Got a new hound, here are some pics of the newest member of the moremetal family. She is a bad ass hound we named Ramona after the Ramones because both are bad ass! Anyone ever owned a weenie dog? She is super smart and seems to be extremely territorial. ">">
I personally would never have one, not only because I hate little faggot dogs but because I see so many with the typical Dachshund problems... watch out for weight gain,...leads to their main problem- back/discs issues. Although I see skinny ones with slipped discs all the time as well... but fatties always have back issues They are prone to many types of cancers .... so look for any small bumps. If she is not spayed...do it ASAP- I cant tell you how many mammary tumors we have removed from those... last one was only 2 years old. and... we do a lot of emergency C-sections on those because so many stupid people breed them.... and they breed with a larger male Also make sure you are not feeding her a high protein diet... they get bladder stones. this one location we go to (Peachtree City) has tons of Dachshunds... there is a bunch of breeders in that town... people buy one, then breed it, sell puppies, those buyers breed it...so on and so on UGG (we see them dumped at that pound all the time as well) anyway ... one day was so weird, we had 5 males and 4 females come for spay or neuter and they all looked alike (except one) my husband kept fucking around with paperwork ... and I got them all mixed up . I was able to figure everyone out (by calling a name, or age, sex, one had a cherry eye, and one had name tag) except 3 females. I felt like the biggest dork when those people came to pick up...but everyone was nice about it. The next time we went we had 2 weenies for bladder stones and 2 for spay/mammary tumors and 2 for neuter and one regular spay ... since then we call that place Weenie City ... we always get at least 2 every trip WTF Oh and because they are so low to the ground... young ones comes to us for foreign objects... I have seen rocks, bark, tampons, panties, toys, jewelry, and all kinds of stuff in dog's bellies... but the weirdest was a 1 year old weenie dog about 2 years ago... it ate 2 perfume samples (those little squirty bottles about half the size of a cigarette) When I showed the owner what we pulled out of him... she opened the bag and squirted the perfume on herself. I thought that was odd I dont know much about the personality ... I hear they are cry babies and want to be in a lap all the time... and I see them in quarantine at the pounds a lot for bitting kids. I have been nipped by a few.... but nothing serious I hate them because of those retarded short deformed legs.. its sucks trying to hold-roll and get a vain for sedation or collecting blood.
Cute dogs. I love all dogs, but I'm not too into little dogs (too yippy), but my friend has a couple dachshunds and she loves them. Her dad has a few as well and my aunt has a couple. They all love them. I gravitate towards mixed breeds in the 45-50 pound range. All of my dogs are neurotic pound puppies and they are my sole reason for living.
I think Dachshunds are pretty cool dogs I had two growing up as a kid. Neither had problems one got run over in our driveway (was sleeping next to the tire.) The other was stolen. My miniature ran a big Doberman into its doghouse. Funniest thing you ever saw they both went in finally the Doberman figured out what was going on and the Dachshund ran under the car and barked at him. It was funny to watch.....guess you had to be there.
I'm just curious, but how do you ascertain the theft of a dog, as opposed to it "running away?" Was it an indoor dog that a burglar kept as a souvenir? I'm scratching my head on this one
people here "dog nap" all the time. When they busted a puppy mill here, they found that some were stolen dogs (from the micro chips) it is always little dogs. Hell I stole a few dogs, last was a poor little Chihuahua on a chain in someones front yard...winter time - had a storage box as a house. I adopted it out to a crazy rich lady (she still sends updates and pics everytime she buys a new outfit) . Lucky dog. I trap people's cats all the time, fix um and return them. Also here we have tons of Pit fighters... and they have been known to snatch medium dogs for blood training. They also use pigs.
We found a great dane that it looked like they had used for that. Pissed me off, was a huge dog but was chewed to shreds. It scared the crap out of my kids, and me at first, but it wouldnt let anyone close to it. Of course. We got animal control to come get it, you could tell that it was probably just wanting to lay down somewhere and die. Id love to chain one of those a-holes up and let their own dogs chew on em. Especially the Vick guy. What a dumbass.
