Foo - I just went through an hour of HELL !!!!

My baby....the first of my two boys got out tonight.

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I generally let them out in the back yard now and then to run a little and "do their business" (not to mention a trip to the dog park nearly every night). There is only one gate to my back yard, it's on one side of the house. I never use or open it except when I'm going through myself (and that's probably only when I mow the lawn).

After being out for a while I opened the back door and Solomon came back in. Ammo did not.....I didn't see him, but didn't think anything of it as it was dark. Sometimes he likes to stay out longer, so I just closed the door and waited another 10 minutes. I called him again and he still didn't come. It was starting to drizzle outside, so I thought I better get him in.

After more unsuccessful calls, I go outside and look around the side (by the gate) which is where they like to lay down in the dirt sometimes. I don't see him, but I do see the gate WIDE OPEN. Immediate adrenaline rush as I'm picturing my baby wandering and sniffing all the way up to the main road (Drew St.) and imagining him hit by an oncoming Hum-V or something.

Ok, back inside throw on more clothes and jump in the car. I drive up and down all the immiate nieghborhood roads with no luck. It's getting cold and drizzling a little harder now, so I run back inside and put on my jacket (still in shorts). I start walking around; I walk into the nieghbor's back yard and get soaked by a sprinkler. It's starting to rain lightly now. I stop back and grab my umbrella.

Now I start walking up and down all these roads calling him, flashing a flash light down between every house, getting more frantic everytime my steps take me back up near Drew St. After about an hour, I'm soaking wet, dirty, cold and nervous for my baby. I intend to change my clothes and get right back outside to look for him.

As I near the house, I see something (about Ammo sized) dart between trees between my neighbor's yard and mine and disappear back in through the gate (which I left open in case he came back and wanted to go to back yard). I call him but he doesn't come. I get to the back and he's waiting by the back door with this innocent look as if he had been there the whole time. He was trying to avoid me seeing him (darting through trees because he thought he was in trouble most likely).

As you can guess, I didn't care about him leaving was just hugging him thankful that he was back and ok. I brought him in and grabbed a towel to dry him off and he's lying on floor beside me now.

What a nervous hour I just went through!!! Whew and I glad its over and OK now. :)

lol all that work for nothing. Sounded fun:)

pfft... you should try my semester out

it's like

this is the way you draw it... no no no! this is an exception to the rule!... now you got it.... draw this one... no no no! there's another exception... draw that one... no no no! there's another exception!!... draw this here... no no no!! don't you remember that exception!?... draw this... no no no! this is an exception i should have taught you... draw this one... good... draw this one... no no no! there's an exception for this... draw this one... almost... but there's an exception... draw this one... NO! there's an exception... draw this one... another exception... see?... draw this... no!!!! no no no! there's an exception... draw this... good... draw this... good... draw this... no no no! there's an exception... draw this... no no no! there's an exception...


assign the partition... good... assign the partition... no no no! this is how you do it.... assign the partition... no no no!


and on and on and on and on...

pfft... you should try my semester out
No sympathy here.....there is nothing in school you can say you have to do that I did not do that (and probably more). Cry me a river!

you must really have it for them dog then.... O_O

His baby got lost for an hour. I can relate to that. I ran around the neighborhood yelling out, "Stitch!" Imagine a grown man calling the name of a small Disney character for all to hear. At least, it wasn't "Fluffy" or "Fifi" :D

Man, when a dog gets out. That is tough, esp. when you don't see it happen. If I ever catch the meter reader that left one of my gates open I will break his legs,...first.

well it's good that your dog stayed around.

Glad to hear you got your baby back OK. Did you guys see the story about the pitbull that got into a fight with a porcupine? and I thought skunks were bad... :(

And I thought, from the title, this was going to be a post about being dragged to the mall for Christmas shopping. :)

And I thought, from the title, this was going to be a post about being dragged to the mall for Christmas shopping. :)
Not possible....no woman only shopped for only "an hour".

:roflmao:

hey termite king lol jw though but what does piloting tardis mean?

A real man would've figured out how to escape after an hour.

hey termite king lol jw though but what does piloting tardis mean?
Hehehe....you younuns you!!

