What kind of pets do you have?
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Sam the dog, who is a rescue mutt and a hair monster. Best damn dog I've ever had though.
5 year old Lab that you can play catch with. He'll run out any yardage you want. 10 yards, 20 yards, 40 yards if you can throw the ball that far. You can throw it on a line or way up in the air. He'll catch it in his mouth before it hits the ground 9 times out of 10. Then he runs back, throws it at your feet and takes off running away for the next one, lol.
Would take a bullet for him.
Would take a bullet for him.
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I've only ever had a maltese growing up, and my parents still have one. The one we got when I was in 8th grade loved playing fetch and liked to wrestle (despite me outweighing him by a solid 200 pounds). The one my parents have now has never wanted to do anything but sit in peoples laps and chill. Tried to play fetch with him once and he just looked at us like we were insane. Only toy he has ever played with is a rag bone and apparently thats because it's good for his teeth :\
Also everyone just assumes since they are malteses they are girls and prissy. We always kept the hair short so it could go out and run and not get tangled up in bushes or anything. When we would take the first one to the groomer when I was a kid they would always put bows in his hair even though we'd ask them not to. That dog HATED bows and would tear them off as soon as we got in the car.
Also everyone just assumes since they are malteses they are girls and prissy. We always kept the hair short so it could go out and run and not get tangled up in bushes or anything. When we would take the first one to the groomer when I was a kid they would always put bows in his hair even though we'd ask them not to. That dog HATED bows and would tear them off as soon as we got in the car.
I’m convinced JDee’s threads are meant to steal passwords or your identity. 
We couldn't have kids. We had three adoption attempts turn into dumpster fires. We ever compensated with pets - rescues, especially older and hard to place.
3 dogs - 2 Airedales (Wilfred was rescued from a puppy mill, Ryan from a back yard breeder who never cut this hair - he looked like Chewbacca when we rescued him) and a Great Dane (Sassy was born in a shelter after her mother was rescued from a puppy mill).
8 cats - found Sasha as a kitten while volunteering at our town's Christmas lights thing, adopted Chaplin to be Sasha's companion, took Coots in as a favor to a friend's shelter as she was an older cat whose owner passed and she wasn't doing well in the shelter. My wife found Pudding as a stray kitten in the parking lot at Tunnel Hill Trail in Vienna, IL after she brought me a sandwich at the halfway point while I was running the 50-mile race, she got her name for the toxic sludge from her butt. I spent a good amount getting her healthy and said I was keeping her. She brought Cookie and Jules in as a favor to rescue friends when they were kittens, she bottle fed them, we bonded, Cookie didn't behave well enough to be adopted and Jules hid and cried at the adoption event she attended so we kept her. Fiona came to us a a favor to a rescue friend, she has a slightly deformed paw and is a black cat - not adoptable, plus I like black cats. Finally, I came home from working at a race one Saturday and my wife had Sylvester, who was the last kitten left from a local cat rescue's adoption event.
I'm a sucker for animals and my wife. I also adore my pets.
3 dogs - 2 Airedales (Wilfred was rescued from a puppy mill, Ryan from a back yard breeder who never cut this hair - he looked like Chewbacca when we rescued him) and a Great Dane (Sassy was born in a shelter after her mother was rescued from a puppy mill).
8 cats - found Sasha as a kitten while volunteering at our town's Christmas lights thing, adopted Chaplin to be Sasha's companion, took Coots in as a favor to a friend's shelter as she was an older cat whose owner passed and she wasn't doing well in the shelter. My wife found Pudding as a stray kitten in the parking lot at Tunnel Hill Trail in Vienna, IL after she brought me a sandwich at the halfway point while I was running the 50-mile race, she got her name for the toxic sludge from her butt. I spent a good amount getting her healthy and said I was keeping her. She brought Cookie and Jules in as a favor to rescue friends when they were kittens, she bottle fed them, we bonded, Cookie didn't behave well enough to be adopted and Jules hid and cried at the adoption event she attended so we kept her. Fiona came to us a a favor to a rescue friend, she has a slightly deformed paw and is a black cat - not adoptable, plus I like black cats. Finally, I came home from working at a race one Saturday and my wife had Sylvester, who was the last kitten left from a local cat rescue's adoption event.
I'm a sucker for animals and my wife. I also adore my pets.
Always been a dog guy. I had to put my beloved Basset Hound down last summer because it got to be a quality of life thing. She was never going to get better. Hardest damn thing I ever did I think. My son and I balled our eyes out saying goodbye to her.
Still have two other dogs. A crazy *** lab mix that think she runs things and a Shepard mix that is the sweetest but most neediest ***** around.
Fiancee wants to get a cat but I’m putting my damn foot down.
Still have two other dogs. A crazy *** lab mix that think she runs things and a Shepard mix that is the sweetest but most neediest ***** around.
Fiancee wants to get a cat but I’m putting my damn foot down.
1 cat and 2 part time dogs. A lab and golden retriever. They are part time because they are my neighbors. The lab starting hanging with me about 4 years ago one day when I was smoking ribs. Then they got the golden a couple of years ago. Where the lab goes he goes. So every afternoon when I get home from work they come running. Sometimes they go home after petting and a treat. Sometimes they stay all night.
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The Airedale my wife gave me as a wedding gift in '01.
My buddy always ask me how we can eat our pet rabbits and pet ducks.........I told him it is like family.......we don't like all of them......we just eat the ones we don't like.........and then........that makes us like them.......
4 dogs, all rescues. Three are Pyrenees mixes and the other is a pit mix. The pit mix is the smallest at 61lbs nicknamed nugget by wife for being the smallest but psycho by me because she goes crazy about everything including biting me when I play around with my daughter. very protective of her. 2 of the Pyrenees mixes are close to 100lbs with one only being 11 months old.
3 cats (don't like cats), never had cats until recently and I brought the first one in because it was just a kitten when it showed up at our door one hot July morning. Having no tail and looking similar to a Siamese I took it in for its oddity of no tail. Found out later it was called a Manx. The other two were rescues my wife and daughter went and got as playmates for Kato the Manx. Daughter named him and when she did I ask her if that meant that I was the Green Hornet. She just looked at me and said: "What?" The joke failed.
3 cats (don't like cats), never had cats until recently and I brought the first one in because it was just a kitten when it showed up at our door one hot July morning. Having no tail and looking similar to a Siamese I took it in for its oddity of no tail. Found out later it was called a Manx. The other two were rescues my wife and daughter went and got as playmates for Kato the Manx. Daughter named him and when she did I ask her if that meant that I was the Green Hornet. She just looked at me and said: "What?" The joke failed.
My dad says no more pets once their current dog dies. My mom says otherwise. And my mom will win that fight.
Yep. Me: "When this cat dies ..." They always win. Women ... can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
Have 2 female golden doodles. Got first one for my ex fiancé 8 years ago was only thing that survived that relationship.
Been thinking about getting some other animals tho. Bought a farm about a year ago and would like to have some animals out there. Problem is I’m only there 1-2 days a week. Thought maybe goats but not sure that would work. Have a pond so maybe ducks as well. Heard those were low maintenance.
Been thinking about getting some other animals tho. Bought a farm about a year ago and would like to have some animals out there. Problem is I’m only there 1-2 days a week. Thought maybe goats but not sure that would work. Have a pond so maybe ducks as well. Heard those were low maintenance.