Hmm I wonder if I didn't see those puppy pics before. Buck is a cute little feller!

LMAO love this picture

I feel like it needs to be captioned but I'm not nearly creative enough.

FOOT! in a thought balloon?

Either that, or DAT ASS!

He looks happier than Dids at a pickled egg festival.

LOL perhaps we should turn it over to teh hooligans of BBV4L. It would also make an excellent photoshop opportunity.

Ha ha, feel free to start a photoshop thread in BBV4L im sure it does have some potential for some comedy 'shops.

Sorry to all those who have lost pets lately, have lost far too many over the last few years and its one of the worst feelings in the world.

Headed to BBV4L now, here is what I'm starting with.





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Winner!



Here is the thread if you want to follow.

My girlfriend and I are contemplating getting a Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig. Anyone have any experience with these? How big will they get? Would be it be a good pet for an apartment?

lulz busto!

Cole, I've seen documentaries on pets that went over the potbellied pigs a bit. They say they can be aggressive when the grow up, trying to figure out who is "top pig." Apparently it can get a bit bitey or unpleasant.

I've seen some potbellied pigs that looked pretty small but some looked way to big to be cute anymore - more like, well, pigs. Some can get very heavy and wide.

Good stuff on the chops. Some great ones there. Have had me loling hard.

So I started looking at rescue dogs on petfinder over the past week or so to see what was out there and was amazed at how much it was just to adopt a dog from a kennel. Kinda shocking. I browsed a bit and emailed a few places which seemed to be a pain to deal with, lots of them were not public shelters and you needed to make an appointment, etc, etc.

I had decided I really wanted a yellow lab after seeing Buck in this thread and went on to email some breeders in the area to see what that avenue was all about. Found a few that were close to me and emailed to see if they had any yellow males available. One woman was expecting some in December, another that I spoke to had 2 yellow males. Both wanted $1200. The last woman I spoke with via email was very nice but I told her I really wasn't looking to dish out that much cash and that I would most likely adopt instead. I did tell her I would keep her in mind though.

We emailed back and forth a few times. I had told her about my dog having to be put down recently and how bad I felt about it. She would send me nice emails for the next few days, also sending pictures of the litter she had with 2 males that would be available towards the end of November. Then on Saturday morning I awoke to an email from her saying that she was telling one of here friends that also breeds labs my story. The woman had a yellow male with a black nose(what I wanted) that was 9 weeks old that she was going to keep for herself to breed but after hearing my story she wanted to offer him to me. The catch was he was 4 hours away. After seeing the pics I told her that was the dog and to please set the wheels in motion.

The woman with the puppy called me and we spoke for a few. She offered me the puppy and even offered to meet me halfway with him to which I snap accepted. Saturday night I was home with a new puppy. I spent a lil bit more than it would have cost me to adopt but I wound up with exactly what I wanted. Brought him to the vet for a quick look over and they said he is a perfect puppy. I forgot how much work having a puppy is tho and its kinda driving me crazy but then I look at the cute lil guy and those feelings pass. Still haven't picked a name for him. = ( Having a really hard time deciding.

Congrats! Wow did you luck out!

He's adorable, but by the looks of the last picture he is precocious and faps too much.

FWIW, anyone who finds typical breeder pricing too might find that asking for a "pet quality" dog makes the price plunge dramatically. The catch is they must be sterilized or you will get no papers. But if you aren't going to be a dog breeder, and don't care to show the dog, who cares? It's best that most dogs don't breed anyway.

The only thing making a puppy "pet quality," which is the lowest of the three qualities, may well be something trivial, or even outright healthy. For instance, many things showdogs are judged by are unheallthy, like the sloping line in the way they breed german shepherds now. Get a pet quality german shepherd because his back doesn't slop down and make his feet splay, and you actually wind up with a better dog than the ones the breeder is keeping! Same with, for instance, dog types that have the punched in faces, etc. And some pet quality just have fur that is not the accepted color, or a harmless kink in the tail, or an ear not shaped "just so."

Something to think about if you love the look or temperament of a particular breed but have no need whatever for it to be a show dog or have puppies.

LOL clearly puppy in the last pic was watching something no-no and exhausted himself. Ah, to be young.

Fantastic dog, congrats you will have so much fun with him and he will turn into a handsome dog as well. Love this thread for those stories

On a slightly more somber note we had friends lose another dog to being poisoned this week. We went out with them on Sunday and got back late evening, they went home and all was fine and got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and check on the dogs (they lived on the deck) and one had been poisoned and was already dead.

Brought back so many horrid memories of watching our two die in my arms from poison. The people here are disgusting when it comes to animals and it kills me

WTF? Your neighbors are poisoning others pets?

When I was a kid we had a neighbor lose a dog when poisoned food was tossed onto his own property!

Such a sad thing. Poisoning usually isn't pretty.

What is prompting the neighbors, if it is the neighbors, to do this? Criminal offense IMO.

Agreed. I can't understand why someone would murder a neighbor's pets. Insane.

This time it wasn't us or our neighbors who poisoned the dogs but it happened to friends of ours.

For my two my gf and I brought two springer spaniels over from the Uk that we had had from 7 weeks then I got a job here and eventually my gf joined me and a few weeks later we shipped the dogs out (complete nightmare that only a pet lover would go through).

We had them for just under a year here when they got poisoned on our daily walk which was on a deserted track that no one ever went on. Not near people, cattle etc. Anyway they both took a bite of poisoned chicken and within 2 minutes were convulsing like an epileptic. The poison destroyed their entire nervous system so they were convulsing, ********, frothing etc all at the same time. Within 10 mins they were dead.

I ended up with burns on my feet from trying to save them removing the foam from their mouth but the were dead from the very first bite.

To cut a long story short we suspected our landlords and moved out of the property straight away, they sued us, we took them to court and about 15 trips to the court ensued. We then lost and reused them and won and got everything back apart from the two things that would have made a difference.

Wow fun post

Apologies for the typos as well. The iPad is **** and I hate it with a vengance

Sad story. But amazing that you persevered and also that you won! Proving it sounds like it would have been dicey. I'm actually kinda surprised you won.

Unfortunately, I think almost everywhere a pet is still regarded as an item, so you generally just get reimbursed for its cost when it dies. Which of course represents the least important thing about it. I've read about that trend changing, but don't know how pervasive that is.

We didn't win as they got away with killing our dogs. I'll try and get more into it tomorrow but having lost two of our "babies" and spending nearly 3 yrs in courts nothing at the end of it would have meant any thing apart from bringing them back

Ironically the lawyer on their side now works for my firm and I'm not allowed to speak to her. This has been 3 yrs and I'll be happy if I never had to speak to her in my life again. Fun day tomorrow

Cute pup sofocused.. My 7 month old golden still spends a ton of time in the pose from your last pic lol..

Can't believe anyone would pay $1200 for a lab, sounds like PetLand prices.. Maybe it's just because there are a ton of hunters in Iowa so the labs are at a high supply, but there is another batch of lab pups in the paper every week for $100-$400.. Maybe $600ish if they come from pointing bloodlines

HiC4rd, do you feel like you got some satisfaction from winning the court case? Are you able to talk about what the consequences towards them were? Were you only reimbursed for the monetary "value" of the dogs? Sick to think about. How do you place a value on such a life?

Interesting to hear you say the trend may be changing, Blarg. Species-ism seems so pervasive where I am, but then again, I am in the South, where people kill things for fun and waste.