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Wargod | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:50 pm     We used to have a dog thread, but I couldn't find it, so I'm hoping I just didn't overlook it. We have two dogs, a year and a half old boxer/lab mix named Harvey, and a five year old beagle we recently "adopted" named Reily. Both of them are spoiled rotten, and very well loved, they're family. Harvey is our rascally one..he's the rough and tumble one. The one you'll find playing on the floor with the kids or chasing balls in the backyard, though he can also be lazy and want to do nothing more than lay around. Reily is our quiet, peaceful one. She's the one you'll find snuggled up with the kids, or sitting at your feet. She's a sweetheart. We call her our hoover...she's the one who runs to the kitchen or under the table to see if someone's dropped snacks for her, LOL. For as long as I can remember my family has had at least one dog...and my sis and I both as soon as we got our own houses went out and got dogs. I couldn't imagine life without one, and couldn't imagine my kids growing up without a four-legged family member. I do have to say I'm not a cat person...but it's nothing personal against cats...I'm just a little allergic to them and as I like to breathe its better for me not to be around them, LOL. Anyone want to share stories about their dogs? They truly do become family, and for non-pet people they may not understand the bond that forms between you and your pet. I have friends who look at me like I'm nuts when I talk about some of the things my dogs have done, or how if I'm going to be gone for more than a day I have to have someone to come over and play with them for awhile and take care of them. |
Squaredsc | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:58 pm     yippee the dog thread is back. i have had 2 dogs. i have 1 now. he is my angel and my poo-poo. he is 3 yrs old this past december 2nd. he is my best friend, he follows me everywhere even to the bathroom. and is at this moment sitting at my feet. d.h. got him for me the week before valentine's day in 2000. he isn't neutered. oh, he is a bichon frise, fully registered by the akc(bit woop, just means he was expensive at $400). his registered name is Guardian Angel of Mine, but in named him angel after the show buffy the vampire slayer, the vamp named angel. going to pause here 'cause i have long stories and i have to get out of my work clothes. |
Vixeninvegas | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:00 pm     I have a dog named Toto - She is a Yorkie Mix - I got her in Kansas when I was back there for my grandfathers funeral. She was only 5 weeks old & weighed 7 oz. She was bottle fed for the first month that I had her. Keep in mind I got her 7 years ago - pre 9/11 days - I "snuck" her on the plane in Kansas (she was too young to get her shots so therefore I couldn't get a vet certificate & also they wanted $50 per flight for me to fly with her.) I got caught in the air by a StewardASS - LOL. She made a big fuss & they threatened to not allow me on the connection plane from Denver to Las Vegas. Here I was in Denver airport holding this little 7 oz. puppy crying & a really sweet man came up (thinking the dog was sick) & offered to help me. He (thank god!) was a vet. He signed off on her health - I bit the bullet & paid the $50.00 airfare & had to purchase a dog carrier (another $50) but was finally able to get my baby home. In retrospect - I was very very lucky that the airport people were as kind as they were - I could have been jailed for smugling a dog on a plane but everything turned out fine. She is now 8 years old & spoilt rotten. She knows when I give directions to my house on the phone & starts raising holy heck (barking & whimpering). She also knows when I order pizza (her favorite food). I know I'm partial but she is the sweetist nutty-ist puppy in the world & I love her dearly. For christmas she gave my Mom a T-shirt that read "Let me get this straight - my grandchild is a DOG?" hehe my mom loved it! She has called Toto her grand dog ever since I got her - I don't have any children. What a great thread - I love reading about animals. |
Halfunit | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:18 pm     V V - where did you get that shirt, and do they have them for cats? My mom calls my felines her "grandcats". |
