7 posts tagged “dogs”

Senior Kiri

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Now that Kiri is older, he likes to lay down on soft places.  When he was younger, we tried getting him different pet beds but he never used them.  He would so much rather sleep on the floor.  Maybe the heat, I don't know.

These days, he lays down on anything he sees on the floor.  Could be a bag, the newspaper, or any kind of cloth.  It's cute.  My mother fixed him a quilt and a pillow that he uses sometimes when he sleeps in the awning where he prefers to sleep lately.

Sometimes he wants to sleep inside and he howls until he is let in.  I compare him to an elder man.  That's exactly how he behaves.  Sometimes he seems to be tired and sick, other times he perks up and looks great.  I am going to take him to the vet for a throrough check up before I go back to the Dominican Republic.

There will always be a soft spot for Kiri in my heart.

Susie

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Every night, around 10 PM, I take out the dogs.  The dogs include:  Kiri (the 12 year-old), Rocco (the Dominican 6 month-old), and Susie.  Susie is 7 months old, she's my grandmother's dog.  My grandmother isn't allowed to have her in her apartment, so she is staying here indefinitely.  Kiri is slow and quiet, Rocco is very smart and never goes too far away from me.  But Susie?  Susie is wild!  I take them out so they can enjoy the bathroom vanities of the outside.  Oh, and I do it without a leash.  Kiri was trained from early on, and we never have any problems with him.  He walks right by me, does his stuff and the comes back in.  Surprisingly, Rocco is behaving a lot like Kiri.  He is sweet!  Susie, well, Susie is another story.  She runs around like crazy, and always decides to come back before the others are done.  I've decided to just let her be.  She likes her freedom.  I do worry about her getting hit by a car or something, so from now on the poor thing will have to go out on a leash.  That means suicide for her, but what can I do?  She's untrainable.  It must be her never-ending hunger.  She is annoying, but oh so cute! 

I am always dreaming about the way I'll decorate my house.  I love to watch TV, so a nice plasma TV with it's own plasma mount would be great.  I'd love a nice big garden for the dogs to go out and enjoy the outdoors.  Of course, a computer room and a library.  I always thought I'd be more of an apartment kind of lady but that's it until I lived in an apartment in the Dominican Republic and realized there's nothing like having a house with a big yard and being able to go outside and enjoy nature.

I love this kind of stories...happy endings...

11Alive.com - Stolen Dog Recovered After Two Years

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Usually, you hear dogs will scare away would-be intruders -- unless it’s your dogs they’re after. “My window had been pried open,” Jennifer Gleason said. “And the dogs were gone.”When someone broke into Jennifer Gleason's home in Canton, the only things missing were her two purebred pugs. She filed a police report and started a search that lasted nearly two years.“One of the animal control officers told me there’s been a rash of small dogs being stolen and sold,” Gleason remembered. “I never thought I’d see them again.”Then, last week, a phone call: “My mother screamed, ‘Jenny, Jenny, they found Cupcake!’” The female pug was discovered abandoned on the side of the road by two Carrollton sisters. Melissa and Melinda didn’t want to use their last names, because they’re also dog owners and are afraid they could be targeted. “I was led to her,” Melissa said. “My husband said he saw a pug on the side of the road and I went looking for her.” Melissa finally found Cupcake at the end of an abandoned road. She was covered in fleas, missing patches of hair, and had lost 15 pounds.When the sisters took Cupcake to the veterinarian, they asked for a microchip scan. That scan came up with Jennifer’s name. The two groups quickly planned a reunion over Labor Day weekend.“I was emotional,” Melinda said. “I was crying. She was crying, and Cupcake was like, ‘What’s going on?”Randi Tucker, from the Southeast Pug Rescue and Adoption (SEPRA), said when certain breeds gain popularity, and price, they can also become targets: "A lot of times because they're purebreds, they're valuable. They can be put into puppy mills, which are solely for the purpose of breeding puppies."That’s why Tucker says microchipping your dog is so important: “Whether lost or stolen, it will help you find your dog.” Because stolen dogs are sometimes sold at flea markets or in classified ads, she also warns you should have new dogs scanned to make sure they don’t belong to someone else. SEPRA is offering low-cost...

Video Talking Pug on Letterman

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This is too cute not to share!

I wish I could link directly to the video, but I don't know how.  Please, check it out.  It's the cutest thing ever.

*EDIT*

I found it on You Tube

...and the "Shelter Stories" make me a little sad.

Muttscomics - Shelter Stories I

Muttscomics - Shelter Stories II

Muttscomics - Shelter Stories III