Guess Who?

 

 

 

 

 

'Tell me baby, who am I?'

Did you know...?

It is actually a myth that dogs are coloured blind. They can see colour but just not as vividly as humans. Their coloured eye sight is similar to that of ours at dusk time. 

Gemma & Frodo - meet our friends!

Good Morning everyone!

We hope that everyone made it through the warmer weather safely. You can be rest assured that all our guests at Dogs Country Club enjoyed a splash in their pools and plenty of cool areas to relax in.

We love showing off our Resort here but the thing that really makes us love it most is all of our guests we get to meet. We have some very special friends that visit us quite regularly and we thought we'd take the opportunity to introduce you to a few, we know you'll fall in love with them as much as we have!

This is our good friend Basil. He is a Lagotto, which is quite an uncommon breed. They are a water retrieving dog - which means for the past few visits Basil has had a ball jumping our pools and throwing his toys all over the place!

This is our very good friend Max - or as we call him 'Gibbo' . Max is a Labradoodle and he has made many many friends during his holidays at Dogs Country Club - we couldn't imagine what it would be like here without him.

Maddie is an adorable  Miniature Schnauzer, as you can see she loves plenty of cuddles and kisses with staff and enjoys a good belly scratch session with Gemma!

Alex is one of our fluffiest guests! He is a very large Pyrenean Mountain Dog and give some of the best polar bears cuddles around! He is the best to have snooze with in the sun with Frodo but is also very gentle during play times and following Gemma around!

Thanks for letting us show off some of our friends to you. 

Enjoy your weekend,

Gemma & Frodo!

Dog of the Month - Saint Bernard.

We've all fallen in love with our beautiful dog of the month, Tess the Saint Bernard but she isn't the only famous Saint .....

Barry der Menschenretter worked as a mountain rescue dog for the Great St Bernard Hospice. He was born in in 1800 and died 14 years later, it is believed that he saved over 40 lives during his time as a rescue dog. As with all breeds, his body structure was different to those of the Saint Bernards we know of today, he body was leaner and coat a lot lighter in colour. During the time that Barry worked the breed remained unnamed and it wasn't until 1865 the breed began to become known under the name Saint Bernard.

 
Barry's presevered body on display in the Natural History Museum



And who forget the all famous movies, Beethoven, with the main star a stunning Saint Bernard played by Chris. He appeared in both Beethoven 1 and 2 but sadly passed away not long after the second film. A number of other Saint Bernards were used throughout the other films.

 Chris, better known as Beethoven and his girlfriend Missy. 

Dog Smart.

Nana & Kaiser

Meet Nana the Border Collie and Kaiser the Bengal, two adorable friends who are really putting the Dog vs Cat scenario to the test....

Tell us who you think the winner is?!

Have you ever heard of....

….The Panda Shepherd?

The Panda Shepherd is in fact still a German Shepherd but is piebald colored. They are still a very strong and well proportioned dog yet the coat is 35% white with the remainder being black and tan, though the blood line doesn’t have white German Shepherd throughout its ancestry. This piebald color has occurred in a single German Shepherd bloodline. 

The Panda Shepherd has very little difference from a German Shepherd other than it’s coloring and the single blood line was bred through two pure German Shepherds in the U.S.A. The parents of the litter were a pure black and tan sire and a pure black dam. The entire little were pure black and tan except for the one Panda female, who also had two pure blue eyes. Many tests were conducted to determine how such a strange thing could occur. Both parents were deemed to be pure German Shepherds and neither had white German Shepherd blood lines. After this, the same parents were breed and produced another 3 litters, all pups were pure black and tan. 

The Panda pup, named Frankie was bred, once matured, to a traditional colored black and tan. Out of the four pups she bred three turned out with the Panda coat but did not produce the blue eyes that she did. 

 A common black and tan Shepherd with a Panda Shepherd.