What breed was your first dog?
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Buster is technically my first dog, but I was born into a home where we already had a stumpy tailed cattle dog/border collie and a bull terrier/ACD mix, both very old.
The we had Martha the bull terrier/boxer, then Martha passed at 4 yrs old, followed shortly after by Jack then Tussy. a couple of months after we lost Tussy we bought Sophie, then Daisy then years later we found Buster. Daisy died when Buster was 3 and then we got mac, Harry fell into our lives a few months after that.
Always had dogs around, Buster is the dog that is my real first dog.
The we had Martha the bull terrier/boxer, then Martha passed at 4 yrs old, followed shortly after by Jack then Tussy. a couple of months after we lost Tussy we bought Sophie, then Daisy then years later we found Buster. Daisy died when Buster was 3 and then we got mac, Harry fell into our lives a few months after that.
Always had dogs around, Buster is the dog that is my real first dog.
A MUTT of total undetermined heritage.... I was 9 years old and BEGGED my parents to let me have him!! He was black with a white blaze (Hmmm maybe some BC looking back?) His name was Mugsy and I trained him to jump lengths of wood across stacked up milk crates and jump through tires, and crawl through culverts, we'd dress him up and call him our "Circus" dog... turns out what we were doing was alot like crude agility:rofl1:
My first dog was a dog named Missy, who was a give by my sister. My sister got her at the Omaha NE shelter. The shelter said she was a Lab, Border Collie, Poodle mix :yikes:
She looked like a black and white Portuguese Water dog
This link is the closest I could find to a picture of her.
http://www.sidyboysfoolin.com/999PortWaterDog999.jpg
of course it is a picture of a male Portuguese Water Dog but that is what she looked like.
Great dog, super smart and she even taught herself tricks. She was my best friend. I always regret not spending more time with her when I went to high school, but she just became my moms dog.
Her picture still hangs on the wall at my moms house. She lived to be 17.
She looked like a black and white Portuguese Water dog
This link is the closest I could find to a picture of her.
http://www.sidyboysfoolin.com/999PortWaterDog999.jpg
of course it is a picture of a male Portuguese Water Dog but that is what she looked like.
Great dog, super smart and she even taught herself tricks. She was my best friend. I always regret not spending more time with her when I went to high school, but she just became my moms dog.
Her picture still hangs on the wall at my moms house. She lived to be 17.
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When I was like 4(?) my parents bought a pet-store Beagle.. However we had to take it back because it attacked my brother and I all the time..
Our first family dog besides that one was(is) Snickers. She is a terri-poo mix. She was a saved death row dog and lived in a tiny kennel. She was only 5 months old, so badly beaten by her previous family that she has had back problems ever since.. She also came to us with hip displasia of both hips. We were told she would only live 4 years.. She's 11 now
My first dog that was "mine" was a Smooth Collie, Riley. He was my love. But since he wasn't in my name because I was only 12 or so when I got him, my parents had full rights of him and gave him away and there wasn't anything I could do about it. It was very heart breaking. My Dad gave him away when I wasn't home, so I never got to say goodbye.
My next dog was/is Regis... <3
Our first family dog besides that one was(is) Snickers. She is a terri-poo mix. She was a saved death row dog and lived in a tiny kennel. She was only 5 months old, so badly beaten by her previous family that she has had back problems ever since.. She also came to us with hip displasia of both hips. We were told she would only live 4 years.. She's 11 now
My first dog that was "mine" was a Smooth Collie, Riley. He was my love. But since he wasn't in my name because I was only 12 or so when I got him, my parents had full rights of him and gave him away and there wasn't anything I could do about it. It was very heart breaking. My Dad gave him away when I wasn't home, so I never got to say goodbye.
My next dog was/is Regis... <3
My first dog was when I was 19 (my parents never let me have a dog growing up). He was / is (he's still alive but my *insert expletive here* ex stole him from me) a gorgeous brindle AmStaff named Trent. I know that even if he wasn't my first dog, he would still be my love. I miss him every day.
