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BPO Introduction Forum => Introduce Yourself to the Forum => : Rottie Mom May 31, 2005, 06:41:44 AM
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Hello,
I hope this is the right place to introduce myself and the kids :-\. I have been vistiting here for awhile now and have finally decided to join. I have found tons of useful info and love all your stories and pictures.
I am Mom to a Rottie, a Husky MIx, a cat, a ferret and 3 kids. I have many stories and TONS of pictures of all the kids .... so be prepared, I will bore you all with them frequently :P. It'll be fun getting to know all of you :D
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I would love to see your photos and read the adventures of your little monsters. Before I found BPO I used to go to Google images and search for puppy and dog photos on the internet. I browsed them just to lift my spirits. Now I come here.
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Welcome to BPO! You are amongst friends now so post pics and have laugh! I for one can't waite to see pics of all your babies, especially the ferret ;) I had one before all the kids and any dogs and he was my little buddy (and thief!).
Natalie
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Welcome Rotti Mom. Your gonna love this site. We cant wait to see your pictures.
Coonie
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Welcome R.M.!!!...My name is Chelle & I live in Iowa with my hubby, 2 skin kids, 12 fur kids who consist of 8 cats, 2 house bunnies, 1 guinea pig & 10 month old Great Pyrenees, Samson...This is really an awesome site & alot of fun!...Your dogs are very good looking b.t.w.!!!
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Hi RottiMom! Sounds like you have a house full of entertainment over there! ;D Glad that you decided to join us here. I look forward to seeing more pics of you and your furbabies.
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Welcome RottiMom! We are glad you joined us! I will warn you though...and the other BPO members will agree I think....that this is an addictive site! Looking forward to seeing more pictures!
Heather
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Welcome, we all LOVE the photos. Can't wait to see them.
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WELCOME TO YOUR NEW HOME AWAY FROM HOME! the first and only place on the net you will visit every day for lack of time!
i cannot WAIT to see the photos of ALLof the kids! your avater is SOO cute!
and stories! oh bring on the stories! nothing cheers me up like the other moms stories! sometimes, you laugh until you squirt in your pants, other times, you stand up with pride because for the first time, someone has a worse dog than you!
i am so glad you decided to join! POST AWAY!
im nicki by the way! you'll get sick of me soon enough!
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Hi Rotti Mom, nice to have you here. I am a little curious..... You said you have been visiting a lot, and found useful info. but what was it that made you join. There are many communities out there, so it would be real interesting to know what made you join our family :D
You'll love this place, and please bring on all the pics and stories. I too had a ferret, her name was Peanut, she went to the bridge quite a few years ago though. Now we have two degus, they are our only pocket pets. We also have 4 dogs, 1 cat and 1 parrot, ohhh and I almost forgot ::) 3 two legged kids hehe
Marit
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Thanks all for the wonderful welcome ;D!!!
Well first of all the main reason I joined is because I am VP of a Rottweiler and Large Breed Rescue and even though I love what I do I wanted a place that I could visit that wasn't based around rescue work. Sometimes I just like to brag about my babies, the babies I foster and hear wonderful stories about others and their pets.
Also, I was looking for a place where I would feel comfortable posting and not having to worry about being bashed for an opinion or thought I may have. I have visited alot of forums/message boards where a person would ask a question, share a story, or make a statement and they would bash and criticize them .... not the type of place I want to be. Big Paws Only seems laid back and friendly ..... exactly what I was looking for.
Everybody here seems so nice and I love the sence of humor you all have .... I'm glad to have found your happy family and am excited to meet everyone!!
Here's a few pics of my babies ;D
Here's my 2 and a foster pup chasing a bug into a hole ...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Dogs/000_172422.jpg)
Kids sharing the chair
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Dogs/000_173322.jpg)
And Deogee and Ruby (foster pup) telling secrets
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Fosters/000_16222.jpg)
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The pics are adorable, and you know bugs need to be kept under control, dont let them take over ;D I am so glad to hear the reasons you decided to join here, That was the reason I got sooooo active here, because it is so friendly and not only lots and lots of great information but also chitchatty threads where we all get to know eachother.
