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Spoke- Big Kitty is like Sean Connery- he just keeps getting better with age! :p He's a beaut!

Here's our petite little Ellie who will be turning 20 next month:
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Here is Ellie with her white mittens all tidily folded, in the 'cat chair' with Pearl. They actually dislike each other intensely, but I keep a pet heating pad under that plaid throw and sometimes they put up with each other in order to get some nice heat! ;D (Yes, that chair certainly needs re-upholstering one of these days!)
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Love Ellie's feet! My little gal, Riley, has white feet like that. They're irresistable.

Here she is, sharing my morning coffee:

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Just for grins...

I came home one day from running some errands and found Toby like this... I guess he'd had a hard night. I have no idea how he managed to pull that rug over himself.

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Just for grins...

I came home one day from running some errands and found Toby like this... I guess he'd had a hard night. I have no idea how he managed to pull that rug over himself.

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Too cute!

OK here goes- This is a picture of Max our little 7 year old Yorkie chilling out.

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Somehow it would seem wrong if I left my Lucy out of this shot. She died in March last year after I left her with a friend while I was out of state working. Still miss my girl... :( Wish I could find a pic of her "smoking" a cigarette that she found while the house was under rennovation. I couldn't have arranged that better if I tried.

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Just for grins...

I came home one day from running some errands and found Toby like this... I guess he'd had a hard night. I have no idea how he managed to pull that rug over himself.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/P1010551.jpg

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That is too funny. Sure does look like a hard night.:

A rescue friend of mine created this beautiful tribute to Luke. It's set to How Can I Keep From Singing? by Enya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOArPFbozc

Bleeker - Ellie is a beautiful, petite kitty! I hope she is doing well at her advanced 20 year age?

spoke

Hey,

My little Elwood Blues (Bunny) recently went to bunny heaven, he was an albino angora, .......not ready to look at his picture yet.... <sigh>
Cyn

Sundial, what a nice tribute. He had beautiful eyes.

Karen

Lucie...our trail dog. She is soooo fast we have a hard time keeping up with her!!! She does other sports for crosstraining...

This is my baby...Ebbe on a winter hike in our back woods. She loves it when she can go...she is too old and slow for mtbiking!

What a cutie! Love the sweater.

...says, "Hi guys! Wanna play?"

So, I had to take digital pics of all my photos that had gotten damp and moldy in the basement, and I found my all time favorite picture of Julio. This is him the day after I got him in 1991. It still cracks me up. His head was too big for his body!

Oh they are all so cute!
I want to cuddle all of them.:D

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Hey,

My little Elwood Blues (Bunny) recently went to bunny heaven, he was an albino angora, .......not ready to look at his picture yet.... <sigh>
Cyn

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Oh, I'm so sorry about your bunny. :(

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I'm so sorry about your bunny. :( :(

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Kali girl wanting mommy to throw her frisbee. This was taken while I was standing on the porch in my jammies, in freezing temps. :D

This is the new dog I am fostering until after my son's new baby is born. He was found in a very bad situation, tied up on a 3 ft. chain in the same yard with some pit bulls who were unchained. He was 25 lbs underweight when he was rescued by a neighbor. They said they witnessed the "owner" picking up the dog and punching him in the face.

He's been at my house since Monday. Aside from not really knowing what to do with the other dogs while they try to get him to play, he's been such a sweetheart. I took him on his first walk today and he was such a good guy on the leash! His name is Mike. I'm so happy he's salvageable after he's been through so much.

Hi Mike! You're safe now. Your new brothers and sisters are your friends, they won't hurt you. You'll figure it out in time. ;)

Poor Mike :(
Did anything happen to his "owner"? :mad:

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Poor Mike :(
Did anything happen to his "owner"? :mad:

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former owner. hope so. people jail perhaps? And what about the other dogs?

golly, Mike is beautiful!!

I hear so much heartbreaking stories of abuse and/or neglect. How do these terrible offenders sleep at night?!? :mad:

I'm ever so amazed at the animals' resilience and their capacity to love humans even after they've been treated so horribly. Hope Mike finds a home that is deserving of his beautiful soul!!

