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Topic: Boomer dogs and other assorted pets |
slarsson
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 posted Jun-03-2006 07:51 AM
   
ah - here's the boomer pet thread! this pic shows running partner pelle (almost 4 years old - in september it will be 3 years since we adopted him from the alternative humane society and he was about a year old then) with feline assistant #1, mr. spook, who is 16 years old and doing pretty well for an old guy. he's lying on my desk right now, basking in the heat of the lamp. (too early to bask in the heat of the sun, which has not quite risen yet - i can see the alpenglow on snow-capped hoodoo mountain outside my window). mr. spook has a sister, miss muffin, who is a bit camera shy - we'll have to get a picture of her to add to boomer pets as well,-  fwiw
susan [This message has been edited by slarsson (edited Jun-03-2006).]
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egrd
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posted Jun-03-2006 08:53 AM
DinDin the trickster cat
comes with glow in the dark eyes
and lots of extra stuffing.
tickle her purrfect chin
for a toothy grin 
Egret
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ajhjc
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posted Jun-03-2006 09:39 AM
I can't see DinDin.  Susan, Pelle is bee-yoo-tiful, so soft and that mug. Ooh, give her(?) a kiss for me. Mr. Spook is beautiful too, I love how his two front paws are so daintily posed. Thanks Barb for bumping this up. You can never have too many pet pictures, ask Ribs. Wolfie and hallycat look like they have a hard life.  I want to see Vlasic Pickel (hehe)...
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ajhjc
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posted Jun-03-2006 10:00 AM
Oh, what the hay. Here are some more pictures of Timmy.Timmy with his best pal, Muddy
 Timmy and Muddy at the edge of the Potomac River
 Timmy surging out of the water after swimming
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slarsson
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posted Jun-03-2006 11:12 AM
Pelle is bee-yoo-tiful, so soft and that mug. Ooh, give her(?) a kiss for me. Mr. Spook is beautiful too, I love how his two front paws are so daintily posedthank you! those are "da boys" on the rug - pelle is a nickname for per, which is swedish for peter - when we found pelle at the shelter his name was pedro (peter in spanish, of course), and since we don't speak spanish, we gave him a name in swedish, which is our language. definitely a kissable bc - he says thank you,-)
and mr. spook is the champion of regal poses,-)) susan
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hally
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posted Jun-03-2006 11:16 AM
AJ, yeah those cats have it tough poor things.Yeah for Timmy, he is one lucky dog that you adopted him! I wish I could have a dog. I saw one at the adopt-a-dog van awhile back that made me cry I wanted her so bad. Egret, I can't see the kitty either Barb
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tisbootsere
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posted Jun-03-2006 02:43 PM
I have just spent some lazy post-running time looking at everyones best buddies - they are all so cute! AJ -I have to say I also have a redheaded Timmy, although mine is a "real" 15 y/o DS (Your Timmy is probably better behaved than mine!) I'll try to add my little buddy here ... His name is Vegas and he is a Papillon. He is much too lazy to be a running buddy, although he is quite excellent as a sleeping pal! He does get the zooms from time to time, leaping from the couch and pretending to be a cat ... but a runner he is not! ----Tammy 
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runnersk8ter
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posted Jun-04-2006 08:03 AM
Oh, those running partners make me want a dog! (Kind of.)Here are Licorice and Princess. They're about four years old. We adopted them the same day, but they are not littermates. Here they are on the screen porch, which to them is "outside."
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choover
Cool Runner |
posted Jun-04-2006 05:58 PM
This is a test to see if I can actually post a picture. Here's my dog Milo. 
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hally
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posted Jun-04-2006 06:29 PM
Vegas and Licorice and Princess and Milo are way KEWL!!
Now where is that Pickel dog aka Vlasic?We just LOVE when new folks post their pet pics  Barb
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Elaine3112
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posted Jul-29-2006 03:05 PM
That's it now folks, now I can post pictures, there'll be no stopping me now!Here's my beloved Shen who I've owned for 27 years on Monday. She has been injured since June and due to her age is taking a long time to heal, but we are getting there slowly. 
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Monday
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posted Jul-29-2006 03:12 PM
She's beautiful! Looks like a sweetheart, too. I'm so glad she's getting better.
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choover
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posted Jul-29-2006 04:04 PM
What a long time to own an animal. I bet she is indeed very special to you.
