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The Dog on the Sidewalk.

whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
The afternoon matinee let out and completely satisfied with a Randolph Scott western, a Little Rascals short feature and two Looney Toons I stepped into the blinding light. Squinting against the sun, I turned to walk past the soda shop next door and was met with a `woof' of recognition. My dog, sitting on his haunches scanning the faces as we all streamed out of the show house fell in beside me. We turned at the barber shop and started the short two and a half block walk to my house. He had waited the full two hours, patiently and peacefully, to guard me on my way home, like he was supposed to do.I had this little vignette play out in my mind today as I waited for my wife outside City Hall where she was paying the water bill. I must have seen twenty kids in the ten or so minutes I sat there and not one dog. I find that a sad commentary. Any thoughts?Clouder..
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In most towns, canines are not allowed to wander without a human escort. In too many cases, people mistreat their dogs and then their dogs in turn mistreat other people, like the case in San Francisco. Another sad commentary on our times.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anyone who has not had a dog for a companion has truly missed one of lifes gems.....
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clouder that used to be a common sight in country towns. Many things are better now but we lost a lot of good old fashioned neighborliness and freedom with the population explosion.
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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I go to the coffee shop in the mornings there are several dogs there, in the backs of the pickups, waiting for their masters to finish the morning bull session. A couple of local dogs usually wander around waiting for scraps to be pitched out the door for them. When I drop by the post office, the postmaster's dog, Mutt, greets me as I enter.As I head down the gravel road, Buster (my neighbor's dog) chases my truck. His happy bark and wagging tail is his way of saying "glad you came by." And when I get back to the home place, George, my ranch dog in charge of critter-control, is waiting there by the gate, ready to race me to the house.I can't imagine living in town?
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where I live, you can't leave your dog(or cat) unattended or unleashed. There have been numerous thefts of pets from open cars, from unlocked yards and other areas. These family pets are stolen with the intent of using them to train pit bulls. I would never leave my dog anywhere where I couldn't keep an eye on him. Its a shame that we have to live like this![This message has been edited by Chris8161 (edited 04-06-2002).]
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  • smokinggunsmokinggun Member Posts: 590 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder about people that don't like dogs. I also feel sad for children that have parents that will not let them have a dog as a pet. People don't believe it, but my earliest childhood memory was when I was 1 1/2 years old I can remember my parents taking me to pick out a puppy and the momma dog was very protective. That puppy lived until I was 14, Skippy.
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Makes me feel warm to know some of you still have dogs that you can associate with. A mutt on a string is a sad thing to behold. Most, not all by any means, but, most would be much better off dead.Clouder..
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clouder, we have kids around here walking dogs in town. Rotties and Pittbulls, they can't carry guns so they get these dogs and try to impress everbody with their "puppies". While I have no problem with a Rottie or a Pittbull I do have a problem with the manner the kids here use them, you can feel the tension so to speak. I will bet money they aint used for chasing sticks.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rafter-s you live in paradise.
    PC=BS
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good point, Clouder. As soon as I escape from my Urban Hell, I'm going to make buying a good pup, probably a Golden Retriever, first priority.It's just not fair to keep a dog in my current situation. There's hardly enough room for the wife and kid, let alone room for a pup to roam free at Casa De Evil.Ahhhhh, to have the country life!
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  • budmottbudmott Member Posts: 155 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't want to think what life would be likefor me without my four tiny terriost. 2 males and 2 females, they have hearts of lions. I feel lucky they let me sleep with them. My wife call me at work one day and ask if I could come home, the "girls" had something in the back yard and would not come back into the house. To make a long story short, there were pieces of a very large opossum all over the back yard. These are tough Pomeranians. Laterbud
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mrs Rembrandt has a bumper sticker that reads:"Dogs are just children with fur"
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was greeted again today by the friendly Timberwolf that resides at the home of one of my recruits. He wanted to tear my leg off (the timberwolf) the first time I showed up on the property but he's the friendliest animal I've met in a long time. I've never seen such a huge animal act like such a puppy when you scratch him behind the ears.[This message has been edited by idsman75 (edited 04-06-2002).]
