Technicalities: Pets

[sr71plt]

If the dog's a bouncer, Sicem might be a good name. But I don't think of a collie as a bouncer dog either. Collie are herders, aren't they, not attack dogs?

 

[Acktion]

If the dog's a bouncer, Sicem might be a good name. But I don't think of a collie as a bouncer dog either. Collie are herders, aren't they, not attack dogs?

I thought that's what bouncers were. Herd the problem off the property so it isn't management's problem. As opposed to "breakers" and "coolers". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPVOhHhwnk

 

[Blind_Justice]

Well, I can only extrapolate from my experiences, and I'm easily scared by a large dog running up to me and barking. Heck, I'm intimidated by pretty much everything larger than a poodle

Why Collie? Because they don't have that stigma of vicious attack dogs. My main character in the story I'm working on makes a deal with a demon and loses a tiny, insignificant piece of his soul in the process (so the demon says, at least), and I intend to use the dog to showcase that it isn't quite such an insignifcant piece after all. Animals tend to be much more sensitive than we humans are and the dog, formerly quite friendly to the protag, goes all "grrrrrrr" whenever he comes into range. The first step on that slippery road to damnation and all.

 

[colddiesel]

Herds, flocks and mobs.

If the dog's a bouncer, Sicem might be a good name. But I don't think of a collie as a bouncer dog either. Collie are herders, aren't they, not attack dogs?

Going off at a tangent for a moment, it's interesting that it's ok to call a sheepdog (collie) a herder, but not ok to call it a flocker - or in Australia, a mobber.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well, I can only extrapolate from my experiences, and I'm easily scared by a large dog running up to me and barking. Heck, I'm intimidated by pretty much everything larger than a poodle

Why Collie? Because they don't have that stigma of vicious attack dogs. My main character in the story I'm working on makes a deal with a demon and loses a tiny, insignificant piece of his soul in the process (so the demon says, at least), and I intend to use the dog to showcase that it isn't quite such an insignifcant piece after all. Animals tend to be much more sensitive than we humans are and the dog, formerly quite friendly to the protag, goes all "grrrrrrr" whenever he comes into range. The first step on that slippery road to damnation and all.

Collie's are attack dogs?

I've never seen them as such.

If you wanted to go with an attack dog the Pit is of course the stero type, but a Doberman, Rottweiler or a German Shepard would work.

If you're afraid of large dogs running up to you, never come down my street. I have two Shepherds, the guy across the street has a bull mastiff and there is a pair of doberman's on the corner.

The guy down the other end of the street has a black Newfoundland that should have its own zip code. Big baby though the couple who owns him has five year old twins and they ride it around like a pony all all the time.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Collie's are attack dogs?

Nope, they are not, and (at least as far as I know) they aren't perceived as such, although they are quite large and agile. One of the reasons I went with it when envisioned a dog living at an inn. Imagine the usually friendly furball suddenly going all aggro on you, just because you happened to have a piece of your soul sucked away by a demoness...

LC, I always wanted to check out the northeastern US (especially doing a Lovecraft circuit, sue me), but with this kind of news, I'd reconsider. So many big doggies... nah, not my kind of 'hood

 

[sr71plt]

Going off at a tangent for a moment, it's interesting that it's ok to call a sheepdog (collie) a herder, but not ok to call it a flocker - or in Australia, a mobber.

Umm. OK. It's OK with me if you want to call a collie that--more OK than spelling OK "ok."

 

[colddiesel]

Umm. OK. It's OK with me if you want to call a collie that--more OK than spelling OK "ok."

No, ok is ok. It depends on the dictionaries one uses. Some approve all of the following (okay, ok, OK, O.K.,). Some less.

In Australia an O.K. was, until twenty odd years ago a Union card which allowed the holder to work, particularly in construction and mining. That use is really only familiar to ancients like me and is falling rapidly out of use.

 

[lovecraft68]

Nope, they are not, and (at least as far as I know) they aren't perceived as such, although they are quite large and agile. One of the reasons I went with it when envisioned a dog living at an inn. Imagine the usually friendly furball suddenly going all aggro on you, just because you happened to have a piece of your soul sucked away by a demoness...

LC, I always wanted to check out the northeastern US (especially doing a Lovecraft circuit, sue me), but with this kind of news, I'd reconsider. So many big doggies... nah, not my kind of 'hood

I do the Lovecraft walk every year. It goes by a lot of the places he used in his stories particularly the "Shunned House" and the Church featured in more than one story.

Ends at his graveside and as if yet no big dogs have come running out at us

My street only has a few houses, but all feature huge yards and it dead ends into the woods which is why I think there are a lot of large dogs on the street.

But you would be nervous as the asshats that own the Dobermans are not very good with keeping their gates closed and one of the fuckers has chased me while I go jogging several times.

If I stop running it stops then just stands there growling.

One of these days I'm going to take the bigger of my two dogs running with me and let him kick his ass.

 

[robertreams]

Neither will be correct until you ditch the 'and"

How about?: "The large Collie's name was Rover." I think we all know that a collie is a dog.
Sorry, I was taught to be concise.

 

[sr71plt]

No, ok is ok. It depends on the dictionaries one uses.

More precisely, it depends on the which dictionary the one publishing your work uses. Don't know of any U.S. publishers who accept "ok."