Say Anything.

Last week our xbox 360 died so Erik just went to send it off to get repaired or be replaced. yay. It's been a bitch not having it.

I think I'm going to have to read those soon, the way everyone here keeps recommending them.

I think im going to have to read it period specially if I can share it with our 11 yr old? For realsies? I tried getting him to read Ender's Game but he never picked up on the series. I think he actually lost the book =(

Kami's 11 and loved it. She's just starting to get into reading so it wasn't hard for her to read.

FYI the Rapture is coming Saturday the 21st at 6pm. Still don't know if that's eastern or pacific. I'll bring the nachos if someone wants to bring the bud light.

I got your bud light!

The children have decided to spend their last day on earth going to a strawberry festival.

Well I just spoke to Mike in Korea - it's 11:30 pm tonight there and he's ok. I asked if he got the memo and he said he did, but he decided to watch 'Battle for LA' instead.

Well to each his own. Damn nachos sounds so good right now and it's not even 9 am here.

It's Billie, dog catcher extraordinaire!

So I was driving along a back road to meet my boss and saw a pretty husky dog running along the side of the road. Pulled over and got her attention, she came up with no collar and bloody paws, but otherwise looked too well cared for to be a true stray. After a moment's hesitation I let her in the front seat (didn't want to risk getting out and opening up the back with traffic whizzing by) and drove her to the nearest animal hospital. She'd worn her nails down to the quick but was otherwise unhurt. Microchipped, but the owners had not activated the chip. So there were phone calls and whatnot, and in the end I decided I wanted the vet to take a good look at her and then I would take her home until we found her owner.

Matt's little heart is going to bleed husky when he sees her :\.

awwwwwww! I wish I coudl find a stray husky running down the side fo the road with no home. =( My fam would let me keep one if if found it bloody I bet. Turds don't want to have a big dog instead we have a Pappilion. Its a cat that barks basically. Husky = dream dog.

Good luck finding her owner !

So far no luck finding the owner. She's a typical Husky, very boneheaded and bossy. Phantom (our shepherd/akita mix) is like wtf did you bring this bitch in my house for? He's more laid back/submissive so he mostly just gives me these betrayed looks when she pushes him around.

Aww I have always wanted a husky. When I was 5 or 6 our neighbors had 3 of them and I SO wanted one of them lol. One came wandering in our yard a few years back HE WAS HUGE he must have been some sort of mutant because he weighed like 145 lbs and came up to my waist. Luckily we were able to track down who he belonged to by way of his humane society collar and his own came and got him.

Good luck !

I always wanted a Husky, or a wolf cross.

I sure hope this story has a happy ending :\. So far it's not going too well. No sign of owners despite phone calls, internet postings, and posters. And. We can't keep her. No fault of her own, but it's not fair to our own dog to bring in a more dominant, higher energy dog to join the family. His behavior is starting to change and we don't want her stay to have a permanent impact on his fantastic personality. I had thought that perhaps a dog to keep Phantom company would be a nice treat for him and they would frolic through the yard together like long lost siblings, but it's just not so in spite of their many similarities.

We had hoped a rescue might take her, but to my dismay every rescue we've called has been full and not taking new surrenders. We can't take her to the pound - I can't take her somewhere where there's a chance she'd be euthanized. We've let the pound (and everyone else in the state, it seems) know that we found this dog, but I'm not taking her there. A humane society might take her but only after she lives with us for a month. We've been asking friends and family if they want a dog but frankly most people who want and can have a dog already own one, it seems.

*having a sad*

It took my sister 3 days to find her lost dog, with Craigslist postings and flyers and multiple people searching the physical area and the internet, making phone calls, sending emails, etc... perhaps the old owners aren't as industrious as my sister and haven't thought of/gotten around to checking the right places on the internet. Perhaps they are on vacation and don't even know the dog is missing yet. Don't despair!

On the topic of rapid behavioral changes in animals: After only 4 days of being alone, my cats seem to have been completely cured of their previous addictions to both being fed - regardless of the amount of food already extant in their dishes - at 6pm every day (this may be due more to the new dishes they have, which have a reservoir of food that replenishes the dish as they eat), and of their demand for kitty treats immediately afterwards. They were total crackheads about the treats... if you opened the drawer in which they were kept at any time around 6pm, they would come running. If you touched the bag containing the treats, they could hear it, even if they were outside on the patio, through the closed windows and sliding glass patio doors. They could somehow distinguish the sound of the treats bag from the sound of other plastic bags. If you even said the word "treats" they would spaz out and stand by the drawer, meowing. It was weird enough that they needed their food dishes topped off before they would eat, but the treats thing was really annoying. A most welcome change. Now if only I could cure them of wanting to go out and come back in and go back out and come back in and go back out 200 times a day...

Well I think if we ever lose Phantom, Animal Control will be the -last- place we call. Fucking soulless automatons.

To be fair, working at a place where they euthanize animals and see all sorts of animal mistreatment and bullshit would probably suck my soul out pretty quickly too.

do you have a garage to keep her in? That way shes not in the house upsetting your dog?
Have you checked petfinder? They have classified ads section for lost dogs also you can search up rescues in your state maybe theres a husky rescue thats not super close but will travel to get her? Maybe the specified rescues wont be full.

Things are getting a little better with the two dogs, though it still feels like a lot of animals in this house O_O. They've gone from constant tension to constant playing, so there's a lot of hair flying and dogs crashing about the house. Phantom still won't pick up his toys though.

It looks like we'll be able to get a rescue to list her but we would need to keep her a bit longer. We've been giving them breaks from each other during the day - she's kind of relentless with the playing and our dog is a couch potato. Also playing with other dogs is kind of new to him. They are sleeping in the same room now and there don't seem to be any nighttime problems other than a fucking amazing amount of dog hair on my chair.

Not that we wouldn't be thrilled if we found the owner, of course. But I feel like we've done our due diligence in that regard - flyers, phone calls, internet, visiting places in person and asking around.

I'm at the beach! I'm also exhausted =/

So today I had a fantastic doctors appointment. After 2 years of shitty ones, of being told about new problems, or that I'm not trying hard enough, or whatever - today I had the first entirely positive experience. I lost 7 pounds in 3 weeks. And it is entirely due to a doctor that listens to me and changed my diabetes medication 3 weeks ago. I've had better control of my diabetes than I've had in over a year of struggling with it, I feel better than I have in almost 2 years, my pains been better, labs came back perfect (i nearly fainted) thyroid's right where it needs to be, the enlarging of it that was making me uncomfortable is gone.... I almost asked him if he had the right patient file. And he listened to me and was willing to up my sleepytime medication to help me sleep better. (and it helps with the pain).

I feel...fantastic. And then there is the rp on SA which has had me with a constant smile on my face for most of a week. Yay to things going right..for once!