Wargod | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:19 pm     Hehe, I've always referred to my sisters dog as my oldest neice. Now Athena is spoiled...in a big way. She's a full blooded pet, but the sweetest dog ever, I think. She's a big baby, loves to play with the kids, and in 7 and a half years they've never had any problem with her. She's overweight, has thyroid problems, takes a daily pill and is on a diet, was saved from parvo as a puppy. We babysit her anytime they're gone and she looks at Reily and Harvey like they're puppy nuisances. Cracks me up, cuz they don't even bother her, they just go along like normal with her watching over them, LOL. A few weeks back, Harvey managed to go through my front window. Scared the heck out of me and Darren, and when we saw he had cut his paw, I pretty much freaked out the same way I do when one of my kids gets hurt. LOL, Harvey spent two days in heaven as the kids made sure he didn't have to do anything but go outside to go potty by himself, LOL. They brought his food and water dishes to him, sat on the couch and petted him..it was kind of funny. Luckily he healed up just fine, and seems to have learned that jumping up on the windows isn't the smartest idea. Does anyone have doggie doors and what do you think about them? We don't have one, but leave the backdoor open all the time so the dogs can come and go as they want to. Darren's been bugging me about it, since it's been a bit cool here, but I'm worried that with the size of one we'd have to get for Harvey who is tall, would be just big enough for the kids to mess around with, and I'm having visions of one of them getting stuck in it. |
Denecee | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:33 pm     Sometimes I think Hudson, our 120 lb black lab/golden retriever mix, saved us. We got him exactly 5 yrs ago when he was 8 weeks old. I am his mommy, my husband is his daddy, and my kids are his siblings. He's funny and spoilt. If I pretend to hit one of my kids, he will attack me(he's careful) but if one of my kids try to hit me, then he's just fine with it. Now, don't go thinking that we are an abusive family,lol. My co-worker can't have a dog so she is Hudson's Aunt and let me tell you that dog knows how to get whatever he wants from her. More later, I love reading your stories. |
Bakerygirl | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:35 pm     I have a rat terrier, her name is Molly.. I bought her for my son when she was 6 weeks old for his 3rd birthday, she is now 3.. I sometimes call her my grand dog because I have spent about $1,000 on her. She cost only $50, but shortly after we got her she got parvo (spelling?). She was in the vet for a week and it cost over $600 to get her better. Then with all the shots and getting fixed, it's added up to about a grand. Needless to say I used to freak out when i had thought she ran away. When I was pregnant, she would followed me everywhere I went. I could not even go to the bathroom without her and had to get onto her so i could sweep and mop. I almost tripped over her i dont know how many times. She has just recently started to mind well and has turned out to be a good dog. We also have a chocolate lab, her name is Hershey. I am not as fond of her as Molly. She stays outside and my husband got her againist my wishes. She is just a pup, but she is a real pain. We have spent a ton of money on her trying to get her to stay in her fence. She can somehow jump very high and is always getting out and running off. She jumps on me when I go to feed her, but I know thats not her fault. Its my husbands for not training her properly. I think the thing that made me dislike her is she almost broke my toe once and when I was 9 months pregnant I had to drag her to her pen because she would not mind me and it had me so upset I was hyperventilating and could not breath for an hour. I went to the hospital and had the baby shortly after that. I'm trying my best to start liking her more. Anyway, I love hearing about doggies too. Can't wait!! |
Wargod | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:49 pm     Baerygirl, our first dog when we bought the house was a full blooded lab. She was a sweetheat, and just as spoiled as Harvey and Reily, but we had the same problem as you..she jumped our 6 foot fence on a daily basis. I was working, and hubby was..and we were terrified we'd come home to find her run over by a car in the street. We finally decided she would be better off with a home where she had plenty of running room. It took us awhile, but we finally found a family who lived outside of town with alot of property. The last we heard, she was doing wonderful with them...though it was very hard for us to give her up we knew we had to. When we got Harvey we were concerned about him being half lab...but it seems the boxer half of him, husky, and not much of a jumper, has worked out well. He couldn't get his butt over the fence if we set a ladder out there for him, LOL. |
Vixeninvegas | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 04:04 pm     1/2 - I believe it was called Paragon Gifts - it was on the internet - brb checking to see if I can find the name No it wasn't Paragon but they do have a grand-dog tshirt http://www.amazondog.com/taushastshirts.htm I will look in my old check book log at home tonight to see if I can find where I bought it |
