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Bearware
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07-12-2002

Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jagger - do you watch Big Brother? Maybe your dog has been switched with a TWIN, and you just haven't figured that out yet! :-)

I have a chow who has never liked water. Our city has a day at the end of the year when the pools have closed and they open one for dogs only. I took both my dogs, since the puppy would enjoy it. Bear wanted nothing to do with it, as was expected.

Finally, the puppy wore out, and we all went to sit along the fence and rest a bit. That was when Bear, the chow, decided he'd go look at the diving pool. Before I knew it, he had jumped in and was paddling around, happy as could be. The only problem was there was no way out! I had to jump in and push him out from below!

What I think he was saying wasn't that he didn't like water,... it was just that he wanted it on his own terms! Aren't they fun?

Tk4x5
Member

07-10-2004

Monday, July 19, 2004 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, I got a problem here w. my 2 dachshunds. The female is 15 months and the male is approaching one year. She is in heat right now and he is driving me crazy whining ALL the time, day and night, 'cause I have them seperated.

Is this normal for him to whine and cry like this or am I missing that he may be sick. It's really starting to worry me ... this is the only male dog I've ever owned so this behavior is taking me completely by surprise.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, July 19, 2004 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spay. Neuter. That's my advice!

(Not to mention there are just too many unwanted dogs put to sleep every day.)

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Monday, July 19, 2004 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Houston Woman Arrested For Leaving Puppy In Car
Dog’s Owner Charged With Animal Cruelty

POSTED: 4:48 pm CDT July 19, 2004
UPDATED: 5:40 pm CDT July 19, 2004

GALVESTON, Texas -- Galveston police arrested a woman for leaving her puppy in a locked, hot car, News2Houston reported Monday.
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Puppy Left In Hot Car For 20 Minutes





Denise Riley, 49, was charged with animal cruelty for allegedly leaving a 12-week-old puppy inside her vehicle around 2 p.m. Saturday while she stopped for lunch at the International House of Pancakes on the Seawall.

Someone spotted the dog and called police.

“The officer noticed the dog was very hot and got the dog out of the vehicle, gave it water, and attempted to locate the owner of the vehicle, which he did,” said Lt. Walter Braun, with the Galveston Police Department. “The report states that it was 123 degrees in the vehicle at the time he got the dog out.”

According to witnesses, the puppy had been inside the hot car for about 20 minutes.

Even though the windows were cracked, experts said it was still a dangerous situation.

“They’re kind of in the same category with children. You don’t carry your animals with you and then shut them in the car, so you can run in the store. Even cracking the window, the temperature in the car is going to be just deadly, “ said an official with the Galveston Animal Shelter.

Seizure papers have been filed, so the puppy will probably not be returned to Riley. The puppy recovered from the incident and was not permanently harmed, officials said.

It’s the second time in the past week Galveston police have arrested someone for leaving an animal in a hot car.

The owners face a $5,000 fine and up to a year in jail.


It's about time they started doing this!




Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Monday, July 19, 2004 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*SIGHS*
My aunt does this. I've told her and told her how dangerous it is but when it's hot she just leaves the windows down about 6 inches. Says Pepper is too lazy to try to get out. I tell her even with 6 inches it's too hot for a dog in the car. And 6 inches - anybody could do whatever they wanted to Pepper. She's so lovable and doesn't know a stranger. She's a 6 year old Lab mix and a doll. She's wary of strangers but if you talk to her real nice you're no longer a stranger to her.

My aunt just won't listen.

Tk4x5
Member

07-10-2004

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 2:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo thanks for your reply ... the male has been neutered (should have included that part in the original message) and he was still going wild (like I noted above).

I finally called the vet and they told me that even though he's been neutered he would still "act" this way. Youza ... anyway, I'm taking them both to the vet today, just to be on the safe side. Thanks again for your response.

ETA: I hope they start cracking down everywhere on pets left in cars ... I can't believe some people just don't get it!!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You know, dogs (animals) are just so smart. As much as I know how smart my Boys are, they still manage to spring one one me from time to time....

Tonight, I'm watching a show, and decide I'll go out in a commercial to clean up the doggie poo in preparation for tomorrow's trash pick up day.

