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Comments (22)To tell the truth, our whole family is in love with this tiny little personality packaged in a white poodle body with a heart shaped black face, black feet, white and black ears and a black spot on her little rump. Her markings are so unusual. She stands up and walks on her hind legs and sits up. This baby probably weighs in at a pound or a little over. Katrina has been here all day and they are best buds. I've tried to get pictures of her but she is never still long enough. She'll come over and sit up and turn that little head to one side, I'll have the camera ready to capture the look and then she will jump right up in my face. I look at her and wonder how in the world could anyone ever cause any harm to anything so precious and so full of love. I wish all of you could see her. She brings out the best in all of us....See MoreVirtual Gordon setter for Lizalily
Comments (8)Yes, it is, Lizalily... yes, it is! Maia is a handful... she's a bundle of energy! Once she reaches adulthood, she'll calm down... but for now, she's like a whirlwind... every time we go outside, she rips around the yard in huge figure eights, with a trail of grass flying up behind her! It's incredibly funny to watch! And after she does her "business", she does the grass dance that's usually reserved for males! I think she has some fairly high hormone levels. But, she is a smart little thing, and very lovable! She loves to cuddle and kiss, and she's always up for a good belly rub! She's maturing into a very wonderful companion! Bulldogs are pretty special... although I'll leave the English Bulldog out of that statement... English Bulldogs are one of the most genetically unhealthy, physically exaggerated, man-made breeds around today. There are a few good ones out there, but they're hard to find. They can't breed or whelp naturally, and require man's intervention to reproduce; A.I. and C-sections are too common. They can't handle summer heat or winter cold... they have undersized lungs, over-sized hearts, and the list goes on... the vet bills are too huge and the number of years they live, too short. American Bulldogs and Olde Bulldogges, on the other hand, are bred for genetic health, longevity, workability, intelligence, discretion, stable temperament, balanced drives, etc... natural reproduction occurs, and if you get a good bulldog pup, you'll never want another breed as long as you live! I've had just about every breed out there, at one time or another, but after I got my first American Bulldog, every other breed faded into the distance! The Olde Bulldogge, which is what Maia is, is the healthy version of the English... a mid-sized working/protection breed with much better genetics. Maia will top out at about 50 pounds, but she will be every bit as effective as an 85 pound protection canine! With her at my side, I'll never worry about being alone, or being stranded... she'll always be ready to give up her own life to save mine, and that's the mark of a true guardian. A Gordon Setter is one breed I've never owned, but they sure are cute! Beautiful coat colors! I understand they're a hunting breed? They have a lot of expression in their eyes... and they look like they'd be very gentle companions! We all love the breeds of our choice, and there are many different reasons we choose the ones we do... I'm very happy with my little Maia... and Emma is a wonderful girl, too! They have tried very hard to fill the shoes left behind by my Minerva... and they've been pretty successful....See More'Designer Dogs'-mix breeds with a BIG pricetag
Comments (62)Okay, I'll say this and duck and cover: We have been looking at Cavalier King Charles Spaniels to adopt from rescue because DH has just about melted anytime he sees one, and behaviorally, they are the dog for us. We are now being considered to adopt one I found at Petfinder that lives locally. So I spent last night going to different sites to learn more about the breed. I knew some of their health problems - heart murmurs (38% seriously when young, 100% by age 10) that can develop into valve disease and require heart surgery, luxating patellas (20 - 30%), hip dysplasia (11%). Heck - I've got all that myself! What I didn't know is that their cute, round little skulls are too small for their brains and they can develop a horridly painful condition that requires brain surgery - and the surgery does not always work. About HALF of CKCS have this! - although not usually to the extreme end. Then there is the problem where the dog will suddenly have paralysis of its hind legs from running or playing too hard. It goes away fairly quickly and the dog resumes its activity (usually). Luckily, this does not seem to be a life-threatening problem very often. They think it is a metabolic muscle problem, but they are not sure. It is unique to Cavs. The list goes on, and the hilarious thing is that I share a good number of the same problems! Like thyroiditis, stenotic nares, cataracts (30% have one eye disorder or another), white blood cell problems (50%). I guess I should be glad that I never reproduced! Then there are the ones I don't have: mucous plugs in the middle ear that are very painful and require surgery; Cushing's disease (prevalent), Diabetes (susceptible); dry eye syndrome (many); epilepsy (prevalent); curly or rough coat syndrome where the dog suffers very painful skin disease and dry eyes that are so bad that many think that the poor dogs should be killed at birth rather than suffer horribly it's whole life (half of all puppies born in Iceland in one recent two-year period had it, prevalence elsewhere is unknown); epilepsy (prevalent), eyelashes that scratch the cornea(very common), inward rolling eyelids (relatively high incidence) fly-catcher's syndrome (prevalent), congenital and progressive deafness...the list goes on. All of these are hereditary diseases - inherited. I just gotta say it - so which one is the Designer Dog? The purebred CKCS or some body's backyard mix? CKCS were created in the 1920s by getting the undesirable longer-nose puppies from the litters of the English Toy Spaniel. The English Toy was the surviving breed that was pictured in a lot of old paintings as a beautiful lapdog. Back when the paintings were done, the breed was not a pug-nosed dog like the English Toy Spaniel is today, though. So some people who wanted to recreate the look of the the dogs in the paintings bought and bred the unwanted longer-nosed English Toys and created a whole new breed and named it the Cavalier (from the name of one of the paintings) King Charles (King Charles II bred and loved the dogs) Spaniel. So, since someone did this in the past, it is now a "breed". I imagine that the dogs were so inbred in order to establish the breed that the genetic disorders just got more and more concentrated. The English Toy Spaniels are known to have a few of these disorders, but not in the same numbers as the Cavaliers do. Interesting factoid: the English Toy was created by MIXING the little spaniels of the paintings with Chinese dogs to get the pug face. Designer Dog, anyone? If it happened a hundred years ago, it is okay, but we can't do it anymore today? Because....why? Think about it. The smushy-faced English Toys that bred true (and consequently had a good mix of genes with the Chinese dogs) have FEWER genetic defects than the CKCS, that was created by breeding only the THROWBACK longer-nosed English Toys that did not meet the English Toy Spaniel's new breed standard. Does that not best explain how dog breeding works? Create a specific breed with a few original parent dogs and end up with concentrations of genetic malformations that seem to come with almost every dog! Look at the breeding chart in the link below. Only the A+ dogs are free of the three main genetic diseases. Yet it is okay to breed them with all but the worst dogs! You can still breed a CKCS who had a dam and sire that may or may not have had a heart valve murmur, who has a little bit of the horrible brain problem, and a skull that is too small with a perfectly healthy dog. Why? Obviously because there are not enough perfectly healthy dogs to use to breed healthy CKCS! Why, o why didn't somebody mix a little Brittany or English Springer Spaniel in there 50 years ago! So, that is my thinking on purebred genetics. It is fine if you are breeding a relatively healthy breed like the Brittany, but when you end up with what the poor CKCS have to endure, is it really worth it?...See MoreWhat I did with my paintbrush this weekend (pics)
Comments (17)Oh, Molly, my friend really did a good deed. Boo had never experienced a home, soft places to lie down, affection, or play. She didn't know what to do with any of it at first. But she's learning! I saw two photos of Boo, one taken when they first got her, and the other just recently (a few months later). What a difference in her expression and eyes!...See Moresultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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