launched today!

We have three categories (ugh did I just say cat!):

1 The most gorgeous dog in the world.

2 The dog who has overcome the most to become the dog they are today.

3 The dog that changed my life - past or present.

Please do say which class you are entering when you post your photos on our Company of Animals facebook page wall. And don't forget to 'like' the page. When we get to 5,000 people who 'like' us there'll be £250 of Company of Animals goodies given away to a charity that you will choose!

There'll be lovely prizes for the winners of this competition from the Company of Animals Range.

Good luck!

SHORTLISTED IN THE FUNNIEST CATEGORY

This is Whisper (the waitress). Whisper is 18 years old and now completely deaf. Named the waitress because she looks everywhere but at you when you want her attention no matter how much you wave your arms. She is also an amazing veg and fruit thief.
Lorna Hall

 

Jaeger's greatest talent is taking my place in bed!
Alison Irvine

 

This is willow, who  likes to steal cat food and slope off upstairs to our human bed

Karen Walkden



This is my Pandora , shes a lovely whippet but ids having a well deserved break from running around !!! Her and her housemate Willow ( photo to follow )like to a) countersurf to steal food B) run very very fast over open fields c) look adoringly into mine and their daddys eyes when we have something to eat d) roll about in as much mud and fox poo as they can on EVERY walk we go on !!!
Karen Walkden

 
 Jack here..this is me drying myself on mum's bed!!..she took me for a walk tonight..and I found a nice smelly pile to role about in!! lol...don't think she was too happy...put me straight in the bath:-) I didn't mind tho, I got to lick up all the soap suds..she keeps saying it'll make me sick but ...not so far :-)
Catch you soon
Lee Geddis 


Let's have a sing song pa,
Oh come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant
Oh come all ye faithful and so on and stick me tongue out and Im so lovely and I love my food and Im a nusiance and I eat your shoes and I eat the doors and Im silly and Im a lump and Im so handsome and I want to go out and I want to come home and I love you and you DEFINATELY love me cos Im so cute and small
Sandy Greenwood

 

This is our Bella, an English Bull cross, her best talent is all her tricks she can do and she enjoys dressing up too, she once got 1st prize as a ballerina!!xx

 Yvonne Allen
















LET ME THINK I will only say this once. Pythagoras's TheoremIn any right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
i.e.: c² = a² + b²
Sandy Greenwood

 
My 2yr old labrador Hugo, hes got a few quirks hehe. like sitting on his bum with his front paws in the air when he wants a treat, he knocks on the back door when he wants to come inside and when my cats had kittens he helped look after them bathing and washing them and even carrying them back to the birthing box when they scampered too far ^_^ such a little sweetheart
Alison Edwards 



I'm Jack the Patterdale..this is mum trying to take my pic!! How many times do I have to tell her noooo flash!!!
Lee Geddis


 
Lucy the greyhound likes to tuck into her favourite crisps...
Jo Head

SHORT-LISTED IN THE CUTEST CATEGORY

Click on people's faces in the photo to tag them. Golden will be asked to approve all tags before others can see them.

Here is our Dougal his best trick is looking cute for the camera !

Dougals Den 

Spiderpug, Spiderpug, Does whatever a puggy can Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies Look Out! Here comes the Spiderpug

Katy Price  

Now 'Dont Look'! Inca covers her eye with her paw!

Kath Charlton

I'm Coco, although I spend a lot of my time being an assistance dog for my Mum Kaz, when I have the chance, I do SPOOKY TRICKS FOR TREATS!
Whoooooooo! Booooooooo! Scared Ya!
Golden Caesar 
   

My big girl Kulu, is just plain awesome, she's great at agility, fantastic with kids and is the softest soppyest dog on the planet.

Jessica Flanagan  

 

These are my 2 rescues Buster (small) and Bert (large) I rescued Buster when he was 17 weeks old he was covered in burns and didn't have a bed or shelter or food and his water was froze he has turned into a little gem he's 8 years old now n loves his walks Bert was found in Cyprus by a lad in the RAF at approx 3 weeks old with his mum dead next to him he was hand reared and brought home but was to giddy n big for the lads parents

Vicky Kelly

This is Barney.. or Barnaby if you want to use his Sunday name! He likes smiling as you can see and is always willing to give a "high 5!" for a treat. And for a small dog he is very protective over his owners :)

Marie Stewart 

This is our beautiful Buffy. She is a Shaffie (Staffie x Sharpei). Her forte is sleeping and guarding us ! When we go out she gets a small treat, which she won't touch until we come back in. She then brings it to show us and promptly devours it! She really is a great big beautiful Buff.

Jan Johnson 

Biro!

Fay Mitchell 

 

Harvey who I have had since his mother abandoned him at 5 weeks old.....and I put him on here because he is simply the handsomest woof in the universe......and he knows it!!!

Rebecca Paul

 

Bingo our JRT doing what he does best!

