Woof - We'd love to share this portion of Dogster with you, but first you'll need to login.
If you don't have a Dogster account yet, you can register in about 60 seconds. Registering allows you to use all our free features while allowing us to create a safer, more meaningful environment for the community as a whole.
Registering is fast, free and lets you create your dog page(s), find adoptable dogs, save your favorites, connect to your Pup Pals and more.
Likes: Road trips, hotel stays, food, laying out on the grass in the front yard, day care at Bonnie's, eating dinner at the neighbor's house
Pet-Peeves: Surgery, little dogs who try to bite her, other doggies trying to mount her, people yelling, the heat, driving by the pet store but not stopping, m0torcycles
Favorite Toy: Plush toys that make noise, the orange treat ball
Favorite Food: BBQ meat of any kind and Frosty Paws
Favorite Walk: With us at Pt. Isabel Regional Shoreline (leash free) with her friend Sammy or with Bonnie & her friends in Pinole
Best Tricks: Pawing anyone for attention, looking pathetic anytime she does something wrong so you can't be mad at her
Arrival Story: We found her one day around the corner from our house nibbling on the grass, she had a bicycle gear chain wrapped around her neck. She looked thin and lost so we brought her home and reported her to the local pound. Our own dog was generous in allowing her to stay with us until we found her a home. After 2 weeks we finally found her guardian. He was a young man who had rescued her from a puppy farm in Washington breeding dogs for fighting. The farm had bred her at 6 months and due to the terrible treatment she received, when he rescued her all the puppies inside her were dead. He took her to the vet where she was operated on and the puppies were removed and she was spayed. He was able to keep her with him 24/7 because he was an apartment manager but when he moved to California he had to find another job. He could no longer keep her with him and when he left her she barked and/or broke out of her yard. The bicycle chain was an attempt to find something she couldn't break but she did. When he came to take her home we told him that we would be glad to puppy sit anytime, which we did over the next several months. Unfortunatly during this time our own dog died unexpectedly. After two weeks of being lost without any canine companion her guardian came over late at night (the same day my father died) and asked if we would take her because he was being threatened with eviction if he kept her. We said we would be honored, and wondered if my father had something to do with it. Her guardian continued to come see her but as she became more attached to us and didn't want to go with him to the park he slowly discontinued his visits.
Bio: Since we became her guardians Satiba has flourished. She has grown into a fine young woman. We have found that she enjoys nothing better than to go for a ride in the car, preferably to a hotel somewhere! We found out that due to her early pregnancy she has a incontenence problem that is completely controlled with pills that she enjoys taking with baby food. Since we had never had a rottie before we wanted her to go to an obedience class which we did and she pretty much passed with flying colors without any training. Her previous guardian had trained her well. She is eager to please and sometimes performs commands that people around her are giving to their dogs. She goes to daycare once a week just to keep socialized and this is also the person she stays with when she can't come on a trip with us. It's actually her second home! She enjoys having doggie company and is very tolerant when we have overnite doggie visitors. She really hasn't had any medical issues until this year when we discovered a growth and it turned out to be cancerous. Luckily the lowest form of cancer so after surgery there was no follow up treatment. No follow up treatment that is unless you count taking her back to the hospital every weekend because her stitches had stretched out and they had to be re-done. It got to the point where she was with either one of us 24/7 and not allowed to do anything just to try and keep the stitches in long enough to heal. Finally after a month she was able to go back to the doggie park and see all her friends again. Boy was there a lot of smelling to catch up on.
Forums Motto: Happy Fall Ya'll! Dogster Local Spots I've Marked: Veterinary Surgical Associates, Mudpuppys Tub & Scrub, Carmel City Beach, The Forge in the Forest, Cypress Inn, Pinole Pet Hospital, Fort Funston, Andersen's RV Park on the Ocean, Turtle Rock RV Resort, Beverly Beach State Park, Fireside Lodge The Groups I'm In: "Black-and-tan Dogz of the world", **HANG~N~WITH THE BIG DOGS**, *Tail-Nubs-R-Us!*, Fancypants Cafe, Cesar's Dogster Pack, Million Dog March, Rotten Rompin' Rotties, Rottie Love, Rotties Rule, Rottweiler Health and Well Being, The Disney Group, TPLO Surgery/Torn ACL
The Last Forum I Posted In: Star Exchange
Places I've traveled: Carmel,Oregon Coast, Canada, Long Beach WA, Port Angeles, Lake Tahoe, Brookings Or., Victoria BC
