New puppy smell is the best! It’s almost like babies. And he has the cutest push beans
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I pick my elderly, overweight (75 pounds and maybe beagle sized), strangely lumpy rescue on Sunday. This afternoon I’m going shopping for her. I can’t wait! Her sad, worried little face is going to be plastered all over this thread, I’m sure. Be prepared!
Well, here, from the rescue site, lol. Let the plastering begin! Buttons:
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What a sweet face!
Right? We’ve been talking a lot here about my desire to make it a happy face. My husband spends a lot of time doing rugged work on a 165 acre slice of mountain, and I joked one day that maybe [that place] will be Buttons’ happy-face place. And he was like “So that’s after I pick her up and put her in the truck?” (F250.) “Or will I get the ramp out, and she’ll get in by herself? Pretty tall ramp, huh?” Hahaha. I was all “Buttons does NOT ride in the back, just so you know.”
He hasn’t had a dog, so this is my deal and a chance for him to see if he’d be down for sharing in the good and bad of a more energetic creature.
I’m hoping she can get in my Cherokee without help. Apparently she had to be completely lifted and placed in the foster mother’s car. But surely when she sees the kinds of adventures the Cherokee goes on (windows down, system up!) she’ll get lit up with enough joyous energy to make the jump.
So, so excited to pamper this goofy dog with lake trips and super-slow jogs and a 2.5 acre backyard of fallen apples and other delights.
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How old is she?
Be careful with the music. I just recently learned the dogs often find loud music unpleasant. I also think their hearing can be damaged easier than ours can with loud music.
I am not saying you would blast your dog with music BTW. Just a warning. I myself have started to have the music just a bit less loud when the dogs are in the car.
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Gonna be a buzzkill here, but apple seeds contain trace amount of cyanide that’s harmless to humans but VERY bad for dogs.
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Super adorable.
Looks like she would like to chase rabbits.
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They say 7-8, so I’m hoping a healthy lifestyle will help her be/feel more youthful. She should have a good 5-6 years in her as a medium sized dog.
You guys are bringing me RIGHT DOWN.
No, just kidding. I don’t imagine her eating the apples, nor would I let her, but I do think a dog from S.C. will find New England a place of interesting smells, and apples are one of those interesting smells.
As for the music, I will try to be responsive. I mean, I think generally, as a person, I’m pretty acutely responsive to discomfort in others.
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We have 'em! We also have, variously, foxes, deer, woodchucks, birds and chipmunks (the latter two we feed, so yard citizens of that sort are plentiful).
It’s hard for me to imagine Buttons actually catching any of them. Maybe after she joins in the T-ransformation with me, though!
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A few brisk waddles and those chipmunks are gonna have their hands full. 
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The Black Pup here is Milo. (Little puppy is our neighbors that was wife was dog sitting today). German Shepard/ Border Collie mix that my wife rescued our senior year of high school.
Got him at about 2 years, malnourished as hell, weighing about 50lbs, and with an intense phobia of men. Would tremble if a man walked in a room, god forbid I raised my voice (not yelling, literally raising my voice as if to talk to my wife from another room), had some serious fear issues, would not even look a person in the eye.
When I got called in to dog sit after my wife went out of town (remember, we were in high school back then), this dog would not come near me. As in, he would sprint around the house to avoid me. I spent the better part of an hour trying to get my hands on this dog so I could take him for a walk, finally going into the garage and making a legit lasso to catch him. Dog was trying to bite me from the moment I got him on the rope, rough time. However, Milo loves to run. I mean, LOVES IT. So Milo and I went for a 5 mile run that night, and after the first 1/4 mile where he kept snapping at me, he got into it. We’ve been best buds ever since.
Fast forward 7 years, he is 78lbs, absolutely devoted to my wife, always buries his head in my lap when I sit down so that he can get all the pets, and loves bedtime more than any dog I have ever met. On our last walk of the night, we will legitimately call out “bedtime” and his damn tail wags so hard you’d think it’s about to fall off. His persona is the quintessential old man, and we love it.
This is Charlie. Charlie is an asshole. German Shepard/Yellow Lab mix, wife rescued this one when his previous owner dumped him at 7 weeks. Charlie is super smart, and completely ridiculous. I have never met a dog that wanted to cuddle as much as this damn dog, but if my wife or I are in any way static, he HAS to be touching us. Whether it’s laying with us on the couch or smothering our feet in bed, Charlie loves to feel included.
Charlie also is obnoxious as hell. Growing up he had some land, so when we moved to the city, he had to prove he was alpha. He loves to play rough with other dogs, and will bark like bloody murder at any dog who walks near us. Which is super annoying, considering Charlie is deep down a complete and total chicken shit who will attempt to hide behind my 5”0 wife whenever another dog so much as growls at him. He also talks to us. Ridiculously vocal, will just sit there and argue with you when he wants a treat or a game of tug. I regularly tell him he is being unreasonable, but he does not seem to get the message.
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I had a lab/shepherd mix who looked a lot like Charlie, except his ears laid down, who was very similar in terms of the vocal peace (“George, for the love of God, STOP MOANING!”) and the physically close thing. We got him from the shelter at ~2. So smart, George. But a bit long on the drama.
I miss him. But, we pick Buttons up today! The foster mom sent a set of pictures yesterday, and Buttons is actually looking kind of like a real dog!
When we saw her she was only 4 days post-spaying and had just been transported north. Now I’m thinking basset-something. SO EXCITED.
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Interesting nose, like my first dog when I was a kid, Peanut. Sorta beagle/coonhound like, definitely a critter chaser and loved to follow her nose.
She’ll have a ball in a couple acres of old apple orchard. That’s like critter city.
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I feel you on the drama haha. For a while we thought he might have some husky in him just due to his talking, but the doggy genetics test (which I swear is the most subarban white thing I have ever done in my life) confirmed the Shepard/lab mix.
As for the ears, yes, they stick straight up
Buttons looks like a good pup, I can see a little basset in her. The uptick nose and coat length seem to check out. Congrats on your new pet!
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Well… how is Buttons? Is she home?
@EmilyQ we want pictures!!
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OMG, you guys, she’s the absolute goofball best! Every day brings some new excitement. The first wiggly-butt tail wag when we woke up on the second day, the first tiny frisky move (front paws up an inch or so during the walk) that afternoon, then, on morning two (yesterday) a sudden burst of slow trotting while she was out in the morning, followed by a full-on frisky episode and further run later in the day. At this point every time she looks at us she starts wagging. I’m in love, and the husband, whose deal this was not, has been overheard avowing his love to Buttons. (May drop the “s.” We haven’t decided, though. Is she one Button, or several?)
I need to take the phone out with me today for our morning walk and get some fresh pics, because I swear every day she looks younger and healthier. She’s on antibiotics, and we’ve been snowshoeing 2-3 times a day around the yard making trails (she flounders in the snow, we have a really unusually powdery 12-18" or so base) which I think has been good for her (all of us). The problem with pics is that it’s cold out there! I don’t think it’s hit 20 F this week. Here she is on Monday (picked her up on Sunday):
Monday night. We’re putting on our gear, which has her interest piqued. At this point she didn’t have any language, but when I put on my hat, she leapt down. She’s learning “outside” now.
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