Hello Fellow Hivers!
This is my first post and I'm happy to be here!
Alex and Tod
Dogs have always been a big part of my life. The very first dog that my family got was named Max. He was a very special dog, as he had been rehomed a few times before my dad brought him home. We were living in Germany at the time, as my father was stationed at a US military base around the Bad Cannstatt area. Max followed my dad everywhere, including to work! Max was so well known at the office that they unofficially adopted him as their office mascot!
After moving from Germany to the US (with Max still in tow), we found our next dog Bart, or should I saw he found us! My dad was running along a back road in rural Alabama when a scrawny little "lab" puppy followed him all the way home, about 4 miles! Because he had a coller on, we thought someone would beissing him, so we turned him into the pound. We called everyday, for three days, to check to see if he had been picked up, and by the third day he was ours! We quickly named him Bart and he fell into our routine nicely! He was the best dog to grow up with as by this time Max was much older. Bart allowed me to dress him up and hug on him, he was awesome!
After a few years, Max passed away leaving my parents devastated. They wanted another dog so they researched a bit and found a lovely farm in Tennessee that had Golden Retriever puppies for sale. When we got to the farm they only had one female (my mother's preference) left and it was the runt of the litter and had a "defect" (white spot on her back foot) which caused her to be unshowable (we were thinking of trying to show our first pure breed pupper). Upon seeing here, we knew she was perfect, regardless of the defect. We agreed to take her and named her Ginger, she was amazing! She made me fall in head over heels for the breed immediately.
Here is Ginger being a goof! 🤣
While Ginger was about 3 or 4, we stumbled upon our next dog, Dusti, a beautiful golden retriever "teenager". We had gone to a pet store to buy some dog food, and there she was, right at the entrance at one of those adoption events. Needless to say, we walked out of there with a new dog, as well as food for Bart and Ginger back at home. Dusti was the hardest dog to have, probably because she was traumatized as a puppy. We didn't actually get her full background, but she really never acted like a dog, almost as if she didn't know how. She was very sweet, and loved us very much, but she was kinda one of thoese potato Goldens that didn't want to do anything but eat!
A few years after we got Dusti, Bart and Ginger eventually passed away. I moved out on my own and got my own dog, a Pomeranian named Tod, with one "d" like a baby fox and my parents got another golden, Alex.
Alex
Look, it's a baby Tod!
Tod was my entire world. He was my constant companion for his whole 10.5 years on Earth. He moved with me from Alabama to Alaska and from Alska to California. He fell as hard for my husband as I did. He spent 12 months with my mom while my husband and I were in Australia, and became her little shadow. He was made of love and freely expressed it.
We lost Tod on February 21st, 2020 and a piece of me died that I will never get back again. He left such a creator in heart that i was soon on the search for a puppy. A few days of searching found these babies:
Meet Lewis
And Clark
These boys certainly are living up to their names, they are all exploring all over the place!
Thank you for taking the time to read my first post and I'm looking forward to sharing more cute puppies with you!
Alex and Clark, trying to out-cute each other!
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Ohhhhh my god as a setter mum to my Charlie and Joey this is a blog to my hart
Welcome to the Hive movement and blockchain. You will have fun blogging and vlogging I promise. But in the beginning it’s hard and new and maybe you need help. We have amazing people here and a help discord if you need it. I love blogging, But always be carefull with all your passwords, Never give those up !! I speak from experience !
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Thank you for the warm welcome, fellow Dog Mom!
Welcome here @pommom. Read the suggestions above and start to discover this new world. If you are a photography interested, I created a blockchain-like photography contest. It Is free, for fun, and you are welcome. If you want to know more, visit my blog, the #photochain tag or read the last edition at https://hive.blog/hive-190931/@davidesimoncini/photochain-challenge-31st-edition-start-30th-edition-s-winners
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If you will join in, good Luck 🙂 If you will not, good Luck for your future here anyway 😉
Oh how I wish I got to meet some of these beautiful dogs
Welcome aboard the Hive, mate! I can think of only a few introductions better than a bucket load of puppies, and they're so adorable! I like how you'd just bend down, and see a load of fluffs curling up under your coffee table. Your stories make it even more wonderful, too.
I hope you have a great time, and thanks for sharing your love with the community here. Great to have you onboard, and have a lovely day :-D
Thank you so much for the warm welcome! My husband @johneyreacko got me interested in the Hive blockchain and community and I and happy to be here.
Puppies are wonderful, but I still can't believe that we took on two at once!! We must be crazy! 🙃
Ah, great to see your hubby here, too! I do love dogs, though my apartment is too cruelly small for a dog to roam around. Plus, dogs aren't allowed ☹️. But one day, I dream that I'll have my own puppy companion to accompany each other in our many (mis)adventures! Crazy is sometimes a good thing 😆
One day your puppy dream will be a reality and oh boy! You will have the best time!!
I keep my fingers crossed, and I can't wait 😍
Oh that puppy stampede!!
It's certainly the perfect way to go out 😆
ALL the dogs 😁😅🤣
Hahah, it's too bad I don't currently try have pictures for ALL MY DOGS, lol!
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