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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: austin, tx
Posts: 1,911
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northern breed dogs (husky, malamute, etc) are notiorious for doing things their way, and
not always your way. I've owned several
over the last 10 years, and they are the greatest dogs(in my opinion) that you can get. husky/collie mix will be a lot of fun, and
something of a chore. really depends on
how diluted the blood is between the 2(if you know what i mean).
shit, i wasn't gonna do this but....
i moved to oklahoma city in '94, we had
an alaskan malamute puppy, and a rot-dobie mix puppy. My gf's parents said we could keep them at the house, they'd freak out their dog. ok, no biggie, we'll put her up at this guy's house i know, he's a friend of a good friend from omaha. so we took them up to this guy's house, i'd called ahead, he was working and said to go ahead and drop them off in the back yard with his dobie. no prob, we left the dogs and $200 to cover food for a couple months, as we wouildn't be able to get up to enid often. went up the first part of june, and they were fine, dropped off some more food.
well, i got my own place in okc, down off 16th and penn, wasn't a great part of town, but wasn't terrible, and at $235 a month for a duplex, who's gonna bitch? so july 4th we went up to get the dogs, had left a message for the guy(we'd still not met him at this point, just played phone tag)
we get there, walk around back and amy(the gf at the time) says "something's wrong with tasha, she's not coming over" sure enough, tasha the malamute is dead, farly, the rot-dobie looks like skin with some bones throw in, and the guy's red dobie looks the same. I jumped the fence and looked around, all the bags of food we'd bought for them were still there, sealed. there were mosquitoes living in the water
the guy had put out(who knows how long ago). And my dog was dead. i flipped out, and i'm not ashamed to say it, i pounded and kicked that fucking door for 15 minutes, this fat guy finally opens it, in his wife beater and shorts. amy's screaming at him, and his tokin' on his glass pipe. jesus. fine. walked out, slammed the door, grabbed my dead and partially living dogs, and headed out to
the nearest animal control. they took a look
at tasha, malnourished and dehydrated, same with farly. they called the cops, they followed us back to the guy's house, and arrested him on the spot(after kidking the door in). possesion of controlled substance, cruelty to animals, neglect, etc, etc. so he went to jail, couldn't afford bail, and the county and city threw the book at him so hard he choked. his property was seized, all of his animals went to no kill shelters(he had horses, cats, the red dobie, chickens, etc).
we nursed farly back to health, then gave him away when we had to move from our place in denver.
why did i just write that? not like anyone cares....point being, if you own a dog or any other animal, fucking take care of it.
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