Seconding the pros listed, and adding that they’re very goofy. Con’s: if you care, a lot of them don’t like fetch. It took a lot of work, and now mine will fetch a couple times, but he’d rather play chase.
The floof is a pro and a con, mine does amazing in the snow and winter and is very happy. To keep him comfortable in the summer while still exercising him is a decent amount of planning and work, so please consider that if you’re in a warm climate. My dogs favourite temperature is any thing below -15C, and he was happy outside for over an hour at -40C. The companionship aspect is also a pro and con. I have roommates who he does like, but he follows me around like a shadow. He’s always right at my side or if we’re in a familiar place, in my eyeline. If I leave him in an unfamiliar place (like a patio at a restaurant to use the bathroom) even with people I know, he gets upset and will usually bark. The other thing about him always being at my side, is he gets underfoot a lot. It’s not so bad for me anymore, because he knows me well enough to anticipate my movements now, but my roommates often trip over him. He does this thing where he follows you around, but tries to lead the way all the time and it’s awkward.
Bryce Canyon for me! The colours of the rock is completely mesmerizing, and I can’t take my eyes off the features, but also can’t focus on any one thing at a time. The pictures I manage to take do it no justice.
From what I can tell, if you’ve got a mountain bike and you’re on trails as opposed to roads, and don’t have panniers in your setup, it’s bikepacking. If you’re on roads and have panniers, it’s touring. I may be wrong. I have a gravel bike with panniers but travel on trails and very rugged roads so idk what to call it.
He gets hot, but we help him out so he can still enjoy the sun and grass
That is part of the fun, along with seeing their personalities shine through!
I take no highways to work. I certainly hope they continue to invest in transit infrastructure because, while I am fortunate enough to have a vehicle, not everyone has one or can drive, and it’s absolutely ridiculous that it would take 70 minutes of walking +20 minutes of busing to take transit to my workplace 6 miles away. I have actually ran to work on a few occasions, and it’s faster than transit by 35 minutes. I don’t live out in the boonies, I’m close to a busy shopping area. I don’t work out in the middle of nowhere, we are in an office park thousands commute to every day. That is objectively a problem.
Yep I’m in Westminster, so is my office. It’s 6 miles away and it would take transit 90 minutes to get me to work, and google maps has me budget 70 minutes of that to be walking. I can drive in less than 15 and bike in 30, but it should also be noted that to get there in 30 on a bike I have to go down some dangerous roads.
I dm’d you some pictures of mine from 8 weeks to 9 months
Edit: but from what I’ve heard, you can’t really tell. Some of my puppies litter you could tell what the base coat colour would be by 8 weeks, and you could tell some would have shorter or longer coats, but while half of my puppies littermates looked so much like him when I brought him home and some still look identical and others look completely different.
Mine does too! But it’s completely abnormal for his breed type. He loves hugs and cuddles in general.
The project I was on, the ironworkers mostly tied rebar. To keep ironworkers onsite, they had to relax the drug test rules. Basically, you had to be consuming drugs on the way to the pee test to fail… a few of them still failed. But I couldn’t blame them much their super was a complete nightmare of a man (screamed at me for doing my job, and to be clear, staying out of his way, not touching or disturbing anything; because I am a woman who doesn’t have brown hair), and their job was TYING REBAR FOR 10 HOURS A DAY
Yea I took engineering and while I was expecting it to be brutal, holy crap it was BRUTAL.
He loves rolling in grass
Contemplating life like he’s a teen movie protagonist.
Yeah, in my department a well liked fellow had a very unexpected health scare and nearly passed away. Thankfully he is back in office now, and back skiing (the real way to know he’s recovering well haha) but when the incident first happened the whole department donated money to cover food delivery costs (since they won’t have time to cook) and to get a spa treatment for his wife when things weren’t so crazy. Of course since it was the whole department we got a decent fund for him.
REI has a 14er hiking training program, I’ve used that to get myself into shape for backpacking and hiking at elevation. It’s free to check out!
For me, salsa! I used to hate spicy food, but now it’s one of my favourites.
I think another thing is placement- I had to do a bunch of adjusting to my dogs pack to get it over his shoulders as opposed to the middle of his back, it’s supposed to be more comfortable there. Also, have you checked his skin to see if the pack was rubbing anywhere? That also is relatively common.
I’ve been getting my puppy ready to do some backpacking, so those are things I’ve read about that are common issues. r/backpackingdogs has been helpful!
Edit: other people are mentioning dog painkillers, carprofen is likely what they’re talking about. You need to do a vet visit for that though, it can have extremely adverse effects on some dogs so they do a blood test before prescribing. I have a post about dog hiking/backpacking first aid kits on my profile, the comments were super informative!
Omg thank you I always wanted to see their costumes as they were describing them!
Oooh what about the septic field? My dad had us avoid an area of the yard in the winter so that walking around wouldn’t drive the frost down and freeze the system. I can still hear “do ya wanna be shitting on ice all winter!?!?” Like he’s saying it to me now.
My parents said “going to town” or “headed to the big smoke” for the city.
People would do that with cats by my parents place growing up, and even if the farm cats took it in, they always always always froze to death. They did not know how to live outside. It was heartbreaking.
It takes practice to leave them alone, but it’s possible! Just start early, and build up to long periods. My guy can do 8 hours, but I try to not do that more than 1-2 times per week and spend time with him as much as possible after leaving him. He does really well with up to 6 hours now. It just took 5-6 months to get to that, and we’re going to keep working on it. Mine isn’t destructive or anything, you can just tell he is sad when you’re gone.
Reality check, can you tell me the pros and cons of your eurasier and eurasiers in general? :-)
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