Posted on 02/02/2022 11:31:40 AM PST by Red Badger
Good lord what kind of a Dog do You have ?
Somewhat hazardous.
We thought he was a Boxer when he first showed up in July. Skin and bones, desperately thirsty. Very skittish.
Chicken, Boxer. We named him Tyson.
It took to November for him to get close enough to us to hand feed (very gentle, we still have all our fingers).
December 1st, 1:00 AM, 23°, he decides maybe he can come in to the house...
He's very mellow, I say serene, my son says Zen. Fattened him up a bit more and gained enough confidence for him to allow us to take him to the vet.
Vet refused to take him under the grounds that only a legal owner can have a pet treated. We did get a chip check, no chip.
To get him legal we had to put him in doggy jail at the county animal control for 5 days in the faint hope that his "real" owner, the one who had him sleeping under the stars with the coyotes for at least 5 months, would claim him.
Animal Control said he was an American Bulldog, not a boxer. That was his first existential crisis, do we need to rename him if he's not a Boxer?
At the end of 5 days as a political prisoner (jailed for committing no crime) he was to go to the Humane Society where I was first in line to adopt.
The Humane Society refused to take him under the grounds that he's too timid.
Other arrangement were made, and we adopted him on the Solstice. We contemplated a Solstice related name, perhaps Zeus? Then when we called him with a "Hey Zeus!" it would evoke Christmas...
Got him to the vet who believes he's a Boxer/Mastiff cross.
Tyson still works. But he thinks his name is either Goober or Nutty Buddy.
Very mellow, very gentle, EXCEPT when he's in play mode.
Then he's a 100 lb wrecking ball. I threw my shoulder out playing keep away/fetch and got a back spasm on the 10th. I'm still hors de combat.
This week the little twerp head butted my son and broke his nose.
Good thing he's cute...
...except when he yawns!
Maybe I would have less pain if my vertebrate were threaded onto a post... ⚕️ ——♿️—— 😒
The nearby precolumbian restaurant served spaghettia and Pete’s balls.
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