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| Azaan has her eye on the butterfly. |
Copyrighted Photos of Boerboels
I found one of my photos on Pinterest. I don't mind that people share the photos, as long as they give credit to the owner or point back to one of my websites. In this case, the photo was posted on someone's website without permission first.
Here is the photo that was used on a competing website without permission. This is Jaf enjoying the water in the Big Sewickley Creek in SW Pennsylvania. I added a watermark for ShopForPuppy.com, which is our online pet supplies store that gives back to the rescue community in terms of a donation from each sale.
Fiona Needs Help
Fiona is a purebred female Boerboel with a rare genetic disease called osteochondrodysplasia (dwarfism). OCD is a growth
and developmental abnormality of the bone and cartilage, which results
in lack of normal bone growth and bone deformities. The photo shows
Fiona with her normal sized littermates. Fiona should not be bred as
she carries this condition and may pass this on to her puppies.
Fiona is barely one year old, but her original owner breached the contract and sold her to an Amish puppy mill. She was sold to her first owner as pet quality, with no papers and no breeding rights. She is gorgeous and loving, but she is now at risk through no fault of her own.
Can you help us to help Fiona? We have some loving, lifetime homes that want to adopt her where she will be spayed and live her life as a pet. We need financial help to buy her back from the situation she is in, as her "newest" owner is seeing dollar signs from what he can make by using her to produce puppies for him.
Please help! All donated funds will be used to help pull Fiona from the situation she is in, vet checks and spay, and transportation to her new home. Every dollar helps! If you cannot donate, please share this post on social media so that we can help save Fiona.
Donations can be sent via PayPal to info@shopforpuppy.com. Make sure you mark it as a "gift" and specify that it is for Fiona. We are also accepting donations through GoFundMe. Thank you for your help.
Fiona is barely one year old, but her original owner breached the contract and sold her to an Amish puppy mill. She was sold to her first owner as pet quality, with no papers and no breeding rights. She is gorgeous and loving, but she is now at risk through no fault of her own.
Can you help us to help Fiona? We have some loving, lifetime homes that want to adopt her where she will be spayed and live her life as a pet. We need financial help to buy her back from the situation she is in, as her "newest" owner is seeing dollar signs from what he can make by using her to produce puppies for him.
Please help! All donated funds will be used to help pull Fiona from the situation she is in, vet checks and spay, and transportation to her new home. Every dollar helps! If you cannot donate, please share this post on social media so that we can help save Fiona.
Donations can be sent via PayPal to info@shopforpuppy.com. Make sure you mark it as a "gift" and specify that it is for Fiona. We are also accepting donations through GoFundMe. Thank you for your help.
Boerboels in Snow
The dogs enjoy playing in the snow. They like it much more than I do!
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| Jaf (Quo Vadis Barracuda) in the snow |
AKC-registered breeders raising dogs in 'miserable' conditions
I found this expose' on ABC's Today Show about the conditions of some dogs bred by AKC breeders. Not all AKC breeders are bad, of course, but as the news story shows, it is important that you inspect the kennel where you are buying your next puppy before you send that deposit.
New accusations that one of the country's largest organizations dedicated to dogs, the American Kennel Club, isn't doing enough to protect animals. TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen reports.
http://www.today.com/news/akc-registered-breeders-raising-dogs-miserable-conditions-6C9640008http://www.today.com/news/akc-registered-breeders-raising-dogs-miserable-conditions-6C9640008
Many people are buying Boerboel puppies sight unseen from internet websites, and many of these online breeders of Boerboels are not taking good care of their dogs. The best practice is to visit the breeder in person and meet the breeding parents of your next pup.
The first Boerboel puppy that I purchased was registered with AKC, but I visited the breeder, met the sire and dam of my pup, and saw the pup in person before I made a decision. She was raised in a home environment, and not a kennel. Now she has multiple obedience titles and is a registered Therapy Dog. She will be 7 years old on Saturday, November 15, 2014, and is very healthy. I couldn't be more happy with my girl!
Don't forget to go out and have fun with your dog! The photo above is Azaan, my first Boerboel, focused on her handler (me) on the pause table during agility training on the second floor of an Indoor Soccer Arena.
New accusations that one of the country's largest organizations dedicated to dogs, the American Kennel Club, isn't doing enough to protect animals. TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen reports.
http://www.today.com/news/akc-registered-breeders-raising-dogs-miserable-conditions-6C9640008http://www.today.com/news/akc-registered-breeders-raising-dogs-miserable-conditions-6C9640008
Many people are buying Boerboel puppies sight unseen from internet websites, and many of these online breeders of Boerboels are not taking good care of their dogs. The best practice is to visit the breeder in person and meet the breeding parents of your next pup.
The first Boerboel puppy that I purchased was registered with AKC, but I visited the breeder, met the sire and dam of my pup, and saw the pup in person before I made a decision. She was raised in a home environment, and not a kennel. Now she has multiple obedience titles and is a registered Therapy Dog. She will be 7 years old on Saturday, November 15, 2014, and is very healthy. I couldn't be more happy with my girl!
Don't forget to go out and have fun with your dog! The photo above is Azaan, my first Boerboel, focused on her handler (me) on the pause table during agility training on the second floor of an Indoor Soccer Arena.
Great Pyrenees - LGD
Great Pyrenees - Livestock Guardian Dogs
These photos were taken in Northern California near Cloverdale, which is about 2 hours North of San Francisco. I was on my way back to the Bay Area from a trip to Mendocino and Ft Bragg, and saw these Great Pyrenees watching over their charges. I love the history of farm dogs, so even though these aren't Boerboels, they are images of working farm dogs. Real dogs.
This was my greeting as I pulled off on the side of the road with my camera. I think he is serious. He did not hesitate to come charging at me, and then stopped at the fence line with a low warning. When I turned to leave, he went back to protecting his cattle.
In the last photo, you have to look real hard but you will see one that is just a tad bit different than the others. It took me about 5 minutes before I saw him.
These Great Pyrenees are true working farm dogs. There were some dogs in the pastures with cattle, and different dogs in the sheep pastures. The dogs in the cattle pastures seemed much more interested in making sure I was not going to advance on them, while the dogs in the sheep pastures stuck close to their charges.
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