Dog stories

   / Dog stories #32  
My boys. Koda (left) is my Service Doggo... and by that, he is my best four legged friend. Mako (right) is our velcro doggo. Neither one were MWD's, but my boy Koda would follow me through hell and back. I never knew I could love a dog the way I love him. He's 7 now, and still full of life. They play like puppies and it will GUT me when I have to say goodbye to them.
 

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   / Dog stories #34  
We adopted two German shepherd pups. They were identical except for genders.

We kept the female and our daughter took the male.

The male was protective. And they ended up having to give him to a friend of theirs.

Said friend takes in homeless people down on their luck from his church.

Once such person ended up being schizophrenic and got off their meds. Dude flipped out and started beating my daughters friend with a frying pan.

Lennon pulled the guy off the friend, chewed him up some and prevented the attacker from re-entering home.

The sister Gypsy who we have, is a big teddy bear. Super great with kids and the elderly. There was an elderly lady that lived down the street from us who had a stroke and partial paralysis on one side.

When ever she would see us out walking she would start hollering "HI Big Lady!!!". At that point I would get dragged across the street so Gypsy could say hi and get her scratches.

She also had a fan club in that neighborhood with all the neighborhood kids Just don't let an adult stranger (to her) approach those kids in any type of manor she deems threatening. One of the neighbors kids uncles climbed out of their vehicle and snuck up on one of the kids.

Boy she didn't like that one bit. She put herself between the kid and the adult, puffed up and let out a growl that originated from her toenails she made me clench
 
   / Dog stories #35  
A Black Lab story
Have 4 children. At the time of obtaining the female BL (?2 month old?) puppy (Lady) they were about 3,6,9, 13. The 6 was our only daughter.
Lady adopted all 4 and grew quickly as puppies do.
She was amazing with children, the younger two could give her a treat, change their mind, then go elbow deep retrieving it from her throat.
The youngest would ride her.
Anybody knocking on the door was subject to being torn apart until one of the family told her to stand down.
Best dog we could have had to raise children with. RIP.
 
   / Dog stories #36  
We adopted a stray pup that was dumped in the pasture on our road. Turns out she's a Border-Pit, a cross between a border collie and a pitbull. She's black and white like a border collie, but has a short, dense, shiny coat. What an athletic dog and a bundle of energy. She can scale any fence and even climbs trees after squirrels. I once caught her trying to get out of our 52" tall pipe fence. She stopped mid-stride with all 4 legs on the top rail, just balancing there and looking at me sheepishly. She's also extremely affectionate and loves her family.

She does need to get conditioned with other dogs and people though. When our black mouth cur dog was still around, he kept her in check, acting like the parental supervision. He had a good sense of knowing friend or foe and had a bark that alerted you accordingly. I need to figure out something now that he's gone, she can get skittish around people she doesn't know and if there's a lot of commotion.
 
   / Dog stories #37  
Here's a somewhat local story I just heard tonight on the tube entailing a great dog and very fortunate owner. I will foresee "ruby" is eating a ribeye tonight lol.
 
   / Dog stories #38  
So, back when our daughter still had our shepherds brother we dog sat for about a month.

So two full grown German shepherds, me and my wife in bed..... it was cozy

I woke up one night and had to pee...... badly. But I could not move.... at all

The dogs turned me into a canoli. I had one dog on top of the covers laying tight to me on each side.

So about 180lbs holding the blankets tight and pressing on my bladder

I started quietly trying to get the dogs to move and recieved a face washing for my trouble.

Started getting a little louder, and woke up my wife she thought was the greatest. Dogs had me pinned and suffering.

At this point I'm cussing, swearing, saying I don't care who moves..... etc.... finally my wife took pity and got them to move and I rushed to the bathroom.

Wife's still laughing when I come out.

Well a few days later, I leave to head out of town for a week for work.

Talking to my wife one night, she tells me about her predicament that morning.

She woke up to her alarm going off, full bladder, the dogs had turned her into a canoli and she's home by herself stuck with her arms tight to her and can't extricate herself from the bed, shut the alarm off, or get to her phone

Well when she started making a fuss, both dogs commando crawled up the bed a little further and took full advantage to give her lots of kisses
That's karma at its finest
 
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#39  
I'm going to hijack my own thread and tell about a cat we had when I was growing up. "Taffy" was a big Tom cat who roamed the way cats did before we knew any better. He put the runs to several dogs. One time we were bike riding and a big friendly Irish Setter followed us home. He had a place of his own but liked to wander. After a couple of days the cat showed up and sent that big dog home. Over time he ran off several more dogs. Then my aunt, uncle and cousins came to visit for a few days with their beagle, parking their camper on the lawn. The two pets met and Taffy went running, not to be seen again until the beagle was gone.
 
