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I am so sorry, Huga. She was such a beautiful old gal. Such a lovely DOL doggie. Take care, Hun ????

What about Galgos del Sol? They are based in Spain (around Murcia, I believe), and mostly rescue Galgos and Podencas, but they have rescued other breeds. I have their page "liked" on FB. They seem to really go out of their way to help every dog they get. Their website is: galgosdelsol.org It seems they also work with other rescues around the world. It's worth a shot.

Ours are taught "off" and "settle". If they are sitting nicely, they get petted. I ask people to ignore them, if the dogs are full of beans. Offerings of toys are also ignored until everyone is calm. If they can't behave, they don't get to be with company, or get petted while out walking.

The dogs get sent downstairs, and visitors go upstairs. No gates ( house is pretty open plan), but they are not allowed upstairs until they settle and/or I give them the "okay". Most of the time, the dogs would rather be downstairs anyway, where the sectional lounge is, lol. Every visitor knows beforehand, that we have two full-on ACDs, so if they are not dog lovers, they are not welcome. I do still expect the best behaviour from the dogs, though, no matter what. Now, the three very sucky, and attention demanding, cats on the other hand..........

Gremlins...

Alrighty then, I couldn't embed, but I did set the video to "public" so hopefully people can see it. Unfortunately, this video is still on the hard drive of our laptop that was destroyed, so I wasn't able to upload it to YouTube. This was taken in late December, after one of our big snowfalls. There's our big guy (R.I.P. ) and our ACD. I must mention that this still just a little bit of snow. We got a lot more after this :p

Two at the moment. We were down to one when our Dobie passed, but a week later I got one of my grandpups back. Two is a good number for us :-D

Back when our Dobie was under a year-old, my BF and I went to one of his friend's cottages with the Dobe and our ACD. The dogs had never been there, had never seen these people, and certainly did not know the beach area. But, over the couple of hours before the sun went down, we took them all over the place on-leash, to get them used to the whole area and even at that age, the Dobie had extremely good recall to a double whistle. To get to the beach, you had to walk down at least 50 steps, since the cottage was on a steep hill. I decided to go down to the beach for a swim with the dogs, and I put glow-sticks on their collars. The night was so dark (a new moon kinda night), I could see their glow-sticks bouncing around, and knew where they were. Once in a while I would do the whistle and they would both come flying over. While I was sitting, relaxing in the sand, watching the stars, I looked over to the dogs, and I could see the Dobe's colour of glow-stick hanging over the ACD's glow-stick. I thought the ACD was laying down and the Dobe was bugging him. Not unusual for those two, lol. Next thing I know, the Dobe is on top of me and super insistent about something. I called the ACD and noticed the glow-stick didn't move. Called again, and along with the Dobe, walked over to where the glow-stick was. That's all it was...just the glow-stick, no dog. Now normally, our ACD is a total Momma's boy and won't go too far from me. The Dobe and I started walking up the beach, calling his name. Calling and calling! Unfortunately, it was also pretty windy that night, so I couldn't hear a thing! The Dobe was sticking pretty close to my side, but you could tell he was searching! Nose in the air, whining... Decided to climb back up to the cottage, to ask for help. I was almost in tears by this point and the Dobe was almost beside himself. I got to the top of the steps, and there was the ACD, waiting for me. My BF said that he just showed up and he figured that I had sent the ACD up to them for some reason. He said that at one point, the ACD had gone halfway down the stairs, listening, but came back up and plonked himself back down at the top, staring down the stair-case. Did I mention that everyone was roasting hotdogs on a campfire? I gave in and both dogs got a lovely, campfire-cooked hot dog.

Back when I used to be on farm, and dealt with not only my own dogs, but also other peoples'-who would just dump them off-I would see a lot of these things waaaaaay too often I'm sure we've all had experiences very similar, unfortunately My linkhttp://www.cracked.com/article_21371_5-ways-youre-screwing-up-your-pet-explained-by-vet.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module

I am very sorry Hugs to you Think of all of the good times and let yourself laugh. That is what has helped us cope with losing our big boy, a month ago now. RIP Jesse I didn't know you or your "parents", but I will always send out love to one hurting

Such a beautiful collage for a wonderful sounding/looking cat. So sorry, Persephone. Rest easy now, Dougal. I know of a big Dobe that would love to play gently with you.

So sorry Such a beautiful boy. Big hugs, take care of yourself. Drake, please don't feel you're alone. There are a lot of DOL dogs to play with until you and Stari can be re-united once again.

Idiot People just have no idea. Are they willing to take pups/adults back if something happens? That kind of cross, people are NOT going to be prepared for what they have. It has been 6 years since I stopped breeding, for personal reasons, and I have fully welcomed two grand-pups of mine back home. Would they do the same? One is requiring a LOT of re-wiring, IFYKWIM, and the other is doing amazingly. Both were returned for different reasons, but they are both equally loved, and no amount of money will be spared to make sure that they are happy. Can she provide that? I even had to do a part of the talk with my SO. He wanted to get a Dobe right away, to replace our baby boy that passed two weeks ago. I had to explain to him, that although the pup would show some of the same breed mannerisms as our big guy, he/she would NOT be the same dog. Unfortunately, people will do what they want to do, especially if it means re-creating their heart dog. Who of us wouldn't want our baby girls or baby boys back? At least for most of us, we know that it will never be possible.

Personally, I really think it's up to your other dogs and yourself. After our loss on Sunday, our other dog refused to go in our backyard for two days. He has been extremely quiet and very withdrawn for the past couple of days, whereas he used to be the life of the party. My BF's mum came to visit today, and he solemnly walked up to her (he would usually bounce all over the place), wrapped a paw around her leg and just hugged. Then again, he also saw his buddy in extreme distress for G's how long before my BF came to check on them and was there for the whole stressful ordeal at the vets' (including himself being extremely ill). When my older male ACD passed, I brought the same dog in to say goodbye. Although he developed a fear of garbage bags (which I had put under that dog ) he seemed to know that the other had "passed". He didn't fret or go looking for him. This time, though, he has shown a definite understanding that something is not quite right. However, even saying all of that, every dog is different, and some feel more and some feel less. And as HW said, it is very peaceful. On Sunday morning, it took only seconds for our big guy to pass. No pain, no suffering... Please take care of yourself and I am sending huge, overseas bearhugs for you. It is never easy, whether unexpected or "planned". Take care, CDM

So many wonderful dogs to great us all one day. Rest easy, Ted, enjoy all of the good company you have until you can be re-united once again. Big hugs to you HW