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  • turboturbo Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Say Clouder,Youre little vignette, made me twitch, and so I had to scratch, the twitch.When my wife takes me shopping (rarely) she leads me to one of those patio wrought iron benches they have at the malls, after ordering me to sit, she releaves me of the contents of my wallet, while she enters the store to shop uttering "stay".I know i've seen the same crowd you saw today, only x 10.Thank god, I've been trained now and, don't need to be tied up anymore.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    budmott's post reminded my of my parents' little dog "Buddy". They named him BEFORE Klinton got his "Buddy". Buddy is a daschundt which is a breed that many refer to as an ankle-biter. He's a very loyal dog. Dad travels quite a bit for work and Buddy follows mom throughout the house when dad is gone. Buddy sleeps on the pillow next to the bed when dad is away and wakes up several times throughout the night and makes his rounds checking every window and every doorway. My guess is that his ankle-biting would give mom time to insert the second magazine into her Kel Tec P-11 should an intruder decide to enter.My only beef with Buddy is that he licks your face incessantly and WILL be on your lap the moment you sit on a couch or a chair. You have to watch his tongue because it will shoot straight up your nose and poke your brain in a nano-second if you don't.
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  • Ms. BeastMs. Beast Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We always have a dog in the house, kids will never know life without one! They play outside and take the dog for a walk all the time ( gotta make sure they have the scoop and plastic bag in hand!).
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  • smokinggunsmokinggun Member Posts: 590 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pets, I really love 'em. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a zoo. 3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 birds, and 8 chickens. Thats right, every chicken has a name.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let me see if I can guess the chickens names, Fried, Baked, BBQ, Roasted, Nugget, Fingers, Pot Pie and Strips.
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  • smokinggunsmokinggun Member Posts: 590 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, but those were the types of names that I wanted to give them. Thier names are Roosters: Brewster & Company Hens: Ginger, Babs, Nabs, Floppy, Edwina & Neo.[This message has been edited by smokinggun (edited 04-07-2002).]
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    My old dog of 12 years passed away thanksgiving day.Funny thing about dogs-they fill in a lot of empty spaces in ones life.Thru all the bad times they are there to brighten things up and they make the good times even better.A dogs loyalty requies only a little food and water,a little medical attention, a few good scratches behind the ears and a pat or two on the head along with a good walking. For so very little this gallant animal would put his life on the line and even sacrifice it if he had to to protect his human family.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice Post.......brings back some memories of my first dog, Trixie. I got her when I was two, she lived for 17 years. She died about 15 years ago (my god......time flies) and I STILL miss her. We used to tease my sister about how we'd had Trixie longer than we'd had her! My wife and I don't want kids....so we have pets. We have a dog (Mandy the Wonder Dog), cat (Neil Casady), desert tortoise, tons of fish, a snake....umm.....another cat, and our rat just died recently. Pets are great! I'm looking around for a small dog......like a Pug! They crack me up, SO UGLY....yet kinda of cute!Merc
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    my dane waits a block down the road every day for us to get home.the school bus comes a half-hour earlier & she is obliged to walk the kids home, too.every kid for 4 blocks knows her name but few know mine or my wifes.i love topics like this.
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry 'bout yer mutt Allen, that's a gut-wrencher, I know.Clouder..
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  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ids- What is it with Daschunds(sp?). A very close family I know has one, named Bingo. Talk about a little guard dog! Always "patrolling" and if he doesn't know ya you are NOT getting in the house, unless you wan't to deal with him (by that time you have his daddy there....a 6'4" Ojibway with a Colt 1911).God forbid you set down on the couch or somewhere that he can reach you with his tounge. If you try to stop him he just starts to whine like a baby.The funniest thing though, is when he tries to jump up on the couch. Being that he's so stubby and long EVERY time he tries to jump up on the couch he gets caugt up on his belly. He'll just set there like a teeter-totter watching you and whining to help him so he can get up and lick you.
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  • AntiqueDrAntiqueDr Member Posts: 691 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gotta go with the flow on this one. My Lab, Remington, rides shotgun on our trips to the bank and he gives every customer to the store the once-over before laying back down behind the counter.I still need to work with him, though. He keeps bringing FMJ ammo when a customer asks for hollowpoints.
