RIP Molson

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On December 27, 2011 our seven year old male Great Dane Molson suffered bloat.  A condition where the intestines basically flip. Bloat is an unfortunate affliction that most often ends in death and is most common in deep chested dogs.

 

We were getting vaccinations for our 1 year old Great Dane boy and visiting with our friends who had another litter of Dane pups.  They were 9 weeks old with strong genes, we were very familiar with the lineage.

Without discussion my husband and I had already decided which one we would take home.  We had no intentions of bringing another dog home until we saw this handsome boy.

I had fun with Molson even when there was no fun to be had.  All I had to do was jump.  I didn’t want him to be jumping on people but it was okay if he jumped at the same time I did – as long as he didn’t touch me.  That is how we dealt with excitement, rather than acting neurotic he jumped with me and would occasionally spin without missing a jump.

Molson would thump his tail on the laminate floor when I walked into the room, talked to him, or even just smiled at him.

He is survived by his older (full) brother, Torque, and his younger Boxer sister, Pepsi.   For the last 5 years those three characters have been the animal equivalent of The 3 Stooges.

Torque and Pepsi continue to thrive in our animal friendly home.

Molson Great Dane



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Service Dog Banned

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A small Iowa town has forced a retired Chicago cop and Vietnam veteran to part with the service dog who was helping him cope with a profound stroke that left him with no feeling on the right half of his body.

The dog’s crime? He is a pit-bull mix. It seems Aurelia — a town whose motto is “savor the sweet life” — banned the breed in 2008 after a pit bull bit a meter reader.

He and his wife, Peggy, recently moved to her hometown of 1,100 people to be closer to his ailing mother-in-law.

Without the dog, Sak’s mother-in-law — the very person Sak moved here to help — has to help him out.

”That dog has never been away from us a night in his life. He’s the sweetest, most good-natured dog you’d ever want to meet.”  Sak said in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Snickers is a bona fide service dog, doesn’t this fly in the face of the Americans with Disabilities Act, big time? The ADA says service dogs can be of any breed.

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Seriously??

Astounding display of ignorance. So basically the town is putting their own fears ahead of basic human rights.

All legalities aside let’s look at this from a common sense point of view.

The man used to be a cop.  At least 70% of controlling a dog is psychological authority, something that came naturally to this guy.

The dogs have been banned since ’08, they probably don’t know any of the heroic feats done by Pitties because their minds have been shut off to absorbing any information about this breed they fear.

The dog is employed to assist a veteran in living independently, Snickers sole purpose is to devote and risk his life if necessary to a man who did that very same thing for our ancestors.  The dog is not going to be wandering the streets looking for a fight!!

May the people of this town be struck with common sense.

 



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Local news

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Our quiet town, Keremeos British Columbia has erupted into a flurry of would be criminal activity.

A customer entered a small sandwich place, proceeded to create his unique sandwich.  Instead of pulling money from his pocket he pulled a gun!

Gun trumps name employee name tag

After fleeing the scene this dangerous man was involved in a car accident, sending a passenger from the other vehicle to hospital via helicopter.

This hungry gunman will likely be facing jail time.

It was a toy gun.

 

UPDATE: The perpetrator of the aforementioned crime has issued a public apology:

 



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Walking the Dogs – Never Boring

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Walk?”

That word, statement, question is enough to send these three dogs into a controlled frenzy.  One of the great danes will jump like a horse rearing up while the other great dane will sit alertly waiting for me to make my move.  The Boxer will start spinning and/or wiggling.

Once I have brought them down to a calmer energy with my voice or body language the walk may begin.

While I leashed up the dogs I saw a young lab x herding breed trotting down the road we live on.  Our dogs saw him but they weren’t bothered.   Next thing I know this momentarily ownerless dog was right on the other side of the gate sniffing noses with Molson the biggest of our two danes.

No big deal, he soon moved on.  We started out on our walk and suddenly our kitten zipped past us, apparently he was coming for a walk too.

Further along our walk the strange dog reappeared.  He got real close which wasn’t fair to my dogs because they were on a leash so I told him to back off. When this dog responded to my request/command my dogs looked at me as if to say Thanks Mom, we were feeling uncomfortable.

On we went, three leashed dogs, a stray dog running loose, and a cat!  Upon reentering the yard I had hoped the other dog would go away.  No such luck.

I like living on the edge but I wasn’t going to let my strong dogs loose with somebody’s dog in our yard.  It could turn ugly, would be different if I knew the dog.

I left the leashes on the dogs when I put them in the house so I could rid our yard of this other dog.

Afterwards our dogs came out with me and played.

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The Brand New Favored Rhea Thierstein While In The British Trend Community

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