Who did you meet today?
Well - just thought it would be fun to see how often everyone run's into dogs and how their dogs and humans interact. We have been taking Ninja and Portia out a lot lately, almost every night...so we've been running into a lot of new people and dogs.
Yesterday we took the pups to the local park for a nice walk and run. It was pretty late - we got there at 730pm and left at 9pm.
While we were there we met a 4 month old shiba. The owner yelled out "what kind of dog is that?" I looked his way and saw he had a shiba - so I assumed he was talking about Ninja and yelled back "Shiba Inu". He started walking towards us and said "Me too!" His puppy was so cute! Very playful - I guess much like how Dave describes Joey to act when meeting new dogs. He kept jumping up at Portia and pawing at her (btw - I am so proud at how well Portia has been interating with new dogs! - she is such a good girl!). It was cute. He had said he wanted a husky and his wife wanted a small dog. They started researching but couldn't find anything. Then he saw his neighbor with a Shiba and fell in love. (we also knew his neighbor from the dogpark - she is the one who did like 5 years of research on the shiba before getting one) and he contacted her breeder and was put on a waiting list. He was a very nice guy and kept complimenting how handsome Ninja was.
About 30 minutes later we see a couple with a Boxer! We NEVER see boxers. Their boxer was 2 years old and weighed 60 lbs! We told them Portia was 2 1/2 and only weighed 35 lbs. and they were pretty shocked. They just rescued the boxer 2 months ago and she was a bit timid at first. But they were doing some re-direction training with treats and so we stayed to let them get in some training done. After about 15 minutes their boxer was fine with Portia. They said that they had a boxer before that was 75 lbs and that they thought their 60 lb. boxer was small.
Yesterday we took the pups to the local park for a nice walk and run. It was pretty late - we got there at 730pm and left at 9pm.
While we were there we met a 4 month old shiba. The owner yelled out "what kind of dog is that?" I looked his way and saw he had a shiba - so I assumed he was talking about Ninja and yelled back "Shiba Inu". He started walking towards us and said "Me too!" His puppy was so cute! Very playful - I guess much like how Dave describes Joey to act when meeting new dogs. He kept jumping up at Portia and pawing at her (btw - I am so proud at how well Portia has been interating with new dogs! - she is such a good girl!). It was cute. He had said he wanted a husky and his wife wanted a small dog. They started researching but couldn't find anything. Then he saw his neighbor with a Shiba and fell in love. (we also knew his neighbor from the dogpark - she is the one who did like 5 years of research on the shiba before getting one) and he contacted her breeder and was put on a waiting list. He was a very nice guy and kept complimenting how handsome Ninja was.
About 30 minutes later we see a couple with a Boxer! We NEVER see boxers. Their boxer was 2 years old and weighed 60 lbs! We told them Portia was 2 1/2 and only weighed 35 lbs. and they were pretty shocked. They just rescued the boxer 2 months ago and she was a bit timid at first. But they were doing some re-direction training with treats and so we stayed to let them get in some training done. After about 15 minutes their boxer was fine with Portia. They said that they had a boxer before that was 75 lbs and that they thought their 60 lb. boxer was small.
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We don't meet a ton of dogs and people since we live in the middle of no where, and most of our meetings are kinda, well, not good meetings [off leash dogs charging us]...
We have met a few, last weekend we met 3 malamutes, they where really hot. lol. It was kinda a hot that day to have those dogs out.
We met an Irish wolfhound the other day, he was huge and so chill - very cool dog.
We met someone that asked what type of dog Loa was and I told him, he then said "Oh, my friend has a Japanese dog, its huge, and its trained to eat people!"... I was like, "really? What kind of dog?" He was like "I dunno, started with a 'T' "... grr... that means some ass bag has a Tosa Inu and is promoting it as a people aggressive dog, Tosa are dog aggressive NOT people aggressive. Made my so mad! Poor dog.
We met Julia Roberts dogs at the place we board our pups, they where TM-looking big fluffy pups. Pretty cute.