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clouder,I was thinking about this post last night when I had to smooth over the cat prints on my freshly poured sidewalk.I feel and fear the Norman Rockwell days are long gone.Hard today to get a kid off his puter to walk the dog.Gone are the simlper times and ways.New and improved doesn't always mean better. (PS I love animals,but that cat was nearly planted in concrete)
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's been almost 7 years since my Springer Spaniel "Thunder" passed on. He was almost 15. He was a very important part of our family. I had him before I met and married my wife. He liked her too so I knew she was a keeper,,still is!! My two daughters grew up with him, and even in his later years as they would climb all over him he didn,t mind. Sometimes he would look up at me like he was thinking,,"Where did you get these pesky things? He was the perfect friend and it was years before I could get used to not seeing him at the door waiting for me after work or I would make sure not to step on him when I got out of bed in the morning. We got another Springer "Flash" and he is a good dog but he will never replace Thunder. My wife brought home a poodle one day and man I was hot! how dare she bring home a small dog into my house ,, now this poodle "Sparkie" is at the front door waiting for me every day after work, tail wagging and happy to see me. And yes I have to watch myself when I get up in the morning so I don't step on him. Sometimes its tough sitting here on the computer as he has to always be in my lap,,and yes watch out for that wet nose and tongue,,gotta have quick reactions or you'll get a nose full HA,, Flash sleeps in the back yard (gotta a big fenced in back yard) and we go for walks. Oh well, It was nice to see you folk have some of the same experiences that I have had,,,On Feb 14 we brought home a Great Dane puppy,,"Nakita", she is now 4 mo old and weighs 50 pounds..super puppy,,it's funny to watch her negotiate those long legs around. Her story will be for another post in the future,,, Well thanks all for letting me tell you about my dogs,,, Sod,, friend of dogs,,,
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  • PupPup Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine's a German Shepard named Ruger. Kills anything on four legs that wanders onto the place, but will hold the door open for a burgler He's somehow over the years gotten me trained. All he has to do is bark for 4 hours at something in a tree and I'll come gun and light in hand. Nevermind that it's usually not until 3 in the morning. Thought about getting his vocal chords clipped but I keep getting the "Oh that's so cruel" line from the wife. I figure if he can get it out of a tree he can kill it himself. We're still debating that one.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Clouder.I so wish I had your talent to write about Skippy.A Chesapeake ret I got while in the first grade.I went on to become a Pro dog trainer, But never had another Skippy.As I have already stated I don't have the skills to do his story justice.Let me just tell two things about him.He was the only dog in the history of our school system to have written permission to sit beside my desk.When I was confined for two months in isolation with polio.He was the only dog ever allowed in a hospital in this town.One more story.When I was attacked by three bullies at age thirteen,I gave the command sicum Skippy.These tree boys were chewed to shreds.After the police were summoned , And the investigation held.The attackers were ordered to pay for the stitches it took to close my head wounds from a chunk of concrete.The chief told the parents of the other boy's to pay for there own stitches,Since they asked for them. Pity he who knows not the love of a dog.
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Varmit:And ya know somethin', friend? That dog never stopped to gauge either number nor size of your tormenters. You simply said with the `sic `em Skip,' that you needed some help, and your dog had at `em. Did he think about dying? Nope. Injury? Furthest thing from his mind. He thought, "I'm needed by someone I love. Let me at the bastards."Very few humans will do that for us. Very few dogs won't.Clouder..
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  • skipjackoneskipjackone Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....these stories are priceless. My dog of 17 years passed away over 25 years ago. I still dream of seeing him. Maybe in the next life.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You guys telling these stories make me want to go hug that fat mut we have. Where is that dog?? Hey GET OUT OF THE GARBAGE YOU MANGY MUTT!!!!!
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here's a picture of the Monkey Mutt. He was probably around 6 months old when we took the pictures. We lived in an apartment so we didn't have room for a big dog, so we got a big dog that came in a little package. He seems to enjoy tormenting all the larger dogs. He doesn't like it when you come over for a visit and not pet him. In fact he'll hop up next to you, look you in the eye, and whine until you do. He always wakes up happy and energetic. He'll do anything for attention. He plays fetch with himself, has imaginary fights with invisible adversaries and loves jumping off the couch spread eagle like super man. The only problem is, I'm afraid I'm gonna accidentally sit on him one day and all the fun will be over. Gosh I love that dog!Munkey
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All dogs go to heaven.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bob you have to be right,Cause it would be Hell with out them.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Munkey,Fish bait, but lovable fish bait.
    "It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human." Will Rogers
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