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    Quote Originally Posted by pragmatic View Post
    Border collie/Bulldog mix. Can't really tell from the picture but she has a distinct under bite. Rather endearing actually.

    Rescue i picked up several years ago when she was about 5 yrs old. Was in a no kill shelter and had been there for over a year. She is much better now but it is/was pretty clear she had been mistreated before she got to the shelter.


    Wonderful personality. Very fast learner. Has been quite the positive addition to the household.
    Border collies are highly intelligent and bulldogs are very sweet, so the combination would make for a very nice dog. There is very special karma coming to those who abuse animals. I'm glad she found a forever home with you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    Yes, I agree. Animals are a big commitment. I had a emotionally dramatic experience with my family dog when I was in my mid teens and I've never gotten another dog because of it. To be brief, he was hit when he was crossing the road from a field to our house (I lived in the country). He was still alive but bleeding out and in great pain. My parents weren't home so I had to shoot him myself. I never got over the sight of him looking at me as I held the gun out. It still has an emotional effect on me.
    That is truly horrendous. It reminds me - without being too morbid, I hope - of an incident that happens in a novel, I think, that I read many years ago. A boy living out in the country has much the same thing happen to him; his dog is run over and is suffering terribly, and the boy has to run to the house and get his father's rifle and come back and shoot his beloved dog. He feels so horribly that he tries to turn the rifle on himself, but it is taller than he is and he can't manage to do it.

    Anyway, of course I can have no real conception of how you truly feel, but I still hope that you're able to bring yourself to letting a dog into your life again someday soon. It may sound corny, but you've got to imagine that if the dog you had could advise you about it, he wouldn't want you to be dog-less. Lots of good boys (and good girls) out there hoping for a warm, loving home for the New Year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pragmatic View Post
    Lucy the Wonder Dog gets fed at 5PM. If by chance i am sidetracked and miss that special moment in the universe, she is there barking to remind me. She is seldom more that 5 minutes of so off.


    She also has super powers. Here she is flying around the back yard a few inches above the ground.

    My wife's dog, Lily, has that same white stripe down the center of her face. Her nickname is "The Badger".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    Yes, I agree. Animals are a big commitment. I had a emotionally dramatic experience with my family dog when I was in my mid teens and I've never gotten another dog because of it. To be brief, he was hit when he was crossing the road from a field to our house (I lived in the country). He was still alive but bleeding out and in great pain. My parents weren't home so I had to shoot him myself. I never got over the sight of him looking at me as I held the gun out. It still has an emotional effect on me.
    What an awful experience for one so young. I can see how you would be reluctant to feel that kind of pain again. On the other hand, there are so many poor dogs in shelters. I hope one day you'll allow another dog to enrich your life once again and repay him by giving him a home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pragmatic View Post
    Lucy the Wonder Dog gets fed at 5PM. If by chance i am sidetracked and miss that special moment in the universe, she is there barking to remind me. She is seldom more that 5 minutes of so off.


    She also has super powers. Here she is flying around the back yard a few inches above the ground.

    Shes laying with her back legs straight out, thats supposedly only done by pedigreed dogs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Shes laying with her back legs straight out, that's supposedly only done by pedigreed dogs
    Nope. Pretty sure she's flying...

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    Quote Originally Posted by pragmatic View Post
    Nope. Pretty sure she's flying...
    My little guy <cairn terrier, toto dog> he does the same thing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Shes laying with her back legs straight out, thats supposedly only done by pedigreed dogs
    Lily does that too...and she is a long, long ways from being a purebred of any kind. We haven't had her DNA-tested yet, but we're pretty sure she is a pitbull cross with some sort of long-legged sight hound or hunting dog, with a long, lean body, a whip tail, and maybe a little badger and kangaroo mixed in. When she does that, we call her "The Longest Dog in the World", because she almost looks like she might be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Shes laying with her back legs straight out, thats supposedly only done by pedigreed dogs
    This is my little guy max
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I think my Gemma might be a little OCD, at least about her food. She does this thing where she'll go over to her food bowl, take out one little piece of kibble, walk anywhere from a few feet away to all the way across the room, and then eat it. Go back to the bowl and do the same thing again, over and over.
    At other times, she will poke her snout in and all around the bowl, over and over - not sniffing, just poking - sometimes for more than a minute, before she starts eating. Sometimes the poking appears random, and at other times it almost looks like she's doing it in some kind of pattern.

    The other night I was giving both dogs their bedtime treats - a "crunchy bone" and a bacon treat - and I got distracted or was thinking about something else and I mixed up the order I normally give them to her in and she just lay there looking at me like I was crazy.

    She's otherwise a very confident, happy, well-adjusted dog. Just a little weird when it comes to her food.
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    Our mini-Schnauzer does that, not so with our Standard Schnauzer. Then again our Standard thinks she's human and tries to rule the house.
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