The Circle of Life meets bad timing

CaroGirl · Aug 25, 2009

I was picking my kids up from their grandfather's house yesterday after work, when I noticed the neighbour lady standing on her front lawn looking somewhat distraught. While I waited for the kids to buckle up, I wondered what might be wrong. Just then, her husband came around from the backyard carrying a yellow blanket. Inside the blanket was obviously the stiff body of a dead dog. Like when someone gives you a wrapped gift for your birthday in the shape of a tennis racket, most likely the thing IS a tennis racket. Its legs were all sticking straight up under the blanket and its head was lolling around. It was pretty big, maybe a 50 to 60 lb dog.

My daughter saw and piped up that she thought the dog might be sick. Yeah right, sick. My son was playing his hand-held video game and didn't notice. I mean, holy bad timing Batman.

It's the Circle of Life, kids. Get used to it.

bettielee · Aug 25, 2009

**pats CaroGirl**

There, there. It had to happen sometime. I doubt this will be the last time they see a neighbor carting around a dead body.... I mean... whoa! That post went places I didn't intend...

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

I officially like animals more than people. So I ain't like hearing bout petdeath.

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
I officially like animals more than people.

Seriously?

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

sleepsheep said:
Seriously?

Well its an exaggeration. But I can generally tolerate the vast majority of animals more than I can tolerate the vast majority of people

The general public irks me. I wouldn't go to a walmart at gunpoint.

I honestly don't know how my wife puts up with the general public on a daily basis, it would drive me crazy.

(Of course, the people I deal with on a general basis would probably drive her crazy, so it works out)

ETA: What is not to like about dogs?
Honestly, who are you rooting for in this picture?

CaroGirl · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
Well its an exaggeration. But I can generally tolerate the vast majority of animals more than I can tolerate the vast majority of people

The general public irks me. I wouldn't go to a walmart at gunpoint.

I honestly don't know how my wife puts up with the general public on a daily basis, it would drive me crazy.

(Of course, the people I deal with on a general basis would probably drive her crazy, so it works out)

ETA: What is not to like about dogs?
Honestly, who are you rooting for in this picture?

It's not the kid on the couch who deserves to get bagged. He's not tormenting the dog. It's the doofus with the laser pointer.

brainstorm77 · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
Well its an exaggeration. But I can generally tolerate the vast majority of animals more than I can tolerate the vast majority of people

The general public irks me. I wouldn't go to a walmart at gunpoint.

I honestly don't know how my wife puts up with the general public on a daily basis, it would drive me crazy.

(Of course, the people I deal with on a general basis would probably drive her crazy, so it works out)

ETA: What is not to like about dogs?
Honestly, who are you rooting for in this picture?

What's wrong with the ears?

CaroGirl · Aug 25, 2009

brainstorm77 said:
What's wrong with the ears?

It's a Doberman. People clip/crop their ears so they stand up straight instead of flop down. Cruel, imo, but there's no evidence that the kid on the couch is responsible.

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

CaroGirl said:
It's a Doberman. People clip/crop their ears so they stand up straight instead of flop down. Cruel, imo, but there's no evidence that the kid on the couch is responsible.

lol

Mr Flibble · Aug 25, 2009

CaroGirl said:
It's a Doberman. People clip/crop their ears so they stand up straight instead of flop down. Cruel, imo, but there's no evidence that the kid on the couch is responsible.

Whoa, that's still legal in the US?

Mind you, they took their time banning it over here too.

spamwarrior · Aug 25, 2009

Yeah, I wonder who's the idiot with the laser pointer.

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

spamwarrior said:
Yeah, I wonder who's the idiot with the laser pointer.

Knowing the youtube/jackass generation, it was all a set up and the kid isn't even really asleep. Either one person and a tripod, or more likely two other people are off camera.

The camera follows the action pretty well after the kid gets bit, keeping him in frame, so that makes me think two people.

It reeks of a set up from a technical standpoint, so the kid(s) are probably idiots.

KTC · Aug 25, 2009

shut up. shut up. shut up.

post a warning in a thread that discusses the dying and the dog in the same post!

shut up!

spamwarrior · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
Knowing the youtube/jackass generation, it was all a set up and the kid isn't even really asleep. Either one person and a tripod, or more likely two other people are off camera.

The camera follows the action pretty well after the kid gets bit, keeping him in frame, so that makes me think two people.

It reeks of a set up from a technical standpoint, so the kid(s) are probably idiots.

Makes sense.

Old Hack · Aug 25, 2009

I'm on dial-up.

All I can see is a dog with no head.

The Circle of Life meets bad timing

CaroGirl

Living the dream

bettielee

I'm a sparkly fairy princess!

lucidzfl

Back from the dead

MsGneiss

lucidzfl

Back from the dead

CaroGirl

Living the dream

brainstorm77

practical experience, FTW

CaroGirl

Living the dream

lucidzfl

Back from the dead

Mr Flibble

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

spamwarrior

rewriting.

lucidzfl

Back from the dead

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live

spamwarrior

rewriting.

Old Hack

Such a nasty woman