One great aspect of our true community is the ability to spot a troll and send it packing. This one is gone, thanks Karen!

[quote user="glenmar"]The only wild hog I've ever seen chased me up a tree MANY years ago[/quote] Glenda, I hate to tell you this, but Florida is full of wild hogs, too. Not sure how much in the panhandle, but central FL is loaded with them. Meg can tell you about it - Samsula and Oak Hill are loaded. :D

[quote user="stardog85"]We decided to have Whole Foods make our Turkey Day food this year. [/quote] I work for a company that is like a local version of Whole Foods, in their warehouse. Yesterday was the day "everybody" comes here to sort turkeys to be shipped to the stores. Luckily, I have a busy office job, so I could not participate in hucking turkeys around the warehouse floor. I only had to listen to all the Home Office people chant and cheer eachother on, because they were

Consider yourselves blessed. Gracie screaaaams like a banshee. I can control it at home, but the groomers just ignore it, so I have to leave rather than jump the counter to take matters into my own hands.

[quote user="glenmar"] So much for pre-approving people before they join. Not that I envy anyone THAT job. [/quote] pre-approving doesn't always allow us to view someone's intentions, unfortunately.... If you'd seen the 400+ id's we've killed in the last two weeks, you'd be thankful more spam doesn't get thru.

[quote user="TheDogHouseBCMPD"] What kind of food....um...stuff that freezes well? [/quote] BWAHAHAHAH - I can hear Daryl Hannah's character "Annelle", from Steel Magnolias... "It’s in the Freezes Beautifully section of my cookbook and I want to take something that freezes beautifully!”

I realize this is just one example from hundreds of shelters around the US, but this has me so, so sad. Those of us who work/worked in rescue know the kind of fatigue that is part and parcel of the decisions about which dogs or cats will not make it until tomorrow. Yet I still cannot imagine working in a place that had to euthanize 600 animals in one month alone. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34117457/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project/ Without money to send them, prayers and good thoughts can go only

[quote user="Liesje"] As far as SchH you can't get any better than a nice GSD. Most of the other breeds are more reactive, don't have the same fight drive. But I may be biased.... [/quote] The SchH trainer I worked with even wrote an article many years ago about why he felt Dobes aren't stable enough for SchH.... *however!!!!*..... watch some Ascomannis or von Rubenhof Dobes in action.... Plus one of my all-time favs was Koby vom Aurachgrund. *sigh*... such an impressive dog

I am pissed for you. Since the woman brought the dog to a remote area, she's likely a local. I'd contact local vets with the description of her and the dog to ask for assistance. Privacy and all, I know, but the damage is still her fault. You may have to do a police report, too. I'd consider posting a sign at the place this happened, but I'm also thinking you want her to call you, rather than avoid you, so you either have to be vague, or, something...I dunno. I'm pissed for you

Karen, glad you got free! Being stuck in the mud is def worse than stuck in the snow. Hope Twister feels better soon. Bummer. Tina, our condolences to you and your foster mom. Stacer, I feel for you on the roaming dog front. A neighbor back in NH used to let his senile elderly Lab roam around... and when you'd catch her and return her, he'd thank you, mumble something about her being deaf, point to her invisible fence collar (which dangled like a pendant around her neck, covered in duct tape