how did you get your dog?

[CathyBogart]

My first dog, Spike, was the product of an "oops" litter of a family friend.

My second, a cocker named Dusty, was a senior doggie who was abandoned on the freeway and found by a friend of mine. Her two energetic Boston terriers had too much energy for him, so we took him.

Star and Wilbur came from the same local rescue.

Star they took in from the HS because they were going to put her down immediately due to health problems. One of the angels at the rescue took her, got her open heart surgery, and she was declared perfectly fit!

I don't really know Wilbur's story, except that we got him very quickly after the foster mom did. (He was with the same Foster mom that Star had!)

[Amber]

Wow, these are great stories! thanks for sharing!~

[cocker_luva]

i got my Jesse for christmas. my parents went to a shelter or a petshop, (i don't remember which) when she was three months. for about 2-3 days she had to stay at my dad's construction shop, then on christmas morning; she came! my parents planned to put her in a wrapped box with the lid able to flip up. but she ended up jumping out and running around. (thats what woke me up on christmas, the click clack of her nails on the linuliem.)

[stacwase]

We got Jake from a breeder. They were keeping him to show, but then realized he was going to be oversized, and they decided to sell him. He's extremely large for a Sheltie.

We got Pepper from our local shelter. She was a sweet little black poodle/terrier mix. She was older and apparently had been well-loved at one time, because she sure was spoiled!

We got Max from a shelter about 2 hours from here. Our shelter didn't have any dogs we felt a connection to, so we drove to another one which we heard was good and we met Max.

[cloverfdx]

penny was a freebie*mum met a woman who had JRTx pups*

clover was $20 out of the newspaper, mum was a pure rotti who got *knocked up* by a red heeler

and theodore *so ashamed* was from a pet shop, we got him about 12 months ago, he is suppose to be a pure bred chihuahua but is ALOT bigger than he should be .

and our next dog is coming from working stock from a sheep farm, they are border collies cant wait

[Toby's my baby]

We got Thumper (sisters horse) for our birthday several years ago.

We got Cassie (my cat) off the street in and trailer park.

Mittens (sisters cat) is cassies baby

I dont know how we got Boo boo (our dog) because he was here when I was just a baby

and we got Austin ( my horse ) from a horse racer in Fargo, ND

[rg_girlca]

We got our Buddy off the street. He was abandoned I guess cause nobody claimed him after we put up flyers, ads in the papers and reported him to our S.P.C.A.
Fortuately for us, whoever owned him, was their loss but definitely our gain.
He is a Lhasa Apso and we've had him now for 10 years.
He is the most lovable little dog anyone could have. He is definitely a mommies boy as he is stuck to my side no matter what room I am in. If one of the cats come near me, Buddy will literally pushed them out of the way and pluck himself right on me.
He's such a silly little doggie and I love him sooooo much.

[tikeyas_mom]

a lady had 3 dogs two were related*sisters* Tikeyas aunt was spayed, and Tikeyas dad and mom mated and had tikeya and tikeyas sister and two brothers. I got her from the lady when she was 5 weeks old.

[Dixie Belle]

Blue Boy is my husband's dog. His mom had a litter of Dalmation puppies, and let my husband have one. It was my husband's aunt that picked Blue out. He's been in the family for 11 years now.

We got Dixie Belle from a breeder. My husband and I each had pets coming into our marriage, but we wanted one that belonged to the both of us. My husband had picked out this really big male puppy, but there was Belle, sitting at my feet looking at me. I told my husband that I wanted her, and he laughed at me and told me the only reason I did was because she seemed to like me better than him. What does Belle do? At that comment, she gets up and walks over to him, sits at his feet and looks at him. Who could say no to that?

And Missie came from my husband's aunt and uncle. They had gotten her from a breeder. Missie's mother had died during birth, so Missie was totally hand raised. His aunt and uncle really didn't have time to spend with her and wanted to find her a home. My husband had been to their house and played with her, and when he found out was quick to tell them we wanted her. I never saw her until we picked her up. She has become my little princess, especally since I lost Prince.

[krashomatic]

my thunder came as the result of a bad divorce settlement involving the breeder. The terms of the divorce said they were to sell the pups and divide the money, in order to keep her ex from getting a dime she gave me thunder..half of nothing is nothing, but thunder is priceless.

[cali]

shadow- well me, my mom and my brother were in west bank one summer, when my naighbors(and still good family friends even though we have not benn naighbores anymore for years now) anyway she was found wandering the allie, but she was soooooo small when she was found that my naighbor could not keep her, as they had 8 large breed dogs, and 20 cats(they later rehomed most of the animals with relatives, since they could no longer handle that many) so shadow was given to my dad, since he knew we had been looking for a dog anyway.

happy-I had been wanting my own dog since I was 8, I was told when I was older, so at 13 I wanted that dog now. I started researching breeds, and looking at the shelter, etc.. now at first I wanted wither a sky terrier, a silkie terrier, or a cavaleir king charles spanial. then I almost adopted a german short haired pointer, but he was gone by the time we got there with shadow. so we kept searching, while my mom was looking at ads at western feeds, she saw an add for border collies, so my mom went to the bank took out the right amount of money, and told me when I got home from school what she found and took me that night after dancing, we drove all the way to keystown, and found the kennel, then I got to see the puppys, happy crawled on my lap right away, and her sister punch came to play, happy just wanted to cuddle, and was very submissive, I fell in love with happy, and begged my mom, she finally agreed and all the papers and garentees were typed up and printed for us, along with a large bag of food, etc.. and happy came home with me(she still crawls on my lap now like that now )

perky-well after happy started flyball my mom wanted a flyball dog of her own, so she went to the shelter and fell in love with perky, we brought shadow and happy to see her, and home she came(she bite me the day we brought her home, so we were not on good terms from the start lol)

Ripley- well my mom hated seeing perky always bein gcarried around so she went to the shelter and found Ripley, she called my dad at work and my dad ordered her to take Ripley that instant, he is now the flyball dog not perky lol.

misty- my mom decided that I needed another dog, so she started looking, and found misty also at western feeds, she called and we came to see them fell in love with misty and put a deposit on her until she was old enugh to leave her mom.

[pitc9]

Sierra I found at a GSD Rescue through Petfinder.

Buddy I found at a local kill shelter, they had keept him 8 days longer than they should have.
(The big man upstairs must have told them I was comming!!)