Say hello to Oscar!
I promised pictures of my little guy, so here they are! Excuse the somewhat poor quality, my camera is old...
Got my eye on you...
Doin' the puggle snuggle!
This one captures his cuteness best.
Up close and personal
This is Oscar playing with our other dog, Bentley. They're fighting over Bentley's favourite chair. I wanted to get a picture of them sitting together, but they didn't sit still long enough!
This is Bentley when he was a bit younger. He was quite destructive as a puppy. Here he's ripping the stuffing out of a cushion.
Bentley is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He's very timid and gentle and acts more like a Terrier, but he definitely has the stubbornness of a bulldog. There have been a couple times when we've been walking him that people have run away in terror screaming, "Ahhhhh! Pitbull!", but he's really very sweet. Dogs like this have a bad rep. We got him from a rescue society.
Oscar came to us in a similar way, you could say. My brother had wanted a puggle (pug/beagle mix) for some time, and then while he was walking Bentley one day, he met this guy with a puggle. I guess he told him that he was always working and didn't have a lot of time for the dog, so my brother said if he needed a new home, we'd be interested in taking him. There were some sketchy conditions involved...the guy lived in a trailer in a run down part of town, and apparently there were junkies coming by wanting to steal the dog. Maybe he had a debt owed to them, maybe the dog was stolen, I don't know. So needless to say, Oscar is in a much better home now.
He's such a cute little guy, and mostly well-behaved. He does have a couple issues, though. He goes nuts when he sees another dog, cat, bird...pretty much anything with legs (excluding Bentley, since he knows him). This morning, he went after two huge Rottweilers that we encountered. Maybe he was attacked by another dog at some point; we don't know. So he clearly needs to be socialized more. Plus, when he barks, he sounds like he's being murdered. It's horrible.
He's very clever, but he's figured out how to open the back door, so he's escaped a couple times. He doesn't necessarily come back when I call him, either. This is a problem, considering we live near a busy highway and he's not too smart about traffic. Around the house, he follows me everywhere, even into the bathroom. He sleeps on my bed, we play together, and he's just a great little guy to have around. I didn't think I was a dog person, but now we have two and I'm not sure what I'd do without them.
Got my eye on you...
Doin' the puggle snuggle!
This one captures his cuteness best.
Up close and personal
This is Oscar playing with our other dog, Bentley. They're fighting over Bentley's favourite chair. I wanted to get a picture of them sitting together, but they didn't sit still long enough!
This is Bentley when he was a bit younger. He was quite destructive as a puppy. Here he's ripping the stuffing out of a cushion.
Bentley is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He's very timid and gentle and acts more like a Terrier, but he definitely has the stubbornness of a bulldog. There have been a couple times when we've been walking him that people have run away in terror screaming, "Ahhhhh! Pitbull!", but he's really very sweet. Dogs like this have a bad rep. We got him from a rescue society.
Oscar came to us in a similar way, you could say. My brother had wanted a puggle (pug/beagle mix) for some time, and then while he was walking Bentley one day, he met this guy with a puggle. I guess he told him that he was always working and didn't have a lot of time for the dog, so my brother said if he needed a new home, we'd be interested in taking him. There were some sketchy conditions involved...the guy lived in a trailer in a run down part of town, and apparently there were junkies coming by wanting to steal the dog. Maybe he had a debt owed to them, maybe the dog was stolen, I don't know. So needless to say, Oscar is in a much better home now.
He's such a cute little guy, and mostly well-behaved. He does have a couple issues, though. He goes nuts when he sees another dog, cat, bird...pretty much anything with legs (excluding Bentley, since he knows him). This morning, he went after two huge Rottweilers that we encountered. Maybe he was attacked by another dog at some point; we don't know. So he clearly needs to be socialized more. Plus, when he barks, he sounds like he's being murdered. It's horrible.
He's very clever, but he's figured out how to open the back door, so he's escaped a couple times. He doesn't necessarily come back when I call him, either. This is a problem, considering we live near a busy highway and he's not too smart about traffic. Around the house, he follows me everywhere, even into the bathroom. He sleeps on my bed, we play together, and he's just a great little guy to have around. I didn't think I was a dog person, but now we have two and I'm not sure what I'd do without them.