DOGS

[sam dupont]

How in the world can that beautiful dog possibly need a home?

For a year and a half I chased beautiful rescues like him. My first Belgian was a rescue. I would call the facility and say I will take that dog, but I have to arrange transportation of 1000 miles. I never got one because rescues are overcrowded and they couldn't depend on me keeping my word that I would take the dog when they had somebody standing there saying: "oh... pretty". I have no hard feelings, it's just the way things are.
When I lost my last one, I had been planning to go into the local rescue and pick the ugliest dog they had to be my second pooch. The funny looking, but nice one that nobody wanted

 

[junior340]

Mia on the icy pier while I fish.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

Out for a walk this morning dog setting for a couple hours.. nephews pup named tank. I kept him on a leash and Penny did good w him. He was mesmerized by the flying geese!

Of course as leashes go..tank makes it interesting..there is dog somewhere on this leash, all I can see is leash going through a bunch of steel braces of a loading shoot..no dog in sight.Lol

Tank

Our Penny

 

[Budnicks]

My kitchen dog, inspector Baron
he's getting so big so fast, well over 60#s now be 7 months on Dec. 15th

 

[ckessel]

Not a kitchen dog. Cleanup pro in the making.

 

[DeltaV]

I feel used.

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[Hey-O]

 

[33 IMP]

I saw that on my you tube feed. HILARIOUS!
That is one happy affectionate goldie!

 

[Hey-O]

You gotta love it!!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[sam dupont]

These are Belgian Tervuren, cousins to the better known Belgian Malinois, Belgian Groenendael (Belgian Sheepdog or Shepherd) and the never heard of: Belgian Laekenois. They are identical with the only difference being coat and color.

 

[sam dupont]

I'm pissed at the city again. The dog park has a big pen that 30 years ago was an ice-skating rink. Some rich prick must've been feeling nostalgic and got City Hall to flood it for an ice-skating rink again. They didn't last year so I thought they had given up because it never makes good ice and the last time they tried it it had a foot of standing water for three months with no ice.
People use that pen year round to train their dogs and some people take their small dogs in there because their little ones are afraid of big dogs. The big dogs are friendly, but the little dogs don't know that and some get stressed.
It is expected that our dogs be good citizens and that's one reason why I used the pen with my new pup; to work on socialization. I would sit in my car and wait for somebody else with a puppy to show up and ask them if they would go in the pen with us. I did that with a number of pups and then started doing it with older dogs, and then one day she saw a chance to slip through the gate, and away she went. She ran up to a half a dozen big dogs in a group and I thought: well I guess we're ready.
It's stupid because the pen is 2 miles out of town and makes horrible ice. It's cloudy and rough so it's not easy to skate on and the kids don't come back a second time. Then high school kids show up, hit pucks out into the dog park on purpose and they bust up the 30 year old fence around it body checking because that's what high school kids do.
They had five employees driving three city pickups sitting there, watching water pump into it from the creek. The weren't actually watching it, they were all on their phones. That must've been about 1000 bucks in labor cost.

edit: I'm mad at myself for not educating my council person as to how many people use that pen in the winter. Some of us who are there every day see it. I thought they had given up after three failed winters. The city hand scoffed, so I'll buy a cheap game camera and place it close enough to count players, but at a distance that no one is identifiable.

 

[khryslerkid]

You gotta love it!!! Thanks for sharing!!

It's funny that I've never met a dog that didn't like pasta. To me it doesn't have much flavor but they go nuts over it. It's fun to watch them eat spaghetti though.

 

[sam dupont]

To me it doesn't have much flavor but they go nuts over it. It's fun to watch them eat spaghetti though.

used Kleenex doesn't have that much either, but they seem to like it. I blew my nose at the dog park and a dog perked up like I had a treat. I held it out and asked him: do you want this? It seemed like he looked at his mom and dad, and his excitement turned to panic: no, no, why would you even ask?

 

[khryslerkid]

used Kleenex doesn't have that much either, but they seem to like it. I blew my nose at the dog park and a dog perked up like I had a treat. I held it out and asked him: do you want this? It seemed like he looked at his mom and dad, and his excitement turned to panic: no, no, why would you even ask?

I'll be at my friends house and if someone hocks one over the deck railing her dog will run down the stairs and successfully find said loogie and lick it up!

 

[Hey-O]

It's funny that I've never met a dog that didn't like pasta. To me it doesn't have much flavor but they go nuts over it. It's fun to watch them eat spaghetti though.

That's absolutely too sweet! My dog loved noodles with brown gravy.