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**ErinRachel1021** · June 26, 2006, 05:56 AM

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^lmao she sounds like a riot. Dumb dogs are the best. I had a dumb Cocker Spaniel growing up. I'll have to think a bit on the way to work and come up with some good stories about my fur babies.

**Origam** · June 26, 2006, 07:01 AM

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My Taz thinks he is king of the yard. Tries to beat up on the big dogs... and the goofy thing is the big dogs LET him beat them up! Try to imagine a little 11lb mini-pin/chihuahua taking on a big ol' 70+lb lab mix.

When I first got Taz we had a lot of stray and feral cats that called our front yard home. I put Taz in the side yard because we weren't sure how the big dogs we had at the time (lord I miss those dogs) would react to such a small dog.. the smallest dog we ever had was 50lbs! Anyway one of the friendlier feral kittens (call them kittens but Herc was about a year old) came into the side yard and Herc and Taz became good buddies. I wish I had thought at the time to take pictures, but they would lay together, eat together, drink together.. very cute stuff. Herc was bigger than Taz though!

Puffy Dog (my little bird) would imitate the noise of the microwave when she was hungry. She had a ton of different noises she would make, my favorite noise was when she would meow like a cat! I don't know where she learned it but eventually it got to the point where to wake me up she'd make a raspberry sound and then meow at me.

**Luna Rossa** · June 26, 2006, 08:10 AM

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My one dog Red is a talker. She moans and groans and whines and makes all kinds of funny noises when she wants something. She looks at you so earnestly while she's doing it too. She used to hate having her paws wet and would stick her butt out over the edge of the concrete to pee so she wouldn't have to touch the grass. My BIL would pick her up, place her on the grass and she'd walk/slink back to the concrete like she'd stepped in poop or something. Thankfully she's over that.

We have a couple acres now and the grass is almost tall enough to bale up for hay. The dogs try to play in it and can't see eachother. Every now and then they shoot up like deer or something to see where the other one is. It's cute to see these little heads popping up.

**jhhayes** · June 26, 2006, 10:16 AM

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My friend Scott has an Airedale that goes out to get the newspaper for him every morning. She hurt her leg and had to be put in a cast. Since she wasn't allowed to get the cast wet, Scott put one of those plastic newspaper bags over her cast and secured it with a rubber band. He told Maggie to go get the paper and she paused, put her leg in her mouth, and then looked at him with a very confused look. He almost fell over, he was laughing so hard. You have to think that in her mind she was thinking, "I bet he'll get a big kick out of THIS one!"

**stephbob** · June 26, 2006, 12:16 PM

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I have a few funny stories about my pets. George, who passed away a few months ago, was a 17 year old black lab/retreiver (we think) He was more like a human than a dog. He wouldn't eat dog food, would sit and watch TV all day long while I was at college, and enjoyed pretending he was deaf. He was actually diagnosed by the vet as deaf because he didnt turn his head to her when she called his name, when she used different objects to create a noise...we put it down to age. But I remember just after he was diagnosed, I was in another room, the door pushed almost all the way shut, on the phone. I mentioned the word chocolate, which he loved, and he started barking and bounded into the room. We tried it over and over again and he did it over and over again. Deaf? No. Selected hearing? Yes. There were a lot of other words he wouldn't ignore too.
Another time, about 3 months after we had moved to Virginia, I left him watching TV while I went upstairs to take a shower. By this point, he was immobile with arthritus, so he couldn't go anywhere. He was able to drag himself across the wooden floor to get to his waterbowl and food, but that was it. I came down from my shower a few moments later, and he was gone. I looked all over the first floor, and he wasn't there. By this point I was crying because I couldn't understand where he'd gone. There were only 4 rooms, and he wasn't in any of them. After about 5 minutes I was ready to call someone for help, but just didnt know who exactly to call (who deals with missing dogs who cant walk?!) when I heard him barking - in the basement! I ran down there, petrified of what I'd find, because in my head the only way he could have gotten down to the basement is if he'd fallen down the stairs. But no, he'd slid down the steps, then dragged himself into the laundry room, and was actually rolling on his back with the two ferrets we had on his head. After that, we'd leave him live in the basement because it had a door to the yard down there, he couldnt fall down the stairs, and he could play with the ferrets all he wanted to. So he spent his last year down there and loved it!
Ah, I miss him so much

I'll never find another friend like him.

