Another life mystery solved.

That was my father's midlife crisis biker club name!

Pictures please.

Thanks!

this thread is useless without pictures.

Let Dude take you for walks. It is good for everyone!

Two cats and a dog. We got one cat and the dog from a shelter. The other cat just wandered in the house one day and has been here since then.

If you are just looking for a pet and don't have a need for a specific breed, I think more people should try to find their pets at the shelter. We love our animals and they are good pets.

Thanks for giving the little guy a new lease on life.

We didn't have time today. We were busy getting him settled in. He seems happy in the wire kennel. He settles right down and naps. He's also happy to come out and head out for a walk. Stands there calmly while we leash him. Outside, he's full of energy and sniffing everything in sight.

I think this is going to be a very good dog. He has an interesting bark, though, as you'd expect from a beagle/basset cross. But he hasn't barked once inside the house, even when our cat walked up to the kennel. They just sniffed noses, and the cat wandered off, bored. I think they'll get along OK. The other cat, I don't know. But it'll stay out of sight until she's ready to introduce herself.

I was thinking next time I should get some beagle mix, they are such sweet dogs. had one as a child.

The dog is lucky, most strays don't live long if it is not a no kill shelter, the voluntary ones don't accept strays either, they want a history.

I hope you all enjoy the bestest holidays.

They handle strays, and all of their dogs have shots, are microchipped, and carefully evaluated before adoption. My wife volunteers there, and fell in love.

For some reason they always gave me large dogs and young girls got the cute little ones.

I fell in love with one unadoptable dog and they let me take him out to play with in the yard without a leash, a week later he was adopted because he was so lovable. Hope I helped with training him to not bite (really affectionate nibbles). It is so easy to fall in love at a shelter.

I have had rescues or shelter dogs all of my adult life- sometimes 3 at a time- and I consider myself lucky. The bond I've had with those dogs cannot be explained. I love them all. They gave me more than I ever gave them. I have two right now. They are everything to me.

Dude is going to be your friend and companion, call him a he not an it. Congratulations and I hope you and your new pal have lots of fun adventures. I wonder if you will take him fishing?

And, yes, I'll take him fishing. We'll see if he likes riding in a boat.

Congrats on your new addition and thank you for saving a shelter dog!

I have a herd of rescue cats myself. Dogs are hard work and I am lazy, LOL.

I like it.

How can you and yours be anymore awesome?

Thanks for adopting, and maybe a he/she rather than it?

Very glad to hear that you and your wife got a shelter dog.

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Sounds like a great dog and that he'll be a great companion and a lot of fun. I also have adopted rescue dogs, though mine have been senior dogs. I have never once been disappointed. My sweet Sara, a terrier mix, was also found as a stray, turned out to have a wonderful temperament and got along with everyone, very friendly.

My question is when are you going to share pix?

Here's my Sara

Rescue dogs are wonderful.

This is the luckiest thing, an adult critter being adopted! I wish everyone would do this instead or making new kittens and puppies, sooooo many animals are being euthanized every day, it's just sad and terrible.

Dude's beautiful!!

Good on you for the rescue!

In the house, he's quiet. I think the previous owners helped with that.

Today, he got his first obedience training on a leash. He quickly got Stop! and Sit!. When we started, he didn't get either one, but after a very brief demonstration, he did fine. Stop! has him turning back and returning immediately to me (treats), and Sit! gets his butt on the ground, whatever he's doing. It was very easy, which makes me think he's been through some training before. He seems smart and gets the lesson quickly. Tomorrow, we'll reinforce those two commands and start on Stay! Looks to me like a week of daily work and he'll be pretty good.

When I brought him back in the house, still on the leash, he encountered one of our two cats, face to face for the first time. I said Stop!, and he looked up for a treat. Then, with the cat two feet from him, I said Sit! he promptly sat, and the two looked at each other. No hissing, no lunging, no problem. He's back in the kennel now, but we're about to shut doors on the cats, and give him the run of the house for awhile, so he can sniff everything to his heart's content.

That's great! What a cutie pie!

I love beagles, great dogs they make!

Congratulations for the new addition to your family.

Well done and thanks for adopting.

I love that goofy grin

He's getting his first chance to run loose in the house this afternoon. The kitties were napping in a couple of rooms, so I closed the doors and let Dude out of his kennel. He promptly found one of the squeaky chew toys my wife picked up today for him, and is happily carrying it around and bringing it up to show me as I sit at my desk.

More opportunities to reinforce the Sit and Stop commands and to learn a new one, which is Drop it. Since he can't take a treat with a chew toy in his mouth, he learned that one quickly, too. We're making good progress, and he has shown no interest in chasing the cats at all. It may well be that there were cats in his previous home, since he just stops and looks at them.

I had him on a short leash earlier, and introduced him to one of the cats - the one that's not really much afraid of dogs. They looked at each other from a couple of feet apart, and I got Dude to Sit while that was going on. We're not going to let him have unleashed access to the cats for awhile, yet, and I want the Stop command to be obeyed 100% of the time before we start that experiment.

The cats already know the house, and have many hiding and escape places, so it's all going to work out. But, I expect some time to pass before they all co-exist peacefully and without drama. It'll happen, though.

Obedience training is the first order of business, though.

He has a sweet face. May you have many happy years together.

may you all have many, many years of happiness and fun together .

Thanks for the pic. Shelter dogs are the best way to go, and especially older dogs. Our last girl was a year old when she joined our family. Gave us 13 wonderful, happy years before we had to say goodbye.

Good luck and congrats!

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congratulations.

Perhaps with a liver treat. He'll appreciate it.

when he was with the cats...he never even seemed to care about the cats..and in less than 2 weeks he roamed the home cats and all...NEVER a confrontation between the species...

I had to put him down 10 years after I adopted him

His favorite pastime was riding in the car..and on his last day of life we drove all around VA and North Carolina..me crying, and him just cowering...

I cried for weeks...I loved that dog more than I loved any person I know.

Such a happy dog. Glad you got the new addition.

Best wishes!

Congratulations!

I like his name too! He looks friendly and loveable.

I hope he's a good student.

Congrats!

If I ever win the lottery I'll run a kennel for mutts lost or abandoned by lesser humans.

The Dude abides.....

Thank you for adopting from a shelter! You actually save TWO lives. You save the kiddo you bring home AND you make room for another at the shelter.

Kudos to you!!!

He's standing beside my desk chair as I type this. Kitties are shut into the rooms where they're sleeping. We had another close meeting with Dude and the old cat. No aggressive behavior or panic. They just looked at each other. Soon enough, Dude will be given the run of the house. A few more meetings and it should be OK. The young cat has hidden away, but I saw her on the basement stairs, looking at Dude in his wire kennel. That will take longer, but the cat can easily stay out of Dude's way until it's more used to him.