DalmatiAn is spelled with an A damit.

/pet peeve.

That's a spotty record

Again !?!

I hate it when this happens

Here's another stupid Disney movie I'm going to have to buy.

If only a fraction of the amount of time and money that was spent on finding good homes for dogs and cats was spent on children looking for good homes...

/loves dogs
//still thinks it's innane

hero?

Answers to the name "Lucky"

footballbat you bastard

OK, but was it also abducted by a wicked witch?

Who wants a busted up dog?

Sometimes, you just need to take the hint and realize you should stop trying to live.

Amazing. I figured it would've forgotten how to breathe LONG before then.

Dalmatians are beyond retarded. Dumbest. breed. ever.

Oh, excuse me, EVAR.

Yeah, well, that dalmatian is no L'il Brudder.

/He's got the heart of a champion.

Wow, that poor dog led such a sad, sad life. I hope he has a good home now.....weird that they would recognize him from a photo even though he was a puppy when they lost him.

Dalmatian puppies have no spots. My mom's dog looks nothing like he did as a puppy.

/just sayin'

They thought he was a 'goner'
...but the cat dog came back...

I can believe an Australian Shepherd, but a Dalmatian? Wow...

Lucky. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

somehow, that just caught me off guard.

outatime: Dalmatians are beyond retarded. Dumbest. breed. ever.

Wrong. Overbreeding has led to some poor bloodlines, but champion bloodlines are quite intelligent. Mine is very smart. My vet has one that opens doors to let itself out to pee.

Dalmations are the most vicious & tempermental breed (prob. from inbreeding)

After all the crap that dog has been through, that pic of the kids w/ the pooch gives me the willies.

The whereabouts of the other leg are still unknown.

cool story...i hope the person that shot the dog is dead or dies soon.

Lucky?

Is that you Lucky?

LUCKY!!! Here boy, here boy...

Ah, isn't that sweet.
Ralf. I'm off to wipe boogers on my keyboard from all the crying.

InflatableJesus

You don't eat a dog like that all at once!

Marseeah:

If only a fraction of the amount of time and money that was spent on finding good homes for dogs and cats was spent on children looking for good homes...

/loves dogs
//still thinks it's innane

It is, Mr. condescending. But it's not done through donations to charity so much as through tax dollars that fund county, city, and state agencies.

I am married to a woman whose entire life and career is spent doing just that: finding homes for children. She's a county employee. She's not the only one, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's not the only county with a children and youth agency. Hyperbole is not helpful.

rocinante721: Dalmations are the most vicious & tempermental breed (prob. from inbreeding)

DalmatiAns are not vicious. They are good guard dogs though. If you don't belong there, they won't let you in. They are one person/family dogs. Inbreeding is a problem, but stupidity is what makes them AKC's #1 biter. Too many people think they're friendly and just shove hands in their face, they don't like that.

You know how fark always egaggerates?
I thought this was one of them but jez. i sitting here drinking something and it said she got lost in a tornado attacked by a pit bull and had hip surgery and i thought wow they told the truth. then as i read the next few words "then someone shot her" i laughed my ass off spraying gelati all over my computer screen

My dog (beagle) died the other day. Tumor on her heart. So sudden too. Mixture of shock, grief, and loneliness. :(

i had a beagle once, it shat in every room and took a piss in the middle of the livng room on the brand new carpet. If it had died i would of had a mixture of joy, happiness, and disgust in myself for being so happy

My Vizla died one day in his sleep about six months ago. We think it was some kind of tumor.

Oh and if you want the best dog ever get a Vizla.

it's not a tumor

Quite happy with my two goldens, thank you very much :)

Glad Ginger is safe now ^_^

/loves all animals

That dog probably wants a steak.

Jedi_Templar

Aw that is sad. My dog died 5 years ago. I still get sad sometimes.

Anyways, anyone else wondering how in the hell these people knew it was their dog, when the dog was a puppy when it was lost? I love a good reunited story, but I have a feeling this one is nothing but wishful thinking on the family's part.

Several years ago, my parents asked me look after their house, their dog, and my grandmother, and her dog for a week. Since I was living & going to summer school only an hour away at the time, I said, sure, what the hell.

