Back on Saluki Nation we had an on-going thread about dogs - our favorite pets (we didn't go to a school with the sports teams named after some feline variant afterall). Plenty of other thread on this forum to discuss our other favorite Dawgs.
So starting a new thread here on Saluki Insider for our dogs.
Go Dawgs!
Back in March-2010 I posted this picture in the Dogs thread on Saluki Nation:
https://familycashman.smugmug.com/Rugby/i-jJKXV2n/A
We got this guy at one of the local public animal shelters. His name at the Shelter was Larry. He had two male siblings named Curly & Moe - both spoken for - and one female sibling whose name we've forgotten. It was an easy choice, Larry made an immediate bee-line for our daughter - for whom this dog was a gift - and they immediately hit if off. We did talk about adopting both Larry and the female pup but in the end we just came home with - Rugby.
We had a made a family agreement a year earlier that when we repatriated to the US and got a dog he would be a male mutt with some Lab in him and would be named Rugby.
Rugby's lineage is both Yellow Lab and Border Collie - a great mix in many ways and also lent ifself to some interesting habits and traits too.
Go Dawgs!
This is Bella. We got her in 2012 after we moved into our house we had just bought. A local no kill shelter had posted they had a large litter of Australian Shepard mixed puppies that were malnourished and in terrible living conditions. My wife was trying to convince me to get a new dog but I wasn’t having it. In a compromise she said let’s foster one of the Shepards to see how we can handle it. So off I went to the store they brought the puppies to pick one up. The head of the shelter rattled off some dogs and said one was very timid and skinny. Scared of the world. The runt. That was Bella. I told her she’d fit in perfectly at our house next to our laid back beagle mix. Turns out she was a perfect fit and of course we ended up keeping her because, in my mind, I couldn’t separate the two pups who had become best friends since moment one. We couldn’t get Bella in the house but she followed Molly (beagle) everywhere! So just like that, we became owners of 3 dogs.
In late October 2016, it was hot as shit, and we had no floors because we were dying out our subfloors to put in new wood floors. Bella had been itching a lot and we had taken her to the vet a few days prior to get help. They gave her an allergy pill. She quickly stopped eating and her personality left her. Early on a Thursday morning as we got ready for work she was in bed whining. We didn’t think anything of it until we tried to get her out of bed - and she struggled to stand up. I immediately picked her up without finishing getting ready for work and rushed her to the vet. They took her in and I waited for the call. I got a call around 10am and the vet said she was near death. All vitals extremely low and they needed to take action. They told me it could be expensive and I said I don’t care just save her. She told me they were testing for a disease but I couldn’t remember because I was so distraught. I took time to gather myself an call back to discuss what they were actually doing. Turns out they were testing for Addison’s disease. An autoimmune disorder that controls electrolytes and released cortisone for stress. Hers, and all addisonian dogs, stopped working. The reason she couldn’t stand is because her body’s electrolytes were out of whack. By that evening her vitals were normal and they put her on a steroid and have her a shot. I was crushed at the time but fast forward 3 years later she’s still with us, as spunky as ever and currently curled up at my feet sound asleep. I figured out that day she was my best friend and Im her best friend. She’s everything I ever wanted in a dog.
Dogs are terible pets. I only own cats.
Dogs are terible pets. I only own cats.
My dog loves cats - thinks they're almost as tasty as baby rabbits or table scraps!
Dogs are terible pets. I only own cats.
that's "turrible" by the way
Dogs are terible pets. I only own cats.
It must feel empty having no soul.
Dogs are terible pets. I only own cats.
It must feel empty having no soul.
+1
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Speaking of hounds, if you get a chance to watch Amazing Dogs on the Smithsonian Channel, the intro to every episode features a Saluki in the Sahara. The first episode begins with a 5 minute spot on the majestic Saluki and how they are trained and beloved by the Bedouins. Cool series if you are a dog lover.
