You guys want to see me cry? I have had a dog or two my whole life. I have lost a lot of good pals so I know how hard it is. They are all special.
new member of the family
from the time I was 23 I always owned dogs....usually just 2 at a time, all were adopted from shelters or rescues...about 5 years ago I had a doberman female 15+ years old and a lab/boxer mix male alittle over 10 years old...the female got hurt and couldnt get up for a day or so, I had to carry her outside to do her business and carry her back in, I figured this was about it with her..but, I gave her some pain killers and in a week she was back up and moving around, the soon after the lab started to bloat, not the bloat from eating, but he was filling with fluids..either organ failure or cancer, either way no recovery, so once he stopped eating I had to put him down, gut wrenching to say the least..then about 2 months later my dobie got ill and at her age , no good, and I had to put her down, doing that so close together, I needed a break, I just couldnt do that again...so it took about 3.5 years to get another dog, a mixed sheppard/husky..beautiful dog and after a year of hard work with him, he is a great dog, but the first few months were beyond chaotic..so now since he is pretty stable and seems he wants a playmate..I adopted a 5 month old sheppard mix, an unknown mix..she came from the animal shelter, they said sheppard, but she doesnt look purebread at all, and in all honestly, the mixes have less health issues.. here are a few pics of her and him...and sheppards have the habit of being close, as im typing this now the new one is curled around my foot sleeping..the new one has the red collar..
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Lol, the best one I try to tell a story about and to this day, people tell me I am full of it but my squad buddy was just as impressed with it. He was as startled as I was. I was digging my fox hole ( in Vietnam by the way) on the side of a rocky mountain in the jungle when my entrenchen tool ( pack shovel) dug into a hole and a centipede about a two foot long and all different colors jumped out and chased me out of my fox hole.
Then one rainy night on ambush patrol,I was standing up in my spider hole ( round fox hole) and as the hole kept filling up with water and the mud started falling in from the sides,I looked down only to see a rather large black scorpion fall into my hole with the mud. I came out of that hole so fast,I don't even recall touching the sides.I laid flat on the ground the rest of the night. I don't know what I would have done if we had made contact that night with the enemy.
Then one time,back at base camp,we were tearing down a sand bag ammo bunker and building a new one when one of the guys picked up a sand bag to see a very large cobra laying in the hole. There we were,8 of us standing in a circle around this 15 foot cobra while he weaved back and forth trying to figure out wich one of us he was going to strike at. Finally, one of the guys came running through our little circle and beheaded that cobra with his shovel. The head still tried to jump around to get us. I could tell you more stories about the critters there but I might not be able to get any sleep tonight.
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