bersaguy

Ok so here is another dog I have researched and my vet has reasearched also and she says that Marilyn might be what am looking for. A little smaller than Kasey but would probably fit into my life style. "What say ye all"? Hi, I'm Marilyn. My fosters think I'm a terrier/cattle dog mix around 7-8 years old. I'm super sweet and love sitting pretty to get treats. If you're interested in giving me a forever home, contact act freedom farm at info@freedomfarm.net to ask about me today! Adult, Female, Small

I am thankful for my son and his family, I am thankful for my wonderful son in law, daughter and their family. I am truly thankful for having a friend tell me I need to go and join TGO. I am thankful for all of the people here and I have learn much from them and a bunch about many of them. Most of all I am thankful to GOD in Heaven who allows me the priviledge he gives me to put my feet on the floor each morning and in some special way gives me reason to keep moving forward and not giving up!

Well actually no, I have never heard that before. The Breeder my wife got his mother from called them Chinese Crests and had papers on them. My wife wanted a small dog and went to Airport Kennels to look for a lap dog and came home with his mother. The mother was given to my wife along with papers because she was considered to small to breed by the breeder. Well the man at the kennel was surprised when my wife notified him to tell him that her dog just gave birth to 3 babies. She was pregnant when he gave her to Margie and didn't know it. They looked like little pink rat babies about the size of my thumb. The Breeder made a trip to the house to see for himself. He was shocked to see the babies. This was a brand new breed that the Kennel had just began to handle and she was in his first shipment from China. It became evident really quick that the mother didn't like being a mother to all 3 pups but would care and feed 2 and she kept pushing Buttons out of the bed onto the floor. I called the kennel and he told me to come by and he would give me what I needed to keep the reject alive. He said that it was a natural thing for that breed of dog that the mother knew how much milk she could provide and how many she could raise and he was the chosen to not live. Well it was bottle feed him or let him die and I was not going to let that happen without a fight so the Kennel owner set me up with very small doll baby bottles and four 10 oz cans of dog milk for $65.00. Margie and I took turns feeding him and I made him a bed on a heating pad to keep him warm and when he was on his own and able to eat food Margie and I had a talk and I said i won't tell you to get rid of the dogs because they are yours but I really don't want a mother dog around that will not be a mother to all of her babies and Margie agreed so we sold her and it surprised me when Margie made the decision that Buttons would be the only one she would keep so she sold the other two pups and the mother and Buttons was king of the domain. When my wife passed away he became the king of my domain. That is all I can tell you about them except people pay big money for them. Margie got $500.00 for the mother and $700.00 for each of the pups. Now as far as what I know about them I just figured they were very ugly dogs that required as much attention as they can get. That is why you see me carry him in most of the pictures. His being on a leash was totally unacceptable to him. When he went out someone had to go with him or he would not go out. Margie did train him to use a newspaper when it was raining or to cold for him to go out and I put a small fake tree next to where his paper was and he would pee on the small fake tree and Margie would wash the tree. That part went away when Margie passed and the real master of the domain took over and he went out when he needed to go and if it was raining we used a big umbrella and when it was cold he went out did business and came right back in and laid on his heated bed. So now with all of that said!!!! You called him a Chupacabra but I still say he was an ugly spoiled rotten dog..........

Yea he was so ugly he was cute and he had his bluff in on Kasey. She would walk a long ways to avoid getting him to growl.......LOL A lot of my friends called him a Devil Dog because of his red eyes when the cameras flash caught them just right. Now if you wanted to attract girls and women to you all you had to do was walk around with him under your arm. He attracted them like a fly to sugar..........LMAO

I don't know why anyone would remove their gun from it's holster and not clear it everytime before handing it to someone to show it to them. And I never put my finger inside the trigger guard when I am clearing it or reloading it period.............

I was finally able to find more pictures of Buttons. He was quite the conversation piece when I carried him around. I guess it was because he was so ugly but He did love all the attention.

You can bet when my new companion arrives there will be lots of pictures............

Thanks and I will keep looking and Ashley (my Vet) has also began looking for the right one for me. The place she works does a lot of the spay and neutering and giving the shots and checking dogs over for Animal Rescue Centers and Sumner County Humane Society so she is keeping an eye out along with many of my friends. If GOD wants me to have another dog in my life I am sure it will happen when I least expect it to.

