Dog stuff

[Frog]

I know that we have a lot of dog owners here, and if this turns into a doggie show-off thread, fine, but I'm posting to mention that we just had a new hip joint put in our baby.
This is actually the fourth one we have done over the years in an assortment of dogs.
Amazingly, the biggest problem lies in the fact that he (like the others) is doing so well, and needs to be constrained.
Here's what the work looks like, and a pic from the week before when we went to Heather Farm, a local park, and home of the giANTS lol!

[virgil427]

looks like a good old friend frog, hard to see him with the clare off those legs.lol I'll post my old buddy soon

[ftembroidery]

Andy,

I was in Healdsburg a very few weeks ago and there was a woman "walking" her Shepard on a looooooong leash.  The poor guy had hip displaysia so bad she was almost dragging him.  Unkind thoughts were going thru my mind.

[Dottonedan]

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[Shanarchy]

Awesome pup Frog. I lost my shepherd Nov 3rd. He was one week from his 16th birthday. I had him since he was 6 weeks. Best friend I could have ever asked for.

[Frog]

16 is great! None of our previous five made it past thirteen.
This boy is ten.

[Mr Tees!!]

...here is Joonyer! I brought him to the shop for a few weeks post surgery to keep him separated from our four other dogs (all rescues). once he was all healed up, he still wouldnt let me leave him home....ready to go, at the door, before I am. hes a nine year-old basset/beagle mix, and has won "Employee of the Month" honors seventeen months and counting.

[Clark]

Here's my dog Heisman.  He is a field trial/hunting labrador.  First pic is him at 11 months on a great hunt we had on an 11 degree morning.  He was in the water almost the entire morning breaking ice.  He wears a kevlar woven vest to protect his vitals from sharp ice and keep his core temp up.



Here's a video of him swimming after a wounded duck that is diving trying to avoid him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wlHcYrGQeA

Heisman will stop on a whistle blast hundreds of yards away and turn and face me..he then takes directional hand signals to recover downed birds.  Best dog I have ever owned.

[Dottonedan]

...here is Joonyer! I brought him to the shop for a few weeks post surgery to keep him separated from our four other dogs (all rescues). once he was all healed up, he still wouldn't let me leave him home....ready to go, at the door, before I am. hes a nine year-old basset/beagle mix, and has won "Employee of the Month" honors seventeen months and counting.

Ha,  Thats the same look on that dog that my Shepherd gives me. How can you refuse?

[Frog]

...here is Joonyer! I brought him to the shop for a few weeks post surgery to keep him separated from our four other dogs (all rescues). once he was all healed up, he still wouldn't let me leave him home....ready to go, at the door, before I am. hes a nine year-old basset/beagle mix, and has won "Employee of the Month" honors seventeen months and counting.

Ha,  Thats the same look on that dog that my Shepherd gives me. How can you refuse?

Practice

[Dottonedan]

Clark,

Thats like 15 ducks. What do you do with all those ducks?  You eat that much duck?  haha.  Man, I guess you could replace getting chicken form the store once a week.  Roast duck, Boiled duck, fried duck, baked duck, Stuffed duck, Duck burgers. I know a guy that hunts gators, boar, deer and is a butcher as well. Best bass fisherman around. (He takes me with him on occasions). We get like 25 each a day...and of course toss them back except for those I can put in my own pond. So everyone brings the game to him to prepare. Then he often gets paid in meat. Needless to say, he does not have to go to the meat section very often.

[Clark]

Clark,

Thats like 15 ducks. What do you do with all those ducks?  You eat that much duck?  haha.  Man, I guess you could replace getting chicken form the store once a week.  Roast duck, Boiled duck, fried duck, baked duck, Stuffed duck, Duck burgers. I know a guy that hunts gators, boar, deer and is a butcher as well. Best bass fisherman around. (He takes me with him on occasions). We get like 25 each a day...and of course toss them back except for those I can put in my own pond. So everyone brings the game to him to prepare. Then he often gets paid in meat. Needless to say, he does not have to go to the meat section very often.

Ha, yeah I eat alot of duck.  My wife likes it so we have it once or twice a week throughout the year...it basically replaces chicken in our house.  I actually prefer it to chicken as I know they havent been shot up with steroids and they are grain fed birds.  The trick is to always cook it medium rare...delicious.  Some of the meat will get mixed with wild hog meat and become sausage or slim jims which we eat in the field during the season. When we hunt snow geese, there is no kill limits, and we put up some pretty big numbers..enough that you would have to eat it everyday to put a dent in the amount...in this case most of the goose meat is donated to Hunters for the Hungry, the rest of the goose meat is made into jerky.

[Mr Tees!!]

...here is Joonyer! I brought him to the shop for a few weeks post surgery to keep him separated from our four other dogs (all rescues). once he was all healed up, he still wouldn't let me leave him home....ready to go, at the door, before I am. hes a nine year-old basset/beagle mix, and has won "Employee of the Month" honors seventeen months and counting.

Ha,  Thats the same look on that dog that my Shepherd gives me. How can you refuse?

...yeah, he had me at "woof".

[alan802]

Here's a few pics of my mut.  He's a beagle/lab mix who we took in so he wouldn't be sent to the pound.  He was a good looking puppy, someone would have taken him in I'm sure but I couldn't let him go to the unknown after spending a few hours with him.

[Shanarchy]

16 is great! None of our previous five made it past thirteen.
This boy is ten.

I was very fortunate. He was healthy right up to the last week. No real hip problems. Although, he wasn't exactly jumping all over from 13-16. Up until his last couple of weeks we would play everyday.

Here is my new friend:
Us hiking last weekend. He is 7 months old.


Puppies? We print them!


He claimed the bosses chair right from the get go: