Pet pics thread - Page 20

racedoll · 07-14-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by the chi

Soooo, as I am sure most of you have gathered by now, I am a huge bleeding heart for hard cases and I LOVE animals.

Couple weeks ago the hubby and I were camping down in Ocala Natl Forest, an ATV weekend, and we found this guy, ribs all poking out, bald in places, hip bones ready to pop out of his skin, and me being me, I started feeding him, made a few calls, and ended up homing him with with some people we know. I just couldnt leave him out there starving to death.

He's a pretty interesting fellow, one helluva cooler thief (we thought he was a bear stealing into our cooler.) Very docile, at least he was when starving, trained and overall seems like a great dog. He didnt work out with the folks we homed him with, and since the hubby and I were both taken with him, he's back at our place.

We found his owner, she doesnt want him, lived not far from where he was starving to death, I'm sure theres more to the story, but this is apparently his third home, and we are hoping to keep him so long as he works out. Booger is about 75 pounds or so and gets to around 95 when well fed. This is him visiting me at the office yesterday. How can you resist this face?

You sound about like me. Last fall we rescued those 2 pups that had been dumped while camping. Then the end of May I was out running one morning and came home to a dog in my yard. We kept him for 2 weeks tryign to locate the his owner, finally did. Fortunately it was a happier story than yours with the owner wanted him back and that it was an accident he got out of his cage. I'm a sucker for helping animals like this but can never keep them because of my mean old Max. He is one grouchy dog.

Dave · 07-14-2010, 01:11 PM

We are officially looking for a dog

not sure how max and domino are going to handle this but I've had decent luck socializing before

the chi · 07-14-2010, 01:31 PM

Oooh oooh, I've got one for you!!! Meet you halfway?

Dave · 07-14-2010, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by the chi

Oooh oooh, I've got one for you!!! Meet you halfway?

Tempting but no, we're looking for an apbt. Met this really sweet 4 year old female last night but we decided to keep looking around and see what's out there

z06boy · 07-14-2010, 02:41 PM

Speaking of "rolling around in stuff"...several years ago I had an Alaskan Malamute and we were visiting some people that lived near a river and were out hiking around and checking the place out. I saw Ninja...yes his name was Ninja rolling around in something...thought it was just grass but upon closer inspection saw that it was a dead fish !!

Yes that was fun trying to get out of all of that fur.

wildchild · 07-14-2010, 05:18 PM

there are two things that will get my dog a place in the old shed near the chickens, skunk smell and dead fish!!!!

yuck!

especially a malumute, that must have been a fun day or two of cleaning the thick fur on that guy.

HokieDNA01 · 07-14-2010, 07:17 PM

Just learned the other day that Australian Sheperds are actually completely American Breed Dogs. Interesting.

There are blue and red heelers on the Petfinder.com website near Detroit if you are interested.

Cutty72 · 07-14-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by HokieDNA01

Just learned the other day that Australian Sheperds are actually completely American Breed Dogs. Interesting.

Per the AKC.

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Originally Posted by The AKC

A Look Back
There are many theories about the origin of the Australian Shepherd. Despite its misleading name, the breed as we know it today probably developed in the Pyrenees Mountains somewhere between Spain and France. It was called the Australian Shepherd because of its association with Basque shepherds who came to America from Australia in the 1800s. The Australian Shepherd was initially called by many names, including Spanish Shepherd, Pastor Dog, Bob-Tail, Blue Heeler, New Mexican Shepherd, and California Shepherd.

HokieDNA01 · 07-14-2010, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Cutty72

Per the AKC.

Weird cause this is a AKC website has a similar (almost identical) paragraph to yours, but it says the current form was developed exclusively in the United States.

"Although there are many theories about the origin of the Australian Shepherd, the breed as we know it today developed exclusively in the United States. It probably originated in the Basque region of the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France, but was dubbed the Australian Shepherd because of its association with Basque shepherds who came to the United States from Australia in the 1800's."

"The United States Australian Shepherd Association works hard to maintain the breed true to type in its land of origin."

http://www.akc.org/breeds/australian...rd/history.cfm

Tmall · 07-14-2010, 07:29 PM

Wow I'm lucky. If one of my dogs so much as steps in poo, they won't even come in the house. They'll sit at the door and look aggitated until I clean em up.

The "puppy" loves stinky mud though. He runs right to it anytime we're around some. And he used to eat cat shit, until I started smelling his mouth randomly and giving him a dollup of toothpaste every time I smelled poo on his breath.

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Dave Chaotic Neutral Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Cherry Hill NJ Moto: GV1200 Madura, Hawk gt Posts: 13,992	We are officially looking for a dog not sure how max and domino are going to handle this but I've had decent luck socializing before

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z06boy Letzroll Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lake Norman area, NC Moto: 07 Red R1 & 07 Blue R6 Posts: 5,265	Speaking of "rolling around in stuff"...several years ago I had an Alaskan Malamute and we were visiting some people that lived near a river and were out hiking around and checking the place out. I saw Ninja...yes his name was Ninja rolling around in something...thought it was just grass but upon closer inspection saw that it was a dead fish !! Yes that was fun trying to get out of all of that fur.

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wildchild cruiser Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the run Moto: '09 HD superglide, 16 Yamaha FZ 09 Posts: 2,749	there are two things that will get my dog a place in the old shed near the chickens, skunk smell and dead fish!!!! yuck! especially a malumute, that must have been a fun day or two of cleaning the thick fur on that guy.

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Tmall Aspiring Rapper Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Halifax, NS Moto: '12 CB1000R Posts: 3,569	Wow I'm lucky. If one of my dogs so much as steps in poo, they won't even come in the house. They'll sit at the door and look aggitated until I clean em up. The "puppy" loves stinky mud though. He runs right to it anytime we're around some. And he used to eat cat shit, until I started smelling his mouth randomly and giving him a dollup of toothpaste every time I smelled poo on his breath.