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hally
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posted Aug-08-2006 12:02 PM
*bump*
For Rebecca's lab and anyone else new. You can thank me later Ribs
Barb
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seemomgo
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posted Aug-08-2006 12:39 PM
Some of the best pet photos I've ever seen!!! Here is our dog - he is a little fluff ball! He does great tricks like flip over in the air and silly things like that. Wickett the Golden Star Chaser
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PBJ
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posted Aug-08-2006 12:44 PM
Okay, instead of posting a picture, here are two short stories about the PBJ family's first pet (written for a local paper's "naughty" dog contest:Taking Out Muffy Travis T. O’Justice (T-Dog) was a lean, muscular 95 pound old school black lab. He was a leashed dog, and we went for daily three to five mile walks. On rare occasions, he would be “free range.” As a lab, he derived pure joy in fetching a tennis ball over and over again. One time, as he was barreling back towards me at full speed, I went right, he went left, and I became the ten pin to his bowling ball. But this story is about T-Dog’s escapades in prison (actually, his stays at the upscale kennel known as “the Spa.”) After each stay at the Spa, T-Dog would come home with a hoarse bark and a scraped up nose, and sleep for a full day. We wrote it off as “prisoner name calling” and “prison scuffles.” We started to realize something was really amiss when we got a subsequent report card. “Travis tolerated his bath,” was the write-up. “What does that mean?” I inquired. “Several people got wet,” was the response. The next stay made T-Dog infamous. We didn’t hear about it until we returned the following spring. We tried to sign T-Dog up for daily playtime in the courtyard, but we were shown his permanent record, which had an oversized “No PT” written in magic marker on it. “He’s been banned for life,” said the caregiver, “he took out Muffy!” Apparently, Travis, in his exuberance, had knocked over the courtyard supervisor during his last playtime. A shaken Muffy had quit the next day. T-Dog had knocked over the prison guard, and a legend had been born. The Swallower Travis T. O’Justice (T-Dog) was a lean, muscular 95 pound old school black lab. His AKC registry showed a common ancestor on both sides of his family tree. “That’s a good thing,” said the breeders (cue the Deliverance dueling banjos). Unfortunately, when there’s common lineage, certain traits are, umm, amplified. T-Dog had a compulsive swallowing problem. During his ten year life span, he swallowed dozens of socks and underwear, two baby bottle nipples (don’t ask), multiple rubber chew toys, and crayons by the carton (oddly, he ignored the washable kind, but clean up of the after effects of regular crayons brought new meaning to the term “one scoop with rainbow sprinkles”.) His antics were legendary, and his intestinal blockage surgeries funded our vet’s pension plan while simultaneously sending a pet insurance company into receivership. T-Dog also consumed edible items, including an X-games worthy 720 of a Friendlies Jubilee roll slice. Holiday dinner guests watched in dumbfounded shock and awe as it went from paw struck plate to gulping mouth. If only I had videotaped the launch and chomp. Another time, T-Dog broke into the garage, and ripped into an unopened bag of dog chow. We calculated (by weight) that he had consumed one week’s worth of chow in a single feeding frenzy. Of course, my wife couldn’t resist putting a little chow into his bowl to see if he had reached his true saturation point (think Monty Python’s Meaning of Life one wafer thin mint scene). Oh, there’s so many more stories...
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ajhjc
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posted Aug-08-2006 01:52 PM
Another PBJ classic! “one scoop with rainbow sprinkles”  seemom: Wickett is so fluffable! I want to see Rebecca's lab!
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ajhjc
Cool Runner |
posted Aug-08-2006 01:57 PM
hally! my partner in crime!! My goal is to post everytime this thread is bumped to make Spareribs happy. These pics are of Timmy, of course. Apologies for the low res...cell phone camera... Is it wrong to be on the bed?
 His favorite ducky:
 Cooling off in the fountain:
 And, one of my beloved Hannah feeling very cumfy wumfy:
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Labduck
Cool Runner |
posted Aug-08-2006 04:00 PM
Timmy! My favorite dog in the whole world. I never get enough of him aj. Post as many pics as you want to.I'm sure Spareribs loves Timmy too!
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hally
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posted Aug-08-2006 06:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Labduck:
Timmy! My favorite dog in the whole world. I never get enough of him aj. Post as many pics as you want to.I'm sure Spareribs loves Timmy too!
<snork>
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TammyM
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posted Aug-08-2006 07:05 PM
When it's too hot to do anything else. . . .just lay down in the river  ------------------
"Life Is Good" Tammy
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WillRunForBeer
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posted Aug-15-2006 06:02 AM
Here's Beercat.Dawndaughter2 had a party on July 1, so there was some Corona around. The cat loves that box and has been lying in in ever since.  ------------------
Lou, (aka Mr. predawnrunner), MD, USA
Lou's Brews Training
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TammyM
Cool Runner |
posted Aug-15-2006 12:17 PM
Hey - I think I remember a few parties where I tried to curl up in a Corona box too  ------------------
"Life Is Good" Tammy
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runnersk8ter
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posted Aug-16-2006 08:34 AM
Beercat! Ha!Now if that were my cat Licorice in that box, he would have chewed the sides down to nothing. He works at it so assiduously, we call it his "job."
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hally
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posted Aug-16-2006 10:43 AM
Beercat looks like he isn't missing any meals (note I have two of those as well I'm allowed to call yours fat)
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