Why oh why do we own dogs??!!

[Dizzy]

My dogs are sh1ts.... Took them to the forestry tonight. This is many square miles of logging forest, not nice walking around park like forest. Lots of lorry roads, we just drive up and park and walk, then walk back to the car usually.

Walk less than 100 yards from the car and Fred bounds into the forest, as he does on every walk. Never usually goes far, pops back out again and is always in ear and eye shot. This time, he doesn't pop back out. Hmmm. Call him. Nothing. No sound of logs cracking and a great lummox clumping about, just silence. Bodhi then chooses that moment to roll in a massive massive lump of fox sh1t.... I start getting worried and we are calling and whistling Fred. Nothing. Boyfriend starts going into the forest to look for him! Eventually Fred reappears happy as Larry. Then rolls in the same ****.

We aren't even 100 yards from the car, we have one nearly lost dog, half a heart attack and two sh1tty stinking dogs!!!!!!

:wall:

 

[Sekah]

That reminds me of a fun experience a few years back.

I had some pretty stressful/upsetting stuff going on at home, so I took Cohen out for a de-stressing walk in the woods. Sometime in the middle of it she rolls in what was probably fox poo but may have been human... whatever it was it smelled simply foul.

So we make our way back to the car. I pile her into my dad's brand new Audi, trying to use a towel to get the worst of it off, and using another to try (unsuccessfully) to protect the leather seats. I go to take her home but realize I'm out of dog shampoo -- I'd used the last bit only a few days ago.

So I'm driving home and I know of a grooming salon on the way home. I park and poke my nose in. The door is open and the owner comes out to greet me. She tells me she's not open today, but asks what's up. I explain the situation and ask if I can buy some shampoo. She says her register is closed but says she has a few minutes and offers to wash Cohen for me. I'm flabbergasted and agree.

When she's done I ask her what I owe her, and she tells me that this one is on the house and refuses to take any of the cash that I'm offering.

So, big win. It turned out to be not such a bad day after all. These days I never miss the opportunity to recommend this groomer to friends. Last I heard she's fully booked 6+ months in advance.

That's my poo story.

 

[Dizzy]

Oh well no such luck for mine, they got hosed outside!!!!!!

Bodhi always rolls in crap, she's a poo magnet. Fred has just recently started. He did it on Saturday and I forgot as had a 2 hour drive back home. I couldn't smell a thing!! Boyfriend was complaining of a bad smell all night, wondering what it was, was something smelly outside etc etc.....

Oh yea... It's Fred. Oops. My nose broke I think.

 

[Laurelin]

It seems like one of two things happens.

1. Mia stays perfectly clean the whole time but in the last 5 minutes rolls in a dead fish or poop or mud.

Or

2. I bring my camera and groom her and within a few minutes she's fallen in a lake, rolled in dead things, or had the runs on herself.

 

[Ozfozz]

Cobain and Rigby are such princesses :rofl1: They'd never dream of rolling in something gross.


My favourite is one area we typically walk with a friend who owns a Golden Retriever. This is a fairly private area where only a handful of people walk.

Somehow this Golden finds a pile of horse crap on EVERY walk. We've never encountered horses there, we've never even seen evidence of horses there. But she takes off into the woods and comes back brown and stinking every time.
Worst is we have to fight over who has to sit in the back with the stinking dog.

 

[Sparrow]

If it makes you feel any better, I thought this was going to be a porcupine story.

 

[gilles]

i take volka to a very large park nice and clean about the size of 20 football fields if not more ..big space and he always manages to find a mud hole or **** hole and he drinks from it and rolls in it ...and he is solid white colour!!!! last time he drank from a mud hole he got diarrhea and vomiting

 

[swaimp]

i take volka to a very large park nice and clean about the size of 20 football fields if not more ..big space and he always manages to find a mud hole or **** hole and he drinks from it and rolls in it ...and he is solid white colour!!!! last time he drank from a mud hole he got diarrhea and vomiting

Okay, I first read this as I take VODKA to a very large park etc., etc. - which was actually pretty funny to me, though I was hoping the park was within walking distance so you weren't driving afterward.

 

[Dizzy]

Mmmmmm vodka. I think that's a grand idea!!

Bottoms up.

 

[gilles]

Okay, I first read this as I take VODKA to a very large park etc., etc. - which was actually pretty funny to me, though I was hoping the park was within walking distance so you weren't driving afterward.

lol! actually i have to drive about 10 minutes, i keep towels in my car. i swear dogs read your mind, as you start thinking mm i hope he does not go over there... sure enough the dog goes there!