a non-political, happy, dog-u-lar, post
18hi everyone, meet Dakota. Dakota, meet these weirdos.
she’s a 4 year old lab/GSD mix from a local rescue. her favorite game is lose the ball in the leaf pile and throw leaves everywhere to find it again.
she didn’t bark for the first week and a half we had her. but of course she decides to let it rip at 10:30pm and startle the living shit out of me. i feel like she channeled my last dog, Dexter, because he did the same damn thing.
random things she’s been startled by:
the red handle on my son’s sled
a leaf that blew over her foot
a moth she sniffed at and it flew all up in her grill
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Our little Shiztu didn’t bark. Then his sight started to go bad and now he’ll bark at his dog bed because he thinks there’s a cat in it.
He sleeps on our bed (with a diaper because he takes a diuretic) and he’s pretty good all night long. Then he wants up in the early morning hours, one of us will get up with him, remove the diaper (he only wears one at night) and take him outside to pee. The human goes back to bed, the pooper dog does whatever an old dog does.
Then he heads back into the bedroom to nap in his dog bed until we get up.
Your dog is so pretty. I like labs.
@lisaviolet it sounds like your good boy is living his best life with you!
we really love her. she’s acclimating quickly. she was an owner surrender, then fostered for 3 weeks, and now she’s with us forever.
@carl669 We got this little fella back in 2019. He was running loose in the street and we took him in. Down to the vet for chip check, nothing. Put a sign on the mailbox and someone came to our door.
Turned out the dog got out from around the corner (gate was left open). The owner’s son in law is the one who came to our house, I told him “if we hadn’t found the owner, we’d have kept him”. He asked if I was serious. Yeah, I was.
He came back within a half hour. With his 88 year old mother-in-law. The dog was hers. He hated the dog, wanted it gone. She had the dog from a pup and due to health reasons moved in with her daughter and son-in-law.
They ended up moving to Sacramento (from San Diego) a couple of years ago.
I still hear from her asking how he’s doing. She was so afraid we’d give him up or take him to the shelter. No, ma’am, that’s not how it works at this house.
@lisaviolet Dakota’s foster has checked on her a couple times as well. when we first met, she said she absolutely would been a foster fail, but her cats made Dakota really anxious, so she didn’t think it would be a good environment.
now i just have to talk the wife into letting me bring Dakota on to the couch to cuddle.
: )
Good girl! Fuck! Good girl!
@f00l uhhh… no. she’s spayed.
@carl669
Fucking excellent!
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@PhysAssist good girl!! her eyes say “if they ever get rid of this couch, i’m leaving”
@carl669
We have 2 other [smaller- approx. 70# each] rescues, and in our living room, we have a full-sized futon, and multiple dog beds in piles on the floor, but that couch is their favorite resting place- except for our bed, which is only available when one of both of us is in the bedroom.
Looks like we have a new candidate to be Goat of the Month.
Whadaya say, Dakota?
@phendrick i asked and she went and got her stuffed octopus. maybe she’s channeling @snapster?
How does one post pictures on forums?
Seriously.
@edsa Answering now…
Raven liked to sleep with half on her bed or not on it at all.
There was a dog at doggy daycare that was obsessed with her. So many of the pictures they sent had this dog up in Raven’s face and Raven being like “Get this dog away from me!”
OK, only one picture loaded. The other ones won’t load for some reason. I guess you’ll have to take my word for it.
@lisagd that dog is definitely all up in her face! Raven must be a very patient doggo
@carl669 She was super sweet and chill. She died in December 2022 after having a stroke. I still miss her an awful lot.
@lisagd i’m so sorry. my last guy, Dexter, passed away in August 2022. we still miss him so, so much.
Dakota is beautiful!
@Kyeh Dakota thanks you! she also says “yeah, i know it. that’s the only reason they let me get away with some of the stuff i try to pull. puppy eyes really goes a long way with hoomans”
Piled up leaves on the ground are for diving. Fuck yeak!
/giphy leaf pile
