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We bought Casey when she was 3 months old from in front of the Petco I worked at on December 20th 2007. She's a Lab/Boxer mix. We stick with that, though we've heard arguments for Sharpei and Pitbull being in there. She weighs about 70 lbs now, and is almost 2 years old. She had something bad happen to her before we came along, so her first couple months with us were spent encouarging her to be crazy and outgoing. We pay dearly every day for that training approach, but for the most part she is a well-adjusted dog now. Too smart for her own good, and we love her antics (mostly). This is Casey at 6 months old on her first hike.  Here she is at 8 months, sleeping with the cat. They're twins by markings and color, but that wasn't on purpose. Noticed about an hour after we got home with the dog that they matched. These two play tag in the house we have now.  And here's Casey a couple months ago doing the face she does best. 
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Dr. Housecat MD posted:Awesome. Way to support lovely bybs. Actually, at 3 months old they had put more than $25 in food into her. Not to mention, in the wrong hands she would have been heavily at risk for becoming a fear-biter. I was doing her a favor. Her brother was not timid or fearful, so I left him to be an option for a less dog-experienced family. Yes, if all was ideal, the $25 would have gone towards the mother getting fixed. I can't say that is what happened. I can say that Casey wound up in a good home for her temperament at the time, though. Edit: And at least we kept her. An ad was posted at my work about 2 or 3 months later to give away two Lab/Boxer brothers. Same age, and one was the spitting image of Casey. I hope they found good homes. Sharpie Fix fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jul 26, 2009 |
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Jul 26, 2009 09:39
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Really, I equate these kind of "OMG BYB!" posts as an passive way to say "I wish your dog had never been born". You just can't say this to a person that loves and cares for their dog that actually exists. I would never say this about anyone's pet, byb or otherwise. If anything, I might say that I wish a pet had never been in the wrong hands. Spend your time educating people not to breed or buy byb puppies in the first place if they can help it, not chastizing owners of dogs that happen to have come from those situations. Yes, we were on our way to the shelter that night to look at dogs. Yes, we had been planning on getting a dog. This was not a whim. I feed this dog incredibly high quality food, and sometimes raw. She eats better than I do and sees the vet more often than I see a doctor. My dog is my child, and I'm out for her best interests. I feel justified in having brought her home, and part of that was genuine concern that she would not make it through the process of being refused to be bought (she was one of the last for her temperament, not because she was ugly), neglected by the mother's owners (she was almost 5 lbs underweight), given away to some family that just wants a "free" cute little puppy ($25 is a drop in the bucket of $4K we have spent on her general care and health in the last 20 months - I can give you the numbers if you like), and then off to a shelter because the kids in the family scared the crap out of her and she bit them - or she was beaten because she pissed all over the carpets because they couldn't afford to take her to the vet and find out she had a UTI. If it wasn't me, then who would it be? Should I have just watched the shelter sites like a hawk waiting for her to show up 3 or 4 months later? Would she even make it to being adopted after all that trauma? Or would she be another numbered casualty in the Humane Society statistics? But I digress...Think of ME what you will. Casey is an awesome dog, and there is nothing I would do to take back all the veterinary expenses, restless days, late night walks, and training frustrations. "How could you say that about me?" 
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