Dog adoption

[Sean of the Shed]

Well done on getting a new family member Chris.
Always good to get everyone's pet updates.

[Mr Beast]

Great pictures Cal & Chris, they look like lovely dogs!

[Sits]

Congratulations ChrisJ on a cracker of a dog.

Cal Alamein Reeses is a lovely looking dog and I can never get enough pics of lovely Rio.

[Cal Alamein]

Thanks - your pup looks equally wonderful!

[ChrisJ]

Wonderful dogs.

[Cal Alamein]

Yes, look fwd to seeing Charley!

We've been taking care of our son's dog Reeses - he's about 4 and even at about 30 lbs pulls like a sled dog. Frighteningly alert senses all around. Not sure of his breeds but is a total athlete.



Here's a shot of our 13-14 yr old Rio on same pillow about 11 years ago. She's also a serious mutt but w/ a deep hound dog bark.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Aha! Yes I can, what a chap!

[ChrisJ]

Toby Gymshorts Can you see the photos now?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Ah. We're still having that issue, are we?

[ChrisJ]

He sounds fantastic, ChrisJ. The public demand pictures (of the dog that is. Not you drinking in your pants (unless that's your bag)).

Well, I'm not shy... but there are three pics in my post. Which tells me I've done something wrong in posting them. Hang on, I'll do an edit and see what I need to change.

[Toby Gymshorts]

He sounds fantastic, ChrisJ. The public demand pictures (of the dog that is. Not you drinking in your pants (unless that's your bag)).

[ChrisJ]

Been a lurker on this thread for a while.

We've had cats (rescues) for yonks, mostly because we've always been out of the house for 12 hours a day. Anyway, last of the cats died a few months back and MrsCJ is retired, so we decided to take the plunge and go for a dog.

As you'll all know, it's hard work, lots of admin, takes a lot of convincing to persuade a dog charity to let a member of the public get near one of their charges, but we managed it. We're now parents to Charley (as in Steinbeck), 3.5 yo, half poodle, half springer, all maniac.

Loves: running, swimming, having seeds removed from his coat, tummy/back-rubs.
Hates: birds, cats, baths.
Strengths: running, catching pigeons, covering the kitchen with water from his water bowl, collecting seeds in his coat.
Weaknesses: recall, recall, recall.

He's technically MrsCJ's dog, but I've gone unaccountably soppy over him. I'm sure it's a phase. She's away for a couple of days so we're having a boys' weekend, watching football and cricket and drinking in our underpants. It's gone well (today's Welsh Fire results notwithstanding), and we're planning a camping adventure by the coast.

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[Third rate Leszno]

Thankfully he doesn't bear a grudge!

[evilC]

Looks like he's plotting against you already, Third rate Leszno!

[Sits]

Poor lad.

[Third rate Leszno]

Rafa got separated from his knackers yesterday. Poor little fella looked like he'd just come home from a weekend in Amsterdam, wearing a suit he didn't recognise with a very tender groin area, a fuzzy head and no memory of the last few hours.

[Sits]

[Sits]

Meet Annie. A one year old (estimated) Kelpie who came into the dogs' home as a stray a couple of weeks ago and if all goes well will now be staying here. A tiny thing*, 15kg and we're wondering if she's not quite stopped growing yet. Desexed and microchipped in the last couple of days so probably sore and exhausted.

*compared to Emily and predecessor Bob.

Where did that year go? She is well and truly established as the fourth child and gets away with so much more than our previous dogs.

[Sits]

Best of luck Staph.

[S. aureus]

Update a day later:
The hound seems back to normal, behavior and personality wise, but he's decidedly less steady on his feet than he was 2 days ago, especially when he first got up this morning. He was slowly getting more wobbly already this year.
So far he's tolerated the anti-seizure medication that he's now on, and he has a follow up appointment Monday.

[Sits]

Seconded, that sounds horrible.

[Mr Beast]

Fingers crossed for you S.

[S. aureus]

It's been a stressful morning.
The only time these days that I am both not with my phone and out of the house are my one hour gym sessions twice a week. This morning's was 9-10. At 9.01 my daughter calls me because our dog was having a seizure (probably, there are other possible explanations), so I didn't find out until 10 when I checked my phone to find 27 missed calls and a handful of texts from my son. In the meantime they'd called the neighbor across the street, who'd come over and then called the police as they couldn't find me. My kids and neighbor had also been rebuffed by the vets they'd tried as they weren't the owner. Apparently one place told them to take him to the animal shelter, where they'd not see him again.
By the time I got home (almost 10.15) my poor dog was wandering the house but seemed confused about where he was, and whimpering occasionally. He didn't want to be picked up, and had been like this for the past hour, possibly worse at the beginning. Sometime over that hour he'd managed to open a boil that he had on his tail (I'd just noticed that when we got up earlier) and there was blood everywhere, and some localized pee and poop from when he was having his seizure. Off we went to the emergency room, while in the car he managed to calm down and just lie on me, rather than squirming to get off like he did at first.
The next few hours were spent at the doggie ER, where they checked him out and didn't really find anything wrong, so they think it was probably a seizure but could also have been a vestibular event. He's seemed fine since I brought him home again.

[Sean of the Shed]

She's a good dog.

[Mr Beast]

What a lovely smile!