Here's Red!

[altivo]

Not the best photos, but for the curious, here are a couple of snaps I took of our new adopted dog this morning, when neither he nor I was quite fully awake. So far he's been very well behaved and eager to be with us.


Fuzzy because the flash didn't go off, but then he's fuzzy anyway (yuk yuk.) We pulled the crate in from the barn for him because his foster mom recommended it, but haven't really used it other than to ask him to go into it, which he does willingly and now has done on his own once just to lie down on the blanket. Because he will "counter surf" for unprotected edible items, he may have to be crated for brief periods.


"Wake me when the coffee's ready." It was not yet 6 am. Just for scale, the white object above his head is a 5 cubic foot refrigerator that Gary converted to a dough warming box for bread baking. Red is a big guy, about 95 pounds and tall enough that you can scratch his ears without leaning over.

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[baskerville]

10 PRINT "Puppy!"

20 PRINT "Puppy!"

30 PRINT "Puppy!"

40 PRINT "sDFSDFSDSPUPPY!"

50 GOTO 10

[altivo]

LOL! More like a blinkin' elephant. At seven years old, and this size, I'm really hoping he doesn't behave too much like a puppy. He could eat the whole house while I walked out to the mailbox and back.

[baskerville]

eeeeeeeeeee ♥

In other news, I've bought Hershey...





...an iPhone of his very own.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Oh he looks like a counter-surfer too. :D

[altivo]

That definitely calls for a photo of Hershey using the phone.

[altivo]

Yes, it's the shifty eyes, you can always tell. He is tall enough to easily check out what's available without having to stand on his hind legs.

Sandy said she was baking and turned her back long enough for him to swipe a quarter pound of butter and swallow it, paper wrapping and all. She put another one out to soften and he made that disappear as well. That we can deal with, being forewarned.

If he has the inclination to "disembowel" plush toys, though, I'm going to have a problem to handle. I have too many of them to keep them all out of reach, probably. So far, though, he's shown no interest. I warned Gary that he shouldn't buy any plush covered dog toys, just to avoid any confusion.

[corelog.livejournal.com]

Oooh, he's a big boy all right! Though if you ask me, he looks like more of a floor-surfer, in that second shot. :) Very, very nice.

[altivo]

Big but not rough or pushy. Yes, just what we like.

He loves attention though. Scritch, rub, pat, and he's your friend.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Yup, he looks like a sweetie, especially that first pic.

[altivo]

He still has that worried look most of the time. As I recall, Tee looked that way too for a while (but that was back around 1993 so my memory could be off.) He has the same highly mobile eyebrows that Tee had, which makes it interesting trying to interpret expressions that may not be there.

I feel bad about shucking an animal from one home to another just when they're starting to feel settled in, but Sandy (a retired librarian, by the way) fosters one dog after another for just this purpose. She said most stay with her for less than six weeks. He'll have a lot less competition at our place, and more room to play outdoors.

[schnee]

Hey Red, nice to meet you. ^^ *scritches*

[baskerville]

I'll tell his dad to take one!

[altivo]

When you do that he throws his head back, bares his teeth, and moans. Don't worry, it's an expression of pleasure. Then he won't leave you alone as he tries to get you to do it again and again.

[schnee]

*chuckles* Awww. I'm sure he could get quite a lot of scritches out of me with that...

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, Red is just like our dear departed Max - same size, shape, facial structure, attitude, ears, legs, weight... just different colors. What a sweetie!

Max sniffed for unattended food, too, and was much stealthier than you would expect from such a big dog. We miss him. Glad you found more doggie love!

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[altivo]

He's a really nice dog. Well behaved mostly, no problems with housebreaking, not barky, very friendly. We have had problems with the counter surfing issue, though. It took him a few days to build up confidence enough, I guess. Now we're trying to figure out how to rearrange the kitchen so as to offer him less opportunity. I've never been in the habit of leaving anything like frozen meat out to thaw, so that's a non-issue. But he learned where the doggie treats were and broke into that container, then the next day broke my old ceramic cookie jar and ate the contents, and the following day ate uncooked rice and oatmeal from plastic containers. This can't continue, as it's not only a nuisance for us but a health risk for him. He weighed in at 101 lbs. when he visited the vet a week ago, and shouldn't put on a lot more weight as he's healthy right now. Not to mention the risks inherent in swallowing shards of glass, ceramic, or hard plastic. He's big enough to open the refrigerator if he chooses to do so, and I sure don't want things to go that far. Nothing but food has been bothered, however.

The only other risk is that he'll injure a smaller animal or some inanimate furniture by playing too roughly.