My ZOO <3

[MORTYtheTORTY]

I take in stray's all the time! I've rescued many pits that are torn apart from people fighting them. All breeds as I accept em all. I have 2 dogs of my own Sugar (chihuahua) and Mickey (shepard/lab mix). I ended up with 10 dogs in my house at one point. These were all taken in 2011. I also have a stray cat (tuco) since it came to me as a kitten (september of 2010) and been trying to rehome him with no luck. I still have one left over puppy that was supposed to go to a home but the person backed out and she is in need of a home still (born on july 18). These are the pics.

Someone dropped off a one eyed pregnant white shepard mix (1 month pregnant in June of 2011), SPCA wouldn't pick her up and at the time we had 1 vehicle and Fiancee worked 6 days a week 10 hr shift so I couldn't do anything and delivered all 6 of her pups! THE MOST hardest thing I have had to do...they have cost me alot of money but this is what I do and I love it!

Pregnant stray Khloe

pups were all healthy!

they grow fast

few weeks later

I forgot to mention that the father was a husky and was running lose out in the field and our neighbors took him in

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She delivered 6 pups...IDK if I mentioned that?

they were all in timeout LOL

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I forgot to mention....before Khloe and all the pups, we had another stray named kipper...pit/boxer or pit/american bulldog mix <--you decide =)

he's playing with the pups..he's the sweetest best guard dog I've ever seen!

few more weeks and the pups are ready for their new homes

This is my shepard/lab mix mickey, I've had her for a long time and she will be 10 yrs old this coming July!

Mickey playing with the fosters

 

[wellington]

Very cute. Good for you for helping out the four legged that can't help themselves. I wish I had room to do the same. I have taken in a cat and a dog a few years ago. I usually have my own animals and no room for isolation. My hat goes off to you and people like you.

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

She was my favorite and one of the second to last to go

This is the biggest baddest of the bunch and the second pup to be born...a few weeks before he was going to rehome he enhaled a piece of wood and it puncture his throat and he bled to death...the vets did all they could to save him and he didn't make it (that bill was a GRIP) RIP PUP#2

here's another of pup #2

too many people wanted this lil guy so I had no choice but to bid him out

These were the last 2 to go and the one on the right is still with us, as someone had backed out last minute. She is Buttercup and she is bigger than Mickey now.

Playing in the sprinklers

DID I mention that there were 3 girls and 3 boys??
This is the only one that came out with colored eyes

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My mickey playing with Khloe and Kipper

Here is another stray that came...looks just like kipper but Kipper came to us in November of 2010 and this dog (my son named Lucy) came to us in August of 2011. Actually Kipper escaped and brought her home!

Here are the pups again

this is buttercup again

she's growing (all the pups are gone except her)

this is buttercup with the Tuco

This is my chihuahua Sugar <--she's been with us for almost 5 yrs and this pic was taken when she passed. She passed 2 weeks ago, she was hit by a car and we found the aftermath! RIP BABY SUGAR!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST...here is my Manimal "Nolan" He just turned 3 and I am currently 5 months pregnant with a girl on the way! I will post other pics of my past animals if I can find them. I'm sorry to those if I have been snappy due to my hormones jumping around LOL

 

[Arizona Sulcata]

RE: My ZOO <3

Awe so cute! I want one!!! Too bad you don't live closer! :/ plus I have a two dog limit according to the wife... Haha! One is 15 years old now, keep thinking he's going to die every year. My other dog will be so depressed when that happens so I'll have to get another one right after!

 

[Kvoigt]

OMG they are soooooooo sooooo cute!!!!!!!!!

 

[nicoleandrocky]

Aw! they are all so cuteee!!!! Especially Khloe and her pups! <3

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Very cute. Good for you for helping out the four legged that can't help themselves. I wish I had room to do the same. I have taken in a cat and a dog a few years ago. I usually have my own animals and no room for isolation. My hat goes off to you and people like you.

Thanks a bunch wellington! Not much people care. 3 others in my neighborhood and I do what we can for strays...they were so filthy arriving but as you can see even lucy was dirty at one point and clean in the last pic or so...I clean them and housetrain them and try to rehome them for free! I mostly keep my animals inside but with this pregnancy kickn my butt the two dogs and cat are outside. This is sooo much hard work but someone has to do it and it's my calling =)

As of now we are down to 2 dogs and 1 cat but trying to rehome the cat and pup still. It's hard and I've spent endless money on all that I bring in but I don't think about the money involved, I just want them to be happy and healthy and have another chance at life. They all come to me damaged, it's really sad. The transformation is priceless once they open up. We for sure thought kipper was going to attack us but he's been beaten and they fought him and he came to us ripped up with bruises and open wounds and we showed him love for a couple months and OH MY GOD was he the most funniest, goofiest, smartest dog...it's amazing!

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Awe so cute! I want one!!! Too bad you don't live closer! :/ plus I have a two dog limit according to the wife... Haha! One is 15 years old now, keep thinking he's going to die every year. My other dog will be so depressed when that happens so I'll have to get another one right after!

