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Wrong Dog Taken Home, Twice!
http://boknowsonline.com/2008/04/21/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers/ ^ | Bo

Posted on 05/12/2008 7:37:49 AM PDT by fings

Bo (woof) In Commentary:

If you dropped off your owner at spring break, would you have difficulty picking him out when he returned? Of course not. So how can an owner not know his own canine when he returns from a week of fried seafood and fried skin? I don’t know but here’s the story.

(LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. - Ken Griggs likes his new dog, but he preferred the old one. Then again, it might be the same dog. In a possible case of mistaken identity, Griggs said the black Labrador named Callie that he left at a Dundee kennel before spring break was not the same dog he picked up a week later.

“It’s a sweet dog,” Griggs said of the impostor living at his Lake Oswego house. “It’s tough because now we’ve had the dog for 10-plus days, and the kids, especially the younger ones, start to get attached to the dog. I like it, but I want mine.”)

He suspects it’s an imposter but doesn’t know for sure. Maybe Callie just had an attitude change brought on by being abandoned at a kennel with 40 other dogs, or maybe her body was taken over by alien pods?

(Allison Best, owner of the Tail Wag-Inn boarding kennel, said Griggs has the right dog.

Griggs said he immediately noticed differences in the dog he picked up from the kennel. The family cat - normally friends with Callie - hissed at the dog. Callie would heel; this dog did not.)

Of course Callie refused to heel, she was now a hardened canine. Off the record she let her true feelings be known. “Frankly I was disappointed with my family. Upon their return, this is what I got,” she said as she held up a collar. On it, it proclaimed, My Parents Went To Aruba and All I Got Was This Lousy Collar.

“Heel? Not a chance.”

(Griggs returned the dog to the kennel and Best examined whether Callie might have gotten mixed-up with any of the other black Labradors staying there that week.

Owners of the seven other black Labs all said they had the right dog.

However, the owner of Dixie, a dog Callie shared a kennel with, said her dog had undergone a “personality change,” Best said. But after three or four conversations that day, the owner maintained she had the right dog.)

So Dixie shared a cage with Callie, Dixie’s owner noticed a personality change and the local kennel called saying that Callie’s owners are experiencing the same thing. Sounds like an open and shut case.

(Still, Best arranged for the owners and their dogs to meet March 31 for a possible exchange. The woman called saying she was late, Best said.

Meanwhile, Griggs had arrived with his family. A black Lab got excited when the Griggses approached, the kids declared it was Callie, and into the car the dog went.

It was the same dog the Griggs had just returned.)

Open and shut until humans come into the picture. Apparently the facts were wrong, as was Griggs. You don’t pick out the wrong dog, who you’ve spent over 10 years with, twice. That would be doggie owner malpractice.

(But still unsure, Griggs took...con't at http://boknowsonline.com/2008/04/21/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers/)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: dog; doggieping; kennel; lab; owner

1 posted on 05/12/2008 7:37:49 AM PDT by fings
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To: fings
However, the owner of Dixie, a dog Callie shared a kennel with, said her dog had undergone a “personality change,” Best said. But after three or four conversations that day, the owner maintained she had the right dog.)

This dog behaves, I am not giving him up.

2 posted on 05/12/2008 7:43:03 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: fings

You could blindfold me and I could still tell you which dogs were mine, just by touching them.


3 posted on 05/12/2008 7:46:45 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: Salamander

I can tell mine from the sounds of their barks as well.


4 posted on 05/12/2008 7:53:35 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: fings
If you dropped off your owner at spring break, would you have difficulty picking him out when he returned?

I am His Majesty's Dog, at Pew. Pray tell me, sir, who's dog are you? -- Inscribed on a collar of a royal canine in 1815.

5 posted on 05/12/2008 7:56:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Salamander

I can tell the taste of my dog’s tongue.


6 posted on 05/12/2008 7:56:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Lazamataz

We just usually sniff each other’s butts.


7 posted on 05/12/2008 7:59:16 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
We just usually sniff each other’s butts.

My dog is teaching me how to lick my own globes.

8 posted on 05/12/2008 8:07:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Lazamataz
"My dog is teaching me how to lick my own globes."

You're about to learn why Dr. Doolittle's real name was Dr. Doolittle Else.

9 posted on 05/12/2008 8:14:48 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I may never leave the house again.

Papa Johns Pizza will be on speed-dial.

10 posted on 05/12/2008 8:22:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: Salamander
"You could blindfold me and I could still tell you which dogs were mine, just by touching them."

Anyone blindfolded could identify your dog.


11 posted on 05/12/2008 8:34:30 AM PDT by Rebelbase (McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
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To: fings

Are these people stupid or what?


12 posted on 05/12/2008 8:51:00 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: fings

"But sir, this dog don't hunt!"

13 posted on 05/12/2008 9:25:18 AM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, I have to sat that you are the only poster that I can identify from merely reading the post. I actually knew that this was you before I looked down at the name of the poster.


14 posted on 05/12/2008 9:33:01 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: cspackler
Laz, I have to sat that you are the only poster that I can identify from merely reading the post. I actually knew that this was you before I looked down at the name of the poster.

I'm unique! I'm unique! YAAAAYYYY!!


15 posted on 05/12/2008 9:44:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: fings

Aren’t black labs pretty much identical anyway? Does it really matter?


16 posted on 05/12/2008 1:07:11 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Kill them with kindness, then taser them for fun.)
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To: Lazamataz
I'm unique! I'm unique!

Just like everyone else....

17 posted on 05/12/2008 1:09:10 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

BUMP!


18 posted on 05/12/2008 4:25:58 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: fings

There’s something to be said for all-American dogs (aka, mutts); there usually aren’t too exact look-a-likes at a canine hotel at the same time. An ear tattoo or microchip would’ve saved everyone a lot of trouble.

When we were on the Air Force’s export list, we had a dog who had to be quarantined for weeks. When we came to get her, she was so mad at us that she stayed curled up in the corner of her kennel and ignored us. Happily, she was a small dog and was easily retrieved and fussed over until she forgave us. Or at least pretended to.


19 posted on 05/12/2008 4:35:40 PM PDT by skr (I serve a risen Savior!)
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