Our pets

[Fully]

Here my only boy...Chase
I have 3 daughters, so he's my closest thing to a son.

Good looking dog!

Bigsky, you have 3 girls too?  What is it about this forum and people having 3 daughters?  I know of Yac and myself already!   

I have 2 male dogs and they are my only male companions in my house as well.  Although our female dog is truly my dog.  Go figure... 

Add me to the three daughters list. That might be why I'm on the forum so much - got to escape the early teenage girl hysterics.

[iLikeBeer]

Add me to the three daughters list. That might be why I'm on the forum so much - got to escape the early teenage girl hysterics.

Ugh.  Mine aren't there yet, but they think they are sometimes.  I rennovated our attic to make a playroom for them (also a way to get them out of our hair when we want some quiet time  ) and I'm already making plans to make that my escape room when the hormones start kicking in.  I'm planning on putting about 3 deadbolts on the door and even then, I'm wondering if that will make it secure enough... 

[Bigsky]

Add me to the three daughters list. That might be why I'm on the forum so much - got to escape the early teenage girl hysterics.

Ugh.  Mine aren't there yet, but they think they are sometimes.  I rennovated our attic to make a playroom for them (also a way to get them out of our hair when we want some quiet time  ) and I'm already making plans to make that my escape room when the hormones start kicking in.  I'm planning on putting about 3 deadbolts on the door and even then, I'm wondering if that will make it secure enough... 

My oldest is only 5...so our biggest problem is the fights over the 15 Barbie dolls they have.

Chase is a great dog...it must be the Australian Shepard in him; the kids can crawl all over him, even our 9 month old, and he just lays there. Chase is only 2, so I'm sure he thinks he's one of the kids.

It's great having him, being a boy dog, we just sit around and talk about all the hot bitches in the neighborhood...;)

[jaye]

Add me to the three daughters list. That might be why I'm on the forum so much - got to escape the early teenage girl hysterics.

Ugh.  Mine aren't there yet, but they think they are sometimes.  I rennovated our attic to make a playroom for them (also a way to get them out of our hair when we want some quiet time  ) and I'm already making plans to make that my escape room when the hormones start kicking in.  I'm planning on putting about 3 deadbolts on the door and even then, I'm wondering if that will make it secure enough... 

My oldest is only 5...so our biggest problem is the fights over the 15 Barbie dolls they have.

Chase is a great dog...it must be the Australian Shepard in him; the kids can crawl all over him, even our 9 month old, and he just lays there. Chase is only 2, so I'm sure he thinks he's one of the kids.

It's great having him, being a boy dog, we just sit around and talk about all the hot bitches in the neighborhood...;)

I've got 3 kids but 2 are boys - BUT I am one of 5 sisters so I understand everyone's concerns.  ;)

For some reason I have never owned a male pet - cat or dog.  3 dogs, 3 cats all female.   I think a boy puppy sounds good.   

[ItBeats4Jew]

Scoop

[ItBeats4Jew]

Junior

[Ruckus]

Love the pics guys!

Here's Cygnus again

[zanjam]

Julie I am so sorry to hear that!  I am tearing up reading it!  That is so awful.  I understand how hard it is, the sudden unexpected death of a pet.  One day our old lab just died right there in the middle of the kitchen from a seizure.  Kids home, too.  And I just lost it.  It is so hard but with time it will get better.  So so sorry to hear it.  They are like our babies.   

[zanjam]

Mr. Charlie Brown Sugar

[Jon T.]

Mr. Charlie Brown Sugar

Cute.  I had a lab named Charlie.   Sir Charles Bark Lee   

This might be the best thread in this whole here forum!

[iLikeBeer]

Mr. Charlie Brown Sugar

Zan, Mr. Charlie looks a helluva like our chocolate lab mix. 

Here is a pic of our two labs I use for a beer label for one of my homebrews (Two Dogs Ale; it's a clone of Two Hearted Ale  ):

[Paulie_Walnuts]

It's been a long time since I visited this thread. Since then we've added Alfie, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, to our home. We found out that some acquaintances of ours abandoned their own dog as a stray which led to it being destroyed. As a consequence of that we ended up volunteering at a dog rescue centre near where we live. We had one successful foster dog who was rehomed and Alfie was meant to be our second foster. He was a dog at the centre who had to be muzzled on his walks because he was supposedly very dog aggressive. I walked him a few times and he was as calm as can be. He wasn't overtly dog aggressive, but just hadn't been socialised with other dogs and reacted out of fear.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that after a few months of fostering at weekends my mother-in-law wouldn't let us take him back. We are at work all day but he stays with her until we pick him up each evening.

He's an absolutely brilliant friend - I've gone from sitting in front of a TV all weekend watching sport to just walking miles with him. There's nothing better in my weekend than walking for miles with him on a cold sunny day.

[zanjam]

Mr. Charlie Brown Sugar

Zan, Mr. Charlie looks a helluva like our chocolate lab mix. 

Here is a pic of our two labs I use for a beer label for one of my homebrews (Two Dogs Ale; it's a clone of Two Hearted Ale  ):

What cuties!  I think I saw this pic on the old new forum and thought your dog looked like mine.  We think ours is a boxador.  Lab in looks, boxer in personality and body.

[iLikeBeer]

What cuties!  I think I saw this pic on the old new forum and thought your dog looked like mine.  We think ours is a boxador.  Lab in looks, boxer in personality and body.

Yeah.  Our vet also thinks Cocoa is a boxer/lab mix as well as his coat has some brindle in it.  He's a very good dog although he can be a little o.c.d. when it comes to his feeding time.  He as skin and bones with frostbite on his ears when we found him and god only knows how he was treated and how long he had been roaming the countryside?

Great story Paulie!  Alfie is a cool looking dog!  I totally agree about going out for walks with our dogs.  Nothing better than putting on your headphones, listening to good music and heading out for a good walk.

[el_chode]

Sir Otis of Poopshire

[Fully]

Sir Otis of Poopshire

Very distinguished. I believe I have visited Poopshire -very fragrant place.

[iLikeBeer]

Sir Otis of Poopshire

HILARIOUS!  He's got that look like SERIOUSLY?  WTF will you humans think of next??? 

[iLikeBeer]

Lost a good friend this morning as my oldest dog Reilly had to be put to sleep.



Reilly was 15 and he lived a good and long life despite the fact that he was nearly deaf and blind in the last year or so.  I was always amazed at how well he could still get around except for when my wife would fuck with him by rearranging the furniture in our house?!   

I had noticed he was not eating as well and was barely moving around at all over the last couple of days and yesterday he didn't eat at all and I began to brace myself that it was his time to go.  So, my wife and I took him into the vet this morning with the thought that he would be put to sleep.  The hardest thing for me was not knowing if this was the end although my gut was telling me it was.  The vet told us he felt a large mass around his abdomen and he told us he would recommend putting him down so at least we had the reassurance that we were doing the right thing.

He was my first dog I had on my own and he's been a part of our family his entire life.  He was a great dog and I will miss the hell out of him!

[jaye]

So sorry ILB - I know the feeling.  It is great that he had such a good long life. 

[ItBeats4Jew]

so sorry ILB.  the worst part of being a pet owner, but it's the responsible and humane thing to do.  I've done it before and unfortunately, our older dog who is 11 isn't doing so well.  we're hopeful that he's going to be ok, but he's showing similar symptoms of our dog who had cancer in her snout that we had to put down in 2000.  we just adopted another dog, so our 2 year old dog has a companion to play with in case we are close to the end. 

here is our new 4 month old pup, Samson: