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My two little fuzzbutts........

Woodenpecker

Hard to believe...but 100LL avgas is about the same price as diesel here And she only slurps less than 5 GPH if you hold back on the leash a little

TexasTimbers

That's cheaper than my F350 I think. I can run 7 - 8 hours between 70 and 80MPH before a 38 gallon fill up is necessary and it costs $140 to do it these days.

I doubt she still gets the same MPG but, without stops (when I travel alone I rarely stop except for fuel) that means it costs roughly 0.21¢ a mile.

You are about 7 times lighter, carry about half the fuel, run about the same speed unless I romp on it, have about 70% less horsepower than my chip-assisted powerstroke and yet . . . . . .

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jpw23

Ok...here ya go, my dog(more like a dust mop with legs)Ginger, getting to know my grandson Alex

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Update. Three weeks ago Chief disappeared. My wife was crushed. I figured the cayotes got him cause I heard them runnin hard and wicked right up to the fence the night before. I didn't tell her.

Couple days later I was askin around with the neighbors. Our closest neighbors are 1/2 mile away and most others off the road a peice. But I talekd to two kids who were out playin and Chief was sighted being carried down our road and across the highway 2 miles away from our house.

So I made up a laminated poster with this picture . . . .



. . . that I had just fortuitously just taken days before and stuck it on the Lake Road convenience store front glass (with permission of course). A place where every one living north of it stops eventually on their way to the civilized world. A hub. My wife had given up on ever getting her Christmas present back after about 4 days. I never gave up after I found out the cayotes didn't get him - I knew we'd see Chief again so I hoped.


In the meantime, one morning about 2 weeks after Chief was abducted by aliens, I walk out of my shop and this hogdog, still wearing his Kevlar vest, is crashed outside my door and Red's food was all gone. He was sound alseep.




He had a name, and owners name and phone number on the tag (we hadn't gotten around to that with Chief yet) so I called and left a message saying "I have Toby. He's eating well. Call me and I'll tell you where I live . . ." And as you can see he and Red got on fine . . . . .



Well I never heard from the guy after 1 message a day for 3 days. Toby just up and high-tailed after he got rested back up. He was obviously on a hunt that morning.

So now Toby has dissapeared for a week or more and we get a call one day . . .

"I think my dad has your dog." It's a long story after that, but we came home with Chief.

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pinksalamander

Seems that most people on here have dogs, i've never had a dog!

First pic is Trixi, my cat, second is Herbie, my Mums cat, and then William, my rabbit.

Devildog

we have a bunch of Thai Ridgebacks.

TBone, Suphap, Vygotsky, Knorpelchen the Retard, and Devildog.
Suphap is the mother; the rest are pups, now 5 mo.s old.


Knorpelchen the Retard was the runt of this large litter (11), and is stone deaf. And retarded. The other day, she walks straight up to a big fat black scorpion and sticks her nose right in it. Doh! Copped it right on the schnozz. But did dhe learn from her mistake? No! Cuz she's retarded. Of course we love her anyway. We change her name on an almost daily basis - she can't hear anyway.

First two are of Devildog (w/Suphap the mother in background of first pic), next is TBone on Left w/ Knorpelchen on the right, last two are starring Vygotsky

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TexasTimbers

Those Ridgebacks are fine looking animals. Never heard of them before. Three of the names are self-explanatory, but what is the story on the other 3?

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skymaster

Woodenpecker: " say type aircraft, over "
Citabria maybe?

clarionflyer

Looks like one'uh those Kansas products... (Cessna).

stuart

Those Ridgebacks are fine looking animals. Never heard of them before.

Texas Timbers, the Ridgebacks, I believe are from African bloodlines. They are bigger than Scobby Doo dog when it gets adult size.

Had a landlord once managing his orange grove with a pair of male/female Ridgebacks. Hugh sobs. Scared the jeepers out of me when I get out of my car to walk into his guest house for rent.
The male's first deal is to sniff me out then wag it's tail. His head is the size of a grown pumpkin. Believe me you want those dogs "on your side."
The choppers must be a good full inch. They have this low powerful growl. But they are happy dogs.
Kinda miss them a bit as they also had puppies.

firehawkmph

Behold Sadie the wonderdog. She's a yellow lab, ten years old now. She wakes me up every morning, goes outside and gets the newspaper from the tube out by the street. She keeps me company when I go out to the shop. Very smart and understands english better than most illegal immigrants.

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re: thai ridgebacks
I can't speak to their african origins, but what I do know from our breeder is that they are a very old breed, and (perhaps out of sheer circumstance) a relatively well maintained breed because they were isolated in SEAsia for a long time. Rather 'primitive' on whatever scale breeders measure such things by.