I work in rescue too, only cat right now Maine coon rescue. But have been asked by a few dog rescues and I am still to decide, think Ill work with mastiff rescue though, since I have them.
But I have seen way too many places like the ones you describe, where you have to feel bad for asking or having an opinion. That is never the case here.
Nice to meet you and I hope to hear a lot from you, ohhh and see bunches of pics.
Marit
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hi mama an welcome this is the most friendliest place to be an i have been to many others who were the rudest placest on earth i used to belong to one for pitbulls right after i got chance when i introduced my self i explained our life which is 5 kids 1 cat now and 2 dogs and down now to 2 parakeets which i just lost one last weekend :'( and when they found out that i had gotten my best dog ever in my life chance out of the paper they totally freaked out then they started about what i could afford to buy him for food they were unbelievable since you have rots i have one who is mixed with jack russel who i got from the pound she is 5yrs old now she (sammi) is very food an water agressive in the house why i dont know she is well fed but outside she could care less who gets into her food and when we first got her for 8 months she was house trained and suddenly started going where ever she pleases she stopped asking to go out she is healthy as an ox according to her dr an hes the best in this area if anyone has any ideas let me know cause we would like to keep her but if her in the house agression continues she will have to go back to jail (pound)
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rocketgirl, seems like you are having a rough time with her now. :( How old did you say she is??? And you said she comes from the pound, do you know where she comes from, what conditions. Has she alwasy been aggressive in the house with her food??? And when she has accidents inside, is it peepee or poop??? I am sure you'll get a lot of ideas about what could be wrong. It would help though if we knew a little more about her.
And I know what you mean, I love dog breeding and most things that comes with it, but I hate the stuck up attitude you so often see on some boards. I can pretty much promise you, that you'll never see anyone acting stuck up here though, we are all a little nutty though ::)
Marit
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thank you merit i dont know anything about her past except that they thought enough about her to have her chipped and we have had her about a year an she has always been agressive like that its just in the house which struck me as very odd and she uses the house as her personal potty for all things we have no idea why she was spoiled by us when we got her so it really through us off we have tried hand feeding her even the crate that made her worse
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I love Mastiffs .... we rescued a pup not to long ago, I really loved him .... he was a wonderful house guest ;D
This is Junior, 5-6 month old Mastiff
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Fosters/000_232622.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Fosters/000_232722.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Fosters/000_2328222.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/Fosters/000_23682.jpg)
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oh the last and second to last are my favorite! i want to adopt him! he's so sweet!
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rockettgirl68 .... Did Sammi's attitude change after you got the new puppy or was she doing this before that? Also, is the new pup a male or female? It might be the new pup (if I understood your post, the pit puppy is new??) .... not that the pup is doing anything wrong but maybe she feels threatened on her territory (in the house) which would explain the pottying in the house (marking) and the foods aggression (they feel the dominate one should eat first). I may be way off base but we have had problems with this before taking in older fosters. I found that some of the info worked great for us ( http://www.nomorehomelesspets.org/behavior/dog/nilif.htm ) I pick and choose what worked best for each dog but it was very helpful ;D Either way, whether it's the pup or not it might help.
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Ohhhh what a cutie. Is he a Bullmastiff or OEM, and does he have a docked tail???? That is kinda unusual. They are sooo nice though, I have both Bull and OEM and they pretty much run my life.
Rockettgirl... .. Hmmmmm sounds like quite a problem. You didnt tell how old she is, that could be of interest. That she is food aggressive, is not a good thing, do you free feed or do you give them once or twice a day?? Even if you can not solve that problem, maybe you could settle for working "around it"
The potty thing, have there been any big changes in your house lately, something that could make her stressed out and wanting to provoke??? Could she be in her teenage months?? They can be real pesky when they go through that stage, forget everything they ever learnt. You say she got worse when you used a crate, did you crate her when you left so she would not go potty inside or when did you use it and how did she get worse???