**bjs1976** · June 26, 2006, 12:37 PM

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awww Stephbob-- I think Kimo and george had more in common then jsut their looks. They sure were two peas in a pod..

I had started to post about kimo, but the tears started flowing so I couldnt this was suppose to be a silly thread..LOL-- but silly he was.. He was so damn stuborn.. He would talk like someone said their dog red did..and he would moan, sigh, and was a pain in the butt, man I loved him..

Well, his loyality led to his death. He was so loyal--and protective. He was around 2 years before my son, and He thought my son was his new BUd, and he was. Well, my son is now 9 and we can have the neighbors over 6-10 kids in the yard playing and he has to be out their with the kids, and hwould drive me insane until I took him out.. He wold chase the ball in Kick ball games, fetch the ball in wiffle ball games, and help Raymond SEEK in Hide go Seek.

And he even did all of this with ease Even with 3 legs...Wel, since he has become a tripod, I do not leave him alone. He became my new baby, we were toghether 24/7..

Well, one day Hubby left for work and I was a little late getting home from shopping. We were spending a long weekend at camp, he Loved camp. Well, I got home and could not find him, anywhwere.. He did not go far.. usually on my bed..So, I called Hubby at work, where is Dog, thinking he may have hitched an early ride to camp with my dad and son. Nope, hubby said he was on bed in front of fan when he left. Welll, my heart sunk. I searched the house again.....

I found a screen out in my great room, a huge room built over my garage(2nd story). YIP-- My dog jump out. I found him, neighbor said she heard him Cry.. He heard the kids yelling and playing in pool and thought they were in harms way...

Well, he appeared in no pain, BUT I was so afraid he broke his one and only fromt paw. Which would lead to devastating results. Well, haul him to VETS and No broken paw, I almost breathed a sigh of relief.. Then vet mentions torn radial plexus, meaning paralysis, so I gulped again. He pinched him with forceps-- REACTION-- no paralysis--

At this point I was so hopeful I look at bil there with me he winked we were so happy. So Doc says Kimo lets take a walk-- down we put him to take a walk and see what was up-- well--hind leg buckled, he had no control.. He dislocated his hip and paralyzed hind leg..

Sorry so long. I had to post it-- I am dealing with terrible GUILT-- I feel so guilty, I miss him constantly.

Well-- guess it is silly as well.. Damn dog- I am as mad at him as my son is at me for leaving him home alone....

**Heidi3** · June 26, 2006, 05:39 PM

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OMG I love reading these and the pets who have passed like my little YoYo who was the meanest chihuahua on the planet ..still I can see her ripping around the yard from the corner of my eye...you can tell a lot about people by how they are with animals that is for sure

I love your stories guys ..thank you OOOXXX

**ValidRouge** · June 26, 2006, 06:16 PM

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Harley, my first Jack Russell, was a total TRIP. She wouldn't play with dog toys, because, you see, she was NOT a dog. Dammit! She played, or rather killed, sticks and her "Evil Thing". Her "Evil Thing" was a leash or a collar or a harness...one of those three things. My Dad called it "Evil Thing" because it made her do evil things...She'd shake and "kill" those leashes/collars/harnesses ....but the funny part was that she'd spin her little 8lb body round and round while twirling the "evil thing" over her head like a lasso. She actually became obsessive compulsive about it. She knew where all the hiding places were for them (we had to hide them, else she'd do it for HOURS). You could say "Harley, where's the evil thing" and she'd go looking until she found one. Then the spinning/lassoing would start.

