I love dogs also.  I have a formal dining room and living room where dogs are not allowed.  The rest of the house and yard is free reign. I could not imagine life without a dog.  I am allergic to cats, but when I walk in the morning when I see a cat and it comes up to me I bend down to pet it. Just as long as it doesn’t rub against me or bite me, I have to go to the hospital for cat bites.  Did you ever see the Batman movie where Michelle Phifer gets chewed up by cats, then becomes Cat Woman. That is a nightmare, a clown with a cat that is a double nightmare!  In the military I was a K-9 handler, I am pretty sure a dog save my life once.  I am still so sad I had to put that big dog down a few weeks ago.

I guess it's all about what you like.  I love animals, so I have a house full of them.  And, my house does smell like animals even though I try and keep the smell down.  And I have to put up with alot of fur and feathers, but I love them, and would hate to live without them.

To each his own. 

Thanks Pets you are a good person to animals, that why I wanted to ask you about the self shots.  I have to be at the vet at 2 PM I will ask her the scoop.  I am sure she will do a freak out also, and redo the shots.  I wish you could see the difference in these dogs from yesterday and today. Yesterday the smelt of poop and urine, their hair was all matted, and they couldn’t not see through their hair.  They hid from us.  Now they are running around the house. They still don’t know what to do with a ball, I am trying to teach them, they are happy.  I hope something is done about the puppy mill, there are so many here in North Dakota. 

I think dogs are too much trouble.   I wouldn't have another one, and especially not an indoor animal.   You can all say, oh my house doesn't smell, but believe me, your house smells.   :(    There isn't enough Fabreeze in the stores to stop the dog and cat odor..

As my husband and I were traveling from Pittsburgh this weekend everytime we stopped we saw so many people traveling with BIG HUGE DOGS!   I was amazed.   I can't imagine long trips with slobbering dogs, or dogs that let air.   Yuk.  

I am saying I don't like a nice dog, I am ok with it, as long as its someone elses.

Theresa, I think Prairie was mixing me up with you.  I said something about coyotes killing cats and that made her mad (I think).  I was half way kidding about that, and half way not.  We never seem to loose any cats (not even naturally from disease or predators), thus we have an overabundance of cats to take care of.

As for getting animals spayed or neutered, I agree that should  be done.  The original two cats that started our barn cat population were not our cats.  That's why we didn't get them fixed.  Our indoor cats are fixed, as well as our dogs. 

Anyway, Prairie, if you read this, Theresa didn't do anything but rescue a couple of dogs from a puppy mill.  Nothing wrong with that, and she paid alot for them too.   As for me, I spend a whole lot of money on cat food every month feeding the offspring of my neighbors two cats because they didn't bother to have their cats fixed. 

They are going to have a better life than some people, which is so unfortunate for this word.  They are going to loved and fed homemade dog food, made with cooked wild rice and chopped sirloin with vegetables. They have color in their eyes today, yesterday they were charcoal.  They will never sleep outside again and be groomed. All the matted hair was cut out of them, I put four hour into these dogs yesterday, grooming then.

The two males I purchased were going to be used just to stud females that were there only use. What did I do wrong?

Prairie Fire I saved two dogs and I did turn them into PETA.  I don’t, I paid allot of money ($600.00) for these two dogs to get them out of there, I only wanted one.  Now I have w to put about three hundred to get them fixed. Why do you get so mad at me all the time?

I am taking both of the puppies to the vet today with the shot records that she gave me.  She gave them all their shots herself.  I have never been to puppy mill before.  These poor dogs have never run free and their nine months old. She had other dogs Boxers, Weimaraners,  other kinds of terriers.  I think she discovered Scotties are too much work with their coats.   I have to really work on training them but they are so cute.   I am still so amazed you can buy dog shots at home of economy.

I am enough of a cat lover to wish all of you just prevented the cats from multiplying!  Where is PETA?   cats getting shot or fed to  snakes... cruel.  Its best to just get them fixed, or use mouse traps and not hundreds of kittens as traps.

I just don't see it.   Its cruel.   There needs to be a cheaper better way to prevent the overrun of cats and dogs....   The pound if already full of animals going to their death.   Its up to whoever owns the cats to get them fixed...

Don't keep females.    Just keep the males, get them fixed.   No babies.  

You are responsible.   I know it doesn't seem fair, but you need to not keep the females.   Give them away,  or abort. 

Enjoy Theresa.  Have fun.