I am posting this diary entry out of sequence and I hope you understand why. Before I started out on my cross country trip I received a p-mail from Syd Romeo letting me know that they were on the route I would be taking and that if I needed a potty stop or just a stop to stretch my leglers I could come to his house. I said that was a very generous offer and that I would take him up on it but to add more fun to the visit I said let’s not tell anyone and let it be a big surprise! He was willing to go along with that plan but it was hard for him not to tell. So when we left Long Island we headed for Syd’s house. His family lives in a historic type house on narrow streets so we parked the RV at a Target nearby and drove the pickup truck to his house. The whole family was outside in the yard (fenced I might add) waiting for us including his skin sisser! I jumped out of the pickup and right into the yard. We got to sniffing each other and the pawrents but I kept my distance from the skin pup (skeerryyy!). His house is on a corner and through the fence you can see EVERYTHING! After enjoying the nice weather we all got to go inside and see this great house. There is this big cushion in front of a huge window and ya know what? It was big enough for me, Syd, Freyja AND my mom!!! I thought that was the bestest ottominium I had ever seen. As we took a tour of the house one of the dining room chairs hissed at me! I was soooo interested in that chair, until a big cat came out from under the chair skirt, cause then I didn’t care about the chair, I was interested in the cat! After the pawrents checked out every single room (thank you goes out to Syd’s momma for letting my pawrents see it) we went back outside. The yard was pretty big and I ran (yes that’s right, I ran) around in it with Syd and Freyja. I even backed up Syd when he alerted to something on the other side of the fence. Afer all he’d been through and the close calls and everything he sat right down right in front of my momma and gave her a big ol kiss!! Let me tell you she fell in love right then! What we didn’t know was that it was touch and go for Syd before we even got to his house and there was a time that his mom said she almost called us to call off the visit because they didn't think he would still be around. It was great to see Syd in furson and having a good time after all he'd been through. When it was finally time to leave we all gave each other one last sniff. I told Syd to go ahead and post our surpise visit! I climbed in the truck and I was gone. I hope he had as good a time as I did during our visit. I shall wag my butt when I think back to our surprise visit to Syd Romeo and Princess Freyja's home.
While on Long Island I got to experience a Nor Easter although I was told it was a baby one. It was windy and cold and rainy, all the stuff I love. Bogey and I got to go out sightseeing with the pawrents and I was pretty excited until we pulled up in front of a store called the Christmas Tree Shop and let the moms out. I thought "WHAT! this isn't sightseeing, this is errands". Me & Bogey stayed in the van with the dads and when the moms finally came out we were off to do some real sightseeing. We went to Sunken Meadow State Park on Long Island Sound. It had a huge parking lot and nobody in it so mom, dad, Phil & me snuck out to the beach not lookin at the no dogler sign. Mom said she would take her chances and pay the fine but she was gonna get a pic of me on the beach during a nor easter! It was so exciting! We didn't get caught cause no one in their right mind would be out on the beach on such a cwapy day. We loaded back into the van and drove for a bit and when we stopped we were in a cute place called Northport Village. There was boats in the water and beautiful fall colors and a little park with a bandshell in it. Mom said it looked like a Norman Rockwell town, whoever he is! There was all sorts of stuff to smell and the cold overcast weather was perfect. We got back into the van and after the pawrents ooooohhhhhd and aaaaahhhhd over the pretty houses we stopped but didn't get out. Suddenly Phil handed back some bags and then mom & Cathy gave me & Bogey a burger! I even got some of my mom's fries! Then it was back to the house to tell Parker and Dante all about our fun. We had dinner and relaxed for the rest of the evening. I was only able to lift my head when I heard the freezer open and a I knew a Frosty Paw was coming my way. When we finally went to bed my butt wagged in my sleep knowing that tomorrow Iwould be seeing Bernie & Krackerjack in furson!
We were back on Interstate 80 heading east and it dawned on me that I live near the West end of Interstate 80 and my little sisser lives near the East end of it. We could call ourselves the I80 sissers and if we want to see each other again all we gotta do is get on the interstate and goooooooo! Anyway we were heading east into New York. I could tell that this was a tense day for the pawrents and so I stayed in the back of the RV. We would be navigating some busy roads and not sure about height clearances and where we were and weren’t allowed to go. Thank goodness Uncle Phil had sent us an e-mail that we printed out at Belle’s cause we would have been up a creek without a paddle. Instead we would be crossing the Hudson River by drivin over the George Washington Bridge. We knew we had made it to the NY Boyz headquarters when we saw this lady out on the corner with a big sign that said ‘This Way’ and had pictures of Dante, Bogey & Parker on it. Ya gotta love their mom, Cathy! Me n Bogey were the first to meet and maybe that’s why we seemed to have the strongest bond. There was a huge pile of dried fallen leaves in the backyard and mom encouraged me to play in them with my bobo. I love the noise my bobo makes in dry leaves. Parker came out after I was done playin in the leaves and he and my dad seemed to hit it off real good. Dad & Phil spent some quality time with Dante in the den while I checked out all the doggie beds in the house. After dinner which included some regional cuisine that I enjoyed, I got to try out some Greek Yogurt. It was pretty yummy but I think I will stick to my Frosty Paws. The evening was spent with Parker getting a massage from my dad on the couch, Bogey curled up on one of the beds and me enjoying the magnet bed while getting some lovin from Phil. It was a very nice evening and in my contentment my butt gave a little wiggle.
My Account
(15)
