Happy National Dog Day!

[Missy]

To all the dogs we love





Please share your dogs past and present.

 

[Missy]

One more photo.
RIP Harley. Sweetheart.

 

[maryjane04]

My first dog Hades who passed away 5 years ago.



My new little puppy Hera who just turned 6 months over the weekend. She is Hades's great niece.

They are all special and hold a piece of our heart ♡♡

 

[Missy]

My first dog Hades who passed away 5 years ago.



My new little puppy Hera who just turned 6 months over the weekend. She is Hades's great niece.

They are all special and hold a piece of our heart ♡♡

So beautiful! Hades and Hera just gorgeous. RIP Hades and have a wonderful life Hera. They really are special. I have always loved animals. Thank you for sharing and you are beautiful too!

 

[dk168]

My lovely doggo, just over 13yo and I love him.



DK

 

[Missy]

My lovely doggo, just over 13yo and I love him.



DK

Oh my goodness what a precious baby! I want to hug him through the computer screen. Please hug him from me. Oldsters are the best!

 

[Queenie60]

My two babies! Quincy is 14 and Maggie May is 4 months. They're both a joy!

 

[Missy]

My two babies! Quincy is 14 and Maggie May is 4 months. They're both a joy!

Awwwww you can tell from your photo how sweet they are!

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

My great love



I used to wonder how a girl like me ended up with a dog like him. He was my dream come true. He broke me when he left. For a while I didn't know if I would ever be happy again.

 

[Missy]

My great love



I used to wonder how a girl like me ended up with a dog like him. He was my dream come true. He broke me when he left. For a while I didn't know if I would ever be happy again.

I am so sorry for your loss. I totally get how you feel. Same here. When Francesca died I couldn't see my way to being happy ever again. And life still isn't the same without her. I miss her more than I can say. (((HUGS))) to you @mellowyellowgirl

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

This little girl is everyone's dog. We all adore her. She's hubby's darling. She's a classic golden retriever with the perfect Goldie temperament. I used to be the smuggest mummy at puppy preschool. She was a model student and knew a bunch of impressive tricks that she would perform on cue.

Those muzzle marks on the floor are hers. Hubby cleans the floor every second day. They stay nice for about 30 mins and then on go the muzzle marks but we don't say anything because it's her happy place.

 

[doberman]

 

[Missy]

Oh my gosh what a great perspective. LOVE.

 

[Missy]

This little girl is everyone's dog. We all adore her. She's hubby's darling. She's a classic golden retriever with the perfect Goldie temperament. I used to be the smuggest mummy at puppy preschool. She was a model student and knew a bunch of impressive tricks that she would perform on cue.

Those muzzle marks on the floor are hers. Hubby cleans the floor every second day. They stay nice for about 30 mins and then on go the muzzle marks but we don't say anything because it's her happy place.

Haha yes. A long time ago we had to come to terms with our house being filled with animal hair. No matter how often I vacuum (and it is daily) there is always hair in the house. But it is a house filled with love and so we are OK with that. But it did take time to accept. LOL. What is that quote? I cannot remember it but basically I'd rather have a messy house filled with animals than a pristine house with no animals.

 

[doberman]

Oh my gosh what a great perspective. LOVE.

She really has a very long nose, which I tell her all the time. And she's old, but her hearing is unimpaired. She can hear me unwrapping a piece of cheese no matter how far away she is!

 

[Missy]

She really has a very long nose, which I tell her all the time. And she's old, but her hearing is unimpaired. She can hear me unwrapping a piece of cheese no matter how far away she is!

Beautiful! And I love her hair coloring. So gorgeous.

 

[doberman]

@missy
She's a red doberman.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Oh rats!!! I didn't see this and posted the same thing! I will message Ella to delete it!

This is Ruby, our sweet 2 year old lab mix!

 

[jaaron]

An evolving relationship

 

[Musia]

I have posted many pictures of our current doggie. Here he is with his Dada on the day he turned 73 m.o. I am taking his portraits on 16th day of every month since we got him at a tender age of 6 weeks. Finally I found the pictures of our previous doggie showing his love for our lonely kitty Moshka. Schwarz was born in 2005 and Moshka was born in 2007. After the death of Schwarz Moshka is behaving differently, he is always sad. Loosing his best friend had deeply traumatizing effect on his emotional state.

 

[Horsegirl76]

My Girls!


Grace




Annie

 

[Lisa Loves Shiny]

I had no idea it was National Dog Day. Thanks Missy for letting me know. Next year I will mark the date. Today my spoiled pooches had daddy take them for their morning walk. Mommy (me) took them to get groomed and stopped at the park after their grooming for an afternoon walk. For dinner they got their home made chicken and veggie dog food, Then their evening stroll around the perimeter of our yard and are laying at my feet as I write this.

