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Not sure if I've mentioned it, but my stepson was diagnosed with Asperger's last year (which in hindsight explained a lot of his school struggles).  Anyway, his therapist recommended a dog to help make him be more social (i.e., get out of the house more).  So we've been doing some research and he's thinking Australian Shepherd as a good breed to get.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was at lunch with my wife and she saw a FB post from a friend of ours looking for a home for an Aussie Shepherd-Corgi mix.  His prior owner had moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, and he's been "fostered" for a while.  She took the kid over to meet him after school yesterday, and, well:

Welcome to the family, Hilo!

I found out today that one of my work teammates knows this dog! The original owner was her BIL and apparently he (Hilo) lived with her family for a while as well.  But she doesn't know my friend that was looking to place him yesterday.

 
heckmanm said:
Not sure if I've mentioned it, but my stepson was diagnosed with Asperger's last year (which in hindsight explained a lot of his school struggles).  Anyway, his therapist recommended a dog to help make him be more social (i.e., get out of the house more).  So we've been doing some research and he's thinking Australian Shepherd as a good breed to get.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was at lunch with my wife and she saw a FB post from a friend of ours looking for a home for an Aussie Shepherd-Corgi mix.  His prior owner had moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, and he's been "fostered" for a while.  She took the kid over to meet him after school yesterday, and, well:

Welcome to the family, Hilo!

I found out today that one of my work teammates knows this dog! The original owner was her BIL and apparently he (Hilo) lived with her family for a while as well.  But she doesn't know my friend that was looking to place him yesterday.
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love australian shepherds- smart, gentle, fun.

gl with the stepson's continued treatment- great you guys caught it. how old is he?

 
heckmanm said:
Not sure if I've mentioned it, but my stepson was diagnosed with Asperger's last year (which in hindsight explained a lot of his school struggles).  Anyway, his therapist recommended a dog to help make him be more social (i.e., get out of the house more).  So we've been doing some research and he's thinking Australian Shepherd as a good breed to get.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was at lunch with my wife and she saw a FB post from a friend of ours looking for a home for an Aussie Shepherd-Corgi mix.  His prior owner had moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, and he's been "fostered" for a while.  She took the kid over to meet him after school yesterday, and, well:

Welcome to the family, Hilo!

I found out today that one of my work teammates knows this dog! The original owner was her BIL and apparently he (Hilo) lived with her family for a while as well.  But she doesn't know my friend that was looking to place him yesterday.
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That's awesome!

My parents have had 3 Aussies over the years.  Super smart, but need a LOT of exercise.  My dad's saddled with a mini-Aussie my mom insisted on getting a few years ago and while a bit high strung, he's just a sweet little guy who keeps my dad company.

 
El Floppo said:
love australian shepherds- smart, gentle, fun.

gl with the stepson's continued treatment- great you guys caught it. how old is he?
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HS senior.  He's really struggled over the years with creative writing assignments, or "imagine you are..." types of things.   Smart as hell but just doesn't deal well with abstraction.

 
heckmanm said:
Not sure if I've mentioned it, but my stepson was diagnosed with Asperger's last year (which in hindsight explained a lot of his school struggles).  Anyway, his therapist recommended a dog to help make him be more social (i.e., get out of the house more).  So we've been doing some research and he's thinking Australian Shepherd as a good breed to get.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was at lunch with my wife and she saw a FB post from a friend of ours looking for a home for an Aussie Shepherd-Corgi mix.  His prior owner had moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, and he's been "fostered" for a while.  She took the kid over to meet him after school yesterday, and, well:

Welcome to the family, Hilo!

I found out today that one of my work teammates knows this dog! The original owner was her BIL and apparently he (Hilo) lived with her family for a while as well.  But she doesn't know my friend that was looking to place him yesterday.
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I am a fan of Aussies and we also have two corgis, among our massive pack of dogs.

From the pic, it looks more like a Corgi-Australian Cattle Dog mix than a Corgi-Australian Shepherd mix though. I could certainly be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.

Corgi-Cattle Dog mixes are known as "Cowboy Corgis" in some circles, if you care about extremely useless dog breed trivia.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
I am a fan of Aussies and we also have two corgis, among our massive pack of dogs.

From the pic, it looks more like a Corgi-Australian Cattle Dog mix than a Corgi-Australian Shepherd mix though. I could certainly be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.

Corgi-Cattle Dog mixes are known as "Cowboy Corgis" in some circles, if you care about extremely useless dog breed trivia.
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Very possible it's cattle dog rather than shepherd in there.  I googled and the pics look a lot like our boy.

 
heckmanm said:
Very possible it's cattle dog rather than shepherd in there.  I googled and the pics look a lot like our boy.
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That's the way it looked to me. Just be aware that with cattle dog and corgi in it, your new family member is likely to have a pretty strong herding instinct. It doesn't have to be a problem, but it is a good thing to be aware of.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
That's the way it looked to me. Just be aware that with cattle dog and corgi in it, your new family member is likely to have a pretty strong herding instinct. It doesn't have to be a problem, but it is a good thing to be aware of.
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Yeah I knew that about them.  So far he and the dachshunds are keeping their distance, so no herding attempts yet, but it'll be interesting to watch as they get to know each other.

 
heckmanm said:
Yeah I knew that about them.  So far he and the dachshunds are keeping their distance, so no herding attempts yet, but it'll be interesting to watch as they get to know each other.
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fwiw, I grew up with a collie- another herder.

everytime I'd take him for a walk, a few minutes in I'd find myself pushed against the wall- he was always walking at a diagonal, "guiding" me (aka pushing me) in generally the direction we were going. 

