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When we first started looking at homes-I was bugging dave to get a dog. We’re both animal lovers and living in an apartment you just can’t have one. He finally started looking at dogs and agreed we could get one. (The bunnies will have their own bedroom, plus a floored and covered play place in the garden out back,-we plan to have them out supervised with the dog if he/she behaves-or out when the dog is outside or in another room dependings).
We have a height restriction on dogs in the park-18 inches at the shoulder or less. That severely limits us as most shelter dogs are big (We both LOVE big dogs but any dog is great right?) -we checked all the shelters from Vancouver to Winnipeg and didn’t find any suitable small dogs (Dave’s stipulations-given that I always get the pets and the dog is going to be his choice-are “up” ears and light coloring
)-so we started breed researching and decided on Shiba Inu’s -they are like miniture Ikita’s and very cute-although harder to train and stubborn they looked like the dog for us.We found a fantastic breeder and went to meet her and the dogs today. She shows, keeps ten generation pedigrees, does health testing on her dogs before breeding and on the pups-and keeps them all in her home-not in tiny kennels. We fell in love with Sumo, a one year old boy with a great personality. But Sumo was 1800$-we had planned to spend up to 1000$ on a dog if we had to from a breeder but there’s just no way we could jusify spending that kind of money on a pedigreed dog
So we went back to searching shelters with the realization that it may take a very long time before we find a little dog who needs a home-but I was more pleased to be looking at shelters. She was a great breeder-took great care of her animals and screens homes-but I’d just rather adopt.
And so we found PETEY!!! He’s only five hours away, we’ve been approved ALREADY and one of their volunteers brought his rabbit in tonight to play with Petey and see how he did!! Petey did great, was a little shy of the bunny and very submissive. They are going to hold him for us for a boarding fee-and we go pick him up on May 2 (Once we’re all settled in our home!) Petey is only 15 inches high, he’s gorgeous IMHO and he’s two years old-the videos they have him show a gentle happy playful dog-needless to say I’m head over heels.
Meet Petey our new puppy!!!
He looks a bit scared of the bunny LOL
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So maybe there’ll be a second trailer for sale next to your new home that you can buy for you and Dave. You’ll need a place to stay.
LOL Pam!! I was filling out the adoption application and it asked where he would sleep at night…I’m like “DUH our bed!!!!”
He’s a Corgi cross-and at first I’m like he looks nothing like a Corgi but he does actually. He’s full grown, two years old and only 15″ at the shoulder which is perfect. These are videos they posted of him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLW16D8aEbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0KUdnoThwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbi_S33kpEo
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Oh we are going to donate
I thought it was amazing that within hours they got ahold of a volunteer to bring in a rabbit to check Petey’s reaction for us without even asking-amazing shelter
I also noticed on their site they sometimes have volunteers who come to Edmonton bring dogs to their adoptive homes-so I offered that if a dog or two is waiting for a ride to Edmonton we’re free to bring some back with us since we are making the trip
I’m so excited, Dave’s wanted a dog his whold life and seeing him excited about something is so amazing-he never gets excited about the bunnies *hmppph*
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Yay for corgis and thank you for adopting!!!!!! If you hadn’t found him I would have suggested you come out to CA, we have shelters full of small dogs of every type you could imagine.
Your boy is a lot smaller than my corgi mix, who weighs 55lbs but is also only 15 inches tall. I call him Buddy Stubs because his legs are so darn short. One day I want to get him a Corgi girlfriend from the shelter named Peggy Shortlegs. 
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yipeeeeeee! i’m so excited for you both
he’s adoreable k&k! his temperment in the vids and the fact that the shelter said he was submissive reminds me sooo much of bogart. with any luck you’ll have as bunny-friendly of a pooch as i do! and with the buns in their own room you’ll have the safeguard of separate spaces while they all adjust to eachother. how exciting!
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Ah, K&K! Congratulations! I’m also REALLY glad that you’re adopting (as I’m sure you are!). I’m with Lostbutnotforgot…you want a short pup, come out my way! The shelters are full of them…
And I also agree with Pam. Anything that plays nice with an evil conniving (*Lizzy STOP EATING THE COMPUTER!!!!*) English Spot has to be a good creature!
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Posted By jerseygirl on 04/08/2009 02:31 AM
Posted By Kokaneeandkahlua on 04/07/2009 08:25 AM
We’d checked all the shelters, petfinder etc, and he’s the only small dog who isn’t a $*&!zu or something along those lines which Dave did not want.
Tehe! Your “Shi tzu” must have gotten whopped by the swear filter! I was thinking…”Gee, she really mustn’t like that breed” at first. hehehea!
That’s what I thought too!
And that’s what I thought about Petey too, that’s why I said Aussie Cattle dog. Our neighbors have always had one and I’ve always thought it looked like a Dingo. I think that they might actually be decendents of, or at least have some crossbreeding in their history.
Actually, I found this on Wikipedia!
The precise origins of the Australian Cattle Dog are not known, but they appear to have been a distinct breed as early as 1897. It began when Smithfields were originally used in Australia for mustering cattle. They were noisy and bit too hard, so they were bred with the Dingo, a wild dog prevalent in Australia. The resulting crosses were known as “Timmins Biters,” which were quieter, but still bit hard.
A primitive stage of Collie unlike that of today’s Border Collies and Smooth Collies, used for mustering sheep, were then bred to the dingo. In 1840, Thomas Hall bred a couple of Blue Smooth Highland Collies with dingoes and produced “Hall’s Heelers”, the noted, hardy, tireless, controllable, strain of dog.[7] Then, in the 1870’s Fred Davis bred some Bull Terrier into them to make the dogs more aggressive. These were relatively common as sporting and guard dogs in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The resulting Cattle Dog was of a slightly heavier and more muscular build than the Border Collie and of less temperamental nature, with good herding ability, the stamina to withstand extremes of temperature and the resourcefulness to forage and to feed itself on an omnivorous diet like a wild dog. Physically the Heeler has inherited a big broad head and strong jaws from the Bull Terrier. From the dingo comes the distinctive sandy colour of the legs and rather large pricked ears.
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NEAT!!! And oh my gosh does that ever look like what’s in Petey!
I have this kind of running joke about border collies being the ‘easy’ dogs of the breeds-because umn….EVERY shelter lists every mix as ‘x breed-border collie cross” LOL
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Jersey I didn’t even think about it when I wrote the breed name-and didn’t even spot that the swear filter caught it That’s way too funny! -
K&K, I think a lot of it depends on what the shelter thinks is a popular dog in the area to be honest. When my mother was looking for a dog here in Winnipeg it seemed like every single dog said it was a shepherd-X! Even the one she adopted they said was part shepherd, and there’s just no way (we think she’s lab/chow). I just checked their site and they still seem to be doing that, although they are showing more “collie-x” dogs as well. Even when some of them, to me at least, clearly aren’t.
I mean really, they have this girl listed as a border collie mix – does she LOOK like a collie?
I have to say they are doing really good with taking pictures and managing to get that “please adopt me” look. This one according to them is a husky mix:
– Annnette
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