Someone from AZ actually took the husky that was up for bid. LOL it was a friends brother. My Fiancee is tired of my zoo also but he has no choice hahahaha he just deals with it. =P

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Well...crossing my fingers, I haven't had another stray since the pups have been gone and I hope it stays that way....The pups and mom have screwed up my guest room as I was in the process training her while prego and after the pups and it wasn't click'n with her, she was damaged to the max and terrrified of everyone but me...she eventually opened up but it's hard working with damaged animals! The guest room is repairable but the carpet was soiled and needed a carpet cleaning company but the KING bed in there is ruined and needs to go.

 

[Arizona Sulcata]

RE: My ZOO <3

Ya I have 3 cows coming this month. Maybe that will cure my want for more animals. Haha

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

RE: My ZOO <3

Ya I have 3 cows coming this month. Maybe that will cure my want for more animals. Haha

HAHAHHAA I'd hope so! I've never dealt with a cow before hahahaha....so is it true? Do sulcata's have similar feces to cow crap? =P curious.

 

[Arizona Sulcata]

RE: My ZOO <3

Ehhh no not really. Cows looks more like a pie, tortoise look like brown grass balls. Haha! I've raised cattle my whole life.

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

is it hard to raise cattle? HEY, at least you will have your own milk..I hear it taste so good fresh. One day I will have to go to the organic farmers market and try some, I've never tried it before.

 

[l0velesly]

Aww, such cute puppies. I like how there's only one dark puppy ;P

 

[Arizona Sulcata]

RE: My ZOO <3

I raise beef cattle, no milk, just juicy steaks... Haha

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Aww, such cute puppies. I like how there's only one dark puppy ;P

3 of them looked more like huskies. The dark one and the brown one and the one with colored eyes. The other 3 were like the mama. The dark one, colored eyed one, and the biggest pup #2 (that passed) were all male and the rest were female. They are all cuties and I do miss them...I know how all of them are doing via FB but I deactivated but I gave them away to people I know and friends of friends. =D

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I raise beef cattle, no milk, just juicy steaks... Haha

oh geez =/ IDK if I could do that myself...If I had to then I probably wouldn't eat meat anymore hahaha but since I buy my meat at the grocery store, it doesn't bother me that much. I try not to think too hard where It comes from hahahaha But you said Juicy Steak so I can picture a nice piece of cooked steak MMMmmMMMM...The ribs are cooking ;O)

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Great pictures, that mother dog looks like a great mother! Your manimal looks like a hand full, lol!

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Great pictures, that mother dog looks like a great mother! Your manimal looks like a hand full, lol!

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Great pictures, that mother dog looks like a great mother! Your manimal looks like a hand full, lol!

aww I wrote so much and it disappeared =(
Anyway..Hello Greg,
She was a great mother but in poor condition when I got her. She had one eye and flea infested and didn't know her @$$ from elbow. She was terrified of anything that moved and deathly afraid of humans! I gave her lots of TLC and she opened up to me only and noone else. She learned alot from being around my dogs and totally screwed up the guest room with her pups LOL and I potty trained her while she was pregnant...as for my manimal, he seems like equal amount of work as all the pups and strays in one hahaha and were going to have another monster on the way LOL the joys of being a parent.

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Mickey on the beach =D

Poor sugar =( I MISS HER!

We fostered this lil guy till we found him a home for a friend =D we called him chubz and he was an olde english Blue Fawn brindle tri (rare)...he was awesome!

This is when Tuco was the size of sugar (3lbs)

Sugar and mickey were close =(

My green conure Petey <--best bird I ever had...I MISS HIM! Had him when I was stationed in VA but had to rehome him since I moved back to CA =(

My sugar glider that I also had to rehome in VA

Mickey HATES rain but with this bad boy she will go out any time hahaahaha

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Found this stray in bad condition on a HOT day just laying out in the street partially under someones car and other end half way sticking out and he looked at me as if "just leave me to die." I took his pic and fed him and gave him some water and gave him a bath! I then called pit rescue...this was the 3rd pit I rescued but not nearly as beat'n as the others! I don't have pics of the others. I had to seperate him from my dogs because they fought him and he couldn't control himself around dogs and Kipper doesn't like pits at all so they fought him as well.

I know he looks sketchy but like I said, I don't discriminate and pits don't know any better due to bad owners!

He opened up pretty fast with me

 

[nicoleandrocky]

you have probably the cutest pets ever! LOVE chubz, and sugar so sad.

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Chubz was awesome LOL I can't upload his videos because they are too big =( In alot of them he's growling and fighting kipper all the time and Kipper was a gentle giant ahaha he mostly humped Kipper ALOT.
Sugar, yes it's very sad...she was the baby but she thought she was bigger than the big dogs, she wasn't yappy like most little dogs.
I will DEF take LOTS of pics of the torty's when I get them

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You see the first pic of that poor pit? I gave him a bath and lots of food and water and you can see a diff in the very last pic...that was so sad! He was so nasty look'n...not as bad as other ones I've seen but he was in bad shape.

 

[nicoleandrocky]

Pitbulls are great dogs, they are loving, great guard dogs, and overall have crazy personalities! My family had a pit bull for 13 years and she died last year of old age. When she was younger she had over 12 pups, would jump over 6 foot fences and protect the family.