JGalt
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We had another dog got ran over on the highway tonight. Out of the last four dogs we've had, three of them got ran over. I wasn't particularly attached to this one, although he was a pretty smart dog. We got him from some liberal woman who's a doctor, about a month ago. She kept him doped up on a bunch of meds, but he seemed to fit in here pretty well after we stopped medicating him. He got along with the cats very well and knew how to "sit", "stay", or "lay down" on command.
He was named "Fiord" by his previous owner and since he responded to that, we kept the name. A week after we first got him, we had to go to a family get-together. I left him in the garage with his food dish and water bowl but when we came home, I found he had totally wreaked havoc in the garage. He broke two door handles, somehow denting them so they wouldn't lock or unlock. He had shredded 6 bags of garbage, one rug, chewed up the moulding around the entrance door to the house, pried off a board I had to screw into the wall from the previous dog, wrecked the garage door sensor, and almost clawed through the sheetrock by the garage door.
I was so mad about that I would have put a bullet through his head, had it not been for my wife. But I didn't.
The dog before this one was named Cato. We have about 85 acres of wooded land, so we've always let our dogs run free. Cato was a good dog but not being neutered, he was pretty wild. He would chew on stuff in the garage if you didn't keep things where he couldn't reach them. When we first got him. he pissed me off by digging all the gravel away from the entrance of the garage door. Than caused it to get dusty in the garage, as the door faced the west winds. His favorite thing was roaming the woods, and bringing back dead deer parts, which he littered the yard with. He sometimes pissed off the neighbors a ways down the road, by barking at their dogs. He got ran over in the highway about three months ago. I feel sorry for the girl that hit him, she was really broken up about it.
The dog we had before him was named "Diza." She was a neutered female and lasted for about 10 years. She had enough sense to stay out of the highway, and the only problem we had with her was when she got Lyme's disease. The medication we gave her cured her of that, and she died of old age.
The dog we had before her was named "Harley. He was a male and lasted about three years. Like the last two, he also went out in the road and was ran over by a car.
It's nice to have a dog, because they bark when someone comes up the drive. But I've never grown attached to any of them, I'm more of a cat person. My wife had a cry when I got home as I hugged her, but now she's pretty much accepted the fact.
He was named "Fiord" by his previous owner and since he responded to that, we kept the name. A week after we first got him, we had to go to a family get-together. I left him in the garage with his food dish and water bowl but when we came home, I found he had totally wreaked havoc in the garage. He broke two door handles, somehow denting them so they wouldn't lock or unlock. He had shredded 6 bags of garbage, one rug, chewed up the moulding around the entrance door to the house, pried off a board I had to screw into the wall from the previous dog, wrecked the garage door sensor, and almost clawed through the sheetrock by the garage door.
I was so mad about that I would have put a bullet through his head, had it not been for my wife. But I didn't.
The dog before this one was named Cato. We have about 85 acres of wooded land, so we've always let our dogs run free. Cato was a good dog but not being neutered, he was pretty wild. He would chew on stuff in the garage if you didn't keep things where he couldn't reach them. When we first got him. he pissed me off by digging all the gravel away from the entrance of the garage door. Than caused it to get dusty in the garage, as the door faced the west winds. His favorite thing was roaming the woods, and bringing back dead deer parts, which he littered the yard with. He sometimes pissed off the neighbors a ways down the road, by barking at their dogs. He got ran over in the highway about three months ago. I feel sorry for the girl that hit him, she was really broken up about it.
The dog we had before him was named "Diza." She was a neutered female and lasted for about 10 years. She had enough sense to stay out of the highway, and the only problem we had with her was when she got Lyme's disease. The medication we gave her cured her of that, and she died of old age.
The dog we had before her was named "Harley. He was a male and lasted about three years. Like the last two, he also went out in the road and was ran over by a car.
It's nice to have a dog, because they bark when someone comes up the drive. But I've never grown attached to any of them, I'm more of a cat person. My wife had a cry when I got home as I hugged her, but now she's pretty much accepted the fact.
