Archive Dive Bob and His Dogs 2012

 

All our dogs loved Bob Best, can you see why? Until the BIG dogs came, Big Boy and Beau were/are my dogs.. Jake above was Bob;s Heart dog.

Baby, Cooper and Jake... Cooper and Baby from shelters, Jake from the streets, found starving. We bought the sofa in 2005, and it was too little too late to buy another when we saw we needed more space

Angel Baby and Daddy, Throwback Thursday

 

How to fit a 50 lb dog in a 10 lb bed

Mama found more old photos, just adding them to the label for Baby Girl. Mama said, she had never bought a dog bed and when they rescued/adopted Baby in 2002, she bought a bed.

HA HA on Mama... it was way to small. She loved it. as you can see above. We adopted her in February and 2 months later had to make an emergency trip to my parents' home in Georgia. We had to leave her in a kennel. When we got back, the man came out holding the leash and a big black trash bag.

He held up the bag and said this is her bed. Or what's left of it. 

She had shredded it until we could hardly tell it used to be a bed...she is 10 months in these photos.

She was 13 months old when we adopted Cooper. He just fit himself on the foot to the recliner leg rest because she did not want to share Daddy.

Friday Fallback Angel Baby, Ms. Attitude

 

Always and Forever our baby Girl.... 2002-2015

Pee ESS on Baby Girl

 

Angel Baby Girl said I forgot to tell you about the huge mistake I made a few weeks after we rescued her.  

She was doing so well and had lost her fear of us. She spent her days digging holes to China and also trying to dig out under the fence. 

I am not sure where I got the info because this was Before Internet, but someone said to put pennies in a can and tape the hole shut. Armed with a cola can rattle, the next time she started digging I came up behind her and shook the can back and forth and this one thing flipped her back to FEAR and we had to start over teaching her we would not hurt her. It took several weeks to get past the rattled can.

Cooper not only solved the running away but the digging under the fence problem. Unfortunately, he could not stop her from digging holes to lie in. 

We just let the plants die and loved her. Dirt and all. Cooper was a calm and sweet and kind, gentle dog and so loving to humans and canines and he put up with her from day one. He was our first senior dog adoption.

He was 7 when we rescued him and Big was 5  and Beau was 7. Adopt Senior Pets, they deserve it.

Confession Time on Throwback Thursday

Her Gotcha day, Feb 22, 2002

We found Our Baby Girl at Telesis Rescue, beautiful and badly abused, so badly that she was adopted twice and returned twice to Telesis Rescue. 

Beth made us swear if we could not keep her, that we would bring her back to her and she would keep her the rest of her life.

We found her sleeping in a hole in the big pasture full of horses and dogs. Telesis Rescue let their dogs run free on 25 acres.

the first week of our lives together, she would not walk out the door into the yard until we stood back away from it, like she was afraid we would kick or hit her.

After a few days she learned she was safe walking past us out the door.

she cringed everytime we moved our hands or feet or picked up the broom.

We each of us gently tapped her back with the broom and said Woo Woo Woo we love you until she no longer cringed.

 She remained with us until she went over the rainbow bridge.

 

Today Angel Baby wants to confess that when she was the age above, she was not an angel, and she totally destroyed this Elephant Ear that had been there for 14 years.

the Above plant, was killed along with the firecracker bush that lived next to it.

She was the master at digging holes deep and quickly.

Sleeping on it, laying on it, digging, chasing lizards.

She never did what anyone asked, she would not come when called and Bob would take her to the dog park, to play off leash with the other dogs and he stopped because he could not catch her when he was ready to leave.

There were many times that we said out loud to each other, no wonder she was abused.

We may have said to her a few times, do you want to go live with Beth again?

Then we would hug and kiss her.

She turned our life upside down and after three months of chaos, like running out the door and around the neighborhood in front of cars, she was stubborn to the bone, and rarely did anything when asked.

We called Beth and said how do we keep her from running away?

She is going to get hit by a car.

Beth's answer was; GET Another Dog. and we did.

7-year-old Cooper came and saved our lives.

She loved cooper and never ran away again

We are not sure if it was because she was a FEMALE since she was the only female we ever adopted.

I hope she knows we now have a giant Elephant Ear and its Babies because after she left us, a tiny little plant pushed its way up through the sandy soil and is now the one I can stand under.

Almost 15 years old, Our sweet old girl is furever missed.

We still miss you Baby

4 months are gone and we still miss you sweet Baby Girl.

Baby August 1, 2009

Baby 2001-2015

 Grieve Not, nor speak of me with tears but laugh and speak of me often.

As if I were beside you...'twas Heaven here with you...We loved you so.

RIP Baby Girl 2001 -2015

Rest in peace Sweet Baby Girl 2001-2015

 14 yrs 6 months old, Sadly missed by Daddy, Mommy and Jake