The South West Florida Dog Page

Your Dog Page Hosts Danny and Zero

Adopted by Shannon Moore & family

Here you will find pictures of the local dogs in North Port. I am starting out the page with my two fine pooches, Danny & Zero.

If you have a dog you would like featured submit a picture and a little bit about your dog to twomoores19@comcast.net

Danny

A "Tail" of Two Dogs

We believe Danny is part basset and part bloodhound. He looks just like a bloodhound except his legs are short like a basset.

We adopted Zero first and then Danny. I was going to be working more so we wanted to get Zero a pal to hang around with while I wasn't home.

One Sunday while looking through the classifieds I saw an ad that read "Basset Mix, 2 yrs old, adores people/dogs, great watch dog/friend, $25, owner at college, call xxx-xxx-xxxx.

So I called up the number and a lady answered and I told her I was calling about her ad in the paper. She told me that her son had gone off to college and she is an attorney and works 12-13 hour days on a regular basis and Danny has to spend this time locked in a crate while she is at work. I told her that I was very interested and would like to come see him. She said that she had someone else coming to look at him within the hour.

She lived in Bradenton which is about a 40-50 minutes drive from where I live. I told her I would be at her home in about 40 minutes to see the dog. I grabbed the kids put them in the car and headed off to Bradenton.

When we arrived at her home Danny was out by the pool with her and as she opened the door to let him inside he began snarling (smiling) and immediately rolled over on his back for the kids to scratch his belly.

I told his owner to call the other prospective family coming out to see him and tell them that he's been adopted. She did.

She explained to me that she absolutely loved Danny (as tears rolled down her face) but felt that she couldn't spend the time with him that he needs because she works so much. I told her he would have a very loving family for the rest of his live if he came to live with us.

She explained to me about his flea medicine and heartworm pills then she said I would like you to take his crate because he likes to stay in it most of the time. I told her at our house he can hang out on the couch, bed or wherever he likes. She said, "Why don't you take it just in case."

So off we went with the dog, crate and kids. When we got home the two boys, Danny and Zero, hit it off great! We took the crate and put it beside our bed with the door to it open. He slept in the crate for the first couple of nights. Then he realized that Zero slept on the bed or the couch. It didn't take him long to abandon the idea of the crate.

Now he spends his days sunning himself out on the back porch or sleeping on the bed or couch. He goes for early morning and late afternoon walks everyday. Sometimes, if his really been good he might get a trip to the dog park or dog beach in Venice. He's a pretty spoiled pup these days.

Zero

Zero came to us from the Charlotte County Animal Shelter (a wonderful organization). He is a cross between a basset and a lab. He looks just like a lab with short legs.

While running on Venice Beach, a friend of my husbands', found a little dog. She brought him home and called us and asked us if we wanted a Jack Russell Terrier. We had discussed getting a dog a few months earlier so we told her we would come get him. We brought him home got him a collar, leash, dog food and bowls. I started thinking about where he was found and wondering if he was just lost and not abandon. I called all of the local shelters and gave them a description of the dog. They had no report of a missing dog fitting my description. They took my name and phone number down and said they would call me if they get any reports that fit that description.

I then placed an ad in the local paper trying to locate the dogs owner. After having him for about a week we a got call from the Englewood Animal Shelter saying that they had someone call in that had a missing Jack Russell Terrier.  We called the animal shelter and got the number of the person who called in.

We had really become attached to him and so had the kids, but we made the call. We called the number and a young guy picked up on the other end and said I can't believe you found my Pete. He was suprised to hear that Pete was at our home in North Port since Venice is about 15 miles away. We explained how we ended up with him and he was very greatful that we took him in.

When we got off the phone we looked at Pete and called his name and he immediately came running. We knew then that we had found his owner.

The next morning we met Pete's owner at the 7-Eleven in Venice and handed him over his dog.

We were all sad to see him go, especially our 2 year old and 7 year old girls. My husbands birthday was coming up the next week and I thought what a great present it would be to go to the local shelter and have the kids pick out a new dog.

Willow, our 2 year old at the time, went with me to pick out the new dog and her older sister was in school. We got to the shelter and began walking up and down the rows of dogs. Willow stopped in front the cage of the most odd looking dog. He was all white with brown speckles on his ears. He looked just like a labrador but his legs were short like a basset. He looked kind of like something you would see in a Dr. Seuss book. She stuck her hand through the hole in the chain link cage and the dog began licking her.

We asked to take the dog out for a run and Willow and the dog got along great. We had found our dog!

My husband and older daughter were a bit suprised when we showed up with this strange looking white pup, but they were both overjoyed that we found a new Pete.

Then came the process of naming him right off the bat he seemed a little lacking in the brain department so we came up with the name Zero. In short meaning zero IQ.

If you have a good doggie story to tell or you just want to proudly display your pooch, drop me a line at Shannon Moore,  twomoores19@comcast.net