I thought about Roy's thread this morning. I looked outside about an hour ago to see my two dogs having a tug of war with a deer hide. By now, they both smell like sweet sweet deer death. It's a good sized hide too, I guess my neighbor down the ridge didn't bury his deer guts deep enough. There are some farm dogs that come and visit my dogs, and I'm sure they brought the hide over.
I love my dogs to death, but there is nothing fun about bathing a 120 lb. German Shepherd that doesn't want a bath. The little 45 lb pit is even harder to bathe somehow. Having had two back surgeries doesn't make it easy either. My pregnant wife sure isn't going to give them a bath. I wonder if my neighbor would be up for it. Chances are he'd be an advocate of a lead bath.
I was going to shoot my pit a few months ago. I love that dog, I found her under a car in a parking lot in the Virgin Islands when she was three weeks old. She was covered with fleas and mange, and full of worms, and she wouldn't even drink water. I had to feed her milk water with a syringe for two weeks before she started acting right, and the medications had to kick in. I raised her very carefully, and she is a wonderful dog. Very loving and gentle, except to other animals that challenge her, then she is the meanest thing I have ever seen in my life. They breed dogs for fighting in the islands, and I didn't know all that before I got attached to her. I didn't even know she was a pitbull when I found her.
Two months ago, my wife had my pit with her when she stayed to sleep after a night shift at her doctor friends farm. She told her friend not to let our dog out. The doc let her out anyway to play in the yard. Doc has a goat that is the alpha animal on the farm, it even bosses her dogs around. Well, that goat decided to assert itself on my pit, and long story short, my wife was doing emergency surgery on the goat to keep its airway open a little later on the way to the vet. The goat was destroyed by my dog. This is illegal in WV. I have to put the dog down by law because of my wife's friends stupidity. If I don't, and someone calls the sheriff, he will come out and shoot the dog, and send me a bill for the bullet. Destruction of livestock means that my dog is now classified as vicious.
So, with tears in my eyes I told my wife I was going to shoot my dog. It absolutely broke my heart. My wife flipped out(she's a city girl from New Jersey), and went ape shit. Needless to say after she called me an animal and immoral and so on, she decided we are not going to put the dog down. So, now I am looking outside at this dog that I was going to put down that is rolling around(as we speak) on an old rotting deer hide, and wondering what my wife would say if I told her that our dog just disappeared today.