A couple of shelter cats.
Koenig is about 8 years old, and is the King of the house. A ‘Tuxedo’ cat, think Sylvester from the cartoons.
Duvel is 7 years old. All black, and he can tend to put on some weight, but is fairly lean right now.
From the well renowned Springset Kennel, Springset What A Boy. “Max”. “Maxieboy”, one of his several nicknames, was whelped in 2002. A Gordon Setter. The Black and Tan Bombshell. This breed had gone the way of the Irish Setter, bred for size and conformation with little to no regard for intelligence. Norm Sorby, owner of Springset, is widely credited with turning the breed around and producing fine field dogs. Beauty, Brains, and Birdsense are the words used to describe the breed. Max is all of those and more. Affectionate, vocal, lots of personality and a serious work ethic. He is a fine companion and is a true joy at home and in the field. Mr. Sorby had talked his dogs up to me when I was looking for a Gordon(my 8.5 yr. old grouse machine Ryman/Old Hemlock English Setter had gotten through an accidentally open gate, was hit and killed by a car, and I couldn’t bear the thought of another ES but wanted another bird dog) and I thought he was putting a sell job on me. Wrong. If anything, he was understating the facts. I’ll round up a pic. Here’s a representative:
Nice to see so many of you have taken in shelter animals. Here are our two shelter girls that are just over a year old. They are the friendliest cats I’ve ever known and race to the door whenever anyone comes by.
Fuggles. The mellower girl, who likes to sit on laps. And kitchen counters.
Her super high energy sister Molly. She’ll sit on my lap when she’s tired, which happens about twice a day.
Yup, no kennel dogs for me. Only rescues. Sometimes they can come with some issues, but overall, I think they make better pets.
Monty aka lil’ sh*t (right) is a 7 years old king charles cavalier spaniel with the nose of a beagle, and temperament of a house cat. Obsessive lapdog, bird watcher and squirrel chaser. He is generally my brew day partner and loves his beer.
Boomer (left) our 7.5 year old aussie shepherd was rescued 5.5 years ago. Energetic, frisbee loving, fetch for hours, softy. He loves being around people and occasionally herding any who stray.
Our Fuggles is much mellower(and just plain weird) than her sister Hops, who got that name because she’s extremely jumpy.
They came from the shelter, Cornnflake was rescued from a bunch of rock throwing kids at my daughter’s high school and Salvador and his intestinal parasite showed up in a thunderstorm last fall.
my current beast is Zaya, a 6 year old rottie/marema cross. started out as a ‘free puppy’ and has ended up being the most expensive dog I’ve ever owned. as a puppy, her picture was in the dictionary under ‘High Maintenance Bitch’ >:(
several costly operations, but she’s been trouble free for the last several years and has matured into a really loving, but seemingly protective dog. she’s 80 lbs, with a deep bark that she uses to intimidate anyone that comes near. but she’s all bark, no bite… which is as it should be. truly a sweetheart, and she is the 2nd easiest dog to train I’ve ever had. my purebred rottie bitch was the easiest, if you made her understand what you wanted her to do it was a done deal.
my last cat died several years back at 19 years of age. full life, and a very happy one till the last 6 months. no new replacement kitty, though that’ll probably happen as the wife keeps telling me how cute EVERY kitten we see is.
Here’s our “Soot”, we rescued her at about 1 yr old and while were weren’t sure about her earlier life, she was definitely an escape artist. She made it to 14 yrs old until we finally had to have her put down a few years back…
Here’s the Brew Dawgpound. They love when I break out the camera. ;D
From left to right: Louis - 4yr old YorkiePoo, Muddy - 4yr old Chocolate Lab, Georgie - 5yr old Beagle, Diem - 5yr old Pit mix and Mickey - 9 yr old Poodlemix
Louis and Muddy are our boys. Diem is my youngest daughters and Georgie is my oldest daughters. Mickey resides with my sister.
This is my rescued boy BB. This pic is titled “Boo in a flue”
Here he is posing.
This is my rescued girl Lucy. She’s now 11 years old.
These animals bring great joy to our hearts. We love them dearly. The Yorkie and Lab love to hang out when I brew. 
That’s a good looking pack.
We are a rescue cat family. We love dogs too. We just don’t have any right now.
About 8 months ago we adopted a six-month-old kitten from a friend who rescues cats and kittens. We named her Honey, but she insists her name is “Meep Meep Merrrrrp,” so we call her Meepers. When we adopted Meepers she had a bald belly and a brand new scar from her spay surgery. Imagine our surprise when a few months later she started showing! On January 25 I saw that she had suddenly gone from being very pregnant to her old petit/svelte self again. So I went on a kiity nest hunt. No luck.
