Dog pics

[MF RED in MT]

Holy smokes, now that's RURAL living!

No US Mail delivery, no through traffic, no pavement, and if I still could throw a baseball, it would land in the National Forest.

KC

 

[Alien]

Here's Sophie, our maremma, fresh from her bath, which she hated lol.

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We lost our Maremma over 2 years ago now and still miss him badly. Thanks for the pic.

 

[Pixguy]

Our Springer looking for the snowball I threw and just loving the snow.

 

[GeneV]

We lost our Maremma over 2 years ago now and still miss him badly. Thanks for the pic.

Sorry to hear, Alien. Maremmas are wonderful dogs, even if they are stubborn as a mule lol.

We actually had 2 maremmas for a while (we rescued them from a nearby farm where they weren't being taken care of all that great). Max, the male maremma, he didn't do too well with other dogs though. He bit all our other dogs, my brother's dog, my friends' (plural) dogs, and then finally bit our little toy poodle in the face, broke his jaw so bad that we had to put him down. My wife found a large sheep farm through a maremma facebook group, we re-homed him to that farm, he's doing great there.

 

[Alien]

I had noticed our Maremma lying on the lawn one day in the hot sun and didn't think much of it. A couple of hours later he was still there and it was stinky hot. He just looked at me and I realized something was wrong. I tried to move him but he was too heavy for me but seemed grateful that I was trying. I called my wife and we moved him into the shade trying to figure out what was going on. Turns out he had a paralysis tick on his tummy. Got him some water and he managed to swallow it OK. I removed the tick and within a couple of hours he was coming good so we were lucky. We have only had a couple of ticks here in 16 years.

Very hard to 'take over' a Maremma. You have to get them as a pup and teach them right from day one. Then they do what they want anyway... LOL But our Vinnie looked after all the poultry on our place like he owned them. Every evening he would wander the farm barking warning any predators to keep away. It was a ritual. Marvellous dogs.

We now have, amongst others, a Chinese crested that has a lot of similar behavioural traits as Vinnie did. We call her 'little vinnie' LOL

 

[GeneV]

I had noticed our Maremma lying on the lawn one day in the hot sun and didn't think much of it. A couple of hours later he was still there and it was stinky hot. He just looked at me and I realized something was wrong. I tried to move him but he was too heavy for me but seemed grateful that I was trying. I called my wife and we moved him into the shade trying to figure out what was going on. Turns out he had a paralysis tick on his tummy. Got him some water and he managed to swallow it OK. I removed the tick and within a couple of hours he was coming good so we were lucky. We have only had a couple of ticks here in 16 years.

Very hard to 'take over' a Maremma. You have to get them as a pup and teach them right from day one. Then they do what they want anyway... LOL But our Vinnie looked after all the poultry on our place like he owned them. Every evening he would wander the farm barking warning any predators to keep away. It was a ritual. Marvellous dogs.

We now have, amongst others, a Chinese crested that has a lot of similar behavioural traits as Vinnie did. We call her 'little vinnie' LOL

Ha, what are the odds Alien, we also have a chinese crested powder puff! Although others said she a tibetan terrier. Maybe both?

Tick paralysis, that's crazy! I heard of it, but never heard from somebody who actually had that happen. So you pulled the sucker off and she's fine a few hrs later, and no residual effects?

 

[GeneV]

No US Mail delivery, no through traffic, no pavement, and if I still could throw a baseball, it would land in the National Forest.

KC

That's really interesting! Are you on solar, primarily? I've got daydreams about off-grid living deep in the boonies, passive solar design house, recycling grey water, that sort of thing...and then my wife is like, are you crazy, how are we gonna get to costco?!!

 

[MF RED in MT]

That's really interesting! Are you on solar, primarily? I've got daydreams about off-grid living deep in the boonies, passive solar design house, recycling grey water, that sort of thing...and then my wife is like, are you crazy, how are we gonna get to costco?!!

Sorry to make it sound like we live in a cave and just discovered fire, ha.

But we do heat with wood, have our own well water, and our own septic system, but have real power from our local "coop" electric company (with dividend checks once in a while), and no solar for us (during the winter we get slivers of sunlight for about 1 to 2 hours a day, if it's not snowing).

Our small town (1500 pop.) is about 6 miles away (were 3 miles to highway) and it has a small medical clinic (M-F 8 to 5), a local grocery store, a Napa, a Ace Hardware, and a pharmacy, plus some other small businesses.

Our Costco, hospital, doctors, airport, and 1 small mall, etc... is about 60 miles away.

We did not want to be that far from good medical when we retired here 11 years ago.

KC

 

[Alien]

Ha, what are the odds Alien, we also have a chinese crested powder puff! Although others said she a tibetan terrier. Maybe both?

Tick paralysis, that's crazy! I heard of it, but never heard from somebody who actually had that happen. So you pulled the sucker off and she's fine a few hrs later, and no residual effects?

No long term effects thank goodness.

 

[GeneV]

Sorry to make it sound like we live in a cave and just discovered fire, ha.

But we do heat with wood, have our own well water, and our own septic system, but have real power from our local "coop" electric company (with dividend checks once in a while), and no solar for us (during the winter we get slivers of sunlight for about 1 to 2 hours a day, if it's not snowing).

Our small town (1500 pop.) is about 6 miles away (were 3 miles to highway) and it has a small medical clinic (M-F 8 to 5), a local grocery store, a Napa, a Ace Hardware, and a pharmacy, plus some other small businesses.

Our Costco, hospital, doctors, airport, and 1 small mall, etc... is about 60 miles away.

We did not want to be that far from good medical when we retired here 11 years ago.

KC

Man, that sounds legit! Hey, I ain't gonna knock septic/well, we got that too, works just fine for us.