Dog looking for a loving home

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Dog looking for a loving home

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Good afternoon fellow hikers!

I have a dog that is in need of a good home. Her name is Piper, she is a mutt. Piper is a medium to large size breed and weighs about 45 lbs. She has red fur and light blue eyes. Piper is about 2 years old and loves being outdoors. She would make a great hiking companion for anyone who loves hiking 14ers or even just local trails.

Piper has a lot of energy. So I would recommend her to a family that has older children. She used to be with my family, but she was rehomed because my 2 year old was afraid of her. She has been trained and knows all the basic commands.

I forgot to mention, Piper is in Colorado Springs.

The current family Piper is with is moving and cannot take her, so they have reached out to me to see if I knew of anyone who would be interested in taking her in.

I hope I'm not breaking any forum rules, so I apologize Bill if I am.

Please PM me if you are interested and I can set up a time for you to meet this sweet girl.

Thank you,
Stephen
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How is she with other dogs?
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CaptCO wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:36 pm I will never understand how someone can adopt/buy a dog, and then give it up. The worst type of people imo, regardless hope she finds a new home!
Dude as usual you have come up a bit short sighted. Sometimes peoples life situations change and it's not because they want to get rid of the dog but because it's best for the dog as well...IMHO.

Op good luck finding her a home... probably a good group of people to start with here.
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CaptCO wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:36 pm I will never understand how someone can adopt/buy a dog, and then give it up. The worst type of people imo, regardless hope she finds a new home!
I guess you don't think that people ever move to an urban area and can't bring their large dog into a small apartment with no open space around? Or move internationally? Go into employer/gov-provided housing that doesn't allow pets? Or have a kid who develops allergies or the animal isn't appropriate for small children? Or the previous stay-at-home partner now has to get a job and they don't want to crate the dog for 9+ hours a day?
Good lord. I hope you get some actual life experience one of these days and stop judging people based on your exceedingly myopic point of view.
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CaptCO wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:14 am I’m posting my opinion on a public forum, sorry if that upsets you. I don’t need to explain my life experiences with random strangers.
And your mouth runs more than a clappy d%ck, just my opinion on a public forum.
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I'll never understand how someone can repeatedly put themselves and their dog in dangerous situations in the mountains due almost entirely to extreme overconfidence and a lack of experience, but that's just me.

Hope you find a good home, OP. Sounds like a sweet pup.
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You know...I read stories like this one: http://www.themountainmail.com/free_con ... f3b8b.html

and I'll never understand how someone can get off route on Mount Belford. Especially while using GPS... and then require rescue...with a dog in December. The poor dog was forced to put up with a long, cold night due to the owner's stupidity and lack of experience. People like that are absolutely the worst people imo.

But that's just my opinion on a public forum. :-"

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We foster dogs for two rescue groups (https://bigdogshugepaws.com/ and https://www.pawsonthegroundcolorado.com/). Dogs are relinquished regularly, and the groups do not judge as to why. They are just grateful that the owners choose to have their dogs rescued rather than dropped off at a shelter. Dogs are resilient and typically adjust to their new homes well. I hope Piper finds a great forever home.
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Don't worry. In a week or two we'll get a post from CaptCO about how he was forced to abandon his dog, as it was slowing him down on his epic climb of Mt Bierstadt (3.5 hrs, FKT??!!), but it's no big deal since somebody else found it and it was probably only out there overnight.
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Humility is wasted on the old.
CaptCo chill!

I rescued a dog, loved her, trained her and named her Champ. I started a new job working graveyard 12 hour shifts. Sometimes I could bring her to work. A coworkers 8 year daughter would stop by occasionally just to see Champ at changing of the guard. Many months went by and Champ needed a better home. I gave her to the 8 year old. My heart hurt. I still love Champ but one day the girl brought me a picture she drew in crayons to show me she and Champ were the stars at show and tell in school.

Champ has a big backyard and a loving little 8 year old that takes care of her better than I ever could.

CaptCo all dogs go to heaven. Please find humility.
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CaptCO wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:41 am Really feeling the love on this thread! Grown adults, like RyeGuy should be leaders and not followers.
Alec...You chose to come throw shade at the OP for no apparent reason. Humility is something that comes with experience and I hope you learn and develop both.

I also hope you choose to be a bit more mature about how you choose to respond to threads on a public forum. Sending me private message like this really isn't showing any maturity and I am not sure what the purpose of it was.

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