~:~:~:The Doggie Thread!!:~:~:~

phillyfan wrote:

My new boxer pup Lex

Welcome Lex!!! You should cut back on the wine at dinner, you're still a baby,

Awww at Lex. I adore boxers

phillyfan wrote:

My new boxer pup Lex

Awwwww - what a sweetheart!!

phillyfan wrote:

Lex getting nice and warm with his new brother and my daughter.
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Awwwww

:P

Dogs got it made...

JzP wrote:

Had some beautiful New England Fall weather....took the doggies hikin'!

good looking dogs! :thumbup:

cj 'read' his first book today. whilst left alone for an hour and a half today he decided the package left in the rain on the front stoop must be interesting. i got home and it had been chewed. fortunately it was only the top corner and no words were actually eaten. what kind of idiot mailman leaves a a package in the rain??? leave a card dude and ill pick it up at the post office. sheesh. :roll:

catefrances wrote:

cj 'read' his first book today. whilst left alone for an hour and a half today he decided the package left in the rain on the front stoop must be interesting. i got home and it had been chewed. fortunately it was only the top corner and no words were actually eaten. what kind of idiot mailman leaves a a package in the rain??? leave a card dude and ill pick it up at the post office. sheesh. :roll:

Django is quite the "reader" even though he's nearly 8 years old, so it can't be blamed on puppyhood. He's also multilingual, having chewed off the covers of my German dictionary a few years back, then the covers of my prince's Spanish dictionary just recently. Other recent acquisitions have been magazines and part of Glenn's MG club newsletter. A few days ago Glenn heard a thunk and found a new book that my sister had given me on the floor. It's called A Dog's Purpose and is written from a dog's perspective. Maybe Django wanted to see how accurate it was. :think:

Your dog loves you more than your wife...how do I know this you ask ?

Lock both of them in the trunk of your car for an hour...when you go to get them out see which one is happy to see you...

Poor Sailor. He has a hot spot on his right cheek and it looked awful on Monday morning, so Mr. Unlost brought him to the vet while I was at work.

And now he's a conehead.

He keeps clunking into stuff, can't get up the stairs, needs some help going down. Can't drink water unless we hold a small bowl for him. But he's such a good boy, his tail keeps wagging. When he gets stuck, like in a corner or a doorway, he just stands there.

Mr. Unlost let them all out in the yard, and then wasn't thinking and went up the stairs to enter the house via the second-floor deck door. Sweet Pea and Tessie came along, but no Sailor. So he called him, but he didn't come. Mr. Unlost went over to the stairs, and Sailor was stuck on the bottom of the step with his cone caught on a higher step and his head down. He was just standing there quietly, slowly wagging his tail, waiting patiently for someone to come and help.

This, I should remind you, is the same dog who is so fast on agility courses that he literally spins in leaping circles waiting for me to catch up and direct him to the next obstacle. He's completely insane on a course, but a totally different dog in any other circumstance.

My poor boy! The hot spot looks so much better today, really drying up nicely. We're going to keep him in the collar until we're convinced it's healed to the point that he can scratch his face without opening it up again.

Damn fleas. For 15 years we've had dogs, and never treated them with any flea or tick prevention other than an herbal spray for ticks when we're traveling to tick-infested areas. Came home from a show last month and Sailor was hosting an army of fleas. None on the girls, but everybody was treated and my God the amount of work it takes to get the house sorted out! Wow.

The hot spot is likely a reaction to a flea bite. Now everyone is on Frontline, and I think I'll end up doing it year round.