Everyone ready for some puppy love? Sydney has already got us all wrapped around his little paw.
Sydney with our two shelties. Skip is on the right and Laddie is on the left
Sydney with Blondie, our rescue dog. She is not quite sure what to make of him.
He really does have nice markings (not that I am biased or anything
I have been helping out over on the NYD Hatch-a-long and everytime a nice picture is posted, many of us want them. Sorry, I could not get into the Horses, but Ducks, Geese, Dogs, cats and even an Emu were tempting.
Everyone ready for some puppy love? Sydney has already got us all wrapped around his little paw.
Sydney with our two shelties. Skip is on the right and Laddie is on the left
Sydney with Blondie, our rescue dog. She is not quite sure what to make of him.
He really does have nice markings (not that I am biased or anything
You guys are cracking me up..I would love to actually hear these words..I also have one, I'll do my best to type it out...aahh, aahh! To the dogs.
Jack Russels! My very first foster! Oh my goodness. I worked hard on that dog. He really wanted to run. The neighbors had rabbits. One day he got out, and of course the neighbors rabbits were loose, and off he went. I was yelling at that dog to come here..no aahh aahhs.....just NO...and COME..and, GET OVER HERE. He kept chasing, until I fell on my butt from trying to get him, then he came to me.
When it came time to place him, I had to let everyone know what a Jack Russell was. I asked if they had a fence. I asked all the questions I could think of, until finally, a lady wanted a jogging companion, and she had already been studying up on them, and knew them. Ok, off he went..I told her to keep his tags on for a while with my address on them. She lived four towns over.
One day I get a frantic phone call. It was her. Her Jack had dug a hole under the fence. They had just put up a chain link, so..that had to pretty easy for him without any cement around the bottom.
She had made sure she said, not to have anything he could jump up on and get "over" the fence.. I asked her if there was a school nearby. As a matter of fact there was. I said, look there, bet you anything he is there. I used to take him with me all the time to pick up my son, and all of the kids loved him, and he loved the attention.
Later, I get a phone call from the Police Dept. in that town. He says who he is, and I quickly ask, you have a dog don't you? He laughs, yes..where do you live? I told him the story. I ask, where did you find him? He says that he was at an elementary school, and one of the teachers held onto him and called because she knew someone would be missing this guy.
Well, the owner got him back. I called a while later. They had put cement around the bottom of the fence. I called a year later. She was enjoying their runs. She did a hand signal to show he knew how to speak, and I could hear him over the phone. I called two years later..still happy with her jogging companion and said how much they love him and that he was a big part of the family. That was the last I called. I knew he had found his forever home. I lucked out most of the time with who I placed the pups/dogs with. People find out, that like Arielle said, they are each born and bred to do something in particular. I have a little Doxie..he likes to dig..he is a Badger hunter. He will get into a crack of the couch, or chair, and want to dig. We pretty much have that under control, but sometimes he still can't help himself.
My Golden, I am thinking she will have to be kept away from chickens! Bird Dog! Flusher, not a pointer. So the chase is one if they are out. I have to put her into another fenced in area if they are out. Just like I did Toby.
Oh wow, I took up the whole page..I think. I love dogs!!
DiDi, what a handsome pup! Yes, those markings are beautiful. And, you other dogs are just as beautiful. I really like the Shelties too. What is that big one...looks like it could have some Golden in it? I love hearing that someone rescued!! Especially when I know they are getting the right kind of care from folks like you!
Cynthia, the yellow dog is Blondie. We think she is a cocker lab cross but not really sure. She could have golden instead since she has the feathering on her tail like a golden. I got her when we went to the feed store one day so my friend could get pictures of her with her dogs with Santa. The rescue league was there with kittens and dogs. They had found her wandering on a road half starved. She was about ten months old and you could tell she had been abused because when you went to pet her she would duck her head. She has those soulful eyes of the cocker and loves to be scratched under the chin. She had me at those soulful eyes. Even though she was the youngest dog there, many people were passing her up because she would growl every now and again. She never snapped at anyone. I think she was just scared and overwhelmed with so many people there. I petted her and knew I had to take her home. She has been with us ever since and that was eight years ago. She still kind of cowers a bit when you go to pet her but she knows she is loved. I was so glad we took her home. She is a sweetheart.
ronott, I know exactly how you feel! When I stumbled across his picture on the internet and found out the breeder only lived about an hour away, I knew I had to have him. I cleared it with DH first before I committed but I pretty much knew he would say it's OK. So far DH and the puppy have taken naps together on the couch. Too funny to see such a little puppy and my big husband snoozing with each other. Sydney is just a total little lover.
@Cynthia-- what a great story!! DO you foster a lot of dogs?
A few winters ago now after driving my kids to school, I saw a Jack Russell trotting along the road. I drove by it , and realized none of the new houses were occupied yet so where did this dog come from? It was 10 degrees out, and I just couldn't leave this little dog out in the cold. I put up signs, got lots of phone calls from people with lost dogs . . . . Months went by and thru a friend I found a forever home She had puppies 4 days after going to her new home. ( I was trying to get her placed BEFORE those puppies arrived!!! )
New owners sold the pups, one of those new crosses, pups looked like pugs for $400 each. I was releived to have that dog GONE and NOT have to care for puppies ( been there, done that, never again, LOL) My dogs never accepted her and she was a biter . . . I couldn't figure her out.
THe dogs that work for me are working dogs with low energy levels. My black lab was a slug. Rotties not as much. Though I think the lab figured why spend the energy if the rotties are up and moving first. My rotties are very obedient but territorial. If a chicken or turkey gets into their fenced yard, it is fair game. I thought it was Barron killing the trespassers until I saw feathers spat out of his brother's mouth with an innocent face. It is in the genes. Now if these dogs are in the house, they walk up to a chicken or cat, sniff and walk on. All animals are safe inside my house, even the mice; no cat will kill a mouse in the house!
I called a year later. She was enjoying their runs. She did a hand signal to show he knew how to speak, and I could hear him over the phone. 
