Author Topic: Walkin the Dog (Read 817 times)

Hangtime · « **Reply #15 on:** February 02, 2003, 12:42:20 AM »

Anybody got a couple of quarters to see a cat dance?

Kanth · « **Reply #16 on:** February 02, 2003, 12:48:34 AM »

he's just a fat bastard

Toad · « **Reply #17 on:** February 02, 2003, 08:31:22 AM »

Hang, I do like cats.

If they're properly cooked; Sweet and Sour Siamese! yum!

As fer yer cat kickin' my dogs ass.... maybe the pup. However, the pup is hanging out with a 8 year old yellow female that I'll give 10 to 1 odds on vs any cat. In fact, it's a real problem with neighbor cats that run loose and think they can beat her across the yard to the next fence.

....... and pics? Don't get me started, youngster. I got dog picks till the Hard Drive overflows!

Actually, we always used to have a cat till we got multiple Labs. Just got to be too many animals.

Swoop · « **Reply #18 on:** February 02, 2003, 09:14:54 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
My cat sez it can kick yer dogs ass.

All of em....at once......with a paw tied behind it's back.

Mark Luper · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2003, 09:20:17 AM »

Hang,

That first picture, of the black, white, and yellow callico...

Looks amazingly like one of mine. I would post a pic but don't have one loaded.

sling322 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:08:25 AM »

So...what would it take for a fellow Lab-lovin' AH'er to snag one of those pups Toad? I have an AKC black female who is going on 12 years old. I dont know what I am going to do when the day comes that I have to let her go. We have been through a lot together. Thankfully she has always been healthy and has never had any medical problems. She may be a little slower now but she still loves to fetch just as much as she did when she was a pup. I always wanted to add a yellow male to the mix, but just never could justify it because at the time I was in and out of apartments and I moved around a bit. Now that I have settled down a little I think I would like to finally get that yellow male.

Hangtime · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:45:38 AM »

Hiya MarkAT..

Thats Goofball. My kid rescued it from a Burger King dumpster when it was about 5 weeks old.

I've discovered an interesting fact.. cat heritage has an important effect on cat behavior. The Black Abby I have (Fuzzball) is very sedate and imperious.. she only eats dry catchow outta a sack thats of an approved color. If it wern't for the damn thing being immense and black and always sitting in my freakin chair, you'd never know it was around.

Goofball, on the other hand, eats outta the garbage can, picks fights, flips over drinks, swats anything that moves without prior authorization and hauls all the cat toys into the bedroom with me every gawddamn night for marathon knock--hockey sessions.

And when anybody comes over, this normally extroverted little pile of fluff vanishes from sight till the intruder dissapears.

Streetcat vs Housecat. Watchin the Goof slap the hell outta the Fuzz can be better than TV.

Mark Luper · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:01:01 AM »

Hang,
Goofball sounds a lot like Alex (short for Alexandria), she is the feisty one that would rather play around by herself batting something around that sitting on the easy chair holding me down with Leo (my blonde tabby) and Sam (Samantha, a mostly white, with black and orange callico) her sister.

All three are strictly indoor cats, I raised the Leo ( and his deceased brother, a beautiful red tabby, looked just like Morris) since he was about 3 weeks old. Had to bottle feed them till they could eat solid food. The two girls I raised since they were just weaned.

All four loved company. New people to check out and get aquainted with, however, Alex is quite a bit more reserved than the other two.

Leo is 10 now, weighs about 18lbs and I dread the day he will pass on. He is my shadow

Toad · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:29:46 AM »

Sling,

Let me confirm with the owner of the yellow squeak... who is actually my partner in all this.

Just want to make sure he wants to go ahead and have another litter this Spring. It might be pushed till Fall.

A lot of considerations, the primary one being that I want one of this litter as well and to keep one I'm going to have to move out to the country for more room. I can't keep any more dogs than I already have in this town.

Something I'd been planning on doing anyway but I don't have this place on the market yet and it might be better to delay till Fall.

As far as getting on the list, when we confirm the breeding we'll start taking $250 Deposits. Pups from this litter will likely be in the $500-$750 range.

