Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:32 pm
He’s adorable and looks to be a match to you in the spirited department!
Maybe some short haired pointer in him? How did he arrive in your life?
The animal rescue league. I've been thinking about getting another one since the last one was stolen and stalking the petfinder site every day. All the ones that met my criteria were 85 miles away in Meridian and we had a road trip planned for next week. Then my friend texted me this morning and said they have a shit ton of "little" dogs at the ARL. To them, small is apparently anything under 60 lbs. Labs, retrievers, Huskys, and this little jewel.
We're going meet the Marley Jane in a few minutes.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
(I rescued a cat from work once. She had a pretty bad respiratory infection so I left her at the vet for a while to heal before I brought her home to my own kitties. The vet wouldn’t let me get away with NoName on the chart so we named her Émanon- Emma for short. She was a love).
If your new bestie is part beagle, better batten down the hatches. We are on our fourth beagle. Secure the perimeter. Sound proof your house. Keep all food at least five feet above the floor unless you attend to it with due diligence. They are ruled by their olfactory. I've read that the average dog's sense of smell is like 10,000 times more acute than ours. Add another zero for beagles.
But we wouldn't have it any other way.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." O. Wilde
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:29 pm
My new puppy! He was everything I didn't want. Male, larger than about 15 lbs, puppy.
He's a beagle mix of some sort they think, and now he's mine! No name yet.
Squee!!! He's adorable! Congrats on the new member of your family!
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:29 pm
My new puppy! He was everything I didn't want. Male, larger than about 15 lbs, puppy.
He's a beagle mix of some sort they think, and now he's mine! No name yet.
Squee!!! He's adorable! Congrats on the new member of your family!
There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
--Colin Kaepernick
I scared the absolute crap out of Patches this morning. He has decided he prefers sleeping in my sewing/computer room so when I came cruising back here this morning in the pitch dark, he lost his little doggie mind. Barking, whining, growling and whimpering. The whole range of beagle noises at top volume. I had to turn the light on and pick him up before he quit.
BTW, he is a Boingle dog, and his name is now Patches.
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:21 am
BTW, he is a Boingle dog, and his name is now Patches.
Cute name for a cute pup! I'd never heard of Boingles before. They sound like fun! It's good that he quit when you picked him up - sounds like he's already decided you can be trusted
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
humblescribe wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:06 pm
Wait until Patches starts with the zoomie.
BTW, great name!
When my little 10 - 15 lb cats got zoomies, it amused me, but it never scared me. When my 80 lb dog gets the zoomies? That's a whole different matter. SO much dog coming my direction SO fast... Yikes!
humblescribe, I laugh every time I get to the end of one of your posts because your signature is like a coda. If it’s a rant, it’s especially fitting. If you end on a high note, like that last one it’s like you’re fibbing a little. “what a great name! (ugh) Sorry, I am easily amused.
humblescribe, I laugh every time I get to the end of one of your posts because your signature is like a coda. If it’s a rant, it’s especially fitting. If you end on a high note, like that last one it’s like you’re fibbing a little. “what a great name! (ugh) Sorry, I am easily amused.
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Thanks for the note, P520. The genesis of "ugh" was the result of the shellacking that Utah put on that private school in the ghetto. I thought the game would be close, but after the injury to our quarterback, the wheels just fell off. Such are dashed dreams. But I'll keep it around a bit longer.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." O. Wilde