My Dog's and their stories

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Pictures and Stories

Current Best Friend 1

Current Best Friend 2

Faithful Departed Friends

Former Roommate's Best Friends

Current Dog Farm Inhabitants

Previously Rescued Friends

Pepper 4/21/94 to (now)1/10/2005 and counting

Elsie August, 2002 to present time, January 2005

Levi 4/20/73 to 2/9/89
Laura (below)4/21/81 to 9/15/97

The story of Regis

The dancing Labrador

Group Pictures

Plenty of Pictures of the current Dogs

Heyou's Story

Poochie, Bonnie
and Clyde

Pepper 6 weeks

Elsie July 2003

Levi

Blurb about Group

Heyou at rest

Bonnie and Clyde at play

Pepper at 10 weeks

Puppies...
They are so cute when they are young.
But soon he's big enough to jump out the window - a second floor bedroom window at that; through the screen. I guess there was a cat outside.

When he was still young - only a year and a half - I took a job that would require me to be gone for months at a time, at least initially. I put him up at my folk's home, not too far away. He had been there a number of times and always enjoyed visiting my parents. They both liked him, but he was way too strong for either of them to handle. Mom reported once, that while walking him he had just pulled her over. It was at their house that he decided to jump out the window - probably to chase a cat, but he was castrated for the act anyhow. It was kind of them to offer to keep him for me.

When I returned, after having been gone for 4 months, it took Pepper about 30 seconds to recognize me. He did not bark at me as if I were a total stranger, but he wasn't all that happy for about half a minute, then he started his barking and jumping around and on me like it had dawned on him who I was.

Born August 2002

We adopted Elsie from a litter of 12 at a North Palm Springs trailer park. She looked so much like Pepper I just knew she would be a good dog. She peed all over herself when I first picked her up. Pepper took to her right away and treated her like his own daughter.

November , 2004

Keeping a promise to a friend, I did not have Elsie fixed until she had one litter of puppies. Here is her pregnant picture She had 11 beautiful puppies

Elsie Pregnant at 1yr 10months old

Levi 4/20/73 to 2/9/89

Good Old Levi, mostly Black Labrador, was rescued from a Huntington Beach animal shelter at 5 weeks old. He loved to rescue six-packs tossed into water.

He really tried to understand words. He loved hamburgers, tomatoes lettuce and all. He also loved See's suckers. One evening while I was out to a movie, he ate about 30 See's chocolate suckers from off a coffee table; unusual behavior for him. It was humorous to see all the little white sticks lying scattered on the floor. I just couldn't get angry with him.

He and I both found out the hard way that chocolate is poisonous to a 17 year old dog.

My brother and my Dad accompanied me to the veterinarian and stood by as Levi was laid to rest. He had been tortured by the liver failure for a week or 2. As his eyes closed and he went to permanent sleep I cried a bit - my friend of nearly 17 years was gone.

With me till the end

Regis

Regis belonged to my good friend Chuck
I first met Regis at the LAX freight office. He had just been shipped from Cape Cod to LA, where he was to go some 80 miles to my house to live. His cargo container was one inch too tall so his flights had been changed without any notice to me. He had waited in strange airports for hours before finally getting on a flight. He now barks at any 737 that flies over :-)

Regis lived with us for a couple of years - I forget exactly how long. The kids all loved him. He had that winning Labrador personality. You could tell how happy he was to see you , as when you arrived home, he would go into a dance. Happily dancing around in about the same step. It was a Labrador Retriever dance, as my old dog Levi did a similar thing when he was still with us.

But alas, good things do come to an end. After Regis returned to Cape Cod with Chuck, back in Sept 99, I am sad&nbsp:-( to report that in July of 2004 was diagnosed with cancer and Chuck had to put him to sleep.

We will miss you Regis - Continue your little dance for Heaven's hosts!

Buddy

Heyou belonged to a former roommate from Rialto, she is a sweetheart, but quite a beggar. She never seems to get enough to eat. She loves the high desert.