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We did meet a couple of pugs about a week ago - it actually looked like there was a dog meetup of some kind in the elementary school playground (which is directly across from the public park we sometimes do a lap around. We stopped and talked to the women with their pugs, of course I had to answer all of the normal questions "what kind of dog is that? Shiba what?" etc.
We're hoping to attend a Shiba meetup soon - there are two of Keiko's litter mates in the group, so it'll be neat to see them interact.
John just called and said he was coming home early. I've been really wanting to go to this new park a couple cities away and I think we'll be able to make it out there today! Its on 345 acres has a 9 acre lake and hiking & equestrian trails. Im excited!
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Brad: sucks to hear about that Tosa. Some people just don't deserve animals.
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We meet tons of random people from my neighborhood on walks. Today I stopped to chat with a women who has a giant "NO DOG POOP!" sign in her yard yet claimed to "LOVE dogs". She was asking all sorts of questions about Shiba temperament so I did my best to emphasize all the bad qualities (and may have not put in my full effort to curb Joey's rude behavior O:-)). I also bumped into my neighbor walking one of his three BCs. We chatted about Lucy and I asked him to keep his distance so I would work with Joey. Joey did a bit better as long as the BC stayed on the other side of the street. I cut the conversation short to end on a good note. Hrm. Who else? I think that's it for today. The morning walk was at 5:45 today so I didn't see anyone then.
There was also a Shar-pei/Pug mix puppy that came at the dog park tonight. That puppy was so dang cute! I know lots of people don't have interests in the Shar-pei, but I'm not sure ... I always thought that was an interesting breed.
I have only met sweet ones too.
Speaking of, Brandon, we had a shar pei/pug mix IDENTICAL to the one at your shelter except she was waaaaay pregnant, and bit everyone. She went to foster care, and hopefully eased up after having her puppies.
I learned about Shar Pei fever on "Breed All About It" a few years back.
Maybe this should have gone in the idiots thread?
Hee hee. That would make you my hero. She should go live with that jerk I told you about.
A couple times this week I have stopped to chat with a home owner near me. We have waved and exchanged greeting before, but I stopped to ask him about all of the stuff he is growing. His name is Jeff and he is a cool guy, really into alternative energy. He has firewood stacked all around his house, all of it is stuff that he has collected and chopped himself. When they cut down dead trees at the edge of the forrest preserve in our area he goes around and cuts them down to size and hauls them back to his place. He has two huge rows of solar panels on his roof. Currently he has corn and tomatoes in his front yard along with some peppers. He is going to be canning the tomatoes because he has enough plants for like 6 families and he lives by himself. Apparently he grows his own hopps in his backyard and is going to let me try some of his next batch of beer. Jeff has a dog named Duke, a big hound mix. Duke spends a lot of time outside and likes to howl hound hellos at everyone. I like him, but I'm ok with him not being my neighbor.
Nemo did pretty good with Jeff. As we were standing and talking Nemo did just fine, sniffing around his yard, just hanging out. However when Jeff bent down to try and meet him, he went into full Nemo mode running to the end of his leash and barking. I told him that Nemo isn't great with new people and it takes him awhile to warm up, instead of trying to force anything he just stood back up and kept talking to me, which was nice. I'm pretty excited for when I walk by and get free beer. A beer stop on the dog walk, that's a nice idea.
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Brandon: Hell yeah, I'll take a beer stop on my walk too. This time of year it would be greatly appreciated. Kudos to him for ignoring Nemo!
Brandon Hops is awesome also because it is a really pretty climbing plant. My girlfriend (who is a botanist) suggested I grow hops as a privacy plant on my fence.
Rachel, now you got that image on my mind. It has to stop, I think I'm going to watch some Olympics stuff.
; )
Anyway, after he got Belle to stop barking and he pet her for a while, he looked at Keiko and started talking about "another guy who walks his cat." I didn't have the energy or heart to tell him that she wasn't a cat... but I was intrigued that this 'other guy' who walks his cat had some breed that was "two generations from being wild."
Poor Keiko
He really is improving at the day care/behaviourist, huh?