The thing about Jack Russells..The Official VNA Dogs Thread!

[bridgitrowan]

My guys are getting cabin fever. We are down to 2 hours of light now. By the time I get home it is dark and Bridgit is not tolerating the cold like she use to. We are having feet issues and down to 6 booties. I order boots from a place in Anchorage that makes them, but they shipped them to my billing address in Texas. Right now they get about 15 minutes of off leash time up on the tundra after work then I go back to work. In the house Bridgit and Indy are so grumpy at each other. Bridgit has even gotten grumpy with me.
Just 10 more days and we are on a plane out of here for 3 weeks. Although Bridgit is not going to be very happy about the heat.

[stickyvicky]

Awww poor Bridget! Hope they have good warm beds to sleep in? Why the feet issues? What are they living in/on on a daily basis? Just trying to understand. Are they in the house all day while you are gone? You go to work then home for 15 min and then back to work? How many hours a day/week do you work? Sounds like a lot!

[CGYMike]

OK Vicky....guess what happened this day 4 years ago?

Does this picture refresh your memory? Today is the day that the process began to rescue the maniac dog known as Taz.

Our lives will never be the same and we have you to thank??? hahaha

[bridgitrowan]

Awww poor Bridget! Hope they have good warm beds to sleep in? Why the feet issues? What are they living in/on on a daily basis? Just trying to understand. Are they in the house all day while you are gone? You go to work then home for 15 min and then back to work? How many hours a day/week do you work? Sounds like a lot!

We live in a nice 2 bedroom Triplex (actually think 3 bedroom). Teacher housing is nice here it has the basics (flush toilet) standard kitchen and I was impressed with the bed. Bridgit has her own room with a twin bed and choice of couch, her kennel, or even my bed to sleep on. She chooses to sleep most of the time in the mud room for some reason or she knows when I am about to get home and waits for me there. Indy also has the same choices to sleep. He sleeps with me at night. they are in the house all day. right now they only get about 15 minutes of off leash time up on the tundra. In the morning we roll out of bed and take a quicky outside on leash, then around 5 pm I get home and we take the time to put on boots (now down to 3) make the trip up onto the tundra for some off leash time. Being that it is -30F the snow/ice builds up in their paws without boots on and it is very painful. Bridgit it does not build up as bad, but Indy has long hair in between his toes so it builds up faster and harder to get out. He then licks and chews making it worse. Also it is dark outside we are down to about an hour of light. Bridgit at 13 just doesn't take the cold like she use to plus it is also dinner time so she wants to go back to the house. We all have dinner and I head back to work around 6:30 and get home around 10:00. We take a quicky on leash outside then go to bed. last night an elder died so the everything at the school shut down so I got home around 8:30 and took them up on the tundra for about 10 minutes since down to 3 boots no one had protection. On the weekends neighbor and I try to get the dogs out for a long hike, but we make about 30 minutes out then have to turn around. this weekend I don't know if we can even do that without boots. I do work on the weekends for a couple of hours. We have to survive until next friday then we are on a plane (weather permitting) out of here for 3 weeks.

[stickyvicky]

Hey Bridget I hope you got the Booties I sent you! I sent 16 booties, hot pink, lime green and blue i think! Hope they love them and get to use them a bunch.

I want someone to go find these people and break their legs, and throw them in the trash.
http://people.com/pets/dog-abandoned-de ... urb-ollie/

[rokkerr]

.... who thinks up this shit to do to their dogs?!

[CGYMike]

4 years ago (already) we were headed to Georgia to pick up our problem child Taz. This picture was taken in North Dakota. It's hard to believe that it's been that long already since then...and its been a whole year since knucklehead has bitten anyone. Boy, we have come a long way :) lol

[WalterB]

Chieftain Motel? You must have been on Route 66,

Back in the day, a lot of the motels along Route 66 (this was waaaaaaaayyy back before freeways, lol.) especially in New Mexico and Arizona, had cutesie little names. Also neon lights, moving signs, etc, to attract the weary traveler. Freeways now cover a lot of the old Route 66 route, but there are still numerous places where the old pavement still exists, and you can drive it.

Since there were no freeways, all routes went thru the towns they came to. So take Tucumcari, NM, for example, driving down main street thru town, you are still driving on old Route 66. The route in many of these old Western towns goes out into the countryside, sometimes along the adjoining freeway, sometimes a few miles away from it, still with the old pavement.

Winslow, Arizona, where a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowed down to take a look at me, is on Route 66. If you ever take I-40 thru New Mexico and Arizona, when you come to Tuumcari or Santa Rosa or Gallup or Williams, or Winslow or Winona, take that exit and drive down what they call Main Street USA - Old Rout 66. You just might enjoy it.

And remember, whatever route you take? They never wrote a song about I-85.

