This thread is for dog/puppy owners
 

We have an American Eskimo and a Pomeranian (along with 2 cats and 2 guinea pigs) - I've always wanted a Golden Retriever and I can't believe I'm thinking about getting one today.. 3 dogs, I'm NUTS!!! :eek:

There is an ad in the paper for GR puppies and I just spoke to a nice lady who has 1 boy puppy left and is holding it for me. I know if I go, it's all over with.

My kids would go nuts and my wife would freak out (in a good way).

Decisions, decisions...

You like dogs that shed huh?

Yeah.. but my vaccuum doesn't. :D

my dog is staring at me right now, he's hovering over the tennis ball... his eyes are saying "fucking reach down and throw the ball".

He just hit it to me with his paw. I think the dog is human.

I would love to be able to have two dogs, but I don't think our dog would handle it well. He gets along with other dogs, but just a little too well. He gets a bit crazy when he's with other dogs and just wants to play, play, play all the time.

We have friends who bring their dog (Billy) over about once a week or so, or we bring our dog (Aegon) to their place. Aegon rarely ever calms down when he's around Billy. He paces around, tail wagging, constantly wanting to play. Even one poor Billy is tired and tries to hide, Aegon will keep pawing at him relentlessly.

We leave Aegon at doggy daycare twice a week and apparently it's no different there. Apparently he is in such a rush to play that he eats too fast and drinks too fast and then ends up throwing-up frequently.

I am sure he would work this out of his system eventually, but I wouldn't want to take that risk. He's still less than 2 years old, so it's likely he'll calm down and we can get another dog in the future.

We have a golden. He is the nicest most friendly dog I have ever had. He has a great temperment, is awesome with the kids and is very smart and loyal. He listens well and is as well behaved as you could expect.

The only knock on goldens is they bark alot and shed alot.

fixed it for you.

Maybe I should have gotten a golden retriever instead of a wife.

My family has a yellow lab, and he's frigging awesome. Golden labs are a good substitute. ;)

Btw, my cousins have a newfoundland - possibly the coolest dogs ever. Wrestling with a 140 lb newfy is entertaining at worst. :D

Black Labs are the kickingest ass color of labs

This is my boy making himself at home on the futon a minute ago

Do it!!

Dog chaos is a good kind of chaos.

Yeah, I'm sure once I hold the little guy, he'll be coming home with me.

My poop scooping is really going to pick up. :(

I have four dogs, take the plunge.

I'd love to get a second dog, but the wife won't do it. Personally I think 2 would be easier (or at least no more difficult) as they would entertain themselves a lot. She just sees twice the number of dirty paws and poop.

It took me a solid 4 minutes to figure out where your dog started and ended due to that brown/black thing he's on top of.

We have a puppy, Weeble (aka Weebs)...he's as sweet as can be and I love him to death - wouldn't trade him for the world! We are looking for a house to rent and we can find (and afford) one with a fenced in backyard, we'll likely get another puppy at some point in the not too distant future.

Definitely get the puppy - they are like kids, sure they are work and annoy the crap out of you sometimes, but at the end of the day, when you snuggle up next to them in bed it's all worth it...and be sure to post pics once you get him home and the chaos dies down :D

Well, talked the guy down to $700 and I'm quite happy with the purchase!!

He's so calm and loveable.. my wife went nuts when I asked her to get something out of the car - and there was Benny! :)

I don't have a digital camera, so I'll borrow my neighbors tomorrow and post some pictures.

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I guarantee its better value than a PS3! :D

Congrats - Benny's the name? Have your kid's had a say yet?

Me and my girlfriend adopted a 7 year old Beagle last May. I love it and wish we could get another dog. We will eventually but we live in a very small apartment.

I will post pics soon.

Congrats on the new puppy! Post pics!

No :) this is my wife's dog and she finally got to pick the name. :D

$700?

Wow.

We have a golden as well and I have to agree. He is by far the nicest dog I've ever encountered. He's friendly, very gentle for his size (~100 lbs) and he hardly ever misbehaves. The only behavioral thing is that he is terrified of loud noises (not uncommon for any dog really) so it can get bad when you have 100lbs trying to wedge itself behind furniture and knocking things over during a thunderstorm or fireworks.

