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chatt-townVOL said:
Me and my wife's 13 year old Golden "Max" wearing my wife's cap from the day she graduated from UT.

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Behr said:
Cool, now I know two other Goldens on Volnation besides mine.

Beautiful Dog Chatt. Seems he's like Behr my Golden, he ain't always happy about posing with a hat on, but he'll do it.
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VolFan4Life87 said:
He looks so wise with the cap and gray face haha :p
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BigOrangeWhitey said:
Black cap, black & gold tassels. Your wife graduate from University of Tennessee at Vanderbilt? Ya'll come outta the closet. JK!! Max looks very proper
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Just an update, we lost our sweet boy Max a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed with Lymphoma back in April, and we went through several different treatments and medications to try to cure it. It got to a point where he was just miserable, he couldn't stand on his own and he was just always feeling bad.

Anyways thank you all for the kind words regarding him, we miss our boy everyday. My wife got him when she was 10 years old. He made me into a dog lover and I'm sure we will eventually get another dog but he will never be replaced.
 
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Sadie the Golden Retriever and Toto the Cairn Terrier. Both of them just over a year now.
 

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chatt-townVOL said:
Just an update, we lost our sweet boy Max a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed with Lymphoma back in April, and we went through several different treatments and medications to try to cure it. It got to a point where he was just miserable, he couldn't stand on his own and he was just always feeling bad.

Anyways thank you all for the kind words regarding him, we miss our boy everyday. My wife got him when she was 10 years old. He made me into a dog lover and I'm sure we will eventually get another dog but he will never be replaced.
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My condolences...as a life long dog lover and old guy I've had some of the experiences you refer to...its tough I know but if you're like me you'll still be thinking about and your 'boy' and smiling 30-40 years from now
 
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volsgal03 said:
I have to say I love big dogs, not fond of little dogs they yap too much, and I refer to them as drop-kick dogs. I was watching the animal planet one day where this little dog had 4lbs of matting on his body and once they shaved it off him and he got better he really was the cutest little dog, I dont know how owners abuse their own pets. All these pets are cute, I still prefer the big dogs you can roll wrestle with em.
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I used to feel the way you do but after I got married my wife liked Terriers so we always had a mixture of Rotties, Labs, and Terriers ....then my daughter came along and added strays and all sorts of critters to the mix including horses

Everyone always got along except one particular breed, Carrin Terriers...one in particular was such a wild dog....she was red and her personality matched her color....we had to feed her in another room, even the Rotties wouldn't eat when was around, and they wouldn't look her in the eyes....she had such a huge heart..
 
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Ducreux said:
I used to feel the way you do but after I got married my wife liked Terriers so we always had a mixture of Rotties, Labs, and Terriers ....then my daughter came along and added strays and all sorts of critters to the mix including horses

Everyone always got along except one particular breed, Carrin Terriers...one in particular was such a wild dog....she was red and her personality matched her color....we had to feed her in another room, even the Rotties wouldn't eat when was around, and they wouldn't look her in th
e eyes....she had such a huge heart..
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Cairn terriers are neat dogs
 
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This is Lenny and he is back home, acclimated, in puppy school and we have an electrical fence now. Don't know who knows the story or not, but he was frightened at a friends house by cats when my wife took him over to visit. He got away, and was gone for 17 days. After a ton of help, signs, giving up at least 4 times, including 14 days out when we assumed he was dead after not hearing for a week, he ran right in front of us after we received a ton of calls, but ran back into the woods. My wife got him back on day 17 after he got close enough to eat a hotdog and smelled that it was her.
17 days. Still can't believe it. He came back looking like he had been at football camp and had no injuries. He had just been living in the woods and running a creek that runs about a 2-3 mile circle and going out to look for his house, then going back in the woods. Local news actually did a story on him and the help we got.

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chatt-townVOL said:
See my post at the top of the page from 8/14. We just lost our boy about a month ago. I miss him like crazy so I feel your pain.
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I just read that post. I feel for ya as well, not easy I imagine.

I always look forward to going back home from school and seeing and playing with him. Gonna be weird going back and he's not there freaking out when he sees me for the first time in months.

