What breed do you have?
Golden Retriever

What's their name
Molly

What's their worst and best habits?
She loves wallowing in muddy puddles along our walks but I don't mind as she washes off in a clean stream before heading back to the car. She has quite a skill at de-stuffing stuffed toys in a matter of minutes, we don't buy her those anymore. She's a retriever who won't retrieve, she'd much rather watch her owner go and retrieve that ball and she's frightened of bangs and loud sounds, so not much of a gundog then really either. I think she'd win all prizes for moulting and testing our hoover's fur sucking ability to the extreme.

But that aside she has so many good traits that we don't mind her few imperfections. She's a lovely member of our family, is kind and gentle and gets on with everyone. She's my shadow and will follow me everywhere, always there keeping me company. She won't let me forget our morning walk and she'll "talk" to me until we head out to the woods, if I don't take her out then her "chatter" gets more persistent until I give in. Molly is also learning an important skill of detecting low blood sugar in my daughter who has type 1 diabetes. On a few occasions now Molly has been able to alert us that my daughter's blood sugar is going too low. Her skill is not reliable yet but she's still young (18 months) so we're hoping as she grows older and the bond between her and my daughter grows stronger she'll perfect her hypo detecting skills further.

Lol, don't have a dog, but have a Toby - our just over 1 year old kitten who loves to play chase round the house, first you have to chase him, then you run & he chases after you! Mad, but yeah, I stop at climbing the pine tree though!

Lol, don't have a dog, but have a Toby - our just over 1 year old kitten who loves to play chase round the house, first you have to chase him, then you run & he chases after you! Mad, but yeah, I stop at climbing the pine tree though!

Forgot the best & worst habits!

Best - curling up on my pillow when the alarm goes off in the morning & nuzling/purring in my ear!
Worst - attacking the feet through the duvet cover - those claws still sink in!

We have a bullie (English Bull Terrier for the uninitiated, or a "Bill Sykes dog" as some have called her!)
She is a rescue called Rosie, although she has a lot of other names, like most pets I think. These are nosie, wooley bullie, stinky *kitten* feet (if she has stepped in something bad!) among others.
Yes, the picture is of her, yes they come in brown as well as white, and clearly she had had a busy day keeping the sofa down, which is incidently what she likes doing best. By the way, she is NOT a slug killer - my user name was taken from the first thing I saw in my living room when I was registering - whoops...

Best habits - cuddles, being friendly to 99% of the mad humans she meets, making me laugh
Worst - I hesitate to say it but those stinky bottom glands have a habit of leaking..... she also attacks the hoover and broom - not sure what goes through their heads with that?

Bullies can be a bit lazy but Rosie will always go for a walk or a run with me. Shame it's raining here or we'd be out there now, pounding the pavements together

Nothing quite so peaceful as a worn out hound in front of a fire!

I have an amazing, gorgeous Rottweiler, he is called Zakk (after Zakk Wylde from guitarist of Ozzy/Black Sabbath/Black Label Society etc) he is 5 human years old, and we rescued him from some dumb@ss who got him for a status symbol no doubt, couldnt look after him, and just kicked him around a lot... when we got him we thought he was around 5 weeks old, as he was so small and ribby (not good on a rottweiler) he was in fact 13 weeks old. I found through my contacts an ex police dog handler who trained big dogs, and he is a whizz on agility training and tracking now. a lot of people comment on how he isnt massive and bulky like many Rotties, but thats because we dont feed him rubbish and he gets loads of exercise.

His best habits - Almost everything, i had never considered a Rottie before we got him, I did used to have a German Shepherd, but she died aged 15, 9 years ago now, i was heartbroken! he is the most amazing dog, he spends the majority of his time on his back having his belly rubbed! when its walk time, he can fetch the correct pair of boots depending who is taking him with a Fetch Boots command... his snuggles are the best! :smooched:

Worst habbits - he HATES and i mean HATES mopeds. i dont know if its the sound they make or if the aforementioned dumb@ss had one, but he barks and chases after them! He got one last year, took it down by the rear tyre... with the poor lad riding it, and broke his arm in 3 places and a written off moped... Zakk got a tyre burn on his belly :embarassed:

Neville? Love it!
And totally agree with you about people assuming they are flesh eating maniacs - bullies are the softest dogs I know.

This is my gorgeous wee bullyman nev!

Lol, don't have a dog, but have a Toby - our just over 1 year old kitten who loves to play chase round the house, first you have to chase him, then you run & he chases after you! Mad, but yeah, I stop at climbing the pine tree though!

Toby sounds cute! I also have 3 cats lol...crazy cat/dog lady!!

We have a bullie (English Bull Terrier for the uninitiated, or a "Bill Sykes dog" as some have called her!)
She is a rescue called Rosie, although she has a lot of other names, like most pets I think. These are nosie, wooley bullie, stinky *kitten* feet (if she has stepped in something bad!) among others.
Yes, the picture is of her, yes they come in brown as well as white, and clearly she had had a busy day keeping the sofa down, which is incidently what she likes doing best. By the way, she is NOT a slug killer - my user name was taken from the first thing I saw in my living room when I was registering - whoops...

Best habits - cuddles, being friendly to 99% of the mad humans she meets, making me laugh
Worst - I hesitate to say it but those stinky bottom glands have a habit of leaking..... she also attacks the hoover and broom - not sure what goes through their heads with that?

