Not sure if I’d written about the dogs yet… I probably have but it’ll be so long ago we’ve all forgotten… I expect.Anyway. We have two dogs… one is an 11 year old female Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler the other is a male black Labrador called Stupid. We think he’s probably 4 years old.
The Cattle Dog is called Kit. We’ve had Kit since she was a puppy. We bought her from a shop in Penrith but the next day she looked *so* sad we went back and bought a Golden Labrador to keep her company. Sadly, the Golden Labrador, whose name was Chewie, died aged 8 after eating chicken wings which seemed to have damaged her internally. By the way… she was called Chewie not because she ate everything… but more because Kit used to bite lumps out of her while she was establishing her dominance!
I digress… as usual… After Chewie died we determined never to have two dogs. The garden we now have was smaller than the quarter acre we originally had so one dog was more than enough. And then my eldest daughter arrived for Xmas with her two kids.. and somehow, after going shopping one day, we came home with a manic dog the size of a pony that spent the trip eating the front seat. The wife was *not* pleased.
His name originally was Snoop Dog… but as his insanity became more and more evident he was rechristened to Stupid… and Stupid he remains.. both in name and in character!
An example of his idiocy could be the time we went out for the day leaving him inside with Kit. We left him in because at that time we didn’t have decent fencing being around Xmas, we were afraid the dogs would run if people around us set of fireworks… as they often do at that time of year.
Already knowing he was ‘erratic’ we had gone to the local vet and been supplied with Valium tablets. He was to take a half tab which would calm him down.
Just before we left… I gave him a *whole* tab and he keeled over. Great we thought and went out.
When we came back we were greeted with a scene of total chaos… for a few minutes we thought we’d been burgled… but it soon became obvious what had happened. The idiot dog had recovered… then being a young idiot and full of beans… had gone tearing around the house diving at each and every one of the wooden Venetian blinds we had recently (and expennsively) installed around the house.
Apart from the blinds, he’d ripped cushions, carpets and toys. I figured the cost was in the region of $3,000+ As you’d imagine the wife wanted to kill him on the spot… but I persuaded her to wait… after all the insurance would cover it.
Next day, I rang the insurance… they said “Sorry sir… you are not covered for damage caused by animals”. The wife was even more not pleased.
She was all for turning him into a waistcoat and matching gloves… but I managed to calm her down a little. She still wants him hung drawn and quartered, but I like him 🙂
Why? Well to be honest as idiotic and stupid as he is… he sticks to me like glue… maybe because he’s aware what his fate will be if I’m not there to protect him. And of course… he is the only other male animal in the house… *all* the other animals are female… wife… daughters… dog… cat… all female. There’s just me and the dog.
In fact I’ve fought hard to stop her having her revenge by having him neutered. She figured having his meat and two veg removed… well two veg… would calm him down but luckily the Vet persuaded her that at his age it would make no difference to him… so we both breathed a sigh of relief and went home.
This was only *one* tale of the aggravation the dog has caused over the three years he’s been here…
… but currently… Stupid is lying over my feet… as usual… snoring and looking as peaceful as anything. Gawd he’s an idiot… bit I love him 😀
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