Fay Mitchell 

 

Marcy one of my rescues....she may be old and chubby......but she's wonderful and crafty and can run rings round us all.......

Rebecca Paul 

I am so bored but I know you like me resting my head on your lap so I will humour you just for today Sandy Greenwood



This is Charlie aka "The Professor".
Laura Pemberton 



my two weimaraners jake and pheobe.
Sarah Dowding 


hi this is me (CHARLEIGH) in my new car cant wait to go to the beach ill get my mum dad 2 take some pics ov me playin on the sand
Andy Johnson






Noah just had a shower ;)
Carolin Malwine Urban 


How cute is Dixie in her little hat? No problem in wrapping us round her paw with those eyes!. She is loved very much by her Mum and Dad
Margaret O'Hare 


And this is my baby girl
Alli Davis 


This is my big man
Alli Davis 

SHORTLISTED IN THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TALENT CATEGORY:

We call this TillyTennis....this was back in the summer we hadn't had her long....the kids no longer have to go a get the ball as Tilly is an excellent 'Ball Dog' she would spen hours doing this, looks like an impressived umpire too....deuce....
Lynda Carter 




This is Oscar finding a bag of human hair hidden in a stable yard.
Tracy Evans







Fred has collected my printing from the printer and brings it to me. Very handy around the house!
Mina Ward 




 

Our Dalmatian x Jett with one of his furry ferret friends Max. Jett and his pals (5 ferrets including Max) love to play, but if one fuzzy manages to get somewhere he shouldn't for example the bathroom, kitchen or outside then Jett will will come and get either me or my husband and take us to where the naughty little furball is hiding and look at us ,then where the ferret is, then back at us. Also if a ferret is being naughty Jet will pick he or she up and carry them off and give them a stern ticking off by slobbering on them, they don't like being slobbered on ;)
Shele Katryna Cox


Kennedy my other rescue who can open doors....chase his tail and walk away with it in his mouth......and always is gracious enough to offer a paw as payment for a treat!!!
Rebecca Paul

Dog Brain of Britain - 2!

We're upping our game - you lot are for too clever - or too quick on the Google!

Here's five (hopefully) much more difficult questions!

Question 1:
What was the name of the device that Dr Roger Mugford  used for measuring how happy a dog was on ITV's THis Morning several years ago?

Question 2:
What breed is an anagram of:
Lure overcast I tried lock on GTI van 

Question 3:
When exactly was the dog licence abolished and how much did it cost at that time? In what year did it begin? What was the price then?

Question 4:
Where did Roger get PC from?

Question 5:
What's the cross that the Queen and the late Queen mother bred?

The first person to  post the answers to these questions on the Wall of the Company of Animals Facebook page will win a Bamboozle! The new eco-friendly Bamboo toy from the Company of Animals.

Bamboozle me!

The first person to  post the answers to these questions on the Wall of the Company of Animals Facebook page will win a Bamboozle! The new eco-friendly Bamboo toy from the Company of Animals.

Question 1:
Which breed of dog am I?
I have a double-jointed neck, I can close my ears, I have more toes on each foot than other dogs.

Question 2:
What was the name of the second ever Blue Peter Dog?

Question 3:
How many teeth should an adult dog have?

Question 4:
In what year was the Company of Animals established? (Hint - it tells you on the website!)

Question 5:
Which of these aren't breeds of dog?

Lanshan Po, Kubalaya,  Stichelhaar, Styrian Roughhaired Mountain Hound, Swiss Laufhunds, Telomian, Transylvanian Hounds, Treeing Walker Coonhound, Volpino Italiano

Good luck!



 

Trick and Treat competition now open!

And no, I'm not suggesting you go out Trick and Treating, not with all those horrid crashes and bangs going on!
This is a competition for your owner to take part in!
They have to go to our facebook page, click 'like' if they've not done that already, then upload their best photo of you to the Wall. In the comments box, they should write what they believe to be your greatest talent. We're not all doggie Einstein's here, so there'll be prizes for the cutest photo, funniest trick as well as the most impressive one, too.
You can use your imagination - could be your trick of always making your owner share the last bitof their steak when you put on your ultra sad face. Or you uncanny ability to find disgusting stuff on walks on teh day after you've had a bath!
Really anything goes!
Entries close on Wednesday at 10.30am so do get entering. Go to facebook, search for the Company of Animals page and click the like button and get entering!
Good luck!

And the winner is....

Below are all the entries for the Caption competition received before 10am... Gosh you're good! I've been having a real chuckle reading these.

