Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like the only breed-specific rescue around here is for golden retrievers, though.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2012 4:57:44 pm PDT #21905 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sarameg - Sep 12, 2012 5:03:55 pm PDT #21906 of 30001
I would imagine a good shelter would work with you. Get pressure out of your comfort zone, it isn't a good shelter.
Ginger - Sep 12, 2012 5:09:57 pm PDT #21907 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A lot of shelters want volunteers to walk dogs and interact with them. That could give you a better idea of the personalities of different dog breeds.
Dana - Sep 12, 2012 5:14:10 pm PDT #21908 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
In my experience volunteering at a shelter, the thing you really learn after spending time with dogs is to tell whether they're actively friendly, scared, submissive, aggressive, aggressive because they're scared, uninterested in people, etc.
Dana - Sep 12, 2012 5:49:51 pm PDT #21909 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I had an apple! I get a halo and wings.
Sue - Sep 12, 2012 6:17:57 pm PDT #21910 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Also, Anne & family good Scottish/English WASPs. French/Irish were poor labouring Catholics.
Sue - Sep 12, 2012 6:23:06 pm PDT #21911 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I'm so sorry for your news Scrappy.
lisah - Sep 12, 2012 6:44:53 pm PDT #21912 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I keep looking at the local shelter website and thinking that I want to get a dog.
I've spent the evening looking at dogs at petfinder and chatting with my friend who does dog rescue transport. I'm so ready to get another dog! But not until we get back from traveling in October.
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2012 6:47:39 pm PDT #21913 of 30001
brillig
Hubby is watching a Peter, Paul, and Mary special on PBS--yay, pledge week!--and he's getting all teary remembering his youth. I'm only four years younger than he is, but I don't have the emotional reaction to these songs. Then again, I was a naive, inattentive kid growing up in an isolated rural area. He was a military kid eyeball deep in the Viet Nam war and what it did to his family.
Huh, my serious boyfriend in college was a Navy vet who helped with the evacuation of Seoul. I got a couple of nights with him, too, of stealth memories and holding a weeping man.
edit: duh, not Seoul, that's Korea. What was the capital of South Vietnam? Oh, yeah, Saigon. Sort of sounds like Seoul.
Kat - Sep 12, 2012 6:56:25 pm PDT #21914 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Scrappy, sorry about your crappy news.
I'm still way back at the doctor 7 min thing. Grace gets way more than 7 minutes, I think, but I totally want to time it. I get totally LESS than 7 minutes. So I guess we balance it out. The only doc where I consistently get both more than 7 min AND where my time is totally respected is my dentist. He schedules in blocks of .10 increments and actually sticks to it. I was scheduled for an hour long block yesterday and I was in and out before my 60 minutes were up. It was awesome. Except for the filling part. That sucked.