How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
02-07-2011, 06:04 PM
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Damn, this thread got real!
Losing a pet and a friend is hard, but like Sixshooter said, it's worth the pain for the years of enrichment of life you experience from them, and likewise the kind of life they live with you that they otherwise couldn't in the wild. I've had and lost 3 dogs in my life, and 6 cats in my relatively short life, most of the cats in an untimely way. The most recent cat I only consider dead because he ran away from home after I moved out of my moms house 7 or 8 years ago. We were really close, and he would greet me every morning and afternoon. After I left he ran away and would only come home every few weeks, and over time less often. He would hiss at my mom and run if she tried to pick him up and bring him inside. I feel guilty for having left and caused this to him.
He loved to interrupt my forum browsing by jumping on my keyboard and flopping down. Mr attention.
Losing a pet and a friend is hard, but like Sixshooter said, it's worth the pain for the years of enrichment of life you experience from them, and likewise the kind of life they live with you that they otherwise couldn't in the wild. I've had and lost 3 dogs in my life, and 6 cats in my relatively short life, most of the cats in an untimely way. The most recent cat I only consider dead because he ran away from home after I moved out of my moms house 7 or 8 years ago. We were really close, and he would greet me every morning and afternoon. After I left he ran away and would only come home every few weeks, and over time less often. He would hiss at my mom and run if she tried to pick him up and bring him inside. I feel guilty for having left and caused this to him.
He loved to interrupt my forum browsing by jumping on my keyboard and flopping down. Mr attention.
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02-07-2011, 09:49 PM
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Sorry to hear, Trey, sounds like you're coping well enough man.
The wife and I love our miniature Dachshunds. I got a call before we married that the black-n-tan short hair we had at the time had just gotten run over and wasn't going to make it. That sucked. We have another now and he's an *******, but I couldn't get rid of him.
Thing that really sucks over here is that dogs are target practice for some of the guys around here. We have to kill them, because they spread disease. Shitty thing is that they love to put the camera on them and watch them die in the TOC..and it's not like they die after the first shot, not with a NATO 5.56 anyway. The first time I heard a lot of "ohh! ****!" out there, like they were watching football or something. There were two dogs (looked kind of like Australian shepherds) and one was walking around and the other had just been shot and was trying to figure out what was going on. He was trying to bite his back repeatedly, like there was an itch he couldn't scratch. They got him a few seconds later.
I can look at dead Taliban all day long, all of the dead bodies and body parts strewn about from the big attack we had last year, loaded up in trucks or lined up on the ground. One guy had his head blown clean open. But seeing those dogs get shot is what gets me. They don't know what they did, you know?
The wife and I love our miniature Dachshunds. I got a call before we married that the black-n-tan short hair we had at the time had just gotten run over and wasn't going to make it. That sucked. We have another now and he's an *******, but I couldn't get rid of him.
Thing that really sucks over here is that dogs are target practice for some of the guys around here. We have to kill them, because they spread disease. Shitty thing is that they love to put the camera on them and watch them die in the TOC..and it's not like they die after the first shot, not with a NATO 5.56 anyway. The first time I heard a lot of "ohh! ****!" out there, like they were watching football or something. There were two dogs (looked kind of like Australian shepherds) and one was walking around and the other had just been shot and was trying to figure out what was going on. He was trying to bite his back repeatedly, like there was an itch he couldn't scratch. They got him a few seconds later.
I can look at dead Taliban all day long, all of the dead bodies and body parts strewn about from the big attack we had last year, loaded up in trucks or lined up on the ground. One guy had his head blown clean open. But seeing those dogs get shot is what gets me. They don't know what they did, you know?
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02-08-2011, 07:49 AM
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Thing that really sucks over here is that dogs are target practice for some of the guys around here. We have to kill them, because they spread disease. Shitty thing is that they love to put the camera on them and watch them die in the TOC..and it's not like they die after the first shot, not with a NATO 5.56 anyway. The first time I heard a lot of "ohh! ****!" out there, like they were watching football or something. There were two dogs (looked kind of like Australian shepherds) and one was walking around and the other had just been shot and was trying to figure out what was going on. He was trying to bite his back repeatedly, like there was an itch he couldn't scratch. They got him a few seconds later.
I can look at dead Taliban all day long, all of the dead bodies and body parts strewn about from the big attack we had last year, loaded up in trucks or lined up on the ground. One guy had his head blown clean open. But seeing those dogs get shot is what gets me. They don't know what they did, you know?
I can look at dead Taliban all day long, all of the dead bodies and body parts strewn about from the big attack we had last year, loaded up in trucks or lined up on the ground. One guy had his head blown clean open. But seeing those dogs get shot is what gets me. They don't know what they did, you know?
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