What kind of dog do you have?

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Originally posted by Dunder:
Recently acquired French Bulldog.

Tres Bien!

6 yr.-old American Bulldog. Her name is Josephine. She's sweet as pie, beautifully lazy, and very easy-going.

Last night Babka met Maggie, Miami Atty's 6 year old English Bulldog. While similar in height and length, Maggie outweighs the Bab by about 30 pounds. Funny stuff.

I figured it was time to revive this thread. We now have a 38 pound brown and white straight-haired shelter mutt named Chloe in our family. She was my mother in-law's dog until she passed away in August; we actually took her to the shelter to adopt the dog back in 2014. The plan was always for us to take Chloe if something happened to D's mom.

It's fun coming home to the furry, gentle goofball. Based on the estimates at adoption time, we are thinking she is 6-ish in age. While it makes some activities require a little more planning, we love having her in our home.

We currently have 2 Great Pyrenees. Both are rescues we fostered then adopted. It’s amazing how many truly wonderful dogs are available via great rescue organizations. I’ll be marching with these 2 and the local rescue group we volunteer with at the upcoming Children’s Holiday Parade in Atlanta to benefit Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Our goal is to have 100 dogs in the Parade.

We have a rescue who is crazy in love with my wife and still (after 3+ years) barks crazily any time I enter the room. Best of luck to anyone she doesn't know.

We have an 11 year old female English Bulldog. No health problems, but she can out-fart and snore the best of 'em. Nasty thing, but we love her.

I also have an overgrown hamster (Imperial Shitzu). Recently diagnosed with Leukemia, she's on her last days. She gets table food now. Chemo is out of the question.

We have a 14 year old golden retriever who is slowing down pretty fast but she still gets up to dance when our 5 year son puts on his "Dance Parties". Neuro problems and losing the feeling in her back legs.

We also have an 18 year old birman cat that has had two strokes, multiple seizures and can't see, sit or walk straight.

We now call them Twisty and Limpy.

Happily, we still have our rescue Cocker Spaniel, Rudy. He's around 10. Can't jump up on the bed anymore, but still chases the deer in the backyard. He's the best.

Still have Babka - the now almost 7 year old 30 pound mystery terrier mix mutt rescue (with some Parson Russell Terrier in there but who knows)-

3.5 years ago we added Latke now almost 4 year old - also a rescue mutt and at best guess the 12 pound Rat Terrier/Maltese mix

We have a 7 soon to be 8 year old Basenji.

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Originally posted by Bigfoot003:
We currently have 2 Great Pyrenees. Both are rescues we fostered then adopted. It’s amazing how many truly wonderful dogs are available via great rescue organizations. I’ll be marching with these 2 and the local rescue group we volunteer with at the upcoming Children’s Holiday Parade in Atlanta to benefit Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Our goal is to have 100 dogs in the Parade.

I think it is great to rescue a dog. All of ours have been rescues, the last one is a greyhound who doesn't act like a greyhound. Please adopt!

We have two dogs:

Josie is a mutt: some beagle in her, and Lord knows what else.

Rooney is also a mutt: we were told his mother was a long haired chihuahua, but he's bigger than a chihuahua.

Both dogs are rescue dogs. Josie was left in a box as a very young puppy at a fire station in Miami with several other members of the litter. Not all of them made it. Rooney was given to a foster when the family moved and couldn't take him to the new home.

Josie looks like a boy, and Rooney looks like a girl, so everyone always messes up who is who. And when people ask me what kinds of dogs are they, I respond: "They are brown dogs!"

Of course, they wheedle their way into your hearts so fast.

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Originally posted by Rothko:
We have two dogs:

Josie is a mutt: some beagle in her, and Lord knows what else.

Rooney is also a mutt: we were told his mother was a long haired chihuahua, but he's bigger than a chihuahua.

Both dogs are rescue dogs. Josie was left in a box as a very young puppy at a fire station in Miami with several other members of the litter. Not all of them made it. Rooney was given to a foster when the family moved and couldn't take him to the new home.

Josie looks like a boy, and Rooney looks like a girl, so everyone always messes up who is who. And when people ask me what kinds of dogs are they, I respond: "They are brown dogs!"

Of course, they wheedle their way into your hearts so fast.

Of our 2, Latke was thrown by her owner over a fence into a vacant foreclosure property when she was about 3 months old must have weight 5-6 pounds at the time - fortunately someone saw and she was rescued and is the sweetest in the world with no memory whatsoever of what happened to her.

Babka was beaten by her original owner, had a very rough first 6 months of life and remembers everything even after 6 years of spoiled cushy living with us. She is normally loving and wonderful but has her moments

We've got a boxer and some type of chihuaha/yorkie mix. I think she's an oversized rat. The little one is a rescue from Watts in South Central LA (i.e., she's gangsta). The two dogs are hilarious together. The canine version of Rob and Big.

