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Post by grizabella on Nov 24, 2011 3:23:14 GMT -5
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Post by rockabillygoaty on Nov 24, 2011 10:45:53 GMT -5
She looks as though she was high maintenence with that great coat!
But whatever effort you put in, I be you got 110% love back?
Its nice that you went for another type of breed entirely this time.
Hate it, when people get a dog to take the place of a passed one and it usualy looks exactly like the one before.
If you know what I mean?
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Post by grizabella on Nov 24, 2011 16:27:43 GMT -5
Yes, a lot of brushing, and lots of shedding!
I can imagine getting the same breed as a previous dog (I can see myself with more Salukis in the future!), but I don't understand why you'd want to replace a dog with one as similar as possible, I'd have thought that if you got one like that you'd almost resent the new one because as much as you might like it, it wouldn't be the old one.
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Post by Gazinghound on Dec 18, 2011 18:35:15 GMT -5
Isn't it tragic how you can grow up together, yet your dog starts growing old while you're still so young? *sigh*
She's precious. Cute tissue box, too, hehe. (I'm always on the hunt for new and interesting tissue boxes. For all the millions of possibilities for cool tissue box imagery, the supermarkets seem to carry nothing but the same old ones month after month after month.)
I can imagine all of the brushing & shedding--Rusty's is extreme, and Goldens are a lot more heavily coated than Britts!
Speaking of which, I can sort of understand both sides. My dad used to have an orange-and-white Brittany named Rusty, and now we have another, in that dog's honor. He never wanted to replace the old Rusty, but he also never resented our current one for not being the same dog or "living up to him.” They're totally different, and he understands that. He doesn’t regret the name choice; in fact, our new Beagle pup was, at length, dubbed Jack—after our old one, whom he’d adopted from a shelter. "Jack II" is far tinier, but looks a lot like Jack I color-wise--right down to the white spot on his black back.
I could see how it might be more painful the more similar the dogs are, knowing that the new will still never be the old--and yet maybe in some ways it can also be kind of nice. In a much less serious way, it's like my old Mutsy dog that I wore out by dragging him everywhere as a kid, causing him to be washed so many times that he lost a lot of fur and fluffiness. My mom got me a second Mutsy, but I refused to give mine up, letting my brother take the newcomer. Well, by now I love both Mutsys, and they lie comfortably together on my shelf. ^^
Someone in my family once wanted to give a child the same name as a previous baby who had died--now THAT I would really not want to do.
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Post by grizabella on Dec 19, 2011 1:27:28 GMT -5
I think it depends on your state of mind and reason why you want a dog very similar to one that is passed. There's a difference between naming 'in honour of' and trying to replace the passed dog as much as possible.
I couldn't imagine doing that with a child though!
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Post by Gazinghound on Dec 19, 2011 2:43:52 GMT -5
Exactly; I agree entirely. And awww, you still look so similar to the way you did when Tigs was just a pup!  |
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Post by grizabella on Dec 19, 2011 5:00:03 GMT -5
Apparently I am eternally youthful, I have been told more than once that I look about 12!  |
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Post by Gazinghound on Dec 24, 2011 2:34:09 GMT -5
Aha-! Well, I wouldn’t exactly say THAT—you’ve definitely matured…but I feel you. Everybody thinks I’m still a teenager and barely wants to believe my license when I show it to them. The bartender at the wedding last month wouldn’t serve me anything but an extremely watered-down drink even after my MOM vouched for my age. Dx
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Post by grizabella on Dec 27, 2011 3:28:02 GMT -5
I expect one day we will consider our youthful looks to be a blessing! Hehe ;D I wasn't even allowed to try a piece of food at the supermarket at the tasting table last year, the lady said I needed a parent with me. So I came back with my mum who told the lady that I was in fact 17. The lady was shocked- she'd thought I was about 12! I'm often thought to be the younger sister, though my little sister is two and a half years younger. |
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Post by Gazinghound on Dec 27, 2011 12:29:41 GMT -5
;D Yeah, everyone reminds me that at some point, you WANT to look younger than you are! Ahaw! Sheesh. I'm glad that I couldn't possibly be taken for either of my little brothers, but my mom has been told numerous times that she and I could be sisters.  I suppose it's true |
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I suppose it's true