Cats, Dogs... of both?

[glucas]

1 Beagle, 1 Beagle/Golden mix (both rescues), 1 insanely "social" fox and 1 herd of 11 Mule's here. The Mule's rotate out and two Elk herds replace them in the warm season. We consider all of them ours these days,

Below is the crazy fox hangin' on the deck. I can literally "call" for this little goof-ball and he stops what he's doing and comes runnin' right away, loves hangin' out with me (I never violate protocol re: food, etc. either). I've seen his lady quite often as well but she's a little more shy. I'm expecting a full family in a couple more months. Below is a few of the other creatures.

This is super cool. I sometimes wish I lived in the mountains away from people. I envy you.

[glucas]

Mastiffs are handsome dogs. I've been thinking about one of the larger breeds now that I have the room. How are they with kids?

My Bullmastiff is really good and carefull and loves all my friends kids. My English didnt know what to think of them. She was kinda scared of little kids but she was never socialized with children. We dont have kids and none of my friends had kids yet when we had her.

[Ak47Ar15Glock26]

my girlfriend talked me into 2 cats. if they respected my furniture i would really like them, but they dont. so i dont. we glare at each other when i get home. when i move we are getting a german shepard. hopefully one that eats cats! jk

[vegas976]

Like I mentioned before..........So fat can't even clean herself!

[Daniel_187]

No cats. The life expectancy of a cat around here would be quite short because we have 6 Jack Russell Yard-Shark Terriers .

All but one are rescues:

• Chloe is almost 17 - our only non-rescue. We got her when she was 8 weeks old. Our first Terrier and my first "little dog" experience. She changed my mind about little dogs. Of course, if you know Jack Russells you know they're really big dogs trapped in little dog bodies.
• Stella (my gunshop dog for 8 years at Bailey Guns) is closing in on 16. She's my best buddy in the whole world. She was featured in the book "Hear All Creatures" by Karen Anderson.
• Nadia is about 13. Great little dog...abandoned at my gunshop by her owners. She chases the C130 fire-suppression planes that fly over our house a couple of times a week. Knowing her, she'll eventually catch one. Quite the hunter/killer Terrier.
• Jack (our little deaf guy) is about 12. When we rescued him from Evergreen Animal Protective League he was going blind and needed eye surgery. I told my wife if he went blind we could just change his name to "Helen". About 4 years post-surgery and his vision is fine. He still can't hear.
• Lola ("Her name was Lola, she was a show dog"...for all you Barry Manilow fans!) is about 3.5 years old - we rescued her hours before she was to be sent to the gas chamber at a shelter in NM.
• And finally there's little Woody...about 2 years old and our most recent rescue from Intermountain Humane Society. His real name is Haywood Jablowme. My wife makes me call him Woody.
• Scooter (Oct 94 - Jan 09)...was Chloe's little boy. We lost him to kidney failure a year ago.

Paintings of Nadia, Jack and Scooter were also on the cover of a book by Kimberly Santini...the artist who paints "A Dog A Day" for animal charities(www.paintingadogaday.blogspot.com) but I can't remember the name of the book.

They keep us pretty busy.

Scooter


Stella


Nadia


Woody

You Sir must be a saint, We have 1 Terror whops i mean Terrier and she is more then enough

[al_g]

I've got two cats and no dogs. At times Diablo acts like a dog. He will come when he is called, sometimes. One of his favorite games is fetch. He loves for me to throw the milk ring seals across the living room and will bring them back. It did take awhile to train him to drop the milk ring close to me instead of 3 feet away. Then there is Buffy, also known as the bum. She likes everyone, purrs loudly, and is a great foot warmer at night. I got Diablo first from some friends of my brother who had kittens, one cool feature is he has two different colored eyes which used to be considered a sign of a witch's familiar. Then I got Buffy through a cat rescue. She had been named Puffy, but no cat of mine will have a name like that So she was named after the great vampire slayer of them all which just happened to rhyme with her original name

This is when they were both still kittens about 4 years ago.


Diablo watching me on my PC.



Buffy showing off why she is also known as the bum.

[BigBear]

Diablo has some great eyes in that second pic.

[funkfool]

Lola ("Her name was Lola, she was a show dog"...for all you Barry Manilow fans!)

AHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!
Now I have had that running through my head ALL morning....

Scooter (Oct 94 - Jan 09)...was Chloe's little boy. We lost him to kidney failure a year ago.

Real sorry to hear about that.

[funkfool]

al_g: good pictures...
I agree w/ BB - wild eyes ... and the one of bum hangin' out...

[Drilldo]

Girlfriend and I are dog people. Adding her two from Ga. to our pack late April. that is why we are looking for a place with some acreage now.

Tyson and Snoop: