Summer's over -- where'd you go?

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Grumman-581 wrote:

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:20:11 GMT, john smith wrote:
Having an aging dog is crimping our travel plans.
She had two strokes while I was at Oshkosh 2005, so we are reluctant to
leave her without 24 hour care and monitoring.

How old is she? Sounds like it is likely time to cut your loses and
get another dog...

She was eight last year, nine now.
She is a Golden Retriever, average life is twelve years.
She lives as long as she lives.
She has recovered quite well. The only after effect of the strokes was
the muscles on the right side of her face tightening up so her nose
points to the right, her right eyelid doesn't open as far as the left,
her right ear does stand up as high as the left, and her mouth mouth
tightened up so that her upper canine rubs her lip.
Our previous Golden had to be put down when he was nine.

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:38:15 GMT, john smith wrote:
She was eight last year, nine now.
She is a Golden Retriever, average life is twelve years.
She lives as long as she lives.

My last few dogs lived to about 12 and then were just found dead
outside... They had been getting along pretty good with no noticeable
signs of old age... They were Chows... One of the younger ones got in
a fight with his father (even though both had been 'fixed'), and ended
up paralyzed from behind the front shoulders to the rear... I took him
out back, dug a hole, and put a bullet through his head severing the
spinal cord for a quick no-reflex kill... I was always taught that you
don't hire someone else to do your dirty work, you do it yourself...
I've had to do it with cattle on the ranch and with pets...

I took him
out back, dug a hole, and put a bullet through his head severing the
spinal cord for a quick no-reflex kill... I was always taught that you
don't hire someone else to do your dirty work, you do it yourself...
I've had to do it with cattle on the ranch and with pets...


Well then, aren't we getting just a wee bit off topic now...?

On 1 Sep 2006 11:26:47 -0700, wrote:
Well then, aren't we getting just a wee bit off topic now...?

Perhaps, but I'm not gonna change the ****in' subject on the thread...
grin

Awh, 'ell, give it a bit of time and the topic will morph into sex,
politics, or a gun thread...