I don't want my dog anymore . . .

[melodie_a]

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The cute is a lie. Sometimes his true nature would show through when he was a baby (before he got his "poker face" down). See?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/TrulyCapricious/Critters054.jpg

oooh.. well ok, yeah that is a little scary. But those ears would still make me laugh, actually they look a little like my white shepherds ears before his head grew into them.

 

[ranchhand]

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The cute is a lie. Sometimes his true nature would show through when he was a baby (before he got his "poker face" down). See?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/TrulyCapricious/Critters054.jpg

That's not a poker face, that's classic "stink eye"!

 

[Just_Ducky]

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I seriously need to try that. My vet and I were joking that if it weren't for his tail I could pass him off as a chihuahua-papillon cross. This'll give you a better idea of what he actually looks like:

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lol Aww! That sounds cute. Have any pictures? <3

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lol That was a baby picture. He didn't have his poker face down yet when I took it.

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

This is the daughter: I'll trade my poodle and raise you one pretty kitty, for your Bat-poodle hybrid, aka "Bat Dog". The leather wings are a must.

Seriously, how did you come to own a Fennec Fox?

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

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Sounds like another poodle in disguise.

I love Weimeraners. We had one. Duchess. A true beauty.

 

[MeowCluckBark]

I was mad at our dog. So she went to another home. I realized that after the last time she chased my chickens, to eat them, I wanted to throw the shovel at her to get her to stop. I knew then we'd have a future problem. She got to go live without chickens. I got to have my sanity, my bed, and less animal hair in the house.

 

[Mattemma]

I think it might help if you limit the inside areas the dog can get into via baby gates. I only let my dogs in the living room right after a bath,and forget it if they have been outside rolling in poo and getting ticks. I never let them in the bed. Did it a few times and hated it. I am suprised the dog doesn't die from the chocolate. Always heard they do.

DD should train the dog,or you should if you allow it to stay. I don't think it is horrible if you don't click with a pet.Sometimes that happens and you just do your best to find them a new home.

My kids would take Pixel in a nano second.

 

[Just_Ducky]

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lol The short version is that I bought him.

The long version is that I did large reptile rescue and had recently gotten out of it when I met a lady who breeds Geoffroy's Cats. There are only about four private individuals and a handful of zoos breeding the little guys in the United States right now and she wanted me to pick up a trio and breed them as well. They aren't endangered yet but they will be in the next decade or two (and they have a naturally low population count anyway so "endangered" for them is kinda extra scary) and a lot of the people who are trying to get their hands on them don't want to produce more Geoffroy's Cat but instead want to hybridize them with domestic cats (a process which ends very poorly for the domestic cat - Geoffroy's Cats are small but they are exceedingly effective at killing things). I declined because I had zero experience with exotic mammals (outside of the usual: ferrets and rabbits and whatnot) but told her that I would get a more common exotic mammal to see if it was something I was interested in. My husband had wanted a fox when he was a kid so I looked into those and decided on a Fennec because of their small size and their (relative) lack of odor. I got in touch with a breeder through the woman who breeds Geoffroy's Cat and she put me in touch with someone local who had just had an unexpected litter - all males. The local breeder talked to me at length and eventually decided she would be willing to sell me a kit. We've had him for three years now and expect to have him for another decade and change. In all seriousness, even though he's a ton of work and destructive as all get-out I can't imagine not having him around. He wags his tail and rolls over to demand belly scratchin's! Who would have thought that a fox would like to have his tummy rubbed?

Edit: I should probably note that as a general rule, exotic mammals make terrible pets. They are, like I said, very destructive. They also have much more complicated dietary and veterinary needs (for example, dog vaccines will kill a fox) and it is not easy to find a vet who is knowledgeable enough to be trustworthy. Additionally, they will never act like a domestic pet. Even individuals that are the product of several generations of captive breeding are still wild animals at their core so they are much more likely to bite, scratch, etc. with much less notice. And, of course, good luck housebreaking an exotic. The cats, from what I have heard, will use a litter box. But foxes? If anyone tells you they have a litter trained fox they have a very lose definition of the term.

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

We looked up Fennec Foxes last yesterday. Sounds like they could be difficult to manage. And now my daughter really wants one. She wants to be a professional dog trainer -- or she did, now she wants to work with lions. I've asked a friend of mine to help me to help her get this out of her system -- maybe she can spend the summer volunteering at the zoo.

Meanwhile, she intends to move to Africa when she is done with school.

She doesn't yet know which country.

I had a friend who kept ocelots -- three of them. He had a deck (cage) built all the way around his house. They paced and paced. (Most of the deck was visible through sliding glass doors and floor to ceiling windows.) He would get drunk, "play with the cats" and wind up in the hospital. He never learned. He eventually died -- though it had nothing to do with the cats.

I like cats. I have one . . . now . . . but wish I didn't -- again, allergies. But, a friend moved, and the cat knew me and my family, so this was the kindest option for the cat. She is happy; I am not.




Now, back to poodle bashing . . .(or bashing poodles in disguise).

 

[Just_Ducky]

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Heh. Sorry about that.

As far as the lions go, though, you could always tell her what my husband told me when he wanted me to stop messing with large reptiles: when one is the size of a small deer it is best to avoid animals that eat small deer.

Stoopid poodles. "Wolf in sheep's clothing" is an ineffective idiom. Everyone knows it was really a poodle disguised as a wolf disguised as a sheep.