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turbo
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Despite our allergies, etc, my wife and I have been wanting a dog to share our small place with. Here is a really bad flash-shot of Duke. He's a 2 year old boxer/chocolate Lab mix. We just took him to visit Max the Wonder Dog (pit bull/German shepherd cross) who lives down the road, and there was tail-wagging and butt-sniffing all around. Well, the two dogs anyway. ;-)
Duke is friendly and strong as an ox. We took him out on the back deck and gave him a nice warm bath with my fragrance-free liquid soap/shampoo, and he was very patient. He liked getting toweled off after, and when I gave him a rawhide bone as an after-bath treat, he flipped. He kept leaning on my legs, making little whining sounds while chomping the bone and looking up at me. He's crashed out on his new dog-bed with his bone and his favorite toy from the shelter - a cloth mouse in a Santa suit.
We took him for a couple of week trial period, and paid the shelter $150 for his adoption. As long as our allergies remain tolerable, he's a keeper. If we have to take him back (my wife would have to be half-dead before she'd complain about her allergies), we let the shelter keep the $150 and hopefully they will let him stay a bit longer for another shot at adoption. The shelter was full and he was the longest-residence dog at the shelter, so he would have been the next one to go to the short-term shelter that euthanizes dogs after a week or two if they are not adopted. We couldn't let that happen.
Duke is friendly and strong as an ox. We took him out on the back deck and gave him a nice warm bath with my fragrance-free liquid soap/shampoo, and he was very patient. He liked getting toweled off after, and when I gave him a rawhide bone as an after-bath treat, he flipped. He kept leaning on my legs, making little whining sounds while chomping the bone and looking up at me. He's crashed out on his new dog-bed with his bone and his favorite toy from the shelter - a cloth mouse in a Santa suit.
We took him for a couple of week trial period, and paid the shelter $150 for his adoption. As long as our allergies remain tolerable, he's a keeper. If we have to take him back (my wife would have to be half-dead before she'd complain about her allergies), we let the shelter keep the $150 and hopefully they will let him stay a bit longer for another shot at adoption. The shelter was full and he was the longest-residence dog at the shelter, so he would have been the next one to go to the short-term shelter that euthanizes dogs after a week or two if they are not adopted. We couldn't let that happen.
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