What?  You mean you can use crates for something besides bedtime??????

Take a trip to the mall. Look at people in your own age group/sex.  We are slammin!

Patty sorry I offended the mall walkers no matter what age Just want to simply say a dog that lives with you in the house will encourage you to go outside and get active than if you have your dog living outside in a kennel or is on a chain by a dog house. Rocky is a special dog that I adopted from GSP Rescue and I did sign a contract upon his adoption. Rocky is not allowed to live in a kennel. He must live in the house with me. If Rocky runs away, he is special microchipped and will go back to the Rescue and I would lose him. Being that, Rocky has been great for me personally as I have to walk him, Toss balls ect . I have no self discipline  on my own to walk in a mall, or go to a health club (those people don't even need a dog for exercise) So hats off to the mall walkers and health club exercisers I admire you and please you don't need an exercise therapy dog like I do.  And I am sooo greatful Rocky has made my  family Doctor proud that I am one of her healthy patients with no cardiac, diabetes, high blood pressure issues and have shown needed weight loss in the 5 years I have lived with Rocky. So for me personally, I need a high energy, in your face house dog  to get moving  living directly with me. Our closest Mall is 50 miles away so people in our area have to winter walk other places like inside our schools after hours or use tread mills. Rocky and I have been walking in 2 feet snow drift fields, me with high boots on. I am thinking of getting snow shoes

Sorry this is a little blurry as you all probably know too well it's hard to get a GSP (let alone a puppy one) picture clear *laughs* Anyway this is me and the Remster aka Remington

This is me and Haiko after his first hunt at 7 month old.

Me, my son Andrew and Haiko. Emily and Haiko

Francine

Well......most of my pics I'm in full hunting gear or taking the pics, LOL Here's me & Tara at a show:

And one at my shop of me & Duece, Tara & Buck & some of the dogs FT/HT & show stuff:

We had  a little get togather for new years,  this was at the end of the nite.  The dogs could take no more!!  Remy is on my right he's two, and jack is on my left he's 6mos.

Hey Sara I was wondering where I could purchase a couple of those vests? Any info would be great. Thanks.     Tony

This is Miss Terra, me(John) and Mr Sunshine sitting on the steps at our house in Charlotte.
Disclaimer: Both are rescued from Animal Control. Terra may not be full GSP, or any GSP for that matter. But she sure looks like a lot of other GSP's I've seen pictures of here. Not to be confused with another liver GSP named Terra on this board.

Here they are on 5/11/07 at the farm. Go to www.hickoryspurfarm.com to see their kingdom.

This was SUCH a great idea!  I'm the same way--when I read enough posts, I begin to imagine a face that matches the poster's personality.  It really is nice to put the right face to a name. 

Here's a picture of my husband Cliff and I. 

And these are our kiddos...  Our twins, Noah (left) and Sam (right)--and their little brother, Liam (center).  They are the world's sweetest kids and have been dog lovers from the time they could crawl.  We're very lucky.

Thanks for starting this tread, Beans!

Sarah

sarah,

Those are three of the most handsome boys.......Good one of you and hubby too

Renee'

THANK YOU!!!  Maybe someday I'll be able to post "hunky son" pictures here too! 

Sara

That's so funny....I was going to try & tie Marie's HUNKY son post in......

I'm sure your boys are already breaking some hearts  Gotta start sometime....

Renee'

When my boys see a kissing scene in a movie, they cover their eyes and repeat "Go to my happy place, go to my happy place" over and over.  I'm really glad that they have girls who are friends, but no girlfriends.  As a mom, I'm quite happy to support the "girl germ" theory for some time...