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II just went through the scrap book of pictures and found as couple of Girl Dog at age about 18 and she is almost all white and gray in the face and chest from age. Kasey is getting gray now also.......Like me........Old and gray........... :rock:

The way I look at it if your pet is not spoiled your not doing something right and it is not the pets fault..................jmho

I'm gonna ask ya'll to bare with me a little here but I want to talk about another dog. My oldest sons dog. Many folks here know I lost my oldest son to an auto accident. He had the accident in May of 86 and it finally took his life in 90. When Doug Jr. was 6 years old I was sitting out on the front porch when I saw him walking down the road we lived on. He had a rope stretched out behind him and on the other end of the rope was this puppy that looked very much like the Queen in my avatar but it was just a puppy, a very skinny puppy. The puppy's feet were stretched out in front of her pushing backwards as hard as she could. He and the puppy arrived at the porch and my son said " hey dad, look what followed me home, can I keep it"?  I said"followed you home huh" and he said "yep". i thought about it for a minute and figure he  and his 5 year old brother should have a dog so I said yea but you will be responsible for all of it's care and he promised he would. About a day or so later we took her to the vet and got her checked out and all her first shots and de-wormed and all the things you do with puppy's and I was very proud of my son because he did everything right for all the years while he was able to. He trained her to do tricks he taught he how to mind and they became inseparable She went to school with them when they rode bicycles and wanted for them to come home and followed them home. He would take lunch out to her and put water out by the bikes for her (weather permitting) In bad weather she remained at home in his bedroom and he would leave the radio playing on low volume for her. Then as he grew older and got his drivers license and interested in girls like most teenagers do I watched and he never disappointed me. She went in his car everywhere he went just as Kasey does in my jeep. She even went on dates when he would take a girl out to a movie or a dance. ( Oh I have gotten ahead of my self a little)  When I asked him what he named her and he said "Dog" And I said that's not really a fitting name for a pretty little girl dog so he said "ok" Her name is Girl Dog and that became her name.     Now she went for all of her vet visits and shots and to get spayed when the time came and there was good Vet files kept on her. She was 10 years old the night of his accident and she was also injured in the accident which happened about 3 miles from our home. Hi back hips were broke and Doug was unconscious when emergency help arrived and when the ambulance rolled every kid with a  car rolled two and all the kids that went to the wreck knew it was Doug and his car and they all knew his dog. When the EMT went inside the car to help Doug Girl Dog had crawled and dragged herself up on his lap and growled at the EMT and was protecting him. One of the kids said "I will get her" and soon as Greg called her by name he was able to gently lift her of Doug. The police officer told him to put here on the side of the road and he would put her down and Greg said  I'll take care of her and they took her to the Vet that had been caring for her the entire time we had her. She was at the Vets office for 6.5 months and after she was healed and was out of surgery and traction for hip repairs he kept her at his office and fed her. I didn't go and get her till 6 months after the accident which small town everyone knew everything. I told the Vet I had come to get Girl Dog and I told him, "I don't know how much I owe you but what ever it is I promise to pay you." He looked at me and said "You don't owe me anything Doug."Just take care of her and your son." I did to the best of my ability do both. When we were finally able to bring my son home Girl Dog was all excited because she knew he had come home. He couldn't speak but he could pet her and hug her and remember her. She slept under his bed every night until that last night and at 3;15AM she came into the bedroom with Margie and I and laid down beside my bed and I knew my Son was gone. I went into his room and Girl Dog was right. Doug had passed away in his sleep. Now if your keeping track Doug passed away at age 20 and that made Girl Dog 14. She became my dog and as the vet told me to take care of Doug and Girl Dog I did. Doug was gone but I still had her. I fed her just like he did, from the table every night what ever we had for supper was what her plate had on it all the time they were growing up together. She loved Catfish and home fries with a passion...lol. In 1997 I lost Margie to a heart attack. In 1998 I had to have Girl Dog put down because she had developed Uterus Cancer and had a Tumor forming causing her pain. I took her to the vet and got the diagnosis and asked him to put her down because I would not allow her to suffer. He had the nurse pull Girl Dogs file and he opened it up and began to make notes when it dawned on him. He began scratching his head and he turned and looked at me and said "Doug do you know how old Girl Dog is and I replied "yea  22." With that he put her to rest and I took her and buried her on top of my Son with my younger sons help. There's a lot more to this but I don't want to bore ya'll any more than I probably have already. The Vet did ask me several days later when I ran into him at a filling station. He wanted to ask me what kind of food we fed Girl Dog to enable her to have the longevity of life she lived. I smiled at him and said what is it you tell people to never feed their dogs and he said table food and I said except for the time she spent with you table food is all she has ever eaten. The next year he retired and we never spoke again. I cannot explain how she lived that long except by Love and care. I have nothing else I can think of. I hope Kasey is with me that long but what ever God has in store for her I will accept. I have a few friends that have said they feel that when one goes the other won't be far behind. Don't know if they will be right or not. I guess only time can tell that.  If any one feels this should be deleted do to length I will understand. Just wanted to tell ya'll about a very special mutt named Girl Dog. I have some pictures of he somewhere and I will try and dig them out and post them if I can make my old scanner work.