Well my Vet gave me the answer and it is NO!! She is familar with the dog and he does have the issues that the Dog Rescue mentioned but she said that she has actually treated the dog and it does have a short temper at times probably caused if the dog is in pain. She has reason to believe that is why the owners put the dog up for adoption. It was probably fighting with the mother dog in the pin and that may have been what lead to the ACL injury. So I guess I need to keep looking. I know you mentioned maybe going with a smaller dog but my wife back before she passed away had one that I adopted when she passed away. Buttons is bury out here in the back yard. I kept him till he developed congestive heart failure with a heart 3 times it's normal size. I lost him about 4 months after this picture was taken. He was 14 when I had to have him put down. I already had Kasey and she was about 9 years old. He tolerated her and Kasey gave him plenty of room cause he would growl at her if she got near him. He even tried to bite her a couple times but since he only had 5 teeth he couldn't hurt her and she never offered to bite him back. I will post a couple pictures of him. He was spoiled bad by my wife and he expected nothing less from me. Don't Yall laugh when you see him. At one time my wife has 5 of these critters. He was the only one she kept. I was gonna post more pictures but they are in compressed folder and I don't know how to get them out of it??? His name was Buttons.

I have serious doubt he will get very many people to follow his example.............JMHO

Yea, i know PJ. That is why I am consulting with my Vet before I pull the trigger on her. I know she has been pined up in a 10X10 pin for 7 years of her life. I don't have a pin but I do have a big back yard and she can run and get a lot of exercise and I know she is a Border Collie but she is also a mix so I am hoping she maybe some what calmer than a full blood. I am not holding my breath on her because Vet knows my situation as has been my Vet for many years. She knew Kasey so well that she cried when she had to put her down also. She won't permit me to make a mistake I don't believe. Thank you very much for your input and concerns my friend. Oh yea, I can still throw a Frizzbie or a ball if she wants to play.

Thanks Hozzie, At first I thought I could get by with just having Kaseys ashes on my TV console and I did for a few weeks and I would look at her urn and after a while I realized that I don't just want another dog. I "NEED" another dog in my life. As much as I love Kasey and will forever!!! I need that companionship that I have had most of my life back in my life. I think anyone that has had a dog all their life kind of knows where I am at right now.

I can understand your concerns Hozzie and that is why I am going to get in touch with my Vet and talk with her and have her check into the actual condition the dog is truly experiencing. She told me to contact her if I found a dog I was interested in adopting and she would do the research on the dog before making a recomendation whether it would be a dog I could handle. She knows my situation as far as income and expenses. I don't think she would allow me to adopt a dog that would be a money pit. I have left a msessage for her to call me back. The lady that answered the phone said they have done some work with this Dog Rescue service in the past so I guess it will be up to what Dr Ashley says more than anything but I do respect your views very much also. Thanks Bersa

I know it has only been about a month since I lost my Kasey and it has been really hard coming home and not have a wagging tail meeting me at the door. I have been leaning towards getting another dog pretty hard. I was looking back over my life and except for the time I was out of country since age 6 I have had at least one dog in my life and sometimes a couple. Coming home to my home now is like it's not my house. I have been looking at some of the dog rescue locations near my home and each time I got look to see if any new ones have been added to their website and for some reason I keep getting drawn back to one dog that has a history. She is 7 years old and had a pretty tough life. I have done several searches over the weekend and I keep going back to her. I keep telling myself that yea she does have issues but if I could give her a good home for her later years I should do it. I know how much folks here love dogs so what say ye all. Do I look into possibly adopting Phoebe. I will check with my Vet prior to checking into her because the facility that has her is close by and my Vet can find out what I need to know about her and she will tell me if she is the dog for me. This is her history! Phoebe is a 7 year old Border collie mix. She lived most of her life in a 10x10 pen with her mother. The family decided to let Phoebe come into the rescue. As you can imagine, Phoebe is a little shy and learning how to be a house pet. She loves other dogs. Phoebe needs a home with another dog and someone to be patient with her. She did have ACL surgery and recovered well with it but because of her living in a small pen, she wasnât able to properly exercise so she has arthritis and will need to be on a strong glucosamine and maybe pain meds eventually. Adult, Female, Medium

