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Just cats now
Cornflake 9 years old
Hops and Fuggles, (sisters) 3 years old
ShittyKitty(officially Salvador) 1 year
I’ll come in and add pics in a little bit, but I’ve watch over: (in seniority order)
Rita: Sister to the newly gone Mark. 
- 14 years, 10 months old - grey tabby. Pain in the ass and lover of all pizza. Still a little confused as to where the hell her brother is.
Rita
Mark
Toby: 12.5 year old white terrier mix. He’s Amy’s dog through and through.
Sammy: 6 year old Chihuahua / Papillon mix - Adopted him in 11/2009. He’s crazy and obviously suffered abuse when he was younger before escaping to the streets. Favorite thing in the world - burrowing under the covers and snorting right up next to you. Also a pretty good vistor alarm
Cookie: 3 year old Chihuahua / Corgi mix - Adopted her in January. Total sweetheart. Fast as lighting, smart as a whip and requires belly rubs on a regular basis under penalty of being licked to death.
Morgen, a 9-year old boxer/lab mix we rescued around 8 months old.
She’s visible in this picture.
Cats
Jake and Zelda - 13 year old brother and sister. She looks like a very small Holstein cow, and he looks kinda Siamese-ish
Nick - 4 year old small, fat black cat. A real lover, well behaved and comes when called!
Rudy and Rosie - acquired from a shelter 2 moths ago. Rudy is a just one year old, huge, furry orange/tan tabby with huge round yellow yes that we refer to as “Monster”. He can go from a madman (madcat?) to a purring lap kitty in the blink of an eye. Rosie is a small, beautiful, fat (leading to the nickname “Meatball”) gray kitty with beautiful green eyes.
Dogs
Casper - 4 year old purebred Border Collie who’s certifiably crazy. He came from a shelter and has sever fear issues with nearly everyone in the world except my wife and about 4 other people. It’s taken 2 years just to get him to stay in the house when I’m around and he’ll still run if he even sees me move. Beautiful dog and full of love for the people he trusts.
Janie - the opposite of Casper! 4 year old Border Collie/Golden Retriever mix (we think). The most beautiful, loving dog I’ve ever owned. Totally obsessed with chasing her favorite ball ALL the time! Like Drew’s Cookie, a licker who LOVES belly rubs!
That sounds like an “interesting” mix
Here’s Jake, my assistant brewer (crappy old cell phone pic). He’s a mix. He was good luck for last year’s NHC and I left him off the ‘assistant brewer’ field this year…so I’m screwed. He’s really good at scarfing up any spilled, spent grains. That’s about it.
Two cats. Sassafrass (Sassy) is the fuzzy Himalayan, and Sofia is the tigerstripe. Both are 6 years old. Sofia is mostly afraid of everything except birds (which she catches and eats), and other cats (which she beats up if they stray into our yard). Sassy on the other hand is very social and most importantly, loves my homebrew. If I set my pint down she will jump up and start lapping it up!! I think my Strong Scotch Ale is her favorite. ;D
I’m sure you already know this, but just in case, make certain that Jake gets no hops. They can be deadly for dogs.
It is… fortunately about the only thing she gets from the Chi side of the genes is being half the size of a corgi and having a rust red coat.
The only one left now is Jesse, 4 year old border collie and (maybe) pitbull mix, sweet as sugar and full of fun. Loves to steal a shoe and wait till you chase him for it. also very smart. currently a little confused and wondering where Pooka is. will post pics when I am home maybe.
We rescued Jesse when he was but a wee thing. He was from tennessee. Jesse ‘cause he was found in a ditch’ according to the woman who rescued him originaly. I gather it’s a Jesse James reference but not being from the south cannot confirm nor deny.
I’ll see if I can find a better picture or two later on without my ugly mug in it, but here’s my two guys:
Abby - on the left - border collie/aussie mix (we think) rescued ~6 years ago at the age of 2-3. spunky, bossy and attention demanding but has the biggest heart of gold - just loves being around people and occasionally herding them.
Porter is the black lab on the right - adopted him about a month after Abby and he was just turning 2. Defender of the house (or so he believes from safety of being behind the front window), quiet otherwise - a great companion - just don’t hold your pint glass below knee level when you’re sitting down otherwise it will be gone.
“Fortunately” is right, Corgis are great dogs. Had one growing up.
Yeah, this one has been a revelation. Sweet and kind. Can’t believe she was in the shelter for 10 months (or even worse, someone adopted her for 4 days and then returned her because “the mother didn’t want her”
The one thing I’m noticing though, don’t let them get bored!
before us, my BC/Aussie got returned 2 times by families claiming to want an active dog; she was apparently ‘too active’ for them.
Wow and she didn’t have any issues from that experience?
Cookie still gets separation anxiety from time to time if we leave her alone. I attribute it to the time in the shelter and the getting returned.
I have two cats. Both rescues. The big one is Gatito (I didn’t want to name him since we were only
going to foster him until he found a home, and that he did) and the calico is Butterfly. Both aprox. 6 years old
Dusty was our black lab. He lived with my parents. He passed a couple of years ago.
He was fantastic, great personality. My favorite memory is that we had taught him how to
ask to go outside for potty breaks. We tied about 3 large christmas jingle balls on a string
and tied it to the sliding glass door. We used his nose to ring the bells every time we sent
him out. It worked like a charm. Coming back in he devised his own method. We would go
to the butcher and get the cow femurs with no meat left on them and he would chew on them for
a month. Well, no bells on the outside so he would bring the bone to the door and drop it on the
cedar deck we had. It was loud, and hilarious at first. He trained us pretty quick to let him back
in asap when we heard the loud bouncing thump. He made it to about 15 years old. His age in the pic.
He was a pure pup. Both his parents were certified, (Mom got out of the yard one day and we
got a call, “Want a puppy?” ;D 8) ) the rest is history.
edited grammer and spelin… ;D
I had two standard poodles. great dogs. the girl has been saddened at the loss of her mate. Stanley developed bone cancer last fall and lost his front left leg. we had hoped there were no mets. but around early january he lost the ability to walk with his back legs. we waited a few days for my sons to come home from college - they carried him the mile loop at our local dog park in freezing weather. we bought him a mcdonalds burger and a wendy’s frosty, then the vet came and put him down in our home. this is still breaking us up. I will see if i can figure out how to put a picture on
@Drew - she has some separation anxiety - I guess I never attributed it to the shelter return issues till now, rather I assumed it was just personality. When we got her, she had virtually no hair on the back half of her body, clearly stressed out beyond belief - she was at the shelter for over 6 months, and we sorta got the feeling that she was running out of hope. Fate works mysteriously - without a doubt, meeting her was one of the best things to ever happen in my life.
@Weithmann - my thoughts go out to you guys - made me very sad to read that.
@rabid_dingo - wow - I felt like I was looking at my guy; you’ll see him again one day.
thanks blatz. i appreciate it. i keep cheering myself up watching ultimate dog tease on you tube. if you haven’t seen that one.i recommend it.