Over the next two weeks it was pretty obvious Meepers was nursing kits. I followed her one afternoon into the neighbors yard where she disappeared into a crack in a lava tumulus (hummock). She had made a nest inside a little lava tube.
A few days later, after a long day of heavy rains, I hear a very loud kitty rucus going on out on the carport. I go out to see what’s up, and there goes little 7 lb Meepers chasing this big tom cat up the driveway, and she’s tearing him a new ass as he’s leaving. I mean there are tufts of tomcat fur flying all over the place. I watched Meepers with amazement as she ran this very large tom off of the property. Standing in the twilight I look down at my feet and there lies a tiny ball of grey and white fur. A kitten! I pick it up and yell to my wife and son, “We have a kitten!”
Over the next hour Meepers brought us three more kittens. In order of appearance we have:
Andy - a grey and white tom,
Mili - a calico pussy cat,
Sadie (aka Boo Boo) an orange and black tortoise shell pussy cat,
and Bear - a really big all black tom
We feel that these are miracle kittens. They were born against all odds. They are certainly some of the most loving cats I have ever known. We’ve decided to keep all four of them. So now we are a seven cat family. We have a good size piece of land that can accomodate seven cats with no problems.
Thomas - 11+ yrs - the top cat - looks like Sylvester - 18 lbs of love and muscle - came with us from Orlando
Mali - 2 yrs - grey with black stripes and longhair (looks like a mini Maine Coon) - orphaned at two weeks old - bottle fed
Meepers - 1 yr - a small female version of Thomas (mirror image).
Andy, Mili, Sadie, and Bear - 4 months - the very special kittens.
We had Meepers spayed properly. No more kittens in her future.
My dog Ralph is the guy in my avatar photo. I got him at a rescue last December. 5 days before Christmas. The rescue said he was a German Shepherd/Golden Retriever mix. Hence the name of my brewery. I recently had a vet tell me he was none of the above. That he is a Belgian Tervuren Shepherd. I had never heard of such a thing so I googled them. In appearance and behavior I think there is a good chance he is.
Regardless of what he is, he is a terrific dog. I had never seen such an obedient dog in the house. In the 5 months I have owned him he has never had an accident in the house, never gotten into the trash, never chewed on anything he isn’t supposed to. He even picks up his toys and takes them to his bed at night. It was incredibly easy to teach him to do that.
He is fantastic with my grand children. In fact he is fantastic with any small child he sees. He is different towards kids than he is toward adults. It is so cool to see this 72 pound dog being so gentle with kids. I honestly think he could become a very dangerous dog if he thought someone was harming a small child, even if he didn’t know the kid.
He is difficult to walk and just not catching on to the leash thing very well. He always wants to chase trucks, never cars, just trucks. I think he must have had a bad experience with one at some time in his life. But I can live with that.
This ole gal is Yantee, a white crested pionus amazon …she is small not rauchus
very intelligent…but does not speak clearly…she mimics. She is 20 years old and
will prolly outlive us. In this shot she has made her feather into a tool and is using
it to scratch the back of her head…not kidding…
I have read that Blue Jays in captivity have been observed using paper as a tool to drag seed to them. Birds really are far more intelligent than people realize.
Ok here are some of the family friends I got lots of photos,
Zig and Zag, Zig someone ate and Zag is loved by his friend who is a horse.
This is hope she was a week away from being 10 years old when she died not bad for a chicken.
This is Hanna, my Love she is going to be 11 this year.
We have two dogs. Coconut, named right after we returned from our wedding in Hawaii. She’s a toy poodle, now 7 years old. She’s the smart dog in the house, but also very lazy. She’s not too fond of Otis, our 9-month old Chihuahua/Pug mix. He has way too much puppy energy still. Everyone calls him my minion. He follows me everywhere I go. Then we have a bearded dragon, Titan. And a whole bunch of sea monkeys! I’ll try to post pics later.
gymrat,
You may have already tried this but it helped with our little leash puller, Premier.com - Hilco Digital Assets
Cause the leash attaches as the chest when the dog pulls it just turns him around to face you. It’s very gentle and really cuts down on the pulling
Milo:
Sarah
Milo is the first great dane I have ever owned. He’s going on 7 and in pretty good health still. Sarah is a rescue dog and is the smartest dog I have ever owned. Both get along very well. Good dogs.
We also have 3 guinea pigs (it ended up being a buy one get two free by surprise) and a “state fair prize” gold fish who refuses to die.
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My cat’s name is Roots, named after the awesome thrash metal album by Sepultura. He’s around 9 years old; got him from the Animal Shelter. He meows more than I care for, he’s a lap cat sometimes, which rocks, and he knows how to piss me off by getting into things and making noise while I sleep.
Thankyou for the suggestion. I have tried the gentle leader head collar, which worked for a while but then didn’t, I will look into one of these.