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GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE DOG SEES OCEAN FIRST TIME has Amazing Reaction
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We got Zauber before we moved up here, we bought the property in the summer and he was born on Columbus Day the same year.
He was about 5 months old when we first brought him up for the first time – he sniffed and snuffed all over the parking area at the wild smells but when we got up to the dam and he saw the lake he stopped and stared at it for about five minutes. We walked the almost 700-feet to the overrun area and he went bonkers smelling the scent of the critters that walk it at night. When we turned to walk back he jumped into the lake and swam along the shore all the way back to the parking area and nearly every time after that when he walked the dam with us he’d swim back. Must have been a water dog in a previoius life.
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One of my nieces took her two dogs to a lake area in Alberta somewhere. No signs were posted at the entrance about not letting your dogs roam free or that there were any water dangers. She opened the car doors and they took off and ran right into the lake, playing and having a grand time.
As she got close to the water, there was a medium size sign that the water contained blue-green algae! Oh, great! She had to collect the dogs immediately and locate the nearest vet to get them taken care of, with thorough baths, etc. There went her week-end vacation!
Needless to say she was a tad upset that the signs weren’t at the entrance.
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He was so excited. 😀
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Happy Dog.
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Isn’t that how AT&T still strings cable?
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fiber optics…the new laxative….
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Yeah, county’s been fiber strung for a decade nowvand none of us hase been hooked up out here.
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I have it available in my neighborhood, but haven’t subscribed to it yet. May do that soon.
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Feds ‘mandated’ bringing hi-speed internert to rural areas and paid (under USDA in 2008) commo companies to do it. They’re being paid again (this time by FCC) to do the same thing…again. Parsing those charters, I bet, they have to bring it here but don’t have to actually hook us up.
I have a beer bet that when they do hook us up they’ll chsarge us for their having to install the cable – as if we don’tb know.
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Silly Czar, AT&T uses a chicken without a head.
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A little story about cable and dogs…
For probably 30 years I’ve had a framed 4×6 sepia-tone photo of my father in the 1920’s when he worked for an electric company in Ventura County, CA. It’s a group photo of all the men on the crew, some standing in front of the open-bed truck full of cable, and others sitting crammed onto the side of the truck bed with their legs over, my Dad being one of the latter.
Only about 10 years ago when looking at the photo with a magnifying glass did I realize that Dad had a dog laying over his lap…looks like an Irish Setter. No one in the family had ever noticed it before either because in the long shot the dog just blended in with guys.
I don’t know if the Setter was Dad’s or if it was a working dog of some kind.
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Went to a setter with some jewish friends last passover. not much on salted parsley, or matzo crackers, but potato latkes make up for it….shalom
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And my ex MIL’s boiled chicken with all the flavor transferred into the chicken broth with matzoh balls.
Used to live next door to people who had two setters (hiya, hiya, got a red ball?) and a wolfhound (I am so elegant, and I would NEVER play with a red ball).
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So pretty.
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Oh, so they’ve upgraded!?
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Looks that way!
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looks like how I feel most days lately….lol
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It’s beautiful here today. Windows are open with fresh air in the house. Dog barking at me out the window as I’m cleaning the car.
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Just got back from the vet where folks there had two lab mixes – three total with Lucky included. Apparently labs aren’t fussy about who they go home with after the party.
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petco sour mash doggie treats
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That’s Mickey D’s
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My mom had a lab like that. Whoever threw the ball the most or had the best treats was her best friends.
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And if the bone/ball lands in a big mud puddle….oh rapture, oh joy!
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Black Labs Mutter….
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Thank you lovely! Looks like my beloved girl Gracie, who is five years old. I had wondered how much of her was truly black lab. She looks 100%, and I knew her mother was an unregistered pure bred, but there were pups in her litter who looked like Airedales, so as czar said, mom clearly wasn’t fussy and there was more than one father to that litter.
A few weeks ago I forked over the $75 for a test kit from Wisdom Health. Turns out she is 62.5% labrador retriever, 12.5% golden retriever, 12.5% Siberian husky, and 12.5% “other”. One parent was 3 generations of purebred lab (that would be her mom) and the other was half lab and half golden/Siberian mix who apparently looked completely black lab, just as her mom did. I’m not sure it was worth 75 bucks, but it was fun to find out.
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When I rescued a little black five week old puppy abandoned Memorial Day at a gas station in East Texas, brought it back and started raising the guy, took him lots of meds and worming and etc, but he got bigger and bigger and longer legs and coat began to turn strange and multicoat, and face had an intense look to it….wife thought he was maybe a wolf….so I did the DNA test and discovered he was Australian Cattle Dog with a little Collie mixed in….turned out to be brilliant, fun and loving, and a perfect companion for our smaller lady dachsy rescue….they are inseparable….and he is actually the beta to her, but his herding instincts are strong….he could very well learn cattle management, and I am training him the verbal and hand commands…..he thinks fetching sticks is his JOB and so he will do it for hours if given the chance…
without the DNA, I would have been raising him ALL WRONG as I never saw an Aussie Cattledog, and they absolutely must be trained to be acceptable, but they love to learn and merely want a job to do and consistency in treatment.
the DNA test was a Godsend to me….and altho he might be a dingo influenced dog, he sure is not a wolf.