::) I know, lots of questions, but the more you tell about her, the easier it will be to guess what may or may not help. When is she going potty inside, when she is alone, when you are there or both?? There are so many things I'd like to know lol..... Its gotta be real frustrating though, hopefully you can get some ideas here, it would be real sad if you had to give her up. I am sure we somehow can brainstorm and figure out how to get your girl back in line.
Marit
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hi it started the day we brought sammi home long before chance who is a male
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We rescued him from the shelter with a docked tail .... apparently his previous owners had done it and they did a horrible job at it. Not sure why ??? He was adopted by a wonderful family .... we only had him long enough to evaluate, fully vet and neutered him. He went fast .... he was so sweet and such a big goof ball. :P
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awwww that poor dog i hate it when people do things themselves but i dont like seeing any dog who gets chopped like that vet or not
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hi mama an welcome this is the most friendliest place to be an i have been to many others who were the rudest placest on earth i used to belong to one for pitbulls right after i got chance when i introduced my self i explained our life which is 5 kids 1 cat now and 2 dogs and down now to 2 parakeets which i just lost one last weekend :'( and when they found out that i had gotten my best dog ever in my life chance out of the paper they totally freaked out then they started about what i could afford to buy him for food they were unbelievable since you have rots i have one who is mixed with jack russel who i got from the pound she is 5yrs old now she (sammi) is very food an water agressive in the house why i dont know she is well fed but outside she could care less who gets into her food and when we first got her for 8 months she was house trained and suddenly started going where ever she pleases she stopped asking to go out she is healthy as an ox according to her dr an hes the best in this area if anyone has any ideas let me know cause we would like to keep her but if her in the house agression continues she will have to go back to jail (pound)
Perhaps she has a urinary tract infection. Little Betti seemed like she wasn't housetrained. She couldn't contain her urine until I captured some in a Tupperware and took it to the vet who found crystals and rod-shaped bacteria. It took a round of two separate antibiotics to clear it up...plus a special "prescription" diet. Now, she does much better. Her appetite has decreased and she has gained weight. She's a bit sassier, too.
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OMG!!!! Look what I just picked up!!!! We had someone e-mail us saying that he needed to get rid of his 4-5 month old Doberman Pinscher pup!!! We went and picked him up right away b/c he said he needed to be gone now.
Here's our new foster pup Snoop aka Cane
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/000_24972223.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/000_2495222.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Honey_28/000_2497222222.jpg)
Sorry .... got a little excited for a minute there :-[
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Congrats! What's the little fellers name?
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His name is Snoop but my boyfriend has been calling him Cane ( ::) he said Snoop didn't fit him). The new owners will name him what they want of corse. I'm sure it won't be long before he gets adopted, I'm setting up his neuter appointment tomorrow for the 3rd so I would be surprised if he didn't have a home lined up by next weekend.
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. Hi I am Rachel mom to 3 kids, a 6 month St. named Caesar and a cocker named Willie. I live in the KC area. The pics are adorable
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It's nice to meet you ;D
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It's nice to meet you ;D
What you are doing is spectacular! I personally thank you for opening your home to these dogs that need you so much. And, especially, it is so sensible that you are taking Cane to a neuter appointment. That is such a good deed and I'm sure it prevents thousands of euthenasias when giving an operation to just one animal.
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We love doing it .... and everyone gets spay/neutered, updated on shots and any other vetting needed. We are working on getting extra funds so we can microchip them before they go to their new home but it can become very costly when puppy season rolls around.
In case anybody needs a dose of cuteness I thought I would show off the litter of Shepherd pups we have (they are staying with the owners until they get their homes). We had them vetted yesterday and 4 of them went home.
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Too cute! Thanks for sharing!
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The puppy is the size of the big puppies head! And so fuzzy! :) Both are adorable.
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I'm in love! That happens every time I see a rolly polly puppy ;D I love the one of the three of them, looks like a calendar pic to me. Thanks for sharing and post more if you have them.
Nat
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they are so cute