Halfunit | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 04:47 pm     VIV - Don't go through all that trouble! I will just start looking with searches!! |
Mygetaway | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 04:51 pm     Square... I thought of you when my best friend told me her new dog's name. They had a litter of golden labs, and she talked her hubby into keeping one. She named her Buffy, The Duck Slayer. My friend absolutely loves Buffy and Angel also. I'll be back to post more about my dogs after I read the rest of the thread. |
Neko | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 05:03 pm     My puppy Odee is one of the most spoiled pups. He's 8 years old I believe, turned it in October and is a jack russell/chihuahua mix. We got him when he was 1 and a half years old from a family who wasn't at home alot and kept him in their bathroom all day. I remember when we got him from the SPCA, and we took him towards out car and he turned around to go back and TheMom and I both telling him that he was coming with us. He's a funny dog, likes to lay on the top of our couches and chairs, sleeps all day. He's got quite a personality and has different names from different people. My grandparents still call him Zipper, which was what we had first picked for him before realizing it wasn't right. He barks whenever TheMom and I pretend fight and we always have to tell him to calm down. LOL I can't even remeber what it was like without a little puppy around to bark everytime you get home.... And somehow find a way to take up a whole Queen sized bed by himself. |
Mygetaway | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 05:38 pm     Ok.. I have two dogs now. The oldest is Zoey. She's a shepard mix with what we thought was a shar-pei but now my brother says it was a chow chow. She has wrinkles around her face, and some on her neck. She has such a cute face. She'll twist (it wouldn't let me say the c word..lol) her head and look at you, and those wrinkles show up..LOL. She is my dog. Her kennel is in the bedroom and she considers it her den. (Meaning she goes there on her own, if she isn't on the bed with me.) She minds very well now. She has turned really protective of me and starts to growl, and I think would attack anyone who is trying to hurt me. She even did it to DH when we were wrestling yesterday. She had running away problems as a pup cuz she loved to run, but has really calmed down now. She was 4 in June. The other one is Sasha and she is a total BRAT! She's only about 1½, so she still has some "puppy issues." She doesn't listen well. She likes to chew and dig. Our whole front yard is fenced in, but we had to add chicken wire everywhere because she kept getting out of the yard. Her newest bad habit is not leaving the porch to go potty when it's raining. She's either a rott or a dobie (markings wise) but doesn't have that squared head of a rott. We have no clue what else is in her, but she's huge. Very tall. My youngest SD brought her home from the Safeway parking lot and we fell in love with her immediately. She is so jealous of the other dog. She checks both food bowls to make sure they are even. My family had always had dogs too, but then when I moved out on my own I couldn't have a dog. My friend talked me into taking 2 of her kittens. So for several years I was a cat person, but when we got a yard with a fence I had to have another dog. She just passed away last Sept. So now I'm a dog and cat person! |
Squaredsc | Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 06:49 pm     mga, sasha could also be a rottie/dobie mix. i saw a couple on petfinder.com. i also had a full-blooded rottie. she was a year old july 12th last year. her name is Asia. d.h. named her. she was supposed to be d.h.'s dog. we got her at 8 wks old in september. my aunt has her sire. i love her to death. we don't have her anymore, d.h. gave her away to a new mommy and daddy. they don't live too far away(and yes i have driven past their home a couple of times but never stopped). i was devastated when he gave her away. she is/was my baby. he agreed to get her mainly for protection of the home esp during the time that the kids get home from school and when we get home from work. (our neighborhood is changing.) but we couldn't get her housebroken. we crate trained like we did with Angel but she was harder to train. the vet initially told us that we couldn't take her outside for walks or anything because of parvo. so we were unable to get her leash trained or trained to pee pee/poo poo outside for about a month till the other vet in the office said that oh yeah she can go outside and that most dogs get parvo from people stepping in poo and brining it in the house. so of course precious time was wasted. d.h. was assured that he could handle taking care of her, of course i ended up being her primary caretaker which i didn't mind. also we don't have a fenced yard so i take my dog/s outside on a leash. i also take part of the blame for Asia not being trained properly and i know rotties need discipline. but im a softy. she was a very gentle loving huggable dog. but. for some reason she saw my youngest d.s. as below her in the pack order. 