Dog Forums

Our bustling forums are filled with the latest canine issues!

Why not sign up to the forums today? It's easy to register and just takes five minutes of your time.

STEP ONE:  You need to register first. At the far top right of the home page there is the 'Register' link.

STEP TWO: Fill out the form with your name, your username, email and password. We also need to know what kind of dog, if any, you own. You can be creative with your username!

STEP THREE: Check your email. You need then to click on the link from us to activate your account. This prevents bogus automated applications from ViagraDog and such like.

STEP FOUR: Click on 'Dog Chat Forums' on the left hand menu.

STEP FIVE: Click on My Profile  within the forum area. This is where you can display a picture of your choice, known as an avatar, alongside your comments.

The My Profile area is where you can also create a digital signature that will follow all your posts. This can be a quote or a personal statement that reflects your Your Dog online personality!

STEP SIX: You are ready to post! The recent discussions link brings up hot topics that are topical. Simply click on the Topic title, in bold, then click on Reply Topic to add to the thead. If you feel that there's a topic you'd like to debate then you are free to begin your own topic inside the relevant area, using New Thread. Please refrain from straying too far from the theme of a thread as this complicates the appearance of the forum.

Other features

When you look at a forum post there are certain elements that you can interact with. In the top right there is a karma rating, this system is based on 'thumbs up, thumbs down' responses to a user and generally indicates how people have reacted to a user's posts.

There is also a record of the number of posts made by a user so you can see how active a member is, with a status alongside this to identify their position in the forum, ie. administrator, new user and so forth.

Our forums are maintained and moderated by us to the best of our abilities, however sometimes inappropriate posts may go unnoticed and in these situations you have the ability to report a post to us for review and we will take the appropriate action.

In order to use the forum there are certain rules that you must abide by, these can be found in here.

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All those wishing to take part in the forum must agree to abide by the following conditions.

1.Not to post any material that is knowingly inaccurate, false or threatening. We will not accept insulting posts, rudeness or personal attacks of any kind.

2. Copyrighted material must not be posted unless the copyright is owned either by you or this website.

3. We reserve the right to remove offensive and inflammatory posts without notice.

4. We do allow full and frank debates on the pros and cons of a particular product or service but any posts that are intended solely or primarily to either advertise or discredit will be subject to moderation or deletion.

5. We provide a dedicated Classifieds section on this website for the buying and selling of products and services, please use this to post your own advertisements.

DISCLAIMERS.

6. Bourne Publishing Group (BPG), the owners of this site, reserve the right to amend these rules at any time.

7. We do not verify or vouch for the accuracy of claims made in this forum. In no case should answers given through these forums be taken in place of proper veterinary/medical advice.

8. YOU are responsible for the content of your messages and the conduct of your account. You consent to BPG disclosing information we hold about you to any proper prosecuting or investigating authority in the case of a complaint or legal action due to any message or comment posted by you here in the yourdog.co.uk forums.

9. BPG reserve the right to withhold access to this or any of our other forums for users who abuse these rules. These cover the most common situations but cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.