Posted on 12/27/2009 1:01:29 PM PST by JoeProBono
If you have a pet named Max, you’re hardly alone.
Max was the most popular name for both male dogs and male cats in 2009, according to the Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. The hospital compiled its unscientific list from the more than 50,000 patients it treated this year.
The top name for female dogs was Bella....
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Greyhounds are sweet animals. Not real bright, but adopting these dogs are a gift. I like your animal names! :o)
The big guy, Hydro, is not a normal greyhound build. He is shorter in that his shoulders are only level with the table at 30". His shoulders are more than twice as wide as the other dog's. His head is extra wide, along with his hips and everything else. He was far too stocky to ever be a racer. He would eat constantly but we limit the food and snacks.
Our daughter adopted Ash last December, and then joined the Coast Guard in June and left us the dog! She’s a wonderful pet, though, if you like a *very large* emotionally needy animal. She mopes through the days, fighting the catz for the sunbeams, until my husband comes home and assures her that he still loves her.
One reason we chose a female greyhound was to keep from getting one that was really big. We have 11 people and eleven other pets (counting anoles and a fish) in the house.
I have had a Mugsy, Puppy, Chichow, MOna, Pepper and Teesha. I am old, did not kill off them in their prime..:O)
Don’t know ... we’ve never had a lab. I suppose she’s okay as long as she can walk and doesn’t need insulin shots.
No insulin but she does waddle a little...then again so do I...
My son and I were walking through our neighborhood one day when a big lab ran out of a garage barking. We stopped, and the owner called, “He won’t bite!” The dog got to the end of his driveway, lay down by our feet, and licked Tom’s toes and slobbered, while the owner kept saying, “He won’t bite!” We were like, “No kidding!”
This is too funny. My neighbors just got a new puppy and her name is Bella.
For the first 9 years I had Pepper I didn’t think she knew how to growl...last year adopted a senior from a kill shelter, she knows how to growl but only at her food bowl..she does lick you clean..sweet dog,
Our greyhound has just begun to bark when we put her in her cage or outside while we’re cooking meat! She says, “Wooof,” like she’s reading a script, “The dog says, ‘Wooof’ .”
Ash is seriously “retired” and refuses to run more than a few yards. Sometimes she chases a ball around the back yard - and she’s fast - but mostly she wants to *walk*, slowly, with time to sniff everywhere any other dog has been.
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