When the dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, then one day the missus takes him for a walk

X ^ | 11/05/2025 | Casual UK

[DFG]

When the dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, then one day the missus takes him for a walk 😭

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[SkyDancer]

Try your BC on Stella or Amstel, should be okay, never had a problem with my girl other than sneezing after drinking. :D

[tired&retired]

Same here. My black lab had a tongue so long it reached the bottom of the mug to get the last drop.

[freedomlover]

Proverbs 26:11 comes to mind . . .

[tired&retired]

Honest Honey, the dog wouldn’t move until I had 3 beers. 😁

[rlmorel]

Now that was a unique application of scripture!

[Valpal1]

Caffeine is dangerous to dogs, especially small ones. Luckily, I drink decaf because the good stuff spikes my blood pressure.

[Ponyexpress9790]

We had two pot belly pigs and they liked beer, we would use it to mellow them out when we cut their nails, a 12 pack and an hour later and they were ready to sleep. They would want to sleep in the next morning and were a little grumpy.😁

[Disambiguator]

Did she sing sea shanties after having some beer?

😁

[SaveFerris]

I guess the Fish and Chips
there are pretty tasty 😋

[Jamestown1630]

I like the things you tell us about your folks.

[Robert A Cook PE]

By the she shore, she swore she shelled C cells.

[DesertRhino]

I visited that Pat Cohan’s bar on September. If you are ever in that part of western Ireland, it’s worth a stop in Cong. It’s like a time capsule.

[TermLimits4All]

I’m still boycotting Ambev deducts since the bud light fiasco. I do t drink often but typically purchase the Yuengling Flight. It’s really good and I’d say a cross between Stella and Amstel. Stella used to be the beer of choice for me until the company promoted trannies.

[South Dakota]

I had a friend with a dalmatian and the dog would sit on a stool with the rest of us and lap up the beer poured into his bowl

Everyone thought it was funny til the dog fell off the stool

[Dave911]

One of my favorite movies! Watch it every St. Patrick’s Day.

[rlmorel]

They say that if you wish to write effectively, you should write about things that you know about. It’s pretty obvious to someone who understands, but I love my mother and I hero worshiped my father… :-)

I feel a great deal of sorrow for the people who wish to destroy the family unit. Ours was definitely not a perfect family unit in any way shape or form, but I don’t think I would trade it for any other.

My parents were as flawed as anybody’s… But they loved us, and they sure did try hard to do right by us.

In the end… They most certainly did for me.

I will think of my father tomorrow (and my mother who shared that life with him) because every year, he would speak at both the veterans Day ceremonies and the Memorial Day ceremonies. It was his life, he was good at it, and he was quite proud of it.

[Jamestown1630]

My family was also far from ‘ideal’; but I thank God every day for them and how hard they worked to raise us up right.

[ladyjane]

The pictures of your parents at your website certainly look like they were the ideal young couple. The stories you tell about them are wonderful.

[FLT-bird]

I had a dog once that would sneak up and steal your beer..............

I usually sit in my lazy boy and set a beer down on the hardwood floor. When he was a puppy, my Black Lab knocked over the beer bottle one time. I thought "clumsy puppy". I was delighted when he started lapping up the beer off the floor because it meant I didn't have to clean it up.

Then about a month or so later it happened again and I started getting suspicious.

Then another month or two later it happened again. That's when I knew my boy had a drinking problem.

[rlmorel]

My mom and dad had a somewhat slightly rocky marriage on and off up until the last 15 years of their lives together, because my dad was a high-functioning alcoholic, and anyone who has been in a relationship with an alcoholic knows the challenges that brings.

It wasn't always rocky in the same way marriages aren't always smooth and stress free.

We finally had a "family intervention", and my dad got sober. They always loved each other, that was clear and they were committed to a family for us six kids, so they stuck it out. My dad was not a nasty drunk, he would just drink to intoxication and get quiet. It didn't affect his work, but that caused a lot of issues between the two of them, understandably.

This story below illustrates the degree of "rockiness" in their marriage just before my dad got sober.

My dad reported to the destroyer USS Rooks as a LTJG in June 1951 at San Diego, CA, they went via the Panama Canal to Newport, RI, where they operated up and down the East coast until April 1952, when they went BACK down to the Panama Canal and on to Korea where he spent four or five months operating in and around Korea. They went into the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, and back to Newport, RI in April 1953.

During that deployment, off the coast of Korea, he had proposed to my mom via ship to shore radio telling her "Marry me, and I'll show you the world!" She accepted, and he did just that. The wedding date was set for May 9th, 1953. When my dad's ship came in to Newport, RI a few weeks before his wedding date, he was able to finally get off and head up to Massachusetts a day or two before the wedding. When he got to his hometown about 90 miles from Newport, he realized when he got home that he had forgotten his dress shoes and the marriage license in his quarters aboard ship.

He drove all the way back to the ship in Newport got his shoes and license, but when he got back up the Massachusetts, he couldn't find the wedding license. He went back down again and went aboard the ship where he scoured the compartment and his rack, to no avail. Crestfallen, he had to go back without the license, but the office was closed for the weekend and he was unable to get another one. Someone he knew pulled a few strings, got the guy to come back in and he got a license, so the wedding went ahead as planned.

Skip forward 30 years to the early Eighties, and my mother got a call from South Korea (I think, but not sure) and the guy said they were breaking up a ship for scrap, and they had found a wedding license with her and my dad's name on it. They were breaking up the USS Rooks (she had been sold to the Chilean Navy, and then sold for scrap to South Korea) and when the Korean shipbreakers were tearing the ship apart, they found the 1953 wedding license for my mother and father in a bulkhead. Apparently what had happened, was my dad had got the certificate, put it on his rack, raised the mattress up to get the shoes underneath, and when he did, the license must have slid down a minuscule gap into the bottom of a dark bulkhead where it lay for 30 years until they broke the ship apart and found it.

Since my mother and father were living in the same house that my father had given for the license, it was easy for the Korean company to get the phone number, so they called and offered to send it to her, but at that point some thirty years later, my parents had been going through some tough times at that point due to his alcoholism, and the last thing on her mind was a piece of paper from her past, so she rejected their offer! I so wish she had allowed them to send it to her!

I laugh now, because it so illustrated that side of my mom, who was extremely pragmatic and lived in the moment, and I could easily visualize her saying "No thank you." and hanging up the phone without a second thought.

But the next year, we had our "family intervention" with my dad, he got sober, and of all the joys in my life, one of the greatest was seeing that last 15 years where the happiness in their marriage really and finally shone through for us to clearly see!