   / Dog stories #40  
Back in SoCal, no firearms but two German Shepherds (littermates who were about 5.5 years old at the time of this encounter - Hanna - the female, and Sammy - the male).

Most weekends back then I’d take the dogs out for a 3 mile one way (6 mile round trip) walk in the Angeles National Forest up a closed and gated/locked fire road to an abandoned Nike missile base. There was a small parking area at the bottom of the road and if no one was parked there, you could be about 99.9% certain no one was on the road ahead of you. In those cases, I’d let the dogs off leash once we're past the first curve of the fire road. The road is pretty much cut into the side of the mountain, uphill to the west, downhill to the east. We’d normally go all the way up, I’d water the dogs at the abandoned Nike base (which had a ginormous water tank still full of fresh water), and then put them on leash for the walk back down to the car.

About a month before my story really begins, on the way down when I had the dogs on leash, they suddenly got very alert, with their ears, heads and tails all up in the full alert position. As we walked down the road there was a small valley uphill on the right - between two hills that rose up from the level of the road. I saw something that looked about the size of a small sheep (maybe 100 pounds) burst out of the brush, run across the small valley and then stop by a tree up hill from us where it turned and stared at us. The dogs and I just stared back. After a few moments, and realizing we could be engaged in this staring contest all day, I took one step forward, whereupon the dogs started barking like crazy and the animal – a small bear - ran over the top of the hill and disappeared.

I told the dog breeder/trainer about it and he confirmed my concern - a bear could easily kill the dogs. So since seeing the bear, I'd been leashing the dogs before we got near where we saw it and letting them off leash when we were well clear.

Well on the day of my story we were still climbing to the place where I'd been leashing them, when, sure enough, there's the bear and the dogs are off leash. They both take off up the road about 100 yards after the bear who plunges down the slope on the right hand side of the road.

As the dogs are disappearing, the mother bear bursts out of the brush hot on the dogs' heels. She's a whole different order of animal from the one that already concerned me, probably 300 - 350 pounds, fast and aggressively protecting what turned out to be her cub. I heard one bark and then seconds later one dog burst up over the east edge of the roadway ahead of me, then the second dog, then the adult bear right behind them. They ran down the road a bit toward me and then all three disappeared over the edge again going down slope. A moment later Sammy came up over the edge about 20 yards ahead of me, followed by the mother who got close enough to roll him. As she was preparing to kill Sammy, Hanna came sailing in and slammed into the bear’s side. Hanna bounced off and evaded the bear and Sammy was able to get up and escape. Then all three went over the edge of the road down the slope once more.

I’ve never personally seen anything quite as brave as what Hanna did – taking on an animal that outweighed her by 270 pounds without thought to what might happen to her, to save her brother and pack mate.

A moment later one of the dogs popped up over the edge of the road, followed closely by the mother bear, and both ran directly at me. The dog ran right by me, but the mother bear stopped about 6' from me, eyeballs me and tries to decide what to do. I figured in for a penny, in for a pound, so stared it right in the eyes, stood up as straight as I could, raised my arms over my head and yelled "hey" as loud as I could. Fortunately, she decided she needed to see what the dogs might be doing to her cub, so she turned and took off.

After what I think were one or two more rushes up over the edge of the road - one or two dogs, followed closely by the mother bear, and then back down slope again - I was finally able to get Sammy on leash as Hanna took one last run down the hill. When she realized that she was alone, she came trotting back to me, I leashed her and we all headed back down to the car, having had enough excitement for the day.

We (the dogs as I) were very fortunate that I had two dogs and the adult female had a cub. She couldn't focus on any of us because she had to worry about what the other dog might be doing to her cub and so wasn't able to start and maintain an attack. If I had been up there with only one dog, that dog likely would have been killed. If the female bear had been up there without a cub, some or all of me and the dogs might have been seriously injured or killed.

I also learned after the fact that a dog WILL bring the bear that’s chasing it back to you, it’s just a matter of when.

Hanna in front, Sammy in back - both moved on now.

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