Your Child Hood Dog

[finn's mom]

I had a few dogs for short spans growing up, but my childhood dog that I really connected with and he was really all mine...was Bruno. He was a long haired dachshund and cocker spaniel mix. He was the sweetest dog in the world. I've never met another dog with a temperament like his. I got him as a 13-year-old and put him down when I was almost 27. My childhood cat, Dusty, whom I'd gotten as a 10-year-old, died a few months later. I miss my boys!

[AllAmericanPUP]

Maggie was our first dogs, my parents got her at 8 weeks from an ad in the paper for free.
We definately had alot of dogs when i was growing up but for some reason no matter what happened she was the one who survived everything and stayed with us(my parents did not take good care of the animals we had when i was a kid)
She died in Sept. 06 at 14 1/2 yrs old

[pomtzu]

I had a little black mutt for a very short time when I was about 9 years old - his name was Tex and he was born in Texas to my oldest brother's dog (my brother was living in TX at the time). Unfortunately my parents never got him any vaccines and he got distemper and had to be PTS. I was heartbroken, and after that my father vowed to never have another.
So I never had another dog until I was married - and have never been without at least one ever since. No home is complete without a dog (or cat)!

[dreamparkingspace]

This is Jackson. He was my first dog, a family dog really though. He was born in 1986 and died in 1997 from snout cancer. He was the biggest Golden Retriever ever, weighing in at a whopping 130 lbs. at the time of his death. Perhaps we shouldn't have fed him so much Kibbles 'N' Bits, but we didn't know much about dogs when we had him. He was extremely friendly and very gentle with me when I was an infant from what I'm told (I was born in 1985, one year before big Jackson). My Mom always joked he was part moose because of his massive size. He really was one of those special dogs...

[Suki Wingy]

Oh Roxxy was gorgeous! I still have my baby. We got him when I was 10. He's actually right here next to me as I type.

[animal_rescue]

We had a lot of dogs through the years but the ones that really stuck to me were Simon(German Shepherd), Hannah(German Shepherd), and Abby(Miniature Pincher), Also Maggie but she's still alive and well.

Simon died around the age of 15 due to cancer and sadly Hannah, his half sister, was put down shortly after due to attacking and killing Abby, then a week later attacking Maggie as well as my brother and mom. It was a very sad time.

[tikeyas_mom]

I had a couple Childhood dogs..

We had a Golden Chow mix named Rubble, he was unaltered and took off all the time to find ^girlfriends^ And well one day he didnt come back..
We had two cockers, and we had them till they were older. Then They didnt do well with the youngster children in the house So my parents rehomed them..
They we got Jagg he was a Malamute, we had him till he was 7, he had to be put down That was heart renching (He attacked a cockerspaniel down the street from us) ... Also had a Female Malamute ,Tika, shorty but she also had to be put down (distemper).. We then got Tikeya(sibe), and a few years later got Makia (Red husky/mal ) (she and Tikeya Fought constantly and we had to rehome Makia)

Then when I was 12 we got Tikeya (look at Signature) (she was 5 wks old) I still have her.
And then Oscar (shihtzu) and Baby (great dane)! (parents still have them)

[Zippy]

Mine was a blond boy cocker named Shadow(I love the homeward bound movies).He was a wonderful dog and so smart.

[ramanth]

My parents had an Irish Setter named Rusty when I was a child. He died when I was 8 years old from bloat. He was young too, about 4 years old, I think.

I only have vague memories of him but he was a sweetheart.

We moved shortly after that, was adopted by a stray cat, and had cats ever since.

Losing Rusty was hard on my parents so they never got another dog.