I’m going on a family vacation so I dropped the dog off with a boarder that lives out in the country. She’ll have lots of space to run around. She’s stayed with this woman before, but she moved from the suburbs out to the sticks.
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Actually, mine don’t mind at all if I share their water bowl with them…of course, I’m responsible for filling it.
tots adorbs, as my daughter would say:
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My neighbour might be getting a new puppy!!! 
wasn’t prepped for this handle to make me so sad
https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1666141907389390849
Everyone should know Mellow was a good boy!
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My dog is following me around and whining as if I didn’t play with her earlier.
Something about my father sets my dog off. She always barks when anyone comes to the door, but usually stops right away once we invite them in. For some reason, she periodically barks at my father when he’s over. She’s typically wagging her tail when she’'s barking at him, so she doesn’t seem to be behaving protectively. She doesn’t do this to anyone else.
My dog is missing a small patch of fur under one eye and it reminds me of those teardrop tattoos. She did live on the streets before.
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My dog has always had anxiety about loud noises of all types, and about thunderstorms in particular. Unfortunately it’s gotten much worse lately, and we are in the middle of a weather pattern of brief severe storms. She’s been having full on panic attacks.
I just ordered a thundershirt, which should be here tomorrow. Hopefully that helps give her some relief.
@JFG inquired about thunder shirts previously.
https://community-new.goactuary.com/t/doggo-thread/2096/322…is my reply to his query.
Also, here’s my post from earlier about the same subject: https://community-new.goactuary.com/t/doggo-thread/2096/477?u=1695814
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woof!
Colombian Military Calls Off
Search for Wilson the Rescue
Dog
Jul 11, 2023 10:26PM
Search dog Wilson helped find four children in the Amazon last
month.
Photo: Colombian army/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
BOGOTA, Colombia—The military here has called off a weekslong,
intensive search for Wilson, a rescue dog that helped find four
children in the Amazon last month and got lost himself in a drama
that gripped the country.
“We exhausted all our capacities and resources in the search, with
no effort spared,” Gen. Pedro Sánchez, who oversaw the search for
the children and then Wilson, said on Tuesday. “We have mixed
emotions—on the one hand feeling good about having found the
four children and feeling sad that not everyone was able to get
out.”
Around the world, people were enthralled by the June 9 rescue of
four siblings who had survived 40 days in the jungle on a diet of
wild fruit and nuts after the small plane they had been traveling in
crashed. Colombia’s armed forces then announced that about 100
commandos, braving heavy downpours and bug bites, remained in
an inhospitable swath of jungle searching for Wilson.
The 5-year-old, coffee-colored Belgian shepherd had been part of
the operation to find the children until he broke away from his
handler nearly two months ago and bolted into the brush. The
eldest of the four siblings, Lesly Jacobombaire, 13, told the army
that the dog had been with them for about three days, said
Sánchez, who explained that Wilson possibly made contact with
them on May 28.
After the children were rescued, Lesly and Soleiny Jacobombair, 9,
had from their hospital bed in the capital drawn pictures of the
dog in the midst of trees and flowers.
Commandos who had been involved in the quest to find the
children, Operation Hope, compared losing Wilson to losing a
fellow commando.
“Wilson, who gave up his life in the line of duty, had kept his eye
on the children,” said Sgt. Wilmar Miranda. “He could not be
located and recovered, but the jungle is an inexplicable mystery
and it’s possible it swallowed up this dog.”
Another commando involved in the search for the children, Sgt.
Luber Espinosa, said Wilson, after so many weeks in the Amazon,
perhaps fell prey to a carnivore.
“It’s possible the animals in the jungle devoured him,” he said.
“There are big animals, like boas and jaguars. And the dog didn’t
have any food, just the water in the jungle.”
Espinosa added: “One thing is clear, history will remember this
dog.”
Sánchez said that the armed forces wanted to honor the memory
of the dog by including a likeness of Wilson in a mural in one of the
army’s bases. Just last month, President Gustavo Petro awarded a
medal to Wilson’s mother, Drugia, in a ceremony at the
presidential palace with the commandos who found the children.
The tributes will continue on July 20, Independence Day in
Colombia.
Wilson’s mother, Drugia, was honored last month in a ceremony at
the presidential palace.
Photo: mauricio duenas castaneda/Shutterstock
“In the July 20 parade there will be a float in honor of Operation
Hope,” said Sánchez, “and Wilson’s mother will be there.”
Wilson knew his way in the bush, the military said, having been
trained to operate in Colombia’s jungle. And he helped the military
find an important proof of life during Operation Hope—a baby
bottle used by the youngest of the four children.
“The dog, trained to track, was prepared in this place and that’s
why he put into practice what he knows,” the military had said in a
written statement last month.
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— Jenny Carolina Gonzalez contributed to this article.
Write to Juan Forero at juan.forero@wsj.com
Some friends generously gave us the 5th of a litter of Yorkie/Shih/Poo pups (after selling the other 4 for $1,000 each). We named him Tag, just because we liked it. The day after we named him, he taught our 9-year old mini Schnauzer to play tag.
Tag
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Need pics
When it’s hot out, the kennel/doggie day care busts out the pool. I got lots of pics today of my dog monopolizing the pool and playing in the hose stream
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@dog_rates is maybe my favorite thing on twitter. i wait every friday for the most important words to be said…haven’t been disappointed once!
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The thundershirt is definitely helping my dog. It doesn’t completely solve the problem, but it takes her from full blown panic during a lightning storm to just anxious.
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