Pet Photos thread where too much is never enough.

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Guess what I found while cleaning out my old office?  Yup, more dog pictures.  I can now post a pic of every dog I've had, which might also just barely fit under the number limit for photos.  Let's try:

First up: Bunny, a puppy born right around 1970 of my families ugly cur and my older brother's butt ugly mutt, making her a pure bred mongrel.  My best guess: terrier and spaniel with a dash of almost everything else.  She weighted 12 pounds.




Second: Sandy, adopted in 1979 as a somewhat older dog.  She was a Collie/German Shepherd cross.  Sweet with people, submissive to even the smallest of bully dogs, but death to cats.  She died at 12 of kidney failure.



Third: Daisy bought her as a young pup out of a newspaper add when both Sandy and Lia's elkhound were close to dying.  She is, you guessed it, a dalmatian.  Unfortunately for her, this would have been in the early/mid 80's when I was busy with finishing college, work and helping to raise my stepson.




Fourth: Sophie, a Golden retriever/Lab cross I found as a young pup in a newspaper ad.  I've shown photos of her as an older dog.  This is her as a puppy on her first camping trip to Arizona in 1995.




Fifth: Fletcher, my first herding dog, a pure bred blue merle Australian Shepherd, came to us on September 18, 2002 at about 4 years of age when Lia's uncle Stew died.  He lived another ten years with us.




Sixth: Heidi Rose, came to us as a young dog from a rescue in the Siera foothills just over a year old in October of 2010 and is still doing fine.  She is probably an Australian Shepherd/Cattle dog cross with perhaps hints of German Shepherd as well.  She is the one with different colored eyes.




Seventh: Smokey, a deliberate cross of an Australian Shepherd and Cattle dog purchased from a breeder in Colorado three years ago.  This one was taken a year ago when he was two.