RAT DOG!

My cat is bigger than your dog. But, my cat is a phycho whack-job.

Really, cute dog. I often wish we had gotten smaller dogs. I have two goldens, 75 and 100 lbs.
My Dogs

I like prefer small dogs to large ones, something about posing no physical threat to me is appealing.

The black Poms seem to be rare. My parents had a Pom (black) and she was a runt. Once got ran over by a car but was so small it wasn't hit and the wind sorta blew her away a little bit. Started barking at the car once she got her bearings.

I prefer large ones over rats that bark. I can't stand yappy dogs. I just want to boot them across a canal.

Not all small dogs are yappy, Mix. My daschund never barks and two of my neighbours dogs (shi-tzu mixed with poodle and Yorkshire Terrier) are quite as can be. Around where I live the large dogs are the ones that never shut up.

Wow. What a mix. That's got to be the stupidest dog evar. Did they have to teach it to breathe?

Took me a while to get it.

And I regret to tell you all that I have the cutest dog in the world. No contest.

I spent the weekend with a Labridoodle. Sorta of a cute dog and fairly intelligent.

Actually they are two separate dogs. Screwed my sentence up a little. They pure-bread Shi-tzu that lives with the Shi-tzu mix is, I'm convinced, the dumbest dog ever. Refuses to stop barking at us whenever we are in OUR yard. Barks at pinecones, barks at the snow, barks at everything. Why that dog won't shut up and the other is incredibly quiet is beyond me.

I tend to boot them across the canal on sight. That's how I roll.

Also: The craziest mix-breed dog I've ever seen was a German Shepard/Chow mix. It was monsterous, with hair somewhere in-between the norms for the chow and the Shepard, but it had the German Shepard's coloring and markings. I'm 6"4, and that dog was big enough to stand on it's back legs and put it's front paws up on my shoulders, almost being tall enough to look me straight in the eye. That is one scary animal until you realize it's also about the laziest dog god ever created.

And since we're all posting pictures of our doggies:

I'm sorry, but my dogs totally win...

Sunny
Belle
in pool
last one

I completely agree.
When someone is sneaking around my house, I want the deep, throaty rumble that emanates from my dog to elicit an urgent need for them to be somewhere else. When she actually barks to let me know something is up, I want to hear it, from across the pond, from a deep slumber, no matter what. If she's worried and upset, I want everyone within 50 yards of my house to be worried and upset. She doesn't bark needlessly, and she rarely growls, but when she does, I pay attention. She's letting her pack know something doesn't smell right, and that's how it should be.

I don't want a potential burglar/kidnapper/vandal to get the impression that he could step on my neck as easily as he could my dogs. Anything under about 50 lbs. just doesn't do the job I require of a dog. She's my eyes and ears when I'm at home and not watching, and when I'm away, she's guardian for the wife and kid. That's her job, and small dogs might as well be fish in my opinion and for what I require of a dog.

Yay! More doggie threads! You all have some damn cute pups.

I must agree with other posters that I am not partial to teensy pooches; indeed, I believe that under a certain weight class, a dog is no longer a dog but a football. But Lobster, your Pomeranian is a fair shade of adorable. She looks so cute! [insert generic girl gushing here]. Ladies don't love Cool J; they love cute puppies.

You should name her Football.

Yes, but do you have a two-headed dog? Hmmmm???

I enjoy Dogs. And by Dog I mean something that looks like this:

Not This:

That is not a Dog. That is a Rat that can fetch and lick its own ass. Anything small enough to reasonably fit inside of a woman's purse when fully-grown is NOT a dog. Were this world my utopia, larger dogs would eat those dogs, and barf up their jewel-studded collars later on in the day.

I disagree Pred. I think this is indeed a picture of a dog. Except for the chihuahua.

Yep, he's a Boston. He's 18 weeks old now and about 11-12lbs. He should get to be about 20-25lbs when he's fully grown, so he won't be a tiny annoying dog.