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Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:

Sheldon is really one good lookin' turtle!

Tonight I'll try snapping some pictures of Quicklime -- our new ball python.

haha! Quicklime.. nice! Where do you store him?

So, here's my cat, Jack. Jack in a box. A scrabble box.

I guess he was not impressed with the word play that evening.

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No. But his collar says he's a Fresno State fan. Just as bad

He thinks he's a bulldog then? *rimshot*

My dog Maia:
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And my dog Loki:
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They're low quality, especially the first one of Loki, because until recently the only camera I had was on my phone, and Loki hates having his picture taken.

DevilStick wrote:

So, here's my cat, Jack. Jack in a box. A scrabble box.

I guess he was not impressed with the word play that evening.

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Our cat Salome likes game boxes, too
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Cats love cardboard boxes. No one knows why.

The wife and I just got home from the Shelter with our new puppy!

He is a 2 year old amstaff. Was to adorable to let stay there.

I will get some pics of my own soon but here are the ones from the shelter.
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From the looks of him and some scratches on his face he has seen some abuse but so far he is nothing but a lovable dog.

I am so excited about him.

Congrats, WiredAsylum - he looks very sweet. Love the blur from his happily-wagging tail in that last shot.

Mac (the big fella) and Indy
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Mac hanging out with our cat Jaffa
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So tonight is Leo's first night here. I put him in his crate down stairs prepared to let him cry it out.
Cry he did for about 15 minutes, then i hear a snap and he comes panting up the stairs and jumps in my lap
I go down stairs and he snapped the door right off the front of the crate.

He gets his way tonight and sleeps with us.

Heh, nice.

WiredAsylum wrote:

So tonight is Leo's first night here. I put him in his crate down stairs prepared to let him cry it out.
Cry he did for about 15 minutes, then i hear a snap and he comes panting up the stairs and jumps in my lap
I go down stairs and he snapped the door right off the front of the crate.

He gets his way tonight and sleeps with us.

Separation anxiety can be tough - Bazino had it pretty bad when we first brought him home, too. We tried all the suggested exercises, got one of the anti-anxiety pheromone diffusers, and nothing seemed to help.

About a month in, I was traveling for work, and Mrs. Dim came back from the gym to find that the metal door of Bazino's crate was bent like a Pringle's chip.

Rather than continue to buy the plastic & metal basic ones, and risk having Bazino crack a tooth while he was trying to get out, we bought a crate suitable for releasing cougars back into the wild:
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Amazingly, it instantly resolved all the separation anxiety. Bazino went from being panicky in his crate to totally relaxed, with no transition.

I know that's not a viable approach for everybody (those Marlin Perkins-style crates are not cheap), but it was absolutely the right choice for us.

Th3 Space Pope wrote:

Mac (the big fella) and Indy
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Mac hanging out with our cat Jaffa
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OMG how did you get your dog and cat to get along that well??

I am at my witts end with our dog/cat situation.

Our dog eats our cat. The trainer we brought into the house partly for this very reason said it is not mean, and that the cat has no fear, because he stays there.

But it is getting to be too much. The dog is just getting rougher and rougher. The poor cat can not walk anywhere without Moxie grabbing him and dragging him or pinning him or doing something. I am at a loss for what to do. I honestly feel like my cats quality of life has gone down, because he can no longer frolic and play or anything. I lobe for the peace that your animals show in that picture!!

Oh, yes I should mention that the cat does attack the dog as well. If the dog is laying down sleeping, the cat will go over and do this lick, lick bite thing and climb on top of her and sink his teeth into her.

WiredAsylum wrote:

The wife and I just got home from the Shelter with our new puppy!

He is a 2 year old amstaff. Was to adorable to let stay there.

I will get some pics of my own soon but here are the ones from the shelter.
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From the looks of him and some scratches on his face he has seen some abuse but so far he is nothing but a lovable dog.

I am so excited about him.

Good for you for adopting from a shelter. He looks like a very loveable, squezable dog.

