My dog, Socks

[Bobby]

To all the readers:

Monk brought his tropical dog to cold Tasmania.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

[Jovial Monk]

Here ^^^^^ we see Booby acting like a troll. Most unsuitable as Mod.

[lisa jones]

To all the readers:

Monk brought his tropical dog to cold Tasmania.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

Dumbarse Drunk can only afford alcohol. Even then he needs to steal money from other online posters.

[Bobby]

To all the readers:

Monk brought his tropical dog to cold Tasmania.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

Dumbarse Drunk can only afford alcohol. Even then he needs to steal money from other online posters.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

[lisa jones]

To all the readers:

Monk brought his tropical dog to cold Tasmania.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

Dumbarse Drunk can only afford alcohol. Even then he needs to steal money from other online posters.

We are hoping that he got her a nice woolly jumper?

Preferably one which costs $60

[Jovial Monk]

Took Socks to this place that is acres of grass. Let her out the car, next second—Socks was way away, having an explore of the riverbank. Hehehehe, as usual, a couple of ducks on the far side of the river, Socks interested but, nope didn’t swim across to chase them. My terrier Demi would have jumped in no worries, not so Socks.

Not sure what it is, she would swim quite well but NEVER goes into the water very far. A personality quirk, some bad experience (jumped into a swimming pool and got shouted at to leave then hit? I will never know.) She is a bit of a girly dog.

[UnSubRocky]

I had a couple of visitors to my place, yesterday. A couple of druggos. I told them they had the wrong house. They walked out the front gate and headed next door. The only thing about my neighbour's place is that they have 2 pigging dogs. No need for my neighbour to tell them that they had the wrong place. One of them even considered getting into the gate. He was that gone in the head.

If he tried for Mum and Dad's place, their dogs would have taken them apart.

[Jovial Monk]

Not sure what Socks would do, likely hind behind me

[lisa jones]

I am bored bored bored (not really ) with people telling me how beautiful she is.

Socks is gobsmackingly beautiful, and has a lovely sweet temperament.

The terrier that is my avatar on OzPol died about four years ago. I was sole carer for Mum and at her age (she died in 2021 aged almost 101—couldn’t bring a puppy into the house, if it tripped Mum up that would have been the end for her. About 2-3 months after her death I started thinking about adopting a puppy. Feb 4, 2022, I visited the RSPCA shelter where I had made an appointment to view 2 English Staffordshire puppies.

When I got there for my scheduled appointment both of these puppies were gone. There was, it seemed, a staghound puppy there, a long-legged 12Kg puppy. Not pure staghound, her head is not houndlike at all and her snout is far too deep. Maybe American Staffordshire in her genome? I had seen mention of her in passing looking through the shelter website thinking “I don’t want a dog big and heavy enough to take down a stag!”

Socks is now 26.7Kg: but for some nasty, hard to shift tapeworms in her guts she would be more like 31-32Kg, bigger than the normal Staghound cross bitch usually gets. Socks defies categorisation The worms don’t slow her much but she is not as healthy as she should be with them. I have tried vet–suppled tablets, garlic, ground cloves and coconut oil. Sometimes she has a garlic breath that knocks you over! Really—like ten old greeks blokes living on Greek junk food!

What with settling Mum’s estate, selling the house for over three quarters of a million dollars, dealing with pettifogging questions about probate from the Court knowing the countdown to when the buyer could cancel the sale was getting ever nearer, packing up stuff to have moved to Tassie, other stuff (clothes etc) to move to the flat attached to sister and bil’s house, moving to that flat 40Km away etc etc Sock’s obedience training was sparse and irregular but when she wanted to she worked beautifully smart bitch that one.

What does she look like? Sorry I can’t show a photo—the Mod-subsitute we have here is a thief and a troll. Socks has looong legs and a deep chest—the staghound breed was formed by crossing a greyhound with a scottish deer hound, both sight coursing dogs. It was bred as a poaching dog and was used as a hunting dog: In Australia they were called kangaroo dogs and were used to hunt kangaroos: in America they are also known as coyote dogs and are still used to hunt that critter. Here some are used to hunt feral pigs. What poachers and hunters liked was that the legs of a staghound are sturdier than the legs of a greyhound.

Her color is a light fawn—a honey color someone said—with enough brindling to be interesting and no more. On one side you could almost imagine that she looks a bit like a Tasmanian Tiger! (not really but you get the idea.)

Someone on my fine forum, commenting on a photo of Socks (she has white front feet hence “Socks”) chasing an artificial (3 plastic bags) hare with mouth open (for air?) and so showing healthy pink sclera (gums and tongue) and lovely white teeth said he would rather deal with my little terrier than with Socks. How wrong he was: Socks is a real sweety, loves everyone we meet (and mostly they love her too) and, an issue from her life before I adopted her resolved, she just is 27 kilo bundle of love

Oh—at the lure coursing meets I hear comments from those who have not seen her run before like “Shit she can run!” Indeed she can!

My wonderful dog, so glad I adopted her tho not a British staffy pup!

You’ve got a dead dog for a fucking avatar you disgusting piece of shit and your lies regarding your dead mother are beyond vile! Then again you are a bona fide ethically bankrupt forum thief and confirmed liar with no moral compass whatsoever!

[Jovial Monk]

Listen you piece of shit drug addict and attention whore!

Demi was a great dog, lots of character and I will use her as my avatar for as long as I like and no pieces of human garbage like you will make me change that, you fucking fluffy bunny!

I have not told any lies about my mother, scumbag. She succumbed to dementia like 14 years before she died aged very nearly 101.

Socks is a beautiful, smart dog who gets a lot of very complimentary comments at the lure coursing meets.

You pathetic attention whore, you are so jealous you are now pretending Socks is not my dog because the thought of Socks drives you WILD with jealousy.

If Aussie had any smarts and ethics and the interest of this forum at all he would have booted you out of here like I booted you out of my fine forum!