Posted on 04/29/2011 1:49:04 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
D.J. Rodrian put out live traps along parkways to catch his missing dog Titus. He used double cheeseburgers as bait, but wound up catching only a cat, possum and three raccoons.
Oh, how sad.
But the dog must had a real good life before.
Off topic but since when can you get a double cheeseburger from McDonalds for $1 ??
"On April 1, while Rodrian was vacationing in Arizona, Titus broke through a window and escaped from a dog sitter's house near 51st and Hampton."
Frankly, if I can't take my dog on vacation, I don't go there. If I have to go out of town for business and it's absolutely impossible to take him, I spring for the best kennel I can afford. Fortunately, I have a job that allows me to take my dog along on a lot of my trips, and I've only found myself in this situation a handful of times in the past 10 years or so.
$1 double cheezeburgers are on all the McDonalds’ menus around here. I’ve bought them for my dog more than once.
I take my dog on vacation with me too whenever possible. He’s driven to both coasts and all over the midwest.
God made both of us for a reason, I reckon.
My sister has a ridgeback, greatest dog breed ever. She’s always so gentle with the kids even as babies yanking on her tail but as soon as anyone nears the house she goes into guard dog mode releasing ferocious sounding barks and growling.
The only dog I can play catch with that will patiently drop the ball/frisbee at my feet to be thrown again rather than trying to fight me for it. Even gentle to wrestle with without ever nipping with her teeth but has bitten and chased strangers off the property on several occasions. All without any formal training, just raised in a loving family...
Dogs.
Their free spirited sense of adventure gets them into trouble sometimes. Can’t take the animal out of the dog. They love to explore and get into stuff, and that’s part of what we love about them.
I don’t even fly (other than for business) simply because I’ve heard too many horror stories about pets in cargo. My Ranger (and Timber before him) have always made the best road trip partners. I’m nocturnal when I travel and it seems that wherever I go and pull into any rural service station at 3:00 a.m. for gas, I’ll ask the clerk if there’s a little patch of ground I can let my dog use. They always want to come out and pet him :-)
Dogs are like firearms. What is perfect for one person may be an absolutely horrible choice for another.
Sorry Joe I meant no disrespect for your Belgian Tervuren which I have no experience with! :D
Amen, Joe. For not the first time, we saw a ~lost~ dog in our yard earlier this week. We grabbed the leash to go get him and call animal control, when our neighbors came out and told us he was a dog they were “babysitting”. I bet the owners of these dogs have no idea the people they entrust with their dog have holes in the fence, leave the gates open, and really don’t worry about whether or not their dogs wander into traffic.
Sorry to hear of the man’s loss of his dog,but on a positive note i picked up a lost black lab last night wondering in traffic and brought him home before he got hit. Called the police and SPCA and as of 4:00 this afternoon no one had inquired about him, Shortly afterward’s one of my friend’s stopped by and took him home with him after first going to Walmart and spending approx 100.00 on him for food and snack’s, also bought him a big comfy dog bed. The dog is approx 6 month old, my friend’s place is a 300 acre farm that he drills for oil so the dog will be with him all day running around while he tend’s the well’s. PS he also has a large pond at his house,i’m thinking one very happy dog.
When we shave our Pomeranian she looks just like that!
Sorta.
How wonderful for that lost dog—he’ll be in heaven. Our first dog was a black lab; as we’ve gotten older we’ve had to downsize....
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