it's ok stanm we accept yr puppy-fingers disability
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/488778776_917a551906.jpg?v=0
^^^ this guy is my homey
― gbx, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
he is a hundred pounds heavier now, tho (just turned one!)
my mom's puppy just had her first dog show:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_6797.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_6812.jpg
― gr8080, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
cute! how'd she do?
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
mom says she won best opposite sex (?!) and best of winners.
― gr8080, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
haw!
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
gimme a puppy
xp "best of winners" lol
― gbx, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Good timing for the revive. Mrs. Hurting and I think we want to adopt a dog from a shelter, preferably a puppy or young dog. She has dog experience, I have almost none. She's kind of partial to Jack Russells (we've seen a few available at shelters), but I'm concerned about the energy thing (they're especially spunky). I'd be fine with an ugly mutt - my only concern is that you don't always know how big a mutt will get.
Advice on how to proceed? What to look for? How to prepare? I think we've thought over the decision pretty well. We're not heavy travelers and her work schedule is going to be easy enough that she can do extra walks when I'm busy with school. We have a decent-sized apartment so smallish dog is probably better. I feel ready to deal with the commitment even if it means scaling back some social activities (we're home a lot anyway). Maybe there's a thread on this already but searching "dog" is not highly effective.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 23 March 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
gr8080, what kind of dog is that?
― Melissa W, Sunday, 23 March 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hurting, do you own furniture, or nice things? if so, are they all kept in a remote storage facility, or in the apartment? if the answers are "yes" and "the apartment," I would advise against a jack russell.
you can get a decent gauge of a mutt puppy's eventual size by looking at their paws. a female will generally provide for less wear and tear around the house than a male. being a smartypants, I recommend desmond morris' "dogwatching" for a decent education on the bastards.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GycIQZ93iOc
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
> best opposite sex (?!)
If the best of breed is a boy-dog, the judges also choose the best bitch and verse-visa.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 24 March 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i would also advise against a jack russell. they're small, sure, but they require an incredible amount of exercise. you're right to be concerned about their energy levels. i'm far from being an expert but i've walked a few at our local shelter, and it's like having a 15lb rocket on a lead. also, they're not necessarily the most easy-going breed. read the "temperament" section on this page:
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/jackrussellterrier.htm
i don't mean to be down on them, because they're supercute and peppy, but you should be aware of possible problems as a first-time dog owner.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
fiancee has got a jack russell who is probably an anomaly cos he's not a total bastard. they have a lot of energy, but because they're so small, they wear out fast, too, if they're doing some high energy shit like running laps around your living room (maybe that's just him, he will seriously run in loop until (a) he gets tired or (b) someone is quick enough to snatch him up). but otherwise he's pretty even-keeled and can actually catch things in his mouth as opposed to letting toys hit him in the face and then looking at you sideways like wtf i can't eat this shit??
her mother's two jack russells are less nice, tho. one of which is just the loudest dog i've heard, srsly, cannot even sleep in that house, 6 am barking at nothing sessions. think the other one is too fat to be annoying. so based on my super scientific sample, 1 out of 3 jack russells are awes.
― m bison, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Melissa W, Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
http://www.glens.org/
― gr8080, Monday, 24 March 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
so adorable.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
All small dogs like to run loopers until they drop.
― suzy, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I helped my wife dogsit a jack russell once. It was a great dog but it didn't seem to have an off switch. I swear I must have thrown the chew toy to it over and over again for an hour straight before I just gave up.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
My wife claims its not that different from any other dog, but I think that's just because she grew up with another really difficult dog that needed tons of exercise and play.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
NOT ENOUGH PICTURES
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
2nd picture = PUPPYLOAF
― bell_labs, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
aww puppyloaf
listen hurting if you want a lazy ass dog you might have to go big. people are always reject large dogs because they need a lot of room to run around in. its all lies. our great dane sleeps about 20 hours a day and english bull mastiff i had before that slept about that too.
― sunny successor, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
also, when our great dane finishes eating at her bowl she carries back some biscuits to her bed. i suspect its so she doesnt have to go to all the trouble of standing up to eat if she feels hungry later. i mean, her food bowl is 10 whole feet away from her bed.
― sunny successor, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I love it when you rep for giant dogs.
― Laurel, Monday, 24 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
dinah, the great dane my parents' friends had, basically would only get up when her lasagne pan-sized dish of kibble was put out for her.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i will rep hard for big dogs
― gbx, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I did live in a college house with a black lab once. It was awesome and mellow.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
95% of me wants our next dog to be a small breed, but the other 5% really wants to adopt a greyhound.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
best dog i ever knew was my cousin's half pit bull/half boxer, she wuz the cuetest
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v79/173/97/25406876/n25406876_32238458_1296.jpg
― m bison, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v79/173/97/25406876/n25406876_32238404_7633.jpg
HI I SOUND LIKE ASTHMATIC DARF VADER WHEN I PANT
― m bison, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I just keep flipping open the thread to see the puppy at the top.
/duh
― suzy, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have experience with Australian Shepherds or English Pointers?
I might be moving into a house with a big fenced backyard so I can finally think about adopting.
― milo z, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
puppy in action (with mom's other dog):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SRdecu84INc
<3
― gr8080, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
so cuet
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man they had a neopolitan mastiff on our local morning show this morning. he looked a lot like this:
http://www.goswm.com/go_htm/southwest_michigan_guide/michigan_pets/neopolitan_mastiff_puppies/neapolitan_mastiffs_11.jpg
except he was 3 months old so about double that size. CUUUUET
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i want one. they're so pretty!
― lauren, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! That puppy is ridiculous. Want.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The best thing about them is they have chocolate, vanilla and strawberry all at once!
