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Badger:
   Great stories, my brother had a cocker that liked to harass his horses. After multiple broken legs, broken ribs, concussions etc she still continues to harass them. hasn't gotten tagged in about 3 years now so I think she is getting smarter. Steve

Lombard:
We had a keashhund for sixteen years. Strong but gentle dog with a great spirit. Hated porcupines though, or just liked the taste, I don't know. I became very proficient at removing quills, as it is the one varmint she would persue relentlessly. She has been gone almost two years now, miss her like an old friend.

65x55 swedis:
i personly like the labs also i had a chocolate lab called teak. my dad and me raised her from a pup and trained her to be a bird dog. she could flush a bird out of any where! and i do mean anywher one catch she was gun shy like no tomarrow. any to the storie. her first hunting trip we were out and we found a grouse along the road. well we did not know that she was gun shy so dad told me to hold on to her. dad shot the grouse and teak hit the dirt, and laied down like she was shot. we both told her to fetch it up and she bolted like lighting and hit the bird and brought it back. i lost that dog 2 months ago old age finaly got her at 17

Postman:
We had a young female Siberian  husky coming into heat when I was a kid, and saw the dollar signs in dad's eyes when a feller with a male asked if they could mate them and split the money from the pups.  Huskies were real popular in our area then, but a boxer got to her first and we wound up with 4 of the weirdest looking mutts you ever saw. She was the calmest dog, but when the pups were about a month old, she started freaking out running around the house, then jumped thru a screen window. She came back an hour later and promptly regurgitated a litter of baby rabbits for her pups! Most were still moving - very sobering "wild kingdom" stuff for a 6 year old. we got homes for three and kept the funkiest, Smokey joe. He  had one blue eye, one brown , a straight ear, a flop ear, thin haunches and a  barrel chest that made him pigeon toed, and a curved but sparsley furred tail.

Great dog, though.

Dane:
We had a golden retriever / miniature collie mix named Kara. At about 15, she evidently had a stroke, and lost the use of her back legs. When this happened, we rushed her to the on call vet, as it was a Saturday, and our regular vet was unavailable.

I was covered in sh## from carrying her, terrified of course, into the vet's waiting room, so I was not in a good mood. When the vet did about a 2 minute examination and declaired that we had to put her down, I went off. I told her would you put your mom or aunt to sleep if she had a sudden stroke and with one opinion after a few seconds of looking with no chart? Stormed out of there, took her to our regular vet on Monday. In the meantime, I had somehow heard about dog wheel chairs, and there was a guy about five miles from us who builds them, Eddie's Wheels. He is a retired aerospace engineer, and does great work. We made an appointment to see him on Monday, I took the day off, and we had her fitted out that day. On Tuesday, we took Kara to our regular vet. She was in good health, only couldn't use her back legs, and we had to be prepared for a lot of work if we wanted to keep her.

It was of course no problem, lots of pills to give her, and lots of exta work, but Kara was happy for two more years. Here diet changed, and she suddenly refused to eat regualar dog food, so I had too cook her special meals each night. Sometimes she turned down one meal, and I made her a second one. She loved hot foods, so I did a lot of Indian and Mexican food. Had to ground up about five different pills and slip them in her meal. Her favorite thing of all was tacos from Taco Bell. I used to call her Karacita, the Mexican pooch. Her eyes would get huge when I brought home tacos. We walked her seven days a week in her cart, and pretty much didnt go anywhere or even take day trips so we could be there for her. It was totally worth it. She lived to be almost 18, and was happy to the very end.

In the photos, you can see her getting fitted out with her new cart. The second shot shows the cart with some special skis we had Eddie fit to the cart, she loved snow. The last shot is her with a parasol on her cart. You can see the details of the cart well in this picture.

Dane

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