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Great story, joshua!
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hate to say it, but the older I get, the more I love and like my doggies…say….compared with my kids…if you get my drift.
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Nothing as content as a lab with a lake 🙂 .
My Iggy is a pure bred Italian Greyhound.
My other dog Grinner/Dean is supposed to be a Shiba Inu, Beagle mix. I think it would be fun to know what she actually is other than a rascal!
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The Dogs in the Nixon White House
https://americacomesalive.com/2013/08/20/the-dogs-in-the-nixon-white-house/
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did it include Haldeman?
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Nope…but Ehrlichman was there with a muzzle and corner fire hydrant.
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BTW, one of my bosses in the mid-80s knew Bob Haldeman. I even met him once and was actually surprised at how nice he was.
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Just got back from the vets with Lucky – they wanted to measure the levels of the seizure meds in his blood – and one the way back we stopped at BK. I ordered a Whopper for me and a 10-piece chicken nugget ‘for my dog’. Only word from the clerk was ‘and would your dog like any sauce?’…ahhhh, living in a rural area.
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I used to take my dog Sassy to A&W for a hot dog. They asked me if she wanted a bun. I said, “of course!”
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And some folks jes don’ unnerstand.
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I grew up in a town where the A & W was the after school go to place for a frito bag ripped open with chili and cheese poured in and a huge frosted mug of root beer to wash it down while we all listened to rock and roll music.
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Our A & W is still an old-fashioned drive-in. It’s right next door to the vet’s office.
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next to the vet….hmmmm
might not want to eat the chili pie then…
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Had a long drive from South Miami to the one in Homestead, FL, but my brother loved to drive his 1933 Chevy there to be seen…
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My mom spent winters in Homestead in the late 1980’s with my aunt and cousins. They moved to Bradenton the year before Hurricane Andrew, although I still had some cousins who lived in the area when Andrew hit.
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Out of Homestead just in time!
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“This is a Burger King Town….la la la”
as long as you do not ask to use the bathroom without buying anything first…….
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Dog and I could use the small copse of trees to the west….it is a rural town.
Czarina’s at work but I can still hear the ‘mens and dogs…men and dogs’ faintly drifting from the south-southeast.
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same here, except my hip joint makes hiking my leg on the tree really painful.
dog just laughs at me…I think.
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Let ’em laugh, it’s still your tree!
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Men and dogs and bears….
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SEE! I TOLD YOU!
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busted by the cops e.
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And a branch of my family tree to boot.
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I do that on occasion!
Doggie question czar. My beagle has developed a pinpoint cataract on her left eye in the center. I made an appointment with an eye vet but is that something to worry about?
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Vets can really deal with things like cataracts today, just like they can with us. Can’t remember if it were here or next door but someone posted a nice video of a dog seeing for the first time after cararaxt surgery. Couldn’t find it but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fmCJUOrLk
Vets who are specialists are generally on the crest so I wouldn’t worry – what it is is what it is and at least you will know where you both are.
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I don’t know, but just wanted to interject that the eye vet I took my last dog to (she had a melanoma on her eyeball and needed surgery) was the best and nicest vet I have ever known. Hope you have a similar experience! He even pulled a tooth for her (she developed an abscess the morning of her surgery) while she was knocked out, but he had to go to the hardware store to get a particular tool (I suspect it was a wrench of some kind). He called it “Black & Decker surgery”.
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This is a newer vet but here in town while my regular vet is 36 miles. Eye vet is pricey but at least Ill know exactly whats going on.
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When my llittle doggie had a scratched cornea and had to go to the doggie eye vet a bunch of times, I ran into a lot of people who had older dogs with their cataracts removed. All of the ones I talked to were pretty happy with the outcome.
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Im almost thinking shes scratched her eye on a hike.
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Be careful. Mine’s eye got infected.
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Example of a sepia print…
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Didn’t realize that Sepias had such upright ears. A sleepiea sepia maybe…woof woof.
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This Sepia looks like he’s got one blue eye and one brown. But due to the nature of Sepias, you can’t be sure.
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oh….a mongrel sepia maybe…
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Doggityday is my favorite day of the week….woof woof
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I know that vets make a good part of their income from selling you drugs for your dogs/cars/fill-in-the-blanks BUT it can get expensive. Just for the heck of it I plugged the drug ‘keppra’ into GoodRx to see what it would run me for Lucky. He’s on phenobarbital and potassium bromide but they will shorten his life by attacking his organs.
It was suggested I try Keppra and I’ve been using GoodRx (found some items cheaper to buy than my co-pay was). I plugged in Keppra and found it had a generic that I could get (180 tabs) for less than $92 as opposed to an over the counter price of from $750 to over $800 locally.
SDo from now on when one of my dogs needs meds that are also people meds I’m going shopping – I even got free shipping on his ‘scrip. Check it out, no reason to over pay.
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I love good rx. So helpful.
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I know Doggity Day is almost over but this cracked me up.
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