Posted on 09/10/2005 11:21:16 PM PDT by BagCamAddict
Thanks for the info,will do. I have a couple of large kennels that I won't need for the forseeable future.
Loyalty goes both ways with dogs. Our dog would fight to the death for us, she would get the same loyalty in return.
Abandon her? They'd have to kill me first.
I wonder if they shot Snowball.
People come first.
You may be right.
However, from experience, real tough guy will always stick up for the animals, especially domesticated dogs. Loyalty goes both ways.
Our German Shepard would die fighting to protect me and mine, and she'll get the same loyalty in return.
The comment about dog lovers, animal lovers being wussies was out of line. Some of the biggest, bad asses I know are into their dogs. I am one of those that will stand fast with my dog. She protects me, I protect her. Period. End of story.
Snowball was rescued, and is with the little boy who loved him.
Snowball was rescued, and is with the little boy who loved him.
Cute dog
I hope so, heard it both ways.
I hear you.
I'm married to a Sicilian biker who literally grew up streetfighting on Federal Hill in Providence RI.
[the 50s/early 60s...back in the good ol' bad ol' days]..;))
Only a suicidal fool would call him a wussy over his love for our dogs.
Hell, he knocked the crap outta one of his best buds because the guy jerked his -own- arthritic dog by its aching legs and made it scream while hubby was standing there.
You just don't hurt *any* animal while he's anywhere near.
"P*ssy" he ain't....not by a long stretch.
Where I live, the good ol' boys have 2 immutable rules.
No insulting the wife.
No kicking the hound.
Break either rule at your own risk.
For myself, I am a loyalty fanatic and I learned that from the greatest teachers of all; my dogs.
They'd go the distance for me and I can do no less for them.
Hubby and I discussed this at the outset of the NO mess and I flatly stated that, in the event of disaster *here*, I will either leave with my dogs or die with them.
Either way, we stay together, regardless.
Does that make me a "nut"?
Don't know, don't care.
That's just how it is,plain and simple.
I wonder if they'd ship her to MD?....:)
Another address to ship CRATES to. This is for the Lamar-Dixon and Coliseum shelter(s):
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
Attn Mike Mills/Dr. Littlefield (Katrina)
5825 Florida Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70806-4248
Thanks for the story. I just have little patients for those that act big and bad when it comes to American domesticated dogs. When I said they are more trustworthy and loyal than most humans, I met it. Our German Shepard would die first while protecting my family.
Loyality goes both ways in my opinion.
The person states that once an animal has gone "feral" it cannot be saved yet recounts tales of the feral animals she's saved.
If that's not cognitive dissonance, I don't know what is.
I myself own 4 Ibizans.
They are a "primitive" breed which means not only is their genetics/type ancient they are also not particularly "domesticated" in the sense that most dogs are.
Left on their own, they would survive quite well since they already possess a highly developed pack mentality [as do most sighthounds] and a *very* high prey drive.
It's all I can do to keep them from "hunting" the small critters which frequent my property.
Deprived of other prey, they currently must content themselves with hunting flies and bugs.
As any Ibizan owner will tell you, it *is* like living amongst a pack of wild dogs..."ferals", if you will.
Yet somehow, their love of human company manages to always "bring them back to a housepet state of mind" at the end of day.
One of my dogs has been *so* abused she barely passes as a "tame animal".
Shall I blow her brains out because her previous situation affected her mind so dramatically and deeply?
Of course not.
In spite of the fact that any little odd noise [or mental flashback] causes her to panic so terribly that I worry she'll jump the fence and take to the wilderness, I keep on working with her with the knowledge that this too, shall pass.
I'd bet that very, -very- few "feral" dogs are unreachable.
Cats are a lot more difficult, to be sure, but the majority of them can become pets, as well.
Maybe I'm just either an optimist or someone who refuses to take the easy way out and give up on them.
Perhaps I'm a lot of both....:)
I loved what the one NO guy said about his dog being the only one he trusted after all the looting and pillaging.
I can dig it.
One of my dogs was all I lived for, once upon a time.
I was married to brutally abusive man and her love [and the fact that I would have had to leave her behind with him] kept me from giving up and "ending it all".
She was an Ibizan I saved from death at the pound.
She'd been there 3 weeks, which was -2- weeks past "needle day" but no one had the heart to kill her.
I got to the SPCA right before they closed and asked to
see the funny looking dog that was in paper that week.
They took me to her kennel and for the first time, I was told, she reacted to someone looking at her.
She got up out of the corner where she'd been huddled for weeks, walked over to the wire fence where my fingers were sticking through and *bit* me!
The SPCA lady groaned in despair because they knew it was the dog's last 10 minutes on earth and I was her only hope.
I looked up at the lady and she was utterly miserable, standing there.
I said "Git muh damn dog outta this cage"...:))
Minny [as she was named] danced out of the cage, stood up with paws on the counter as I signed the forms and she walked out the door and straight to -my- car, which of course, she'd never seen before.
The SPCA lady said no one even looked at her prior to my arrival that day.
It was as though she'd made herself invisible to all the other potential adopters and was waiting just for me.
[I think she bit me because I didn't get there til the last minute]...LOL!
I saved her life that day and for 13 years she repaid me a million times over.
She's been gone for 3 years now and not a day goes by that I don't shed a tear for her.
She was one of a kind and my hearts of hearts.
More than that, she was "my dog".
She has a beautiful grave in my yard.
She's the first thing I see when I go outside and the last thing I see when I come in.
She's always close to me, just like she used to be.
Damn.
I've got something in my eye now.
Gotta go.
Doesn't sound like she's gone. Like many of our loved ones, I'd say her spirit is strong and with you daily. Thanks for sharing that bit of your life. Best of luck to you, and think good thoughts.
BT.
I think she does "goose" me through her little 3 year old niece, Phoebe.
Sometimes Phoebe will up do some totally nutty, utterly "Minny the prankster" thing with no warning and then she'll stand there looking at me with what I'd swear are Minny's eyes.
Phoebe even started playing particular "games"
with me that only Minny ever did, all of her own volition.
Makes me wonder....;)
And Phoebe too, is a lifesaver.
She pulled me up from the depths of despair that resulted from Minny's death.
I can't help but wonder at all they give to me and the only things they ask in return are food and love.
Quite a bargain, eh?...:)
Personally I think it is disgraceful that our tax dollars are being wasted to "rescue" these dogs. Many have become part of bands of roaming dogs searching for food. They are filthy from the toxic brew in the water, they will most likely die anyway. The rescuers have difficulty catching the dogs and they must be immediately bathed to get the poisonous waste off of them. Several of the humans who have gotten that water on their skin for any length of time look like they have acid burns. These dogs will surely be seriously injured if not killed from the water anyway. We have too many important things to spend our tax dollars on instead of dogs. Save the people, not the d*mned dogs!
Geeeeeeezzzz.... you coulda posted a tissue warning on that one!!
I had a "one in a million" dog like that... he did die for me. And I nearly died for him. I know I'll never again have a bond like that with a dog in my life. I've had a number of dogs, but none compare with that one.
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