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Space heater one possible cause of Shreveport duplex fire (doggie missing)
KSLA TV (LA) ^ | 11/20/08

Posted on 11/20/2008 8:04:13 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel

MISSING DOG

The owner of the duplex where the fire started is looking for his dog, which ran away after firefighters broke out the window of the home.

(Excerpt) Read more at ksla.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; dogping; germanshepherd; gsd
This is so sad. The dog belonged to his just-deceased mother, and now is lost after this horrific incident. Prayers he can be rescued (literally)!
1 posted on 11/20/2008 8:04:14 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
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To: Still German Shepherd; dervish; Dick Vomer; Kozak; Joe 6-pack; joesnuffy; Kimmers; MoochPooch; ...
GERMAN SHEPHERD PING LIST

Flora Berkemeyer

This is a low-volume list, so don’t worry!

(Please Freep-mail me if you’d like to be on or off the list.)

2 posted on 11/20/2008 8:05:08 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Dog gone!


3 posted on 11/20/2008 8:05:27 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; shibumi

How wonderful to see a photo of a GSD *before* people screwed up their rear ends!

Thanks!


4 posted on 11/20/2008 8:09:02 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Salamander

She is the original “Beauty of the Breed”, c. 1911. I give you, -the Great-, Flora Berkemeyer.


5 posted on 11/20/2008 8:16:53 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; Salamander
Major. A GSD with an old style open coat and a perfectly flat top line. (And a blue ball in his mouth.)


6 posted on 11/20/2008 8:18:35 PM PST by shibumi (...so if it's organic, where are its organs?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Would that they still looked that way.

I have seen utterly magnificent “old type” GSDs trotting around junkyards and hillbilly back yards and thought “That dog could save the breed”.

Sadly, they wouldn't last 10 seconds in the “show ring”.

She truly is possessed of a great and lost beauty.

7 posted on 11/20/2008 8:24:45 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: shibumi

Hard to believe they used to look this way:

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/417697.html


8 posted on 11/20/2008 8:28:15 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

This is so sad! Prayers will be said! My daughter’s Giant GSD, 135lb looks like that picture! He is 10 years old and is the greatest dog I have ever known! That is sayin’ something!


9 posted on 11/20/2008 8:44:21 PM PST by tajgirvan (Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight. ! John Paul Jones)
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To: Salamander

I think many so-called “backyard” low-bred GS are actually better in type, and probably health and temperament.

I’ve been beating this drum now more and more on a GS forum (see pedigree linked in thread). Many “reputable breeders” and the like don’t want to hear it. But then, there are many others who are starting to speak out.

I and my sister have had mostly breeders’ GS of some sort or other. My best ever (no dog is better; I’ve heard of none) was bred by a top handler - but she was half German and American (good lines if you go by popularity at least), so she never passed muster for anyone. My 1st was a farm dog. All my own dogs look very good conformationally, but vary temperamentally and health-wise (allergies). My sister’s close to good conformation, great temperament, but very poor health (allergies). ALL the allergies are in the pure-German dogs.


10 posted on 11/21/2008 5:28:30 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’d bet on it.

Out of all the “low born” GSDs I’ve known, none had to be put down for crippling dysplasia.

They usually dropped dead of extreme old age.

It’s tragic what “they” do to perfectly good dogs.

I had Dobermans from age of 14 up til my late 30s and I watched them basically ruin the breed in the late 70s/early 80s.

I would dearly love have another one but now, you have to run a bazillion genetic tests on a pup to make sure you aren’t buying heart break.

Ibizans have only been registered with the AKC since the 70s and are already a morass of genetic diseases.

The breed survived in its native form for over 5000 years “remarkably free of disease, genetic or otherwise” [from the original AKC breed description] to the mess they are now.

A lousy 30-some years over here and *bip*...they’re screwed.

When you disregard function for some insane “idealized form”, you have fast-tracked your breed on the road to doom.


11 posted on 11/21/2008 6:47:31 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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