1. ‎ Teresa Archer "Just out dogging"  (oops ! that a bit naughty lol )
2. Zoe Holding ‎"Heel"!!
3. Zoe Holding ‎"These new designer shoes are enough to see off any ankle biters"
4. Dani Spencer a whole new way to walk the dog x
5. Judith Oak ‎"These shoes are the dog's doo daas" (sorry!)
6. Fiona Robertson Hush Puppies new models lol
7. Niki Irving Was Welland ‎"so...when are we going for a walk?"
8. Marian Down Come and play!
9. Susan McKeon Whaddya mean, these aren't suitable dog walking shoes?
10. Shelley 'Sawney Bean' Pettifer Well....these shoes give the phrase 'walking the dog' a whole new meaning!!!
11. Teresa Archer Heel boy !!
12. Teresa Archer Don't walk in the forest with these on , you won't have a leg to stand on !! the glam way to get get legless !!
13. Rocky Ruby Hovawart ♫ Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ♫
14. Helen Marie McCann My dogs are well and truely barking!
15. Kirsten Dillon A real pair of Jimmy Shoo's!!
16. Katy Price Strike a paws!
17. Rachel Lawson Shoes to get your tail wagging!
18. Katy Price I spoilt myself to some real tail therapy
19. Karen Folkes A new breed of Heeler is awaiting recognition by the Kennel Club.
20. Lisa Matthews Shoes to do "The Stray Cat Strut"!
21. Katy Price Shoes for a puuuuuurrrrrrfect night out
22. Rachel Lawson Jimmy chow chows !
23. Rachel Lawson Labrashoodle ...
24. Rachel Lawson Cockershoe
25. Rachel Lawson You can tell from the shoes that The proud owner is like a bitch in season!
26. Rachel Lawson Wouldn't want to get your paws wet Wearing these babies!
27. Anne Lawson Heel boy!
28. Norma Willcoxson Bow wow woof!
29. Nell Wilson You dancing / you asking

And three excellent runner ups who were so very, very close... 

Sandi Thatsme Sayers:  
        You'd have to be a WAG to wear these!!
Lucille Vaughan:  
        The latest range by Hush Puppy...
Rachel Lawson:  
         Shihtshoez (sorry as you can gather I'm not very PC despite my name!)

But the winning entry is....

Karen Folkes:

        Think they must have misunderstood when I asked for a pair of kitten heels... 

Karen Folkes - you are the winner! Can you email your postal address to me so I can get the humans to post out your prize! (please send to my secretary beverley@dogstodaymagazine.co.uk - I'm going to have my own email address very shortly... can't wait! The I can start Twittering, too - which sounds fun! Sounds a bit like rabbiting - another of my guilty pleasures!)

Fireworks - grrrr

Don't know about you, but I think some humans are quite mad. Why on earth do they like spending their money on something they are just going to set fire to? It seems really strange to me. I don't think I'll ever understand them. Imagine how many meaty bones you could buy with that money.
And why do they need them to be so noisy? You can buy silent ones, after all - do they just like frightening the life out of every living creature?
Really ruins my chances of catching bunnies as they're all deep in hiding. With ears that big the sound is deafening.
The brilliant Clix CD got me used to hearing big bangs (the humans here are quite smart, I have to concede reluctantly) - but we can't give all the bunnies Ipods. The horses hate it too!
Check it out on the website - if you get the colliewobbles when the big bangs start get your owner to order one for you. Certainly better than listening to the warbling on Xfactor, much prefer Rex factor or Pup Idol myself...

Have you trained your owner?

I've persuaded the Company of Humans (aka the Company of Animals) to run a competition to find the best behaved owner this weekend.
If you have your owner thoroughly under your dew claw get them to go to my facebook page and explain what treats they have in store for you this weekend.
The most spoiling owner will win an appropriate treat from our store cupboard!
So it's a win win - you probably get even more spoilt!
Click here to go to my facebook page - and don't forget - click to say you like the page and for goodness sake train your owner to check if you've won!
Have a good weekend.
And don't forget if you've got a pet charity get your human to write something about that either here or on facebook so we can start drawing a short list of who gets the goodies when we get up to 5,000 followers!

Have we been introduced?

Welcome to my new blog. I'm taking part in a very important social experiment, it may not look like work - but that's just typical of the way dogs are perceived by humans.
We're very much misunderstood.
For example, take my distant cousin Tret from Eastern Europe.
His owner quite literally drives him up the wall! (Don't try this at home by the way - unless you're a cat! Yikes.)


Please visit my facebook page and tell the humans (who think they run this place) that you like it. And do drop by here, and there, regularly so we can chew things over together.
I've just pinched the keys to the store cupboard, so I will be giving away loads of Company of Animals goodies over the next few days.
I'm trying to give my Nemesis (the postman) a hernia - so make sure you win lots of prizes please.
I've overheard the others talking in the 'Bored Room' and they say when they've got 5,000 friends on facebook they're going to give something valuable away to charity.
(I'm really hoping they don't mean me!)
What charity would you like it to be?
I'm sure they'll be asking me what to do - they do value my input most of the time. Although I'm still getting dirty looks for leading the impressionable Humphrey astray... and apologies to all those on the M25 delayed by that. Is it my fault that rabbits don't understand the Highway Code?
In case you're wondering - no, I can't type.
I dictate.
Like most other captains of industry I have a secretary so any spelling and grammar issues are definitely down to her.