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Ah. Christmas. That peaceful most loving time of the year when everybody loves each other and gets along.Riiight.
Not at my house. At my house, we have animal feuds. Not unlike the Hatfields and McCoys. To the left you will note a tiny white puppy. That was Lola 18 years ago.
I rescued Lola. (had to pay $150 to do it) the breeder was going to have her put down because she had a hunched back. She grew up a hunched, toothless, poop eater who smacks her gums when she eats. She also snores like a truck driver. Lola got this mouse when she was 3 years old and became obsessed with it. Took it everywhere, guarded it, cleaned it...yadda yadda. She and the mouse were inseperable until...I brought home Lucy 16 years later.Lucy ....... well......she ate the mouse. Now Creepy Lola hates her, passionately.
This is Webster. A foul mouthed, nasty little bird who enjoys calling the dogs over to his cage by name when he has anything tasty to entice them with. He calls out, "here! Here! c'mere Gorg. it's goood." Each dog being food driven falls for it, always. They stick their nose into his cage for the offered treat, he bites them, then laughs hysterically as they run away yipping in pain.Webster clearly is King of the animal kingdom here ..... until yesterday.
Lucy, possibly the biggest, dumbest, lunk on the planet earth foiled him. He was eating a slider, a.k.a. white castle burger (his favorite) when Lucy lumbered by, tail wagging. Lucy has a big, tail and somehow her tail whipped into Webby's cage and knocked him and his burger off the perch. Webster looked down as the burger fell throught the cracks then began to yell like a crazy person. "BAD DOG! BAD! GET OVER HERE! C'MERE."
Lucy, blissfully ignorant, continued wagging and tried to play with him as he repeatedly lunged, nearly knocking himself out on the cage bars.
I fear he's coming for her. And payback will surely be a bitch.
The expression you see on her face here, pretty much mirrors her thought process. Basically, she has no idea the pain she is in for. I promise you, that bird will nail her. He holds a grudge. And he's out for blood.
The last dog I had went to her grave with a big chunk missing from her nose. Smilin George has a hole on the tip of his ear, and Lola was practically snatched bald-headed one winter when she tried to scatch an itch on her humped up back along the bars of his cage. The bird is EVIL!
Say it with me folks, Poor, dumb, Lucy.
Iris, Dubbin is a very good dog. But um....gosh, I don't think I should be the one to tell you. No, I can't do it. Just remember it's his heart that counts, not his sexual orientation.
Barman up until last week I had one of those cone things left over from Lucy's surgery. But then I became a cleaning tornado. sigh.
Dan, I'll be by lots. I enjoyed your blog.
PS. Mostly what I do for them is clean up dog gak and chase them down to get back my socks. LOL!
Rob, the tiger idea has merit but I wondering...where do you find a pooper scooper that big?
Did someone say..Pooper Scooper?
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At 12/10/2006 12:46 AM, 
barman
Crabs, I hope you had a fun time last night. I went to the Office Christmas Party on Saturday. It started at 6:00 and most of the people were gone by 10:30. It was nice but nothing super exciting or embarasing. Nothing to talk about around the water cooler. We sure could have used you there. We did end up trying to teach a couple of people to play eucher. That was nice. We also played a game I have never played before called LCR. I can see me ordering one of those, it was a lot of fun and easy to play.
At 12/10/2006 11:07 AM, Crabby
Seequin, are you sure you don't want one? Webby says he wants to live with you. LOL!
Barman, I am always up for waking up a party, but I gotta tell ya, I LOVE euchre. Love it! Course all my partners get ticked at me. No idea why.
g-man, Seequin will sooo get you into trouble. Just stick with me. I'm the only one you can really trust. SHUT UP YOU GUYS! Don't listen to them. There have just been a couple of minor incidents. That's all.
Milky...you know what? The dog room isn't where it was anymore. I made a play area in the basement. But I'll send a pic of that and I'll send a pic of how much better the dog room looks as a sitting room next to the courtyard.
I'll try and get them pics and sent by tomorrow morn. We're takin the MIL out to lunch today then it's off to the market for edibles.
PS. Waking in my house with a hangover is like...well, remember that movie where the guy was tortured by this mad scientist who pulled his teeth without novacaine? It's like that. Bird yellin, HERE HERE HERE, dog's whimpering to go out and to have their breakfast, Bob all cheerful sayin stuff about burnin daylight. UGH!
Once I made coffee without the coffee filter. Once without the pot. And once without the coffee.
Check your shoes before you leave.
Crabbie I got two dogs and two cats, so I know that they become members of your family. Yours are sweet! But I've never had a pet chicken.. Do they fetch?