i met a dog today

[RAT900]

I didn't really know what to say without writing a small book so I didn't post anything on this for a while...

I have a mastiff with a similar background who made it back from "write-off"...

not a lot gets into my heart these days

but seeing an animal get abused for amusement or out of sheer neglect is always a wrong button to push in me.

[SacDuc]

I didn't really know what to say without writing a small book so I didn't post anything on this for a while...

I have a mastiff with a similar background who made it back from "write-off"...

not a lot gets into my heart these days

but seeing an animal get abused for amusement or out of sheer neglect is always a wrong button to push in me.

How's your pooch doing? Last you wrote I believe the big buy was starting to become a bit territorial about his new home, letting out a few tentative woofs at the mailman and such.

When we got our great dane (a rescue) he would only approach us with his head bowed very low. And his skin would twitch whenever we would pet him. Somebody had been smacking that dog on the nose for a good long while. Poor guy. He's sweet as can be. He has become much more confident in the six months we've had him. Now instead of loping pensively down the back hill when we call him in he runs toward us because, hey, there are treats or pets down there! Can't bring myself to train him to not charge the door like that, he just gets so damn happy.

Our Leonberger was rescued from a kill shelter by the large dog rescue we got him from. He was severely neglected and likely abused. The rescue got him the day before he was to be killed. He had pnuemonia and various cuts and sores, matted fur, etc. He weighed less that 40 lbs. He should have weighed 80+. He is a great dog. Took us 4 months before we could get him to play with a toy. He was afraid to put his mouth on anything. Now he acts like the silly puppy he is. Just don't mess with my wife, he is VERY protective.   

sac

[cyrus buelton]

Is there supposed to be a picture somewhere in this thread?


I figured it'd be blocked at work, but I have checked at home and still no picture.

[Triple J]

^^^

It'd be too IZ_ to make anything out anyway! 

[RAT900]

How's your pooch doing? Last you wrote I believe the big buy was starting to become a bit territorial about his new home, letting out a few tentative woofs at the mailman and such.

When we got our great dane (a rescue) he would only approach us with his head bowed very low. And his skin would twitch whenever we would pet him. Somebody had been smacking that dog on the nose for a good long while. Poor guy. He's sweet as can be. He has become much more confident in the six months we've had him. Now instead of loping pensively down the back hill when we call him in he runs toward us because, hey, there are treats or pets down there! Can't bring myself to train him to not charge the door like that, he just gets so damn happy.

Our Leonberger was rescued from a kill shelter by the large dog rescue we got him from. He was severely neglected and likely abused. The rescue got him the day before he was to be killed. He had pnuemonia and various cuts and sores, matted fur, etc. He weighed less that 40 lbs. He should have weighed 80+. He is a great dog. Took us 4 months before we could get him to play with a toy. He was afraid to put his mouth on anything. Now he acts like the silly puppy he is. Just don't mess with my wife, he is VERY protective.  

sac

He is doing great...I am glad yours have worked out so well

Najee will greet people now and his warm-up time with guests varies between instant to a few minutes, he takes his queues from us and his buddy Ella...but he knows she thinks she is running for public office and her judgement is not to be banked upon too heavily.  

His personality has emerged and he is quite a character with a good sense of humor with his buddy Ella.... he will walk over and simply sit on her when he wants to rough-house..........and he plays my wife and me like a cheap fiddle

He will still initially skin-flinch at times to the touch when he is resting but he is much better...he must have been kicked or beaten a lot around the shoulders as that seems to be the one area that triggers a localized flinch....he does not retreat or move though...he stays for the contact despite his organic reflex to it

he crawls up on the bed between my wife and I at night and he loves when I just hold his presented paw..... he stares at us and exhales in a way that makes his lip flutter like a horse or Curly from the 3 Stooges

he knows he is safe and that he is loved...he makes me laugh out loud just being who he is

here is a 99 degree day shot of the earless wonder