The Swamp

My wife and I owned two dogs that we had owned before we met and brought into the marriage. Her dog was a pit bull/labrador cross named Zack, and he hated me. When our daughter was born, I said to the wife,"If he so much as nips at the baby, he's gone."

We brought our daughter home in a car seat, and both dogs sniffed and licked her, tails wagging. I had to pull Zack away from her because he wouldn't stop licking her. Zack immediately became my daughter's protector, and when she was lying on a blanket on the floor, he always had to have one foot on the blanket.

Zack loved my daughter immensely, and when she became a little older always walked her to bed, and then slept on the bed with her. He somehow knew whenever it was time to go upstairs, and he would wait at the foot of the stairs for her, and then follow her up to bed.

Zack was poisoned by some dirtbag neighbor kids, and we had one of the worst days of our lives. Watching my daughter say goodbye to him as he laid still on the kitchen floor, my wife and I were both sobbing.

At 8:00 that night, my daughter walked to the stairs to go to bed. At that moment, all three of us realized what was about to happen. After 5 years, she didn't have Zack to accompany her upstairs. She looked at her mother and me with a look of horror and panic.

It was at that moment that my dog, who loved my daughter dearly, but was not in Zack's league, stood up, walked over to her, and nudged her with his head. He put his foot on the stairs, and looked up at her. They walked up to bed, with my daughter holding tightly to his neck.

For the next 6 years, until he died, Sam waited for her by the stairs each night.

Rush2112 wrote:Damn it I really need to dust this joint.

Rush2112 wrote:Damn it I really need to dust this joint.

Keg wrote:I dropped off Deebo at the vet today so that they can take his semen sample and artificially inseminate my neighbor's bulldog (Pebbles). Should have puppies in about nine weeks.

rass wrote:Good boy.

rass wrote:Good boy.

rass wrote:Puppy been OK, Bronto?


Our dog has been vomiting up bile the last couple of weeks. He has otherwise been behaving normally, eating normally (for him), and pooping normally, so we went the Googles route instead of taking him right to the vet. This right here describes the situation exactly. He's older (will be 10 this year), and is a shitty eater, especially in the morning. A lot of times he'll eat next to nothing in the morning and end up eating his breakfast and a portion of his dinner at night. The vomiting has always been in the morning, and it has always been the bile-looking stuff, no food. I started dosing his food with either a little bit of parmigiana cheese, or chicken (or turkey) soup to make it more enticing. The instances he has eaten more regular portions in both the AM and PM, he has been good the next day.

He ate very well yesterday, had no issues, and then this morning I got him to eat about half of his breakfast. My wife stopped in at home after dropping the kids off at school, and found a giant pile of vomit, this time including food (she thought it looked like more than one day's worth of food). In addition to the food, there was a dark brown chunk of what she said looked like poop, though it didn't smell like poop (yeah, the things people do for their pets). He is acting normal, and took a dump on our walk this morning, but this time we made a vet appointment for this evening. The internet seems to feel that chunk of matter indicates that he managed to work something up from his intestines, which sounds just horrible.

rass wrote:Thanks guys. I was planning on going with a wet food, but he responded well to what we had on hand and I never bothered.

Hope your guy feels better, brian.

rass wrote:Puppy been OK, Bronto?


Our dog has been vomiting up bile the last couple of weeks. He has otherwise been behaving normally, eating normally (for him), and pooping normally, so we went the Googles route instead of taking him right to the vet. This right here describes the situation exactly. He's older (will be 10 this year), and is a shitty eater, especially in the morning. A lot of times he'll eat next to nothing in the morning and end up eating his breakfast and a portion of his dinner at night. The vomiting has always been in the morning, and it has always been the bile-looking stuff, no food. I started dosing his food with either a little bit of parmigiana cheese, or chicken (or turkey) soup to make it more enticing. The instances he has eaten more regular portions in both the AM and PM, he has been good the next day.

He ate very well yesterday, had no issues, and then this morning I got him to eat about half of his breakfast. My wife stopped in at home after dropping the kids off at school, and found a giant pile of vomit, this time including food (she thought it looked like more than one day's worth of food). In addition to the food, there was a dark brown chunk of what she said looked like poop, though it didn't smell like poop (yeah, the things people do for their pets). He is acting normal, and took a dump on our walk this morning, but this time we made a vet appointment for this evening. The internet seems to feel that chunk of matter indicates that he managed to work something up from his intestines, which sounds just horrible.

Keg wrote:Did you try to induce vomiting when you realized she ate the pills?

rass wrote:My mutt came down with an apparently uncomfortable case of he shits last night.
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rass wrote:And the results came back showing no cancer. He just has prostatitis of some sort, so the infection and the enlarged prostate are all related. Other than a momentary twinge of buyer's remorse over how much they charged us for what turned out to be unnecessary tests, I'm very happy.

Jerloma wrote:That dog on the left just sold for a record 1.9 million.