The dog musing/vent thread

I'm seriously considering taking one of the Cocker/Basset pups, instead of meeting with the Houla. I wanted a young adult, not a puppy, but there is one pup with just lovely temperament - tolerant, outgoing, merry, exactly the best traits of a houndXspaniel - and I'm trying to consider whether I really want another fiercely energetic, protective dog when Astro already is a complicated fellow.

But then I think, these pups could have issues too...no dog is perfect. I don't know either of the parents so who knows what the adult temperament would be like?

That is kind of the situation I am in now, I was supposed to take one of the free puppies from thst GSD/ACD oops litter but it doesn't look like that's going to work out so it looks like I am back to square one again.

Doesn't sound terrible to me.

With the strain Middie has caused on my relationship and how hard it can be to find a place to live with a dog (one NOT in the mother****ing ghetto but also in my price range), I've actually thought of giving him to my parents. They keep asking for him. He'd be fat and reactive and happy.

I think you need to talk to your parents about it before making any decisions, maybe in a few weeks when things with your sis have calmed down. Ask them if they like her and they want to keep her, or if they really don't enjoy her presence. You might be surprised. My parents begged me to leave Middie when I moved. My mom talked about another dog for 6 months after I moved to CO. It took her six months to touch him without prompting. People can change.

It's really sad that I resent everyone on here with dogs like that. :rofl1:

It takes SO. MUCH. EFFORT. to teach Middie a simple thing. Many, many repetitions.

I like pit bulls. I really don't like pit bull people. Doesn't matter which "branch" of pit bull people ... they all drive me crazy.

Don't call them Pit Bull people unless you have their papers!!!

Ugh... my landlord's dog drives me nuts. I'm so glad we are moving in a few days and wont have to deal with this anymore. I was outside in the dark with Itztli trying to get him to go potty and the next thing I know something HUGE that I could barely make out ran right into him and sent him flying and freaked him out. I thought it was some wild animal trying to kill him at first. It ended up being my landlord's black lab though you can barely see him in the dark. WTF???? He is just trying to play, but he does this crap all the time with my bigger dogs and it bugs me then, but to send my tiny puppy flying???? especially since my pup is in that critical sponge age (11 weeks old). This puppy is going to be training for SD work and I'm being extremely picky about all of his dog-dog and dog-people interactions right now. That incident was NOT ok. I'm literally fuming. There's no point in my complaining about it to my landlord because they wont do anything about it and they think I over react because their loving lab just wants to say hello. UGH!

LOL. Unless you've seen their parents, they're just people mutts!

You should join a Pit Bull Forum

Can you post the ped?

The routinely ask me, in a joking but yet serious way, when I'm going to come get her. And that they still, "Have my dog for me and will send her my way." They've never said they actually want to keep her, or asked me if they could keep her.

But then when she bit my brother "unprovoked" (I'm sure there was a reason, but either way she had an extreme overreaction) and drew blood, I told my mom that I always said her breaking skin would be where I drew the line and if they wanted to euthanize her I would be okay with it, even if it would be difficult. And my dad said, "No, the dog's just fine, I like the dog, we'll keep her and just have her as a 'hands off' kind of dog." And they've never actually asked me to take her back, either.

I talked with my mom last night and she doesn't know what she wants to do. When I told her Chloe was 7.5 going on 8 and they've had her for almost as long as "I" did, she was surprised and didn't know that she was approaching senior territory. I told her I could orchestrate getting her groomed, and whatever medication she needed/etc., as from what she was telling me it sounded like just the hassle of having to worry about one more thing was what was bothering her. So...we shall see what happens. I fly home in October and we'll probably discuss it more then. We're driving up in December with the dogs and that would be when we'd bring her back with us if they want us to. We shall see.

Baby P was out of whack after his agility accident this weekend. His shoulders and vertebrae between his shoulders were jammed really severely. Chiropractor has put him right, and thankfully it took a lot less adjusting than after his last agility accident.
She asked me if I did any practice with him since it happened this weekend. I strongly believe in rest periods, so we haven't done anything yet this week. She said that was a good thing because he had to have been in a lot of pain, so it probably wouldn't have been very productive for anyone.

