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hubby's boss put off all the way until about an hour ago, not giving us an answer.  well, i just got a call saying hubby is on his way to pick up the kids to bring to work with him so i can go to the meet and greet  it's 12:30, and it'd take me about an hour or so to get there, if not longer.  i'm super bummed 

here's a link to a website about dog cancer, thought it might help someone, or give someone some "just so you know" information.

www.dogcancer.net

diesel and peanut have started playing tug of war now.  it started out as "keep away" with diesel keeping stuffies away from peanut AND the kids, but now they also play tug of war  pics are right before the war started, and then there are video's.  sorry about the mess, it's nasty outside today so toys are EVERYwhere 

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2021705082

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2021705370

the first one you can see diesel fling peanut a little, and the second is a lot better ha ha.

i saw an ad on craigslist for a vietnamese "miniature" pot bellied pig.  it said that it is 25lbs, but i thought they got HUGE...?  anyone ever had a V.M.P.B. pig, or know anything about them?

i tried to get onto tinytracks, and the website isn't there anymore??  it says

Notice: This domain name expired on 04/03/07 and is pending renewal or deletion

    Never bring plants into the house.

Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirt alis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.


Here's why.

A couple in Sweetwater , Texas , had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.


It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.


She let out a very loud scream.

The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.


He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.


His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.

About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.


That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.

The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man.

He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.


But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.


The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.


The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.


By now the police had arrived.

They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.


The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.

The little snake again crawled out from under the sofa.

One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it.

He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes.


The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.


Meanwhile, the burning drapes, were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department.

The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when they were halfway down the street.

The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).


Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world.


A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.


That's when he shot her.

why won't this weekend just go ahead and start already?!

saw this online and it brought tears to my eyes, so i thought i'd share it and the sadness   

Dear Owner of This Lost Dog,


Your dog was found yesterday. He'll be receiving a bath today, as he smells incredibly bad. His coat is dull, he's a bit on the thin side, he's got a cough, and he flinches quite a bit when hands are raised around him.

But he rode incredibly well in the truck! After we found him, we took him to the vet....he tested positive for heartworms. He's still intact, which could explain why he was found running loose. (We're getting ready to "fix" that little problem though), and he's got kennel cough. He probably picked that up at the dog pound.

Yes, that is where we found your beloved pet. He had a collar on, but no tags. (A collar isn't much good when a rabies tag and I.D tags aren't on it.)
It wouldn't have been hard to find him either...had you just looked.

I don't know whether to thank you, or send you a bill. ($200.00 spent on him yesterday, and we still have about $500.00 more to go. It isn't an easy amount to swallow on a dog you've had for a few hours! BUT, you didn't force us to adopt the dog you neglected either).

I guess I should thank you for such a sweet dog, that we never would have found had you not been so careless with him.

He will endure a treatment that will require him to stay calm and quiet for a number of weeks-unless we can find an alternative, (and try to get a dog with this energy to stay calm and quiet for that long). There are also risks involved as well. I don't know that you really care though.

Of course, the financial aspect of it all, will be a bit rough, as it would be for anyone. But you know what? Had your dog been well maintained, this wouldn't be necessary. But, I would also venture to guess that he wouldn't be in the pound either had you properly maintained him.

So, I just thought I'd let you know that he is o.k. now. He's no longer on a cold concrete floor shivering in the night from fear and/or chills. His coughing will be getting better too with the medicine he's taking. He'll no longer be waiting for you to find him...he's home now.

He's no longer at risk of being put to death, just because his owner wasn't responsible enough. Although, the many other dogs that we saw yesterday, are probably wishing for the same outcome, but sadly, that will never happen for them.

Anyway, sorry this was so long. Just wanted to let you know your dog was found.

Sincerely,
A dog lover