Recent content by SueAndHerZoo

LOL Funny you should say that about coming to play at my house.... all my friends and family tell me (and others) that when they die they are coming back as one of my dogs. :) Hey, I spoil them all and always have their utmost health and happiness foremost in my mind, well before I...

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts - I REALLY appreciate it! Sometimes we get stuck with an idea in our heads and can't see anything else so you helping me brainstorm really opened up my ideas and re-started the creative thinking. :) I love the idea of having a...

Hi there. I do dog rescue and foster and always have at least 4 dogs at my house. We have a pet door that leads to a very large fenced-in yard which they always have access to but after years of trying to make it both human and dog-friendly, I'm losing the battle. I built two ponds out...

Hi April. So nice to meet another member of the adoption family - and bless you for volunteering! I'm trying to convince my husband that we should fence in our entire yard so that I can not only rescue a few more, but also perhaps start fostering, too! I was going to post Baxter's...

How Baxter came to be I've always had 2 or 3 dogs around at a time..... the house just didn't seem like a home without at least that many. After mourning the loss of our Neapolitan Mastiff in March I knew it was time to start looking for another dog. Even our pug was sulking around being the...

Before and After pix of Baxter Hi All. Since you all showed so much caring and compassion for my rescue dog (and his fear of everything, especially my son) I just had to post two pix showing what he looked like 6 months ago and what he's become since he's been in our home. (thank you...

This is what he looks like 6 months (and 20 pounds!) after being rescued.

This is what Baxter looked like when he was first rescued. Emaciated and covered with mange, infections, and injuries

Thanks Eileen....I've had a lot of pets in my life, including a lot of dogs, but there's something about this one that just grabs me by the heart. It probably has something to do with taking him in when he was so sick (emotionally and physically) and watching him blossom over the past 5 months...

Yes, Cat..... it breaks my heart to think of NOT providing him tons of love and comfort after the horrendous life he's had. I think it's pretty understandable that he feels the need to be so protective of me and his "home" that he finally has..... He probably feels for the very first time that...

I understand everyone's advice, and it all makes perfect sense, so now I'm pretty depressed and torn about what to do from this point forward. One of my greatest thrills is being able to coddle and baby my pets, and it's never backfired on me like this before. Yes, we DO encourage him to come...

Thank you.... those are all wonderful suggestions and insight. I really needed to know which way to lean whenever this happens..... talking calmly and sweetly to the dog or scolding him, and now I see that neither really works. I used to try reassuring him whenever he barked that everything...

Well, I'm not sure he HATES him, probably more of a fear issue. We rescued an abused, desserted boxer 5 months ago and he's now a gorgeous picture of health, but emotionally he's still got a long way to go. He is terrified of everyone except me but he's slowly getting better with hubby...

Thanks guys. As long as I know that it's not a sign that something is wrong (stress, illness, disease, etc.) then I can gladly live with the excessive shedding and brushing for a while, especially if the end result is the gorgeous coat I remember from last time around. I just don't remember...

Hi. When I was feeding BARF to my two dogs about 4 years ago one of the benefits I noticed were gorgeous coats and MUCH LESS SHEDDING! It was a miracle because our pug sheds like no dog I have ever seen, every day, all day, all year long. When I restarted the pug and our new rescue...