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 Lianne
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Oh wow. That's such a heart-wrenching and yet totally uplifting post today. I can't imagine losing all my critters at once. And I could not imagine life without at least one in my house. When I'm sad, I need an animal to turn to. I couldn't deal with the grief if I didn't have an animal, ANY animal, to be there with me. I was lucky that the nursing home where my grandmother suddenly died had two resident dogs. I shut myself in the office with them for half an hour, and I don't know what I would have done without that.
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jmeadows said: Glad she finally came around to admitting she needed an animal friend. Some of us just...do. *cough cough*
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This.
Cocker spaniels are fun dogs. Frenetic, in my experience, and in that frenzy prone to peeing all over the place, but incredibly sweet. I've never known that about puppies and throwing up, though. I was pretty young, but I remember the day we went to get puppies, and we brought towels with us, but neither of them puked. It was such a wonderful thing for me to hold a wriggly little dog wrapped up in a towel in my lap all the way home. (That was our first Brittany spaniel.) My mom didn't mention that kind of problem when she brought the next set home, and that was driving them from Colorado to Maryland.
I've never been surprised with an animal, though. :> I've always been the one bringing them home!
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| Re: Puppy [message #4420 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 23:22 |
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When I was a teenager my sister brought home a rat terrier puppy, and said that she found it in a bag in the middle of the street. Dad said we couldn't keep her, so we all said OK, but then left the puppy with dad while we went to our bedrooms for a moment. When we came back dad had the pup on his knees, and was jiggling her and singing to her.
We named her Shine. (And my dad always said she was a rare breed of Texas Bag Dog.)
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4421 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 23:24 |
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this is sad yet happy news as well. that was very thoughtful of you robin. i take care of dogs,26 to be pecise and you are right about the puppies. they don't care who picks them up and make over them, just that some one does. the 18 adults on the other hand all have very distinct personalities and often my boss would ask me if i was talking to myself or the dogs. my reply is always the dogs because of coarse they always talk back and boy do they ever. lol
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Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Puppy [message #4422 is a reply to message #4420 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 23:30 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 21:22 |
When I was a teenager my sister brought home a rat terrier puppy, and said that she found it in a bag in the middle of the street.
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Dad said we couldn't keep her, so we all said OK, but then left the puppy with dad while we went to our bedrooms for a moment. When we came back dad had the pup on his knees, and was jiggling her and singing to her.
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I'm seeing if I can really interject text, here.
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We named her Shine. (And my dad always said she was a rare breed of Texas Bag Dog.)
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"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4424 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 23:30 |
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It works!
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4437 is a reply to message #4314 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 02:45 |
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Diane in MN
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| southdowner wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 17:45 |
So glad you found Daisy her puppy - and the right colour... yes, just look through the kennel club breed standards to realise that dogs are very oddly coloured - blenheim, smut(that's a bullie variation), landseer, harlequin, belton...
and any time you want a mini, I know all the best breeders Mwahahaha!!!
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Are yours minis or standards?
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Puppy [message #4440 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 03:43 |
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Diane in MN
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And then last week when I saw her she suddenly said, staring at me with these big haunted eyes, I don’t know how I can go on without an animal.
My parents went through the same process after my father retired and they lost their then dog; of course "no more dogs" didn't last more than a few months and then there was a new puppy. If you're a critter person, it's a necessary relationship.
WHY DON’T WE JUST GET HER A PUPPY? I said.
Good for you! 
And he didn’t throw up. I don’t think I’ve ever brought a puppy home who didn’t throw up in the car on the way
You must have had bad luck. None of the puppies I've brought home have ever been carsick (:: knocks wood ::), for which I am heartily grateful.
But for a genuine dog person who is pining for lack of a dog, a dog for Christmas sounds really good.
For such a person, a dog ANY time would sound really good.
Although you’ve probably heard me say I’m not going to do puppies again either.
Puppies are cute and can be a lot of fun, but I really like it much better when they turn into dogs. Although there is nothing like a puppy to ground you in the here and now.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Puppy [message #4450 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 07:01 |
Susan in Melbourne
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That's a lovely story, Robin, and I'm sure there'll be a happy ending tomorrow.
I was reminded of us 14 years ago - we'd been dogless for a few years, and Rob had been sick with depression, so I decided to buy him a puppy for Christmas.
A friend came out to the farm with me after work one day to choose the pup (female black labrador), then on Christmas Eve, I casually popped out to supposedly visit another friend, but two of us went back to the farm to pick up the puppy. She was then dropped off at a mate's place just around the corner, whose kids had agreed to puppy-sit for Christmas Eve.
Then on Christmas Day, my nephew and I popped out again (to Rob's puzzlement) but all was explained when I walked back in shortly after with an armful of black puppy with a big tartan bow around her neck.
I'll never forget the look on Rob's face. He was completely overcome, and as he reached out his arms for the puppy, there wasn't a dry eye in the house from the rest of the family.
