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ok, who needs a straight pool mascot? i found her yesterday abandoned and very very hungry. unlike my less-than wonderful neighbors, i couldn't just leave her.... i think that she's a blood hound / basset mix. short legs with a bloodhound face. lots of humor value and she doesn't have a mean bone in her entire doggie body. gotta find a home for her QUICKLY because i'm moving...
 

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yeah, and god sent about 150 others my way too. if i didn't have two other dogs i'd take her with me. i can't do it physically nor financially.
 
david: i'm just south of fort worth. she's about a year old. her teeth are very clean but not sharp like a puppy. i think that she's a dachshund / basset hound mix. she looks like a big dachshund with big paws and a hound dog face. she is incredibly affectionate and polite.

THANKS, i really appreciate it!
 

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That looks dachshund and beagle. I have two long-haired dachshunds (in El Paso - about 800 miles from you)... no room here, but I will ask around. I have a cousin that lives in Rockwall, I'll let her know also. Rep to you for having the heart and taking the time to find her a home.
 
thanks david! yeah, she might be dachshund/beagle mix but she does have those big front paws and big knees with wrinkled skin like a basset hound. we'll never know for sure but what i do know is that she really really wants to be part of a family. i'd let her in the house but Pudge, -the big headed dog-, wants to impregnate her. so she is now sleeping on the porch on a comfy pad and pudge is inside... i think i'll name her, Daisy. it's not very creative but it fits her.

straightman: rockwall is doable but still a 2.5 hour drive in my old gas guzzler truck. david; if they will take her maybe i could meet them in north dallas at my friend's place.

thanks, Qstix!
 
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thanks david! yeah, she might be dachshund/beagle mix but she does have those big front paws and big knees with wrinkled skin like a basset hound. we'll never know for sure but what i do know is that she really really wants to be part of a family. i'd let her in the house but Pudge, -the big headed dog-, wants to impregnate her. so she is now sleeping on the porch on a comfy pad and pudge is inside... i think i'll name her, Daisy. it's not very creative but it fits her.

straightman: rockwall is doable but still a 2.5 hour drive in my old gas guzzler truck. david; if they will take her maybe i could meet them in north dallas at my friend's place.

thanks, Qstix!
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If they do want her and if they can not meet you half way. Let me know & I will come to your place. We can drive her to Rockwall in my pick up and I'll take you back home.
 
Nice thing you're doing, you're a good man. ;) I'm just curious how you are sure she was abandoned rather than is lost. Is there any chance someone is looking for her? If there is that would be the easiest and best solution for the pooch.

Her sweet nature comes through in the pictures.
 
mike: thanks so much for that generous offer. i can't impose on you like that though. i'll have to figure something out. i just put a new 110lb differential gear cluster in my 62, 3/4 Chev and it still has a strange vibration albeit not nearly as bad as before. i need to crawl back under there and check thing out but thanks again for offering your help. you were willing to go way out of your way to help. that's huge...

DogsPlayingPool: when i first found her hunkered by some mailboxes, ( dumped sign #1.) . i went to the nearest home which is a really nice, new, two story brick house. i was hoping that they'd be normal. their driveway is about 1/8 mile long... i got there and heard lots of people inside and rang the bell... nothing... rang again.... nothing.... but the rednecks inside sounded like morons so i left. i tried to get her to follow me home but she wouldn't so i went home, got some food/water and rode the harley out to the dog. she was ravenously hungry which was dumped sign #2. she seemed to know about cars and the road and the weather was nice so i left her there and went out the next morning with my truck to pick her up. as i approached i saw her laying on the roadway near the rednecks driveway. i feared that she got hit by a car but she was just sleeping.... she now knew my voice and got all happy to see me. i picked her up and put her in the truck and brought her home and gave her more food which she gobbled in no time flat.

