How's everyone's weekend been so far? Shoveled the porch and steps here, then my roommate brought me an awesomely huge cup of coffee with a giant marshmallow in it. A great way to start the day considering last night I ended it with looking at my eyelid going goodamnit(cleaning up the bar after our anti valentines night got clocked in the eye accidentally while scrapping paper and fake blood off the floor) got a nice bruise in the works.
Dog related : What's the last rare/uncommon breed you've seen lately? For me because I hadn't seen one in ages was an actual irish Wolfhound. Turns out Danes aren't the only giant breed int he neighborhood. Had a nice conversation with the owner about the dog.
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Launi: I bet. ;)
bobbie: Sorry to hear, but hopefully things will start to get better after things are said and done. BTDT never any fun.
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Sid: Sorry for your loss. Mine just recently passed so if you were close to her, I know how you're feeling. Saw two of the local catahoulas the other day when I was at Fetch buying cat food.
Jesse2012-02-11T09:49:31Z
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Happy weekend to you, dear. We have a cold front right now. Suppose to get into the 40's tonight. My husband has insisted I turn on the heat......
Rare/Uncommon breed I have seen lately?
A Vizsla. At my vet's office. This breed is very uncommon where I live. I had NO idea what I was looking at. Freaking gorgeous dog and the owner was a freaking gorgeous man.
My weekend is not starting out great lol. Worked a 5 hour lunch shift at the restaurant yesterday morning, then went straight to the clinic for my 10 hour internship shift. Had a small dog with stones, went to surgery, brought it out, took radiographs, and there were STILL stones! Went back to surgery, ended up taking 78 stones out of a 10 lb dog! Got home late, about 3:30 am. Ate dinner, went to bed about 4:30 am, had to wake up at 7am to go to a work meeting. Needless to say, I've been a little cranky today lol.
As far as the "rare" breeds I've seen lately, we had a miniature Xoloitzcuintle in the clinic. I've only ever seen one other Xolo, it was a standard that someone went to my trainer with.
An Irish Wolfhound came in, a b*tch from a breeder that was in heat that got into a fight with another b*tch in heat over a stud. The last time I saw an Irish Wolfhound was when someone down the street from me when I was growing up had one.
And an australian terrier came in, I've never seen one before, they kind of look like big yorkies. Cute thing, for a small dog. This one wasn't that well groomed, so we called her Einstein because of the way her fur stood straight up haha.
I can't think of too many other rare breeds I've seen while at the clinic. I will say this though, Labs seem to LOVE d-CON (rat poison)
EDIT: Oh yeah, we did have a powder puff chinese crested, no one at the clinic knew what that was and they thought the owner was making up some stupid designer breed mutt name for their mixed dog. I finally had to explain that no, this FUR COVERED dog WAS a purebred chinese crested, and powder puff was the name of the ones with fur lol.
So far it is going well here. Temps dropped so it is again cold out. Our living room remodel is clipping along at a good pace with walls being textured today. (If I never have to sand sheetrock again I will be happy)
The most uncommon breed I seen recently was a Belgian Tervuren. It was inside someone's car outside the grocery store and I recognized it right away. Its owner happened to walk out behind so I had to ask. She was enthused I knew the breed and didn't call it a GSD. Just a very uncommon breed to see in my area.
Leonberger would be the other one. I got to see one of these at our local dog show last summer and it was the first time this breed had entered. I had never seen one before so he caught my eye and was just a glorious sight to behold.
So far so good. It was 10 below last night, so we stayed home! But not complaining as it's been a GREAT winter. NO BLIZZARDS! Very unusual for ND.
Rarest breed? None lately. The last rare vreed I remember seeing is an Afghan Hound at the dog park a coupke years ago. Viszlas here are almost boringly common, and sold at tge one pet store we have. We had two, but ONE CLOSED DOWN! Lack of customers. See? Not buying from pet stores really works!
So far it`s been great, got scared by my Pom mix because I woke up to her beside my bed staring at me, and so she jumped on my bed and we cuddled until I decided it was time to wake up.
The most rarest? A Chesapeake Bay Retriever and some kind of Water Dog that I can`t remember the name to. Also Papillons are pretty rare where I live. ADD: I forgot to mention Chinese Crested (Hairless and powder Puff), and I saw an Irish WolfHound for the first time today!