The only problem is that he's had a lot of health issues. Fortunately nothing serious- but he has hypo-thyroid (which he takes pills for everyday), when he was a couple of months old he had an abscess that had to be removed, he gets ear infections often, has bad allergies and gets plenty of hotspots. Sometimes he licks his whole stomach raw.

I'll take those health issues in trade for how he is, though. With his temperament you really feel like he is man's best friend and not just some animal living in your house.

That's cheap. A couple of places had them as much as $1200-$1500.

That's great to hear, well.. besides the health issues. Just seeing how he is makes me feel like I made the right choice. He's a puppy, but he's so mild mannered.

"Benny"

Do you sedate him or something? :)

lol... no, he's just so laid back.. I hope he stays that way. :)

Some more Benny...

Keep'em coming Mizzourah!

I'm not much of a dog person, but that is one extremely cute puppy...

Okay, that's adorable.

You need to put his pic up on this site: puppywar.com

My dog head buts me and barks. Then drops his mini football in my lap. Damn mini-shnauzer

Thanks guys!!

I'll get my neighbors camera again and get some more shots.

We'll see if they post it. Link will not work until it's been posted.


New link: http://puppywar.com/stats.php?id=51148 (I hope it works this time)

Benny is a very cute puppy. Congrats on the addition to the family.

Thank you!

I can already tell it's going to be alot easier to house train him than it was our American Eskimo. (crosses fingers)

How's he interacting with the other dogs? My first thought was that American Eskimo aren't known for being particularly good with other dogs, but then I realized that they aren't actually husky derivatives. (At holidays at my house, I was in charge of keeping our Siberian Husky away from the other relative's dogs). She did not approve of their presence.

He's doing well. His playmate right now is our big outside cat who loves to play with about any animal that wants to play.

Our American Eskimo wasn't happy with him at first, but he's already coming around and is starting to tolerate interacting with him. The pomeranian could care less as she rarely leaves the friendly confines underneath our bed. :)

The puppy as most puppies do, has eaten some grass, dirt, old flowers, etc.. and every now and then acts like he's going to puke - so I've been keeping watch most of the day. I'm just glad we have a nice big fenced in yard for him to roam on days like today (70+ degrees).

Remember Benny?



4 Months later......

Good lord! That's a helluva difference! Is he still as laid back as he was when you got him?

sweet jesu...that boy done grown up!

I thought this thread was for dog/pumpy owners

Is he a golden?

Yes, he's still pretty laid back. He has a clothes basket full of chew stuff and he likes to chew on everything.. he still jumps up on occasion when company comes over, loves to aggrivate the other animals and can be a PITA at times.. but overall, a great dog so far.

I can't believe he's grown so fast though.. sweet jeebers!

Yes, he's a golden and loves to retrieve anything thrown away from him. :)

Uhhh... Where's the pic at?

Here's my beagle. :)



Here's my beagle on Halloween, dressed as a strawberry. :D

Your dog sounds like my dog's twin and apparently you live 5 minutes fro me. They should get together to play. :)

What doggie daycare do you use? We go to Bubble & Bark in Ferndale.

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Berniebugman is watching you

Stop looking at me while I sleep!

HAHAHA love all the pictures!!!

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Bernie playing in the snow

Those are great Lathum! Bernie should meet Benny. :)

so Nola, since yesterday, wont put any weight (which is a lot of weight) on her hind right leg. Im having to carry her outside to go to the bathroom. This is an ongoing issue that creeps up every now and then but this seems to be the worst Ive seen it. She's on her way to a knee surgery I think...which might be better than hip replacement I dunno. Regardless it's gonna cost me a pretty penny (so this could transition to the 2008 financials thread) and she thinks this about it:

Flasch, Bernie has arthritis and we give him cosequin and deramaxx and it makes a huge difference.

Not sure if that is the case but you may want to ask your vet about it

Here is Molly, our Old English Sheepdog that just turned 3 on the weekend, sleeping on my shoes.




Here is a picture from around Christmas when her hair was a little shorter and you could see more of her eyes.

this is comet....

six month old lab/husky....

Our new pup with her big 'sister'

Cuties!!!

Dogs are so awesome. One of these days I'll figure out how to post a picture of mine.

Bear says: "Come help me pee on all of these plants!"

