Where did you get your dog?

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They both come from the planet zenu. They are refugees.

Sassy came from the shelter and Buffy was given up to us by people who didn't want her anymore. Both were someone's loss and our gain

I got Cherokee from my sister, who apparently lies a lot about how she got her, so... Last I heard the story was she heard these people had puppies, went to look, but the mama (Cherokee) was so skinny and neglected she asked about taking her instead. They originally said no, said she wouldn't want her anyway because she was ill-behaved (at 10 months, after living her whole life outside and getting pregnant at 8 months..hmmm..) and smelly, but my sister persisted and they said okay. Now...the OLD story was..Suzi went to see the pups, decided against getting one..saw how badly the mama was treated..and went back in the middle of the night and stole her from the yard. The old story was also that Cherokee was physically abused. Now it's "she seemed to have been abused". Grr..who knows..

Jaz (a different sister's dog..they live with me) was my sister's boyfriend's dog, and came from some drug dealer in Baltimore who was selling 5 week old pit bull puppies from an empty fish tank. There were two left when he got there, so he took them both and found a home for the other one. Then when he and my sister broke up, he took off back to Maryland without the dog...tried to call like 6 months later and say he was coming back for Jaz. hahahaha, riiiiiiiight...

My other sister's dog (who doesn't live with me, and isn't the one who rescued Cherokee) came from the SPCA.

Now for kitties:

Kovu came from a rescue in Petsmart (though I was 14 when I got him, and my Mom told me I couldn't have a cat..so the story is still he came from a McDonald's parking lot..hehe..hopefully she doesn't stalk me on here ).

Lucifer we found in a tree behind my Grandmom's house. Coaxed him down and kept him.

Tiger-Lily we got through my sister's work at the time (a vet clinic). Someone found her, her mama, and the rest of her litter on the side of the road. I've no clue why they didn't call a rescue or something, but they adopted out the kittens at 5 weeks.

Taz is my cousin's... some friend of hers decided it was a good idea to give her a kitten when they found out she (my cousin) was pregnant. I don't know where she came from.

And my sister's kitty Rajah came up to she and I when we were outside of our aunt's house. She lives in the center of a small city, on a very busy street, and here's this 12 week old kitten running around by himself. My sister took him, and ignored "lost" posters when they went up 2 weeks later. We figured if they didn't miss their kitten before two weeks after we found him, he was better off without them. Maybe mean and wrong, but hey..it's been 8 years..

6.  Other.  My daughter found an ad in the newspaper for BC pups.  We weren't actually ready to get one, but when the opportunity arised, we decided to give the guy a call.  Turns out, the man "Farmer Tom", has BC's he uses on his farm and does some breeding, within his own BC's and other local farmers (as not to have the bloodlines cross) in order to always have working dogs, he can use to help w/ his 500 some cows.  He's also a dairy farmer.  He asked us a lot of questions, where we lived, if we had a yard, he wasn't going to sell any pups to anyone with an apt.  He must have asked us these questions and more, over and over, I guess to make sure we weren't pulling anything over on him.  We went out and picked Misty out.  Met the mother, father, and sister.  He must have had 15 BC's.  They were all running around, playing it was the coolest thing I ever saw!  He even sold corn, and I believe it was Misty's mom, who guarded the corn, to make sure you paid for it.  LOL  That's how I ended up here, I ordered a crate, and found the forum. 

Pepper - mill worker to animal shelter to some looser who was going to dump her or have her PTS due to the purchase of new carpet.

Banjo -  "accidently" found online at some nasty high-kill city pound in Kentucky 7 hours away.

Dion, Tiger, Cleo - cats who came with newly acquired husband 5 years ago. 

I'm going to have to go with 6. I had done a lot of research on breeds, but not so much on breeders. I knew I wanted a vizsla. I was talking on the phone with my sister, who lived in northern MN at the time. She saw an ad in the classifieds for a litter of vizslas. I called and asked a lot of questions. They seemed to know what they were doing. I made an appointment to visit the pups at 3 weeks (and put half down for a deposit).

