Topic: Wild Weekend

Whoooeee! My weekend was sure hectic!! To make a long story short, on Saturday a neighbor's dog, Luke, got sick, so Luke's family (along with myself--I was curious!) took him to the vet. The vet looked him over, and said it was probably poison--i.e. botulism from a dead carcass, or strychnine (sp?). So the vet took Luke in a back room, put charcoal in his stomach to soak up the poison, gave him a relaxant, started an IV, and came back and told us to come back Monday. So, we go home. About three hours later, my friends and I (my two dogs, Mac and Tank, included) went up to a waterfall that's about a fifteen minutes walk from my house. While we're at the waterfall, I notice that my dog, Mac, is starting to have some symptoms like Luke had--rear legs trembling, hypersensitive to sounds, light, etc. So I go back to the house with Mac, and my parents take him to an Emergency vet. When we get there we wait. And wait. And wait and wait. For ONE HOUR!!!! (The worst thing about the waiting was that there was NO ONE in the waiting room!!) Finally the vet sees us, and he says that he needs to keep Mac for the night, and that Mac-o would most likely recover. He did recover, thank the Lord, and he got to come home on Easter! :D :D :D :D

I feel bad for the dogs :( .

Oh, I did too. But both Luke and Mac are home now, and none the worse for wear!

That is great. Hopefuly they willl be amune (I know that is spelled incorrectly, I just cannot think of it) to the poison. I am rather suprised that my dog, Kaile, never got someting like that, as she used to bite old ladies, little kids, and random pitbulls.

i spent the past two days in bars on my burger and larger diet. Played a bit of pool, wathced a bit of football(the proper kind, soccer to my friends in the US), and we(Chelsea) aer One point away from winning the league

At least the dogs are still alive.
I know this seems strange but you had the word luke and IV in there, did it occur to you after you worte it?
We went to my grandma's for her birthday, she still lives in Kansas however so I spent 4 and a half hours in a range rover with the dog getting there. On the way we passed a feedyard[moo], on one of the sheds was the sign-remember the restaurant lady? "Where's the beef?"- "Here's the Beef" and a little ways down from that..."Here's some more Beef"

My dog bit our neighbors two-year old in the face.  We had to pay for the stitches and he now has an interesting cresent-moon scar on his forehead. 
Then the dog went and bit him again. 
Had to get rid of the poor girl... :(

I had a cat once who died after eating a neighbor's garbage and he'd put rat poisening in his garbage, cause, apparantly, my cat had been making a mess of his garbage and he'd thought it was rats. I didn't actually know for quite a while. She just went  missing one day, and then about a month later my mom was cleaning the porch and found her behind some stuff. She didn't let me look, and I'm glad. I think I was 8 at the time.

once when i was moving we could not take our 3 dogs so the pound had to come and they took them away i never saw them after that day. it stinks because i had had then all my life. they were good dogs hope someone picked them up beefor the 4 days. we have a law that says if a pet is older than x amount of years is sent to the pound and is not clamed it is put to sleep.

I know how that feels. We had a yellow lab who we had to put to sleep because he went crazy and started growling/snarling/trying to bite people.

We put our fifteen year old dog to sleep a few months ago because of old age.

its a bad feeling. i felt lots of gulit like if i let my dogs down. couldnt save them

"We pray for those lost, we pray for our own souls and those lost to the winds. We may never strike the bell of terms, never truly understand the ways in which the world turns. The works of labor, the taste of nothing fresher than a well earned bite albiet an Apple or a small sliver of sardine we may be thankful. We may raise our hands high, We may look at our revolving dimension and hope for brighter times. Challenge sin, repent sin, and repel it's aluring charms. Dream, be thankful you can. Pray for those lost, pray for our own souls, and those lost to the winds. And still we may dream in the forever sleep, in the sleep and embrace of sweeter woven things wrapped about ourselves like a warm mother's caress."

I don't know, i just felt like writing it, losing a friend or pet is incredibly harsh. It's almost how I keep going, thought like passing it on.

I ticks me off when people bait other people's pets.

I was upset the other night when I was driving home from the gym, it was dark and I saw a pair of glowing eyes in the middle of my lane. I stopped to see a cat run away. What upset me was it was sniffing a kitten that had been hit by a car. The poor kitten was dead but whoever hit hadn't even tried to find who owned it.

