If you could tell your pet one thing…

Yes! We knew when a storm was getting close by how wound up he was getting. Nothing helped, from thunder shirt to pet-eaze chews to meds from the vet. There were times I was worried that he’d have a heart attack. For a dog that could sleep through most anything else and was always laid back, thunder and fireworks were his weaknesses.
I had a Chesapeake like that....she would slam her head into walls.
Truly heartbreaking....then we tried Xanax/Alprazolam......the difference was stunning and she wasn't doped up and boozey, she just suddenly didn't give a shit about the fireworks.
 
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I miss you buddy. I wish we had another sixteen years to go.

RIP Lucky 11/30/21
 
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No he's lazy and makes his brother do most the work if he can get away with it....he is my low gear tho...good at getting the sled started and will dig in hard going uphill but once the speed is up he would prefer to ride in the sled

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We had one dog in the team who would pull just enough to keep the traces behind him tight. Never got tired though. Another one wasn’t even smart enough to look like he was working.
 
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I would tell him that everything is all good now. You have a good home full of love.
I have three rescues. This is Red Dog, my latest. Someone dumped him, and my son brought him home a year and a half ago. We weren’t going to keep him, so we just called him red dog. Then he started answering to it, so the name Red Dog stuck.

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I had a Chesapeake like that....she would slam her head into walls.
Truly heartbreaking....then we tried Xanax/Alprazolam......the difference was stunning and she wasn't doped up and boozey, she just suddenly didn't give a shit about the fireworks.
We tried Xanax and 2 others, I forget the names. First two had zero affect. The third one knocked him out and he was groggy the next day. That’s when we decided no more drugs for him. The pet eaze and doing what we could to distract and calm him. He was the first dog I had personally seen go through this. Really stressful until you accept that you can’t do anything about it. And us being calm helped more than the meds.
 
I miss you bud, and I'm glad you couldn't talk :cool:
Technically, he wasn't a pet. Matter of fact I don't think he even liked me, or anyone else, very much. He was, however, the only four legged asshole of mine who payed his own way. I never sat down and did the hard math, be we won enough together to cover his boarding and vet bills,
entry fees, and a little diesel fuel. He was a blast to rope on, but not worth a fuck for anything else.
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I wish you would be this nice all the time instead of the vicious killer you act like half the time. (WarPaint comes by her name naturally, catch her at the wrong moment and blood, plenty of blood hits the floor. But she does keep vermin down and the neighbors love her because she takes care of the squirrels that are eating away the cedar siding on their homes)

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I'd tell my lab sorry for letting you ride in the cab of the truck in below freezing weather that one time. We pull up next to the watering hole getting ready to set up a duck hunt. My lab was hyper when he was young so Id play fetch to take the edge off of him. Field wasnt cut and was 3 or 4 feet grass with a solid layer of frost. Turn my hunting partner loose for the ceremonious fetch. He goes about 30 feet and I hear him whining and not moving. Figured cut pad so I carried him back to the truck. He is still whining, nothing I can see wrong and my hunting buddy says come to the other side of truck. Here I am on the back side of dog and my buddy says look at his nuts. Only thing I can guess was the dogs warm nuts, cold weather and frosted grass = ball sac frozen to each leg.
 
I will say this of and too my marmalade kitty... "Most times I see you I think you are a fat, but loveable, fucking lump with no other purpose than to hold down a sofa cushion but... Whenever I shoot a squirrel and, after spoting it, see you turn breifly into the predator you were born to be you make me proud! Now go get your own damnit! I need the help!" Seriously... I have winged them and in a few hours he has tracked them down and brought them to the house. Jasper is turning into one hell of a squirrel cat!
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I will say this of and too my marmalade kitty... "Most times I see you I think you are a fat, but loveable, fucking lump with no other purpose than to hold down a sofa cushion but... Whenever I shoot a squirrel and, after spoting it, see you turn breifly into the predator you were born to be you make me proud! Now go get your own damnit! I need the help!" Seriously... I have winged them and in a few hours he has tracked them down and brough them to the house. Jasper is turning into one hell of a squirrel cat!
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Freakin red cats, man. I had one that loved to go small game hunting with me. You didn’t have to feed him(we did). The barn swallows used to swoop him. You never saw a cat lay so flat to the ground. Suddenly like a coiled spring he would take to the air, snatching one in mid flight. They never did learn……

One time he snuck into the neighbor’s house and ate their caged parakeets. Fortunately we were good friends and they didn’t really care much for those noisy little peckers……🤠
 
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I think you may have.
P.S. I stay in my lane with house decorating. My wife gets to win that one. Then I get to win a few on the guy stuff side of things.
No value judgement involved on my part. I mean what i said absolutely literally. I looked at that picture and immediately had severe tinnitus and a gray pallor fell over my vision.

Thats a pre-seizure behavior that thankfully doesn't ever become a full seizure. Maybe in 10 years the docs say I'll have them but not for some time.

Also does it sometimes when I'm reading a book - switching the text to white on black helped a lot with that.
 
Sorry man, thought you were snickering at my foo foo, housewives of Wisconsin interior decor.
Hope that seizure shit clears up, rather than the other direction.
 
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I miss you bud, and I'm glad you couldn't talk :cool:
Technically, he wasn't a pet. Matter of fact I don't think he even liked me, or anyone else, very much. He was, however, the only four legged asshole of mine who payed his own way. I never sat down and did the hard math, be we won enough together to cover his boarding and vet bills,
entry fees, and a little diesel fuel. He was a blast to rope on, but not worth a fuck for anything else.
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I sometimes wonder how some of those horses would do if slapped with a cross country saddle and pointed to some big ass jumps/ditches/etc.
 
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If you would just lay/cuddle up next to me I would pet you far more often like you are constantly demanding I do but instead you turn your ass to me or head to the other side of the couch because you want me to be in the perfect position for you and dammit I'm watching a movie!
 
I sometimes wonder how some of those horses would do if slapped with a cross country saddle and pointed to some big ass jumps/ditches/etc.
Most of the good ones DGAF. All of mine must have been union, as in "I catch cows, that's it. I ain't jumpin' over nuthin, no creeks or ditches,
and just feed me and let me nap until it's time to work" :LOL: