Just adopted a retired racing greyhound this weekend…Seems to be as nice a dog as purported to be, I encourage anyone looking for a rescue dog consider the retired racing greyhound as your next dog.

We adopted a beagle from the shelter in 2002. She (Daisy) was to be my wife’s companion while I was working away from home and came home only on weekends.

Then, when I retired in 2003, we adopted a Chesapeake Bay Retriever (we called him Quigley) from  the shelter.

We could have afforded paying hundreds of dollars to a breeder. But WHY??

Why wasn’t OWS at the Show?

We adopted Golden Retriever about 6 years ago at our local animal shelter,and it is one great decision. I encourage people to seek a shelter animal and give a deserving animal a good home.

My friend just met a chocolate man on Black’whitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.

Also: I was very disappointed to find that a pet shop here in New York was offering a Valentine’s Day discount on their puppies. If you’re thinking about purchasing a dog from a pet shop and/or as a Valentine’s Day gift, please reconsider. A dog is a responsibility and a years-long commitment, not a gift given on a whim to someone who might not be interested in investing the time, money and effort necessary to raise and nurture a pet. I’ll step off my soapbox now!

Check out Triumph The Insult Dog’s trip to the show. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

I agree completely.

I am more of a cat person, and I can attest that in large measure the cat picks you, and that begin a wonderful relationship. I would never want anyone to pick out the cat for me.

Cajun is perfect!

I have a Jack Russel/Boxer mix rescue boy!  

My little Pork Chop can jump five feet straight up and does back flips off the sides of trees!

 

Purebred dog shows are a metaphor for the inbreeding practices of the nobility, and the Republican party.

Ulysses is one InBred Dude!,  the guy adopts from a shelter and the man from Deliverance responds about inbreeding and Republicans. Now where you stupid pea brain does that put the Democratic President with a pure bred Portugese Water Dog. And Norbit, the reason OWS are not at the show is that they are not yet Toilet Trained, give them a little slack!

Thats sooo cool. The rescue dogs all seem to try harder.

Like the volunteer told me, he said that when you adopt one you save two, the one you take home and the one that takes his place. They have more greyhounds than homes and well lets face reality…you don’t want to be the dog at the end of the line.
In a big way it more than money.

My Pork Chop doesn’t really try any harder than my thorough-bred dogs that came from breeders.  He just seems to have more joy in being a dog.

Thats nice.

Had to put down my last AKC boxer a year ago. Thanks to Obama I retired early and had time on my hands. Went to the local SPCA and adopted a big,wild 9 month oid Huskie/Shepherd and he’s now become the best dog I’ve ever owned….what a joy!

The worst thing anyone can do is buy a puppy from a pet store.  They NEVER, EVER get them from reputable breeders, even though they claim they do and they’re over priced.  You’re better off going directly to a breeder because they’re more likely to offer a guarantee on the health of their dogs and if it doesn’t work out as a good fit for your home, you’ve got a better chance of returning it and getting a better option.  Breeders who care about the breed are trying to make the breed better…not turn a profit.

I think if you absolutely have to have a purebred dog, look at a breed specific rescue first.

Because your “breed” wasn’t showing

rescued? from what gimme a break

Mika Brzezinski Asks If The Westminster Dog Show Could Have A Category For Rescue Dogs With Coiled Tails

…..and for dogs like Maxine Waters, Bertha Lewis, Rosie O’Donnell, Janine Garofalo and Mika Brzezinski  

 Very true!

Exactly; as Fei explains here, the only reason they have the ‘pure breed’ requirement is that without it, there’d be no way to choose – everyone’s favorite puppy is the cutest dog there is. 

Speaking of beagles, I was a little surprised that when Frei went to answer the question about why the Westminister show has become such must-watch TV, he didn’t mention Uno’s win in 2008, first time ever for the breed, & a great bridge between dog show standards & that puppy that schleps around everyone’s home. Yes, that this show has been around for so long is a big factor, but I think that win in particular turned was what turned it into must-watch TV.

One could even say we prefer rescues as our presidents.

Clean up on this aisle! Oy that’s ugly.

OWSers – with their liberal arts degrees from Bennington and Columbia – are smart enough not to storm a venue filled with prefectly trained dogs whose first instinct would be to attack and bite the invading riff raff.