We have two yellow Labs. Sonoma is turning 7 in November and Captain is 8 months old. We thought we were going to have three for a bit, but our oldest, Mr. Utley (also a yellow Lab) had to be put down the week before Captain came home. Sonoma was the alpha for many years, but I think Captain is trying to lay claim to the throne.

We have 3 pups. Penn is a 15 year old, fat, mostly blind, 24 pound male black poodle named after Penn fishing reels. Kyla is a 9 year old 18 pound black female poodle. Her name means "straight of beautiful water". Pavie is our newest addition, he is a 3 year old 10 pound white poodle who is very vocal and had his share of medical issues before we acquired him. Pavie is named after some fancy wine Chateau in France. Two rescues and one bought, we work with several poodle rescue groups, and yes I was a single straight male in Key West with two miniature poodles at one time.

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Originally posted by Kwbonez:
yes I was a single straight male in Key West with two miniature poodles at one time.

Good one!

I've never been able to come up with a satisfactory answer as to why dogs don't live longer lives. They grow old so quickly; it can be heartbreaking.

When my prior dog, a Finnish Spitz, had to be put down about 5 years ago, it absolutely broke my heart. He was a true pain in the a$$, but he was our dog, and we loved him and he loved us, unconditionally. Even as I type this I'm getting misty-eyed. I didn't want to get another dog, because I didn't want to go through that pain again.

Of course, I got overruled by the rest of the family, so now we have two dogs. And while they are a joy, there is a shadow of bitter-sweetness, knowing that one day I am going to have to go through that pain again.

We rescued a Jack Russell/Beagle mix about a month ago. He is 2. He is a lot of fun. We had to put our 16 year Jack Russell to sleep in May so the new guy is a real joy to the wife and me.

Two Golden Retrievers- one blonde female age 3 years (Keeley) and a dark cinnamon 22 month old intact male (Zeke).

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Originally posted by DoktaP:

intact male (Zeke).

May we both always be referred to as such!

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Originally posted by VinT:

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Originally posted by Kwbonez:
yes I was a single straight male in Key West with two miniature poodles at one time.

Good one!

Meaning he was kidding himself?

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Originally posted by Rothko:
I've never been able to come up with a satisfactory answer as to why dogs don't live longer lives. They grow old so quickly; it can be heartbreaking.

When my prior dog, a Finnish Spitz, had to be put down about 5 years ago, it absolutely broke my heart. He was a true pain in the a$$, but he was our dog, and we loved him and he loved us, unconditionally. Even as I type this I'm getting misty-eyed. I didn't want to get another dog, because I didn't want to go through that pain again.

Of course, I got overruled by the rest of the family, so now we have two dogs. And while they are a joy, there is a shadow of bitter-sweetness, knowing that one day I am going to have to go through that pain again.

It's because the return into our lives is far greater than the pain. I absolutely share your feelings of grief over the loss of my previous canine companions, but it seems to be a necessary bookend to give full value to the joy and contentment that they bring into our lives in the meantime.

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Originally posted by mneeley490 Mar 20, 2011:
My soft-hearted daughter brought home a puppy about 1 1/2 years ago, that she took from some sketchy kids who had a few of them in a cardboard box. It was about 4-5 weeks old; we thought it was a golden lab at first. Then later the ears rotated toward the front, then popped straight up a week after that. A doggy DNA test revealed that she is Chow, Terrier, Saluki, and Sharpei.
She just looks like a yellow Dingo.

This one has proven herself to be a pain in the butt sometimes, as she is somewhat overprotective of her family & not too friendly at first with other dogs or strangers. But she has also enriched our lives and her new family when my daughter eventually got married and had our two grandsons.
We were worried about what her reaction would be when the first baby came, but she turned into a 24/7 nanny/bodyguard. Nearly wore herself out keeping the boy out of trouble (he's nearly 3 now), but it was funny to see her micromanaging the child rearing. When my wife and I would come over to their house, she'd give us a look like, "These people don't know what the hell they're doing!" (And in truth, she was right. They were clueless.) She's also dispatched 2 rats and 1 bird that found their way inside the house, not to mentioned went after some tweaker poking around the backyard with the intent to steal something.
So she's our hero dog, and we love her.

Olive, our 10-year-old English Springer Spaniel, is a joy. She's adapted to getting knocked down a rung or two in the social order after we had kids, but she loves them too. It really irks my wife because, for the most part, she only listens to me (the dog, not my wife). It's probably because I'm the one who walks her and feeds her twice a day, every day.

11-year old Shiba Inu.