Poochie

Poochie is the name the neighborhood children gave her when she first showed up. We think that she may have been abandoned.
She is a full blooded Greyhound; solid black, except for a bit of white on her chest.
She adopted the kids in the neighborhood, then she adopted my yard. Early one morning when backing out of the driveway to go to work, I saw her lying in my front yard. I knew then that we had to help her. We took her into our little family for a spell. She showed her gratitude by affection for the children and stealing a roast that was on the top of the stove cooling.

She was adopted to a nice Greek gentleman named "Nick" [aren't they all?] who changed Poochie's name to Laura, I had suggested it in honor of my old dog and he agreed. She now lives in a 3 acre back yard with a swimming pool and another dog to play with.

In case you are wondering, there are 8 dogs and 10 puppies currently in the dog farm

Elsie

Pepper

Pounder

Heyou

Ronan

Christie (CC) and 10 unnamed puppies

Buddy

Zina

Ronan

Christie or CC

Christie’s Puppies at 4 days

Pepper at 1.5 years old

Pepper watches TV

Elsie's Puppies

Laura
The Dog Who Could Fly

Scooby - Dec 2003 to Feb 2005

In this picture, taken just recently, Scooby is a puppy. He is only14 months old and easily the largest dog we have. He was left behind by a former roommate. He liked to stay outside. He had a gentle personality. He loved running and playing with Elsie. He also like to run off and explore all over the neighborhood.

I am very saddened by his loss. He was struck and killed on a highway not far from the house. We will never know all the treasures this dog held. He was too young to go this way or any way for that matter.

Pounder

Bonnie

Pepper is a Rotwieler and Australian Shepherd mix. [obviously no papers]
He is possibly too much the herding dog.

He loves to chase.
He will chase you down the hall and nip your butt to make you run.

Pepper and Fishing the Colorado

Below, you see Pepper fishing on the Colorado River. He has just caught a fish -he thinks. He gets so excited about it that when you are just casting your baited hook into the water, he barks like you have caught something. It is unfortunate that I catch anything so rarely, that his short memory forgets what a fish looks/smells like and he barks at baited hooks. Or, maybe he is just so excited that he is trying to bark the fish onto the hook. Whatever, there is much left to write in this dog's story.
He is now 11 years old, and a great guard dog, though now a bit overweight.

Levi sired Laura. Her mother's name was Jo. While she looked to be mostly black lab, like her dad, she must have been part jumping dog. She could clear the back fence of 6 1/2 feet, and not touch it. We saw her jump on the garage roof once, a distance of about 8 feet. She could almost fly. She loved to chase the Frisbee. She could jump twist and catch the Frisbee in the air. The picture above does little to show , as she is really about 2 and half feet off the ground, but you can get the idea.
Arthritis and bone cancer took their toll on her after 16 years. I rubbed her ears the way she liked so much, as she drifted off to sleep.

Current Best Friend Heyou actually belonged to a former roommate from Rialto

When Heyou first moved into my home in rialto, back in 97 or so, her owner had not yet decided on her name. When I asked him what her name was, he said "uh... I just call her uh .. Hey You" So I took him literally. I named her Heyou. Eventually he started calling her other things like YaYa, which is what he was calling her when we moved away from the Rialto residence in 2003. He had to go to a place where he could not have a dog, so he left Heyou with us. She adapted to her new environments during this move seemingly very well. But in about her first week in the new house, she decided that she had to get into my room so badly, that she dug up the carpeting to get under the door. She is an outside dog now.

Bonnie is the bold one. They are both almost all black, but she has a touch more white on her chest than Clyde
They both have that winning Black Lab personality, especially at 5-7 months (estimated) age.
I found them abandoned in a field on the boarder between Riverside and San Bernardino counties. I call them Bonnie and Clyde.

I am glad to report that both have been adopted to good homes, as of 9/15/98.
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Clyde
Clyde is the bashful one. He is smart. He has learned commands after the first try. He must have been abused before I found them and rescued them.

It would have been a shame to see these two intelligent and beautiful dogs go to the pound. I am afraid that there will be more to rescue.