Overland Hound

[Laurits]

We just had Maggie join the family 3 weeks ago. She’s a Shepherd mix rescue from around Bakersfield, Ca., and an adventure dog in training.

Looking forward to taking her out hiking and exploring in 2020.

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She's a beauty and should be a great trail dog. Shepherds can do anything.

 

[Laurits]

Got two new overland hounds in July.
They were stray German shepherd that's been living on the streets of a small town.
The smaller one, Lola wasn't doing too good. She was skinny, her fur was matted and she was tired.
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She was hiding in the back of her crate for about 3 days before she felt she could trust us.

It was most likely her bigger sister, Maeve that kept her alive. Begging for food behind a restaurant (this is where they were finally caught)

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Noone were looking for them and they were not chipped.

We thought Lola would be a very laid back couch potato, but boy were we wrong. She was just so tired it took her weeks to start recovering.
She's still smaller and lean, but she runs laps around our other dogs.
Maeve must have gained 20-30 lbs, mostly just muscle.
Neither seemed to know a single command, we tried English, German and Spanish.
They know all the basics now. Can be walked unleashed and fetching their frisbees are their favorite game.
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As a bonus, I lost about 25 lbs so far, just from trying to keep up with these dogs.View attachment 115822

Beautiful dogs. My GSD rescue looks just like Maeve. He's a bundle of energy as well even though he's now 9 years old. How do you deal with four big dogs in your house? Thank you for rescuing those dogs. You've done a good thing and they'll turn into great trail dogs.

 

[KLTH19]

Tow dog...

 

[Sparksalot]

Pssst. @emulous74

 

[Sparksalot]

I’ve posted my overland hound before. A Bernese Mountain dog. We have another, my daughte’s shih tzu, that I sometimes call the overland wheel chock.

Racked out in thecopcar, and a bad selfie with me six months ago. The hound has filled out another 30 pounds since.

 

[alanyd]

My travel partner, Molly.

She’s definitely a camping pup. Loves to go out and always looks to jump into her crate in the back of the rig (even just to go run around town doing errands). She’s a rescue we adopted 4 years ago. Not too sure on the age (guessing she’s around 8 now) or breed but guessing she’s a Border Collie mix (maybe English Setter).

Photo taken last year when we were out on the beach in Tofino, Vancouver Island.

 

[AaronOffroader]

Guardian of the iconic pub in the Victorian High Country, Australia

 

[Desert Runner]

Guardian of the iconic pub in the Victorian High Country, Australia

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All dogs are great,....................But CATTLE DOGS RULE Blue/Red Healers).......Smartest dog I ever had! He could pickup a new trick sometimes with 1 or 2 times being shown. A rescue pup, he was very sociable. I miss him greatly.

 

[Highplainsdrifter]

This is jack haven’t taken him out yet he is just about a year old but I’m hoping he enjoys the wilderness

 

[Advandexplorationcruiser]

Here it is my other love: an Australian Shepered female

 

[AaronOffroader]

This Kelpie owns the Famous Dargo Hotel in VHC, Australia
He wont let anyone tell him otherwise

 

[roaminglost]

 

[Michael]

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:)

 

[Corrie]

I followed this entire post to the last sentence, @emulous74. What a crew you’re rolling with!

 

[Corrie]

We tried to teach Jon Snow to swim last time we went out. He wasn’t into it. But he does OK for being a 5 pound dog! We have a flashing collar for evenings and, in general, he’s not very high maintenance off-road. But all bets are off if he catches scent of a squirrel...

 

[Sparksalot]

I followed this entire post to the last sentence, @emulous74. What a crew you’re rolling with!

There’s a handful of us in central Texas. @emulous74

 

[Christophwest1978]

Here’s my camp cook Trapper, trying out the new Weber camp bbq lol.

 

[Christophwest1978]

Trapper at Abraham lake and on a hike at crimson lake provincial park.

 

[NorCalRam]

Mochi on her first camping trip. Got a bit hot for her.

 

[AdRockJ]

This little mutt, Leroy, has been my camping/trail buddy for the past 5 years.