Rugbygrrl
11-24-2004, 02:06 PM
Hey ya'll,
Someone I know from another list I'm on needs to find homes quick for two dogs (1 male, 1 female) that sound like they'd make great pets.
Here is a link to pictures of them and a short movie:
http://www.verybigdesign.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=22 (http://www.verybigdesign.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=22)
Her email is: jen@verybigdesign.com
Her number is: 513-424-9202
Here is her letter explaining the situation - she's even willing to pay for fixing the male if someone will take the critter. If I thought my cats wouldn't freak out I'd take the boy dog myself that's how cute he looks!
Letter:
Dom is my dog Maggie's Brother (same litter) and Patches is her mom. Both are sweet as hell.
Dom will be 5 this January 15. He's about 60 pounds. He's a very sweet, well behaved boy. He's been an outside dog (owner didn't want him in for all the shedding once he grew up), but wants to be an inside dog so badly that he actually would jump out of their fence and come to my house for some attention. The last several months since their backward fence was riddled with escape ops, they started locking him in the basement, but the owners [only] ever went to the basement to do laundry or let them out to do their business real fast.
He's not a barker at people coming in the house (unlike my girl) and is a lot gentler in attitude, but is a good watchdog when outside. Smart as a whip, they were taught how to shake at a few weeks old. And I can vouch the way he's found to escape certainly confirms he's as smart as they come. He learns tricks in a snap. Whoever wants him will have to put him out on an overhead line or have a 6ft fence, (preferably not chain link, he's a climber). I think this escapist tendencies will cease once he can be inside with people and happy and being loved on constantly, and only outside for his business and playing and the like.
He hates being outdoors 24/7. He is great with cats indoors. He is good with other dogs as well!
Maggie LOVES when Dom comes over they just run and run and wrassle for minutes on end till they fall over exhausted but my dog other Gary hates him and doesn't realize he is only 20 pounds and Dom is 60 otherwise we'd keep him. You can't tell a terrier to chill, they just don't know the meaning of the word when their machismo is in question.
DOM IS NOT FIXED, but John and I will pay to get him fixed if that is the clincher. Seriously!
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Patches is about 9 years old and IS fixed and about 45 pounds, a bit smaller than Dom as the video shows. She has in the last few months developed a hip problem, her hips are a bit splayed, and she limps a bit when it's cold. I'm afraid we'll have to turn her in at a pound for euthanasia if no one is willing to take her. She's FINE with indoor cats, doesn't even bat an eye BUT is NOT fond of cats, rodents, or birds in her OUTDOOR turf. Many dead ones have been found over time.
But then this is sadly the case with most dogs kept outdoors most of the time.
We'd keep Patches due to her sweet demeanor and age, but she dislikes BOTH our dogs, and growls a them threateningly constantly (loves people though!). Maggie has no idea what's going on and thinks Mommie's playing and takes on her "Yay! let's wrestle! Wheee!" rumble stance like she does when she and Gary have daily doggie cage matches so this could go very badly if we kept Patches.
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Please forward this around, I'll be happy to bring the dogs to people in the Cinci, Dayton, Springfield, Troy, Columbus, Akron areas to come meet you and see if you all get along.
As much as we'd love to keep them, we have two dogs and two cats
(already a full house) it's complicated - I can't have both sets of our dogs in the backyard since one of mine and one of them don't get along. (Gary is filled full of machismo and Maggie is his woman, and she's playing with Dom thus he tries to attack him, and Patches dislikes Maggie - oh yeah it's FUN!)
It's a REAL pain in the tuchus to shuffle the new set in and behind a wall of clothes hampers in the back room (aka, "the doggie airlock"), then shuffle my dogs in the back room and outside via the back door, then do it again in the opposite order again and again... I can't keep them more than a week or so. Every once in a while we have a mistake and all hell breaks loose. I'm alone here during the day - you try to chase down one large set of dogs playing and two smaller dogs chasing each other the other two growling trying to fight the two playing ones?
I bet not. I hope not.
Please if you want one of these dogs or know someone who does, contact me ASAP.
