Why Dogs Bark Sounds Big And Scary, When They Are Small In Size!

While getting help to figure out where to put this code on my blog, this loud sound reverberated through the ear piece I was talking into. The person on the other side of the line said, "Wow you must have a great big dog to make that kind of loud sound." I said to him that my dog was not that big, but she could make some noise.

Butter is what I call her name. That is the short version of her full name. She is known by many people in the community by her full name" Butter Cup." I had a great big mastiff mix before Butter Cup, came on the scene. Her name was "Oreo Cookie."  When Oreo barked which was not that often,  if you were sitting or standing up next to her while she started to bark, you would have to cover your ears with the palms of your hands.

It seemed like a miniature earthquake erupted when Oreo barked. Oreo is a pretty big dog in stature.  On the other hand Butter Cup is a medium size dog. I have experience with some people that are small in size of height that can yell out pretty good. I have experience with tall people, some of my friends by the way, that were six foot eight to seven feet, speak calm and just over a whisper.

I had a dog once that was a medium size dog called Ruby, and she was a chow-chow mix and would not bark at all. From all the dogs I had in my life to share with in good and bad times Ruby, the dog that did not bark, showed  a lot of courage, and was not scared of to many things that came her way. I  had friends also that would not say a thing. Some people are known as quiet people because they do not say to much at all, at any given time.

I have experienced when people had let their dog outside with his leash on. The dog would be barking in the early morning even before the sun would come up, and the dog would be loud when barking, and the whole neighborhood would be woken up from the dog that was small, and not that big in size. I guess the point here is a dog does not have to be big in size to make some powerful noise.

And just because a dog is big does not mean it will make a great big bang either in noise. I would tend to think dogs are somewhat like people, some are quiet, and some can yell their heads off!

Pet Images, And Photogentic Pictures, And Snap Shots In My Mind!

Did you take a great snap shot? Or for that matter did you get many great snap shots of your beloved pet friend? Maybe you were smart and used a camcorder to record for your future reference in case somthing ever happen to your very special pet companion.

I know for a fact how important it is to keep pictures of your love one's, Meaning your family, and friends, and your pets. It has almost been a year since my great dane mix "Oreo," has transition. If some of you do not understand what transition means in the sentence above, It means that my pet or better yet my dog "Oreo," died almost a year ago.

I can still see her and think of her in a past memory, And it's like having a photogentic picture of her in my mind. "Oreo," was here on this earth for 8yrs and 4 months, "Oreo," was a female dog. "Oreo," was black all over with beautiful markings of a white jaggart breasted chest, And white upside down diamonds on the back of each paw or foot.


Remember when you took your snap shot or picture, You really wanted to get your best focus on the image, So that you would get the clearest and sharpest picture ever. I want to ask you this, " Have you ever heard someone state , "I can remember as clearest day in my mind" And whatever they are telling you it could be 20 0r 50 yrs, that they can see that image as clear and sharp as if it was standing in front of them today.

It's amazing! But if someone, Or something in your life like your pet meant a lot to you, And that someone has made a big impression on you!  Then you probably will keep those images and feelings and emotions in your heart and mind for a long time, And maybe forever! And even in a clear and sharp focus. Some will say, "It's like, It just happen yesterday, and it could be 20 or 50 years ago!"

It's almost been a year,  "Oreo," has gone hopefully to "Pet Doggie Heaven," And I have a lot of snap shots and pictures of her. I remember her in a full, and sharp, and focus photographic image full of loving and of special memories in my mind and heart just like it was yesterday or Today!

Having Fun With Your Pets!

Moment By Moments With(Oreo, Rubbie, Chew- Chew)And Your Beloved Pets!

It may come as a surprise or a shock that your beloved friend and companion for some years will be not with you. That can be a person you care deeply about or in my case a dog named "Rubbie".

Now let me state somthing here before I go forward, "Chew-Chew" my other dog I had at the sametime as "Rubbie" was a very special dog. She had gotten bone cancer in her left shoulder, And we had to put her asleep because of the pain she was going through, She was 91/2 years old.


She was a great dane mix and beautiful, "Rubbie" on the other hand was a chow-chow mix and was beautiful also in her on way! She lived to be about 17 years old. In some of my other posts or writings, I talk about the will of "Rubbie" which you can read about her over comming a sickness that almost took her life.


I have special memories of each of them, I 'am pretty sure you have special memories of your pet wether it was a dog or a cat, Or any other animal that was part of your life! I never want to not give them their due!

Meaning the moments I was blessed to share my life with them, And meant alot to me and others. One of the others is a dog named "Oreo,"She is a great dane mix also with lab as the other half of the mix.

Chew-Chew had just died with Rubbie still being strong for me, And being the only dog to share her moments with me, And others meaning my friends. This story is really about "Oreo"the newest addition to the line of dogs I had in my life.

When Chew- Chew died the staff recommened I get another puppy for me and Rubbie, And the staff was very nice to me, And they were the staff at the University Of Illinois College Of Veterinary Medicine, So I said to them I will consider that suggestion.

Well after about six months a nurse assitant called and said her great dane was having puppies, And that I could get one of her puppies and that she thought it would help me and Rubbie overcome the lost of Chew- Chew. So I said to Rubbie we are going to get you another buddy. And that's where Oreo came into our lives, She was full of fun when she came home to us.

She was only 5 1/2 weeks old when I brought her to my home, And she was all black with this beautiful white designer color on her chest section, and all of her four paws had white diamonds shapes behind her four paws.

