The dog Thread!

realologist

realologist

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RoastBeefCurtains4Me said:
realologist said:
I'm thinking of getting a husky/shepherd mix puppy. Someone I know has 3 puppies and I would enjoy one and training one. My son wants a dog too. I think this would be a good one to introduce him to the world of dogs. The puppies he has look like this.

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I have a Husky Shepherd mix. She clearly blends visual traits of both dogs, but I would say the personality leans strongly to the Husky side. She is very willful, and if she gets loose, she'll run around for a while before she comes back.

She suffers during the hot part of the year. I don't think she'd do well in truly warm part of the country, like Houston or Orlando. She'd do much better in Minnesota or the Northeast.

Also, she sheds continually. She's a great dog, very loving. Part of her personality comes from the fact that she was abused and abandoned as a pup before we got her. This makes her fearful in some circumstances, and consequently, she will bite.

As with any dog, you have to take into account the breed characteristics when you decide what kind to get.
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I live in the Midwest so weather would not be too much of an issue except for the hottest months of the summer. Other than it would be fine. How do they do with water?
 
Thomas More

Thomas More

Crow
Protestant
^We don't take her swimming much. She's run and jumped in the creek before, and liked it quite a bit, but she dries very slowly due to the thick fur, and we don't want a wet dog in the car. If you have a dog like this and like to let it play in the water, I'm sure it would do fine.
 
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nizona

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+1 for Vizsla, my gf now wife had one when we met. The dog can run all day, loves to hunt animals, and stays relatively clean with her short fur. Also ours is super protective which isn't that common.

I noticed that several people mentioned the dog needing a big yard. Most of the dogs in Germany have a yard the size of an American living room. What the dogs really need is a long walk or run everyday. Our dog is perfectly happy sleeping on her bed when she's not going out for sports.
 
Elster

Elster

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Bumping thread

Here is my little guy in full gear.
since this pic I've added a leather collar and am waiting to get a camouflage patterned Neoprene vest before we hit Denmark in a couple of weeks

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porscheguy

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I've got one of those designer dogs that's half Jack Russel, half Bichon. When I was a child I had an Afghan Hound. You can't have cats and let these things run loose. They're usually pretty chill, but when he was about 5 or 6 years old he attacked my father. My father ended up with a sprained wrist in the ordeal. Could have been worse but my father's initial reaction to the attack was anger which spelled bad news for the dog. 6 months later it killed my brothers cat. We got rid of it.

When I was a teenager I got a black lab. He was pretty cool. He lived outdoors for 90% of his life. We lived on a farm on a river. When he was young, he was always dragging shit up from the river. Dead eels in July smell pretty bad. As he got old, he stopped going to the river to cool off in the summer. Instead, you'd look out the window and see him sitting in the pool. When he was around 10 his other dog companion went to live with my sister. It snowed one night. I opened the back and he walked right into the house, went to the sofa, climbed on it and slept for a day or two. He was done living the outdoor life exclusively. When he was young, he couldn't stay in the house more than 2-3 minutes without getting tense and nervous. Once he got old, he only stayed out long enough to shit and piss. When he got to the point when he couldn't wait for me to let him out, and he'd shit and piss on the floor, I knew he'd had lived the life most black labs had dreamed about. He walked the green mile. In 13 years, I never once gave him a bath. And he never smelled like anything but dog.

A lot of people look down on little dogs. Nothing pisses me off like people who buy a lab, and live in a 2 bedroom apartment. If my current dog shits on the floor, it's not a human size pile. At most he pisses 3-4 tablespoons. He pulls in just as much pussy as the bigger dogs. 3lbs of dog food lasts over a month.
 
Elster

Elster

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My guy got a neoprene vest,redneck edition.
It was really useful in the danish weather,particularly when outdoors where there are even LESS obstacles for the constant wind to hit you from everywhere

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TheFinalEpic

TheFinalEpic

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Had to put our 13.5 year old Shepherd down yesterday. I'm pretty crushed, but going through old photos has given me some laughs and nostalgia. My world just got a little darker, dogs definitely bring light wherever they are; loyalty, friendship, unconditional love, all difficult to find in this world nowadays.
 
Elster

Elster

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My sentiments, losing a canine friend is always a hard hit but as you said yourself the moments lived more than are worth it and its up to us to make the memory live on and put it's lessons to use
 
Thomas More

Thomas More

Crow
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TheFinalEpic said:
Had to put our 13.5 year old Shepherd down yesterday. I'm pretty crushed, but going through old photos has given me some laughs and nostalgia. My world just got a little darker, dogs definitely bring light wherever they are; loyalty, friendship, unconditional love, all difficult to find in this world nowadays.
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This can definitely be one of the toughest things to take. When someone is sad, you sometimes hear it said that they look like their dog just died. I learned what this really meant when one of our dogs died years ago. I don't look forward to it with our current dogs, who are starting to show their age.

My condolences.
 
TheFinalEpic

TheFinalEpic

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Thanks for your thoughts guys. I't crazy how much you can learn from an animal, and I'll always keep her spirit and memory close. I know I'll get through it, and hoping for a Trump win tomorrow; I know she was too:

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RIP girl
 
TooFineAPoint

TooFineAPoint

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Protestant
Ideal dogs for the future would be either a Bernese or a Newfoundland. Or maybe a Husky, but I hear they need to see a lot of action or they go crazy.

Wonderful beasts.

Family dog growing up was a bichon-cocker spaniel cross and she was the sweetest thing. As crazy as it sounds she still appears in my dreams at least a few times per year.
 
heavy

heavy

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Just had a conversation with a woman I work with. She was telling me the issues she'd had over the years with their old dog.

Me: "Is it a rescue dog?"
Her: "Yeah"
Me: "Well there ya go"....

It's like getting a new vacuum cleaner that, every time you want to turn it on to vacuum, you have to twist this screw and jiggle this little lever, and sometimes the hose falls off and spews dust all over. Why not just buy a working vacuum...awww, but they were going to throw it in the dump if I didn't buy it for 60% off.

Her: "well not all rescue dogs have issues"
Me: "They don't have to all have issues. If 95% of them piss on the floor or have separation anxiety, that's enough"

If you want a dog that pisses on the floor when someone pets it, go rescue a dog. If you want a dog you can train to be how you want it, a healthy dog, go get a new puppy.

We euthanize over 500,000 a year in the U.S. You aren't saving the planet buy not rescuing a dog. Watch the nature channel, horrible things happen to animals every day all over the world. It's not your fault.

There's nothing wrong with rescuing a dog, just understand you're probably buying a broken vacuum. There's nothing heartless with getting a new puppy, you're just saving yourself a lot of hassle.
 
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