The mother is a decent hunting dog but not an excellent hunter. She is out of a show/tracking line. Both of her parents are show champions and the sire is a tracking/human rescue trained dog so the nose is there. This female has a very good nose but is not quite as self-motivating in the field as we'd like. She tends to stay too close and has to be constantly reminded to hunt on. Retrieves well though.

The sire, my yellow male, is a super hunting dog. Incredible nose, enough drive for 10 dogs... in fact, we work most on staying within gun range with him. I think we have that down now, but it's taken all of three years to steady him up.

This is mainly because he's my son's dog actually and spent 3 years at college hanging with the guys. As a result, he was a bit wild. They taught him to open the 'frig door and bring a beer to the TV room and all that real important stuff but I've had to unmake a lot of bad hunting/retrieving habits that resulted from 10,000 uncontrolled tennis ball retrieves in the house.

But he is a bird finding fool. Absolutely incredible nose, points the birds if they don't run (otherwise it's a flush) and marks and retrieves well.

We think the combo of this female and my young male is going to turn out a very good all round dog with outstanding looks, a great nose, fine temperament and an eager attitude.

I wouldn't be keeping one myself if I didn't think it was a prime opportunity. It's not like I'm short of Labs!

midnight Target · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2003, 12:00:38 PM »

Beautiful dogs Toad.

I didn't let him near the coyote den. Didn't consider mange, I was thinking ticks and fleas, or even a pissed off coyote squeak with pups.

Brad is a great companion. He is a lousy retriever, pretty much dislikes water, and sometimes feels everyone should wake up at 5:00am when he does.

OTOH, he is loving and devoted as hell. He is gentle with kids and everything a man could want in a pet. He instinctively knows when I'm not happy with him, and he is so eager to please it is funny sometimes.

Best decision I made in a long time.

sling322 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 02, 2003, 05:04:05 PM »

Keep me posted Toad. I would love to get ahold of a yellow male if possible. I tried to train mine to retrieve birds when I went hunting, but I never hunted much and didnt have the drive to get her totally trained. She will fetch all day long and he wasnt afraid of the gunshot, but she never did quite put it all together to know that when the gun fired and the bird fell she was supposed to go get it.

I dont hunt a lot anymore since I moved to Dallas, but keep me posted regardless.

Fridaddy · « **Reply #26 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:07:06 PM »

Midnight Target

I hate you for living in that area. Its beautiful!

I cannot wait until I retire, I am so out of the Bay Area.

Yeager · « **Reply #27 on:** February 03, 2003, 12:06:47 AM »

Im reminded of a small bit in the book "Black Hawk Down" where the rangers were getting bored with the daily routine of military life in the hanger they called home (in the weeks and months before the big mission).

As with nothing but a bunch of guys to keep them excited, this one guy, a big burly fellow with a very simple mind, decided to rev things up one day. He took his trousers off and walked around the hanger naked from the waist down, with a string attached to his noodle and holding the end of the string in his hand he said "Just takin the dog out for a walk".

Dont know why, but this thread title brought that back to me.

Carry on!

cajun · « **Reply #28 on:** February 03, 2003, 01:18:37 AM »

Oh man, Midnight target, those pics make me homesick for out west!!!!! (even though i never lived there lol). Cool days(compared to where i live now!), even cooler nights, far enough north u can get snow, just baren openness... get myself a horse, few dogs, and bout 5 laptops and have the first ever horseback Lan Gaming Party!!!!!!

might need some PDA's too, and a gameboy incase batterys die in laptop... and a hand held gps system cuz we will most likely get lost riding around playing games who knows where horses will go, and since we got all that stuff might as well buy a flat screen 22' monitor for my computer (all that riding makes a man tech hungry!)

a mix of hitech and wilderness, I love contrast

hmmm.. will have to invent wireless dsl that can be acsessed from anywhere in the world though, for high speed lan partys over net as well!

StSanta · « **Reply #29 on:** February 04, 2003, 06:57:04 AM »

Now THAT is a nice dog Toad. Too muscular for the beauty contests, but that's how a lab is supposed to look.

You involved with breeding labs too? I take it you're an avid hunter/dog trainer from yer pics.