Bullies can be a bit lazy but Rosie will always go for a walk or a run with me. Shame it's raining here or we'd be out there now, pounding the pavements together

Our bullies used to attack the hoover and brooms as well! Mental dogs aren't they. Loved mine growing up as a kid though

Our Zakk also spends most of his time on his back showing off his rather large shiny balls... they remind me of Black Puddings... :laugh:

My OH is very proud of our boys black balls! He's a white Staff so they tend to stick out :laugh: :laugh:

Best habits - only dog i have ever seen who can lie on his back and hold a ball between his two paws and juggle it about and chew it! He is also the biggest sook in the world and just wants cuddles. Not the vicious child eating monsters that the press like to portray!

That sounds just like my girl! :laugh:

We have two, Spike and Boudica.

Spike is our grumpy old man, he's coming up for 8 years old and is some sort of cross. We're pretty sure he has Parson's Russell and Staffie in him, though. His joints are starting to go a little bit, he's had problems with his hind legs since he was a pup, and every now and again they'll get really tight and painful and it's heartbreaking to see him limping along He also occasionally needs help in and out of the car and up onto my parents bed, where he sleeps on a blanket by their feet.
His names include: Spike, Spikey, Pike, Pikey, Spicocles, Spikacus, Spartacus, Spicicles is twice as niceicles

Best Habits- loves giving kisses and cuddles- but as long as you come down to him! He's never been a lap or 'get up on the sofa' sort of dog- though he does have moments, and he has a chair with a blanket on that's all his He's also really lovely with children; he seems to instinctively know that they're little and he could knock them over, so from the moment we got him he sits down and waits patiently for the little one to come over to him and give him a stroke. He normally rewards them with a gentle lick of the hand and a massive wag of the tail.

Worst Habits- he's the best actor in the world. Even given the aforementioned joint problems, he knows exactly how to milk it, especially where my mum is concerned. He'll be running around like he's three months old with no problems, jumping and fetching balls and having a whale of a time. As soon as my mum is around- he's limping, he's whimpering, he's holding up his 'poorly paw'- anything for some sympathy and a cuddle :laugh:. He does the worst farts known to man. They are killer. And, mainly because he's still a full dog, he's a bit of a nightmare when there are other full male dogs around. But that comes with the bollocks.
He also doesn't like- people wearing high vis jackets, delivery men with parcels, motorbikes, helicopters, lorries, horses, planes, birds, cats, cyclists or buses.

Boudica's our exocet missile 8 month old Staffie pup. She's quite long legged for a Staff, but she's a full one as far back as great-grandparents; she takes after her granddad in colouring (white with brindle patches) and her mum in her long-leggedness. Because of her massive, floppy ears and bumpy Staffy head, we think she looks like Dobby from Harry Potter, so one of her nicknames is Booby the House Pooh.

Best habits- She's wonderfully affectionate. It makes me laugh when I read stories about Staffs being nightmare dogs and monsters from hell, because Boo will be lying next to me, on her back, wagging her tail and chewing a cushion, before she does an amazingly acrobatic sort of twist and curls up into my armpit with her head in my lap. She loves giving kisses and having cuddles, and she's very, very obedient (she knows sit, stay/wait, down, over, come, 'go get it' and 'go see'), and ridiculously clever.

Worst habits- the clever thing isn't always good though, haha. We used to feed her her dinner in a nice bowl I bought for her. But Spike gets his dinner on a plate... so Boudica wants her dinner on a plate. She'll refuse to eat it from her bowl, but as soon as you tip it onto a plate, she scoffs the lot :laugh: She's a typical woman- she's bossy, she talks a lot and likes shoes! I've never known a dog to be so vocal- if you haven't paid her enough attention she'll tell you off, she purrs when you stroke her, she makes funny little oinking noises, and my brother swears he heard her quack once. She SNORES like I've never known, and since she likes sleeping in my room with me (sometimes up by my head) it's really hard to sleep at times. :laugh: She's also very naughty with chewing things, especially shoes, and... well, there's a reason one of her nicknames is 'Boo the Poo'. She does the smelliest poohs ever, although she's not had an accident in the house for a while.

I have two blue staffies Boss (boy) and Blue (girl), from the same litter. Boss was the runt and Blue the first born. I only went to get Boss but fell in love with Blue so reserved both when they were tiny, They are nearly 7 and are so cute. They like to play rough, be fussed, but are very well behaved.

Boss dribbles a golf ball for fun and Blue well she likes food and can hear the cupboard being opened from 200yards up the garden!

They keep me fit as they are aways on the go, and both get jealous of each other when one is getting fussed. ~They make me laugh every single day and I can never tell them off. They have destroyed my lawn and tend to mange to get in the vegetable patch and I often find them helping themselves to strawberries and low hanging raspberries and soft fruit (and any thing else they can get their paws on!)

We dont have kids so they are our babies and they rule the roost really.

At the expense of seemng mad I think that I actually like my dogs more than I like a lot of people most of the time!

I have Bramble and Daisy they are both liver and white springer spaniels and they are rescue dogs.

Brambles worse habbit is her wind every time she eats she comes bounding over to me looks me in the eyes and burps in my face wags her tails and runs off.

Daisy's worse habbit is bringing stones in from the garden puts them down and then I tread on them and that hurts lots lol.

I havent got enough time to mention their best habbits because they are full of lovely habbits and they are the best thing to me and I wouldnt be with out them.

Give me dogs over people any day x

At the expense of seemng mad I think that I actually like my dogs more than I like a lot of people most of the time!

haha I am the same too! Those cute wee bully faces will do that to you though!