Dispatch has buffaloed every dog around here although some are Great Pyrenees as I said before. He also basically ignored a bad tempered Lab, like walked past him like he wasn’t even there. In other words the bichon is 10 ft tall and bulletproof and he doesn’t even need to drink [...]]]>

Fierce Warrior

Dispatch has buffaloed every dog around here although some are Great Pyrenees as I said before. He also basically ignored a bad tempered Lab, like walked past him like he wasn’t even there. In other words the bichon is 10 ft tall and bulletproof and he doesn’t even need to drink (or have gonads evidently) to be that way. We were talking about his technique of running toward the big dogs and if they don’t run he jumps @ them. (someone said he must be part Doberman because he’s so fearless, it was a joke) Evidently this is extreme craziness in the dog world too considering he is a 17 lb. puffball so the big dogs say I’m having NO part of this and RUN. This is all well and good (although I TRY to make him be nice he “patrols” the area and goes after any invaders) till a dog comes along he can’t buffalo and if I don’t catch him or he doesn’t develop an IQ that’s all she wrote for Dispatch.

This dog is owned by the people who own the rv park. They have other great pyrenees who are heavier. This dog is never fat (and she is probably part shepherd), they said they’ve taken her to the vet and there is nothing wrong. She eats and eats though and we all feed her. Friday night we had pork chops and left over mashed potatoes and chicken n noodles, real diet food. I didn’t want any leftovers so I was feeding the chicken n noodles to this dog. I bet you see where this is going. She was eating UNDER our outdoor table, it’s not like we hadn’t told Dispatch to leave her alone, we were all sitting around, so he sneaks over there and decides she has been there long enough and launches his little self @ her. He bit her first, and she did bite him, no one was injured but he had to back down. I am SO glad it happened because maybe now he will @ least think twice before trying to go after anything 5 times his size? He’d already chased off the boy dog (not far, he sort of sauntered away) who probably weighs well over 100 lb. Dispatch was a different little dog after she got after him, I put him inside till she left and then he was happy just to sit in mamas lap. I know I’ve broken all sorts of dog rules, I should be able to get him to stop and I can if I scream loud enough and soon enough. I should keep him on a leash if he goes after other dogs. But the 4 lb Yorkie called Buddy down the road a bit? He goes after Dispatch and Dis thinks this is great, the funniest thing in the world, I don’t think he would bite Buddy if he was chocolate flavored.  Also Charlie the Yorkie Poo?  Dispatch and he have had some pretty serious words, Charlie just doesn’t give up and neither does Dispatch.  It’s just the big dogs he’s mean to.  See I told you,  no IQ!

Doesn’t she look like a killer?

Hilarious Cat Pictures thanks to carolz_place and Rhotoalbum. Some old some I don’t think I’d seen?

A story about a ten year old boys dog who was shot by police. Sort of like the professor in Chicago this incident [...]]]> Man versus dog danceoff thanks to makemnynow.  Not exactly an animal story but VERY cute anyway.

Hilarious Cat Pictures thanks to carolz_place and Rhotoalbum. Some old some I don’t think I’d seen?

A story about a ten year old boys dog who was shot by police. Sort of like the professor in Chicago this incident seems to be a case of everyone jumping when they should have thought instead of just reacting  including the dog. Also you should control your dog @ all times. I know I fail @ this though.

Here is another article on the dog flu.

This isn’t a pleasant subject but a quarter of a million people protested the eating of dog meat in South Korea. The first picture is enough to throw me off meat today.  I admit I didn’t read all of this article.

Police are investigating a rash of cat poisonings in Wakeman OH, I know some people don’t like cats but has there been an increase in cat abuse?

A woman in Daytona Beach FL was threatened by her caretaker, he threatened to behead her cat also. Sicko.  Sicko for threatening the cat and being mean to the woman.

In happier news a dog who crossed the border from Russia to Finland has been adopted by someone in Russia, Finnish law prohibited the dog from staying in Finland without a 6 month quarantine in Russia and the dog was only given a short window of time before being euthanized.

And I read in another blog about a story in the Des Moines Register that said people in Des Moines had been bitten 182 times in 2006 by dogs. FIVE breeds are responsible for ALL of those bites and Labs???? Labrador Retrievers, the slobber lemme hide dogs, are responsible for most of the bites with pit bulls second. The link to the blog is here. Personally I’ve been bitten by a Pekingese and an Airdale? In both cases I was stupid but the Airdale shouldn’t have done it, I had food in my hand and was NOT offering it to her. I think I’m most afraid of Dobermans, German Shepherds are listed in the vicious dogs, the one I had wouldn’t hurt a fly, the one my step-son has I think is mixed with Doberman and I don’t trust her completely. My grandparents had a dog that was probably technically a pit bull. His name was Spot, his biggest fault was he looked on me as an object for hunching (I was preschool age) and that was my sole purpose in life. Spot never bit anyone or really offered to to my knowledge and my grandparents had the normal amount of visitors for a rural atmosphere in the 1960s. Lots of people. NO Bites.