Does he need to be in a crate? By 2, I wouldn't guess, but I have no idea really. Our dog was sort of crate trained. We had one and when she was little she would go in it. But by about 5 months, we started leaving her out when we would go to work, and just block off upstairs. Then the summer came and I felt bad there was no AC in the living room, where her crate was, and so we got her a bed for in our bedroom, and from then on, that is where she slept. We left her crate up until about 3-4 weeks ago. She had turned one, and she would not go in it, but we had read it was their safe place so we left it. It's nice to have my living room back, with no crate in it!

This is Elwood (named for the character in the Blues Brothers movie)- a Czechoslovakian shepherd. At his his biggest he was 110 lbs. of goofiness. He was fiercely protective of family, incredibly smart (top of his class at obedience school!), mouthy, playful and probably the best dog ever.

We had to put him down about 6 years ago (he was very old and everything was failing) and I still miss him like mad.

Elwood as a puppy:

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Elwood as an adult (about 4 years old):

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Missy9579 wrote:

Good for you for adopting from a shelter. He looks like a very loveable, squezable dog.

Does he need to be in a crate? By 2, I wouldn't guess, but I have no idea really. Our dog was sort of crate trained. We had one and when she was little she would go in it. But by about 5 months, we started leaving her out when we would go to work, and just block off upstairs. Then the summer came and I felt bad there was no AC in the living room, where her crate was, and so we got her a bed for in our bedroom, and from then on, that is where she slept. We left her crate up until about 3-4 weeks ago. She had turned one, and she would not go in it, but we had read it was their safe place so we left it. It's nice to have my living room back, with no crate in it!

We are not sure if we should crate him or not. At night I am willing to leave him out. But my concern is durring the day while we are at work.

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here are 2 more pics of him we took this morning

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More pics of my new baby. Sorry I am really excited about him.

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If your dog is anything like mine wired, be prepared to see that dog bed torn up pretty soon.

I recommend getting toys/food dispensers that will engage the dogs mind, and hiding them around the house while your gone (in places that don't need to be destroyed to be gotten to).I use the buster food cube. Frozen Peanut butter kongs help too. Here's a link. You could prolly produce some make shift home mad versions also. http://www.nextag.com/dog-puzzle-toy...

Dog and cat.

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This cat used to live with us but couldn't get along with the dog. She slipped out the door one night last summer to live in the wild. Given the amount of fat on her bones, I expect she had several months to learn how to hunt before she was at risk of starving:

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WiredAsylum wrote:
Missy9579 wrote:

Good for you for adopting from a shelter. He looks like a very loveable, squezable dog.

Does he need to be in a crate? By 2, I wouldn't guess, but I have no idea really. Our dog was sort of crate trained. We had one and when she was little she would go in it. But by about 5 months, we started leaving her out when we would go to work, and just block off upstairs. Then the summer came and I felt bad there was no AC in the living room, where her crate was, and so we got her a bed for in our bedroom, and from then on, that is where she slept. We left her crate up until about 3-4 weeks ago. She had turned one, and she would not go in it, but we had read it was their safe place so we left it. It's nice to have my living room back, with no crate in it!

We are not sure if we should crate him or not. At night I am willing to leave him out. But my concern is durring the day while we are at work.

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Are you afraid that he will destroy stuff? Or potty in the house? What is the fear while you are at work? Our dog is home alone on an average work day for about 6 hours. Dr_Awkward and I work somewhat different shifts, so she is home alone from about 12:30pm-6:30 pm and does fine. We leave her bones and such, but I honestly think she sleeps all day. Which makes coming home nice, but good lord she saved up all her energy, and gives it to me.

We put peanut butter in the kong and put it in the freezer for her. She has a slew of toys and bones. She has never, even as a puppy chewed anything of ours. Except for the giant hole in the wall in out wall in closet. She chewed a huge hole in the plaster and ripped out all the insulation. This was after we took her on vacation with us, and were with her for 10 days straight. I think she got angry when we left her home after that. That was her one destructive phase. Unless you count her toys. We are always in search of a toy that will hold up to Moxie. A toy will last maybe 20 minutes sometimes if she is into it. She tears them apart, pulls all the stuffing out and then the toy is dead lol. She is such a good girl, gosh, I love her to pieces. Sorry, i will stop being a blubbering puppy mama.
here are 2 more pics of him we took this morning

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Missy, dogs with hardcore separation anxiety, which from wired's description his dog might have, will take out their anxiety on pretty much anything. When my puppy was young, he a a bit of the separation anxiety. HE had plenty of bones to chew on but decided on a corner of the apartments wall. SA is very prevalent in shelter dogs; they've been bounced around from home to home at lea'st if not a few times. Some of them never get over it.