Jen Segrest
Someone I know from another list I'm on needs to find homes quick for two dogs (1 male, 1 female) that sound like they'd make great pets.
Here is a link to pictures of them and a short movie:
http://www.verybigdesign.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=22 (http://www.verybigdesign.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=22)
Her email is: jen@verybigdesign.com
Her number is: 513-424-9202
Here is her letter explaining the situation - she's even willing to pay for fixing the male if someone will take the critter. If I thought my cats wouldn't freak out I'd take the boy dog myself that's how cute he looks!
Letter:
Dom is my dog Maggie's Brother (same litter) and Patches is her mom. Both are sweet as hell.
Dom will be 5 this January 15. He's about 60 pounds. He's a very sweet, well behaved boy. He's been an outside dog (owner didn't want him in for all the shedding once he grew up), but wants to be an inside dog so badly that he actually would jump out of their fence and come to my house for some attention. The last several months since their backward fence was riddled with escape ops, they started locking him in the basement, but the owners [only] ever went to the basement to do laundry or let them out to do their business real fast.
He's not a barker at people coming in the house (unlike my girl) and is a lot gentler in attitude, but is a good watchdog when outside. Smart as a whip, they were taught how to shake at a few weeks old. And I can vouch the way he's found to escape certainly confirms he's as smart as they come. He learns tricks in a snap. Whoever wants him will have to put him out on an overhead line or have a 6ft fence, (preferably not chain link, he's a climber). I think this escapist tendencies will cease once he can be inside with people and happy and being loved on constantly, and only outside for his business and playing and the like.
He hates being outdoors 24/7. He is great with cats indoors. He is good with other dogs as well!
Maggie LOVES when Dom comes over they just run and run and wrassle for minutes on end till they fall over exhausted but my dog other Gary hates him and doesn't realize he is only 20 pounds and Dom is 60 otherwise we'd keep him. You can't tell a terrier to chill, they just don't know the meaning of the word when their machismo is in question.
DOM IS NOT FIXED, but John and I will pay to get him fixed if that is the clincher. Seriously!
--------------------
Patches is about 9 years old and IS fixed and about 45 pounds, a bit smaller than Dom as the video shows. She has in the last few months developed a hip problem, her hips are a bit splayed, and she limps a bit when it's cold. I'm afraid we'll have to turn her in at a pound for euthanasia if no one is willing to take her. She's FINE with indoor cats, doesn't even bat an eye BUT is NOT fond of cats, rodents, or birds in her OUTDOOR turf. Many dead ones have been found over time.
But then this is sadly the case with most dogs kept outdoors most of the time.
We'd keep Patches due to her sweet demeanor and age, but she dislikes BOTH our dogs, and growls a them threateningly constantly (loves people though!). Maggie has no idea what's going on and thinks Mommie's playing and takes on her "Yay! let's wrestle! Wheee!" rumble stance like she does when she and Gary have daily doggie cage matches so this could go very badly if we kept Patches.
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Please forward this around, I'll be happy to bring the dogs to people in the Cinci, Dayton, Springfield, Troy, Columbus, Akron areas to come meet you and see if you all get along.
As much as we'd love to keep them, we have two dogs and two cats
(already a full house) it's complicated - I can't have both sets of our dogs in the backyard since one of mine and one of them don't get along. (Gary is filled full of machismo and Maggie is his woman, and she's playing with Dom thus he tries to attack him, and Patches dislikes Maggie - oh yeah it's FUN!)
It's a REAL pain in the tuchus to shuffle the new set in and behind a wall of clothes hampers in the back room (aka, "the doggie airlock"), then shuffle my dogs in the back room and outside via the back door, then do it again in the opposite order again and again... I can't keep them more than a week or so. Every once in a while we have a mistake and all hell breaks loose. I'm alone here during the day - you try to chase down one large set of dogs playing and two smaller dogs chasing each other the other two growling trying to fight the two playing ones?
I bet not. I hope not.
Please if you want one of these dogs or know someone who does, contact me ASAP.
Jen Segrest