Golly, that's a big old gorgeous dog!

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Awww Nina!! He's gorgeous ..... (I can't imagine feeding 4 danes!) He really lucked out, you and the girls will spoil him rotten.

He's beautiful Nina, so happy for you & Jorah, How's that adorable grandson of yours doing? I dont come here that often, so I havent seen any posts about him

I can't imagine feeding 4 danes!

LOL, i hear that a lot but you'd be surprised. it really isn't bad. jorah and eden each eat 6 cups of kibble/day. olivia eats about 4 cups/day and destiny is raw fed. :)

How's that adorable grandson of yours doing?

thanks for asking, christine! gabriel is 21 months old today! i don't know where the time goes but go, it does! gabe knows the whole alphabet, can count to 15 now, can name all of the planets, is a shameless flirt any time he's out and about (he especially likes waitresses), never walks anyhere, he only runs at full speed, and his mommy and daddy are getting ready to transition him to a toddler bed. he is a voracious reader and is beginning to learn some written words. he's changed so much in looks over the past couple of months, no longer a chubby baby and his face is looking so grown up!

Nina, Gabriel is a handsome boy..ok ok I'm lying he's absolutly beautiful. And soo intelligent...way more than the average...but you know he's the worlds smartest boy.

Your new boy jorah is quite the handsome one himself. Are the girls flirting lol. Congrats on your new Dane boy. Wishing you peace and happiness.

awww, thanks! i may be a tiny bit biased when it comes to gabriel but i have to agree with you. :) he must have inherited his birth mom's gene for mechanical things (she is in the coast guard and works on helicopters and boats!) because he is always taking things apart and putting them back together. right now, building with legos is his favorite thing!

the girls are doing great with jorah. they accepted him right off the bat and eden engages him in play often. he is such a good boy and is now dependable enough that i can leave to go visit gabe for a few hours and not worry. i leave the dog door open for them but looking at my pet camera off and on while i'm gone, all i see is 4 sleeping dogs.

i cannot tell a lie...i love big butts! LOL

Wow Nina, he's not only a smart little man, but a very handsome one too, he has grown up fast your right, where does the time go. Gabriel is a animal lover just like you. Thank you for sharing all the sweet pictures of him. Now on to your fur babies, I'm glad they all get along so well, they know they have it made living with you and being really, really loved for the first time. Have a wonderful day Nina :>)

christine, i wish i could stop the clock for a few months. gabriel is growing way too fast! he is too big to get comfortable for rocking, it takes getting him very, very tired so he isn't too restless. he sprawls out on my lap and i kind of long for those days when he fit so snugly on my shoulder. <3 even when he's tired, he will sit up in the middle of almost going to sleep and remember something he wanted to tell me. LOL

jorah...eeny meeny mynee moe!

Awww, He's a handsome guy! Boy, he won the dog lottery!! I am so happy for your new addition!!

jorah is fitting in so well, not a single glitch! he's a very happy and playful boy and loves a good game of tug which he ALWAYS wins. he is unbelievable strong!

Love the update on the dogs, darling grandchild....but what about the pigs?

socks, i guess i never posted about the pigs. i lost both of my females a couple of years ago. they got sick and no matter what the vet and i did, they kept going downhill. ended up having them put down as they were really suffering. vet did a necropsy on one of them and never really came to a definite cause of death. he thinks it was some sort of bacterial infection.

last october, both of the boys started having the same symptoms. we did all of the blood work and diagnostics all over again and could find nothing definite. knowing what i was in for after dealing with this already, i opted to put both of the boys to sleep before their suffering got unmanageable. if i had it to do over again, i would have euthanized both girls before they got so very sick.

they are all buried out in the big alfalfa field along with 2 horses and several goats. i will no longer have any outside animals. i had even thought about taking the fencing down but gary poured his heart into building it 20+ years ago and i can't bring myself to take it down.

If you did post about them, I missed it. Sorry, that must have been a tough and expensive time for you. You took such good care of them. I remember one had arthritis. Now you can focus on the pups and your grandchild. Life changes.

By the way, be sure to check out the KT thread, something like "Raven puppies for you..."

thank you, socks. yes, it was an expensive few weeks but they were my pets just as much as my dogs are so i had to do whatever it took. i wish there could have been a different outcome but it was not to be. the last few days of their lives, i could not get them to eat or drink anything, not even their favorite treats. when a pig won't it, you know for sure that something is very, very wrong.

i will check out the kt thread!

i'll just sit here while you cut up my apple. LOL

So sorry to hear about the pigs Nina, that must have been awful.

thanks, pamghatten. there are no vets anywhere even remotely close who really know much about pot belly pigs. the vet i used for them had several as clients so he was the most knowledgeable.

it was very hard to lose them, they were my other buddies. it was for the best as they just were not improving at all, no matter what we did.