The family was not a "breeder," they had a 3 year old female that they bred to a CH vizsla from a reputable breeder in WI. Although I think it was mostly for the family's experience (they are both doctors and have two teenage children), they seemed to do everything correctly. I'm not sure if she has been spayed, but they haven't bred her again.

Bear- Local Rescue

Taz- He ran in to Wal-Mart on my birthday. He had been running around the parking lot. We guess he got away from one of the people that was out front of Wal-Mart selling their pit puppies a few days before.

Athena- Free from someone who couldn't keep her.

Seeing as I have a few dogs, I have a few answers.

My Chihuahua Zel was given to us by a co-worker of my mothers, who couldn't keep him because of the house she moved into (no pets I guess), the co-worker had only had him for about a month herself, and got him from a breeder.

The other two dogs currently in the house, Shadow the black lab mix, and Roscoe the Basset Hound/Cocker spaniel, we got from two seperate people in the area who owned their parents and happened to have puppies. Although, we think the family was got Shadow off of may have been running a puppy mill.

Chopsi the Boxer/Blue tick mix we owned the parents of, so we kept her from the litter and gave the other puppies away to friends and family. Unfortunately she passed away last summer. (She was about thirteen)

Grady - from a rescue that pulled him from a high kill shelter in Arkansas.

Aspen - From a family that I used to pet sit for.  They decided they didn't want him anymore.  Their loss, my gain.

All of the dogs we have adopted came from #1.  Patrick, Butch, Oliver are from SPCA shelters.  Butch (RIP) & Oliver were foster dogs we adopted because Butch ended up having cancer & Oliver was unadoptable due to his spinal injury - he doesn't always have control over his bowels or urine functions. 

Luke (RIP) was from a private shelter - started of as a foster but he was a blind & deaf senior and it just didnt seem right to rehome him once again.

2 of my cats also came from #1 - Abby and Cartlon are from the SPCA.  Scotty (RIP) we adopted from our vet clinic.  My vet had the owners signed over to her because the family wanted to euthanize Scotty for a bowel disease. 

Rosco - shelter. He was adopted to me as a "beagle mix". Ummm, yeah, not so much beagle as Am Staff.

Lexi - Shelter. We were her 5th home and she was four months old.

Luna - Reputable breeder to be my performance and conformation dog. 

Sioux - shelter puppy

Maska - adopted as an adult from a shelter

Fergie -  inherited (BF's mom died, and left her to us)

Sequoyah - reputable breeder 

 I got Cooper 7 years ago at the Arizona Humane Society ( well he picked me) hes 8 now and a wonderful service dog

I got Panda Girl this last January from a friend who's dog had pups and will be training her to be my number 2 service dog so Cooper can retire when he is 10 but he will be my number 1 baby forever! 

Bubblegum came from reputable breeder. She had just had 18 puppies and got mastitis and they could  not breed her anymore...so they gave her up.

Zoe is from a breeder in Colorado, although I'm not sure how reputable.  Some of the things she does are things you would look for in a reputable breeder, but others aren't.  One thing I can say is that Zoe is one of the only miniature dachshunds I've seen in my area that actually fits the standard as far as size and conformations goes.

Hailey came from a breeder

Petie and Bobbi I bred

The Russell Sprout was a X-mas gift from a friend who was also a fellow jrt breeder and my trial buddy, she also purchased her stud dog from me as a pup.  He died when he was sprayed by a skunk in a hollowed out tree trunk (one end open the other closed), took a direct hit of spray (spray is toxic), he died within minutes and Sprout was from his last litter.

He was her all time favorite dog and she couldn't bear to keep even one of his pups from that last litter, the pain was still too raw.  She said giving me one of his pups was almost as good as keep one herself .............

Kiah was also a gift from a very rep. breeder and friend.

Lynn