I'm trying for sure.......... :up: :rofl:

Ok ya'll can see my Queen now in my avatar. I am the slave in the house............ :rofl:

Yea, I know she is a little over weight according to the vet she should weigh 32 pounds but weighs 71 and Vet says I need to feed her less and not give her so many snacks but she is 15 going on 16 and has been spoiled all her life on home cooked meals and snacks consisting of Jacks Link Jerky and Alpo Biscuits but I did make a slight adjustment to her diet to please the Vet. I took her off the Beef jerky and put her on the jacks turkey Jerky. Yea maybe I should put her on a diet but decided as long as she is happy I ain't changingmuch about her lifestyle. ......... :whistle: :whistle:

"John Henry" and call him "John"      I had a hound named that back when I was kid and rabbit hunted and John Henry was best beagle hound in the pack. Had the best nose and seldom every lost a rabbits trail...............jmho

Thanks, he was my buddy and of Course now I have the Queen in my life controlling me with her every whim......... :up: I will be posting and Avatar with her later today. I did have her and Buttons for several years but he had his bluff in on her so he remained the boss of the house till his passing.................. :popcorn: :popcorn:

That was totally hilarious. I  had to clean key board and monitor though. Was reading the texts while drinking morning coffee  That was funny. I don't know if anyone has noticed but I changed my avatar. His name was Buttons and I had him from birth to age 15 and he passed away from Heart attack a few years ago.

What would make you think that LB?

It sounds like he is one of those vets that had his appointment push back and hid one to many times by VA and now is a loose cannon that needs to be unloaded and placed where he cannot hurt himself or others around him...............jmho

Who's Rob Sellers?     Now that's funny right there @ k191145 ........................ :rofl: :rofl: :rock:

I think he was referring to Master Baiter and no I was not referring to the Professional level. Just your average weekend Warriors that fish weekend local tournaments or bass fish for recreation?

I notice ever so often someone pops up with a fishing question and just saw a killer GPS advertised so I guess I need to ask the question. How many folks here are anglers and how many folks here are Serious Anglers like the type that competes in Bass Tournaments????

Well, this is a new pair of Robins. I had a pair there two weeks ago raise 4 young and once the young left the nest I removed the old nest and threw in in my trash can and now this is another new pair getting ready to raise their young in the same place as the other nest was I removed. I guess I will be feeding another family of babies. I put Mela worms and Crickets out on the gravel drive and they get them and take them up and feed the young birds. There at the end they would wait for me to walk right up to them and put the meal worms down and fly right passed me to the nest. They were not scare of me at all towards the end.

