Lets see the dogs of IDO!

Rhen, a rescue with strong Heeler traits.. 4yrs now.

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Good one glenn.

Had Cody out first thing Saturday morning and I heard him woof. Couple deer in my neighbor’s yard out stretching their legs between cold snaps. When it gets cold they go to the swamp about 1/8 mile away. Otherwise they sun on the SW facing hill behind my house.

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Red doing what he does best!

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A small tribute to my dad’s dogs. In the last days struggling to be comfortable and at peace before his passing, the touch of the remains brought his final comfort.

Chester, Lady, Payton, and Patty – deceased and Lily who never left his bedside

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We lost our Brittany of 13 yrs last October and weren’t sure if we were up for another dog again, but a couple months later I found myself looking at the rescue sites again.
Our house just wasn’t the same without a loving dog to be part of it.
In December an Springer came available near Lacrosse when someone backed out at the last minute.We immediately set a time to go see it and the rest is history. He is 4 yrs old and such a fantastic dog and we love every minute of him, well except for his counter surfing, we’re working on that.

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My Springers (3 over the years) were all counter surfers. Cure was to put a couple of mousetraps on the counter. Came home, found a sprung trap and no more counter surfing. FW didn’t take to the idea with the first dog but we weren’t living together at the time. I stuck my finger in the trap in front of her with no harm done and she grudgingly agreed to go along. She was fine with it for dogs 2 and 3.

That’s funny, I was going to do that, but my wife so far has put the nix to it. I didn’t mention he also surfs the trash cans for kleenex. We were living with the bathroom trash cans on top of the toilets and when at Menards the other day I stopped by the mouse traps. Where we ended up was, by the fancy trash cans with the foot peddle for pop up lids. $60 worth of trash cans vs $1 for a mouse trap, go figure.
I swear this springer can walk on it’s hind feet like a human.
He’s so much fun, and smart when he wants to be. Also, we live on 40 acres and I could never let our Britt loose as we couldn’t call her back if she saw or smelled something. This Springer will actually stay by us, but did run after some deer a few weeks ago, but did come back after a couple minutes. Really loved our last dog, and really love this one, they are just different in ways.

Randy as we all know dogs current or not bring us happiness and comfort,even if there counter surfers.

Mousetrap cured all 3 of my Vizsla’s from counter surfing.

Brad Dimond wrote:

My Springers (3 over the years) were all counter surfers. Cure was to put a couple of mousetraps on the counter

I have a 11 month old and might have to talk with the FW about this, I’m pretty sure she will not be on board considering it could be one of the cats that end up with it running around the house.

cures the cats of being on the counter too

One tripped mouse trap cured my previous lab of table surfing. It caught my daughter’s shirt once too!!

Netguy wrote:

One tripped mouse trap cured my previous lab of table surfing. It caught my daughter’s shirt once too!!

good thing it was only the shirt!!!!!

Glenn!!

One of the last snows, Cody was taking his morning leak. Part way through he spotted a deer and held the position 10 seconds after he finished peeing before he bolted.

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Its sad to think about when this forum is no longer. Just looked back through all these pages and enjoyed seeing it all. Many great companions over the years

Agreed Randy! Lots of great memories on this site and met some great people too. The support alone from when Billy passed away is still something I treasure deeply.

Sharon wrote:

Agreed Randy! Lots of great memories on this site and met some great people too. The support alone from when Billy passed away is still something I treasure deeply.

Couldn’t agree more guys. Sharon I still remember that day, I was still kinda new here at that point and your post really hit me hard that day.

Did I miss the memo? Has the end of IDO already been determined?

Not that we know of, just the recent YouTube channel scare and now the glitch today just has some of us worried.