so she was dumped and waiting for her owners to return at the mailboxes and also hoping that the rednecks would take her in. it wasn't a bad plan but it wasn't working. i have no idea how long she was there but i'm guessing at least three days. i've rescued a LOT of dogs since moving to the country and now can tell pretty quickly which are owned and which are not. if i thought that someone owned her, i wouldn't take her back anyway because they weren't taking care of her. there's no shortage of desperate, owned dogs. i've rescued (stolen) a few of those too... that's how i got my wonderful pitbull dog, shimi who died in dec 2001. god, i loved that dog. i rescued her and another puppy, chow mix, who had her paw chopped off and bone sticking out, from some nasty, druggie trailer home. i went back and rescued another and called the humane society on the bastards because they had a pit chained to a tree without shelter. i took shimi everywhere with me. she'd sit patiently in the car waiting for me to return with the windows down and all of my valuables in plane view. when someone would come too close, she'd just show her teeth and give a low growl. no one ever messed with my stuff with Shimi in the car....
 

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Thanks Sausage. I've taken in a few strays in my time and returned lost dogs to their owners as well. I've always gone on the theory the dog was lost rather than dumped and exhausted every means of finding the owner first because of the possibility there is a little boy or girl somewhere crying themselves to sleep at night because of their lost dog.

A lost dog obviously would be hungry and scared too. But certainly there is only so much you can do to find an owner besides looking for and putting out signs, putting found ads in the paper, checking all the local vet offices to see if they recognize the dog and having the dog scanned for a microchip.

The little critter was certainly fortunate to cross your path. It sounds like she now has a chance for a happy home.
 
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Thanks Sausage. I've taken in a few strays in my time and returned lost dogs to their owners as well. I've always gone on the theory the dog was lost rather than dumped and exhausted every means of finding the owner first because of the possibility there is a little boy or girl somewhere crying themselves to sleep at night because of their lost dog.

A lost dog obviously would be hungry and scared too. But certainly there is only so much you can do to find an owner besides looking for and putting out signs, putting found ads in the paper, checking all the local vet offices to see if they recognize the dog and having the dog scanned for a microchip.

The little critter was certainly fortunate to cross your path. It sounds like she now has a chance for a happy home.
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Very, very good points. 100% correct on everything.
Hopefully Sausage can find the rightful owner or find that pup a home.
Keep us posted.


PS; Sausage, if you need my help by driving somewhere, let me know. The offer is still there.
 
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Very, very good points. 100% correct on everything.
Hopefully Sausage can find the rightful owner or find that pup a home.
Keep us posted.


PS; Sausage, if you need my help by driving somewhere, let me know. The offer is still there.
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In my area we are fortunate in that we have no-kill shelters. I'll try to find the owner on my own but sometimes even with the best efforts the two of you just don't cross paths. Most owners will at least check in with the shelters so being no-kill makes it more palatable to bring the dog there if I have to while giving the owner and dog a good shot at reuniting.
 
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i live way out in the country. dogs don't get lost out here. they know their way home. but i have found dogs that were clearly lost before. i found a $2,000, german, short-hair, bird dog not to long ago. what to do? she was roaming right off the highway. i feared that she'd be killed or maimed by a car. i could tell by her mannerisms that she was lost. but i knew a hunter who had hunter friends over at his place in Aquilla, Tx so i took her out there and a guy who hunts birds was overjoyed to have her. she now lives in colorado. but even if the dog has a home, it doesn't mean that they are happy or tended. often the hunter sticks the dog in a kennel and take it out only to go hunting. i've known rednecks who do just that. furthermore, this new dog would not follow me home but ran back to the 'comfort' of the mailboxes. there are a few scattered homes and she was obviously on her own for a while when i found her and would have been very easy to find by the owner. when i left my gate open by mistake, she did not leave. this isn't a dog who wanders away from home. also, this area gets a lot of dumped dogs and there are no 'lost dog' signs anywhere. if i thought for one second that she was owned, i'd be eager to give her back because my big male dog, Pudge wants to mate with her. it's a big problem....
 
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