Posted on 08/21/2010 9:47:54 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
Joe....have you bought a book from Jordan Taylor called “Wonder Dogs”??
It’s about GSD’s that have been in the movies.... I can’t open the link right now cuz the brat, um, Brad is using up too much bandwidth and don’t nag me on THAT.... :) ........ but it sure looks like a FUN book about GSD’s..
Oh wow.............. LOL!!!
did YOU take that pic???
Back when I was doing rescue, you’d have had 5 or 6 vying for your attention, at any given time.
[there’d be my 3 or 4 plus whomever was going through physical/mental “rehab” in preparation for new forever homes]
Merlin [one I kept for myself] was the smartest of my rescues.
She’d back up to whomever was on the sofa and quietly, gracefully plop her butt on their feet so they couldn’t get up.
They had no choice but to pet her....:)
My dogs are why I married my husband.
He came into my living room and the usually “Go get bent, outsider!” stand-offish Ibizans loved him.
So...I decided to push the envelope and let 2 Dobes and an AmStaff out of the upstairs bedroom to see what they thought of him.
[bringing out the Big Guns]...LOL
Not only did Merlin *not* eat him, she immediately adored him, as did her “boyfriend” Arthur.
Rowan, the AmStaff jumped into his lap and started nibbling his beard.
I knew then he was a good soul.
[or Merlin would’ve taken a chunk outta him...she was a very good judge of character/intent]...:))
I know a lot of people like that and I HATE it and it eats at me.
[and here y’all probably just thought I was a cranky b*tch for no good reason]...:)
As in leeches?
No thanks.
I was wading barefoot in a crick last year and amongst the crawdads, minnies and skippers, I noticed an odd muddy area with perfectly round holes in the otherwise rocky crick bed.
Being eternally curious, I waded over to see what critters lived in those holes.
I stirred up the soft mud too much to really see anything and went back to shore.
As I sat down to take off my wet shoes for dry ones, in horror, I noticed about a dozen small leeches on my feet and ankles.
[I did NOT scream like a girl]
Hubby comes over and wants to know what’s taking me so long so I thrust a foot towards him and yelled “Pulling off THESE! Wanna HELP?!?”
He did not.
I do not like leeches.
[and no, I did not put them back in the water....I threw them in the dirt...let ‘em walk back in if they don’t like it on land]
He’s probably at work.
....or that pit bull puppy ate him.
:)
A good/breed correct Dobermann has an "inscrutable, soul piercing gaze" and deep-set eyes.
It *can* be unnerving.
Most times, you can tell if they're going to have it or not, even as pups.
Odin as a baby:
Even at only 7 weeks, he had that unreadable expression.
At 7 months, he really "owned" it.
I am trembling as I type this.
How CAN you have that child so near that vicious beast???
The day she showed up, someone on facebook said how brave I was. That she would have just stayed inside and called Animal Control. When Molly showed up she walked over with a big smile as if she thought we were expecting her, “Hello. I’m the dog you ordered.”
What a NEAT story that is....
Thank you!!!
Good girl!!!
ICK ICK AND ICK!!!
Uh. Yes. Yes....she says, backing OUT of the room.....
LOL!!!
BTW....neighborhood story from long ago. One neighbor had a Dobie. In a properly fenced yard....with a wrought iron gate at the end of the driveway.
Another (horribly stupid) neighbor went over there, and put her hand THRU the gate.
Yes, she was bit....AND, she was MAD at the dog owner...nothing came of it, thankfully...
I LOVE seeing pictures of your ‘vicious beast’. A true cinderella story. :-)
I don’t like soap bubbles, either.
[SO FEAR ME!]
LOL!
Pit ‘Mander
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