[BoobMonkey]

I love this board....DOGS are awesome!!!!
I live alone and travel a lot with work so, sadly, cant have a dog of my own.
However, my cousin and his wife live nearby and they have 3 dogs....all rescued from cat and dog shelters by my cousin's wife. She even drove from Aberdeen to Glasgow (a 300 mile round trip...yeah, I know, not far my US road trip standards but Scotland's a pretty small country) to rescue a terrier that was going to be put down if the rescue shelter couldnt find an owner
When I need a "dog patting" fix, I go visit them. They're under no illusions though cos I always say "I don't come to see you guys, just the dogs".

Well, to be honest the humans are pretty cool too...

.

[stickyvicky]

Awww that's so sweet. Spoil them and take them out lots when you can. If I didn't have dogs, I would take my neighbors dogs running with me... I took Harvey and Skittles for a 3 mile run this morning, then they slept (snored) all day under my desk. It's great! Tired dogs are well behaved dogs. That's my theory!

[CGYMike]

So I took Knucklehead McDoufous out for a run a few days ago at my office. It's a big fenced yard that has been know to house a few bunny rabbits and gophers. Sure enough Taz' radar went into rabbit mode and the chase was on all over the yard.

The rabbit let Taz think he had a chance to catch him and thats when the rabbit made a B-line for the gate and ducked under to make a clean get-away. Taz on the other hand thought he still had a chance as he ran face first into the gate @ 25 miles an hour. He crumpled like an accordion and then sprang back to life. He's a tough dog but man, that had to hurt. He had a lump for a few days but guy dogs call them battle scars.

[WalterB]

Fred knows all about that. When I take him out in the desert to run around, he goes off running into all the mesquite, sniffing, smelling, looking for God knows what.

So, way over here, there goes a rabbit. "Fred! Fred! Over here, Fred! A Rabbit! Come on, Fred." So he runs to another bush. So intelligent master shouts again. "No, Fred, over here" Intelligent master thinks it will help to point. "Over here, Fred," pointing to hidey bush. Yep! Fred comes running. Right over to me. Sniffs my finger and jumps up and down. Intelligent dog jumps up and down while said rabbit scampers away, out of sight.

"Come on, Fred. Time to go home."

[rokkerr]

.... let's all say together............. aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[bridgitrowan]

Hey Bridget I hope you got the Booties I sent you! I sent 16 booties, hot pink, lime green and blue i think! Hope they love them and get to use them a bunch.

Vicky I received 12 booties: hot pink, lime green, and blue.

Indy, Bridgit, and I thank you very much. Indy has already thrown a bootie but I was able to rescue it. In the spring we will be finding many booties up on the tundra. I actually found a red one the first day back.

Now if the dog food would just get here. It has been sitting in Fairbanks since last Friday. I am not going to use Petsmart anymore.

[WalterB]

Love the hot pink ones. That's Bridgit, I assume?

[bridgitrowan]

Yes, Walt Bridgit is the Border Collie/mix and my 13 year old who I have had since she was a wee one. I really want to get a DNA test on her. We really wonder if daddy was not a hybrid. Indy is the tiny but not miniature Australian Shepherd (blue booties). He is the product of unethical breeding considered a lethal white. The breeder breeds two blue merles together in which 20% of the litter is born deaf or blind or both. Indy was born deaf and visually impaired. He is also stunted and has an under bite. I adopted him when he was 2.5 he is now 8. The cold seems to be effecting him last night which was a warm -5F he came in just shaking. Bridgit does not last as long like she use too. Heck I don't last as long like I use to. We love the cold though and she loves the freedom of the tudra and all the stuff she can find to eat. She has a love hate relationship with the ravens.

[Connie]

I thought the boys on this forum mayn't like this to much

[Davest]

So I took Knucklehead McDoufous out for a run a few days ago at my office. It's a big fenced yard that has been know to house a few bunny rabbits and gophers. Sure enough Taz' radar went into rabbit mode and the chase was on all over the yard.

The rabbit let Taz think he had a chance to catch him and thats when the rabbit made a B-line for the gate and ducked under to make a clean get-away. Taz on the other hand thought he still had a chance as he ran face first into the gate @ 25 miles an hour. He crumpled like an accordion and then sprang back to life. He's a tough dog but man, that had to hurt. He had a lump for a few days but guy dogs call them battle scars.

When I was married we had a house with a huge fenced-in back yard. At the time we had a (rescue) greyhound, my favorite dog ever. Same thing happened. He saw a rabbit, the fence around the yard was set up so the rabbit couldn't get out and he ended up going under the gate. The greyhound was running so fast, all he could do was duck his head before hitting the gate so hard it actually unlatched and opened up. The greyhound was dazed for bit (long enough for me to run over and close the gate), but otherwise fine. Fun to watch him really run, but scary when he hit the gate so hard.

[BoobMonkey]

So...............coolest thing ever, I found there's a cafe near my flat (pretty new...) called the long dog cafe....it's dog friendly and customers often pop in with their hounds. And the food and coffee are just great!!!!
here is a four legged visitor I photographed last week

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[stickyvicky]

I just love places like that! Here in tampa area where I live the restaurants are all outdoors and dog friendly. They sell puppacino (steamed milk) for your dog while you have your cappuccino Many even sell chicken breast for them.