I Found A Dog.

[Fargo1]

Right on Raven! Looks like he considers you a keeper.

 

[Sarg]

Cool, JR. I love Goldens, they're so goofy, lovable and just a joy to have around.

SD, they have a Greyhound race track down in Phoenix and by the time the dog owners have screwed them up with drugs and bad treatment, they're in pretty bad shape. Thankfully, there is a group that rescues those dogs and "deprograms" them for adoptions. I saw such a dog once and they just glue themselves to whoever is their rescuer. So, I could see how they would be a good PTSD dog.

Raven, love that mutt. He'll return it ten fold.

Sarg

 

[Squip Mrbearsfriend]

was a tough night. Thanks for the timely laugh

 

[Raven]

I have a soft spot for rottweilers. Despite their bad rap, they are loyal, friendly, gentle, goofy dogs when they are raised in a loving but firm environment. I had actually gotten in touch with a few rottweiler rescues upstate about adopting around March... Now Pete wiggled and whined his way into my life. :love:

Best part about rotties is that they can transition to a really slow gallop and it looks funny because their jowls are a-flyin'.
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[tnkg1rl]

Yayy I'm glad you got a video of him!!

 

[Sleeping Dragon]

Sarg,

My greyhound, Missy can thank her owner for kidney failure due to performance drugs. I can thank the good old red, white and blue for prostate cancer and post traumatic stress. We were both rode hard and put away wet. Maybe that's why we bonded so quickly.

But, we had those walks in the park and evenings by the fire. Isn't it interesting? Dogs understand what so many leades never will.

SD

 

[Sleeping Dragon]

My girl, Missy (Broken Image was her racing name) on the track. She won far more races than females normally win. She's #2.

She liked the park and the couch far more than the track.

 

[Raven]

Poor Missy. You did a good thing for her!

Pete stepped up in a tense situation today. My downstairs neighbor told me to be careful bringing him to the park because there are some asshats who let their mean dogs off-leash during lunch time. But I give Pete his long walk mid-day to try to expend some of that excess energy, and I haven't seen said asshats yet. Until today. It was unseasonably warm. I saw one of the dogs off-leash and I did not take Pete in its direction. Next thing I knew, I heard the telltale sounds of a serious dogfight. When I looked over, I saw one of the owners trying to break them up by stupidly trying to grab his dog by the collar. He got bitten and recoiled. The would was bleeding pretty badly, and my instinct to help an injured comrade kicked in. I started walking over to him and I tripped on Pete. It happened again. I couldn't take two steps without Pete getting in my way because he was trying to position himself between me and the dogfight. He just stayed firmly rooted between me and the fight until other bystanders intervened and the threat was eliminated (the dogs left.) At no point did he go towards them, nor did he stand down from his protective stance until both dogs were out of sight.

 

[tnkg1rl]

He knew it wouldn't end well what a good doggy!! I'm glad you didn't get hurt!!

 

[Sarg]

Good looking and smart too. Ya got a real keeper, Raven. It's odd you talk of the dogfight and folks getting bit, two folks here in town went to the hospital trying to break up a dog fight just last week. I never took my dog to the dog park for that reason. You just don't know what's going to happen with that many dogs running free.

Sarg

 

[Fargo1]

Poor Missy. You did a good thing for her!

Pete stepped up in a tense situation today. My downstairs neighbor told me to be careful bringing him to the park because there are some asshats who let their mean dogs off-leash during lunch time. But I give Pete his long walk mid-day to try to expend some of that excess energy, and I haven't seen said asshats yet. Until today. It was unseasonably warm. I saw one of the dogs off-leash and I did not take Pete in its direction. Next thing I knew, I heard the telltale sounds of a serious dogfight. When I looked over, I saw one of the owners trying to break them up by stupidly trying to grab his dog by the collar. He got bitten and recoiled. The would was bleeding pretty badly, and my instinct to help an injured comrade kicked in. I started walking over to him and I tripped on Pete. It happened again. I couldn't take two steps without Pete getting in my way because he was trying to position himself between me and the dogfight. He just stayed firmly rooted between me and the fight until other bystanders intervened and the threat was eliminated (the dogs left.) At no point did he go towards them, nor did he stand down from his protective stance until both dogs were out of sight.

Doggie dominance games. I hate it when people try to break them up. Rarely do the dogs do much (if any) actual injury to each other except a few minor cuts. Its just how they determine who is the Alpha. When humans try to institute human social order and break it up — the dogs don't understand their pecking order and chaos reigns. But if you let them do their thing, after a few minutes they know the chain of command and all is well. I have only seen a few instances where two true Alphas wouldn't let it go and tore each other up.

Pete is a smart one! He didn't need to get into the Alpha fight and didn't want you messing things up...

 

[Raven]

Doggie dominance games. I hate it when people try to break them up. Rarely do the dogs do much (if any) actual injury to each other except a few minor cuts. Its just how they determine who is the Alpha. When humans try to institute human social order and break it up — the dogs don't understand their pecking order and chaos reigns. But if you let them do their thing, after a few minutes they know the chain of command and all is well. I have only seen a few instances where two true Alphas wouldn't let it go and tore each other up.

Pete is a smart one! He didn't need to get into the Alpha fight and didn't want you messing things up...

I thought it was common sense not to stick your hands into the middle of a dog fight. If it starts getting truly brutal, you pull them out by the hindquarters and back thighs. Who the hell told him it was okay to do that? ...Maybe he just freaked and wasn't thinking right.