[quote="good dolphin"[quote="leashyourkids"At the risk of sounding like good dolphin, how do you post a picture on here just from the gallery on your phone?[/quote][/quote]


You don't know just as much as I don't know but you're going to call me out?

No wonder why you are forced to share your house with animals.[/quote

yes.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

We should have Bernstein caption this one.

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LOOK. AT. THAT. PLATE!

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You have a girlfriend?



During the day, our dog just stays at home. My wife doesn't work traditional hours, so she's usually only gone for a few hours. However, she used to be gone all day, and he was fine. If we go on a trip, we have friends or family watch him.

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is the dog crated when no one is home? or is the pup given carte blanche?

Is somebody going to ask Terrible IT Guy if he can stream some Sarah McLaughlin songs for this thread?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

No, we only crated him as a puppy. He has free reign now.

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Brings back childhood memories for Kirkwood no doubt.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

When we travel there is a local place here that I kennel him at. They used to breed Boxers and currently breed Mastiffs so they love having him
there. They take him out and play with him and he usually gets a bath and nails trimmed while there so it works out really well. Ends up costing
like $40 a day to kennel him but overall that isn't too bad. The dog stays out all the time at our house. I come home for lunch to let him out to
use the yard so he is never home alone much more than 5-6 hours tops. If it is going to be longer than that we don't trust him and he will be
kenneled in the basement.

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Us too. Neighbors and doggie depot watch my dog when we take trips and I almost have my parents convinced to take her.

I don't have pets but my sister's family has a dog. Early last summer he (Hunter) became very sick, was paralyzed, and partially blind. They noticed he was having difficulty walking, going up and down stairs, and seemed lethargic. After an initial test that yielded a false positive an MRI revealed that he had blastomycosis. They live in Kenosha and took him to an animal hospital in Madsion where he was treated and stayed a few days so they could monitor his condition. After that he received medication three times a weeks for four weeks and his condition was monitored as that particular treatment can be rough on the kidneys.

He's very cute and funny. He's an English Springer Spaniel and is very bound-y. He's three, and a couple of years ago my sister said they really should have named him Joey, after the character from Friends, because he's not all that bright and will hump anything. Until he got fixed he had a little blanket that he would do absolutely obscene things to.

When he was in the hospital they brought along a blanket from their couch that smells like everyone (and home) and his favorite chew toy so he'd have some familiar things during his stay


In front of a mammoth skeleton at my brother-in-law's museum (he's the director of museums in Kenosha)


He enjoys festive headgear


My brother-in-law made this little stretcher to carry him in when he was paralyzed. It was easier than trying to carry him (he weighs 55lbs.)


After his treatment they bought a little inflatable pool to put in their backyard for "hydrotherapy" for him so he could swim and help regain his strength. He made a remarkable recovery and is about 85% of what he was before he got sick.

He's a good boy.

That's pretty cool Tad. Great story. Your sister and bro in law are good people.

Idk what I would do if our cat needed meds 3 times a days. Both my wife and I are working full time, and I can't imagine relying on someone else to administer meds.

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my dogs are alone for ~10 hours when i'm at work

i certainly wouldn't subject a new dog to something like that
but they're perfectly fine, never any accidents or issues

Nice story Tad. The museums have been busy this year here in Kenosha. When they don't have their own respective exhibits, they are right in the
middle of everything going on festival-wise down by the lake including the farmers market which gets larger each month it seems.

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I think this is the only picture I have of him.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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He's healthier than D-Rose!

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Two chihuahuas. One named after RGIII. The other after a beer. They weigh a combined ten lbs. Love those jerks to death.

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Have three dogs (apologies in advance for the huge pics) -

Baxter - 14 yr old golden I've had since we first moved into our house...not sure how much more time we have with him, but he's still getting along pretty well.



Buddy is our 10 yr old Lab/Pyrenees mix. My wife's friend was moving and was going to dump him off at a shelter (even though they got more dogs after they moved), so we took him in. He's a bit of a jag, but he's our jag.



Finally Emma, almost 3 yr old pit mix we rescued from CACC when she was a puppy. She's a clown.

My cat has a facebook page.

I don't have a facebook page.

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We had a dog when we were first married. The neighbors had a full-blood brown collie, which ran loose in our farming neighborhood. She was bred by some unknown stud, and produced four little black and white pups. We assumed it was the black lab or black chow living on the other side of their place, due to color. Boy, he sure looked like those Burnese pictures!

My wife watched the pups with the two little neighbor girls, and noticed one of them did not jump on people or bark hardly ever. She said that was ours, and he was. Really bright, trainable, hated being tied up. He ran the area with his mom for a couple years until we had our first son, then he got tied up more often. One winter morning he was out having fun and just never came back. We told the kids we would get a dog when we moved to the farm, but she vetoed that idea when we did. Oldest son has yet to forgive her for that.

My parents love watching him for the reasons mentioned throughout the thread... they're getting up there in age and don't want the responsibility of owning a dog, but they love watching our dog for a week or so. I almost think my dad likes watching the dog more than watching my daughter.

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My mom would take her but my dad is not a dog fan and thinks she is a huge pain in the ass. She is. She listens to me and sometimes my husband but nobody else. She can be naughty too.

He didn't like bath time.

Yeah, same deal. A labradoodle. they have tight curly hair and don't shed. kinda small and a little expensive.

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Have we had the obligatory "I like dogs better than humans" post yet?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.