Ok, so in the article the school shooting was mentioned and it was stated that the bad guy doing the shooting was shot and killed by police officers. Am I missing something or are Police Officers not good guys with guns? Yea they responded after the fact but what would ahve happened had they not showed up? Same way with the Church shooting. How many more people would that maniac killed if it were not for the good guy with a gun shooting him as he exited the church and even persued him along with another good guy. There was another church 3 miles down the road. I think the guy that wrote this article has an issue wih his elevator not making it to the top floor, maybe not even leaving the basement. To reply to Brats statement! It's damn sure not the Military I served in............

I also hope they do heal but at 80 + no one heals fast. I have bumped into friends while out somewhere and they are all packing also and the know I do so we might stand and talk a few minutes and talk about what we are packing that day. I have had a few times one of them or someone with them that has never see a Mod.85 and will ask to see it. All I do is open my windbreaker and show it to them and close my jacket back. Just to show them, yea I do have it but you ain't touchng it approach and that normally ends that. Any gun I am packing feels leather twice a day. When I place the gun in the holster and and when I get home ad take it out of the holster. At the range it will get more leather action as I do practice standard draw aim fire routine but not like Matt Dillion or Jesse James. Just normal stuff.

Now that would be 1 very cool project and if I were you I would begin buying 22 ammo pretty soon cause that baby will sure eat some up quick..................

It really does not matter to me regardless of the caliber, I don't want to be facing the muzzle of any caliber, especially one a woman is holding................... I have had several LEO's tell me they would rather go up against a 45 Caliber than a 22lr with a bullet proof vest. I don't know how true that is but that is what I have had some tell me.

Now to begin with AJ did make me aware of the extraction issue with certain types of ammo and I also did own a couple Llama's over the years and didn't have any issues with ball ammo but they also did not like Critical defense style ammo rounds and would jam some but they would eat up ball ammo as fast as I could pull the trigger. I just got off the phone with a friend that is a gunsmith here that a bunch of folks know. He informed me that the issue the gun has is not the gun but the ammo. Like back with my old 22 rifle Sam said the older guns were not made to fire todays hotter ammo which most critical defense rounds are. They fire hotter and in many cases the action cannot keep up with it. He said that the FI should do fine using any type of FMJ ball ammo that is used mostly for target shooting but I can expect issues if I upgrade to Hotter ammo. I'm fine with that. I will take it to the range this coming week and run some rounds down range with it. I have done some research of this particular FI and it appears that is was assembled in 1974-1975 before they changed some things on the newer versions. I will talk with the folks at Triple K in California as I saw that they have magazines in stock for both the original series which is what I have and the newer version. He is a picture of the 2 different guns. Mine does have the loop at the bottom of the grip indicating one of the originals.

Back many moons ago I use to have a Revelation 22Lr semi auto that was a squirrel gun for sure. I could not count the tree rats I bagged with it and I began having the same issue of jamming when I switched to those new at the time CCI stingers. I finally went to a gun smith about the issue and he told me that my gun was to old to shoot the newer hotter ammo as it would make the action react faster then the magazine could position the round to insert in chamber. I don't know if that can be your issue but when I went back to some of the older HP long rifle rounds my problem went away.

Thanks and I don't own any thing larger than a 380 any more. I have own about all calibers and shot all calibers that a man might carry for self defense and I do understand many folks don't feel a 380 Caliber is effective enough for self defense but I think it is all in what a person is comfortable with and being able to put the 1st couple of rounds where they need to be is more important than the caliber. 22LR's have killed a lot of people..............

Ok, Here the pictures Ronald wanted.........

I can I guess but after coffee. Slep in today with all the cloudy gloomy day out side.

Will make a nice Night stand gun and will allow me to clean up my Model 85 and put it in my Safe and bring a Thunder to the place for me to lay my hands on in an emergency such as home intrusion or just going to the door at night to a knock.

I got to meet another TGO member today and had a very nice visit and completed a transaction in the process. Got to me AJ (Gotthegoods) and he is a great guy to talk with and do business with. I will let him tell you about our transaction if he chooses to but that will be up to him. If you have not met him and get the chance too don't pass it up. Bersaguy aka Doug