Oh Mikey is beautiful and very lucky. Sounds like he was a "bait" for the pitbulls. Animal control should be called to the house with the pitbulls. If the owner was that abusive to him and with loose pitbulls... I just have to wonder.

I showed the photo to my partner and she said "bait" too. She also thinks the dog is a pure bred chocolate lab from the pic. probably stolen from somewhere. The owner will be getting another bait dog. so have the neighbor keep checking and turn that sorry arse to SPCA and animal control.

He is very cute. give him lots of hugs from all of us.
I wish him a good life, a happy life.

smilingcat

I just love those rescues. He has such a gentle spirit and how lucky he has you as family. :)

God Bless you Tucker for fostering Mike (and others). Just think if humans had the same capacity to love like these animals. Maybe this wouldn't happen so often.

I think the former owner should be the new bait for the pitbulls. That would be justice to me.

No, he's 99% Weimaraner, although I thought he was a Lab, too when I first saw the pictures they sent. He can't look more like a Weimaraner in all ways, except his eye color, and he's really dark gray with some brownish hints. There's probably some Lab in there somewhere, though. They were billing him as full-blooded Weimaraner. It doesn't really matter what he is, as long as he's safe.

I wish I could say something happened to the abusers, but they live in another city and I don't know who they are, and of course I didn't see any of it. He was posted on Freecycle by neighbors of the abuser. These two people happen to run a cat rescue, and took the dog in and spent lots of money on him to get him healthy. They bought him a dog house and all this other stuff like a raised dish, etc., knowing they wouldn't keep him. He's microchipped and I have all his records. They spent A LOT of money! I thought that was very generous of them. He spent a week at the vet. Some of his teeth had to be removed because he was gnawing on the chain link fence he was tied to. It's all very sad. Those people were so nice.

He's going to my son's house to be a companion for their Great Pyr/Lab mix. New baby comes this month, so when my DIL is ready to handle another dog, Mikey should be ready. I just saw him wrestling with my little terrier and now he's rolling around on the floor by himself, so he's settling right in!

I'll pass on your good wishes to him!

Karen

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No, he's 99% Weimaraner, although I thought he was a Lab, too when I first saw the pictures they sent. He can't look more like a Weimaraner in all ways, except his eye color, and he's really dark gray with some brownish hints. There's probably some Lab in there somewhere, though. They were billing him as full-blooded Weimaraner. It doesn't really matter what he is, as long as he's safe.

I wish I could say something happened to the abusers, but they live in another city and I don't know who they are, and of course I didn't see any of it. He was posted on Freecycle by neighbors of the abuser. These two people happen to run a cat rescue, and took the dog in and spent lots of money on him to get him healthy. They bought him a dog house and all this other stuff like a raised dish, etc., knowing they wouldn't keep him. He's microchipped and I have all his records. They spent A LOT of money! I thought that was very generous of them. He spent a week at the vet. Some of his teeth had to be removed because he was gnawing on the chain link fence he was tied to. It's all very sad. Those people were so nice.

He's going to my son's house to be a companion for their Great Pyr/Lab mix. New baby comes this month, so when my DIL is ready to handle another dog, Mikey should be ready. I just saw him wrestling with my little terrier and now he's rolling around on the floor by himself, so he's settling right in!

I'll pass on your good wishes to him!

Karen

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He is a very cute Karen!
Glad to hear he is safe and getting the love he deserves.:)

Hi Karen,

My partner and I talked some more. The people who rescued Mikey needs to be careful with the abuser. If he(abuser) had Mikey as a "bait" and had/have pit bulls running around loose, chances are very high that the abusers may be affiliated with gangs or a member of a gang, most likely have guns and illicit drugs used and sold. Tell them to be very careful. As much as they may want to rescue the dogs, they really need to think about their own safety.

Personal safety first before you rescue anybody else!! Same goes for rescuing animals.

one more thing. If the neighbors see another bait dog at the abusers place, have them call the police not animal control and tell them that there are loose pit bulls in the yard with a bait dog. The police will be out there in a hurry cause its drugs, money, guns and gangs.

lastly,

Since Mikey is no where near the abusers place, he has nothing to fear. Weimrunner... very cute. Had my partner fooled. lol

smilingcat

I just wish people don't use pit bulls as a means to intimidate people or to train them to fight dogs.

