Posted on 08/07/2005 8:43:26 AM PDT by nuconvert
LOL
This is why dogs pee on car tires.
It leaves an invisible dotted line they can follow if they
get lost.
My old hound "Trooper" got lost once, he was gone for two weeks, finally my ex who was a pet sitter was making a call
on the other side of Atlanta and there he was sitting on
the porch waiting for her, like "Where you been?".
The only alternative was space alien abduction, which
would have been a first for a dog, at least as far as we know.
Maybe he was one of the 4400? I think that's how we GOT our dog. One day he just appeared. Don't recall a flash of light, but I might have been asleep.
;)
LOL! Pong
Substitute an old giant knotty pecan tree for Barry's mail truck and it's the same story here. We own one dog but for some reason the neighbor's dog lives here most of the time as well. It must be our kitchen counter is more interesting and our couch is softer.
Come to kill us all!
Look! Look! Look! Look!
On cooler mornings I leave my office door open to the backyard. Chippy (my Westie)stands guard watching for squirrels or other offending varmits trying to hang out in his yard. When he does spot a squirrel he literally flies out the door and chases the poor squirrel up the tree. After this workout he is usually satisfied and comes strutting back to his perch just inside the door. We have our share of dog snot on the front window as well. For the most part, though, he spends his days peeing, eating, barking, sniffing and, most of all, sleeping (which is his favorite past time).
I've actually read Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' book. She was your classic Cambridge eccentric. She kept a house full of work dogs, mostly sled dogs, and would take them for walks around the city. That was during the day.
She discovered that the alpha male would get loose at night, and she wondered where he went. So she started following him in his travels in the wee hours (that's the chapter Dave Barry summarizes:) This dog could cross busy highways without getting hurt, once even got as far as Concord, quite a trek from Cambridge (10 mi+).
What was really unusual is that she didn't train her dogs, just allowed them to live according to their own instinctive wolfpack rules, and recorded their behavior.
A fascinating read.
Lol, My beagle is a lazy bum, He won't even get my slippers or newspaper.
But he's got the barking down, right?
Actually, Their so called secret life consist of doing it, sleeping and eating. Take away his manhood and all he'll do is sleep, eat and sleep.
That fits right in with what I have always known to be a dog's philosophy on life:
If you can't eat it or copulate with it...pee on it.
Lol
3 days later they drove into the teeny little town a few miles away for dinner in the bar and who should be sleeping behind the bar. They had wandered up to bar a couple hours earlier and the owner, recognizing them, had taken them in.
With the exception of being on the losing end of their battles with a skunk and porcupine, they were pretty much all right. Dad figures they probably lit out after a deer then became hopelessly lost.
Glad it had a happy ending.
Very cute. I have two Black Labs and a Basset Hound. Dave explained them perfectly. :)
This is one of those times when something moderately amusing struck me as completely hilarious...I'm still wiping tears from laughing SO HARD!
Thanks for posting this...:D
bump for later read
I have a Border Collie and she doesn't have an 'off' switch. Always curious--never lazy. She smiles when excited and cries real tears when you scold her.
They're a handful for most people but have to be some of the most intelligent creatures ever created.
SGT C.
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