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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My little corgi girl, many many years ago, was out for a potty break, when her little ears were still floppy. So she was a tiny little thing indeed.

Up the road comes a bruiser of a dog, a big pittie. Now, I knew him, we were buddies. So he sees me, comes trotting up at speed, and this little ball of fur with satellite dishes flopping on its head just jumps in between us, a growl like a toy chainsaw coming out of her.

She would have been one bite if he had been looking for a snack.

But she didn't waver at all. He sat down, all confused, and I made the introduction. They made friends, and it was all good.

She almost made it to sixteen years old. Right up to her last day, either of us would have done the same thing for each other. It's creeping on a year since her last day, and I still miss her every one that goes by.

Just wanted to share that memory again.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing, it's a lovely memory.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I remember having my puppy corgi Turbo when his ears were still floppy. He was the biggest baby, and yet the bravest puppy when something could potentially be a problem for myself and my wife. I'm going to give him lots of hugs for you.

I'm sorry about losing your girl, but I'm sure those were a wonderful 16 years. I don't look forward to when I lose my best friend...

The Turbs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Beautiful story. My little dog thinks she can be the impatient snippy one when she meets other dogs. Somehow oblivious to the fact that she's only 8kg and the other dog is 45kg+... I wish it was in defence of me, but i think she's just an anti-social git (an old rescue, so not much hope of big behavioural reform at this point).

Yours sounds like a wonderful companion amd a real reminder of the human-dog bond.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

-FDR

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a toddler, and a 14 year old dog I've had since she was a puppy. She doesn't like kids. She doesn't like my kid. But if he wanders off, she keeps an eye on him. I have a few acres of land, and now that he's 2, my boy can actually get lost. I've learned that if we lose track of him, we don't call for him, we call the dog. She comes to us when called, knows where he is, and will lead us there.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The fuck? Pay attention to your 2 year old lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right? Why the fuck is this getting upvoted? Don't let a toddler wander off alone, certainly not on 2 acres of land where you can easily lose them. Jesus Christ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How else are we supposed to get those "feel good" stories about a kid lost in the woods with their loyal dog?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok helicopter parent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If this happened once or maybe twice I could understand. Kids can get away from you really fast with a simple lapse of attention. Besides that, if it keeps happening then it's kind of just irresponsible parenting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like their dog does most of the parenting lmao.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dog must have had a complex relationship with the mother given how she wrangled that monster.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I read that the reason dogs don’t like the vacuum, is that it looks like it’s yanking you around against your will, which upsets the sense of who’s in charge.

The suggestion was that in order to put your dog’s mind at ease, you should drag your vacuum into the living room, loom menacingly over it, and give it a good yelling-at… and that this would somehow make your dog more calm around it.

Personally, I think it would make the dog LESS calm, considering that not only does it have to endure the vacuum, but that there’s also some complex psychological drama between mom and the Electrolux, which Poochie can see but not understand.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thus validating their fears of danger?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Always seemed to me like it’d do more harm than good, anyway!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought it's because of the noise and their much more sensible hearing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m sure it’s something more along these lines; that makes way more sense to me, as opposed to the idea that a dog would think the vacuum is fighting with you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t have a dog but I’m now considering doing this every time I prepare to vacuum as well! Time to show it who’s in charge around here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

In the dictionary, there needs to be a picture of Charlie next to the word “brave”.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This kind of stuff makes you a dog person for life

My dogs are lil butt heads and instead bark at everyone, but they cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This kind of stuff makes you a dog person for life

And the moment it defecates in your house it makes you a pet-free person for life

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh they look at you all cute and gives you kisses and you start to overlook that. If that is a common thing, then that's a training issue. My dogs will scratch at the back door asking to be let outside when they have to go. That's like saying you become child-free once you have to change a diaper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We've adopted 2 dogs and a cat that the previous owners claimed had toilet issues. All 3 three of them cleared up almost instantly upon moving in with us. 1 of the dogs in particular would do everything he could not to piss/shit in the house (when we first got him he had a digestive problem from holding it in too long when the previous owners didn't let him out). This experience has led me to believe most of these problems come from neglect and are not the animals fault.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

one inside poop is enough to make you pet-free? I agree pets aren't for you. Puppies pee and poop countless times indoor while you are training them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sister's dog, a cross-breed even tinier than a chihuahua, is absolutely terrified of me when I travel to visit them.

I'm a dog person but I cannot get 100 ft close to this thing.

The exception, of course, is when I kiss the nephews goodbye. She bites my ankles and shoes madly, she won't have none of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

evil ahh dog

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

brave comrade doggo

comrade-doggo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To them a vacuum is probably a soul sucking machine that traps the scents of the people he loves into an invisible void.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Very good example of overcoming fears.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a far more tragic version of this story is in the Mabinogion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We'll never forget you Cu Chulainn!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had a cat that I'll never forget for what it did for me. It was a Persian and was getting on in years; it suffered dementia so severe it would freely defecate everywhere. It didn't even know how to bury its own poop. The kindest thing it ever did for me was die.

I'll never forget you, insert-whatever-stupid-name-my-sister-gave-you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Average guy on hexbear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One can only hope you get the same amount of affection and care when you are old and pooping yourself.