RottieGrrrl

hampshire: I know how ya feel. When I lost my shepherd/husky mix and went for a walk alone I felt...empty. I'm NOT knocking little dogs! I LIKE little dogs. Nico LOVES little dogs. I'm just frustrated cause this is so obviously a friend of someone there, she owns a hair salon in freaking NAPERVILLE which certain people feel is the new center of the universe, and she must cut someone's hair at the paper, (probably the editor) which is located in NAPERVILLE. And it is just so..........NAPERVILLEISQUE.. It really PO's me. BTW, a TWI offshoot is in NAPERVILLE. And take my word, this is so typical for NAPERVILLE which tries to pretend it's the next Beverly Hills 90210 or whatever and where TWI nuts believe that NAPERVILLE is probably going to be where the next coming of Christ is going to happen. Nough said. Dang I have a cute dog!

Thanks Jeff! And yeah, that purse pooch lady is just so Paris Hilton and just so wrong.

T-Bone I hear ya, I only work with my boss, who is a huge dog lover, so I'm really lucky. I never had a job like that before either, where you can take your dog to work. And YEAH! Why did they include that word "many"? It makes it sound like there are some that she doesn't get along with. The only thing I can think of is when the reporter called me (he did the "interview" over the phone) He asked me if other tenants in our building bring their dogs to work and I said Yeah, we have a few tenants that do...So I'm thinking that the "many" was supposed to mean that "many" dogs come to work with their owners? But it sure doesn't sound like that!

Thanks Dots! Actually that's a pretty horrid pic of me but NICO is always photogenic! :lol:

Thanks OKS, Nico should have been given more space though! ;)

Funny Ron! :) And thanks! The lady with the Chihuahua cheeses me though. She must be somebody's friend at the paper. This story was MY idea, they never heard of this day before I called them up and told them about it! On the front page of the "print" edition, there is a small (very small!) pic of Nico and Giuseppe, the English Bulldog, who is one of my neighboring tenants. The Bulldog was so much cuter than the chihuahua! The Chihuahua lady could have been two pics of Nico and the Bulldog!

Nico and me! You have to click the thumbnail at the right to bring us up, you'll see what I mean. That lady with the little Chihuahua must be a friend of someone who works at the paper, I'm the one who gave them the idea for BYDTWD! They never heard of it before I called them! Humph! :)

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Cause 789! BTW these are great. :)

Thank goodness, glad to hear that Seth.

Dots you would have to check it out, that's what consultations are for. Not cheap I'm sure, but you don't want to skimp money on a plastic surgeon or any doctor for that matter. I had botox/collagen treatments that cost about 800 bucks for a 5 minute procedure for some forhead lines, and I am very happy btw. But search the web for a doc in your area and just call up and go in for a consultation. It's not like he/she is going to push you to do the procedure right there and then, and I would hope they wouldn't push for you to make an appt. Any good doc would let you weigh the risks.

That's a cool story OK CITY! Yeah I know in places that food served unwrapped you can't have a dog unless it's a certified therapy dog for the person's use. I bet those labs who didn't make the cut for drug dogs or what have you are GREAT dogs. ! I would LOVE to have one of those dogs that prisoners train, but I don't believe Illinois has that program. :( I think ALL states should have that program for prisoners to train dogs! I know the ones that do have waiting lines to get those pups!

Friday June 20th is National Bring your Dog to Work Day! I'm all excited cause about a month ago I contacted the Daily Herald about it (it's a Chicagoland suburban paper) and they just got back to me today. I thought they forgot all about me! But they are sending a photographer out here at work tomorrow! Of course, other tenants want to get in on it too, and the photographer may be popping in on other offices that bring their dogs as well, and I said that would be great as long as Nico doesn't get bumped for another dog! But we will see what happens.

I am just now reading your posts. Thank YOU for all. It's hard for me to stomache, but I'm trying to read every word. Thoughts on this later. God Bless.....Rottie.

cute rhino ;) That's an interesting theory George, rhino got me thinking there might be something neurological involved there. If that's true than I feel bad about laughing at the poor thing! :( But George, if that's what their doing, that really isn't cool. The dog is pretty stressed out about it. I hope they aren't doing that!

And if they are, please don't tell me it's a "cultural thing" I close my eyes to this stuff, because it makes me sick. Let me preface this by saying I give to a couple of animal charities. Not because I'm such a wonderful person but because I am too chicken hearted to do anything but I THANK GOD that other people can. In a sane and humane matter. What I've seen of the way China treats their animals. Really makes me want to puke them up as a country. I mean I hate them. I really do. If this is the way they choose to live.... and respect the nature God gave them. I'm NOT talking about eating meat. I'm talking about the respect God gave us towards other living creatures. Are they really that cruel? PS. I give to a couple of sane animal rights groups. (NOT PETA!) and they send me this stuff. I can't even bear to think that people would treat animals in such an inhumane matter. Even if they want to kill for food. Which, I might add, there is nothing wrong with. Killing is one thing. Abuse, ignorance and torture is another. Am I being mislead? God I hope so. This country is deranged and damned if they do what I hear they do.

