[1BLACKHARLEY]

i've never been afraid of dogs, even last week when a pit bull tried to attack me and my shepard, i put the shepard behind me and bluffed the pit back in the yard, then went home a shook for about 10 minutes. anyway, kids and dogs are just drawn to me, my wife gets a big kick out of it. a few years back we were at her employers home, i got tired of the drunken conversations, and was in another room playing with thier son, just giggling and doing the crazy wrestling stuff he likes from t.v. i noticed his mom crying at the door, i assured her her son wasn't in harms way, she tells me he's autistic and had never seen him laugh and run around like that.....

soooo, yesterday, i'm driving the olds around the neighborhood after finding and repairing a vaccum leak. i spy a black dog just sitting in a very hot area, with no water, just panting away, so i pull over and go to see she's o.k. she runs around the front of the car, i go to the front, she heads to the far side, i follow, she jumps in the passenger seat......

o.k. i go to get in the car, and she's having no part of it. i must have looked like a fool, all 200+ pounds, in the middle of the street, "come on baby, it'll be o.k. be a good girl, it's o.k. sweetie, just let me slide in here"..... ten minutes later i finally get her calm enough to get in the car, i slide it in neutral to coast down the hill without startling the dog who is inches from my ear, just salavating and growling, i get her home, and she won't leave the car. i go in a tell the wife i have my hands full, she comes out and the dog takes a liking to her, and we get her watered up, we finally make friends....

she has had her ass kicked by both my cats, and my shepard, is wild as all get out, and just basically out of control. i hope who ever this dog belongs to, comes and gets her soon. i put flyers on every mail box i could find.... i think my shepard is ready to disown me.

 

[Chevelle 6-71]

Lmao :hurray:

 

[Rod]

You get my vote for having the most interesting life, something is always happening to you man.

 

[mike67sd]

Thats a classic. Sounds like the dog adopted YOU.

 

[1BLACKHARLEY]

You get my vote for having the most interesting life, something is always happening to you man.

i've had a great life, any morning you wake up, is a good day.....

 

[LeoP]

Bill, thanks for rescueing that dog, call the animal shelter or the SPCA to come get it and tell them the area you rescued it in so they can help find the owner.

 

[kmchugh]

i've had a great life, any morning you wake up, is a good day.....

Right on Bill. Every now moment is a present from God.

 

[Xtreme70SS396]

Heh, heh, heh.... You and I are like two peas in a pod in this respect...

Neighbor once brought over an injured squirrel. Me with a beagle, now a badly hurt squirrel in the house. I figured it wouldn't last the night - wouldn't you know it, dang thing healed up nicely over the next 2 weeks.

So, after about a month I let it go again. After that, when it wanted to play with my beagle, it would hang spread-eagle on the screen door to the patio until I let the dog out. Funniest thing you'd ever want to see.

 

[OutCast]

Bill,

I'll bet you're a hoot around a campfire. I always enjoy reading your posts. Kind of like real-life stand-up.

John

 

[Jimmy P]

Never a dull moment in your life!

You sound like my wife. She will rescue any animal, bird or insect. Our house is the animal rescue center for our neighborhood, and we don't even have a sign. Proof that animals do talk to each other.

A few weeks ago she saw a stray in the middle of the road while driving her pick-up. It was a large wolf-like mutt with long hair. She coaxed the dog into the bed and drove off trying to find the owner. Dog jumps out of the truck runs into a huge mud puddle and wollers around in it.
Now since she's already fully invested in the task of finding this dog's home, she coaxes him into the cab.........

After about ten minutes of driving around, interviewing a few neighbors, she finally finds the house to which he belongs. Now, her truck's cab is totally trashed! Mud and stinky dog smell has the CLOTH seats a mess! I mean this dog had an odor to it. Must have rolled in some dead animal remains somewhere.

She comes home and asks me to help her clean up up her truck after telling me the story. Her arms are broken out in some kind of rash and her clothes are muddied up like she's been mud wrastlin or something.
I listen to her story and being compassionant, I skip the part of the telling her of the idea of tying the dog to Gooseneck safety rings in the bed of the truck with the tie downs that are laying there...... I help her clean up the interior after a good two hours and get it clean, but still smells.
Let it dry out in the sun for a few hours and air out with the shop fan blowin thu the cab.
A few hours later we have to check on the horses and travel back down the same road she was on before. Her arms are covered with some kind of benedryl ointment for the burning and itching. Guess who's back in the road?

I just gave her a look, and somehow, she found the strength to be quiet and watch the dog as we drove by........