 
My cattle dog mix loves to herd much to the dismay of my 13 year old boxer mix who just wants peace and quiet. 

 
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One of our corgis has an insane level of herding drive. Any time any of our other dogs start to get rambunctious she flies into action, chasing them around and getting all bite-y. She is also a grumpy old b*tch that we got as a rescue, though.

 
kevzilla said:
My GB had a Sheltie. They rearranged the furniture, and the dog barked at it for days.  :lmao:
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I grew up with a sheltie. She was lovable, but 100% neurotic. She was also a rescue and I never knew if her weirdness was due to something that happened to her before we got her or whether it was just the way shelties are. My guess is some of both.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
I grew up with a sheltie. She was lovable, but 100% neurotic. She was also a rescue and I never knew if her weirdness was due to something that happened to her before we got her or whether it was just the way shelties are. My guess is some of both.
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I believe the phrase was "high-strung."

 
heckmanm said:
Not sure if I've mentioned it, but my stepson was diagnosed with Asperger's last year (which in hindsight explained a lot of his school struggles).  Anyway, his therapist recommended a dog to help make him be more social (i.e., get out of the house more).  So we've been doing some research and he's thinking Australian Shepherd as a good breed to get.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was at lunch with my wife and she saw a FB post from a friend of ours looking for a home for an Aussie Shepherd-Corgi mix.  His prior owner had moved to an apartment that didn't allow pets, and he's been "fostered" for a while.  She took the kid over to meet him after school yesterday, and, well:

Welcome to the family, Hilo!

I found out today that one of my work teammates knows this dog! The original owner was her BIL and apparently he (Hilo) lived with her family for a while as well.  But she doesn't know my friend that was looking to place him yesterday.
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I have a dog with that mix (and it is cattle dog, not shepherd)

Enjoy never being alone in a room again without hearing barking. 

 
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Henry Ford said:
I have a dog with that mix (and it is cattle dog, not shepherd)

Enjoy never being alone in a room again without hearing barking. 
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You & Redmond both having a Foghorn Leghorn avatar is really confusing, especially when both of you mention the cattle dog. :loco:

 
Since I have been dropping in intermittently, I figure I might as well do the quick dump of all of the great news I have:

My 89 year old dad is in the hospital with an infection. He has advanced prostate cancer and needs to start chemo, but can't until they make sure the infection is gone for good. They are going to internalize the tubes that he had put in following his bladder rupture (apparently having tubes leading to bags with urine in them coming out of holes in your body can lead to infections, who knew?) and then he will need daily infusions of IV antibiotics for a few weeks to make sure the infection is completely beaten back. Then, he can start getting chemical poison infused directly into his blood stream to try and arrest the spread of the cancer. My dad has certainly not thrown in the towel and would like to stick around for as long as he can if he has a decent quality of life, but he also mentioned to me that he believes the massive monetary expenditures that are happening to try to extend his life for another couple years are "borderline immoral". I love him so much.

I am closing in on 18 months since I have had a full time job. I did some contract work in there for a former boss and I have been a little distracted from full-time job searching by caring for my dad, but this isn't a lot of fun. I can't even get a nibble on lots of jobs I would seem to be very qualified for, yet I see the ads for those positions continue for weeks and months after I receive a rejection email (it is never a call, and the emails are actually fairly rare. More often...***crickets***). To call that frustrating would be an understatement.

I am pretty much fully estranged from my two eldest children. It is heart-breaking, but for any of you that have followed the saga on here, my ex-wife did a very thorough job of sabotaging my relationship with them by absolutely poisoning their view of my wife. It sucks, but I am actually (sadly) getting kind of used to it. Things are better, though far from perfect, with my youngest. He has told his step-brother that he knows his mom is a crazy #####. I don't know whether to be happy or sad about that.

Since I am struggling to find a job in the Seattle area, with its heavy technology presence, and I can't move due to family constraints, I am seriously considering enrolling in an intensive three month program to become a qualified data scientist. The program is intense, it effectively packs a year of grad-school level material into three months, and it isn't cheap, but it would likely make me far more employable. One rub is that with my dad's health in a precarious situation, I don't really know whether I will be able to make it through the program. Or whether I will feel guilty for doing so if my dad dies before it is complete, or shortly thereafter. I know what he would say, but that doesn't necessarily help. And I will say that spending time with him and helping him out is one of the few things that gives my life meaning right now. But I also have a wife, step-kids, and my own kids to think about. And I need to get back to work. Also, the opportunity to become even more of a NERD is hard to pass up.

 
So...uh...my school had a fundraiser (box tops for education) to buy a mascot costume.  I think it was organized by the Parent-Teacher Club and the ASB (I didn’t pay much attention. I just collected the box tops from my homeroom).

The costume was shipped the other day . looks just like this https://goo.gl/images/YF4p21

Our mascot is The Knights.

 
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OrtonToOlsen said:
So...uh...my school had a fundraiser (box tops for education) to buy a mascot costume.  I think it was organized by the Parent-Teacher Club and the ASB (I didn’t pay much attention. I just collected the box tops from my homeroom).

The costume was shipped the other day . looks just like this https://goo.gl/images/YF4p21

Our mascot is The Knights.
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Seems like the wrong movie shtick has caught on at your school.

 
Dan Lambskin said:
 Buddy of mine had to give a sample for his vasectomy.  I guess he was supposed to do it at home because he got an awkward look when he asked where the room he needed to go to was at

they have him a cup and let him go in the restroom
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Same thing happened with mine. Lady hands me the cup and I ask if there's a room or something. She says "There's a public restroom by the elevators."

 
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