janice6 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 3 hours ago, pipedreams said: Just A Boy And His New Dog An animal can identify with shared experiences. It's called bonding. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 58 minutes ago, Paul53 said: Did lots of pennies and rocks. Tried midgets but they were uncooperative little buggers. We tried .22 shells, several times. They all impressively smooshed, but none ever banged. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Dric902 said: That...could...be...my PD....So. Just sayin... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 42 minutes ago, janice6 said: I'm a little beyond "three sheets to the wind". Meeee tooooooo!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 36 minutes ago, janice6 said: An animal can identify with shared experiences. It's called bonding. When they're both that young, spending all day and doing everything together, it's a "pack" bonding. Some of the nicest friendliest dogs that ran loose in our neighborhoods would go berserk, if you shoved their two-legged mate to the ground. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Mom raised cairn terriers (Toto dogs). They are known for being scrappy little buggers. One male dog, Mackie, once went gonzo, and chewed up five kids, after they threw rocks at me and made me yelp. Attacked them all at the same time. Like a tornado. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Our dog, Tubby, (one of Mackie's ancestors, probably) one got out of the fence (Texas) to attack a pack of semi-feral dogs in the dirt road. I heard the commotion, and looked out the window. Some were, probably, real feral cowdogs. I bolted out, expecting to find a bloody carnage, of where my dog used to be. I got around the fence, and down the road, and found Tubby jaw-locked onto some shepherd's neck, swinging around, his feet weren't even touching the ground. He was growling and shaking his head furiously. So, the big dog's in the middle, with a little snarling maniac on his neck, and all the other dogs had backed up into a huge circle, watching the show. The big dog was trying to run in circles, backwards, going, "WTF! WTF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!" I yelled, and kicked dirt, and Tubby let go, and all the dogs ran away. Tubby had this really cool strut, when he knew he was badz. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 We went camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We had just pulled into our camp and were stretching our legs, when some people down the road yelled, "Hey! Want to see some bears?!?" So we walked down. Further down, bears were all hanging around the dumpsters. We talked to the nice people for a while, and turned to leave. I had left the big sliding side-door of the van open. There was a bear's ass sticking out of it. Tubby, by now, was ancient-old and deaf and blind and a scabby little rhinoceros. He was asleep in the back of the van. I ran for a little bit, but then skidded to a halt when I realized that I didn't want to fight a bear. Then the van exploded. The bear shot out like a bolt of lightning (with one of our coolers in his face), and took off like a rocket, with Tubby making fierce noises, and chewing him nine assholes, all at once. They both disappeared over the hill, into the forest. By the time we got up there, Tubby came strutting (that strut) from the woods, all cocky and proud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 We were all walking down the path to the pond, with all our toddler kids. One of Mom's males, Kipper, as far as we knew, had never even seen a snake. But there was a HUGE copperhead, right in the path. We hadn't even seen it. But the dog did. Ten people yelling, "NO!!!", and the little dog charged, grabbed the snake right behind the head, and went into a psycho head-whipping frenzy. He whipped that snake into several pieces, and then just instantly stopped, dropped it, and strutted around, all badz. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Jack Ryan said: I bet a block of dry ice and a hammer could do that. Welded rail has been a blessing and a curse for the industry. it’s a lot faster and smoother, but a joint still has room for expansion and contraction. Welded rail doesn’t. with a temperature range from 100 in the summer to negative numbers in the winter, we can have miles of stress “pile up” on the weakest section of rail. heated rail expands cold weather breaks . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The first family dog I remember (I think he was a beagle-mix-mutt) (Charlie Brown) once bit me in the head and I got stitches behind my ear. Mom always said I deserved it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Huaco Kid said: and went into a psycho head-whipping frenzy. He whipped that snake into several pieces, It was a full minute of thing that can't be unseen. A big, snarling, fury of nature gone wild. I don't know if it ever demented any of the kids, we never asked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 We were camping around Scotland (where these yappy dogs originated) (I was very little) and Mackie and Piper (the two first ones) ran off into the sheep fields. They had never seen a sheep. But they instantly teamed-up and herded them all into a corner. Then we met the nice farmer, with his shotgun, because stupid Americans. And their stupid dogs. And stuff. Mom had a major knack of making friends, so the dogs didn't get blown off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 When they first moved to Texas, Mom said the phone rang one day... all he said was: "Emmit! Dogs in chickens! Two minutes!" ::click:: She made a best friend that day, and the dogs didn't get blown away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I once saw these dogs get a rabbit. A little yappy dog can't catch a rabbit. But, two of them can. They don't even know how they're doing it. Instincts kick in, and they turn into a running-flying pack of hungry animals. All one needs is a tiny bite of tail-tuft, and the other one swoops in, and then it's just a mass of growling and flying fur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I'm rooting for the bunny!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 They originated in Scotland (?), where they were bred to go into the stone-walls (sheep fields) holes (cairns) and kill varmints. Their hair is very thick and wiry, so they can take getting bitten in the face. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Mackie once saw an armadillo. Bang... attack mode. The thing had gone down a hole, and Mackie went in, and then I was up to my shoulder, holding onto his tail. I dragged him out. I don't know how far he would have gone. Or what he thought he was going to do with the armadillo, when he caught it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Some of Mom's dogs were very expensive show dogs. My reproduction is not near as lucrative. So, for a couple weeks, they'd be all puffed and brushed and fluffy and perfumed and shorn. And holding their tail right. And cocky. Cocky is a plus, for these dogs. They know that part. And the next week, me and the dogs would be shooting the pigs with a bb gun, and throwing firecrackers down into the armadillo holes. And then they couldn't even be brushed, because there was so much Texas all brambled into their hair, and the brush wouldn't even go in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The dogs were happier when they were hanging around with me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Rule 1 of dog shows is: "Don't bite the Judge." Which is fine, for a cage-raised ***** dog. Any dog I ever hung with, if you grab him by the balls, you're probably gonna get bit. "He attacks armadillos in the face. I wouldn't grab his balls, if I were you." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Those armadillos are some ugly bastards! I see their armor laying in the streets for weeks. At least they could have the decency to crawl a few more feet, and die in the ditch! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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