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[Mental Nomad]

This is Khaleesi. She is about 9 weeks old and we believe she is a Samoyed or American Eskimo

Any updates? What did she grow into?

 

[Mental Nomad]

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[Mental Nomad]

My Eskies' ears were perking up by 7/8 weeks. Here's my girl at just over 7 weeks:

She grew to 25 pounds - standard Eskie.

 

[MegaTon44]

Any updates? What did she grow into?

Thanks for asking. Well, pretty certain she's not a Samoyed. She's about 12 pounds at 4 months old. I think she may be a cross between a Shiba Inu and an American Eskimo, others have said Pomsky (Pomeranian-Husky). Honestly, still not sure.

(Just had to show the last picture of her full mounting her Dachshund brother, Wally. Not fair picking on the short legged dogs [emoji3])

ShibaMo grown

 

[Mental Nomad]

Thanks for asking. Well, pretty certain she's not a Samoyed. She's about 12 pounds at 4 months old. I think she may be a cross between a Shiba Inu and an American Eskimo, others have said Pomski (Pomeranian-American eskimo). Honestly, still not sure.

(Just had to show the last picture of her full mounting her Dachshund brother, Wally. Not fair picking on the short legged dogs [emoji3])

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Definitely not a Pomski. Poms and Eskies are close breeds - Pomeranians come from German Spitzes, and Eskies ARE German Spitzes. A cross of those would look very like a Pom. (Mini Eskies - sub twenty pounds - are often mistaken as white Poms.)

I'm on board with it being part Shibe, part other....

 

[BiGGyT]

Okay dog lovers, I got an email from Ralph Lauren about custom shirts with 10 different breeds of dogs on them, and a contest for one winner to have their dog on a RL polo shirt

http://sweepstakes.ralphlauren.com/polopupcontest/rules/

So go win and immortalize you pup on something in addition to poker chips @ChaosRock

 

[Tommy]

shhhh.....

 

[Mr Tree]

This was a post on another board I am a member of. Thought I'd share it here.



The person that owns the land my wife's farm sanctuary is on is a cancer doctor. On her way to meeting with him yesterday (running a little late no less) a Shih-Tzu runs into the middle of the road and just sits down. Wife swerves and pulls over. Opens the door to get out and the little guy runs and dives into the car and then onto her lap. He clearly needed a person right then. So, she stops at our vet to get him scanned for a microchip (ALWAYS do this if you find a dog, btw).

Come to find out, his name is Louie and he'd been missing for 2 YEARS!!!! A family of four was up here camping and visiting the grandmother, when he wandered off. They were so happy that he was found the husband was offering to give my wife his credit card number over the phone to get him vet care if Louie needed medical attention. He kept going on and on about how his 5 year old is going to go crazy when he finds out Louie is back.

So anyway, the grandmother goes to the doctors office to pick up Louie. The nurses and doctors of the office had a particularly bad day yesterday, which tends to happen at a cancer specialist's office. So grandmother shows up and tells us, her grandson, (the 5 year old) has Down's Syndrome and Louie was his best friend and everyday for two years has asked about Louie.

So my wife is happy bawling, the grandmother is happy bawling, the doctor is happy bawling, the nurses are happy bawling and everyone of them ended up going home happy.

Especially Louie.

 

[Beez_Kneez]

Been a little while since I've posted, but we've since added a third furry member to our family. Everyone meet Tigger, she's 9-weeks.

 

[WillAndrew]

Tobey Dog's first duck hunt - 8 months old

 

[Potsie1]

More of Potter.

 

[Señor Tony]

This is Pepper. She is an 18 month old Blue Heeler cross. She was rescued from an elderly lady who wasn't taking care of any of her 30+ cats and dogs. Rescued at 6 months old, placed in foster care for another 6 months and has been living with us for 6 months.

Not sure what she is crossed with but people frequently ask if she is a greyhound cross due to her lean body. Don't have many pictures of her without family members in the frame except one in her crate and a screen cap from a video in the yard.

 

[Potsie1]

This is Pepper. She is an 18 month old Blue Heeler cross. She was rescued from an elderly lady who wasn't taking care of any of her 30+ cats and dogs. Rescued at 6 months old, placed in foster care for another 6 months and has been living with us for 6 months.