Yes I would say that poor doggie needs a therapist. Could his leg be possessed?

Yeah no kidding Jeff. Here's another super-short but strange one. Monkey smells his own butt and faints I've heard the term monkey-butt before but I thought it was something totally different.

Unfortunately I can relate being drunk enough to do something like this. One day I should start a..."stupid things done while you were drunk" thread and see how many people fess up.

I don't think I would want a dog like that though! :wacko:

This is truly weird. Dog tries to protect it's bone from his own leg

Several days ago I let Nico (my 130 lbs rott for those who don't know) out as usual in the morning to do her business before we head out to work. I walk out with her to have my smoke and coffee and to hurry her dilly-dallying butt up, as usual. I open the back door, step outside with her and she goes straight up to a rabbit who is right by the back door sitting up against the house. She starts sniffing it, all excited. (she LOVES bunnies) At first I'm stunned, 1. The bunny isn't even moving, probably frozen with fear. 2. Nico is not eating the bunny. Just sniffing it curiously. Then little bunny hops a few feet away and Nico follows it. I yell at her to stop, then I glance over at where mama bunny was sitting. I see all these squirmy little creatures, it's a bunny nest! Mama was nursing! Mama was so brave, she'd rather be eaten then have her babies harmed. And that's why she hopped away I think, so Nico would follow her and not harm her babies. Later on Mama covered up her nest real good so you can't even see them. I did some research on bunny nests and this is what I leared. 1. Rabbits hide nests in plain site many times. People think they have come across an abandoned nest and try to "help" by taking them in. 90 percent of the time they will die if people do this. The fact is rabbits rarely abandon their nests, even if mama dies the dad will take over. (he can't nurse though, obviously) Mama only comes to the nests a couple of times, dusk, or night, and nurses only for about 5 minutes. You see a nest leave it alone. 2. Myth: If you touch the babies mama will abandon them because of the human scent. That's an old wives tale (boy that term is rather sexist isn't it?) that I was brought up to believe myself. The fact is that the scent of a human is not enough of a danger signal to overcome Mama's natural maternal instincts. I would think the same rules apply for other wildlife. I saw a baby bird on a hot pavement parking lot, and I called up the local wildlife place, they told me leave it there, mama will be back. Honestly I couldn't. there was no trees around and the pavement was boiling. I couldn't let the little birdie fry there. I took it home, it lived for several days, it was eating too, but it died. I know people who have taken in skunks, but I tell them around here (Dupage County) that's illegal. Skunks are rabid and need to be destroyed here. I don't know about how it is in other places though. OH Yeah, and sometimes Mama will move a nest (like I expected this one to do after her nest was discovered by us) and people may see some stray bunny left behind. If people take the stray bunny in Mama will be looking frantically later on for her lost baby! She will be back! But I WAS SO PROUD OF MY BABY GIRL! And people were telling me she would be a squirrel/bunny/whatever killer when I got her. Ha!

Just got to tell you I LOVE these fast food stories. Thanks all for filling in Mr. P on what a slider is. And hey Shellon, I've been dying to seet that silly WC movie, thanks for the reminder, I'm going to put that in my que (spelling?) on Netflix. :)

I still get the ocassional happy meal, and I even play with the toy! Bumpy, where the heck are you anyway? 4-5 months in any other country would make me homesick. Hampshire, as I was looking at my post I realized I forgot the sesame seed bun, and I had to laugh at your post cause I was thinking the same thing. Tommy, yes I have a Culvers right near where I live. I liked their butter-burgers and fried chicken, and the only reason I have not eaten there more is because I usually only eat out when I'm at work, I grab lunch for me and the boss. (human boss not Nico) But now that it's summer I will go there again. I forgot White Castle burgers! I have a problem with "communication" there, (which is a common complaint at the WC's, around here anyway) which is why I rarely go there. But if you are lucky enough to get a slider fresh off the steamer, and fresh fries, oh my. Heaven. However, they have a real problem with giving me my brown mustard in the drive through. I ask so nice for it and they always forget. The last time I went, was the middle of February, this year. I decided to go into the office at 4am (we have a couch there) because I had no heat and was FREEZING. So I decided to stop at White Castle at like 3:30am for a slider breakfast. I was so HAPPY when the guy gave me like 10 packages of brown mustard I wanted to kiss him. Then I got to work and the sliders where so dry and crusted over, it was obvious they had been sitting under the warmer for hours. YUCK-A-DOODLE!

Come on now Bumpy, don't ya just get a hankering for one of those juicy grease burgers from time to time? YUM!

I have a nice little family owned Italian take out place near where I work, but I get tired of eating there all the time. I LOVE Arby's, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Wendy's KFC/AW Popeyes (you can't beat their red beans/rice!) And no kidding Oaks, last time I wanted to get a Big Mac at Micky D's I stressed myself out over how to order it. I mean geez. I'd like an order of 2 all beef patties With Cheese, NO special sauce NO lettuce NO pickles NO onioins. I just ordered a Big Mac with no pickles or onions and I got a big sloppy gooey mess that oozed ranch dressing which I despise. But that one was my fault.