Big mistake. If their dog had been a car, you woulda had it totaled out a log time ago. Purebred golden retriever, with all the usual purebred congenital defects. Dummer than a bag of hammers, too. Terrified of loud noises, strange men, and the sound of the doorbell. It was the only creature I've ever met with an oral fixation; on the frequent occasions it was scared, it would have to cary around some object in its mouth, preferably a newspaper, towel, pillow, or shoe. Yes, this dog was a pillow biter. And it would also drool all over the place, long stringers dangling most times, which of course it wanted to rub on you in affection. Finally, the pooch was on barbituates (for seizures), among four or five other medications. Also, as I came to find out, it had arthritis from the age of 5 on. So of course my folks think it is the greatest. dog. evar. Mom loves it almost as much as church, eh.

Combine that with my 89 year old grandmother, and keeping her medications straight too, and cleaning the house, and going to school, and you're in for a hell of a time.

Anyhoo, I decided to take this creature with me when I went running to decompress. All is going well until about 1/2 mile from home, the dog's right hind leg goes out. Well, fark it. I pick it up and carry it for a bit (shoulda left it to go get a car), and it manages to hobble home with me.

Great, I've hurt my mom's dog. I knew the vet they went to, so when he was still limping the next morning, I schedule an appointment for the following morning. We go in, and the vet gives him a shot of muscle relaxers or something to help out his leg. I go home, put him out, and then down in the basement, and tear ass for class as I'm already late.

Fast forward 6 hours. I come home, going to let the dog out, open the door. Foulness. Indescribable, aweful, foulness. I go back upstairs, do a shot for courage, come back down. God damn. The dog had shat the basement. I don't mean shat in the basement, I mean shat all over the main 30 x 30 room. There were at least 10 to 15 individual puddles. That's right, not piles, flowing, wide but shallow gray-gold puddles. I really should learn what was in that shot, because I'm telling you right now I'd rather die. It had liquified that poor dog's ass. And along with the big puddles, were smaller splatters or halvsies, and places he'd obviously done the butt-scoot after finishing.

That's not the bad part. The bad part was, as I examined closer, trying to evaluate the world of literal shiat into which I had just emerged, I saw it wasn't shiat alone. Mixed in, much like a cherry swirl, was blood. Some still runny, some clotting, probably one of the top 5 most disguisting things I've ever seen. That explains the smell, if you ever smell a GI bleed, you'll always be able to tell when you're around one.

I won't say any more except if you have any other option than cleaning up the aftermath of such a misadventure, I highly recommend taking it. And this Dalmatian is getting off easy.

Happy with my mutt. Your purebreeds still lick each others butts like any other dog.

/not trying to be a jerk

Werekoala

I was almost sure when you said the folks were away and you were left with the dog and the grandma you were about to tell the 'You should have broken it to me gently' joke.

I can make it on my own!

I can't figure out whether this dog has really good luck or really bad luck.

On one hand, he survived all that and lived to be reunited with his family. That's great luck!

On the other hand, he had to go through all that. That's rotten luck!

Crap, this is going to keep me awake.

Dalmatians are the BEST breed ever. Smart, lively and cool.

I've had mine for over a decade now. Awesome companion and guard dog.

Someone shot my dog once. I didn't know it right away, thought he had cut himself when he was playing in the neighbor's yard. When he had to go to the vet a few months later and get an xray for a chest infection, the vet came back from the x-ray room looking a little shocked. There was a big ol' b-b stuck in his right hind quarter.
WTF is wrong with some people?

P.S. damitjim DamMit is spelled with 2 M's. Or, conversely, with an m and an n: Damnit. But not with just a single m.

P.S. damitjim DamMit is spelled with 2 M's. Or, conversely, with an m and an n: Damnit. But not with just a single m.

perhaps he wants jim to dam a creek or river.

My vet has one that opens doors to let itself out to pee.

But does he close the door behind him, is what's important.

but...but...but...pit bulls are nice.

Deserves a new tag: miraculous!

tarvuz
Actually pit bulls are nice. They are not supposed to be human aggressive. They have a tendency to be animal aggressive, but most responisble owners will socialize the dog so that it is not. Assholes that raise the dog to fight will find that the dog is animal aggressive. I used to be stereotypically weary of pit bulls, until I got used to my bf's dogs. His pits are like great big lap dogs. And he has a cat too. They don't pay the cat any mind. In fact I'd say the cat was tougher than the pits!! He raised them with a firm hand and they know their place. The dalmation has had more problems biting humans than the pit. So does the shetlie. Its just that when a pit bull bites, it can do more damage. It is hereditary for them to NOT let go. A bite stick will help on those situation. Takes care of the problem in 3 seconds flat.

*break stick

/my bad
//obviously am word and letter dyslexic