9 times out of 10 she was fine with him, played with him greatly. but the 1 time she would just jump up at him and try to nip him. he didn't have a strong voice and laughs alot so he didn't correct her as he should have, even though i would correct her. long story short, she would pee pee and poo right on the carpet in the living room even after being walked or stand outside for 20 mins and didn't care if it was in front of you and afterwards she would try to hide, by this time she was 70 lbs. so he posted a free to good home notice in petco. the new mommy has given me 2 pics of her last beginning of fall. she has been with them since april. i still miss her and told d.h. that when we move to a bigger house or house with a yard i was getting another one. |
Weenerlobo | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 05:47 am     I love dogs and love reading about all of your babies. D.h. and I have one dog, a basset hound named Bogie (Bogart, as in Humphrey). We looked at various dog breeds before settling on a basset hound. However, through our research we never found out how much they shed and DROOL!!!! I'm sure nobody washes their walls as much as I do! But, by the time Bogie started really shedding and drooling (when he was about six months) we were snoggered in love with him and wouldn't ever dream of giving him away. We got him when he was 8 weeks old from a breeder; his grandpa was a champion of some sort. We had two puppies to chose from and while we were sitting on the floor playing with them, Bogie would not leave us alone. He was way more interested in us than the other puppy, so d.h. said he chose us. He slept on my lap the whole 3 hour drive home and, yes, he used to trip on his own ears when he was a puppy too. He's grown into those ears, now that he's 9. He's been a constant source of love and joy. He is exceedingly loyal and loving and when he lays on your feet in the wintertime, you just don't mind the weight, because he's being such a great footwarmer. Someone mentioned that their doggie knows when pizza was ordered; so does Bogie. He is very possesive of d.h.'s pizza crusts and d.h. has to practically inhale his first piece of pizza in order to get Bogie his crust before he has a nervous breakdown! I've got silly stories to tell, but I've gotta do some work first. Be back later. I've got a photo of Bogie in my folder and you're all welcome to go say Hi. |
Wargod | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 11:40 am     We've had the sneaking suspicion that one of the kids has been sneaking our dogs, especially Reily, food. Reily has gotten chubby the past couple months. Anyways, last night the kids were eating spaghettios and green beans for dinner and Caleb started to holler about Dakota feedig Reily. When we turned to look, Dakota was sitting there with her spoon in hand eating, and Reily was watching her. After dinner, Reily came over to me..she had a green bean hanging out of her mouth, and the whole top of her head was covered in spaghettio sauce, LOL. Harvey started a few months ago climbing up onto my lap anytime I sit down on the couch. Now, he's fairly skinny...but he's a big dog. And he just hops right up and plops his big butt in my lap, LOL. I think that has to do with jealousy...Reily will sit on the couch and put her head on my leg, so I think he's feeling a little neglected. I swear, sometimes having two dogs is just like having two kids. Doesn't matter if you spend the same amount of time with each of them, they just don't like to see someone else getting that attention. |
Squaredsc | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 11:49 am     lol war, i also had the 2 dog jealousy thing. |
Dahli | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 01:49 pm     Me too! We have two male whippets Maxoom, the more dominant one and Jackson, the little sweetie, they are litter mates - about nine months old and soooo competitive with the attention thing. It's our second set of Whippets cuz this breed is so nice to have, they're pretty to look at, smart, sensitive, sweet, easy going, quiet, funny, clean, cuddly, no smell, limited grooming, shed minimally and they rarely get fleas. In addition they love to curl up and sleep 23 hours a day if you let them, but that other hour they run like the wind!! takes my breath away watching them go 200 yards in 12 seconds, but doesn't seem to faze them at all! They make great pets for small homes and apartments, as long as you have a couch you can have as many whippets as you like, cuz you can just stack 'em!! LOL |
