E E Needs A DOG BLOG!

[dee27]

He is handsome.

[andi9899]

Feb 15, 2017 16:08:57 GMT -5 dee27 said:

He is handsome.

Thanks. He's a sweetie.

[chiver78]

andi!! love him!!!

whoever posted that pittie pic last page, YES! such loyal pups.

I would post a pic right now of my two laying across me to sleep, but I don't want to turn the light back on to do so. I'm just catching up a little before I put the phone down for the night. so, you will just have to make do with an older pic of my favorite pups - the golden and Little Dog, a pit/lab/great Dane mix.

[weltschmerz]

whoever posted that pittie pic last page, YES! such loyal pups.

That was me. I love pits. They'll take a bullet for you. Sweethearts.
Your two are adorable.

[andi9899]

There are so many pits in the shelters that need good homes. They're illegal in my county, so I couldn't even consider one. People still have them. There are a couple in my neighborhood that I know of. I'm just afraid that I'd be the person who would get called on and animal control would come take my dog. I love Jackson and can't imagine anyone taking him away from me.

Of course, I say this after he just ate one of my favorite shoes. Damn dog. I should have put him in his crate for the night earlier when I thought about it. Instead I fell asleep in the same room with a dog that can't be trusted alone yet. Ugh.

[tractor]

Trying to post a picture of my beast

[wyouser]

You know, these guys just have to be a great American unifier. I mean just look at dogs and their humans. They could care less if their human is male or female, black, white brown or even mauve. They don't give a dog biscuit whether their human leans left or right. They don't give a woof about who or what their human votes for. It doesn't matter what kind of house, apartment , or car their human has (as long as they get let in) Just love em, walk em take em with you, spend time with them and they are the happiest of campers!

[Icelandic Woman]

I am loving all the piccies of your fur babies! Keep them coming!

[dannylion]

Dogs are good.

[shanendoah]

Our previous two:

[shanendoah]

Current two (though not current pictures):

[andi9899]

Jackson broke his collar. There must have been something he really wanted that he chased after. I had him tied up in the front yard and went out to get him and the tie out and broken collar were laying on the ground with him sitting next to them. The plastic clips that hold the collar together were broken. I'm getting him a metal collar on my lunch break today. I'm so afraid of him getting out and getting hit by a car or someone being afraid of him because of his size and trying to hurt him when he only ran up to them because he wanted love. This boy is going to be the death of me.

[alabamagal]

Feb 20, 2017 8:29:40 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Jackson broke his collar. There must have been something he really wanted that he chased after. I had him tied up in the front yard and went out to get him and the tie out and broken collar were laying on the ground with him sitting next to them. The plastic clips that hold the collar together were broken. I'm getting him a metal collar on my lunch break today. I'm so afraid of him getting out and getting hit by a car or someone being afraid of him because of his size and trying to hurt him when he only ran up to them because he wanted love. This boy is going to be the death of me.

We have to use metal collars on ours because they break the regular ones. In our case it was when 2 were playing they bite the others collar. We have had people tell is it was cruel because they are choke collars, but they need collars. Regular ones were broken in 1 day, metal ones have lasted 2 years. So to everyone who doesn't like them MYOB.

[andi9899]

Luckily I still had the collar I brought him home from the shelter in. It's one that is nylon with a metal chain on the back. It says it's for leash training and not tie out, but I don't know what else to get. I may just go all chain. He can't keep breaking them.

[chiver78]

I have these collars for my two, after a near-tragedy when they were playing in the house. the golden caught Little Dog's collar around her lower jaw and somehow it got twisted, and he was choking out. we were frantically trying to cut the collar off of him, but because it was a thick cushioned collar, it wasn't going quickly enough. my roommate managed to get his fingers under the golden's tongue and slick the collar enough to just pull it off in one swift motion. she yelped a little, but the collar was finally off.  they don't wear collars at all now unless we're going somewhere, and in those cases it's those breakaways. when we go for walks, I have prongs for both b/c it's just easier to control about 160lbs of dog by myself. 

as far as strength of the collar, when you link up a leash or tie, you clip to both of the metal rings to bypass the breakaway point.  

[andi9899]

I ended up getting him a collar that buckles like a belt instead of snapping together with clips. If he breaks this one, he's getting a chain collar. We are starting obedience training soon and part of it will be not giving in to distractions. Hopefully that will help at least a little when he's tied up outside too.

