These are the two dogs currently referred to as "Red" and "Blondie."
These are the dogs with my daughter and niece:
Red is about 99% a spitting image of my old dog, K.C., except Red is bigger.
These dogs are mixes of what I would guess to be Lab, Shepherd, Dane, Hound, etc, etc.
Yesterday during the day was like a dream. We brought them home and let them check out their new digs. I let them off the leashes within minutes of being home, and they never ran away. They were great with all the kids and family. Man did they smell!
We gave them a bath.
They never even barked.
Blondie is on an antibiotic and had real bad poos. Two minutes after we picked the dogs up, Red laid down to sleep in the car, but Blonide wouldn't settle. We pulled over at a rest stop and Blondie made a huge & nasty dump. I was grateful that he let us know he had to go. After that, they both fell asleep in the car for the whole ride home.
Now, last night is a different story. We always have deer, turkey, ground hogs, rabbits, and other wildlife cruising through our yard.
I took them out on the leash and there was a deer in the next lot. They started low barking and huffing. The deer, that was 100 yards away, charged at them for about 10' then took off into the woods.
When I got the dogs back inside, they kept acting like they heard animals outside.
These dogs don't seem to know how to go up and down stairs.
We had two cages set up inside our craft room which is adjacent to our bedroom on the second floor.
At least three times during the night, I had to carry them down the stairs to take them out, and then back up the stairs.
Blondie puked in our bedroom twice and pissed in our bedroom once. Earlier in the evening, I saw him start squating in the living room. I was like Flash and scooped him up and hauled him out back to the tree line where he proceeded to take a nasty dumpy. We are living in a house that we just built and the house is about 5 months old, brand new.
Today, again, is just like heaven with these dogs.
We've created a "Voodoo Zone" back in the woods where they are supposed to take their dumps. Starting to see some understanding there as I've been relocating their land mines to the the V-Zone. This worked great with our old dog. I can't stand dumps in the yard!
Part of my mind is saying "what were we thinking?" This is the part of myself that I know very well. Another part is saying "put the time in now as an investment for the next 15 years or so," which again is a part of myself that I know.
I haven't heard from the part of me that said "yeah, it wouldn't be right to break these two up." I might shoot that part if I see him again.
