The Swamp

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:38 pm So around a month ago we got our second Maine Coon. This guy is blue smoke and we named him Dewey (not a reference to the Delaware beach). Him and his older brother Dinky took only about two days to get used to each other, and now they parkour around to her house.

I posted on the Gram just now a video from last week.

The mutt my parents adopted a few years back was named Duke, and he quickly became known as Dewey. Sweet dude. Maine coons are great cats. How nuts are yours about water? Ours would not leave us alone when we turned the sink on. RIP Shorty.

It doesn't get much better than a pet from the Humane Society.

If you've never been serenaded by a snoring pug, you're really missing out.

Giff wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 11:14 am If you've never been serenaded by a snoring pug, you're really missing out.

Our last rescue pug slept perpendicular between our heads on a pillow...when he passed the youngest one took that spot over. 9 years of that but it was like living next to train tracks...eventually you don't hear it anymore. At least neither one of them was gassy.

good girl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 3af017007b

Sorry, Dave. Beautiful pup.

I’m sorry man

Sad for you. That one hits home, because my old girl is 15 years old also, and about the same size.

Sorry Dave.

Aw man, I’m sorry.

So sorry, Dave.

Sorry, Dave.

Sorry, Dave.

Damn it. I'm sorry man.

I’m so sorry, Dave. It’s so brutal.

Sorry to bum out the thread, guys. Thanks for the condolences. She was on a long, slow decline for the past several years. But she just kept going. This past week, it was obvious that she'd had enough. And her degenerative myelopathy progressed such that she could no longer stand at all. Unfortunately, the wife and kids were out of town, so I hoped she'd make it until they got back. She did. But it was still clear it was time.

Like I said, she had a really good run for a lab. And especially a dog that went through two long chemo treatments plus a third cancer scare where we removed a tumor from behind her eye. None of those got her in the end.

Oh poor sweet Lucy.

I hope she's in a place where the squirrels are slow and the treats are plentiful.

on a much much lighter note (although I'm not fully there yet; gimme 'til this afternoon maybe)...:

i woke at 3am to a series of frantic one-off yip barks from our golden that made me know this wasn't a standard obnoxious call to the dog over the back fence. Distress signal. I struggled out of bed and hobbled downstairs where she had wide eyes for me. I let her out - we have a small fenced-in backyard and she *sprinted* out there. Feeling like i was in a fever dream as I watched what can only described as a Benny Hill dance on speed at 78rpm for a good 3-4 minutes, stopping every 10 seconds or so for a second at a time then resuming. Finally found "the spot" and drained herself. After she was "done" she hippety-hopped around again for 30 seconds, produced an encore then came back.

I just crashed on the couch figuring it wasn't over and was right - 30 minutes later i felt heavy *heavy* breathing in my face and let her out again. Dead-silent at 3:30am of course and she went to the furthest part of the yard and ... well, i didn't know the dog could blow ass that loudly. I of course started sleep-giggling like the 12yr old that I am.

Cleanup out there is gonna be fun this morning.

I am extraordinarily tired.

When we first brought our rescue home, she was a nervous wreck with a bad stomach. A number of times she ran out into the yard, squatted and let out what sounded like a champagne cork popping before spraying the lawn.

We’ve been dealing with our old dog’s bad stomach and ploppy poop off and on for quite awhile now. We take her off dog food and onto chicken and rice and things get better. Then we wean her back onto dog food and things are good for awhile but eventually it gets bad again. We’ve tried several different kinds of sensitive-stomach dog foods, but eventually we always go back to square one. It’s exhausting.

And, to compound matters, she’s got a cyst on her back, right above where tail starts. Sh always licks and bites it if she can which prevents it from healing (and probably affects her stomach), so she’s been wearing the cone of shame, too.

On the flipside, you can have a morning get a little worse when a labrador retriever decides to shit near the door. He does get credit for going hardwood over carpet.

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:03 am “You can’t have a bad day when there’s 500 golden retrievers around you,”

How many people started to walk off with the wrong dog? And most goldens will happily walk off with anyone. The dogs must have flipped out having 500 canine friends and countless new humans to meet.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:27 am

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:03 am “You can’t have a bad day when there’s 500 golden retrievers around you,”

How many people started to walk off with the wrong dog? And most goldens will happily walk off with anyone. The dogs must have flipped out having 500 canine friends and countless new humans to meet.

One well thrown tennis ball would have caused absolute mayhem.

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:50 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:27 am

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:03 am “You can’t have a bad day when there’s 500 golden retrievers around you,”

How many people started to walk off with the wrong dog? And most goldens will happily walk off with anyone. The dogs must have flipped out having 500 canine friends and countless new humans to meet.

One well thrown tennis ball would have caused absolute mayhem.

That is hilarious.

Hug your pets, Friends. Lost our older gecko this morning. He waited for me to come down and turn his warming lights on. And then gave up. I got to tell him goodbye, and I think he kinda told me, too. So I have that.

But the lights are off now.

Aw man, sorry friend.

sorry man

Sorry, Aaron.

Sorry, bud.

Aw man, sorry to hear that.

Sorry, AB.

Sorry to hear, AB.

Appreciate it fellas.

Worst part is my son is on vacation with a friend and he will be as upset as I am. haven't told him yet, waiting for a good moment when they aren't busy doing things.

That just sucks.

Sorry.

Sorry to hear that AB…it’s always tough.

What was his name?

GoodKarma wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 11:28 am Sorry to hear that AB…it’s always tough.

What was his name?

Sam. He was going to be 6 this fall I think. These geckos can live over 10 years, but he's been struggling for a few months. We've been to the vet for random stuff and this weekend he just started acting erratic and hadn't eaten in a few days. From the googles what he ended up most likely having is not uncommon in leos.

My condolences, AB. Sorry to hear.

(But, I doubt his astrological sign was a factor.)

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 3:05 pm My condolences, AB. Sorry to hear.

(But, I doubt his astrological sign was a factor.)

It was his confirmation name.