Boomer sees me putting on my shoes, and sits expectantly waiting for me to go outside. I tell him, "we'll go out during the next commercial."

He lays down, with his back to me, in a position where to see me he'll have to raise his head up and look over his shoulder at me.

The next commercial comes on, and I swear to you I did not make a move at all to get up (in fact, I hadn't quite yet registered that it was a commercial and was going to get up).

The second that commercial started, he raised his head up and looked at me, clearly asking, "its a commercial now, are we going outside?"

If it hadn't been for him, I'd have probably forgotten all about going out until the commercial was over (my short term memory is terrible). Thanks to him I made it outside before it got too dark to clean up.

I just never seem to give them enough credit for how smart they are. They even know the difference between the regular show and a commercial!

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who, that's hysterical!! What good babies you have!

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 6:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A lady found the fawn under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car) .. her Ridge Back dog is helping look after it. The family named the fawn Bella. Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the family found her) they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two orphan deer and released them to the wild. Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog (Hogan) has basically taken over. The fawn even shares his bed.

fawn1
fawn2
fawn3

Isn't that just tooo cute?

Cinnamongirl
Member

01-10-2001

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is Priceless!!! Beyond cute

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bandit, OMG! That is precious!! Those pics are priceless! Thank you for posting them!!

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bandit: What a darling story. Keeping my fingers crossed for the little fawn. Sad about the mama.

Hippyt: Thanks for posting this news - I really wish we'd take animal cruelty cases (intentional or not) more seriously!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, July 26, 2004 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is so sweet!

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Got a question for the dog owners out there. Has anyone done hip replacement on their dog? If so, could you tell me about it? Oliver may be facing this down the road.

Thanks so much!!


Bearware
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kstme, my chow had a knee replacement, not the same, but all I have to offer. She did really well with it. Went from being a lame 3 legged dog to being active and happy again.

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bearware, THANKS!! How long was his recovery?

Ollie has a stretched tendon on the back right leg, right now. They thought it was CL until the x-rays...thank gawd for x-rays! Although, that's how they found the arthritis.

Diimitre
Member

07-27-2004

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Those pics are totally fantastic ... so glad to have found this forum.

(My first post on TVClubHouse)

Resortgirl
Member

09-23-2000

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WELCOME Diimitre!!

I love those pics too!

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Welcome aboard, Diimitre. Glad to have you here!

Gidget
Member

07-28-2002

Friday, July 30, 2004 - 5:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bandit those pictures are absolutly adoreable.


Kstme I use to have a dog that needed hip surgery on both sides, she was an extremely active dog. After talking with the vet and finding out that it would have a minimum of 6 weeks of total isolation for each side and an additional 6 months of very limited movement for the dog I couldn't put the dog through it.

The vet said that for each sergury the dog would need to be kennelled for 6 weeks, the only time it was allowed outside the kennel would be to take it out to go to the bathroom, than right back in the kennel.

Now the vet did say each animal is different so the times may vary, but there was no way I could make my dog suffer that long being penned up, I opted to let her live with the legs until they got to the point she was in too much pain and I had her put to sleep.

Gidget that picture gives a whole new meaning to the work hotdog.

Grandmato2
Member

07-16-2004

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gidget: What a sweet picture? Is that your puppy?

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think so....I've seen this picture before.

Suitsmefine
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, August 06, 2004 - 7:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK...I told everyone about the cocker spaniel My Niece recieved as a gift after NIL was sent to Iraq.... My Children never bonded with her, nor her with them....although they had a great time together...When NIL came home, it was like she had been waiting for him....How could I keep her ?? So after 4 months with them, she recognizes us and loves us....but they are her family....so, last week we adopted a 7 week old Scottish Terrier\Rat Terrier mix...SHE LOVES ALL OF US!!!!!! AND WE LOVE HER.....My question is.... how do we train her to stop thinking our 10 year old son is her sibling and stop fighting him everytime he passes "HER STUFF"????She is sooooo tiny and I hate to think I have to punish her.....especially when DS is sooo much like me and I know he is aggrevating the situation....