I would have thought that there would have been more postings in this section? I just love animals and most especially DOGS. The picture here is my Ziggy....The Dauntless Dachshund (Red Brindle Miniature Dachshund). I actually have 3 dogs in all; a black female Labrador Retriever, and an other Mini Dachsie, Zakry (black and tan). This has become one of the most rewarding Menagerie of Mutts I have ever had. Perhaps the most amazing part of this collection of canines is Zig. I never realized that Dachshunds of any size or shape would have anything to do with water. When Zig was about a year old and after repeatedly getting into the shower with me, he started following my Lab out into one of our lakes as she retrieved logs that I had thrown out there for her. I wish I had had a video camera. You just wouldn't believe it. Now, back home he and Tasha, the Lab, have their own "swimming pools" of sorts. I got one shorter and one taller livestock watering containers at Tractor Supply with automatic fillers. Zig can actually "flat foot" it into both of the containers.
Not only do two out of the three dogs love to swim, they all love to eat veggies out of my garden. Currently they all will not only eat, but the little devils will actually pick my Japanese eggplants, tomatoes, okra, and cucumbers. Now understand, this is not vandalism, but they actually will sometime fight over who gets their fair share.
Anyway, I hope everyone has had a good and safe summer and all of our wonderful furry friends are doing well and will be more inclined to share more stories here about their stories here.
BTW, I know most everyone knows about certain foods that will either make dogs sick or actually kill them like chocolate, but recently I found a few more that I would have never known about. I have a friend in the UK that has a mate at work whose wife killed one of their dogs by feeding it fresh grapes. If you Google this you might be amazed, I certainly was as you can see that my mutts are use to eating veggies. The other thing is onions and finally some of the newer non-nutritive sweeteners. The ones in particular are the sugar alcohols like: Mannitol, Xylito, and Erythritol, etc. You might be eating some of these foods that have these in them if you are eating some sort of reduced calorie food or snack. This really opened my eyes insofar that you could very innocently sicken or worse yet, kill you best friend.
Regards................
