Posted on 08/18/2012 5:45:57 PM PDT by AlmaKing
Oh, I’m sorry. But I’m glad you’re here with us, and there, with your own family, animals and old Alice. :-)
She was peaceful.
I was shattered.
Out vet is a Godsend.
He had to put his JRT down and he did it himself because he didn’t trust anybody else to knock her out deep enough that she’d feel NO pain.
I’ve always thought highly of him but finding that out nearly floored me.
He has more courage and compassion in one finger than I have in my whole body.
No dog on earth is more loyal than a Dobe.
I’ve rescued dozens of them and after a period of ‘mourning’, they transfer their incredible loyalty to the one who is taking care of them after somebody else did not.
She deserves better.
She’ll love another, again.
Eaker, do you still have Mason?
To which, my answer would have been: "Well, you'd better come for me then, because I'm returning to her side...where my a## will be sitting until you show up or we're dead. Your choice."
Not that I'm "up" with taxpayer dollars being used to rescue numbskulls from their own stupidity, but it happens every day, and in this case we had a true "innocent" involved.
Sorry about your beloved doggie.
A dog’s foot is not built for rocky, craggy footing which why is wolves and other wild canids are usually found in forests or on plains.
*We* drag them to ‘unnatural’ places, such as sharp, jagged shards of rock, blistering hot macadam and concrete.
I am *horrified* when I see oblivious people walking their dogs on blacktop when the *air* temps are near 100.
I have snakes so I happen to have IR temp guns all over the place and the temps of blacktop on even just a ‘pretty warm’ day are hot enough to singe dog feet.
One woman’s little Pom was nearly tap-dancing as the hot road burned her feet and the woman just stared at me blankly when I told her ~why~ her dog was “acting like a jerk”.
Gah!
Stupid people!
Yup.
Just me, my dogs, y’all....and crazy ol’ Alice...LOL
Wow.
You are fiendishly brilliant!
[I like that in a person] :)
Thanks about Pookie.
I know she’s ~running~ with her sister Phoebe, now, bickering over who’s got the best raw bone.
An honor to be included...
Can you imagine just getting in your car and driving away?? What kind of a person would do that?
I know you wouldn’t of course...did you or did you not nearly dismantle your entire house recently (believe there was removal of drywall involved, IIRC) looking for a snake...LOL!
“They” say “You can’t pick your family”.
Oh, yes you can.
:)
Uh, yeah...the *drywall*.
*Ahem*
That is a subject I try to avoid now because I can’t fix it myself and hubby was none too happy about it and hasn’t had time to do it, himself.
Oh well.
I like looking at my exposed log walls.
[the ripped apart corner in my bathroom? not so much]
When I had Djinni spayed, I refused to leave the waiting room.
They told me I couldn’t stay there the whole 5 hours.
So I went out to the car and watched the windows, in case “frantic motion” occurred.
After half an hour, the receptionist told me to go away because I was scaring the other pet owners.
So I did go away....about 5 blocks...where they couldn’t see me anymore
LOL
:-) Yep. (-: :o3 ~<:<<<<<>
That freaking movie was heartbreaking !!
ALICE: ~~~~8}
Oh, I can top that....
Belle had to be put under a couple of years ago for a “scope” and some other tests (she has polyps, hereditary apparently). Anyway, they called us to let us know that she had come through fine, and would be ready to go as soon as the anesthesia wore off.
We, like you, were about five blocks away. So, we get there (this was a large animal hospital at a State University)..and are directed to a waiting room. We heard a dog “crying” and both the hubby and I knew right away that it was Belle. So, he gets up, goes right past the girl at the desk, through the door, and down a hallway into an obvious “recovery” room where she was in a kennel carrying on...the staff was NOT happy....LOL!
They were like...yeah, you can LEAVE now.
Oh, yeah....it sure was
By the end, I thought I was gonna have a nervous breakdown.
But he got *7* of them out!
YAY HUBBY!
[tuff nutz for the staff]
LOL! I’m getting ditsy....... almost two
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