Came into the room to find Rusty sleep-barking. For such a big dog he makes real high pitched noises.
Category: Rusty
Male tiger-stripe pitbull. He’s the coy, shy, affectionate one. He is also very silly.
This was several years ago, I had just purchased a $150 chenille bed for my dogs. They all loved it and wanted to be on it. Only one problem, it was the dead of summer and a very warm bed.
Rusty in particular REALLY loved that bed. My dogs kind of play musical chairs with beds, it’s pretty funny. So they all know once they get off a bed, someone else is going to hop on the comfy new bed.
Rusty figured out a loophole. He left his feet on the bed while cooling down on the tile. He’d be on the bed, get hot, flop onto the tile to cool, then back onto the bed.
Heheh, I win!
I had some left over mashed potatoes and a little bit of chicken left over from dinner, so I made all the dogs a little plate. Around 1-1.5 tablespoons of mashed potatoes and a sprinkling of chicken. I only make this a few times a year, so anytime I do make mashed potatoes (from scratch), they get a little bit.
It took a few tries but I think I got a good picture of them noming hard.
My boy Rusty was, by far, the worst-case rescue I’ve ever seen. He was a feral street dog that never had an owner before, was about 1.5 years old when I rescued him, and had been in MANY fights. But you could see the kindness and affection hidden under the layers of pain and suffering.
At first, I wasn’t sure if I could keep him. That turned into maybe I can keep him as an outside dog. Then that turned into maybe he can be an inside dog. And now he’s the most affectionate, silly, caring dog I have. He takes care of all the other dogs. Has no aggression of any type.
If another dog takes his treat or food, he just watches them eat it, then turns to look at me like “Daddy, she ate my cookie 🙁 I guess I’ll go lay down now 🙁 ” and walks away. His face and body has hundreds (I’m not exaggerating) of puncture wounds, he has a 6″ long scar from where his neck was ripped open, the top of his snout was ripped open, and all the white dots of fur on his face are scars from tooth puncture wounds. He has a broken ankle that didn’t heal right.
At least once a day, he has to lay on my chest with his arms hooked over my arm, his face pushed against my face or snout under my chin or neck, and I just hold him. He just lays there. Then he gets up, licks my face, and continues on with whatever he was doing.
What more could you ask for?
Just some snugglin’
Caught this naughty boy un-stuffing a toy! When a toy gets damaged enough and gets holes, all the dogs love pulling the stuffing out. I keep re-stuffing it though, it’s the official “stuffing toy”. They make a mess, but it works out because they don’t tear up other toys, since there’s one toy that’s meant to be un-stuffed. This picture is from his first time pulling the stuffing out, and wasn’t sure if he was in trouble or not.
“It just exploded on it’s own!”
The weather was gorgeous, there was a nice breeze, and the sun was shining. And rusty took full advantage of the situation!
I think what I’ll do, is upload a single picture, then have a bit of background about the picture, and maybe a quote from the point of view from the dog in the picture.
My boy’s got a ridiculously long tail
My boy’s got a ridiculously long tail and is extremely photogenic.