What pets do you have? Feel free to post pics!

[7piglets]

Oh Scobby Doo is too cute!! (Well except for the Patiots tag LOL We are Jets fans

here are my spoiled rotten babies..
Haley is Tan She is mut but we think Shepard/ Chow Mix
Harley is Black he is Doberman/ Cattle Dog mix

[paddbear0000]

Very cute 7piglets! 

[KT0930]

Skye, now that the pic is smaller, the two are way too cute together. But OMG, the size of Scooby's feet! And he's how old? How big is he supposed to get??

[skyedogrocks]

Thanks KT!  He is a cutie patootie!  He'll probably grow to be about 70lbs, maybe a bit bigger than Luke (German Shorthair Pointer).  He's starting to get his hound bark/howl in.  The neighbors just love us!   

[Falkenbach]

Just too many cute pics in this thread!! Can't comment on them all.

But that puppy (Scooby)..... oh my! I just can't get past the cuteness of puppies.

[kitkatz]

I found this pic on another board.  The dog is known to the neighbors as "Holy sh**t!"

[paddbear0000]

Yes!!! Now that's a dog!!! The bigger the dog, the more there is to love, I say!

[highlite36]

Skye, your puppies are so adorable!!!  I miss my dogs as puppies!!!  They were so WONDERFUL as babies!  And they just loved to cuddle!!!!  I can't wait to see your puppy all growed up!!!  :-)

[Chris]

I found this pic on another board.  The dog is known to the neighbors as "Holy sh**t!"

That's what I thought when I saw the dog before I read what you wrote. However, that's my type of dog. I like big dogs. Would like to have a Great Dane, but I will like our Golden Retriever when we get him.

[Falkenbach]

That's photoshopped, for sure. Bull mastiffs are pretty huge, but not that huge.

Having said that, I also love big dogs. I'll stick with my bull terriers probably for ever - they are nice medium, compact size - but i've always had a soft spot for the giant breeds.

[okarol]

We brought the baby tortoise home today! Here it is saying good bye to it's mama.
(You can't tell what sex they are til they are about 9 years old, so maybe we'll think of a non-gender specific name!)

[Falkenbach]

Gorgeous! Pity you don't know what gender it is - "Shelley" would be fitting, lol.

[KT0930]

The pictures are very cute, Karol. How about Rocky? (I've heard of female pets named that!)

[paddbear0000]

That's photoshopped, for sure. Bull mastiffs are pretty huge, but not that huge.

Having said that, I also love big dogs. I'll stick with my bull terriers probably for ever - they are nice medium, compact size - but i've always had a soft spot for the giant breeds.

Actually, that's not photoshopped. It's a real dog, at real size. It's an Old English Mastiff, the largest dog breed in the world. They can weigh anywhere from 110 pounds to the 343 pounds. Their height can range from 25 to 36 inches to the shoulder. There was an Old English Mastiff named Zorba who earned the world record of the world's largest dog. Here's a picture of Zorba.

[KT0930]

I agree with the statement that the bigger the better, when it comes to dogs, but those Bull Mastiffs are a little much. So I'll amend...the bigger the better, up to about 80 pounds. 

[Falkenbach]

Hi Paddbear - sorry, got the mastiffs mixed up there. If the pic wasn't photoshopped, then perhaps it is the camera angle that exaggerates the appearance of the dog in comparison with the person.

I realise that the English mastiff is the heaviest breed (not the tallest however, that's the Irish Wolfhound), but - not wanting to discredit you or be disrespectful 'cause I like you as much as everyone else here - all of my literature puts the Old English mastiff weight range at 80-190 lbs. If there was ever a dog to reach anywhere near 300lb, it would be a complete mutant and a total exception to the rule! (And I might add, grossly overweight and ready for a heart attack). Height range according to one of the books I have in front of me is 27 - 30 inches (I am not completely sure, but I think they measure a dog's height at the withers).

Do you mind me asking what the source of the Zorba information is? The Zorba information may be valid, but I have come across many other "world record" claims on huge dogs on the internet, and they're always a different dog accompanied by photos that are difficult to believe (especially the one - you may have seen it - of a neapolitan mastiff walking alongside a horse).