Dog threads are weird. You never know how much the other side knows, so you end up feeling like a jerk when you explain things.

Missy9579 wrote:

OMG how did you get your dog and cat to get along that well??

I am at my witts end with our dog/cat situation.

Our dog eats our cat. The trainer we brought into the house partly for this very reason said it is not mean, and that the cat has no fear, because he stays there.

But it is getting to be too much. The dog is just getting rougher and rougher. The poor cat can not walk anywhere without Moxie grabbing him and dragging him or pinning him or doing something. I am at a loss for what to do. I honestly feel like my cats quality of life has gone down, because he can no longer frolic and play or anything. I lobe for the peace that your animals show in that picture!!

Oh, yes I should mention that the cat does attack the dog as well. If the dog is laying down sleeping, the cat will go over and do this lick, lick bite thing and climb on top of her and sink his teeth into her.

Take this with a grain of salt because I am be no means an expert but I find that having two dogs that can play fight with each other helps them get a lot of their desire to wrestle out of their system. That being said Indy still chases the cat on occasion but she doesn't do anything if she manages to catch him. Mac is hands down the most chill dog I've ever had, all Golden Retrievers are chill but Mac takes it to a new level, that's why they can be photographed like that with out a problem.

Th3 Space Pope wrote:
Missy9579 wrote:

OMG how did you get your dog and cat to get along that well??

I am at my witts end with our dog/cat situation.

Our dog eats our cat. The trainer we brought into the house partly for this very reason said it is not mean, and that the cat has no fear, because he stays there.

But it is getting to be too much. The dog is just getting rougher and rougher. The poor cat can not walk anywhere without Moxie grabbing him and dragging him or pinning him or doing something. I am at a loss for what to do. I honestly feel like my cats quality of life has gone down, because he can no longer frolic and play or anything. I lobe for the peace that your animals show in that picture!!

Oh, yes I should mention that the cat does attack the dog as well. If the dog is laying down sleeping, the cat will go over and do this lick, lick bite thing and climb on top of her and sink his teeth into her.

Take this with a grain of salt because I am be no means an expert but I find that having two dogs that can play fight with each other helps them get a lot of their desire to wrestle out of their system. That being said Indy still chases the cat on occasion but she doesn't do anything if she manages to catch him. Mac is hands down the most chill dog I've ever had, all Golden Retrievers are chill but Mac takes it to a new level, that's why they can be photographed like that with out a problem.

I take our puppy on a play date with another dog at least 4-5 times a week. It doesnt seem to make any sort of difference if she gets to play with another dog for 2 hours. She has an amazing energy level, that I hoped would dwindle when she hit one, but it has not. She is a mix, but mostly Rhodesian Ridgeback, and they have a ton of energy. She always want's to play, and NEVER gets tired.

I don't care if the dog and cat got along , but I do wish that the poor cat could walk around, and sleep in our room and just be himself, and not ALWAYS be chased.

That's great that your animals get along so well

I need to stop visiting this thread. You guys are tempting me to take the plunge on another dog.

Well today will be the first day he is apart from us for an extended period of time.
Took him out for a run in the backyard for a while. Dropped him off in the living room and we hit the road.
As we were pulling away we could see him standing up looking out the window at us as we pulled away.

I think I am having more separation anxiety then he will. God I hope he does not destroy the house.

Good luck. If you can go home at lunch or something, I would!

LeapingGnome wrote:

Good luck. If you can go home at lunch or something, I would!

Yeah i am headed home in 2 hours to check on him.

Just back from the house. You would never know he was alone.

WiredAsylum wrote:

Just back from the house. You would never know he was alone.

Wonderful!

I am, once again, a proud Father of Ferrets.

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The dark brown sable is Zoe, the lighter cinnamon is River. Both are girls (jills in ferretspeak), about 3 months old on Sunday. Zoe is calmer and nicer with people. River is much squirmier and a little nippy, but we're training her to be gentle. They are the cutest girls ever.

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