I retired April 1st 2001, Had one dog then a Chocolate lab the boy talked the wife into buying for him despite my protest. As expected the son soon tired of walking her feeding her and just doing what you do with a pet. I was still working then all night shift from 5PM til 7 Am so I spent a lot of day time with her my self, she at times was a pest wanting me to toss the kong for her while I was trying to work on a tractor. She really became my dog so the wife was wanting one of her own. I drove all the way to Ohio to get her one a week before I retired. I could tell you that pound pup we called daisy was a HUNTING dog cause she was. She was a Visula and hunted any thing rabbits tree squirrels point pheasant's and the whole nine yards. I also picked up a shir pei and a springer spaniel along the way.
2010 the labby had a stroke and could not stand any longer, I buried her down by the creek where she so loved to swim every chance she got. Then the Shir pei also had a stroke at age 11 so she joined the labby by the creek where she loved to sit and watch the birds and stuff.
At age 12 the springer got cancer and joined the others by the creek.
Then the last one the Visula passed away during the night just after her 13th birthday.
I decided it was to painful to deal with any more of my best friends passing so no more. Well that lasted about a month and I really missed not having a friend to walk in the woods and field with.
I wanted a grown dog not having to deal with needle teeth would be great, and a pound pup.
After looking at so many all over the state and Pet finder on the internet I knew the wife was not going to allow that to happen. It was going to be a puppy or nothing.
So I drove a hour to look at a what was supposed to be a
brown Shir Pei pup only to find out when I got there she was black.
Still I decided I wanted a buddy so I took her, named her Lily on the way home.
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loginMy vet had a fit because she had been fixed so young and told me to watch her close for problems. With in a week she got puppy strangles. Really what I had in this pup in the first month I could have bought a fully trained Visula and maybe even a pointing lab.
I have had her for almost two years not and would not trade her for a new one now with papers a yard thick. she would sleep a lot wrapped in a beach towel on my lap.
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loginShe had real bad dew claws that needed removing too. she took it all in stride.
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