As some of you may know, I am currently 2 weeks away from bringing home my second dog - my perfect little Weimaraner puppy named Slade. He looks like this at the moment:
As some of you may know, I am currently 2 weeks away from bringing home my second dog - my perfect little Weimaraner puppy named Slade. He looks like this at the moment:
The first dog, that I remember, was a German Shepherd named Juice. I was 4 years old. He was "mine" as far as I was concerned... but we didn't own him. Neighbors a few blocks away were gone all day, and most of the night, and Juice had free roam of the neighborhood. He would come over every day to see me. I would bring him inside to keep him safe, and we would play hide and seek and I'd share my PB&J with him.
My parents tried to convince his owners to sell him to us, more than once, but they refused. We moved from the neighborhood when I was 5, and I remember crying over leaving Juice.
My parents tried to convince his owners to sell him to us, more than once, but they refused. We moved from the neighborhood when I was 5, and I remember crying over leaving Juice.
I know, it was horrible... but this was 15 years ago... and unfortunately a LOT of our neighbors did the same. It was a pretty wealthy neighborhood, with huge lots. I used to always be bringing in "lost" dogs as a little kid, and my Mom would bring them to their owners, and they would just look at us like we were weirdos for being concerned. There was a few regular dogs that would be semi-constantly running around.
There was this one nasty yellow Lab, who used to charge me when I was drawing with chalk on our driveway. On one of those occasions, he was running up the driveway towards me, and Juice came running down the street and scared him away. I felt like he saved my life. It's bizarre that I remember him so well, and I barely remember ANYTHING else from that period; not even our actual dog, Pebbles. C: Juice was just special.
My Dad moved back into that neighborhood about 10 years later, oddly enough... and when we were moving in, me and my sister went for a walk. There was an old German Shepherd laying in the front yard of where Juice used to live, so I'm pretty sure it was him. It seriously choked me up.
There was this one nasty yellow Lab, who used to charge me when I was drawing with chalk on our driveway. On one of those occasions, he was running up the driveway towards me, and Juice came running down the street and scared him away. I felt like he saved my life. It's bizarre that I remember him so well, and I barely remember ANYTHING else from that period; not even our actual dog, Pebbles. C: Juice was just special.
My Dad moved back into that neighborhood about 10 years later, oddly enough... and when we were moving in, me and my sister went for a walk. There was an old German Shepherd laying in the front yard of where Juice used to live, so I'm pretty sure it was him. It seriously choked me up.
Morgan is my first dog. Well, the first that I can actually call "mine". He is a lab mixed with who-knows-what... though we have suspicions of GSD, Pittie, or maybe even Rhodesian Ridgeback.
As for family dogs... I was born into a family with three dogs: a lab/GSD named Bear, a BC/Spaniel named Shaunna, and a husky/collie/lab/??? named Alpha. They were already older dogs by the time I was born, though. I don't have any pictures of them anywhere. I don't really consider them "my" dogs (they very clearly belonged to my mom), but they are the first dogs I ever knew.
First family dog that we got after that group was Kit, who is a lab/whippet/???... we don't really know. Closely after we that my family also adopted Cody, a lab/collie mix (maybe with some borzoi ).
Kit @ age 14
Cody @ age 13
Sorry... I didn't mean to go through the whole history. It's just it's hard to say which is technically the "first dog"!
As for family dogs... I was born into a family with three dogs: a lab/GSD named Bear, a BC/Spaniel named Shaunna, and a husky/collie/lab/??? named Alpha. They were already older dogs by the time I was born, though. I don't have any pictures of them anywhere. I don't really consider them "my" dogs (they very clearly belonged to my mom), but they are the first dogs I ever knew.
First family dog that we got after that group was Kit, who is a lab/whippet/???... we don't really know. Closely after we that my family also adopted Cody, a lab/collie mix (maybe with some borzoi
).Kit @ age 14
Cody @ age 13
Sorry... I didn't mean to go through the whole history. It's just it's hard to say which is technically the "first dog"!
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