I don't what the moral of my story is.

 

[1BLACKHARLEY]

Bill, thanks for rescueing that dog, call the animal shelter or the SPCA to come get it and tell them the area you rescued it in so they can help find the owner.

around here they only keep them a day, then ship them three cities over. doesn't make much sense. this usually happens to us about two to three times a year. not the car part, but us getting a stray. i've had crows land on my mower while i was working on it, dogs just wonder up, animals of all sorts just kinda show up. so i call the appropiate rescue people, or put up flyers, haven't lost one yet. all my personal pets over the years have been rescues. they make the best pets. they just seem to know they've dodged a bullet, and enjoy having a home instead of wondering....

 

[va72mlibu]

You may want to bring it to a vet to get "wanded" for a microchip. My dog has one and they won't charge anything for it.

 

[kevin d]

I can't turn away injured or mistreated animals. I currently own 2 cats and a kitten. The kitten is named Lucky. She was a feral offspring from one of 3 that I brought back from starvation. She fell into a deep piece of buried pvc pipe and I couldn't reach her. I lowered a towel into the pipe and she climbed out. Two weeks later she was caught in a trap and on her way to get put down. I took her home only to find out she was sick but treatable. She has been there 4 months and now owns the house. Last month a stray just showed up at the house and now lives in the yard. My daughter feeds it and he keeps down the rodents in the area.

 

[SweetShot]

Thoses are the best stories ever and jsut darn near make a girl cry and laugh at the same time!! Only you Black Harley!!!!
Thanks to all of you who rescue animals. You do a great thing.:hurray:
In lieu of flowers for Daddys service, we are having donations made to Happy Tails Animal Sanctuary here in Columbia, i sure hope it helps them.
Ya'll are great!:beers:
rachael anne

 

[2cool]

Bill, thanks for rescueing that dog, call the animal shelter or the SPCA to come get it and tell them the area you rescued it in so they can help find the owner.

I cringe every time someone mentions the SPCA, I don't know about other areas but around the south they only keep em for 30 days then they euthanize them "for there own good" for example the other day they arrested an 80 year old lady for having 50 cats and they put them all to sleep.

So I ask you what good are they when they kill off all the animals they capture?

 

[Chris R]

Dude, do you ever have a moments peace? Seems you have a new adventure every day of your life.

 

[travis g]

I'm a huge softy when it comes to animals. I've got too many dogs and WAY too many cats...nearly all of them dumps that we have doctored up, fed, and cared for over the years. We try and find them good homes, but I've found if we don't find them homes fairly quickly then we get attached, and then they just become another member of the family. Its pretty funny whenever I am working outside at home, I usually have a 1/2 dozen cats and a couple of dogs following me all over the property
Some of the things people do to their pets is just, to me, beyond comprehension. I had someone drive by our house one day and THROW a feed sack with three kittens in it out their window at over 50mph! If I could have caught them I would have pulled off one of their appendages and beaten them to death with it
I spent 5 hours at work one night rescuing a kitten that was stuck in a co-workers Saturn. I could have choked the life out of her...she knew the cat was stuck somewhere under the hood of her car, and did absolutely nothing about it. But, she did drive around kansas city for 2 days knowing it was in there, in July!!! Fortunately my boss was so horrified by it that she let me go out, on company time, and see what I could do. I had the whole front end of her car dissassembled in the company parking lot, in the middle of the night (I was working the graveyard shift). The kitten was weak, very dehydrated, very hungry, and covered in some kind of nasty exhaust funk (the woman was a tailgater). The kitten had gotten its head thru a small hole in the back of the bumper and gotten stuck...after taking apart everything I then had to cut a section out of this sheetmetal bumper to get the cats head out. We gave it a bath, stole some food out of one of the refridgerators at work, gave it water, and my boss decided she wanted to keep it. The cat has grown up healthy and is doing great. 1 more day in that car and it would have died.

Maybe I am weird, but I've got a lot higher opinion of most animals than I do of most people.

 

[32767chvl]

Outstanding Bill! Really someone who gives back more than he gets.

Maybe I am weird, but I've got a lot higher opinion of most animals than I do of most people.

Abso-friggin-lutely.
I sincerely hope the culture is changing in this country as more studies are showing that people are much more attentive to their pets needs. By virtue of that fact, I would love to push for stronger legislation around animal cruelty. It has been psychologically studied that those who are cruel or torture animals have a deep preponderance for later doing the same to humans. Jeffrey Dahmer was a shining example.