She also knew she was in big trouble when you said "Harley, What is this?" she'd cringe down and look all ashamed of herself. It was because she got into trouble a LOT! LOL

She was also obsessed with food. Not DOG food...remember, SHE was NOT a dog! She pulled a whole loaf of bread off the counter one night...onto the stomach of my friend who spent the night on the couch. Had a whole bufffet on my friend's stomach in the middle of the night. She ate 2 lbs of frozen hamburger once. She ate meatballs that were cooking on the stove one time when I wasn't paying attention. Once I had bought some ice cream from the store...you know how it is...a solid frozen BRICK of ice cream. Well, I couldn't wait to get into it...and so there I am trying to pry the spoon into this brick of ice cream. The icecream finally broke and a big hunk of it popped out of the box and in slow motion, I saw the ice cream go flying...hit the floor, the dog comes sliding across the linoleum and grabs the big hunk of ice cream...I'm yelling NOOOOO and she swallows this HUGE chunk of ice cream...I swear it was at least a cup and half....A few minutes later, she's sitting over in the kitchen and her ears (normally pricked straight up) are drooping and she's shaking her head....BRAIN FREEZE!! LOL

**Coop2004** · June 26, 2006, 07:08 PM

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Our "Girl" loves to rip old socks apart (we always keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't swallow any part of it). Then she'll go to either DH or to myself and wants to have a tug of war. It's not easy because, not only does she have a strong grip on it, but both DH and I have bad backs. So we just tug a bit and let her "win"!!

We've also bought a couple of bones for her that are supposed to last a couple of days.....yea, right. We're lucky if it lasted a couple of hours. Also we had to make sure to take the end part away from her before she swallowed it!!

We used to have a poodle who would take a sock and throw it up in the air and when it landed, would start playing with it. A couple of times the sock landed on her back and she was looking all around for it until I took it off her back and handed it back to her.

Both dogs love(d) pizza. The poodle's name was "Penny". I called her "Princess Penny, the Pizza Party Poodle". There was a commercial on at the time (maybe for Pizza Hut?) in which there was a conga line of people with a large poodle at the end, standing on it's hind legs. Even at the end of her life, Penny loved pizza (she lived to 18 years, 4 months) - one time, she was asleep on the family room floor and DH went by her with the pizza box in his hands and she woke right up.

**Heidi3** · June 27, 2006, 04:54 AM

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oh Linda the sock thing reminds me ...my husband thinks this is a "cool trick JuJube does!!!" well get this every morning when he puts his socks on he makes her come sit in front of him then he puts one sock on her nose ..she actually shoves her nose into it then wears it like an elephant trunk while my husband puts his first sock on ...then when he is done he takes the sock off JuJus nose and tells her "good girl thank you"...she is of course gleeful ..duhhhhhh.....they call it good and she goes and plays....what is the point of all of this I wonder???

**Jerzaka** · June 27, 2006, 05:21 AM

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Does humping pillows count? 'Cause, I gotta be honest, it's a show! And, she won't stop until you tell her. It could be 1 mintue or 25 - she's the energizer bunny when it comes to that pillow!

**Heidi3** · June 27, 2006, 05:25 AM

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Originally posted by Jerzaka

Does humping pillows count? 'Cause, I gotta be honest, it's a show! And, she won't stop until you tell her. It could be 1 mintue or 25 - she's the energizer bunny when it comes to that pillow!

ROFLMAO!!!! YES HUMPING COUNTS!!! my chihuahua used to hump our big male bunny in the back yard ...the bunny ingnored her completely and kept eating grass ....YoYo would just hump away just like yous humps the pillow that is so funny !!!!

**MotherOfGizmo** · June 27, 2006, 11:28 AM

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Originally posted by Origam

Puffy Dog (my little bird) would imitate the noise of the microwave when she was hungry. She had a ton of different noises she would make, my favorite noise was when she would meow like a cat! I don't know where she learned it but eventually it got to the point where to wake me up she'd make a raspberry sound and then meow at me.

Awww. I want another birdie! How cute!

**Coop2004** · June 27, 2006, 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by Heidi3

oh Linda the sock thing reminds me ...my husband thinks this is a "cool trick JuJube does!!!" well get this every morning when he puts his socks on he makes her come sit in front of him then he puts one sock on her nose ..she actually shoves her nose into it then wears it like an elephant trunk while my husband puts his first sock on ...then when he is done he takes the sock off JuJus nose and tells her "good girl thank you"...she is of course gleeful ..duhhhhhh.....they call it good and she goes and plays....what is the point of all of this I wonder???

Guess she feels that she's being a big help to your hubby!! And he probably feels the same way!!

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