AND I found a book that looks to be very interesting Don’t Dump The Dog by Randy Gibb. Melinda Roth profiled Mr Gibb and is the co-author of From Baghdad, With Love which I have read and can recommend.  Don’t Dump the Dog looks to be a hilarious read about bad dog cases.

Happy wet Monday here, supposed to be 102 heat index here on the coast tomorrow, the dog and I will go for a walk now before it gets too hot or rains.

OOOOOhhhh one more link, click to play dog and cat trivia and give them free kibble.

This is Charlie, he is my daughters yorkiepoo or yorkie-poo.  She said Dispatch my Bichon Frise was spoiled (nevermind the free world says Dis is spoiled), lemme tell you Charlie is SPOILED.  OK, he doesn’t have a stroller yet like Dispatch does, but take my word for it Charlie is [...]]]>

Charlie in a cute moment

This is Charlie, he is my daughters yorkiepoo or yorkie-poo.  She said Dispatch my Bichon Frise was spoiled (nevermind the free world says Dis is spoiled), lemme tell you Charlie is SPOILED.  OK, he doesn’t have a stroller yet like Dispatch does, but take my word for it Charlie is spoiled. Of course we wouldn’t have it any other way and he is cute and loves grandmommie but…. I found out he might have actually cost money and started calling him Refund, my husband met Charlie a week or so ago and called him Rebate which is close enough.

In other dog news a Yorkshire Terrier caught a burglar in the act, he didn’t stop the burglar being as how he is a Yorkie but he slowed him down a bit and let the family know there was something entirely not right in the house.

In Houston a woman ate the pet goldfish she and her common law husband had purchased, the couple evidently were not getting along too well.  She fried the goldfish first and had eaten 3 by the time police got there.

I know I’m on a roll with this newspaper but…..in Southampton New York a man may face charges for letting cats go that were in traps set by an animal trapper to catch his neighbors raccoons.  It’s not hard to do to let a cat go from a live trap but if it’s a feral cat it can be rather exciting.  I wouldn’t know of course being a TOTALLY law abiding citizen.

I had my makeup on to go to town but it just came off, the water fountain is on again.  I’m CRYING people and you might be too after you read this story about Ella a Rottweiler who was in a car crash with her family.  Ella wasn’t noticed by the rescue workers @ the crash and she spent 13 days gathering her families items up and bedding down with them while scavenging for food, waiting and waiting for her family to come back.   That just breaks my heart that some dog is laying somewhere abandoned and wondering where its people went.

In a People Magazine news story about the Gosselin’s (you know who they are don’t pretend you don’t) they (Jon) took the family German Shepherds to their trainer for an indefinite stay.  Jon says it’s Kate’s fault and I just bet Kate says it’s Jon’s fault, surprise surprise?

Remember that horrible horrible picture of the cat someone had almost entirely covered with duct tape?  There is a happy ending, Sticky found a new family.  I was telling my husband about this the other night and I remember how horrified I was someone would do this to a cat, take the time to actually unroll the tape around the poor thing.  Then I remembered WHY I was so horrified.   A year or so ago my neighbors cat had an injured tail, the vet had shaved where he put adhesive tape but the tape had somehow gotten on the base of the cats fur covered tail.  We are talking that super sticky white tape on a kitten that did NOT like pain and fur was long.  So my neighbor called me because there was an ice storm (couldn’t get to the vet) and the cats tail looked like it needed the tape off and new dressing put on.  I did it but it wasn’t easy or pleasant and we used tape that was easier to get off the next time. They sedated Sticky to get the tape off but I imagine it was still a time consuming procedure and Sticky was probably minus some hair when they got through.

And I don’t want to get into the whole pit bull thing, I’ve seen some that were the nicest dogs and meek and mild but I still don’t want one.  But here a man in Saskatoon bit a pit bull on the nose when it was attacking his neighbors dog.  Not only did the dog quit the attack it became submissive to the man and licked his face.  For the record, bichons don’t buy this, Dispatch gets really mad and just plain PO ed if I bite him.  Not hard, he doesn’t like it if I growl either but I can do that alpha dog stare and win every time. Whoo Hoo I am alpha over a 17 lb fluffball, my life if complete.