Really though, my little brother was texting me about it and was taking it hard (we got the dog when my youngest bro was about 7 (now 15)). We did text back and forth about the good memories we had with him and I couldn't help but smile. It really is crazy how much they mean to you
 
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Spartacavolus said:
This is Lenny and he is back home, acclimated, in puppy school and we have an electrical fence now. Don't know who knows the story or not, but he was frightened at a friends house by cats when my wife took him over to visit. He got away, and was gone for 17 days. After a ton of help, signs, giving up at least 4 times, including 14 days out when we assumed he was dead after not hearing for a week, he ran right in front of us after we received a ton of calls, but ran back into the woods. My wife got him back on day 17 after he got close enough to eat a hotdog and smelled that it was her.
17 days. Still can't believe it. He came back looking like he had been at football camp and had no injuries. He had just been living in the woods and running a creek that runs about a 2-3 mile circle and going out to look for his house, then going back in the woods. Local news actually did a story on him and the help we got.
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wow, great story, glad he got back home to yall. I would hate going through that, not knowing if he was alive or what. Guess he went back to those instincts to stay alive in the woods!
 
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Spartacavolus said:
This is Lenny and he is back home, acclimated, in puppy school and we have an electrical fence now. Don't know who knows the story or not, but he was frightened at a friends house by cats when my wife took him over to visit. He got away, and was gone for 17 days. After a ton of help, signs, giving up at least 4 times, including 14 days out when we assumed he was dead after not hearing for a week, he ran right in front of us after we received a ton of calls, but ran back into the woods. My wife got him back on day 17 after he got close enough to eat a hotdog and smelled that it was her.
17 days. Still can't believe it. He came back looking like he had been at football camp and had no injuries. He had just been living in the woods and running a creek that runs about a 2-3 mile circle and going out to look for his house, then going back in the woods. Local news actually did a story on him and the help we got.

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Great story Sparty.

My boy Tank was stolen, one week before his first birthday. We found him 9 months later 75 miles from home. He wandered up to a camp ground.
 
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DocVOLiday said:
wow, great story, glad he got back home to yall. I would hate going through that, not knowing if he was alive or what. Guess he went back to those instincts to stay alive in the woods!
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yes. The daily and nightly pictures in my head of what could be happening to him were bothersome and looking around constantly wore on the minds of us all. With a dog being hit by a car or dying due to sickness, you mourn and move on. This was different. However, rat terrier types are ridiculous hunters and this area was a utopia for him with fresh water, rabbits, squirrels, moles, rats, fish, etc. He did "go wild" or "veral" I think its called on us, which is why he wouldn't get help from anyone and just went into survival in the woods mode.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
yes. The daily and nightly pictures in my head of what could be happening to him were bothersome and looking around constantly wore on the minds of us all. With a dog being hit by a car or dying due to sickness, you mourn and move on. This was different. However, rat terrier types are ridiculous hunters and this area was a utopia for him with fresh water, rabbits, squirrels, moles, rats, fish, etc. He did "go wild" or "veral" I think its called on us, which is why he wouldn't get help from anyone and just went into survival in the woods mode.
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My wire haired terrier is constantly hunting, when she's not sleeping or eating. She supplements her dog food diet with moles and mice all the time. She'll catch them in her mouth, chomp them once to kill them, and then swallow them whole before my wife can force her to drop it.

She can also smell frogs that are hibernating under the ground. Those she like to dig up, kill and leave on top of the hill to ripen a few days. Then, when it's nice and smelly, she loves to go roll in them and then come running into the house and jumps in your lap so you can enjoy the lovely odor with her. :yuck:

That's her on the right. Notice Charlie on the left is pulling a new stick for the pack's ever ongoing stick game.

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Hunting.
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Clearly dug something up, most likely a frog that is "seasoning".
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nice pics. And yes. His hunting ability is awesome. He's brought in several things into the house: mouse, mole, snake, chipmunk. And you have to be Oregon quick to catch a chipmunk. He cuts them off and pounces, then he shakes them like a stuffed animal with his head back and forth maybe once or twice and snaps their necks.
And any squeak toy in the house, he has to get the squeeker or "heart" out of it after playing with it for a few days., then prances around the house with the actual squeaker in his mouth like a trophy.
 
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