Doggie!

She's beautiful.

I hope you know this is an energetic dog. You'll have to make sure she spends a lot of it in order to keep her nice. That means investing a lot of time for her to exercise.

EDIT: I was not familiar with the Lurchers and read a little about them - Originally breed for hunting. Waow

So take what I just said and multiply by two.

I think the mix of the two breeds will make a fantastic dog as long you keep her busy.
 
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bawanna, they'd have some interesting pups :D
she's gonna be spayed by then tho. :(
not sure how that'd happen anyway, his doohickey is bigger than she is.
heck it's bigger than i am. it'll have to remain platonic. hope poppy doesn't eat the velociraptor.

the dragon is a bit of a pain in the keester at times. he is sitting on a few hundred metric tons of gold, jewels and a slightly smaller pile of platinum. no more silver tho, he got rid of it last century. he says silver tarnishes and is harder to convert the oxide back to metallic silver, which he used to do every few centuries. now he makes a living as a loan shark. his interest rates are atrocious. and he howls in apparent agony when he has to pay me the rent on his cavern. he never has any trouble getting his payments back from his clients. defaulting on him is NOT an option. he tells me st. george did not really kill him. it was all faked to get george noticed, he was a minor figure until then. he also is a loner, can't abide having another dragon in the same country with him. he does go visit the lady dragon in wales every few millenia when she comes in season. she makes him wear protection tho. the germans found some of the condoms once, they used them to line their zeppelins. and that's why the UK never developed the airship.

snowwolfe;

lourchers started out here in the uk when the nobles were the only ones allowed to own greyhounds. commoners had to make do with lesser breeds. killing a lord's greyhound was consdidered murder punishable by death.

the villagers however would take their female dogs in heat and toss them over the fence into the greyound encllosure of their lord. results were called lurchers. term is applied to any sighthound (like saluki, borsoi, greyhounds, etc) crossed with a non-sighgthound breed.

salukis are arabic sight houndhunting dogs bred for speed and endurance in the hot sandpit. greyhounds on steroids. her other half they think is collie, a scent & visual operating dog bred for intelligence, loyalty and obedience geared towards transferring her hunting instincts to herding. mixed breeds like this tend to be healtier and live longer too.

i think the obedience part means i'm to obey her. ;) the herding will be keeping me in my place. :)
 
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I approve of this message.-- also thanks to you kronk I am having to hunt a down a real kachin dha from antiques dealers and its hellish
 
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Doesnt Viagra have a blimp? They didnt balance it well tho because the gondola is too far to the rear! At least your dragon is in environmentally conscious and doin his job to recycle. He must have been around during the Hindenburg testing as well? That was only a few days ago in dragon years. Must have been a bad lot code of liners!

kronckew said:
they'd have some interesting pups :D
she's gonna be spayed by then tho. :(
not sure how that'd happen anyway, his doohickey is bigger than she is.
heck it's bigger than i am. it'll have to remain platonic. hope poppy doesn't eat the velociraptor.

the dragon is a bit of a pain in the keester at times. he is sitting on a few hundred metric tons of gold, jewels and a slightly smaller pile of platinum. no more silver tho, he got rid of it last century. he says silver tarnishes and is harder to convert the oxide back to metallic silver, which he used to do every few centuries. now he makes a living as a loan shark. his interest rates are atrocious. and he howls in apparent agony when he has to pay me the rent on his cavern. he never has any trouble getting his payments back from his clients. defaulting on him is NOT an option. he tells me st. george did not really kill him. it was all faked to get george noticed, he was a minor figure until then. he also is a loner, can't abide having another dragon in the same country with him. he does go visit the lady dragon in wales every few millenia when she comes in season. she makes him wear protection tho. the germans found some of the condoms once, they used them to line their zeppelins. and that's why the UK never developed the airship.
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dragon (his name is unpronounceable by humans) had a party trick, blowing them up with hydrogen, then lighting them. dragon breath is basicly hydrogen, some methane, and a few other minor constituents (like methylmercaptan, the skunks stole his idea on that one - you do NOT want to be around when he farts). he uses electric cells like an electric eel to spark and ignite the mix. the germans forgot that trick. it backfired on them that stormy day in 1937 new jersey. modern airships of course use helium, which is a fast disappearing resource.

p.s. - the goodyear blimp is to be replaced by a - wait for it - zeppelin.
the original zeppelin co. is back & producing it for goodyear.
 
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her gotcha day has been moved up to the 16th! i go to pick her up then & take her to her forever home.
 
yup, she's pushy.

just got the word she's recovering from the anesthesia after her spay op & has eaten her post-op snack, so will be going back to her fosters at 6pm. foster says she's grown an inch in the last month. now 25" at the shoulder. (saluki breed standard is 23-28 in for females - she's right in the middle. probably less collie than they thought)

countdown to her gotcha day has begun. (16th about noon)

bought her a fortune in doggy toys and snacks over the weekend.

and a hair brush.
 
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well, she's home. picked her up lunchtime.

i think she's gonna start relaxing soon....

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Congrats Kronk! She definitely looks like shes at home. Shes cooling off her stitches! Pretty girl!
 
i have area rugs that cover most of the floor, she decided to lay down on the small uncovered area where the cool lino is. :) i've opened the windows a bit to cool things down.

wasn't the most comfortable night last night. we're still figuring out our positions on the bed. :) i woke up about 3 am to find i was on the edge on my side with 4 paws assisting my imminent encounter with gravity. i got up, poppy then had all 4 legs sticking straight out from the bed, her belly touching the edge, her head at the foot. i got in again with my feet on the other side of her by the wall. she then adjusted to ensure she remained pressed against me. i awoke about 6 am.legs pressed to the wall, poppy pressed against me. got up - she stayed in bed. wagged her tail as i went by. scritched her ears for her. went to make my morning coffee. she got up, watched me for a few minutes, then went back to bed. i'm waiting to see when she'll awake again so we can go walkies. had to wake her last nite at 11pm for the final walk (she did her 1st poo* then)

p.s. - finally decided to take her out at 7:30, went to wake her up - she was awake but still in the bed. was raining, so we had a wet walk. sun is out for opur lunchtime excursion. picked up her old poo on the way by.

*- when millie, my previous pupper, was with me, i started out walking her in the evenings with a headlamp so i could pick up her solid waste products (colloquially referred to as poo). i was told by the housing officer that some of the old biddies here had told her they were being woken at night by strange lights and were scared. the HO figured out it was me harvesting poo. we came to an agreement that i could leave the poo till the next morning so as not to induce heart failure in the residents. offsite i have a bright LED torch about an inch in diameter & three inches long. fits in my pocket nicely. the headlamp is retired. i'll go play hunt the poo when we get back from our morning constitutional. i think i remember where she left it.
 
Sounds like you two are figuring out the bed real estate just fine. When we saw those long legs on Miss Bossy Boots, we knew there would be some good snooz-pushin'!
In Summer we all just go our own way , yet in the winter months, with the quilts and electric blankets me and Mamma-sama and the two chihuahuas all fight for space...which of course...when facing the Immovable Mountains of woman and chi, I find myself teetering along the knife-edge. Thank the sandman I have a bedside table piled high with books to sort of wedge me in place!

The poo gathering might be a good segway into why you need wear night vision!? Silent and safe unless a biddy looks out the window on a pee break! Then it might get fun.

:)
Mark
 
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