We had a guy bring us a poor female pit covered in fighting old scars - with a chain imbedded in her neck. He wanted to know if the metal would affect her puppies - she was about top pop -pregnant. He wanted to know what antibiotics were safe with pregnancy. Husband was in surgery - so I had the guy fill out client papers , and said the Vet will be with you shortly. We were parked at an animal control, I walked over told them... they called the cops, and the asshole was arrested. AND since he filled out the paperwork.. one of the questions on there is { how long have you had this pet...3 years} , also has a place for your address, cops went to his house. I never got an update, wish I knew what they found at the house. They said the sign in sheet will help in court - he cant claim like most people- I found it like this. Poor mama pit was put to sleep... she was bad off- the chain thing was fixable... but then what- who will adopt a fighter pit...and who needs more pit puppies. ugg I hate humans.
I hate humans too. All the shitty things that happen to dogs and cats are directly the result of a human. I have a mixed pit rescue and she's the sweetest dog in the world. When I adopted her, she was totally backwards and she peed everytime you would walk up to her. Now she's acts like a crazy puppy running all around the house, goofy as hell. She still has her scared moments. She's terrified of the remote control. I don't know why. But she's had a complete turn around thanks in part to my other dogs who accepted her from the very beginning. I was afriad my female would hate her but they are total BFFs. I'd like to get another dog and maybe two cats, but I know that's a crazy idea. The Humane Society beckons me though. :redface:
yeah that submissive peeing is annoying... I have a dog that still does that around big men. He rolls over on his back and pisses on himself..annoying .. We get dogs like that all the time.. you go to the cage to get them out for surgery...and they pee all over the place. Vets like it because then they dont have to express the bladder before a spay...techs hate it because they have to clean up the pee.
I don't know what happened to her. The Humane Society took her out of the home she was in. She was covered with sarcoptic mange and was quaratined for a month. I got her right out of quarantine. She stlll had some hair loss but she's fine now. I took her to the vet twice to get skin scrapings because I was so worried that she still had it and it would infect my other dogs. I've always adopted pets from the Humane Society, but they are always sick with kennel cough and worms (even though they have had their shots). So I learned to expect to spend another 150 bucks right after adoption on the vet.
bordetella /kennel cough vaccine is BS ... because there are so many stains of it. One of my dogs got out of the fence...picked up by the pound, spent the night there... came home- was fine... 5-6 days later broke down with kennel cough, and 3 of my other dogs got it. And they were all vaccinated. Next time you think about adopting - I can pre send you the meds and dewormers . Save ya some money.
Ok good point the stolen part is an assumption. But you know I had a Shitzu that was missing for more then a month. We put out posters we made with a picture and our number to call. Well while my wife was at work a neighbor calls her and tess her of another lady in the neighborhood that was taking down the posters. We found the dog it was in her house.
I'd love to hear how you happened to gain access to that broad's house... I used to have a Shih-tsu, too... up until a couple of years ago. I know, not exactly the breed of dog that fits the owner (Let's just say I had won a 'custody battle' 15 years ago, and kept that gal's dog since she couldn't provide a comfy home for it.) I swear, I get more pets that way...
Knocked on the door and said "Give me my dog please". I was angry as hell but biting my tongue she blabberd on making excuses as to why she had it and how she tried to find the owner. I did not say another word but took the dog and left. That dog lived to a ripe old age of maybe 13. It had terrible breath in the end teeth were rotting out and it would sit and stare at a wall and bark at his shadow. I think it was going senile. One day while I was at work and the wife was doing laundry with the back door open he left and never came back. There was a humongous owl that lived back in the woods behind the house. We can only speculate what happened to him. He weighed maybe 10 pounds more likely less.
It might have been having seizures. I had a dog that had a few seizures and he went deaf and blind. He was running into the walls the night before he was put down. This is supposed to be a happy thread. Someone just got a dog. Let's not think about how they die, okay?
