Gus is gone - [update] but now there's Badger!

[Pinky]

Sorry for your loss

 

[dirtsaver]

You have my heartfelt sympathy. Our dogs are our kids and everytime we loose one it hurts more than we think we can bear. Loosing a dog is a surefire way to get this crusty old geezer to break out in tears.

God bless Gus
Larry

 

[magoochie]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I'm so sorry, It's terrible to lose your dog.

 

[Luvroos]

Sorry for your loss, it's tough losing a family member!!

 

[chkn]

Aw, poor guy, what do you think happened?

 

[WingingIt]

Oh, I'm sorry.

 

[zazouse]

I am soo sorry to hear this,

i understand how heart breaking it can be i have lost 3 to old age in the last year,i knew it was comming so over the last couple years i purchaced a few pups to take their place and am glad i did because i could not have any animals running loose if i did not have a pack here, i got alot of wildlife around and love it.

I hope you get a new friend soon, it will make you feel better believe me.
I had to put down my little Pom "pookie" 3 weeks ago, she was 12 years old and the only little dog i have ever owned and the love of my life.

I told myself i would never get another little dog and well i didn't , but my daughter brought me a little weiner dog a couple weeks ago and after a couple days i am back in love but i still cry over my baby girl just not as often.

 

[mulewagon]

Thank you, everyone! Here's the new baby, that we got today:

Badger is a Great Pyrenees/Catahoula Leopard Dog mix, seven weeks old. You can bet we tore down the road when we saw that ad! He's gonna be a super livestock guardian!

He has a short coat, but is built like a Pyrenees and has their monumental calm. We brought him down to the chicken pen - they all ran up to the wire and stared at him, going "BWAKKK-bwak-bwak". He turned tail and ran! But we brought him back with his food, and he ate under the beady eyes of the chickens and then lay down and watched them.

He has a completely different personality from Gus, who was a Rottweiler/Pit Bull, and was leaping five feet in the air until the week he died. Badger was raised in a goat barn, and his mother guards the goats in the field. Her owner says she chases everything away, even geese off the pond!

So our chickens should be able to free-range again in a few months, as soon as Badger is big enough to be a credible threat to coyotes. We'll be doing his obedience training in the chicken pen, to get them used to each other.

Here's another pic of Gus the Wonder Dog. He had the soul of a Pit Bull with the size of a Rottweiler - sweetest dog in the world. And mighty destroyer of possums and raccoons!

 

[redhen]

I'm so sorry.. he was beautiful.