....what?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.colourlovers.com/images/badges/p/127/127925.png
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
pink tongue, white claws, brown fur?
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
hope you like drool
― milo z, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
So, uh, here's waht a Cavapoo looks like. In our truck, on the way home, with his new owners.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/IMG_1849.jpg
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 13 April 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_2497.jpg http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_2498.jpg http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_2502.jpg
― gr8080, Sunday, 13 April 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/IMG_2491.jpg
I see Diamond Head!
― Confounded, Sunday, 13 April 2008 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
How very odd. No basenjis I know give kisses.
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 13 April 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Your dog is the cuetest, gradee.
― Abbott, Sunday, 13 April 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that yr new dog, Rock? It looks like such a SWEETIE!
It is! We went to Tupelo for a bunch of non-dog errands, went to the big flea market, and wound up with this little dude.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/IMG_1860.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/IMG_1858.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/IMG_1852.jpg
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 13 April 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes when your dog has got the squits it's as hard work as bringing up baby, as in getting awaken every couple of hours and dealing with lots of messy stuff. Only changing nappies is a hell of a lot easier than scooping up diarrhoea. Although a few times if there is no-one about I've carried on walking and say to myself in a Wenger accent: I did not get a clear view of zis incident so I cannot possibly comment on it!
― calzino, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
god, those first few months
Months? Months? I've been thinking in terms of two-three weeks...profoundly off the mark, I take it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
It varies. Lucinda, my oldest lab, got comfortable with our schedule within a matter of weeks, in terms of sleeping when we did and things like that. Molly, who we got five years later, would regularly refuse to sleep through the night for maybe up to a month. I should note, perhaps encouragingly, that we were operating with a far more flexible work/life schedule when we got Lucinda, whereas with Molly we were both at work or school for long periods of time and thus had less time to spend on training and socializing. Given that, I'm assuming, your current situation affords you a lot of time to spend with Fredo, you might have an easier time with getting him adjusted.
This may not be an option at the moment, but have you considered signing up for puppy training at Petsmart or one of those places? It really helped with us in terms of housetraining, getting them to behave (somewhat) on walks, etc. It also helps them become more comfortable around other dogs.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
I'm already enrolled for a session on July 10. One disadvantage I think I have that you and KM didn't is that I'm on my own. It really does become kind of an extended Whatever Happened to Baby Jane mind game...I'm over-dramatizing. Zillions of people have done this; anyone with any knowledge would look at my first day and say I had it pretty easy. The problem is me--I'm the one with the daunting adjustment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
xp ok maybe more like 2 months? maybe even 7 weeks or so...I'm not sure, i lost my mind somewhere back in those piled up puppy pads. so much of it was just dealing with her fear issues around the time - she was a shelter pup and pretty much any noise at all would scare the crap out of her, and we lived brooklyn, so.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
My dogs both really only fully emerged from the naughtiness of puppyhood--including erratic sleep schedules--around 3 years old. And we're still sometimes woken at 5:45 with a paw slap to the face
― Dan I., Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
yeah, Birdie just turned 7 and she still can't figure out a bunch of stuff. i love her more than anything
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
Widget is now eight months old and finds new and innovative ways to destroy things. Today’s fun was digging up two massive, newly planted herb pots on my balcony. His specialty is gnawing the corner of a throw pillow cover just enough that it can’t be repaired. Woe betide you if you resort to spraying apple cider vinegar on an object as whiplet repellent - he advances, barking, because he hates it. He can now reach the countertops in the kitchen so everything has to be put away (no bad thing). Whippet puppies have a reputation for being dickheads until they’re two, which he definitely can be, but he has been easy to housetrain, loves riding the Tube and bus, is well-mannered with people and other dogs and his default setting is asleep right next to me.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780394800479-uk.jpg
― calzino, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
The problem is me--I'm the one with the daunting adjustment.
It's tough to have dogs if you're a loner, because you either have to jump in at the deep end and get them socialized with other dogs and kids and all the things they could possibly have a negative reaction to, or you have to keep them away from those things FOREVER, which is then an absolute pain for anyone else who might ever have to look after them.
I used to know a guy who had a giant schnauzer. He never, ever spent a night away from this dog, in six years. He never let anyone else walk it. He never let the dog out of his sight. Then he slipped a disc and couldn't walk or move off the sofa for two weeks, and the poor dog nearly went crazy because it was too scared to let anyone else take it out or do anything with it.
― trishyb, Friday, 2 July 2021 08:41 (two years ago) link
That's exactly the situation I want to avoid; I want him socialized around other people and other dogs, and I want him to be comfortable with others watching him when need be.
I'm alone but definitely not (probably everyone says this) a loner. A bit more so since I moved out of the city in late 2019, but I'm always out and about. That's the adjustment: not being able to just head out. Pre-pandemic, I'd go see one-three movies a week. I constantly just head out to browse book or record or thrift stores. Going out to have coffee and read. Going back to the city to see friends (a two-hour drive). All of it breaks up the day, being retired. Right now, the day is 60 hours long, and I can't, till he's okay with alone time, do any of that. And then, come September, I'm supposed to go back to occasional substitute teaching, 50 days over the school year.
I know: "You didn't think of this ahead of time?" I did--I figured if I got it first day of the summer break, after a few weeks he'd be fine. I'm probably just prematurely over-worrying.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 July 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
Sounds like you're doing the most important thing, which is getting him used to the car.
Have you heard of the magic blanket technique for getting dogs to settle? It seems to be the hot thing in dog training at the moment, and might be useful for you if you have to leave him in other places like a sitter's house, or if you take him with you to a cafe or restaurant and just want him to hang out and be happy without your constant attention.
― trishyb, Friday, 2 July 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link