Posted on 10/09/2017 11:44:33 AM PDT by mairdie
Mixed doctors and companions in Enya's "White is in the Winter Night"
I’m glad you found a place that would take Penny. It was good of the manager to meet her before making a decision.
A pit may be more prone to be what I call the bitey type but it all comes down to how they are treated and trained.
I know a man who breeds pit bulls, his are all brindles.
His dogs are very well trained and ride around in the bed of his truck.
When he sells a dog he researches the prospective buyer.
His first call is to the police department and the second call is to social services.
If there is any indication the dog may be abused, taught to be over aggressive or to fight he refuses to sell to that person.
He has a waiting list for his dogs.
No I haven’t.
My only internet connection is on my phone and YouTube takes forever buffering.
I go to the library once or twice a month and catch any video while there.
I’ll look them up on my next library visit.
I think the ASPCA did a check on me before letting me adopt Penny.
Also I was given a little paper that told me her background. She belonged to a young man who went off to college, and the man’s family did not want Penny. (I can’t IMAGINE anyone not wanting her). I guess it was meant to be, because if they had kept Penny till her Human came home from College, I would never have gotten her!
Que sera, sera! :-)
That ain’t an RV, that’s a house on wheels!
I like it, even the kids seem at home in it.
The campground folks are usually the salt of the earth types.
I found that it didn’t matter whether you were in a nice RV or a tent, you were fellow travelers and that was all that mattered.
We used to camp a bit when my wife was healthy and loved it.
I preferred primitive camping miles from civilization but wifey demanded a bathroom and shower.
We compromised by going to campgrounds but using their primitive sites. No water or electric hook ups.
When I hit the road again I plan on spending a couple of years just traveling.
If I find an interesting small town or rural area I may stay for a month or so. See the local sights and really meet the locals.
I love people and their stories so I plan to indulge myself.
Catherine Tate!
Doctor Donna!
Definitely making a trip to the library.
Thanks for the links.
Pits got a bad reputation because hood rats and white trash wanted mean dogs.
A pit can be turned mean rather quickly so they made the Bad Dog list.
I think shelters in most states are required to do a check whenever a dog on the list is adopted.
The couple that had Penny probably bought into the hype and were scared to keep her.
As you say it worked out good for both of you.
I remember the different breeds of dogs that were ostracized over the years.
In the 50’s it was German Shepherds
In the 60’s it was Dobermans
In the 70’s it was Rottweilers
The 80’s and 90’s shared all three as “bad dogs”, but then the New Millennium came along.
Now it’s the “Pit Bull” which isn’t even a breed, but a catch-all phrase for American Staffordshire Terrier, Pit-Bull Terrier, Some English Terriers, and a few others. Penny is American Staff, Yellow Lab, and probably Boxer, but with that face of hers, she is called a “Pit-Bull”.
But she’s MINE...All MINE! :-)
I hated even the idea of traveling, so the compromise was for me to take home with me. I LOVED it! A shame we couldn’t reach Las Vegas for the convention. It was designed for doggy comfort. A cherry queen anne table sat to the right of my passenger chair, with cushions for the lucky dogs to cuddle close. Everything fitted into plastic bins for traveling, with more doggy beds on top. Cushions on the bedroom desk ledge let them look out the window while traveling. It was definitely designed for them.
We did genealogy, going to the graves of my relatives and visiting research libraries. It turns out that Henry Livingston’s grandson became the IL Senator and Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court, so he has his own big archive collection. I was able to find old family letters Henry had written to his fiance that were sent to the grandson when they divided up Henry’s estate after his death. Also, when the grandson first left home, Henry wrote him letter after letter giving him advice, from the point of view of a judge, of how to be a good and moral lawyer. The grandson practiced law at the same time as Lincoln in the same circuit.
I loved the campground owners and the people we met. Wonderful stories. So many backgrounds so you learned something new all the time. Didn’t matter the size of the RV or the size of the tent. Everyone was the same and part of an extended family. Walks and flowers and fresh air. And I still got to go home every night.
Staying a month sounds perfect. You get to find the best driveins and take out, the little nooks the locals usually don’t bother with. I love people, too. I hope you can go back to some of the places you passed thru that looked intriguing. And at the perfect times of year.
An uncle used to breed shepherds from the 50’s through the mid 70’s. He dealt with all the negative publicity fairly well.
He was breeding show dogs so temperament was very important to him. He was very picky about who he sold his pups to.
He never had one complaint about his dogs being aggressive.
I always liked the smaller dogs.
I kept beagles because I loved rabbit hunting and beagles were the best rabbit dogs.
I also cozied up to any mutt that happened to show up.
I have traced my fathers family back to the highlands of Scotland and the Chattan confederation.
The confederation was designed to offset the numerical advantage the lowland Scots had over the highlanders.
When the English “unified” the island under their rule my ancestors remained true Scotsmen and continued to be a PITA to the crown.
My ancestors were rounded up and shipped off to Virginia in the new American colonies.
My mom’s family is pure English on her mothers side but her fathers family originated in Germany along the Rhine river.
Back when England was as much swampland as farmland someone had the bright idea of bringing some Germans from along the Rhine to England and paying them to drain the swamps since they had done such a good job in Germany.
Granddads family took the job and went to England. Once they spent a few years in England they decided to stay and took part of their pay in land.
Once the colonies opened up an enterprising younger son decided to cross the ocean and make his way here.
This genealogy thing can be fun if you want to put the time into it.
I once heard campgrounds referred to as “an eclectic mix of Drysdales and Clampetts” by a campground owner.
Being a people person I love them.
“I also cozied up to any mutt that happened to show up.”
Me Too! LOL!
Penny’s best canine friend is a beagle named Bella who lives a few houses down.
I got into genealogy hoping to find a living cousin who would have the book of poetry of my father’s that my mother told me about. Didn’t find one who had it, though I did eventually find the book, but I met so many wonderful genealogy cousins. People who share the passion are such lovely people.
It sounds like we have very similar heritage. Scotch, English and German. Mother always said we were Heinz 57, so we’ve got a lot more drips and drabs of other cultures. My Livingston Scot was sufficiently difficult that he escaped Scotland for safety in Amsterdam in the 1600s. He married into Dutch and German. My English/Scots on the other side came to Charlotte County Virginia around 1740-60.
I’m glad you found the book. Such things are nice to have and hand down.
A great aunt used to call Scotland the ill fitting gem in the English crown and our clan was the irritating pebble in the English boot. As irritating pebbles must be removed so were we removed to the shores of the new world.
Family legend has it that as soon as my ancestors hit solid ground they determined how far inland the Kings tax collectors traveled then they went two weeks hard travel past that.
In the mid 80’s I ran a Pepsi route that covered half of Charlotte county.
I may have run into some of your kinsmen!
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