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Here's our two dogs looking like demons. On the left is Scout. She's a 10 year old mutt from the pound that just had a cancerous tumor removed yesterday. Wish her luck. On the right is Onyx. She's a Lab/Pit Bull mix from a pit bull rescue, and is the biggest baby in the world. They both look pretty damn creepy in this picture.

ditchdigger wrote: Dudley in the background. 8 year old we rescued 4 years ago. Lilly in the foreground 5 months old. Both Basset's of course

I grew up with a Basset. I'm surprised you have any windows left in your house. Those barks are thunderous. I can see the Mailman dropping by, they start barking, all windows shatter outward.

Loki - He was in the pound at 3 yrs old. He's been great. Coming up on 14 now, I think. His age is bit of a question. He's an Australian Cattle Dog who's afraid of sheep. He'll bite the hell out of some food though.

Ohren - She showed up in my yard at 6 mo's old. She was playing with some other dog that ran the neighborhood. As far as I can tell she's a Belgian Malinois. Think european police dog. A complete nut. She snaps in the air when she's upset about doing something. Which is usually all the time. She listens, but very reluctantly.

Kolby - I got him at 8 wks. He was going to be put down in GA, at 8 wks old. Great dog. He loves cats. The best protection dog I have. He's a bit of a loner. When he's tired of all of us he'll get up, go to another room, and get some quiet time. He also stares into any open fire for hours. He bites things that vibrate and sneezes when smelling gas.

Alli - My only cat rescue. She's a Maine Coon. She plays fetch and comes when you call her. She had to get a hair cut recently as my g/f made her so fat she couldn't clean herself. We're working on that now. A great huntress. She used to help me pay the rent by bringing back birds, squirrels, dead moths. She's also known as "The Paw Of Discipline". If the dogs are acting up she'll come down from upstairs and give some stupid fast swats across the nose.

Sorry guys, I've deleted all my pictures of my ex!

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Here is a little video I made about my dogs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX978nuYmww&feature=channel_page

Osterizer wrote: www.instantrimshot.com

This is brilliant. lol

Here's my buddy, Bear. Photobucket is all I have access to here, so these are ancient. He'll be 3 this summer- these are from when we adopted him. HIs tongue's pretty much 3/4 purple now, he's about half chow. The other half, who knows. Border collie or something maybe, he's pretty intent on herding my kids and is a high energy spastic basketcase most of the time.

Bear was a parking lot dog- my son's grandfather called to ask if Cole wanted a dog for his first birthday, and since I understood that that meant "Hey Jake, you want a puppy?" I said "Bring him on." We adopted him, started giving him shots, kept him mostly outside but brought him in a lot. He was probably 8 or so weeks when we got him.

In the time that we've had him: He's had parvo and lived (probably at 3 or 4 months)- I stayed up with him for nearly a week feeding him broth and giving him shots to keep it in him- I couldn't bear to just put him down, even if the vet was ready I wasn't. He toughed it out. After a week or so he was back to his old self.

He's been hit by a school bus, this was 18 months or so ago. His fence in the backyard got taken out by a falling pine tree during a storm. Before I could catch him and tie him up that morning while I figured out other options, he streaked out to the road, either bounced off the side or rolled under the axle of a school bus doing ~40mph and streaked right back. I didn't think much of it since he ran home under his own power and laid up on the porch- a cursory once-over didn't reveal any injury. When I got home that night, though, he wasn't really able to get up very well under his own power. Wouldn't let me or anybody else near him, but there wasn't anything apparently wrong, etc. I spent a couple hard days keeping an eye on him, trying to figure out what to do when he started getting up and moving around on his own. Vet checked him out a couple days later, said "nothing's broken, he must have just been roughed up."

He's one tough dog. Fantastic watchdog, probably to a fault, but he loves us and we love him and we would all be lost without his silly antics around the house. He has stayed outside a lot, since we figured out how allergic my wife is to fleas, but she's softening her stance on that since Frontline works (though the dog hates having it applied) and he's calmed down a lot in the last few months. Once spring hits, I think I am going to get him groomed (winter coat has him looking slightly rastafarian at the moment) and move him to mostly inside.

From left to right,

Plymouth K. Car, Ultra Violet Radiation, and Mollywobbles (Plymouth, Violet, and Molly for short) Violet is a Frenchie, Molly is a long-haired chihuahua, and Plymouth is a junkyard yellow tabby named because I found him in a Dodge Aries at the junkyard abandoned when he was 2 weeks old.

