[RC] Riding and living with your dogs - Joan Ruprecht
All advice accepted!
Because the Mountain Lion ate my 8 lb mutt, and now
that I have 2 more 8 to 10 pounders and because the Mountain Lion is still
around and the Bears are tearing out doors in all our buildings:
I am about to get a Rhodesian ridgeback,
female.
I have for over 30 years owned nearly every
kind of dog in existence (except an RR or St Bernard) and never has one of
any breed or sex that did not love to go riding and running with
us. Some got stepped on (once) none were injured and none got
lost, although I really only wait for them when the are new and have not the
muscles to keep up. None have had problems with other dogs on the trails
or wildlife, too busy keeping up with me to chase wildlife. I also take
them jogging with my friend and her dogs, no trouble with that
either.
This dog was a stray probably dumped, I saw
the add looking for her owner, and called three weeks later to see if she
was claimed, no one had, but the people who have kept her have had not
trouble , with her staying and unfenced nor tied, and she is sweet, however I
have not met her yet.
Please wish me good luck, Ted does not want 3 dogs
and I can not see giving up my little ones, but I do not want them eaten
either. Yes I was very protective of my first dog, but the cougar is
smarter, hungrier and much more patient than you can believe and so is the bear,
after all they were here before us and are well adapted.
