Happy 10th birthday, Leo!

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LeoRose

Discussion Starter · Jan 22, 2022

One Friday in April of 2012, I went to the washateria (aka laundromat) with dirty laundry, and came home with clean laundry, as well as the mangey, exhausted, half-starved German Shepherd puppy that had been wandering around the parking lot. The vet and I guestimated she had been born in mid to late January, so we stuck 1-20-12 as her official DOB.

She was in such bad shape that neither I nor my vet would have been surprised if she'd up and died on me that first weekend, and if she survived, she was going to go to a rescue, since I didn't need or want a third dog at that time.

Well, she's still here and somehow just turned ten years old...

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_8942 by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_8949 CPC Sunday by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_8978 CPC Somber by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_8994 by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_9034 CPC Red by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_9035 by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_9037 by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

2022-1-20 Leo's 10th Birthday DSC_9074 CPC Dramatic by Rosemary Elwell, on Flickr

Along the way, she's earned 44 titles from ten different organizations, mainly for parkour, but also tricks, walking, geocaching, and lure coursing.

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Toedtoes

· #2 · Jan 23, 2022

Happy Birthday Leo!!! You've come a long way baby.

Tornado-dog's adoption anniversary is just two weeks away. It will be one year. I just found out that his mom was a semi-feral dog. The shelter was unable to get her to adapt to homelife over the past year and have just transferred her to a sanctuary where she can be safe and healthy but live a more "wild" life.

Inflicting pain and punishment on another creature for the purpose of control or sport is abuse - plain and simple.
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.” ― Matthew Scully
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhaur

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BigBlackDog

· #3 · Jan 23, 2022

Leo looks awesome for 10 yrs old! My previous dog was like that, not even a bit of grey on the muzzle until 12. And even then she was still running and active, of course a bit slower or had a bit less stamina, but overall very active and healthy.

Happy Birthday Leo! And many more!

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Lillith

· #4 · Jan 23, 2022

Happy Birthday, Leo!

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Jack Naylor

· #5 · Jan 24, 2022

Happy Birthday Leo ! ! !

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