The Girls: Juneau and Sasha
I have talked about but never shared pictures of the Girls, so here are a couple shots of Juneau and Sasha, my family's Border Collie/Labrador Retriever mixes.
Sasha on the left, Juneau the right.
Sasha on the left, Juneau the right.
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LMAO at Conker in the background!
And you know, at first I didn't notice Conker in the background of the last picture until I read sunyata's comment. Shows how observant I am, eh?
I think this is a fitting end to reaching her weight goal of 50 pounds down from 70. She used to be quite a tubby girl.
Hopefully I'll be able to work with Juneau and even Conker to get their CGC's. That'd be neat!
That's the chip on her left carnassial.
Here's a picture of a wolf skull (yes, I know wolves have bigger teeth) to compare.
So, would you guys have this looked at? I'd really like to, and the Girls are due for a vet visit anyways, but I haven't been able to convince Mom to take her in yet despite e-mailing her much literature on the subject.
I don't get alarmed if the pulp isn't showing.
(Last time I was in the clinic there was a police dog getting treated for trauma due to being smashed in the teeth by an assailant who was attempting to evade police. The dentist managed to fix the dog up pretty well. It is amazing what they can do now, but not cheap.
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I'm going to try to see if Mom can get them into the vet soon to have those looked at. It would really stink if Juneau's tooth got worse.
I can't get a picture because Juneau doesn't like her mouth being messed with. She's not acting like it's any more sensitive than normal though.
And like last time, I have no idea what broke the tooth. They haven't been given anything hard lately and they don't go around munching on random things, so I'm kinda at a loss as to what caused it.
Compared to Sasha's, this looks pretty bad.
Good luck....
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I would take her in pronto. I'm sorry this is happening. Reminds me that I need to brush Kodas teeth tonight.
Hope it's not too bad I been through dental stuff with our past dogs well my mom paid for it being as they were her dog, but still I knew it was a lot..
She's scheduled to have the tooth pulled on the 17th. Her teeth are going to be cleaned as well, and the cost is going to be something like $430-480.(They don't do the February dental discount, nobody around here does.) Not cheap, but oh well. Better fix it now than to let it abscess and cause further more serious problems.
Other than that, Juneau is in great health, heartworm free, didn't need to be vaxed and the vet said if she hadn't been given an age, she would have guessed Juneau was 2! She's 6, so the vet was quite happy with how good of shape Juneau is in.
Derp Dog in black and white.
Packdogs
Dur hur derp.
Sasha
This is how Juneau protects something she thinks is hers.
Juneau being cute.
Super cute Juneau again.
Juneau (and Conker) went lure coursing.
The Girls accompanied Conker and I to Bend last summer. We visited the Badlands.
Juneau carried the water. They drank all of it and I had to share mine with them.
Sasha a little over 1 year of starting her diet program. She lost 22 pounds! You can see a before picture right here.
This is just, odd, looking...
Sasha
I really like this one of Sasha and the sunset mountain.
Pinecones are fun...
These are hard to do...
Juneau is able to focus intently on everything except me.
She is usually out in front being spazzy.
Juneau is always on the lookout for squirrels. If she would bark when she treed one, she'd be an amazing squirrel dog. but she doesn't XP
Sasha is just Derp.
Juneau is a good packdog, if you don't care about your stuff getting smashed to bits.
Sasha is an excellent pace-setter for the first half of the hike, then she starts to lag and blocks the entire trail when she stops to sniff things.
There was an animal ahead someplace.
Sasha
Juneau
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Group photo on the bench!
Dogs eating the Baby Beef.
Sasha eats Baby Beef like a wolf. She stands on it and used her entire body to rip it apart.
Juneau has horrid leash manners. Sometimes I take her on a solo-hike so I can work on them with her. She gets off-leash time for behaving nicely on-leash. This works really good for her, since she loves to romp around in the forest.
Juneau thought this was awesome.
Juneau had never played tug before I taught her how last month after reading The Culture Clash. She loves it!
The end. Or is it?
Saya never uses her paws on items except for beef rib she'll use the paws to get every last bit of meat off the rib.