His name is Dax. He is the son of Buddy and Pretty Lady, who is also the parents of my girl Haruko. So...Dax is really Haruko's younger brother from a different litter.
This is a particularly suitable picture for here today. This weather is only good for polar bears. And the sad part is, we dont even have any snow to show for it. Just wind and rain and cold. Lots of cold.
This is a continuation of the post BELOW. So read it first.
Now, I say...
I work at a pet store.
Its a privately owned place, not one of the big guys. In fact, its so small that my boss and I are the only people that work there.
All of our puppies (and our kittens) come from unwanted litters. Either people contact us (as is the case most often with the kittens) or we contact them (via ads in the newspaper, and mostly for puppies.).
All of our puppies are mix breeds, and most of them are gonna be big dogs (we get a lot of labrador mixes and a lot of chow mixes).
So, our puppies are not supporting puppy mills or overly inbred dogs. Our puppies are EXACTLY THE SAME as the dogs at pounds and humane societys. (Except that we are 100% no-kill.)
Our puppies are often looked at but ignored by potential parents because the people say, "I'd rather get one from the Humane Society and save a life."
The arguments in the last post were that buying pets from pet stores supports puppy mills.
But if thats the case, then by adopting dogs from the pound or humane society you are actively supporting an orginization that routinely kills innocent pets.
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I have 2 dogs of my own. One of them is a pet store dog. The other is a street rescue. They are both wonderful dogs.
This is Boomer. He is a full blooded labrador. I could brag that he is AKC registered, except I never really cared about that so I never sent his registration papers in and have lost them since.
I did get Boomer from a pet store that sold full blooded dogs, and I will admit he DID come from a puppy mill. (One that has since been shut down.) I bought him in a time where I had a huge hole in my heart, having at that time just recenly lost my German Shepherd.
He's my spoiled rotten baby. He thinks I'm BOSS. He listenes to me so eaily but wont do a think my hubby wants him to do.
This one is Rusty Bucket. According to his vet he is a Chow/golden retreiver mix. We rescued him off the street.
We found him wanderin in a parking lot and took him home.
First we tried to find his origional owner. Then we tried to find ANY owner. Then we ended up keeping him because nobody else wanted him.
Now he's made himself fully at home and often thinks he's KING of this CASTLE. And totally the opposite of Boomer, he will obey my husband's comands, but when I tell him to do somethign he looks at me like, "You're not the boss of me."
NEW PORT RICHEY - At first Melody Davis thought they were knots in the wood.
Then, after she stepped out of the bathroom stall with her 4-year-old daughter, Davis realized the two pits in the pale blue panels were not natural marks.
They were peepholes.
"They were carved," said Davis, who went back into the stall and stood on the toilet to get a closer look. "You could see the file marks."
"Yes...who is the artist of the graphic on your page?"
The answer is:
I'm not sure who the artist is, honestly.
I did a google image search for "gothic girl" and found that particular girl. According to google, the page she had originally been on doesn’t exist anymore, but the image URL http://www28.brinkster.com/vyvyan/imgs/gothicgirl.jpg does. So I took the picture and added the black border to and added the text to it and it became what you see there today.
If she belongs to you or anyone you know I’ll be glad to take her down at the artists request.
And now
PROOF THAT BLOG EXLPOSION IS WORKING WITH SATAN!
STILL OPEN TO QUESTIONS!
I'm always looking for something interesting to talk about, so ask me questions!!!! I will always answer them all to the best of my abilitiys.
I know that for a lot of people they really do feel that suicide is the ONLY way out for them. If they feel that way, fine enough. But did she not give a flying fuck about her own child? I mean, at the very least she could have left the child with a neighbor.
