I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Poppy doesn't shed much at all. I've noticed a small amount on our sheets if she sleeps on our bed, but there is certainly not cat hair everywhere in the house.

Hello All! I am getting a late start as usual tonight...Here's a picture of my Charlie..he is my sweet boy. I was in such a funk before I got him and he has certainly brought my house to life. My 22 year old cat Chloe passed away as I was going through chemo...it was a horrible miserable time and I never realized how much I talked to my kitty until she was gone. My house was soooooo quiet. Two weeks before I got Charlie, my nephew found a kitty in the middle of the highway in a rainstorm! She is all black but her little paws (white) and her Cindy Crawford mole...white speck..Her name is Sadie and Charlie and Sadie are adorable together despite their size difference.

Gracie - do NOT get a Westie!    Seriously they are too darn smart for their own good but the problem is that they are stubborn as can be so not very obedient at all.  They only obey when they want to.  I have had 8 Westies over the years.

The breed I do recommend is a border terrier - they look like the Benji dog - in fact Benji was a border terrier.  The problem is finding breeders - we ended up going to Idaho and that was after being on a wait list for 9 months.  They are smart - learn fast - and do they ever want to please you but you do have to be careful as dh has too many times put Abbey in the "wait command" and forgot to release her and 2 hours later she is still in the same position. 

They love attention and they are known to be great around children and other animals, not just other dogs but also cats. 

I call Abbey my Junk Yard Dog because although she is a purebred she looks like a street mutt.

Diane .. your Charlie is so cute .. I had an Australian many years ago.  They're a great breed and family dog.

Otter .. I have tons of turtles on my property.  They are everywhere.  Twice now I've sucked them up in my riding mower AND they survived.  I have to pick them up and put them back down in the fields by their buddies.

Yep Rabbit .. tripping over my three dogs!

Hope everyone has a great day,

Bren

Sorry tried to post a picture, but it didn't work. All of your puppies are so cute! I'll keep working on it to see if I can post a picture.

That's her spiffy summer do. Her hair is usually a lot longer. Summertyme, what happened to your Virgil's leg? It was probably mentioned, but I didn't see it.

That's terrible! Glad he's on the mend summertyme. Poor thing.

This is for all you little dog people ... meet Nancy who proves that it's not the size it's the skills

http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/#mkcpgn=fbapl1

We had a border terrier, Janice. We got him through a border terrier rescue organization. He was very sweet, loyal, patient, good with kids. My youngest was born after we got him and he was so tolerant of her pulling up on him as she learned to stand and crawling into his kennel to sit next to him. He sometimes looked at us like, "what the heck is this about" but he never snapped at her or anything. We got a toy poodle puppy when he was about 10 who really made us realize both how easy-going he was and how not smart. You'd be holding up a treat saying "sit" to the border terrier and by the time he had figured it out and started to sit the poodle would have come running from elsewhere in the house, jump over the border terrier into a sitting position and be waiting for the treat! 

On the pet turtle front, when I was 4 I got a tortise for my birthday (back before we worried about reptiles carrying disease). We kept it in a pen in the back yard and fed it lettuce leaves. One day he got out and wandered somewhere into the shrubs, never to be seen again. The runaway tortise. . . maybe I should write a children's book! 

I had a Woolworth's turtle when I was a little girl. His name was Butch and he lived for 8 years. Lived in a plastic bowl with an island and a palm tree. My DM thought he'd be a good substitute for a dog. NOT! But I loved him, anyway.

Edited to add: I never got salmonella from him - isn't that why they were outlawed?

Alpal, I remember those bowls with the palm tree. We had lots of turtles when we were young. I agree never got salmonella either. It's a shame they were a good pet for a kid to young for a dog, or for that matter a hamster.

No hamsters at my house! My poor deprived children - I carried on the tradition of NO RODENTS!

They count - in my book!

We stick to warm blooded only around here.

Dinner was baked fish, broccoli, left over mac and cheese and apple-rhubarb crisp for desert.