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To: mafree
Well,we need to listen to our furry friends.

Twenty minutes ago my dog Digger,a blue healer,woke me up and wanted to go down stairs.

I opened the door but she just looked out so I closed it and went back to bed,she still would not be quiet,and was whining in a funny way so I got up and went down stairs.

My FORD truck was GONE!

Just great,Christmas and now no vehicle!

Anyway,gave her some dog cookies and let her know she did right.

Man,it just never stops,felt my knee go this afternoon, (my GOOD knee)too.

I am bummed.

4 posted on 12/14/2001 9:25:50 PM PST by tet68
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To: tet68
Sorry about your truck but what's a blue healer? Do you have a pic of her?
5 posted on 12/14/2001 9:28:06 PM PST by mafree
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To: tet68
Man, you just wrote the next platinum country western song; call Brad Paisley tonight!

But, don't let Tabby know about this thread.

6 posted on 12/14/2001 9:33:30 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: tet68
I can imagine your dog thinking, "Hey! Don't blame me! I did my job and tried to warn you. But would you listen?"

Sorry to hear about the bad news.

7 posted on 12/14/2001 9:35:08 PM PST by SAMWolf
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To: tet68
Re: Your truck

Everything is moving toward your greater good. Things are not only as they appear. What is truly yours belongs to you by divine right and cannot be taken away. We give thanks that your truck or it's equivalent be restored to you under grace and in a perfect way.

41 posted on 12/15/2001 8:00:05 AM PST by Osinski
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To: tet68;mafree;technochick99;Doomonyou;SAMWolf;HairOfTheDog; kassie;apackof2;damnlimey;El Gato...
I just found this thread and thought you all might enjoy this story:

Blue fights off gator to save his fallen owner
At least three alligators, one a 12-footer, had been seen in a canal just 50 feet from where 85-year-old Ruth Gay lay injured.

©Associated Press...© St. Petersburg Times, published July 27, 2001

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FORT MYERS -- Bitten numerous times, a scrappy 35-pound cattle dog repeatedly fended off an alligator after his 85-year-old owner fell outside her home and lay immobilized with broken bones until her family returned.

"Blue scared the gator off and kept it away from my mother-in-law. The dog got chewed up pretty bad," Albert Gibson said Thursday.

Ruth Gay was in fair condition at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers on Thursday after surgery on one shoulder and manipulation of the other to reset a dislocation.

Two-year-old Blue, an Australian blue heeler, was recuperating at home, licking his wounds.
Gay told her family she thought a gator had gotten Blue.

"She could hear Blue yelping and whining. She knew he was getting hurt," Gibson said. "Then it stopped."

Gay, who lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Fort Myers Shores, was home alone when she went outside to walk the dog just before 9 p.m. Tuesday. She slipped on the wet grass and fell, face down, breaking her nose and dislocating her shoulder.

She managed to flip on her back, then lay there immobilized, hollering, Gibson said. Blue lay at her side, up against her.

Suddenly, the dog growled and left. It was dark. Gay couldn't see what was happening but knew the dog was in a fight.

Earlier in the day, three gators, ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet, swam in the canal next to the house. The banks of canal were about 50 feet across the yard from where Gay was lying injured. There's no sea wall and after days of heavy rains, the water was high, to the top of the bank.

The Gibsons arrived home shortly after 10 p.m. When their car pulled up the dog raced to meet them, dripping wet.

"He was going wild, barking and jumping. He led me right to her," said Gibson, a retired construction superintendent.

"The first thing my mother-in-law said to me was: "I think I really messed up because Blue got killed.' "

Gibson managed to get his mother-in-law to her feet and he and his wife, Sylvia, took her to the hospital. The Gibsons got home about 4 a.m. Wednesday and a few hours later took Blue to Suburban Animal Hospital.

"There were a lot of little puncture wounds, bite wounds," said Dr. Terry Terlep, whose colleague treated the injured animal. A veterinarian stapled Blue's abdominal wound, cleaned up the others, put him on painkillers and antibiotics and sent him home.

"He's a little dog and fast like lightning," Terlep said. "He was trying to fend off this animal, trying to get it to go away. And he's so fast he could get out of the way.

"It's amazing what an animal will do in a time of need," Terlep said. "He's a pretty brave dog."

62 posted on 12/17/2001 6:52:06 PM PST by Wasichu
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To: tet68
Sorry to hear about your truck and knee, and that you are bummed for Christmas. If it helps, I'm bummed too, as some of my VERY ELABORATE Christmas light display was stolen Friday night. As a result, I had to take the rest of it down :-(

I have a "Carolina dog" that is like your heeler. About this time last fall, I had just turned off my computer and was going to bed. The dogs had been out not too long before, so I was surprised when Kali wouldn't come to bed. She just kept sitting and looking at the door. I told her to come on to bed, but she just gave me a funny look and went back to staring at the door. I figured she must REALLY need out, so I opened the door, and not 3 feet from my face was a man trying to look in the window! I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing and he said "whatever I feel like". So I opened the screen, and only then did Kali make any sound. As I went for the phone, all I could hear was "Get your f%$^&ing dog off me!" LOL, great dog!

88 posted on 12/18/2001 5:52:33 PM PST by realwoman
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