I hope that you find a home for your walker. People say the same thing about Missy-that she looks at you, as if she understands. She sits on her haunches with her feet on the chair's arm or on a knee. She lets people play peek-a-boo with her ears over her eyes. Probably the TV dog trainers and the dog psychologists would say that she's disturbed-Stonewall-the handsome devil at the left is bawling-my goodness-he stopped-no there he goes-here I go

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I saw a show on Military Channel-where the International Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was saving dogs from being murdered by the DOD. An AF hospital unit labeled the 2 pups as therapy dogs-the DOD won't allow rabies shots, etc. but labels them as health risks. One wounded dog-Iraqi soldier shoved a screw driver into it's lungs while the Marines were on outpost duty. 10 days later they were sent to a new outpost. a few days later the dog had fought it's way through 5 packs of dogs to go somewhere he'd never been before. He's in the US now- A therapy dog is at an American AF base with one of the doctors. A Marine unit in Baghdad were ordered to kill their dog by the next day-the dog just walked off. About 3 weeks later, 5 of the Marines were killed. When the survivors got back-the dog was waiting for them. It's now in San Diego-romping in the surf and learning to cope with some strange thing called grass- As a Colonel said, "They sleep better while on patrol, because the dog guards them. The dog senses something wrong while walking a patrol and saves the lives of Marines."

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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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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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Keep checking with Petfinder.com and oodle.com. It took me over a year to find a hound-then I ended up with 2-as they were dumped off at the kill shelter together and shared a pen together. My son would come into the kitchen after midnight and I'd be sitting at the computer crying because they just didn't have any hounds listed-or a rescue group said that we were unfit because I'm in my 60s (too old for a hound) and my son is a disabled vet (too frail). We were offered a hound by one rescue group that had a $6,000 vet bill attached-shattered leg and lots of skin grafts. I almost didn't check that day my sweetie pies were listed-as the director of the kill shelter told them that nobody wanted a hound and the hounds had only 6 hours of adoption time. I found the hounds online-called the shelter-found out that we only had a few hours to get them. I called my son at the VA and told him to get his rear here-gas was $5 gallon and we broke the speed limit for a hundred miles one way. When we got there we couldn't decide which one to take-so we took both. Some of the staff was saying that the hounds would end up in the shelter within 6 weeks-that was March 19, 2008. They sleep with me and are very gentle with my son. Don't give up!! Stonewall doesn't seem to be a pure hound-but probably has some German Short Hair mixed in. He's the handsome dude to the left. Missy seems to be a purebred Treeing Walker Coonhound. Stonewall does have a good Bluetick Treeing Coonhound bawl. They are loud-They are big- they aren't scared of anything and they are mine!! Click on photos in the blue line under WikiFido-the click on albums at the top of the photo page. Look for "Hound Chronicles" in the albums- those are my sweetie pies that I found. Let me know how it goes-PS-I could've gotten a bassett or a beagle-but I wanted a coonhound-big-brassy and bold-I just love them (coonhounds).

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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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