Tuesday Favorites....Dog Breed

jdh5484

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I told her she better wait for a purebred rich dog...don’t have any broke mutts wasting her time
They all have a sob story. Need to pick themselves up by their paw straps.
 

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Having met you personally, I'm not surprised in your selection of dogs... smh... Pretty accurate though if my memory serves me correctly...
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Doesn't surprise anyone who has talked to injun in the chatterbox either.
 

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Not my Yorkie but an interesting story...

But long.


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Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese of English. The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 dollars Australian.

Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."

Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.

In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".

After the war she became a sensation back int the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.

Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.
 

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I finally put Hank back on the road this week to get his final point in Atlanta (Peach Blossom Cluster).

AKC Grand Champion Lanburs Half-Way Home Hank !

Hank is like
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: where da b**ches?
 
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I finally put Hank back on the road this week to get his final point in Atlanta (Peach Blossom Cluster).

AKC Grand Champion Lanburs Half-Way Home Hank !

Hank is like: where da b**ches?

Woohoo - WTG Hank! It’s been a while.
What does Best of Opposites mean?
 

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Woohoo - WTG Hank! It’s been a while.
What does Best of Opposites mean?
Whatever gender wins best of breed (which, by default, means best of that gender), then the best of the opposite gender gets "Best of Opposite Sex". He only needed one more point for his GCH. BOS probably got 2 or 3 points. It's a consolation prize so a few dogs/bitches go away with at least some points.
 

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Whatever gender wins best of breed (which, by default, means best of that gender), then the best of the opposite gender gets "Best of Opposite Sex". He only needed one more point for his GCH. BOS probably got 2 or 3 points. It's a consolation prize so a few dogs/*****es go away with at least some points.

Guess he deserves a full steak today and not just the bone.
 

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Guess he deserves a full steak today and not just the bone.
After seeing that pic, he needs to go on a very strict diet. He looks like a fat tick. The sad thing is I've already had him on a diet. Its hard to judge when you see him everyday. But it looks like he's about 20% over weight.
 

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Well our plan was to wait for the next litter in April or so but it turns out they missed a pup in the sonogram. After much debate we decided to get a pup from the litter this past October. brought her home the second week of December.
 

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Well our plan was to wait for the next litter in April or so but it turns out they missed a pup in the sonogram. After much debate we decided to get a pup from the litter this past October. brought her home the second week of December.
 

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