"How many of you would utilise this service if you needed it? I own this company, and am trying to get feedback on wether we should expand outside of our current area, or stay in it. Please visit: www.amsambulance.com and let me know what you think about our company."

I'm thinking that you may want to market the service to other dog care professionals (ie. doggy daycare, dog boarding faciilities, dog walkers.) as an Ambulance and Taxi service As a Dog professional in WA, occassionally, I need to take a dog to the vet. Usually for something that isn't critical, like an ear infection, but there are times that it is an emergency and it'd be good to know that someone could get there quickly and I wouldn't have to put my entire day on hold while I dealt with an issue. Of course there would be agreements to hammer out and legality of treating a 3rd parties dogs, but it's a thought and I can see value in the service. Kerri Adventure Dog Ranch Marysville WA http://www.AdventureDogRanch.com

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First you click on the underlined Designer Dogs at the top of this thread. When you get to Designer Dog page, you click on Easy Edit on the top. Once you have theEasy Edit tool bar up, you can do one of 2 things or both. If you only want to list the breed -Lhasapoo- you scroll down to the list of breeds. In the list headed with Bug, you scroll down the list to where Lhasapoo is supposed to be alphabetically. Click there and enter the name of your designer breed- If you use word- then you know how to use the Easy Edit toolbar to get the same looking font and size in the list.. The other thing is that you might want to post a pic of your darling. If so, you need to have a pic in your computer. You click on the "Photo" app on the right of the tool bar-it's to the left of video. It opens a search for WikiFido Photos-so click on other (they just changed it and it's still early here) it will open several options-the first one is to search your computer's photo gallery-to make it easier-I make a new file in my PC photo gallery with the pic that I want to use. Then you just see that-click on it and follow directions-which will include how to make a title. Please follow the guide line of listing the 2 breeds with a + between them then an = Llasapoo. For example the handsome devil to the left is a Bluetick Treeing Coonhound mix-probabley part German shorthair, with his temperment- so I'd say, " Bluetick Coonhound + German Shorthair = Blue German". Then you click save on the Easy Edit tool bar and it's all there -all done. If you have any problems you can post on this thread or send me a message-you also can send a messae to "all moderators" all registered members. You might want to post some pics in our photo gallery for practice-even create an album for your friend. Happy Turkey Day

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The other month, I was able to see a documentary of the USMC in WW II Pacific, with their dobermans. The jarheads spent almost a year just grooming and walking their dogs before the trainning started. At the end of WW II, the DOD ordered all military dags to be killed. The Marines refused and returned most of the dogs to their families-some of the Marines took the dogs with them, where the dogs became baby sitters, then guardians and playmates for the young families.

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I hope that you Cat owners post pics of your hounds-as they are hounds-and the stock from which my Bluetick and Treeing Walker come from. The Catahoula Leopard dog is about the only hound breed recognised by the AKC-the others are called "Others". The AKC does say that Treeing Walkers are the most graceful. They haven't seen her, that's for sure-please post an album. Please-

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Go to a clean kill shelter-save a healthy dog. I was deemed unsuitable to adopt a hound because I was 66-too old; my son is a disabled vet.-too frail; I was asked where I'd keep a hound-in or out. I told them any place the hound D#@* well wanted to be-I'm not a pack leader; if they did let me have one- they could come out any time they wanted and take the hound away if they saw anything they didn't like with anything. Basically-people would rather kill dogs then give people and the dogs a chance. Well, Missy is on my bed. Stonewall is a few feet from me on one of many of the dog beds around. They had 6 hours to be adopted-their euthanization was already scheduled-but a volunteer took a chance and posted them. They decided to give us a chance but several workers were saying the hounds would be in a shelter in less than a week. That was March 19, 2008. The dogs were feral and didn't know nothing-they are still learning-but they walk on a hillbilly coupler-so my legs don't fall off-they've routed burglers in the whole area and the cops and mailpersons love them--Stonewall tries to check the house before we go to bed-They think that they're pillows for toddlers-Go see the album the "Hound Chronicles" on how misfit people and misfit dogs can thrive. Stonewall-the handsome dude to the right was supposed to be psychotic and unable to react. He stood up on his hind feet and gentley leaned on my son's chest and looked into my son's eyes. My son thinks that Stonewall really understands the English language. It took about 90 days before they'd look up when we said their names. They never had a name before-they never had humans before. Many, many people in rescue groups are saints-but there have been other complaints about some people that take advantage of peoples' desire to do the right thing and do wrong to the dogs. Here, most dogs are on concrete, asphalt, hard packed dirt, or gravel.

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I have two Bangkaew dogs (they are Thai dogs) to guard my miniature Thai girlfriend. After seeing a Rottweiler with a headspan bigger than my chest and about as tall as myself back when I was carrying mail for a living I decided I never wanted one. Good luck though! The Bangkaew dogs are good guard dogs and pets (very loyal) when and if you're in Thailand (and some of them are imported to the U.S. as well).

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