Loving my Oldies

What a beautiful girl - and a wonderful home she has found!!! So lovely that you keep in touch with and have visits on special days from your breeders, Jules.

I agree with you, Esky, but I'd leave off the "soon".

Samoyedman, you have shared just about everything about you on DOL even to why your comb is dirty when your hair is clean; you can't really get the huff because people want to know more.

Yep. Echidnas LOL.

Not ready yet sadly, Andisa. I'm thinking somne years down the track when all my littlies have gone to god The youngest is 10, so a while to go yet. I'm going to seek your and Grumpette's advice. :laugh: :laugh:

LOL, that's has been my thinking for when I am and older, dodderier lady, but the older and dodderier, I get I realise that the Rottie would have to be on his or her last legs to cope with the lifestyle LOL. Your photos are very special, Andisa.

Make a canvas wall hanging of that photo for your OH, silentchild - it is too too gorgeous.

+1 I think it is a shame that Samoyedman didn't give a more detailed reason for his query, then some of the responses perhaps would not have been so condemnatory and more responses giving suggestions such as Katdogs did might have been received. DOL seems to have become Samoyedman's sounding board for everything and I imagine he would have thought he would get constructive comments. Samoyedman, I think, is a professional and still (despite some of the things he says :D ) is a young man with a couple of decades of career ahead of him. The employment opportunity might be one of a lifetime and, I assume from his posts about redesiging his current backyard, has come about quite suddenly. Anyway, his query was about whether rehoming and continuing a relationship with his dog and that has been well and truly answered.

You are limiting the rehoming prospects for this dog severely by insisting you have access. No way known would I ever adopt a dog under those conditions. The stress to the dog of regular meetings, followed by separations would not be fair IMO. How is he expected to bond to a new owner under these conditions.? Thank you, this information about dog behaviour is what i am after, and this along with similar feedback has convinced me to reject the idea of rehoming him. I would prefer to stay where i am because i could never cut this dog completely out of my life. It was said very early on in the thread.

But how will you know if any more details are given if you don't return? :D

Ditto, don't you have an loyalty to your dog after seven years? and from me too, pretty disgusted with you SamMan How do any of you know that it is "essentially for convenience"? If the OP has to relocate (note he said "might"), he is getting in early and exploring alternatives. We all say that the dogs come first, but when over the barrel of perhaps a chance to make a huge step forward in one's chosen career, I'd like to see what we'd all do - in reality, not hypothetical.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Hope Jazz continues to do well.

A number of the dogs I've rescued and adopted have been a lot older than that - the oldest was nearly 17. Truly - one of the few whose documentation I had. Provided they are loved and properly cared for, dogs adapt. They are amazing creatures.

Absolutely NOT! If you have to rehome, you rehome and bow completely out of the picture.

I don't have any advice except to prepare yourself that she may never change. I rescued and then adopted a dog from a pound when she was six months old. She was a quivering, peeing and pooing wreck and even today, more than nine years later, she still reacts to me sometimes as though she is going to be beaten. She leaps at the sound of twig being broken on our walks, she drops to the ground when I walk towards her (not always) and I don't believe she was ever badly treated. She was in really good condition when I rescued her, but I think she is naturally very timid and easily scared and the trauma of being lost was just all too much. She has no fear when I'm lying down: walks all over me, shoves her head into my hands to be patted, sleeps along my pillows behind my head, or down by my side pushing at me to lift up the bedding so she can snuggle underneath. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I really hope your little girl does come good and lives a long and happy life with you.

Altogether now: AWWWWWWWWW Seriously, what a wonderful idea. I want to know what happens, too, together with the pix to prove it.

Well, I for one will be sending Magistrate Michael Daly a Christmas Card and telling him why. Let's all do the same...... unless of course, that is being sensationalist. :D

Rachel if you would like to do the home check yourself, I'd be happy to drive you.

No, but I want to see the finished result :laugh: :laugh:

I may have misinterpreted the OP's post, but it sounded as though her dog is that sort of barker :laugh:

Your heart must be raw and tender, Rachel, from the enormous losses over the past few years. And now Zeuss. As always, your poetry is pure, rich and heartfelt.

So true

Don't think Labradors are known for their "shrinking violet" personalities. :laugh:

I must admit, I thought the same :). I have dogs who love to bark at the birds and this wasn't a particularly big issue, until a new neighbour moved in next door and put out a bird feeder .

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