Big Dogs at Home

[fightingquaker13]

Great tip Tyler. I've never thought of i, but it seems like a good way to get a well socialized animal rather than a PTSD special from the pound. And your right, lots of folks are being forcd to move from a house they can't afford into an apartment or rental where they see the worlds saddest sign "No dogs allowed".
FQ13
PS you have a Vizla. Do you fly hawks by any chance?

[Tyler Durden]

I had a Vizsla.

I had to euthanize him on the day after Christmas 2005.

 

I got him for a very small fee at a no kill shelter back in the spring of 1995 in Fayetteville, NC, when I was stationed at Pope.

Nope, I don't fly hawks either....sorry....looking back on things now, I do wish I had gotten into the Air Force Academy's falconry club and learned how to train falcons.  I'm living close to Scott Air Force Base, and they were...at least they were...running a falconry program out there to keep the birds from striking the aircraft.  Maybe...maybe...I just could have parlayed my falconry experience into  a civilian job like that....

Kinda like how I feel about not having done parachuting earlier, gotten on the parachute team and upgraded to an instructor and jumpmaster, I could have spun that into being an instructor on the weekends ...giving people those tandem jumps and/or video'ing people's jumps.

[Just One Shot]

Tyler, I'm on my second Boxer (Sugar Rae) and there are times I can't shut her up. She has a bark that makes her sound like a man eater. She weighs in at 88 lbs. and she's a sweetheart. She loves kids and she will sit still while my granddaughters dress her up. Even so, she intimidates some people. Many think she's a large pit bull for some reason. It must be her brindle coat that confuses them.

I had a fawn colored male (Rocky Balboa) that weighed in at 110 lbs. Now Rocky was a brute. I had a neighbor tell me that when the mail man would go through the yard, Rocky would bark like a mad dog and jump up on the sill of the pig picture window and hit the glass (double pane) so hard with his chest that he thought the glass would fly out.

Not too many people would approach him. He would cause people to cross the street when we took him for walks. He was as gentle with the grandchildren as Sugar is. They could dress him up, poke at him and even pull on his ears and he wouldn't react at all to them.

I loved that dog. We had to put him down when he was only 7 1/2 years old because of cardiomyopathy. His heart deformed so bad it looked like a big softball on the scans. He couldn't lie down to sleep or hardly even breath. Out of all the different breeds that I've owned, the Boxer is one of my all time favorites.

[fightingquaker13]

I had a Vizsla.

I had to euthanize him on the day after Christmas 2005.

 

I got him for a very small fee at a no kill shelter back in the spring of 1995 in Fayetteville, NC, when I was stationed at Pope.

Nope, I don't fly hawks either....sorry....looking back on things now, I do wish I had gotten into the Air Force Academy's falconry club and learned how to train falcons.  I'm living close to Scott Air Force Base, and they were...at least they were...running a falconry program out there to keep the birds from striking the aircraft.  Maybe...maybe...I just could have parlayed my falconry experience into  a civilian job like that....

Kinda like how I feel about not having done parachuting earlier, gotten on the parachute team and upgraded to an instructor and jumpmaster, I could have spun that into being an instructor on the weekends ...giving people those tandem jumps and/or video'ing people's jumps.

Sorry about your buddy. The reason I asked is that vizlas (as I'm sure you know) were bred as falconry dogs. They have a tendency to crouch on point and rarely range wide or rush to retrieve. Very rare to find among gun hunters, but fairly common, along with other NAVDA breeds among the falconers I flew with around Northern Virginia.
FQ13 who has a nice yard and a good dog, but live where its so over developed, there isn't even a vacant lot to fly a Kestrel on starlings, let alone excersise a red tail or cooper's.

[Walter45Auto]

.....I had a fawn colored male (Rocky Balboa) that weighed in at 110 lbs......

That's a big boxer. I didn't know they could get that big.

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[Just One Shot]

That's a big boxer. I didn't know they could get that big.

Yea, I've seen some big ones. Rocky's dad was named Goliath, I don't know what that monster weighed in at.