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midwestyankee said:

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twister947 said:

But, the hair's all wrong.

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Bramblethorn said:

Thinking back to my old cocker (Dog #1).

My partner usually makes fruitcake for Christmas, soaked in brandy. One year she made a particularly big one and put it on our table, on a beautiful old glass cake stand.

You have probably already guessed where this story is going, but we didn't have the benefit of hindsight. It was a high table and Dog #1 was pretty arthritic by then, so there was no way he could reach the table top.

We went out to a Marina and the Diamonds gig and came back to find His Majesty in the middle of a god-almighty mess of glass shards and ruined cake all over the floor. He hadn't been able to reach the table top, but he had been able to pull the tablecloth until it fell. As far as we could tell he'd eaten about a kilogram of fruitcake.

It must have just happened, because he was bright and alert when we got home, but half an hour later he was rolling drunk. There's a lot of brandy in my partner's fruitcake. He was badly hungover the next day and we were not at all sympathetic.

(Don't try this at home. Alcohol, sultanas, and glass shards are all bad for dogs, and we were very lucky he got away with nothing worse than a hangover.)

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Shankara20 said:

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bluekitty69 said:

These are not the droids you are looking for.

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RubiDia said:

I'm sorry, I completely misread your original post. Dogs are special. My favorite was the blue-eyed Husky that guarded the junkyard to our roofing shop when I was a kid. We had him on a huge chain with 1 in links that made it look like we were hiding a bear. Worthless. He was the nicest animal ever. It didn't help that he got fed quarter pounders from McDonald's all the time. I'm ironically more of a cat person.

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bluekitty69 said:

Dogs can be very tricky, getting into food, I had spent the better part of a Sunday making yeast doughnuts with sugar glaze, as they cooled on the table my Dalmatian got up on the table and ate the whole plate of them!
I thought for sure she would get sick, but no... she just licked the sugar off her lips all night long!

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yukonnights said:

My poor little doggy has tried for years to catch one of these critters ^^^ never has caught one and hope she doesn't, because I'm pretty sure it would take all the fun out of the game for her.

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yukonnights said:

My poor little doggy has tried for years to catch one of these critters ^^^ never has caught one and hope she doesn't, because I'm pretty sure it would take all the fun out of the game for her.

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Bramblethorn said:

Our corgi-mutt loved chasing flies. I don't think he ever caught one but it was pretty funny watching him charging around the place leaping in the air and snapping his jaws.

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Shankara20 said:

..and it is rather difficult on the little critter.


We had an infestation of bunnies a few years ago and one of the juveniles got through the chain-link. Beagle got to it and it was a horrible mess. The next day I installed a rabbit fence along the bottom of our full back yard chain-link to keep those little bunnies out. Some dogs once they have made a first kill become very fond of the taste.

The circle of nature...

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Bramblethorn said:

Our corgi-mutt loved chasing flies. I don't think he ever caught one but it was pretty funny watching him charging around the place leaping in the air and snapping his jaws.

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Bramblethorn said:

Our corgi-mutt loved chasing flies. I don't think he ever caught one but it was pretty funny watching him charging around the place leaping in the air and snapping his jaws.

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