I ended up going to the house that the cat ran to and let them know. However it wasn't one of their cats. It just makes me mad that people are so heartless when they run over someone's pet :mad:

Or even wild animals. I seem to like animals a LOT more than humans.

Yeah, my boyfriend's puppy got run over this week.  And the week before last I ran over a dog, but fortunately it was only knocked unconscious.

My dog got hit by a car, fell off a roof (only one story :) ), fell of the back of my dad's truck, aswell as jump out of it occasianly jump out of it. Also, when we were all at a lake that we go to every year, we left Kalie in the trailer there because it was to hot out for her, and went down to the beach. The door was made of metal, and very thick. When we were about half way to the beach, Kalie ran past us, as if to say "I don't need you, I can get there on my own!" She must of head-butted the door open.

Well, my black Lab, Tank, got ran over by a truck (and I really do mean ran over--he was sleeping under the truck when the accident happened!), had dermodectic mange when he was a year old (he lost a lot of his hair and STUNK SO bad), and swallowed (yes, I said swallowed) a fair sized steak bone, resulting in him being very ill for three days. He didn't go through nearly as much stuff as your Kaile did, but he sure is a problem child around here :) :).

Yeah, Kalie never was too smart . It looks like Tank likes guns :) .

Hehe, yup. My Dad is a Marine, so for Christmas we put camo paint on Tank (F.Y.I. he's nicknamed "T-Bone", so if I ever refer to someone as 'Bone you'll know who I'm talking about :P ), took a pic of him and gave it to my dad. He was very amused :D :D

they might have shared the same meal that might have been poisonous.....i'm glad they are all right now.

                                                                  MandalorianSpy9

The face Tank has on looks just like Kalie's whenever I did something like that to her :) .

What kind of dog was she?

She was a mutt, but we could tell she was partly a Golden Retriever.

I had a dog named Mac.  I strongly dislike dogs, though.  I hate how they bark constantly, you have to walk them, and train them, and they chew your stuff and all that.  Cats are way cooler.  They don't constantly need attention like dogs, have retractable claws, and are stealthy.  My cat has six confirmed kills so far.

Well, my dogs only bark at night if I don't put them up, and since we live in the boonies, they get free reign of the place. Personally, I LOVE training my dogs!! Mac is very adept at dog agility (don't even ask about Tanky!!), and knows a rather large assortment of tricks. Alas, Mac has killed some stuff... He's killed 2 moles, 3 shrews,  1 rabbit, a few snakes and has captured a opossum. But he didn't kill them maliciously... We found most of the deceased smothered on his bed--I think he was just trying to be overly friendly and suffocated them with his niceness. :rolleyes:

My first rabbit used to beat up my dog. She is insane. I think she is bi-polar, and has anger issues. She takes her anger out on me and the towl.

I'm with you Yautja, I've never really been a dog person. Mainly because they smell bad and I hate the ones that sniff your crotch or butt and won't leave you alone.

Our cat Bella is a crack up, we only let her outside on a harness since we live in suburbia. She has an arch enemy which is this tortoiseshell. It was out in the backyard and Bella nearly yanked my arm off she was that determined to attack it. She's a territorial kitty, she even tried to go a dog through the front screen door - scared the crap out of the dog :P

You must haqve some unique dogs then, 'cause every one I've ever met would not shut up. 
Cats do not intentionally maliciously kill their prey, but it sure looks like it when you watch them play around with the intended victim before killing it.  (Another reason why they're awsome)

Well, yes, my dogs are unique... Mac literally sleeps 20 hours a day (Yautja, I think you and Mel would like him--we call him 'the cat' because he seriously acts like one!) and Tanky always follows his lead. So on most days we have two beautiful lawn ornaments. :P :P

My cat is a born killer; during the summer I use him to catch mice in the hen coop.  But somehow he is still best friends with my rabbit (even though he's killed wild baby rabbits.)  He likes to cuddle her and she likes to chase him and sniff him.  It's very strange.

My cat is part wild cat, she is getting on, but she is very vicous, apart from to her daddy who she loves to bits, ME