not being able to swim is an issue, love the life vest
new member of the family
from the time I was 23 I always owned dogs....usually just 2 at a time, all were adopted from shelters or rescues...about 5 years ago I had a doberman female 15+ years old and a lab/boxer mix male alittle over 10 years old...the female got hurt and couldnt get up for a day or so, I had to carry her outside to do her business and carry her back in, I figured this was about it with her..but, I gave her some pain killers and in a week she was back up and moving around, the soon after the lab started to bloat, not the bloat from eating, but he was filling with fluids..either organ failure or cancer, either way no recovery, so once he stopped eating I had to put him down, gut wrenching to say the least..then about 2 months later my dobie got ill and at her age , no good, and I had to put her down, doing that so close together, I needed a break, I just couldnt do that again...so it took about 3.5 years to get another dog, a mixed sheppard/husky..beautiful dog and after a year of hard work with him, he is a great dog, but the first few months were beyond chaotic..so now since he is pretty stable and seems he wants a playmate..I adopted a 5 month old sheppard mix, an unknown mix..she came from the animal shelter, they said sheppard, but she doesnt look purebread at all, and in all honestly, the mixes have less health issues.. here are a few pics of her and him...and sheppards have the habit of being close, as im typing this now the new one is curled around my foot sleeping..the new one has the red collar..
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Mine ate furniture when they were pups. My rottie mix Bronx was old and gray and had cancer when I gave the coffee table away to my daughter. I had intended to sell it, but a woman came to look at it and pointed out that all 4 lower corners had been chewed by dogs. The big dog teeth, when Bronx was still teething....I still miss that boy, he died in August 2017. But my Wulfwarro has stepped into the rottie spot, not that he is anything close to full blood, although his mother was supposed to be. I think daddy might have been a coonhound. he was headed for a shelter at 3 months, the girlfriend of mama's owner had him posted on Next door as a free puppy and I raised my hand by email and got him in August 2018. Got his name cuz he howled like a wookie when I crated him and left for work. Tug pic December 2019. I don't have the tall black shepherd mix anymore, but Wulfwarro is on the left, and my Shar pei mix Camelo is on the right. Camelo is 12 now, a remarkable age for a pei apparently.
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I am impressed Bob. I am a good cook, I have canned peaches and pears from my trees, and I just got a dehydrator, possibly my younger rooster is going to be jerky, I'm not sure, He's kinda ornery and I do not want him to breed, his mom's genetics were poor, she died young and his sister died younger. I've been keeping him separate. while grandkids are gone so no one catches me I am considering removing him. I don't smoke much but I did buy a pig in 2013, skinned and quartered, made 2 hams, some bacon, about 30 pounds of sausage, and pork loins and what not, stocked my freezer and my daughters' freezers. I still have the grinder, but it's too much work when I'm working all the time and the daughter that helped me and her
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kids moved farther away, we all work too much.
My coy dog turned out to be 25% australian cattle dog, 25% great pyrenees, 12.5% Australian shepherd, and the rest super mutt featuring chihuahua and pomeranian, we call him Teddy the nut job, he's a little crazy, 100% bonded to me, and I'd had him a year before I had the DNA run, he's kinda gray now, he's 9, but going strong. He doesn't like water, I don't know if he can swim because we don't go to the lake and my ponds are for my fish. Cici likes to get in the pond to cool off, I have a kennel fence around it to keep her out, and she has a wading pool most years.
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Cici came from the same shelter Teddy came from, she was on death row for a bad case of kennel cough, I quarantined her for a month or so until antibiotics cleared her up, since Bronx died she is pack leader, and keeps the boys in line, squirrels out of the yard. Teddy bothers my allergies if I let him ride in the truck with me, but he loves to so sometimes we take the old truck for a cruise, Cici is a poor car rider, her favorite perch is with her head on top of mine, but you know she was a coddled pup of 6 months when she first got to ride. She is 10 now, showing a little gray. She is one of my chewers, I think she and teddy both nibbled on my bee suit when it was draped over their crates, I patched it up on the sewing machine and learned to hang it up. Catching Cici for a still shot is very hard, that girl moves.
kids moved farther away, we all work too much.
My coy dog turned out to be 25% australian cattle dog, 25% great pyrenees, 12.5% Australian shepherd, and the rest super mutt featuring chihuahua and pomeranian, we call him Teddy the nut job, he's a little crazy, 100% bonded to me, and I'd had him a year before I had the DNA run, he's kinda gray now, he's 9, but going strong. He doesn't like water, I don't know if he can swim because we don't go to the lake and my ponds are for my fish. Cici likes to get in the pond to cool off, I have a kennel fence around it to keep her out, and she has a wading pool most years.
Cici came from the same shelter Teddy came from, she was on death row for a bad case of kennel cough, I quarantined her for a month or so until antibiotics cleared her up, since Bronx died she is pack leader, and keeps the boys in line, squirrels out of the yard. Teddy bothers my allergies if I let him ride in the truck with me, but he loves to so sometimes we take the old truck for a cruise, Cici is a poor car rider, her favorite perch is with her head on top of mine, but you know she was a coddled pup of 6 months when she first got to ride. She is 10 now, showing a little gray. She is one of my chewers, I think she and teddy both nibbled on my bee suit when it was draped over their crates, I patched it up on the sewing machine and learned to hang it up. Catching Cici for a still shot is very hard, that girl moves.
I don't like the taste of turmeric paste, but when I run out I discover I have arthritis all over, hands wrists, knees ankles hips. I am allergic to nsaids. The capsules give me horrible heartburn. The paste made with plenty of fresh peppercorns and coconut oil, causes a little heartburn but with a meal it's tolerable and I don't know I have arthritis. I'm also a melanoma survivor. I take my turmeric paste. The dogs take theirs, Bronx lived almost 3 years bouncing around the house most of them with metastasized mast cell, he taught me quality of life is important and I started taking turmeric paste when he started bouncing like a puppy. Bronx with my Bonnie goat, 2012.
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