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7/9/2026 2:22pm
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I’ve got one dog that doesn’t bark. That dog is not Mardi. Squirrel, she’s barking. Birds, she’s barking. Random truck driving down 281, she’s barking. I’m...

I’ve got one dog that doesn’t bark. That dog is not Mardi. Squirrel, she’s barking. Birds, she’s barking. Random truck driving down 281, she’s barking. I’m sitting in my recliner, she’s barking. Catahoula Character! 
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Went to the Doctor this morning. Safety wired the gate. Kennel is in the middle of the kitchen, nothing close, two steps up from the rest of the house. 

Four hours. The kennel was off the two steps down and now standing on end. She had forced the side door open. ……and proceeded to trash my house. Inner tube package shredded. Bag over my CR250 engine, shredded. Two of my tshirts, chest bitten out. Took the freshly cerakoted brake calipers out of the box and dropped them on the floor. 

She made it clear to me today, it’s personal, game on. 😎😡🤣🤣🤣

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7/12/2026 8:33am

I got down voted for this Pic yesterday in another thread.

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ToolMaker wrote:
I got down voted for this Pic yesterday in another thread.

I got down voted for this Pic yesterday in another thread.

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It’s a beautiful picture. No thumbs down can change that. 👍🏻

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7/12/2026 8:40am Edited Date/Time 7/12/2026 11:18am

We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

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7/12/2026 8:48am
ToolMaker wrote:
We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

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How are those Blue Healers to train?

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7/12/2026 11:21am
ToolMaker wrote:
We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

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How are those Blue Healers to train?

You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD (everyone understands that explination). Not a dog for the weak minded owner, that's for sure.

TM

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7/12/2026 11:55am
ToolMaker wrote:
We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

We are now up to 1 Germanshepherd, 1 Mal, 1 Ausi, and 1 Blue Healer, 3 🐈‍⬛, 1 🐢

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How are those Blue Healers to train?

ToolMaker wrote:
You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD...

You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD (everyone understands that explination). Not a dog for the weak minded owner, that's for sure.

TM

Thanks for the info. Honestly at my age , I’m not up for that.

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7/12/2026 1:02pm

Thanks for the info. Honestly at my age , I’m not up for that.

Truth be told, Blue Healers while they can make great pets, they are working dogs and very few households should consider them for pets. Very high energy dogs! We did not pick this one, it picked us. It was hanging around the front gate (we live on a fast moving rural street) The kids brought it in so it wouldn't get run over. After a few days of posts on multiple boards that we have this dog with no response, a little bit of Perry Mason work and come to find out someone dumped a load of pups in the neighborhood. My wife fell in love with this little dog who BTW is funnier than shit. One of her favorite past time is dropping the ball from top of the hill, letting it get a head start then running like a maniac to go get it. Comes back up the hill and does the same thing for 2 hours. She bounces like she's on springs. One minute she's on the ground, the next she's on top of a 4ft wall. She's part Jilly goat. Anyway, she's a great dog and loves everything about life!

TM

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7/12/2026 5:48pm

How are those Blue Healers to train?

ToolMaker wrote:
You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD...

You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD (everyone understands that explination). Not a dog for the weak minded owner, that's for sure.

TM

Thanks for the info. Honestly at my age , I’m not up for that.

They’re highly active, strong willed, stubborn, and ARE NOT for the uninitiated. They’re bred to herd cattle. They will herd you, the wife, but especially kids if they’re not entertained. 

Working dogs can make great pets, but you’ve got to give them a job. Big balls of hyperactive aggressive energy. It’s a 40 pound dog, that’s bred to bite 1200 pound cows! Fearless to the point of stupidity.
 

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7/12/2026 7:14pm
ToolMaker wrote:
You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD...

You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD (everyone understands that explination). Not a dog for the weak minded owner, that's for sure.

TM

Thanks for the info. Honestly at my age , I’m not up for that.

MoogenKen wrote:
They’re highly active, strong willed, stubborn, and ARE NOT for the uninitiated. They’re bred to herd cattle. They will herd you, the wife, but especially kids...

They’re highly active, strong willed, stubborn, and ARE NOT for the uninitiated. They’re bred to herd cattle. They will herd you, the wife, but especially kids if they’re not entertained. 

Working dogs can make great pets, but you’ve got to give them a job. Big balls of hyperactive aggressive energy. It’s a 40 pound dog, that’s bred to bite 1200 pound cows! Fearless to the point of stupidity.
 

Yep, to old for that. 😆

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7/29/2026 9:33am Edited Date/Time 7/29/2026 9:35am

We've modified our workout room to give him a huge padded dog bed, and rubber floor mats. He has a difficult time on hardwood floors, and we can't afford to have him slipping.

We also keep the A/C cranked for his spoiled ass. 🙂

So now when he's in there, he's found a very handsome friend to look at. 

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7/31/2026 4:23pm

It’s about 103 in central cal right now.

These two are not having any thoughts of chasing frisbees right now.

One turned ten today, one is the dog I swore we would not get after losing Mattie to cancer.

She is a gift. 

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8/9/2026 7:03am

Yesterday was tree dwelling day I guess.

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8/9/2026 8:46am
ToolMaker wrote:
You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD...

You saw to pic right? The dog is supposed to be inside the crate. But in all fairness, she is very smart, very fast, very ADD (everyone understands that explination). Not a dog for the weak minded owner, that's for sure.

TM

Thanks for the info. Honestly at my age , I’m not up for that.

MoogenKen wrote:
They’re highly active, strong willed, stubborn, and ARE NOT for the uninitiated. They’re bred to herd cattle. They will herd you, the wife, but especially kids...

