I haven’t posted here in so long. I am hiding.
I am hiding because one of my beautiful danes is crazy, like in the aggressive capacity and my other has just been diagnosed with DCM.
I am sorry… maybe I will come out of hiding when I grasp the imperfection.

Update of sorts

I dont really have that much to say, I have been keeping myself busy between the dane rescue and dave and I have resumed building at the cabin. I did have the opportunity to go to my first real dog show (i went last year but Frank kept me too busy to watch). There were some amazing Dogs there and I played a bit with my new camera.

It has been an amazing ride this last year. Django had another echo and he got the "still good" from the cardiologist. Free from DCM as of this week but it can sneak its ugly head up at any time. Keep us in your thoughts and I will try to post more!

P, Savages mom reminded me in her blog, which i visit often that i need to post more.
I have been so busy doing dane rescue! I have not had time :(

BUt i am here, and I will start posting again!

To make up for my lack of posting, here is a picture of Django (dane #2) trying to fit into our new Beetle.

Two danes is pure joy. I love him so much already and it hasnt even been 2 weeks. Please dont pinch me because if this is a dream... I dont want to wake.

Djangohead

Its amazing how you can grow to love something/someone so fast... sometimes even before you have it. (how can you not love a face like that though)

Today we went on a hike in the mountains with the Dane Gang. It really consisted of 3 adults and 3 danes and an australian shephard. One of the Danes was Frank of course, and one of the other's was our soon to be Django. It was all off-lead which i love doing. Dave isnt really fond of letting Frank offlead but I figure as long as the other doggies are sticking around, Frank isnt going anywhere. I figure right so far ;)

Awesome day, Frank even accidentally learned how to swim. Frolicking in streams is alot different than jumping into a pond that drops off to 5 feet pretty fast. He did well though, despite the surprise of being underwater!
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I remember telling Dave on one of our first dates together that I did not really see the big deal with dogs. He had a 14 year old black lab at the time and quite often I would secretly wonder what the big fascination was with dogs. I mean they constantly need companionship, can't take care of themselves at all well. Not like a cat can. The irony in all of this of course is that I have a hard time thinking of anything other than the dogs lately and I think that is making my "non-dog" friends a little mental. I am constantly thinking about when/if I get to bring magilla home, what kind of training he will need, what training Frank needs work on, where i can take him/them for walks. If the weather is going to be good enough for a good long walk after work, the next day, before work etc. This is all coming from a self proclaimed CAT person. Thats why what I am about to say is so amazing to me... the passion and anger I have been feeling over this is both shocking and overwhelming.

I find myself disgusted with the recent events of recalls of dog foods. Thankfully I am a raw feeder and Frank has known nothing else. There are millions of pets out there eating this food, and millions of people who are not seeing what is going on and putting their trust and faith into their vet's recommended foods. Worse yet, are the pet owners that can barely afford to feed their animals and picking up the cheap store brand food not aware at all that most of these things are recalled and alot of the stores are NOT removing this from the shelves. This has been going on for what... 6 weeks? Stop what you are doing people, stop selling your stuff, stop posting on your websites that your product is safe and TEST YOUR PRODUCT. You pass your food off to a canning company? That canning company is ADDING STUFF TO YOUR FOOD AND YOU DONT KNOW IT?
These are not just dogs and cats, they are family members to many people. To many people, they are SOLE family members. A person puts their faith in their pet food company to do what they can for their animal. Most people don't raw feed, I know that... but I also know, that if my Vet told me that a food was "high quality" i would probably feed it. Just as I would if my pediatrician told me that my choice of formula's was high quality. Wouldn't there be a BIT more action if there was rat poison in other family members supplements?

What the hell is going on here? Why doesnt any body DO SOMETHING????

I am going to do something about it, I am not going to sit on my ever expanding ass and do nothing about what is happening here. I dont often step on a soap box, I will get down reluctantly off of mine now. Thanks for reading.