She was the light of our lives for 13 years, and died last year. I'm coming around to the idea of another dog, but really don't want a puppy again - it makes me tired to think of it. We are on the list for a withdrawn Guide Dog, but Rob is getting really impatient and is putting the pressure on for a puppy. I think he's got his hopes up for this Christmas. He always said that Bonnie was the best Christmas present he ever had.
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| Re: Puppy [message #4451 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 07:13 |
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my mom is looking for a rescue dog right now,some kind of a lab mix since sid has a preference for labs. they lost blackie who was a lab mix rescue dog 3months ago to cancer.i think she said that they are going to look at an epsc next weekend.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Puppy [message #4472 is a reply to message #4468 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 12:00 |
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Thank you for sharing your lovely animal stories, although I admit I did get a bit sniffly reading some of them - you never replace those characters you've lost do you? Just add more memories with a new friend...
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Puppy [message #4482 is a reply to message #4336 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 13:35 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| southdowner wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 00:29 |
Puppies are great when you can have them for short burst
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Like grandchildren, you mean? Alas, I only have grand-kittens (why do my daughter and s-i-l have to be cat people? Still, you can't really have a dog in a London flat, even a maisonette like theirs).
My parents'Junior Dog (my father has working labradors), now, sadly, Only Dog, didn't come as a puppy, but as an already-highly-trained one-year-old. It took him a very long time to learn that he was allowed to come indoors and relax in front of the television. And he ended up almost being more work, as Daddy felt he couldn't quite match up to the very grand training that Junior Dog had had, so they have been doing Obedience Classes every summer! To train Daddy, you see, not Junior Dog!
All the same, Kipling had it right:
"Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Puppy [message #4491 is a reply to message #4452 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 15:07 |
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L.R.K.
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| AJLR wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 13:26 |
| L.R.K. wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 03:21 |
Once - when we were children - we opened the door and a white cat came in and ran into our living-room. I and my brothers thought it was perfect, obviously we were meant to keep the cat, but my mother thought not and insisted we take it out. Unreasonable grown-ups!
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Our current queen of the demesne 'adopted' us when she was about 18 months old. We had lost our previous cat to a long-running cancer of the gut about three months earlier and were still pretty traumatised. Then some new people rented the house next door and one of their two cats (who were litter-sisters) gradually inserted herself into our lives. We felt really guilty at first at the amount of time she started spending with us - and she used to bang her paw on the window if we didn't immediately leap to let her in whenever she appeared. However, we talked with them about it and when they moved on about 6 months later they were kind enough to say she could stay with us as she obviously preferred the quiet life away from their 8-year old son and the rather bossy litter-sister - plus they had the sisters' parents and litter-brother at another house and were feeling a bit 'over-catted' anyway we think. So we acquired the most sociable cat I think I've ever lived with, who still regards next door as hers (just as well the new tenants are also under her paw...), as well as anywhere else she can inveigle herself into. But she always comes back to us and is very affectionate every time, to make up for being away an hour or so. 
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Oh, that's lovely - and I adored the pictures!
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Puppy [message #4500 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 16:34 |
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ConverseRider
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Of course she took the puppy. Who can say "no" to a puppy?
eve the ugliest dogs are lovable puppies.
Take one of my dogs, Winston, for example.
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"All you really need is a paperclip necklace; I was worried I had used too many leaving you a trail." - Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
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| Re: Puppy [message #4501 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 16:35 |
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ConverseRider
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These are my favourite puppies, however...
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"All you really need is a paperclip necklace; I was worried I had used too many leaving you a trail." - Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
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| Re: Puppy [message #4511 is a reply to message #4401 ] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 17:21 |
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Katherine
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| Lianne wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 22:40 |
Oh wow. That's such a heart-wrenching and yet totally uplifting post today. I can't imagine losing all my critters at once. And I could not imagine life without at least one in my house.
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Precisely my reaction. *sniffle* Combined with mild panic at the thought of losing my cats. I seriously wish I could claim bereavement time at work in the unthinkable event that one dies. Especially my boy cat. He is admonished on a rather regular basis that he is never allowed to die. (It seems to be working, a little. When my best friend came to visit, she hadn't seen him in years. Her first comment about my 8-year-old baby was, "He still looks like a kitten! A 20-pound giant kitten. How does he do that?!" Because his mother told him so, that's why).
My sincere condolences to Daisy, but I'm also ever so glad she has a new (and completely ADORABLE) puppy to wriggle into her heart. This was really wonderful of you and Zara, Robin! Everyone needs a friend like you.
| Lianne wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 22:40 |
I've never been surprised with an animal, though. :>
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My first long-term dog was a surprise. When I was in first grade I'd been pining to own a black cocker spaniel. Friends of the family found a black, fluffy dog of most sleddog origins running loose in a rain storm and when no one had claimed him for three weeks, they sidled up to my mom and made a suggestion, and voila! My best friend growing up. He got cancer when I was a sophomore in college and I miss him to this day.
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