Miskatonic





Name: Miskatonic (miss - kaa - tonic)
Breed: Several, mixed. Possibly Australian Shepherd with some type of Pyrenean Mountain dog. Have a theory on what breeds make up a Miskatonic? Leave your suggests in the guestbook.

Sex: Female
Age: 6
Birth date: June 16th, 2000
Birth place: Most likely Southern California, exact location unknown
Adopted from: Castaic Animal Shelter on August 10th, 2000

Weight: 70 Ibs.
Height : 22 Ibs.

Adoption Story: On August 10th, 2000 I went to a Los Angeles County Animal Shelter knowing I was more than likely going to come back with a new puppy. I've always been a huge fan of German Shepherds, and I was quite thrilled to see a litter of five or six supposedly German Shepherd mixes when we arrived.

The shelter called them German Shepherd x Siberian Husky crosses, but they looked more like black and tan balls of fluff to me. I had one all picked out, a sleepy male, I put him back in the run to go complete the adoption forms, when an animal control officer asked me if I knew there was another litter of puppies in the back room recovering from just being spayed. I said no, and she asked me if I wanted to see them before I finalized the adoption of the German Shepherd puppy. I agreed, and went to back room with her.

There I first saw Miskatonic, literally the most beautiful dog I have ever seen in my life. She was mostly grey, with a tiny black mask, white socks on her feet, a single black spot on her tongue, and beautiful light brown tuffs peeking out from her toes. I was told she was a German Shepherd x Alaskan Malamute cross, and that her and her littermates (who were a very odd golden color, she was the only grey) were found running around a field this morning. I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted her and almost immediately the name Miskatonic came to me, although it was thoroughly protested by almost everyone I know, including my veterinary for being "too long".

Miskatonic slept the rest of the day and that night came alive a little more, romping around my bedroom, unfortunately she wasn't the only animal I adopted, she also came with 53 ticks of varying species. My friend and I spent hours removing them, and were disgusted that the animal shelter left her like that, and didn't even bother to alert us of the problem. We weren't able to get them all out, but most, we put some in vials to show to the vet the next morning. He said she was pretty anemic, but was going to recover okay. Miskatonic went through many stages of growth, but quickly lost most of her mask, and developed a light tan coloring over a good portion of her grey body, a darkening over the black tip of her tail, and prominent tan rings around her eyes. She's even more beautiful now as an adult. I love Miskatonic, she's the greatest.

Namesake: Named after a fictional University used in Howard Phillip Lovecraft's short stories.

Nicknames: Misky, Miskathomas, Mon Mothra

Likes: Being squeezed, cardboard, barking, tossing eyeballs, eating, being pet, raindancing, chewing on my clothes, barking, sleeping, barking & barking.

Dislikes: Not barking, people, people outside, having her toes touched, empty water bowls, being woken up, getting lamb ears, being denied food.

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