First year with a Rhodesian Ridgeback!

Some pictures and movies from the first year with our lovely Rhodesian Ridgeback!
Watch year two here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvHuGVTMI4

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Pets & Animals

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• Rhodesian
• Ridgeback
• Lea
• first
• year
• Gotland
• puppy

[michelleritchie1]

Hi - what music is this. It reduced me to tears watching this!

[RidgebackLea]

@michelleritchie1 Sorry for this late reply. The song is "The Shirley Temple - When I grow up". I'm glad you like it.

[gardenstate78]

What a lovely video! We too have a Ridgeback who is 7 months old now and the comparisons in the way your dog acts is uncanny. We live in the French Alps and watching your dog in the snow made me laugh. For an African breed they sure do love the snow! Plus the names are quite similar as our Ridgy is called 'Leela'. Look forward to more videos! :)

[bunkman64]

@cat5fan It's just amazing how people just cant have a conversation without getting all pissy. If we were in a bar having this same conversation or anywhere else we would probably have a good laugh and go our seperate ways, but the safety of the keyboard and miles of seperation seems to bring out the asshole in some of us. Ill let you have the last word and walk away thinking you taught me something...so PLEASE, by all means, go ahead...

[cat5fan]

@bunkman64 (cont) You my friend suffer from "ridge" envy. You probably find yourself defending the ridgelessness all of the time. You don't have to you dogs are RR through and through. They can do shows but that stuff is crap anyway. So love your RR's and stop spreading mis-information due to your envy.

[cat5fan]

@bunkman64 Man has been selective breeding for thousands of years with plants and animals. There is no perfect dog nor will their ever be one. An Alaskan sled dog could never flush out burrowing animals better than a dachshund. Nothing can work cattle better than an Austrilian cattle dog. My RR snaps at mosquitos and if she has fleas she'll scratch. You my friend are in love with the breed as am I but they are not camels, nor are they Frankenstien because yours are ridgeless.

[bunkman64]

@cat5fan Nature created the ridge on the breeds you mentioned (thai and hottentot) However, MAN created the RR. And when MAN sticks his nose into natures business, the result is often disasterous. The thai and hottentot are natural carriers of the ridge, man tried to play God and create the perfect dog, and ALMOST succeeded (Immune to almost all incect bites, can keep pace with a horse for 30 miles, go with out water for days) but the ridge was the flaw. It didnt fit the frankenstein.

[cat5fan]

@bunkman64 - Vets and doctors are human and very often incorrect and opinions amongst them conflict. 1st nature created the ridge (thai and hottentot) so if the dew claw, or short coat (hair) on any dog is a malformity then by that def it is. 2nd DS is congenital, meaning they have it at birth, its like saying there is no threat of growing a 5th leg since their is no ridge. 3rd- read articles on both sides of NRRR (slickback) having DS and upon further review will side with you vet on this.

[bunkman64]

@cat5fan So basically, the fact you are unsure if I am a vet or any other type of professional in this field, shows me that you are unsure of your statement. I am not. However I DO own 2 Non-ridged RRs, and my vet has ASSURED me that the ridge is (in most cases) a harmless malformity. She ALSO assured me that since mine have no ridge there is NO threat of DS nor can there be in a non-ridged RR.

[cat5fan]

@bunkman64 -con't... Unless of course this is your job. I'll wager it is not.

[cat5fan]

@bunkman64 - 1st it's not a deformity when only 5% are born ridge-less. 2nd DS is congenital (born with it) and does not "lead to" as you said. 3rd not a spinal illness. Dermoid is overgrowth of tissue and sinus is a tube. Not something with spine and spinal nerves. (they can become involved but unusual.) DS for this conversation is only found in the RR. It is a malfuction of the formation of the ridge and can happen to a non-ridged RR. Just because "you" have not heard of it means nothing.

[bunkman64]

@cat5fan Then why does Dermoid Sinus only occur in RR with a ridge? I have not heard of any cases of Dermoid Sinus in RR without the ridge.