From Left to Right; Ricco, Shady-Ray, Bugatti (no longer wth us) and Gator

gamby wrote:

Osterizer wrote: www.instantrimshot.com

This is brilliant. lol

Almost as brilliant as the site that site links!

http://www.headsethotties.com/

This is awesome, and i love the internet for these little strange nuggets.

while technically not dogs, i thought this pic was worth sharing since they were engaged in simultaneous expulsion of waste. and i didn't want to start a "show us your Bob Costas" thread.

abercrombie (right) and of course fitch (left). my wife named them before i was in her life, otherwise they'd have been cuff and link.

crombie weighed about 22 lbs. fitcher weighed about 7, and she was an excellent hunter. i saw her catch an adult squirrel once, and i found her with an adult mole in her mouth another time. occasionally she'd leave me souvenirs of field mice and chipmunks. they kept the cars safe out in the pole barn, although both started as indoor cats and had no front claws.

friend of mine who's family builds boats had a pair of shop cats they called flotsam and jetsam

My dog got into the trash yesterday and ate the better part of a chicken carcass. My wife found this when she got home, which was after the normal vet closed. Off to the emergency vet. Fortunately, most of it was still in his stomach and the vet was able to induce vomiting and get most of it out. Some charcoal and metamucil in wet food should help pass the rest. That was $300 I wasn't planning on spending, but it beats having to figure out if a multi-thousand dollar stomach surgery is "worth it".

In other news, apparently we're no longer leaving bones in the trash.

Strizzo wrote: friend of mine who's family builds boats had a pair of shop cats they called flotsam and jetsam

Are you sure they're not just crappy metal heads?

Black Stig wrote:

Dave, do you know what kind of dog you have? I picked up a pup off the interstate in TN that had been tossed from a car and hit, and he looks just like yours. We have no idea what he is, though. Aside from overweight and annoying, that is.

This is Tahoe. We rescued him last summer. Roughly 3 years old. Weight: 154 lbs; height: 48" at the tips of the ears. Yep, he's big.

Well! If you can post that goliath fella, I guess it's okay for me to post this!

This is Redford. I bought him in the early 90s, did a lot of cross country jumping - he could jump the moon. One of the smartest four-legged buddies I've ever had. He went to a therapeutic riding program in 2000 (I had to re-mortgage my home to buy out my ex, and couldn't afford to keep Red, but didn't want to sell him to someone who'd jump the crap out of him). I just got him back last fall - he's 22 <img

Xceler8x wrote: I grew up with a Basset. I'm surprised you have any windows left in your house. Those barks are thunderous. I can see the Mailman dropping by, they start barking, all windows shatter outward.

Yeah they are big hounds with big barks, The short legs make them look small but they are large dogs. They only bark when they are playing, the 5 month old likes to play all the time though

I have no pics to link up, but I miss my old dog when I was little, Hobo. My father brought him home inside of his M/C jacket with the dogs head sticking out of the top. When e grew up, he would stand up on his hind legs, put his front paws on my fathers shoulders and look him in the eyes. And my father is 6'.

Being 3-4, IIRC i rode on him like a hoarse.

We ended up getting rid of him becuase he was larger than miliarty housing regs permit

Farley, aka "The Idiot" our blue merle Australian Shepherd. Procured from the local pound. He vastly prefers the company of other dogs to people but he has learned how to 'work' females to his advantage. He's a follower, not a leader, which is good, since he usually uses what few wits he has for the Forces Of Evil. My wife wants another one; I have banned the breed from our residence. She keeps saying other Aussies aren't like him but I don't believe her. Zoe, aka "BD" or "Black Dog". Rescued from the same shelter where she (I believe) had pretty much given up on life and decided it sucked. She has since become Velcro Dog to me (my nickname at play camp is not "Zoe's Dad" but "God") and worships me from dawn to dusk, which I assure you while flattering is very tiresome. She is apparently some kind of Border Collie/Belgian Sheepdog/Retriever something but...she does not herd. She does not like agility. She does not retrieve. She does not play, except wrestling with Farley. She's like a military officer that's turned up for battle but there is no war to wage. Without a job, of course, she drives us all crazy. I keep hoping our next dog will be 'normal'. Kellie Lynn (deceased=cancer) with Farley. Our first dog and the reason my race team is "Mongrel Motorsports". Also adopted from the same shelter. She chose us. She was the PERFECT dog aside from shedding like she was trying to coat the entire planet with hair. Loved by all, missed by many. Some kind of Shepherd/Husky mix, we enjoyed howling together. We've seen quite a few similar dogs since and are convinced this is a breed that simply hasn't been recongnized for Westminster yet.

93celicaGT2 wrote:

gamby wrote:

Osterizer wrote: www.instantrimshot.com

This is brilliant. lol

Almost as brilliant as the site that site links! http://www.headsethotties.com/ This is awesome, and i love the internet for these little strange nuggets.

Wow. I'm basking in the light of the awesomeness of that.

LOL @ Tahoe. Every Great Dane I've encountered has been just amazing. Gigantic, curious and friendly. They're like the Audis of the dog world, though--they always seem to have something wrong w/ them.

gamby wrote: LOL @ Tahoe. Every Great Dane I've encountered has been just amazing. Gigantic, curious and friendly. They're like the Audis of the dog world, though--they always seem to have something wrong w/ them.

Those are three perfect adjectives to describe him. I picked him up from getting a bath at Petsmart last night and then walked around with him to let him "investigate". Folks' reactions never cease to amaze me. Everyone wants to touch him, ask how much he weighs, how much he eats and he just loves the attention. Like most Danes, he's a leaner too. Start petting him and he instantly starts leaning on the attention giver, most often causing said giver to laugh and almost get knocked over.

Here's Autumn:

Maxx, loosely named after Max Papis

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trying to fix triumph7's pic