Not sure what she is crossed with but people frequently ask if she is a greyhound cross due to her lean body. Don't have many pictures of her without family members in the frame except one in her crate and a screen cap from a video in the yard.

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[jemfernandez]

Meet Ruby! We're just homing her temporarily for a few days while she's waiting for her future adoptive parents

Been with us for a week but It's gonna be hard to let her go.

 

[detroitdad]

 

[John Conor]

So cool to see everyone's pets! Glad @detroitdad bumped this thread today!

Here's Vanda Wilhelmina, currently 1.5 years old:

@ 6 months:

1st beach visit (4 months):

helping in the garden a couple months ago:

and to piss off my family:

 

[BGinGA]

Here are some of the reasons it's hard to get away for poker weekends. Karen sent me these on Friday while at DCS5 in Louisville:


Grady on full-time driveway watch, wondering when Dad is coming home:

Luke, too depressed by my absence to even play ball:

She couldn't even get a decent shot of Tyler, who pretty much disappeared under the bed until I returned home. Here's one from last year, perched in her tree house:

I sure felt loved when I got home. The house erupted at 2:30 a.m.

 

[links_slayer]

My dog is looking at me right now like "Hey, human. Did you forget how to tell time? FFS feed me already..."

Gotta love the time change...

 

[justsomedude]

Raygun...

 

[jja412]

"Go ahead...try and grab my Frisbee. You planning on keeping that hand?"

Hanging out at Grandma's house.

 

[Big Jilm]

Think I already posted this, but to reintroduce Ketone: princess bitch cat! How she adores my chips..

 

[Frode789]

I'll chime in with my....


Guinea pigs.

The boss-pig.

Newly washed.

The babies

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

My parents dog Annie passed out from Thanksgiving day excitement.

 

[detroitdad]

 

[Mr. Cheese]

Meet Ruby! We're just homing her temporarily for a few days while she's waiting for her future adoptive parents

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Been with us for a week but It's gonna be hard to let her go.

My sister "fosters" huskies... Now she has 3 huskies lol. Each time I saw her bring one home to foster I said to myself well she's keeping that one too

 

[tommythecat]

My sister "fosters" huskies... Now she has 3 huskies lol. Each time I saw her bring one home to foster I said to myself well she's keeping that one too

She have any tips on training huskies? My brother has one that can get unruly at times. I have tried working with him a bit but I am not over there enough to really make much progress.

 

[Mental Nomad]

She have any tips on training huskies? My brother has one that can get unruly at times

Find a way to get them more exercise, especially exercise in a changing environment, like running or long walks. Like some other breeds of dogs, they have a lot of energy and a roaming instinct; failure to satisfy those two things can lead to becoming stir-crazy.

If you can meet those needs a little more, they may become much calmer and more trainable the rest of the time.

 

[tommythecat]

Find a way to get them more exercise, especially exercise in a changing environment, like running or long walks. Like some other breeds of dogs, they have a lot of energy and a roaming instinct; failure to satisfy those two things can lead to becoming stir-crazy.

If you can meet those needs a little more, they may become much calmer and more trainable the rest of the time.

That's the main thing I have been trying to drive into my brother's head. They were bred to be work dogs and need lots of activity to tire them out. He's not quite a year old so the rare times I do get to train him a bit, his attention span for it lasts about 10 mins. He does fairly well though when I do work with him.

Thank you for the response.

 

[Mr. Cheese]

She have any tips on training huskies? My brother has one that can get unruly at times. I have tried working with him a bit but I am not over there enough to really make much progress.

Find a way to get them more exercise, especially exercise in a changing environment, like running or long walks. Like some other breeds of dogs, they have a lot of energy and a roaming instinct; failure to satisfy those two things can lead to becoming stir-crazy.

If you can meet those needs a little more, they may become much calmer and more trainable the rest of the time.

That would have been my suggestion too. Although at the end of the day they seem to be fairly stubborn in terms of listening to commands. Even they decided they are ready they'll listen lol

 

[btbmason]

I have a tiny kitten named North, and a gigantic cat named Joey. Both enjoy knocking stacks of poker chips off of my desk then batting them around on the floor.