Pit bulls often make horrible "guard dogs" because they inherently love people. They have problems with other animals but for the most part (unless they've been trained otherwise) they love humans and won't hurt them.

But people like that give them the worst reputation that just keep getting worse.

Sundial - Earlier this week, I watched the beautiful tribute to Luke. What an old soul! He obviously enjoyed the time he spent w/you.
Kali has the most magnificent ears. I'd love to give her a big hug!

I see alot of rescues where I live...some good friends are Pit Bull fosters, I can't say more about how wonderful that breed really is!

My babies are both rescues. Lucie is part Pit and could not be friendlier (she is a little over protective of me towards other dogs but we are working with a trainer on this!) My little Jack-Chihuahua mix is the "difficult"one!!! She was kicked by work boots one too many times but she has done so much better since we brought Lucie into the mix! I think she basically has small dog syndrome...hehe! I just have to be careful that kids don't pick her up but she is a hunter (runs for cats & squirrels) so she is ALWAYS on leash which makes it easy to keep her from getting into trouble.

just a big Thank You to all you rescuers out there!!!!

Tucker, I saw Mike and immediately thought Weineramer, but maybe mixed with lab. Must be the eyes. Great story, great rescue. I hope the former owners are flushed out and that the neighbors are careful.

I have neighbors who breed pits, but they do it for extra money, not fighting, although you never know who buys the pups. They walk the adult dogs and the puppies by my house most days. Of course, I want to tell them to stop, but I don't. The dogs are healthy and seem well-adjusted. The world just has too many unwanted dogs without intentional breeding!

Shiloh is doing better with his training. He's able to get past kids waiting for the schoolbus without completely falling apart, although he does try to walk between my legs. I wonder what kids did to him to make him so terrified. Actually, I'm pretty happy not to know. We're just moving forward.

Smilingcat, thanks for the advice. I will definitely pass it on to the gals who saved him.

He's been here almost a week, and he now remembers what it's like to be a dog. Quite a sweetie. Flatulent, but sweet!

Karen

Probably just adjusting to a regular meal schedule! Try a little Beano?

Hey, Tulip, maybe you should find a dog family that has kids, so you can socialize Shiloh to kids. I wouldn't want a dog to be afraid of kids, because you never know when it might encounter them; in case of an incident where the child gets hurt, the dog would get the blame 99% of the time. That would be a sad day for the dog. It may just be a matter of making friends with a couple of smaller people to get Shiloh over the hump.

Karen

Yep, that's what I'm doing, with a woman in my 'hood who is a dog trainer. We're introducing him to dogs (he has issues with those, too, if he's on a leash he gets very snarly, but doesn't bite) and to kids. Shiloh is fine with one kid at a time and had no problem with my niece and nephew. It's groups of kids and screaming kids that he cowers from. We're working on it. He met the dog trainer's 18-month old today and was fine. Granted, if the kid had squealed, there might have been a problem, but being a dog trainer's kid, he was very calm around the dog.

Right now we're working on just walking confidently on a leash to build up general confidence, presumably for Shiloh, but also for me since I don't have experience walking dogs. It's harder than it looks! The trainer is having us meet known friendly dogs, kids, and we'll introduce him to the dog park nearby. The dog park is not a free-for-all dogpark like some dogparks. Apparently, it's pretty tightly controlled by serious dog people.

This is all new to me. I'm learning as much or more than Shiloh.

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Me too :eek:
All that shrieking!
I somehow don't think we did that when I was a kid.

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Me too :eek:
All that shrieking!
I somehow don't think we did that when I was a kid.

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We certainly were taught not to be loud around unknown dogs. But to the kids' credit, Shiloh cowers even if he hears kids shrieking with delight while playing down the street somewhere or in their own yards. Only once has a kid come running out yelling, "DOGGIE!" That was not cool. Shiloh pooped right then and there. Terrified.