Jmm | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 02:06 pm     War, It must have been hubby, my darling Kota would not do anything that is against the rules and you know it. LOL |
Wargod | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 02:27 pm     Yeah, yeah, Jmm, LOL. I think we need to get together sometime so you can get first hand experience with Kota, LOL. This isn't the first time Kota's messed around with doggie vandalism....the first time involved a can of orange spray paint and Mom's dog! As I pointed out to mom...you know Kota, you know you have to have her in your sight all the time,lol. |
Myjohnhenry | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 03:13 pm     My sisters dogs have always been big dogs (first a Chesapeak Bay Retriever and then a Black Lab) and thought they should be lap dogs. They both grew up around lots of kids so were/are extremely gentle. The Retriever would let the day care kids chase her and would stop just out of reach of them with an occasional stop to let them catch her and she didn't mind about much of anything they would do to her. I have the greatest picture of her and my niece when my niece was about 4 months old...laying on their bellies on a blanket looking in each others eyes with the dogs paws ever so gently on top of the baby's hands. The lab is the school mascot where my sister teaches and attends daily. She is so good and everybody loves her. When we get together for holidays the dog goes nuts because she loves presents! This Christmas Eve she went over to the box of gifts I brought and took her package out of the box and carried it across the room. (like any good first grader I guess she can read her name! LOL) She got told she had to wait just like everyone else. |
Mygetaway | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 08:37 pm     I was playing around earlier, trying to get a good pic, and this is what I got instead...
I swear she was laughing at me...  |
Weenerlobo | Friday, January 03, 2003 - 08:59 pm     I love that picture! Right now there's a Bogie on my couch, living it up. He's usually not allowed on the couch, but he's fresh from the groomer and well, you know. |
Riviere | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 01:20 pm     Greyt to hear your Whippets are healthy & happy, Dahli!!! You know how 'spoiled' my ex racing Greyhounds are, they just turned 8 and 9.. |
Wargod | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 02:19 pm     We had a big Uh-oh last night between Dakota and Reily. I had to keep the kids up late last night to pick up dad from work at 10, and I know Kota was going though her "its two hours past bedtime and if I stop I'll go to sleep" thing....which also makes her act a little...mean. Anyways, we got home and Reily was asleep on the couch. Dakota walked over and gave her a hug and when she didn't wake up, Kota got down in her face and let out an ear peircing scream. Reily woke up and bit her. Darren was standing at the table and saw the whole thing, but couldn't get Kota away from Reily before she scared the crap out of the dog. Dakota ended up with a small cut on the bridge of her nose (which bled like crazy, another above her upper lip and two on and under her lower lip. She also walked away with a scratch on on check where it looks like Reily really butted heads with her (thats a little bruised and swollen.) Her lips were also slighly swollen. From what Darren said and seeing the bite, Reily only snapped once but caught Kota with several teeth. After a few minutes of cleaning the bite and putting bandaids on her (for the neosporin mostly,) Dakota got a very long lecture on how she should be treating the dogs. The nice thing about Dakota is once she gets a lecture and lesson driven home, she doesn't do the same thing twice, LOL. While neither Darren nor I want the kids to get hurt, both of us feel that Dakota provoked Reily and Reily reacted. We also think that Dakota will remember from now on how playing with Reily is different than playing with Harvey (who doesn't mind the rough and tumble play.) And little miss Kota seems to be just fine this morning/afternoon...no swelling, a slight hint of a bruise, and she's not complaining of pain. Hopefully she learned a good lesson, even though it was in a painful way. Obviously the talking we've been doing about how to treat both dogs hadn't been sinking in...though I still hate that she got hurt. When I got up in the middle of the night, Dakota and Reily were all curled up together, so I'm pretty sure at this point they're back to being friends. |
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