The Choc is my cagey old gal who can do anything, even parlor tricks. The Black is a single-minded duck retrieving machine.
And yes, she has that mildly deranged look MOST of the time.
Posted on 07/08/2009 9:00:03 AM PDT by rivercat
The owner of a tiny but famous Sacramento burger joint said a lawsuit about handicapped access could shut him down.
The Squeeze Inn, known for huge mounds of melted cheese on its burgers, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the lawsuit alleges.
Kimberly Block, who says she has severly limited use of her legs, argues she suffered "embarrassment and humiliation" and that her civil rights were violated because of inadequate access inside the Fruitridge Road restaurant.
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My dad's bird feeder is as entertaining as a Rube Goldberg machine. He installed it on a wire between two trees right outside the dining room window, so that we can have a Squirrel Floor Show while we eat. It's like a Yankee Flipper, only operated by counterweights and vertical instead of horizontal. . . .
We thought about getting a patent for it, but it would cost WAY too much to manufacture -- too much hand work involved.
I think that squirrels were put on Earth by God for our sick entertainment. ;-)
OK, now you are obligated to post a youtube video of the squirrel entertainment!
My older Lab actually caught one (it must have been a really slow squirrel). He bit her several times on the nose, but that was his last activity on mortal Earth.
She had to have IV antibiotics and she bled like a pig. But she was very pleased with herself as she trotted out of the shrubbery, covered with her own and the squirrel's blood and grinning from ear to ear around the corpse in her mouth.
...actually God must have put squirrels on Earth for our sick entertainment...AND so that He could be cheaply entertained by OUR invented methods of keeping squirrels from bugging US. LOL.
LOLOLOL. And the winner is....! LOL. “Trotted”...”out of the shubbery”.... I can PICTURE it. Too funny, AAM.
If you know Labs, you know how when they're happy they're happy all over -- tail wagging, prancing, head held high, ears up. I wish I could be as happy as my dogs.
So you believe your cousin’s hunting accident gives him or you the right to demand that private businesses spend tens of thousands of dollars?
Yes yes yes! I had a sweet and very funny Golden on loan from GOD-D for fourteen years. She was just as you described your Lab. LOL.
Hahahaha, good one.
I have a chocolate ball of happiness. I agree, I wish I could be as happy as she is. She hasn’t caught a squirrel yet, but she keeps trying. She is now in the “sneaking up on them” mode.
;-)
And I never heard a dog groan like a human in pain before. That was right after I heard the squirrel screech and right before I heard sounds like a tiger at feeding time.
Shelley the Lab has a permanent vendetta on at squirrels now. She almost caught another one down at the polo field, but it doubled back right between her feet and eluded her. Boy was she mad!
Not as birdy or as persistent in the field as Labs, but wonderful "gentleman's gun dogs".
Have you seen the thing going around the internet about the difference between Goldens and Labs?
And she and the Evil World of Squirrs (we dropped the last syllable for speed in shouting it out for squirrel “alert” purposes,) were ALWAYS doing battle and pranking each other and providing entertainment.
You'd go to a crowded supermarket and they'd have 1 parking spot for handicapped.
A couple of years later, there were 8 spots where there used to be one or two...
Fast forward to present day.
Went to a shopping center a week or so ago, and I kid you not, every single parking bay in front of that shopping center, were restricted for handicap parking only.
There had to be 30 or so parking bays for handicapped, with only one or two being occupied.
And as usual, the rest of the parking lot had few if any parking available for normal parking.
I find this absurd...
Next time your in a parking lot, watch those that actually use the handicap spot. 99 percent of the time, they won't be in wheel chairs, and not even using a cane....They simply exit their vehicles, and walk in a normal manner, into the store.
It's laughable.
The Choc is my cagey old gal who can do anything, even parlor tricks. The Black is a single-minded duck retrieving machine.
And yes, she has that mildly deranged look MOST of the time.
OMG when I read “riot” I blurted out laughing HUGE and couldn’t read on for a minute. Thank you SO much for that, AAM!
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