[Falkenbach]

I'm back (I have Mondays off, too much time on my hands today lol).

I took the liberty of looking this up, and this page has quite a bit of good information on it, including all the links it contains:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hercules.asp

[paddbear0000]

I used to be a vet assistant and we had an Old English Mastiff as a client. The dog was a male, was 32 inches to the shoulder and weighed 264 pounds! They are real. I have no trouble remembering this dog. He was so big, you couldn't forget him. Due to his size, he had a lot of health problems and was frequently at the office. His name was Thor. Unfortunately, he died of heart related problems due to his size. Most dogs of this breed never get as big as the dogs you hear about. You hear about them because they got so big.

[kellyt]

If I owned that particular Mastiff the poor guy would never leave my backyard!  There is NO WAY I'm going to "pick up after my pooch" when my "pooch" is THAT big!   NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!   

[Chris]

If I owned that particular Mastiff the poor guy would never leave my backyard!  There is NO WAY I'm going to "pick up after my pooch" when my "pooch" is THAT big!   NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!   

 

[Falkenbach]

I used to be a vet assistant and we had an Old English Mastiff as a client. The dog was a male, was 32 inches to the shoulder and weighed 264 pounds! They are real. I have no trouble remembering this dog. He was so big, you couldn't forget him. Due to his size, he had a lot of health problems and was frequently at the office. His name was Thor. Unfortunately, he died of heart related problems due to his size. Most dogs of this breed never get as big as the dogs you hear about. You hear about them because they got so big.

That's amazing paddbear - Was he very obese, or just a really large dog? The heart problems don't surprise me.

I did a very short stint as a volunteer vet assistant, and a few years as a dog groomer, but was never lucky (or unlucky? not sure) enough to see one that size!

LOL, though I did have an ageing Great Dane as a client - beautiful dog but with some nasty arthritis so that he had trouble standing up long enough to be bathed, dried and nails clipped - one day as I crouched to clip his nails, he fell against me and pinned me to the wall. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it out of there alive. My heart was beating with pure fear, I couldn't breath or move the dog, and I was just one step away from watching my life flash before my eyes - but in hindsight.......   

[Chris]

When I worked at a vet, a couple owned 4 St. Bernards. None of them liked to take their pills. They usually would spit it back out once you left the area. Had to hold their head up, use a pill inserter, and rub their neck for them to fully swallow their pills. Felt like you needed a saddle on them a couple times Those were great dogs though, very friendly.

[paddbear0000]

I used to be a vet assistant and we had an Old English Mastiff as a client. The dog was a male, was 32 inches to the shoulder and weighed 264 pounds! They are real. I have no trouble remembering this dog. He was so big, you couldn't forget him. Due to his size, he had a lot of health problems and was frequently at the office. His name was Thor. Unfortunately, he died of heart related problems due to his size. Most dogs of this breed never get as big as the dogs you hear about. You hear about them because they got so big.

That's amazing paddbear - Was he very obese, or just a really large dog? The heart problems don't surprise me.

I did a very short stint as a volunteer vet assistant, and a few years as a dog groomer, but was never lucky (or unlucky? not sure) enough to see one that size!

LOL, though I did have an ageing Great Dane as a client - beautiful dog but with some nasty arthritis so that he had trouble standing up long enough to be bathed, dried and nails clipped - one day as I crouched to clip his nails, he fell against me and pinned me to the wall. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it out of there alive. My heart was beating with pure fear, I couldn't breath or move the dog, and I was just one step away from watching my life flash before my eyes - but in hindsight.......   

Not really. He was about 10 pounds overweight for his size. But at 264 pounds, that's nothing!

[okarol]

We just got back from the vet and he said the 3 bigger tortoises weigh 15 to 17 1/2 lbs and the baby weighs ONE OUNCE! The biggest guy might have an upper respiratory infection so he needs injections of antibiotics for the next 5 days. Thank God Jenna is willing to do it! The baby only has one eye open so we are trying an ointment to see if that helps.

Anyway, not to be outdone I figured I better post new photos I took this week of our other 2 boys, Tiger and Woody, out in the garden.

[paddbear0000]

Nice looking cats!