Was not ready for a new dog, but......

Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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I got woke up Saturday morning with a face full of dog tongues. I was not happy at first. But I now realize how much I missed my other dogs that are gone now.

Her name is Jolene. Or Jo Jo as I am calling her. The old lady had the song Jolene stuck in her head for the past two weeks. So that is where the name comes from.

She is thought to be 9 months old. She is very well behaved for a pup. She already knows sit and "NO". She has turned Jack the cat on the left into a chew toy. He actually likes it. They are chasing each other all over the house. My female is the one that is not too happy. She is not scared but does not like the running and jumping the pup does. Oh, and already house trained!

She was a stray someone dropped off at the dog pound about 3 weeks ago. They think she is part Plott hound or Tennessee Tree hound. She weighs 44lbs and they said she might get to 50lbs but that is it. I hope. I don't want a big dog again.
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richhodg66

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We here are most definitely cat people, but have had a dog most of the time we've been married. Last one was a little Shi Tzu which kind of happened along, had him 14 years or so and had to put him down a few years back.

I kind of decided we're all too busy for a dog now, both work, I'm hardly ever around, it seems, and cats do OK alone all day, especially if there's more than one, but that's not good to do to a dog in my opinion.

I think I'm going to be able to retire completely in about four years and at that point, I will have a little dog around to spoil shamelessly. I really don't have the patience for puppies (getting that way with kittens too) so I'll be perusing shelters looking for an older one, breed unimportant, but I want it to be fairly small. When I look at the dogs for adoption on the sites around here, seems like there are often little lap dogs who outlived their senior citizen owners and are now looking for a home late in life with a major adjustment, that will be what I'm looking for.

Jo looks like she's gonna be a great dog. Congrats on the new family member.
 
fiver

fiver

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anyone interested the Uhsa has about 4000 beagles they need to re-home in the Virginia area.

anyway Tomme:
Jax approves of the new Pup, she gave her a good looking over, and said okay,,, i guess.
she isn't so keen on the Cats though, i think it's cause the striped one looks too much like Littlegirls, and she isn't allowed to chase her.
 
Bret4207

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fiver said:
anyone interested the Uhsa has about 4000 beagles they need to re-home in the Virginia area.

anyway Tomme:
Jax approves of the new Pup, she gave her a good looking over, and said okay,,, i guess.
she isn't so keen on the Cats though, i think it's cause the striped one looks too much like Littlegirls, and she isn't allowed to chase her.
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Are those the sob's that were cutting out their voice boxes so they couldn't bark and whine and then sticking the puppies heads in a box with parasites? AKA- Beaglegate?
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Grew up with Beagles; folks had 2. Beagles are wonderful as long as they're someone else's. Too much barking and too much digging. They're great little dogs, we just prefer the larger dogs; especially the larger Spitz breeds.
 
Rick

Rick

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My last dog was a Walker Coon Hound, from the beagle family. No barking, no digging. Current puppy is a lab, much barking, much digging, much chewing. :mad: Gotta break her of all that, all three are my pet peeves for dogs.
 
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richhodg66

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Walkers don't bark? I didn't know that.

I've had three full bred Bassett hounds in my life and like the breed and hounds in general. I didn't buy any of them, they just happenned along at the appropriate time and two of them were pretty senior when I got them. I do think I want to adopt from a shelter this next time and want a small one.
 
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Dunno if barking is or isn't common to the breed, just know that mine didn't sit around woofing all day. When she was out, she would say woof just once to let me know she wanted in. In about 5 minutes if I didn't let her in one more woof.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Well I went shooting today and left the dog home alone. She must have turned into a puppy when I left. She tore up all kinds of stuff. It looked like someone took a couple full trash bags and dumped everything out all over the house. She knew she was bad. I got home and seen what she did. I was mad but did not get mad at her. I called her and she was hiding under the covers on my bed. I had to pull her off the bed. She knew she was bad.

Oh well. I am sure there are more to come. The cats were sitting right in the middle of all the mess looking at me like "we told you not to get a dog!"
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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Hahahaha. I see a marmaduke comic slick in my head! Sorry man!

We put ours in the bathroom with her bed and sweatshirt from PO. She was a good girl. We did that 3-5 times for short errands and always fine. Then I used bedroom. Also fine but she scratched up the headboard on mommas sleigh bed. (Not good) but fixable. So we gave her free reign. She set the alarm off before we left the street!!! Hahahaha. Alarm co says I should adjust sensors. NOT A CHANCE!! She is back in bedroom when we leave and need alarm on.

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Bret4207 said:
As long as you're happy with her Tom, all is well!!!

Here's our 2 Golden pups recovering from another epic battle on the lawn.
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I have 1 of them dumb-dumbs here as well.hes currently watching the redsox,try to play baseball.
Just had to put my shepard down,,glad i still have my golden.
 
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