[lit-ideas] Re: Text of bin Laden Tape/ size matters/dogs
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:28:35 EST
I owned a pure-bred black lab many years ago. She was a wonderfully sweet
dog. And the most high-strung animal I've ever seen. She had a tail that
packed the wallop of a well-swung baseball bat, and every time she wagged it
she
cleared the coffee table in the blink of an eye. She was also a chewer. She
severed the corner of the wooden frame of my waterbed quite nicely and liked
to munch on rocks. I adored that animal, but as I was living in a
one-bedroom apartment at the time and as her jumping acrobatics just didn't
quite work
there, I had to give her to a family who had acres of farmland for her to
run. I've had some wonderful and some awful dogs since. My most wonderful
pet
was a mutt -- a Collie/Hound mix. He was amazing. Best friend to my
kids.... he died of old age. Then came the series of evil dogs -- a pit bull
mix
(courtesy of my husband's daughter), a lab mix, a doby-hound mix who bit
everyone and cornered my child snarling (we had to put him down). Now I have
a
sheltie, a little female sheltie, and she is wonderful. Although she *does*
insist on herding anything that moves down the street.
Julie Krueger
living with dogs, mice, cats, and ferrets (courtesy of my 12 yr old daughter
who is Ms. Doolittle.)
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Text of bin Laden
Tape/ size matters/dogs Date: 1/23/06 9:30:11 PM Central Standard Time
From: _Ursula@xxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx) To:
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Really David, how can you put black labs in the same sentencewith
biiiiig truuuuuucks?
They are the suckiest dogs on the planet. Although I have heard some
breeders suggest not to get them if you have small children. But that's
because labs are big children. And will knock over small children in
their silly eagerness to play. I can tell you've never owned a lab...
Ursula (who has owned 4 labs)
David Ritchie:
I'm running three threads together because when I take my Border
>Collie cross to a dog park there's often some guy with a large black
>lab or a Rhodesian Ridgeback or some such who clearly got the dog
>because he wanted a Biiiig Crittr to go with his Truuuuuuuuck .
>Ridgebacks were bred to rip the tendons from the legs of lions. I've
>met some very nice Ridgebacks and no doubt Lawrence's one is
>handsome, clever, well-bred. But come on guys, can you not get dogs
>that kids won't be afraid of? Consider your homeowner's liability
>insurance if nothing else.
>
>David Ritchie
>Portland, Oregon
>
>
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