What I can say from experience is that they are good dogs, but can get a bit cagey and they have a wild streak. They can be extremely independent and can forage for their own food. They have an incredibly wide diet for dogs. It's mango season here, and they are eating away at fallen fruit all day. At night it's flying termite time (swarms upon swarms of stupid insects buzzing the lights)- to control them we put pans of water under the lights - the termites get stuck in them. The dogs see this as a feeding trough and eat themselves silly on these greasy termites. 2 chickens flapped into the yard the day before yesterday.... a 15 second whirlwind of teeth and feathers, and we had 2 chickens in the pot!

They are excellent watchdogs and appear to sleep in strategic areas. One dog on each set of stairs. One by the kitchen door. One by the toolshed. (The retarded one sleeps wherever.) This isn't anything we trained, and maybe it has nothing to do with guard behavior, but it sure looks that way to us. They are extremely hierarchical, and you can see pack formation take shape whenever they sense another dog or something they see as live food. They seem to have no fear of anything (except for me when I pick up a stick) although they are cleverly cautious when they see new animals - snakes, scorpions, centipedes - of which we have no shortage. They are very good with people and kids, but I wouldn't want to surprise them when they are in guard mode. They are always very alert. They bark only when necessary, no yapping.

They train pretty well, although we don't try to train them to do much.... sit, don't jump, get out of the kitchen. Even as little puppies they wouldn't crap near the house, and they hate being confined in area where they have crapped already - to the point of going beserk to get out. They aren't great water dogs, although they do cool off in the pond on hot days. They are absolutely not retrievers. Throw something and they'll go inspect it. If it's something they like, they either chew it there or bury it for later. But they never ever bring it back. This, alas, includes shoes and other household stuff.

We're not sure how big they'll get: the bitch was medium sized (great temperament); the sire was huge. Looks like one of ours (TBone) will be big like his Papa, the others will be a largish-medium, more like Mom. Hard to tell, though. At five months this batch are all pretty big, and getting beefy.

Trappeur

Ok, Here are some of my pictures of my animal family.

This is Trappeur - I rescued him 11 years ago...He's my main man!


Trappeur Again

Bonnie, my dog

Me and Chaps

Me and my Arabian "Timmy" on a camping trip

A few of my cats, lol


This is Shelby...for some weird reason, this cat has this habit of sucking on your clothes..you can see the wet spots on the shirt!


Me and Trappeur

Bonnie, sleeping sitting up, lol

Ranger (in the front) - I rescued him at my first auction when he was an 8month old colt, had him fixed, now he's 5 years old and still not even broke! And not a good picture, but Timmy my Arabian (flea bitten grey)..Timmy is 18 years old and is the best horse in the world! Does anything for me, we camp, and he is such a big ham...

Well, these are just a few pictures of my family....

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clarionflyer

Bonnie needs to take that paw off the Whiskey!!!

That's a great picture.

Terry Beeson

OK... here goes...

This is AJ, named after my stepdaughter... AJ stands for Amanda Junior. Her hobbies are laying on the couch and laying in the bed. She enjoys barking at the neighborhood dogs and laying on the couch. Her favorite food is chicken. Her pet peeve is people who don't feed her chicken and people who occupy her spot on the couch.



This is Zig, my little boy. He is AJ's maternal twin brother. Zig enjoys having his back scratched with my foot in the right spot which makes his hind leg do an imitation of Thumper the rabbit. His hobbies are barking at neighbors. upsetting trash cans in the house, and growling at his mommy and daddy to get attention. His favorite food is anything his masters are eating. His pet peeve is people who do not pay attention to him when he growls for attention.



This is AJ and Zig, the killer Yorkies. Beware when you ring the doorbell at our house... You will be barked at.... and then licked to death... But be careful of AJ if you taste like chicken....


This is George.... He might be referred to as King George at our house in that he is convinced he is the ruler of all... His hobbies include finding new places in the house to hide, sleeping, and getting his head rubbed. His favorite food is canned catfood. His pet peeves are not having a fresh open can of food in his bowl, and paying attention to him when he is not in the mood for attention.


Oh... and here are a few "pets" I... uh... took in... yeah, that's the term.... took in last winter...

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John in Tennessee

We got him at 6 months after having to put 4 year old Rebel
down. That almost killed me. I didn't want to get another one this quick but everyone else did. I think it was meant to be...

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Trappeur

The day I took that picture I was at some friends
having a few drinks and they have a 6 month old pit bull (that I hate) and this pit turned on Bonnie and she is such a laid back dog, if I hadn't been there I think some damage would have really happened to her, so I told her to go load up in the truck which she did.....She pouted for a while....When I came back out, this is what I saw....And the picture with the bottle wasn't even staged mind ya........This was for real.....I just got a kick out of it...and to top it off, I had to shake her to wake up!

Trappeur

Terry Beeson

Yeah, I've had the cops shake me to wake me up in my truck a few times after emptying a bottle of Crown...

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