Pajiba

Such was my best friend's childhood love of Bowser that she dreamed of growing up and being the first female member of Sha Na Na.

I adopted the word 'latibule'. A latibule is a hiding place.

I can't even think about “Jurassic Bark” without getting all choked up. Groening and Cohen can suck it bigtime for creating that episode.

dude, Jurassic Bark was already real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

I had a long argument with someone a few months ago about which sad dog story was saddest. I was rooting for Hachiko, which totally won.

I am a latibule sometimes! Usually when the mister gets frisky, ifyouknowwhatimean. *wink*

Yep, Hachiko wins. That damned story makes me tear up thinking about it.

I had a dog once that someone had tried to kill and dropped off in an old shed on our property. I kept him and made him my dog. Every day for about 6 months after I had talked my parents into letting me keep him, he'd sit in the barn at the exact place he'd been dropped off as a puppy. He was the best dog. If I knew who had tried to hurt him when he was a puppy and they didn't want him, they'd have some explaining to do.

2 dog videos in 1 day? awwwwww, you must love us.

Also, magistricide is my new word. It means the killing of one's teacher or master. And coincidentally, my computer is not recognizing it as a word. I guess it really does need saving.

I lost my little Beagle yesterday. I walked that whole 2 acre field calling him and trying to figure out how he got out of the 6ft chain link fence with a hot wire around the bottom. Turns out he didn't. He'd found a latibule in some brush and was devouring a squirrel he'd scored off the big dogs while they got distracted by a cat in a tree near the fence line. Maybe he was in cahoots with the cat - I don't know. But he wasn't coming to me until he'd finished scarfing down that squirrel, fur and all.

Oh, God, I watched the Americanized movie about Hachiko the other weekend and was left full-out sobbing, slumped over on the couch because I was crying too hard to keep upright.

Which is actually my way of recommending the movie, if you're in the kind of mood where you want to have a good cry.

(Also, the Akita puppies they used to play the young Hachiko were so cute I thought I might pass out.)

Y'all better watch out. I'm in the mood to launch a bunch of AIRGONAUTS around this world, mark my words.

Fuck you Pajiba! Jurassic Bark? Seriously? And that frame as the header pic?

Why don't you just play the Brendan Fraser episode of Scrubs and I'll just slit my wrists right now!

Jami No worries, the son still cares for the dog. And even shows up, it seems, to pick him up in that same spot everyday, which might be why the dog keeps hanging out there.

Sorry, I forgot to close the bold html tag. :-( Sadness.

There isn't an odynometer in the world capable of registering what I felt watching the Justin Bieber movie; it was like that scene with the eye clamps in A Clockwork Orange.

back up, back up... you watched the justin bieber movie and you're still alive to tell the tale?! i'm impressed. can you send me some of your hair or something? for, um, research.

I used odynometer in a sentence and as committed as I am to orthography and the lexicon, I am not a Method writer.

You can still have a lock of my hair for "research" though.

You're not exactly a "writer" full stop.

Jeremy, I was prepared to give you a thorough bitching for opening up with a real-life Jurassic Bark and trying to make a pregnant lady cry, but then I watched the rottie and beagle video. That was so fucking cute. I think my hear grew three sizes. It reminds me of the way my pit bull/chow mix used to play with our youngest cat when he was a kitten. She was so gentle with him and he was so rough with her. He'd clamp on to her big square face with his tiny kitten teeth and she'd just wag her tail and smile. Such a good girl.

Also, Carrie thanks for the microlactin suggestion. The same dog (pit bull/chow mix) is limping a bit from arthritis. I'm going to pick up some microlactin tomorrow.

I feel your pain. My Golden Retriever is 12 years old now and has trouble getting around. He can't even get on my bed anymore. It hurts my heart so SO much.

Also, I just had to have my beautiful orange cat put to sleep a few weeks ago, so I'm already on shaky pet-heartache-ground.

just reading this made me start crying again.

christ in a pez dispenser.

i will try the microlactin. i got some metacam from the vet, but it can cause kidney damage with longterm use. i'm also giving him joint supplement powder.

i'm considering trying acupuncture. (i'm a bit of an acupuncture enthusiast and i've heard it works for dogs too.)

i wish i could clone him. when i adopted him, i told myself "oh, i'll be married by the time he goes to the great farm in the sky." now i have no interest in or prospects for marriage. i just want my damn dog to live forever. is that so much to ask?

I gotta admit those puppy videos always bring a smile to my face...