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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Max, post: 216563, member: 6004&quot;]<b>Tried something!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hello! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I though I might write something about a pet I&#039;ve had when I was young... It was a very lovely dog! :hug: </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I chose to use he/she when talking of close pets. &quot;It&quot; appeared to me as a too distant word. Note that english is not my mother tongue, but I tried to make this fact as subtle as possible! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The worst thing should be my verb tenses.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>At that time, we lived in the countryside, where we had no neighbours before half a mile from any side. We loved having pets. Dogs were a security factor, among other things, since even if we were relatively far in the woods, our house was just by a road between two villages, and there was a high enough frequency of robberies around. We first had Poilue (name that we could translate in english as &quot;Hairy&quot;), an average size female Chow Chow (now you can see where the name came from). She was a very friendly dog. Probably too friendly to consider it a security factor.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then another dog came from we never knew where, and probably did you know what with Poilue, since on December 3, probably in 1989, Rex was born! I will always remember that day, because I&#039;ve been the first to see the baby dogs as I was leaving for school. There were seven little black puppies! One was frozen hard, it was cold outside. My father put him under the stove and he came back! We all think it was Rex, but we are not sure about that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We chose to keep this one because he was the strongest among the puppies. The others were given to a veterinary, and the mother, Poilue, to another family who had many young children to play with. He was not much more than six inches high and he was already growling at us, showing his strong character. He was even already able to push the bricks we made a pen with. So well that one evening (before we gave Poilue), he escaped and followed Poilue for a ride in about eighteen inches of snow in the woods. She probably never knew he was following her, since he only arrived home in the morning of the following day. He jumped from footstep to footstep of his mother all the way until he arrived back at home. Then he grew up, became a quite big and strong dog, able to hunt as a wolf, but also very loving with us. A good hunter! Though he had many porcupine spines running through his head during some years... He used to drag my brother and me on the snow, pulling us by our snow pants. He was always there for us. Even when he was far in the woods, hunting for his dinner, we only had to whistle and call his name and we could hear him coming as fast as he could in the forest. At this time we had a very good security guard! We always knew when a car just slowed while passing by our house. Most people could not get out of their cars alone. He was not a monster, just taking his job seriously, and physically impressive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then came the day when my parents were bored of this region. We went there because of my father&#039;s job, and there was nothing much there for us. So we went back to the city we first came from. We therefore had to give Rex away. He went to the veterinary too, finally. You don&#039;t know what hole it leaves in your heart before it happens to you! The fact that I was quite young probably didn&#039;t help either. I wish I have another dog someday!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>I managed to find some pictures, not what I hoped, but well... here they are :</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xyz029mb9.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xyz029mb9.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8750/xyz029mb9.th.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xyzxz4.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xyzxz4.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8946/xyzxz4.th.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On the first you can see my mother and the little puppies, some days after their birth... On the second one you can see Rex, a little girl my mother was taking care of and I, a very long time ago! (Relatively to my age.) You can click to better see some details!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for the opportunity! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Max <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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