[wyouser]

We had a black lab who used to love riding in the cab on weekends.  when I would meet the guys for coffee around 6 am. Had a mostly restored 67 Ford pickup. The ones with the old style "roll-up" windows. I had to finally switch outfits. Crazy dog would roll down the window and beat feet for home. We could see him from the café windows! I understand the down motion with his paw on the handle, but how in the h-77 did he get the handle up?? I mean he never even scratched the paint on the inside of the door. Anybody else ever have an "escape artist"? 

[shanendoah]

A more recent pic of the current two:




Also, one of previous our foster dog, the Howie Monster

[chiver78]

Feb 21, 2017 12:09:57 GMT -5 wyouser said:

We had a black lab who used to love riding in the cab on weekends.  when I would meet the guys for coffee around 6 am. Had a mostly restored 67 Ford pickup. The ones with the old style "roll-up" windows. I had to finally switch outfits. Crazy dog would roll down the window and beat feet for home. We could see him from the café windows! I understand the down motion with his paw on the handle, but how in the h-77 did he get the handle up?? I mean he never even scratched the paint on the inside of the door. Anybody else ever have an "escape artist"? 

that is awesome. Little Dog likes digging under the backyard fence and jumping out the window of moving vehicles if the child locks aren't on the windows. not exactly the same, but sort of?

[andi9899]

Today was daycare day. I have a sleepy puppy. It's glorious!

[Opti]

Howie monster is cute.

[andi9899]

There's no way I could foster dogs. I'd keep them all and be the crazy dog lady.

[spartyparty]

Feb 15, 2017 6:33:16 GMT -5 spartyparty said:

German Shepherd/Lab mix, and we think maybe a little Border Collie....awaiting results of the DNA testing.

We got our results...she is 25% Lab, 25% Shetland Sheepdog, 12.5% Siberian Husky and 37.5% Mixed.  A little surprising, as I was expecting to see specific DNA markers for German Shepherd and Beagle....but they identified breed groups for the mixed-breed ancestry, which does include German Shepherd, Border Collie and Beagle.

[spartyparty]

Here was my high school sweetheart     She was definitely a Shepherd/Lab Mix.  Loved this dog...struck humane society gold when we got her. 

[andi9899]

Tell me why Jackson has to flip his food bowl over in his crate. Every. Freaking. Time. I picked it up when I went home for lunch and $20 says he has food all over the floor again when I go home after work.

[lexxy703]

I love everyone's doggie pics.  I had to put my dog down in 2010.  This is the longest I have ever lived without a dog.  I often think about getting another one.  Then I see my neighbors out walking in the rain or when it's freezing cold & change my mind.

[tractor]

Reserving a new puppy today, litter due in early April should be home by mid-May. It's going to be a great spring.

[mollyc]

Love the pictures.  I'm having problems getting mine to photobucket but I have a walking dogs story.

We live about 3 blocks from the bush so, as much as possible, I take the dogs there for our nightly walk.  We all get more exercise then on a street walk and I don't have to worry about the people who are totally freaked out by my dogs.  Frankenstein barks at every tree he knows houses a squirrel so I don't generally have to worry about the coyotes and bears.

A couple of nights ago, the dogs had gone off into the trees.  To the left of the path, the ground sloped up and, to the right, the ground sloped down.  I heard a twig snap and figured my dogs were coming.  Then a snowball rolled across the path.  I called out hello because I figured some kids were trying to scare me.  Then I heard my dogs charging down.  They crossed the path a little further down then the snowball.  Nope, not a snowball.  Based on the tracks, it was a little white rabbit running so fast my mind could only interpret it as a rolling snowball.

For all their time in the bush, they're still City dogs so I don't have to worry about them catching anything.  Sometimes when they are tracking a rabbit, it looks like a chase scene from a Scooby Doo cartoon.

[andi9899]

Feb 26, 2017 10:25:47 GMT -5 tractor said:

Reserving a new puppy today, litter due in early April should be home by mid-May. It's going to be a great spring.

Oh! What kind? I love other people's puppies.

[mollyc]

My crew



Left to right with their real names:

Summer Bear, Roggie (pronounced like Rogie Vachon) & their daughter, Lexie in the forefront.