I cannot believe this but ya'll remember me and the Robins, Right. Well about 5 days after the babies flew the nest I removed it from the light fixture and threw it in my trash can. Went out the other day and saw a few strands of vine type stringers hanging from the same light fixture and thought I had missed a few so reached up and pulled the down and threw them in my trash can. Today I went out to talk with a few buddies that stopped by and one of them said Look at that nest on your light. Yep, sure nuff another pair of Robins has built yet another nest on the same light and since they have it completed I'm gonna leave it and see how many babies I will be feeding this round. Last pair had 4. I cannot believe they are nesting this late in the year but they are. Will post pictures of the new nest soon as I take some and down load them. I cannot believe this means more trips to the bait store for Crickets and Meal worms............ :rofl: :rofl: pictures of nest # 2 [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Nest2001_zpsdee13beb.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Nest2002_zpsfd04e13b.jpg.html][/URL]

In the beginning I had to feel sorry for all the people losing their homes but then as time went on and I learned that all of them are aware of the fact that they are in the middle of a drought and yet the build camp fires and have grill outs just inviting trouble so no pity on self in flicked injuries................jmho

I was at Walmart Customer Service 1 time when a woman came in and you could tell, she was not a happy camper. She was in one of these video's and wanted to see the manager. Man when they got face to face I would have given anything in the world to have had a video of that confrontation for sure. The Metro Police ended up escorting her from the store but I did over hear the manager tell the woman that is she does not want to make the Walmart Videos which are made by individuals and not Walmart maybe she needs to use a full length mirror before leaving her home to see how ridiculous she looked and do something to improve her appearance and man that was when she would have went postal on him if she would have had a gun. It took everything I could do to keep from busting a gut wanting to laugh but I didn't want to be her next target........... :biglol: :biglol:

I have road shotgun on several occasions when one of my friends was doing a firearms deal with a Craigslist person. I read several of the emails the two had back and forth and the guy just seemed far to excited about being able to meet my buddy and buy a gun from him. I figured it was one of two things. A sting operation which would have failed because the buddy I was backing up is a Sumner County Deputy and to there was going to be all ID's check and HCP produced or there would be no deal. Meeting was Academy Sports parking lot at Rivergate and we were early and standing beside his pickup when the guy drove up and  slowed down but didn't stop. Looked at us and drove away. He told my buddy what he would be driving so we know it was him. My buddy got his tag number and ran it and they has exchanged first names in the emails and the truck came back stolen. It was gonna be a bad day for someone that day had Bobby not had me along riding shotgun. The guy was not expecting to see two people I don't think  but driving a stolen truck told us what we needed to know.......................

Kinda sounds like Huntsville gonna grow just a little huh?.............................. :up: :up:

Most crooks always go to the well once to often and this is the outcome most times..................jmho

I'm just glad someone shut him down before he ended up killing someone. i never let the buyer pick the place for the transaction. it takes place on my turf and I am always aware of the surroundings. I also watch the way the buyer is acting and I am always ready to react with my carry weapon and on many if not most of the times I have done deals I have a friend that is also armed go with me. Any time large sums of money or firearms sales are taking place everyone needs to stay crisp...............jmho

One no wait two of them must be defects. One of them has to many holes in the cylinder and one of them does not have enough holes in the cylinder....................... :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :rofl:

Well I don't have a wife but I do have an extremely high maintenance Mutt that keeps me from buying  a lot of things. A few of my friends have said they don't spend as much on their wives as I do my mutt..............but shes my mutt and my responsibility so I deal with it....... :ugh:  :ugh: 

A person that asks another person to shoot them to test a bullet proof vest while wearing it has got to have a death wish. I mean most police officers wear them every day and hope and pray they are not shot at. They are good to have but they don't protect all  of your body like a complete body armor suit would and even those have their sweet spots if a round finds its way through it....jmho