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mneme
Yeuch!, Mind you, mneme,I suppose I would have thought it was 'awesome' when I was that age.
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johnmacnab
on August 10, 2007 at 7:05 PM
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johnmacnab
no, you hadn't mentioned it, and I would have been just as naive about the dingoes, once. But now I'd give them a wide berth, having watched two of them tear a duck to pieces - silly thing flew over the fence into their compound. Of course the two eleven-year-old nippers with me thought it was quite exciting. If the word had been in vogue they would have said "awesome."
posted by
mneme
on July 29, 2007 at 7:30 AM
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mneme
I have this problem, mneme. If I'm not interested, the facts go straight over my head. To me a dog is a dog is a dog. Some are multicoloured, some are black and some are white. Some are big and some are small. White ones are poodles, black ones are spaniels or somesuch. However, I do recognize a Doberman when it is aiming at my throat.
I've probably already mentioned the time when our bus broke down on Australia's sand island. I couldn't understand the commotion and praying that was going on. The driver was in touch with the ferry captain - everybody knew where we were and the tide wasn't coming in. Apart from that we had some nice dogs sitting up on high points looking out for us. It was later that I found out the dogs were dingoes and dingoes kill people - silly me.
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johnmacnab
on July 21, 2007 at 11:21 AM
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jacenta
Thank you for the sunny smile, jacenta
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johnmacnab
on July 21, 2007 at 9:01 AM
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johnmacnab
posted by
jacentaOld
on July 19, 2007 at 11:45 PM
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johnmacnab
I had to laugh in the comments here, when you admitted you couldn't tell a poodle from a jack russell..:) Bet you can now.
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mneme
on July 17, 2007 at 8:02 AM
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TAPS
It's crazy isn't it TAPS. Our daughter used to be a vet tech and she had to euthanize dogs often, but mostly because they were ill or infirm.
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johnmacnab
on July 15, 2007 at 5:35 AM
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Johnmacnab
I have a nephew that years ago worked for the city animal control. He took the job because he loved animals and then had to quit because his job turned into so much euthanizing of animals and he couldn't take it. I never could understand people who get a dog or cat and then later decide they don't want them.
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TAPS.
on July 14, 2007 at 7:20 PM
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Temple
Thank you for the information about no-kill shelters and adoption shelters, Temple. That is a staggering amount of dogs euthanized each year; I'd no idea it was so many.
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johnmacnab
on July 12, 2007 at 4:07 PM
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Sadly, the number of animals euthanized each year is more like 15 million.
That can be verified with the HSUS and the ASPCA. I'm not sure where you are, and I'm so very glad you make the effort to find it's owner. But, should you ever find yourself in that situation again, there are loads of no-kill shelters that adopt (and screen very well). My animals are adopted, except the stray that found me. :) Check out www.petfinder.com sometime, there's lots of them, and people will post lost animals there. Only certain county run or funded shelters euthanized with a bit more abandoned. It's a good happy ending.
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Temple
on July 12, 2007 at 6:44 AM
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Whacky
We got the little critter back home, Whacky. Tell Bo not to worry.
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johnmacnab
on July 12, 2007 at 5:42 AM
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Powder_Jolez
We have to bother with it, Powder, and the situation has now been resolved.
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johnmacnab
on July 12, 2007 at 5:41 AM
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It is that possibility that is worrying me, Pat. The same thing happened to us when our daughters were teenagers - WE ended up with the dog after they left home.
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johnmacnab
on July 12, 2007 at 5:39 AM
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Jenasis
That is how we are thinking as well, Jenasis.
posted by
johnmacnab
on July 12, 2007 at 5:31 AM
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It may have a microchip! A vet would have to use a scanner to find it.
Animal shelters also have those scanners. Hope you get the little critter home.
Roses
and a
smile from me! Oh and two
smiles
and roses from Bo =^..^= the wonder dog!
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Whacky
on July 11, 2007 at 9:30 PM
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FactorFiction
If it was hitching a ride, FF, you'd think it would have thumbed a lift from a car going the other way, not straight towards it. The problem about leaving it there was that it would soon have been a flat pup.
Ooops! Sorry about the poodle description. According to Ell it was a Jack Russell terrier, which, believe me, shed hair like mad.
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johnmacnab
on July 11, 2007 at 5:26 PM
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John.... Long time no see!!
It's a hard call. Out in the country animals get lost all the time and pounds do put them to sleep so easily. You guys just have to decide if you want to bother with it. You could post picture fliers in the nearby area that you found it to see if someone comes to get it? Powder aka Gypsyredhead33
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RedHeadedGypsy
on July 11, 2007 at 8:07 AM
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I once picked up a kitten along the highway - my 8-year-old daughter
had spotted it as we were on our way to do some Christmas shopping. I said we'd keep it only until we could find a home for it. I still had the cat when my daughter left for college, and she was a fine companion during the empty nest phase. :) No doubt some child or lonely elder is worried sick about their missing snowball... Maybe they'd check with the shelter - if you don't want to take the mutt there, call and let 'em know you found it. Some dogs have microchips injected, so that may be a way to trace its owner.
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Pat_B
on July 11, 2007 at 7:42 AM
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Our neighbor's little dog ran straight toward my truck one day, and their cat often tried to get into our house, but I knew it was their animal. I would say, take the doggie back to it's neighborhood and give it a second chance at being back home again.
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Jenasis
on July 11, 2007 at 6:49 AM
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Perhaps it has been hitching rides
cross country. In which case, posters won't help anyway.
I thought poodles did not shed!? They tell you they have "hair" which helps people with allergies. (I am allergic to dogs and cats, so people like to try to push poodles on me a lot. Has not worked yet.)
I would have left him where you found him. It's the most likely "home" area.
I don't know. 
posted by
FactorFiction
on July 11, 2007 at 6:29 AM
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