Vet just called:

thinks it's a torn ACL and we'll need to do surgery. still a possibility that after they go in that it could turn out to be the hip but theyre fairly certain its the knee. Pow $1500 knee, $2500 antivenim vs. the Cottonmouth, food, meds, this sucks....

plus anytime they put her under she could....double sucks! damnit.

so one of the XCL's was torn and the other had taken the brunt of carrying the load and was showing signs of strain. Not anymore, I guess but now she's miserable and cant move. the slightest movement of it and she yelps:

Hope your dog heals quickly, Flasch.

So my girlfriend and I are probably going to adopt another dog before this summer. We don't really know what kind we want though. The beagle we have now was in a rescue that only had beagles...and our dog had a friend there and we may consider adopting him.

Doggie friends reunion!

Awww, hope she gets better very soon...looks like she needs lots of TLC and babying :(

Dola, here is a pic of our puppies, Weeble and Riley...Riley is the blonde/yellow one, he is Golden Retriever and Schnauzer. Weeble is Jack Russell Terrier and Beagle :)

Woohoo Beagles!

Ouch Flash!

cuto dogs olie.

best wishes for a speedy recovery Flasch

Hope your pup gets better Flasch. Dealing with pet injuries is SO hard. Sometimes you really want to be able to have them answer "where does it hurt?".

I think this was posted in the YouTube thread but some of you folks here might have missed it.

"Jerry needs no help playing with his ball"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk

thx Wade.

Yeah last night was rough. In an out of bed, she was whining so much but she wouldnt let me pick her up to help her. Finally I just ignored the whining and took her outside and she immediately went to the bathroom.....that helped :)

My girl dog has had rib injuries on at least two occasions (maybe more). There were a couple of times when she would go a week or so where we'd pick her up and she'd scream in agony - we had no clue why. The only way we finally knew is one of the times they were injured enough that they healed awkwardly and created a lump at the end of a couple of the ribs.

Anyway. Point being, wish she could have said "ow, ow! my ribs, my ribs!" the first time. Hearing that whining and not knowing what to do about it is one of the worst feelings.

That's great!

Bernie at water aerobics


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doggy swimming class? That's awesome!

How do they deal with dogs that don't want to go in at first? Do they have methods of training them to enjoy the water?

Here are a few of our dog....Sammy. He's a 10 year old miniature weiner dog. We've had him longer than our kids and are pretty damn attached to him. He's awesome.







Cheers!

Yay! Dachshunds rock!

they have doggy life jackets.

Lucky for us our dog loves it. He is 10 and has bad hips and joints so long walks are out. The vet told us he needs to lose 15 pounds so we take him here 3 times a week.

We'll be picking up one of these 3 puppies in 2 weeks for my parents.

Wow.

I hope the other 2 are staying in the family.

They are perfect!

Hmm, maybe not what I was hoping for. My dog seems afraid to actually swim. She'll walk until her front paws start to kind of float, and then she won't go any further and sort of just paws at the water in frustration (along with some barking for good measure). Also, if we go swimming she clearly wants to come with us, but can't get the nerve, so she stands and barks at us incessantly until we come out. Quite vexxing.

So my hope was that your class might have had some kind of section on adjusting dogs to swimming, etc, and that you could maybe impart some of that wisdom my way. I guess I could try strapping a life jacket on her and seeing if she is more comfortable that way, but I'm skeptical.

Pretty cool to see those pics of your dog swimming though, that looks like it would be fun to spend time with your dog that way!

Puppies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My new Shiba Inu "Foxy"

Dude there's a fox on your couch!

That is a stunningly beautiful puppy...very striking! Most puppies are "cute" and "adorable" and all that, but she is just gorgeous...give her lots and lots of love!

Our babies have been at the boarders since Tuesday afternoon, we had to go out of town for a family emergency and didn't get back in time to pick them up tonight :( The house is SO quiet without them and I miss them so much...can't wait to see them tomorrow!!!!

Thanks, shes quite a handful though but I guess thats to be expected during the puppy period

this from the other thread:

This is what she looked like after the swelling went down by about 40%. She was truly messed up by the snake and the pain killers.