She was'nt that big as a puppie, I could hold her in the palm of my hand, She did not cry or wine, She came into our home as if she knew she was suppose to be their.I had to work at night, So nobody would be their with Oreo except for Rubbie, And I put  newspaper down in the kitchen area for her to go potty,And when I got back from my night job, Oreo would be asleep on Rubbie's  stomach, And the newspaper would be full of pee-pee on the kitchen floor.

Oreo seemed  to already be trained  for the newspaper on the kitchen floor. Other area's  of my place was not used as a bathroom to go potty and Oero shocked me in that way, That she knew the newspaper was the bathroom for her to go potty!

I can honestly say Oreo did have a few slip up's, But for her age, I 've never seen a puppie like her use the bathroom without alot of training to just use the newspaper in the kitchen at 5 1/2 weeks old. I can also say Rubbie took that puppie as if that was her pup and she was the mother.

As Oreo started to get older and I took her and Rubbie on their daily walks, I noticed that Oreo loved kids and people and other dogs and cats, Everybody seemed to call Oreo's name, And she knew that was her name!

Oreo started to get big in size and fill out! She was a happy go lucky pup! When people would see her they would call her name, And she would just prance up to them marching like a little pony, And wagging that beautiful long black tail.

People wanted to walk Oreo, And I let them walk her with instructions, I never trained Oreo to sit down or lie down, People would tell me all the time To do this! And I said to them, She will pick that up in time, And I knew this because of the way she caught on using the bathroom on the newspaper on the kitchen floor.

Oreo just seemed to pick up things naturally if commanded to do so.Soon the community started to fall in love with Oreo, The Police would drive by while I was walking Oreo, And they would call out her name and she would run up to their squad cars and stick her head inside of the window of the car, And the officer would rub her head and she would just love that and start prancing in place.

As time went on in our lives, Oero would visit all of her neighborhood dog buddies that had fenced in yards and run up and down and back and fourth with her doggie freinds which were small dogs mostly. Oero would go to people's homes and almost seem like she would ring the doorbell or knock on the door until they came out to say Hello!

And the majority of the home owners were senior citizens, The yellow school buses with kids on them would call Oreo's name and the bus driver would open the door and Oreo would climb up the first step and say Hello to all the kids! It was just a site to see and experience!

Some days she would just wait for the school bus at the corner to pull up and open the door to say, "Hello to the kids and bus driver"! I then knew Oreo was a "community dog", Oreo never has fought any dog and has never bit anyone, And mother's with babies would let Oreo kiss them or lick them and these were small babies not even a year old!

Oreo loves babies and children and senior citizens and any age of people! And she loves cats, She has gotten her nose bloody by cats a few times but she still try's to win them over!

I could write a book about Oreo, But this is not the time, In short I justed wanted to let you know some of the special moments of this pet I have called Oreo, And since those special moments with Oreo, Others have shared these special moments with her too!

Oreo and I now go and visit the nursing home in my community, And she loves her nursing home friends.Oreo collasped on tax day of 2010 this year and with people who helped me to get her to the emergency hospital of the University Of Illinois Veterinary, Oreo came through!

They ran tests to see what was wrong with Oreo, And the test revealed that Oreo has a enlarged heart and that she will be on heart medicine for the rest of her special life. Let me say that the community came through for Oreo's  cost of her hospital bill!

The University Of Illinois Teaching Veterinary Hospital covered alot of the cost for Oreo as well as this service ran by this lady called chelse! The program is called "CARE" and you should send Your gifts Or Donations to (P.O. Box 161  Urbana, IL 61803-0160) The Phone Number is Area Code (217)417-3160

You can also go to: http://www.carecentercu.org/  And for the University Of Illinois Teaching Veterinary Hospital you can go to:http://vetmed.illinois.edu/    

The phone number for the University Of Illinois Teaching Vet. Hospital is (217)244-1562

Oreo and I would like to say thank you so much to Christine A. Beuoy Of The University Of Illinois Teaching Hospital And The Wonderful Staff who looked after Oreo, And Chelse From The CARE CENTER and others who loves Oreo, And gives her a chance to share more special moments with her in this life!                                                             
                                                                                         Author  By I. Cameron

Hi, hope your day is going well.
Do you know that dogs seem like their is not a care in the world? Or for that matter most
animals do, unless there is a emergency, like going to the bathroom, or strangers knocking
on your door, or feeding time, dogs really have a care when it's supper time and most animals
do too!

I once had a Chow-Lab mix named Ruby, she was going on to the age of 17 years old in human being years, she was sick, and had cancer the last 3 years of her life, the doctor told us that
Ruby would probably only last for six months when we first took her to the doctor, she was14 years old then, and all the kids in the neighborhood knew Ruby. They would ask me, Is Ruby
still living? And I would say to them "Here she comes around the corner" And their faces
would light up!, When they would see her come around that corner, they would jump up and
down and scream her name Ruby!, Ruby!, Well my, "Great Dane , Oreo Cookie" screamed also,
Ruby! Ruby! Because at that time we all had a care in the world! And what matter the most to
all of us,was that we all matter in some type of important and meaniful way! Love You, Ruby!

The Nice Long Walk

The best thing in the world is a face that will not reject you from a long hard day, but with a
happy look of "What took you so long to get here?" and with a expression of "let's go now for
a long good walk and take away all of life's ills." That is what "Oero,". My Great Dane does for
me. So, let your Life ills go for a nice long walk and enjoy the rest of the day, and the moments
you get with your Dane.



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