"It's a good thing you brought him in instead of waiting to see if he showed you any symptoms later," she says.
"Yeah, well, he would probably never show me any symptoms..."

Sometimes it's kind of a pain to have stoic working dogs, but at least I know to just react based on what I think is going on ("that looks like it might have caused an injury. Let's assume you have an injury.") rather than how the dog is actually acting. Because he definitely was not acting like he was in any discomfort from his shoulders.


And Georgie is definitely going into season now, so I've e-mailed about pulling her from our next show. Sigh. Sucks because it's our local trial. It's RIGHT THERE. ARGH.
Thankfully this will be her last season ever. As soon as we are done with the trial season in November we will get to make her an appointment to be spayed and DONE DONE DONE NEVER AGAIN YAAAAY.

Now if only I could convince her co-owner to get Pepper spayed too...

I hear you on stoic dogs and injuries.

I was hesitant to post this, but whatever. Our agility trial last weekend was a mess. The grass was wet to start and dogs were sliding all over the place. It doesn't help that Cohen is a wrecking ball and will power through an obstacle if she can't quite get around it. On our first run she apparently slipped while getting off the table and hit her leg, then she knocked a bar by grazing the standard. I didn't see the table mishap, but my friends approached me about it after the run to suggest I look her over. She was none the worse for wear. Then, on our second run (gamblers) she bailed on the A-frame. She NEVER bails on the A-frame, so I knew something was amiss, but we completed the run, she got a tricky gamble at the end and got a Q. I walked her around after the run to cool down and check her gait and everything seemed okay. My friend said she seemed to favour her leg for one step after bailing on the frame and sure enough, she'd split one of her nails a bit and was bleeding.

I love my little wrecking ball of a dog and how she'll do anything I ask of her. I love my doglady friends whose sharp eyes are catching stuff I'm missing as we run.

Cohen has been rested and given the all-clear by a vet and she'll get back to running shortly.

Poor Cohen.

Kaiden once stepped on the lure string and cut his pad quite badly. Still wanted to keep playing and didn't want all the fuss over his foot. It sucks when something small keeps them from playing.

I had cockers for over 20 years both English and American Cockers. I loved both breeds and maybe someday I will have another. They are fun, quirky little dogs if well bred. However, there are many, many poorly breed cockers out there and a lot of bad temperaments. They were immensely popular for a very long time and that as well all know can have sad results for a breed. That being said in my eyes a good cocker is hard to beat

My mother had a byb basset. Talk about the hound mentality to it's fullest. I have never met a more hardheaded creature. On the other hand she was extremely endearing and hilarious.

As for health...you are looking at potential ear issues and skin issues. Depending on how much the pup takes after the basset look out for back, elbows, and hips.

blonde moment

This dog.

https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/30018523

I swear they dyed Traveler black and cut his tail off. lol

I love my stoic dramadog. Brisbane is 0-60 in no seconds flat, but also the world's biggest drama queen when he isn't in drive. This can make it tough to tell when I need to stop running him at lure coursing, but very easy to tell when he is injured afterward.

It also makes him a pain in the butt sometimes, like when we're hiking and he's not in GO! mode and gets a tiny pebble stuck to his pad and then hops on three legs until I brush or blow it off. Normal dogs might try to lick or scratch it off, but not my special snowflake. He's absolutely certain I exist to solve all of his problems.

Cajun is being such a trooper about wearing her diaper lol poor girl. I guess this means she did NOT have a silent heat a couple months ago, which I was kind of suspicious about. But this is good timing - my vet likes to wait until 3 months after their heat to spay them, and I was planning on waiting until winter to have her spayed anyway, so this works and doesn't throw a wrench in that plan at all
This whole heat cycle thing is totally new territory for me though. I'm afraid to leave the house with her. The weather is so nice! We want to go out and about!

I'm fairly certain this is what Rigby looked like at 4 months old, and found as a stray just like Rigby....I do not need 2 of them, I do NOT need 2 of them

http://www.helpinglostpets.com/petdetail/?id=229933

But, wait... You do.