carboot troubles

[katrina]

thanks for advice elizabethann, much appriciated yea around the area of killarney you can get stuff with killarney on them, so prob is close then! i love that place, always wanted to move there, but donno how i could afford it, even going on holidays to it the things are so expensive

[Love That Collie]

no problem dr.goodnow, i think everyone was a bit confused with the threat to be honest so i see what you mean. yea cork is lovely as is dublin. i love kerry, it truely is a beautiful county. but its scary how small ireland is with the fact you can travel it in less than a day lol.

Maybe one day you will visit the U.S.
Just don't get lost. It's a large country. And also, we here also have different dialects and different words to mean the same thing in different parts of this country as well. But a trunk is still a trunk from "sea to shining sea".
I think it took us 4-5 days to drive from the east coast to the west coast, driving all day each day. I bet you see lots of Collies in Ireland. Maybe not? But European Collie's are smaller than American Collies.

[borzoimom]

Not to mention stockier with more of a stop in the muzzle than we show here..

[katrina]

yea irelands full of collies, every farm has at least 1, but there mainly border collies. do you have msn??

[jackmilliesmom]

What we have is called a hatch back with a parcel shelf that can be removed so the dogs have the same air we have in a car. I put my dogs in the boot too but they are in a dog carrier because they are terriers and they are not in there any longer than 1 hour then they are taken out and exercised very well and given plenty of water they love it they sleep most of the time so its great.

So katrina is not locking them up.

By the way katrina when you are putting them in try putting in some treats first and putting the pup in first then the other dogs and then try it the other way around. Try this a few times without going anywhere and then try a spin down the road and back and slowly make the journey's longer. My friend has two Rotwiellers (sp) and she had the same problem with the pup and now she has no problem at all.

Wait I think everyone might be getting the wrong idea.

Your car, the boot has a window right? It isn't flat with no ventilation like in a sedan. Your car is like a compact car in american with the boot being the back of the car with a window. Kinda like the back of a station wagon?

[Love That Collie]

yea irelands full of collies, every farm has at least 1, but there mainly border collies. do you have msn??

At least in the area that I live it's rare to see a Rough or Smooth Collie so I have to pretty much travel at least 100 miles in order to purchase one.
No, sorry I don't have MSN.

[katrina]

aw thats unfair! do you have border collies there?

[Love That Collie]

Oh yes, I see lots of Border Collies.

[cali]

lol I always have a hard time adusting to people refering to Border Collies as "Collies" , around her if someone says "Collie" they are always refering to a lassie type collie lol so I always get confused when I post pics of my Border Collies and have people tell me they have a friends who Collie looks just like mine and I sit there going "eh? ....ooohhh they mean my BC" lol

do you guys have Pyrenean Shepherds there? (AKA Berger des Pyrenees/Petite Berger/Pyrenean Sheepdog) they are supposed to be more common in Europe(well in some places, I am not sure about Ireland) lol they are so unknown here that even diehard dog people have never heard of em

[cloverfdx]

Have to love the different names peple have for different things lol. Trunks are called boots here aswell .

A friend of mine worked in a guest house somewhere near Cork, i forget the name of the place but will look it up... Ireland is a very beautiful country i would love to visit one day .

And yep Border Collies are Border Collies and 'lassie type' Collies are just called rough or smooths .

[katrina]

hehe so many collies nomater what type!

[Miss Z]

Tee hee, it was quite amusing reading this thread and seeing the confusion over what a car boot is. I swear American English an English English are different languages Everyone says 'boot' over here, I've never really heard it called anything else until now!

[Alasse]

When we had a station wagon...my guy used to be in the *dog box* (what that area is called behind the back seats...even if ya dont own dogs *L*...well it is here anyway)

You can get safety anchor points put in that you secure you dog to with a harness....so if you are in an accident you poor dog doesnt go flying

You also should has as a minimum a cargo barrier to stop you dog from coming forward if excessive breaking is required

It is against the law here to leave any animal in an enclosed car no matter how long they are there for