And just for fun here is a link to the 10 smartest dogs. Supposedly it’s correct, it’s erroneous of course because the bichon is not on there and I dearly loved Mugsey but he was a golden retriever/lab mix and they are both on there. Poor Mugsey would run from a napkin being waved @ him because he thought we would throw it on him like a blanket, you’d just have to have been there to understand.  You throw a blanket (a lightweight unfolded blanket) on a dog to see how smart they are by how long it takes them to get out from under the blanket.  I admit Dispatch spent his life fighting his enemy fabric (think about it, he digs on carpet not in the dirt and pulls on towels) so he gets out of the blanket very fast, we have to hold it down to give him a handicap.  Mugsey used to sometimes give up when we would throw the blanket on him and just lay there because he was tired of trying and no we wouldn’t hold it down on him, life was a handicap to him.  He was afraid of the floor lamp moving too and my husband sneezing, the vacuum…..

The CDC ( Center for Disease Control) has a page for canine flu or dog flu. It’s the H3N8 and is more common than it used to be but is NOT transmitted to humans, there does seem to be a vaccine which costs $60 and is delivered in two shots from what I could gather.  The flu symptoms in dogs seem to be about the same as humans.  If your dog is tired, coughing, sneezing, has a runny nose, or you can tell he has a fever you might consider taking him to the vet.  The mortality rate for dog flu is about 8% which is high but not horrible.  Inside dogs who are walked on leashes are more inclined to get it, I presume because they tend to come in contact with other dogs and virus thrive in a warmer environment.

You ask, ye of little faith, HOW could these two things be related?  They are because they both involve poop, this is a family blog ya know?  Sort of.

First I haven’t been feeling well, haven’t done anything but mess with my blogs for days and not much of that, yesterday afternoon [...]]]>

Bichon Frise in Wilderness

You ask, ye of little faith, HOW could these two things be related?  They are because they both involve poop, this is a family blog ya know?  Sort of.

First I haven’t been feeling well, haven’t done anything but mess with my blogs for days and not much of that, yesterday afternoon I decided I really possibly was sick with flu or something,  today I’m better so? I dunno.  But because I’ve been sick.  I hate to admit it but my tiny tiny bit of exercise I took with Dispatch the Bichon Frise everyday has fallen by the wayside.   So I didn’t take Dispatch regularly to the open field where he can poop and eat grass and bark @ things freely very often.  When Dis does poop in the yard I throw it over the fence to the woods with large leaves.  You say GROSS?  Gimme a break we aren’t supposed to put TP in our RV holding tank and the other option is picking it up in a wal mart bag or two which is NOT going in my house trash so the leaves it is.  BIG leaves and he is a little tiny dog.  Get the picture.  Well today I’m sort of wanderinbg around outside with Dis in my sick daze (you should have seen me drive to grocery store. I bet THAT was interesting,    Somehow I almost managed to take off my side mirror with the cart but that’s another story)  So I’m outside and Dispatch ducks under the fence in the back of our RV.  It’s barbed wire and there are woods on the other side and then a pasture with lonhorns, I could just see me scaling the barbed wire fence and chasing Mr. Fluffy through South Texas swamps and bayous which are like next door and yes we have a baby alligator close.  BUT does Dispatch run away after he ducks under the fence (remember this is where I throw his poop because it’s woods, don’t get grossed out there are raccoons pooping there so why not my dog? )  NO Dispatch the wonder dog POOPS in the woods.  I kid you not.  Of course there may have been whatever mysterious scent there that tells him hey this is the PLACE you must poop today, none other will do, or he was trying to cover up another animals scent (@ least he wasn’t pooping in another dogs food which he has been known to do.)  BUT to me it looked like he’s saying poor Mama she isn’t herself, I’ll just put the poop where she wants it   Or he was saying lazy broad, I’d better put my scent over here or she will accidentally smear it somewhere as loony as she is acting today.  I’d like to think the former was true but we will never know.

Second poop story:

I like House the medical drama and I like Hugh Laurie. Hugh Laurie was on Jay Leno last night and told a story about how to survive a lion attack which stuck in my head.  My brother and my husband say House is a male chauvinistic butthole only they say something else, I say I’m totally used to how House acts so what does that say about them?  hmmmm?  Anyway Hugh did a film once with a lion, he said the lion trainer gave him one important piece of advice on how to survive a lion charge.  When the lion charges reach behind you and throw poop in his face.  You ask where you get the poop?  The lion trainer said if a lion is charging you there will be poop behind you.  I thought this was pretty sage advice?

Maybe I have a fever so all I could think to write about is poop?

Hugh Laurie With Hair and Smiling?