They’re highly active, strong willed, stubborn, and ARE NOT for the uninitiated. They’re bred to herd cattle. They will herd you, the wife, but especially kids if they’re not entertained. 

Working dogs can make great pets, but you’ve got to give them a job. Big balls of hyperactive aggressive energy. It’s a 40 pound dog, that’s bred to bite 1200 pound cows! Fearless to the point of stupidity.
 

When my kids were little I had an Australian cattle dog. She herded very gently, totally opposite of the healer who would just as soon hang off a cows face as eat.

We had a birthday party for one of the kids, 3 or 4 years old, and there were about 10 kids in the backyard playing games. I went in to help the moms with the food I was about to grill, and by the time I got back out, 2-3 minutes maybe, Roo had all the kids in the corner of the yard all crowded together. 

They didn't even realize they were being herded. 🤣

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Milo goin’ for a hike at about 9,000 feet near Virginia Lakes. After a few miles…he’d had enough…he’d had a long day already up near Lassen early in the morn 🤣

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8/9/2026 3:43pm

We now have: my Aussie, Wife's Blue Heeler, my daughter's Black Germanshepherd and she recently brought home a Malligator. The Mal and the German have been getting into it. The vet is driving a new Mercedes. Lol

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8/9/2026 3:44pm Edited Date/Time 8/9/2026 3:48pm

😬 

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WTF? 4 times I've tried to add the photo and it doesn't show The 4 of them,

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TeamGreen wrote:
Milo goin’ for a hike at about 9,000 feet near Virginia Lakes. After a few miles…he’d had enough…he’d had a long day already up near Lassen...

Milo goin’ for a hike at about 9,000 feet near Virginia Lakes. After a few miles…he’d had enough…he’d had a long day already up near Lassen early in the morn 🤣

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Hittin' the trail north bound for cooler climes.

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8/23/2026 5:39am

This thread has dropped way too far down the page...

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That's the familiar look of, "it was already like that when I walked in".

And of he needs an attorney, I'll represent him, pro bono.

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Perfection 

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9/2/2026 7:22am

After a 12 hour “commute” from Fallon to China Lake…including a really good run up near Virginia Lake…🤣

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9/2/2026 8:14am Edited Date/Time 9/2/2026 8:15am
TeamGreen wrote:
After a 12 hour “commute” from Fallon to China Lake…including a really good run up near Virginia Lake…🤣

After a 12 hour “commute” from Fallon to China Lake…including a really good run up near Virginia Lake…🤣

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That bucket of toys !!!

We'll gather them up, an hour later, we're gathering them up again.

Some days you just give up.

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TeamGreen wrote:
After a 12 hour “commute” from Fallon to China Lake…including a really good run up near Virginia Lake…🤣

After a 12 hour “commute” from Fallon to China Lake…including a really good run up near Virginia Lake…🤣

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That bucket of toys !!!

We'll gather them up, an hour later, we're gathering them up again.

Some days you just give up.

Milo likes to gut the old ones…stuffing all over the place…

When we go exploring in the Bronco in the eastern Sierra, he spends a lot of time running around at 8,000 - 11.000 feet and he always sleeps REALLY GOOD afterwards 🤣

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My current dog gets mad sometimes that his toys are in his toy box.  He then just sits there barking at us till we pull the toy he wants out of the toy box.  Damn terrier mix (pit bull)!  We call him a terrier mix, if you tell people he is a pit bull most get very scared.  He is a big baby.

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9/2/2026 9:26am

Cute pic of Willow.

  Our journey to help her with the arthritis in her spine/hips continues.  The past few weeks she hasn't been able to hold it sometimes and she poops on the floor.  Luckily it's solid. Its about anticipating her needs now and unfortunately she does not poop on command. I try to give her an easy walk every day to keep her loosened up and this is also when she feels comfortable relieving herself. Walks are on grass or loose dirt as she tends to drag her rear feet a bit. Pavement scraps the hide off the top of her paws. I tried little booties to protect them but that drastically contributes to her uncoordination. 

We are doing the once a month Librella shot and have given her 2 so far. I like to think it is helping.  In addition she gets daily,  glucosamine,  gabapentin and carprofen. We also have pain meds we can give her if she is having a bad day.

We will keep going with her as she still seems happy but I wonder about the upcoming winter. 

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9/2/2026 4:07pm
Cute pic of Willow.  Our journey to help her with the arthritis in her spine/hips continues.  The past few weeks she hasn't been able to hold...

Cute pic of Willow.

  Our journey to help her with the arthritis in her spine/hips continues.  The past few weeks she hasn't been able to hold it sometimes and she poops on the floor.  Luckily it's solid. Its about anticipating her needs now and unfortunately she does not poop on command. I try to give her an easy walk every day to keep her loosened up and this is also when she feels comfortable relieving herself. Walks are on grass or loose dirt as she tends to drag her rear feet a bit. Pavement scraps the hide off the top of her paws. I tried little booties to protect them but that drastically contributes to her uncoordination. 

We are doing the once a month Librella shot and have given her 2 so far. I like to think it is helping.  In addition she gets daily,  glucosamine,  gabapentin and carprofen. We also have pain meds we can give her if she is having a bad day.

We will keep going with her as she still seems happy but I wonder about the upcoming winter. 

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Try sprinkling 1500mg Ester C over her food every day. Not any vitamin c, has to be Ester C. Brought our old Golden back to life. Went from being in pain every day to wanting to play ball again. Worst case, you spent a bit of $$s, with no improvement, but maybe, you get the results we got.

TM

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