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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Where are ya buddy?
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posted on
10/11/2002 11:13:37 AM PDT
by
ksen
To: ksen; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog
I'm laughing so hard I almost can't post coherently!
To: HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom; RMDupree; RosieCotton
We had a dachshund named Suzie; yes, after me, but it had originally belonged to friends before it came to us. When she was about 6, she developed that problem that doxies sometimes have where she became paralyzed from 'the waist' down. She wasn't unhappy, but when she was playing, she would drag herself around to the point that she was developing sores on her belly. We took her to the vet to see what could be done for her. We didn't want to put her down because she wasn't in any pain we could see other than the sores. The vet suggested a cart that was advertised in the back of one of his magazines. When my Daddy saw it cost about $300, he went out the the metal shop of the plant where he worked and asked them if they could make something akin to it. They created a frame on which we could hang a piece of an inner tube and which had wheels on the back. We'd put Suzie in it, her upper body was free to move so she could walk, and her back legs were suspended in mid air by the innertube and she rolled as she walked! The neighbors would all come out to see her as we passed when we took her for walks!
She died about a year after this paralysis; she crawled onto the metal bed of the dolly in Daddy's workshop one night and just went to sleep. She was such a cutie! Rosie's Fiona looks like one of Suzie's puppies. We named her Pumpkin because her litter arrived just before Halloween and she had that black and orange coloring!
To: Corin Stormhands
I'm still waiting...
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posted on
10/11/2002 11:15:41 AM PDT
by
ksen
To: SuziQ
That's a cute and sad story. ;^)
33,285
posted on
10/11/2002 11:17:56 AM PDT
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ksen
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; ksen; HairOfTheDog; rightwingreligiousfanatic
Laughter is good for the um...system...
Somebody should tell Elrond!
To: Corin Stormhands
Nope. Everyone ate it as payback for yesterday! :)
To: SuziQ; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; RMDupree; 2Jedismom
When she was about 6, she developed that problem that doxies sometimes have where she became paralyzed from 'the waist' down... We had something similar happen to a terrier/mutt we had. She developed some sort of paralysis (at one point the vet referred to "Coon Dog Paralysis"). She was about 10, but my dad couldn't bring himself to put her down.
We lived on a hill. So every morning we'd put her out in her pen. She would manage to pull herself out and down into the yard to do her business. When I got home from school I'd walk her back up the hill. After two months of that, she finally recovered, but always had problems with arthritis and her bark was never the same. She live another 5-6 years and died when I was in college.
To: ksen
Don't tell Hair...
To: RMDupree
Everyone ate it as payback for yesterday! Then what on earth are you doing here? Why aren't you out shopping? Somebody kill a pig...
Oh, 'scuse me. I'm forgetting my manners.
To: Corin Stormhands
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon sneak...
To: Corin Stormhands
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon sneak...
To: Corin Stormhands
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon sneak...
To: ksen; Bear_in_RoseBear
getting online is not quite the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, but it's close! *yawn!* *flush!* *boot*
Hey!! Have you been spying on me!!??
To: SuziQ
Trying to grab it *sneak*
To: SuziQ
Trying to grab it *sneak*
To: SuziQ; RosieCotton
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Nooooooo!!!!
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Nooooooo!!!!
To: RMDupree
sneak
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