Our little soft coated wheaten terrier. We've had her for three days now but she's already 11-12 weeks old. We went on so many vacations so we decided to hold off a little longer before picking her up. So far so good as she's got the crate training down pretty well. No crying at night yet....

This should be a good thread to post in......

Just got back from the vet a bit ago. Last night I was doing yard work when I made my way to the back yard. My oldest great dane (10) had found a nice little dirt hole (probably dug by my other dane) to crawl in. She has arthritis, and looked like she wanted up but was having trouble. So I went to help her and found she could barely stand on her own, and didn't really want to walk of course. I got her moved a little way and when I put her down and looked at her she had massive swelling (that was rock hard) under the neck, on the chest, on her left shoulder down her left front leg, a little on her left ear, and she wasn't really opening her left eye much. I laid her down on the unswollenside of her. Being late in the day and not knowing what was going on exactly I let her rest, brought her some food and water which she ate/drank thankfully.

This morning I HAD to leave early in the morning to do some work stuff (of course this happens during a horrible 3 day busy stretch) and when I get back at about 10 AM I went out to check on her. Went to help her up as she had decided to lay down on her swollen side again. Right away I feel wetness. Her skin opened up on her shoulder and a blood/puss mixture was leaking out in heavy amounts. Spent a crazy time of trying to take her to one vet who was close, getting warned off by his assistant that not much would be done (it was really odd), so we said screw this and took the longer trip to our normal vet.

Cutting this short. We are back home with her. They agree with my worry (which came from flasch's ordeal) that she may have been bitten by something, snake or spider maybe. Though no vets down here do any kind of testing for it I guess. They cleaned out the open abscess and gave us antibiotics. They also confirmed the poor girl is partially blind, which wasn't a horrible surprise. She is now resting in her one room doggy suite with her own a/c. She is drinking water and just ate some food, in fact got excited about the food which was nice to see. Hopefully she will be able to walk in a few days though, not sure I can spend more then that carrying her in and out to go to the bathroom.:)

Keep us posted Cringer, hopefully the antibotics do their thing and get her back to walking.

Well, she got up to walk a bit ago. Forced her way onto her feet to eat and drink (she was doing it laying down before). After eating she walked out to piss, came back in to look for more food I guess, then made it out onto the patio before the urge to crap over took her. Overall, her spirits seemed better too, as did her left eye....

I think some time alone, away from the other two dogs has helped and some good old fashion rest. I know the antibiotics haven't kicked in that fast. Hopefully she is still improving come morning. I think the fluid coming out of her from her shoulder and leg is the key. It must have been causing a lot of pain at the peak and she didn't want to put too much pressure on her front legs. COmbine that with weak back legs from her arthritis and that was a bad situation for her.

10 year old great dane? That's impressive.

Great Danes are just awesome dogs.

When I was growing up we had one that romed our neighborhood, that was before leash laws.

He was just massive yet so damn friendly and his name was THOR. I never really knew who the owner was but he loved to follows us kids around.

Cringer keep us posted.

woah Cringe. Im so sorry and i definitely know what youre going through although you should know a vet that can handle snakes or spider bites...I know I needed it. Anyways Im rooting for ya.

My little girl, she'll be 8 years old this fall.

Yes it is, although we had a great dane for several years whom lived to 13. We got her when she was 10 as her owners were moving north and didn't want to expose her to a real winter. She had bad arthritis in her rear hips and legs but had adapted to it so that she had this massive chest that she put all her weight on. although you still had to help her sometimes like on stairs or into the car. Crazy old lady is what she was, and I still am amazed by her living that long.


We called around, it just seems no one down here does anything too different even if they know for sure it's a snake/spider bite. My wife asked some straight out like we knew that was the problem. There might be, I would think there would be, but we didn't have the time yesterday and I have never had a problem like this in my 11 years down here.

Update: Hopefully just stiff this morning. She couldn't get up because she was not putting any pressure on her front feet. After carrying her out she was able to get better footing in the yard and walked some to piss. Didn't want to move after that though so I carried her back in. Baby steps.....

Hope for a speedy recovery Cringer. We just went thorough a tough one with Bernie, so I know how stressfull it can be.

I have two wheatens.. They are really cool dogs. I'm sure yours has lost that brown and black color and is fairly white now. I will post a picture of our newest puppy, Annabelle.