I think when my family was young the dogs got a good life because they had the grown ups and the kids give them so much attention. They didn't get two or three walks a day but the kids played with them. Now that DH and I are empty nesters the dogs get more attention as we treat them as surrogate children.

 

[fiona00004]

 

[OboeGal]

Ohhh, this is going to take awhile.....



This was Lucky - my very first dog, and the fulfillment, finally, of what my heart had wanted more than anything else in the world for nearly 39 years. It's hard to tell in the picture, but he had a fairly significantly deformed face from having been abused in his first year of life. For that reason, according to the collie rescue, every potential adopter that met him fell in love with his personality, but wouldn't take him home because he just didn't have the "looks." He utterly captivated me the moment I met him, and there was simply no question that he was going home with me. He was honestly the very, very best dog anyone could ever hope to share life with - a truly once-in-a-lifetime dog, with the sweetest, purest heart and most clairvoyant spirit, even after developing, and struggling with, epilepsy his entire life. I honestly didn't deserve him. I think about him and miss him desperately every single day.



This was Katie - she came from the same rescue, a week after adopting Lucky, when I figured out that, being single and working full-time, he needed a companion. They were only a week apart in age, at exactly a year old each. The moment they met, they became inseparable, as if they were fated to be together, and remained that way to Lucky's death. She was an ornery one, though - very smart, very high-energy, very stubborn and bossy and determined from the get-go to fight me for who was in charge of the house. We had a pretty rough start, but when I almost lost her to acute kidney failure a few months after adopting her, I realized how deeply I loved her and became as wrapped around her paw as I was around Lucky's.



This was Abraham (in the background behind Katie) - unfortunately, I don't have many good pictures of him. He came along not quite a year later, from the same rescue. He was a senior at not quite 9 years old. He had lived since being weaned as a puppy with an older gentleman on a farm, and ended up in the rescue after no one had heard from his "person" and found the gentleman had passed. Abraham had refused to leave his side. He was in very good health other than hip arthritis and being significantly overweight, but he was horribly depressed and grieving. I worked on building up his conditioning, and over time we altogether, myself and the three collies, walked for miles and miles and miles. Over time, he began to enjoy life again, although I'm sure he always missed his papa. He was the beginning of my deep love for "Grandpa" and "Grandma" collies, with their gentle quiet ways. The three of them became my "crew" that I took with me everywhere I possibly could, even if it was just to ride in the car with me for my weekly groceries (if it wasn't hot). Altogether.....in a Corolla. It was my "collie clown car."

 

[OboeGal]

A few months after we lost Abraham at 13, we were really feeling the loss of a "Grandpa" pup in the house, so back to the rescue we went, and came home with Andrew. He was very much like Abraham in the sense of the quiet gentleness of age at 10 years old, but where Abraham was very kind but reserved and far too dignified for too much "foolishness," Andrew had a bit more playfulness and "joie de vivre". Like all of them, he adored kids in particular. He was apparently from "show stock," and was stunningly beautiful. His nickname was "Fluffer Nutter." Here is another photo of he and Lucky and Katie.




Unfortunately in 2012 we lost first Andrew, and then Lucky, within 8 days of one another. After a period of grieving, we returned to the rescue and brought home Crockett, a collie/German shepherd mix, who had a rough start with Katie, but they eventually came to accept one another, and although he had lived his whole five years of prior life chained up outside and had to learn manners about stealing and eating all manners of things and living inside - things he never perfected, unfortunately - he became a sweet and loving addition to the household.



After we lost Katie in 2014, we brought home Gypsy from the rescue - our first puppy. She is smart as a whip, and way more high-energy and high-drive than any collie I've ever known. She is super excitable, super nervous (due to poor socialization by the breeder in early life), and the most vocal dog I've ever known as well. She has been quite the handful for us. She and Crockett played and played until his degenerative myelopathy prevented him from doing so, and he was truly, endlessly patient with her super-intense puppy ways - absolutely a stellar "big brother." Since we lost him, she has been the only dog in the house, but we fully intend to head back to the collie rescue when the pandemic is over. We just hope we can find another dog that she can accept, and can deal with her bossy, intense ways! Here is the picture from which I drew my avatar, with her annoyed at being interrupted in the very important task of "destroying dino".



Here she and Crockett were taking their job of monitoring the neighbor's pomeranian with the utmost of seriousness - as evidenced by the noseprints all over the french doors! This is a legacy she continues with great abandon to the present day.

 

[Gussie]

Opie - he's a total little rascal!

Dirk and Gus - I can't even imagine life without my pups!

 

[foxinsox]

@OboeGal I LOVE how you talk about your dogs. Their personalities and your love for them shines through. I love everyones' pictures of their lovely doggos but had to comment on yours.
I've posted them before but here's two pictures of my puglets. They are the loves of my life (especially the black one as he's my first ever dog).

 

[GliderPoss]

Ilka & Ava - my beloved Dachshunds. Both living their best lives now with family members as I’m in a city flat but I love and miss them terribly!