Google TARDIS and see if you can figure it out. ;)

lol ok ill do it right now! brb

A real man would've figured out how to escape after an hour.
No....a real man, like myself, doesn't get suckered into going in the first place. Last resort is just a resounding "NO" with no questions asked!!!

It's nice to be single and not have to get suckered into BS like that.

As an animal lover, my heart skipped a beat. I know how hard it would be for me to lose my dog. I'm glad everything worked out OK.

isn't Tardis a system clock sync tool for computers?

isn't Tardis a system clock sync tool for computers?
Uh....yeah....that's it. A Gallifreyan time sync tool with galaxy network delay calculators and time differential modifiers.

after seconds of research i managed to find that tardis is "(Time And Relative Dimension In Space)" wtf lol?

after seconds of research i managed to find that tardis is "(Time And Relative Dimension In Space)" wtf lol?
Technically, that is what it stands for.

Did any names pop up with it? Did you try an image search?

no but a lot of stuff had doctors in it.

no but a lot of stuff had doctors in it.
Who? A doctor you say? :D :p

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/tardiscam/intro.shtml

oh.... i got it :D

Haha yeah docter who! I read that too:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk./wales/southeast/fun/ecards/images/cardiff/tardis_bay340.jpg

Thats a tardis? Looks like a porter potty lol

Maybe your dog got into the TARDIS for an hour.

Haha lol yah really

The TARDIS (an old type 40 with a broken Chameleon circuit) is the Doctor's ship. It travels through space and time.

So being the TARDIS pilot means the flying the TARDIS space-time ship. :)

BTW....it's not a toilet, dingleberry, its a police call box. The chameleon circuit (when it worked) was designed to make the ship to "blend in with the environment" when it landed. At the time (early 60s) it supposedly landed in England and since Police Call boxes were common that's what it took the shape of. However, the circuit broke so the ship has forever been stuck in that shape/disguise ever since.

Hey KT, glad to hear you got your pooch back. I know what that's like. About ten years ago, I had a cranky old schnauzer (Riley) that was there one minute and gone the next. The problem was, it was the start of a week-long cold snap (-25 to -35C at night) and the dog had just been to the groomers days before; hence, he had very little hair!

He was gone for three days and by the second night, I had resigned myself to the fact that I probably wouldn't see him again. I called the pound and the SPCA several times daily which ultimately paid off. The silly bugger found himself a good 3 miles from home and had crossed three major roadways. A senior citizen noticed him on the 2nd day and tried to call him into his house but like I said, he was a cranky dog and not very trusting of strangers. The senior tried to entice the dog with weiners but Riley wasn't having any part of that. Riley ate the food left for him but wouldn't go near the guy. So anyway, old guy calls the SPCA which in turn calls me. I drive to the neighbourhood and I can see Riley from 1/2 a block away sitting in the front yard of this house. Before I even have the car in park, Riley is throwing himself at the door and yelping with joy. Hearing the commotion, the old guy comes outside to watch. After many dog kisses and cuddles, Riley ran up to the old guy and licked his outstretched hand once as if to say, thanks for saving me!

Your dogs reaction of sitting by the back door like nothing happened made me laugh because I could picture this greyhound sitting there looking up towards the sky, whistling with a look that said, What??? Anyone who says dogs can't reason has never been entertained by one! :D

Man, I don't have kids, so I can't relate from personal experience. But boy, when some of my trainees went out running at 11:00pm and didn't come back until 1:00am, on dark country roads, I was up pacing. They came back just as I was about to go looking for them. I can only imagine if it were my child.

I tell my dogs "Go ahead, run away... I'm not coming after yer sorry butts. See if you can find a home where the'll put up with yer malarky like I do here! Go ahead, please... Run Away!" Damn stubborn Chows never do <sigh>

Glad your rover is back home Termie.

Your dogs reaction of sitting by the back door like nothing happened made me laugh because I could picture this greyhound sitting there looking up towards the sky, whistling with a look that said, What??? Anyone who says dogs can't reason has never been entertained by one! :D
That's EXACTLY how he looked!! Great description. :D

That could never happen with my two. They stay with eachother. But walking around the neighborhood calling out dogs, dogs and waiting for them to come is not fun. (And if I do get them that way the Beta male is apt to come running at me so fast that it is scarry).

pfft... you should try my semester out

it's like

this is the way you draw it... no no no! this is an exception to the rule!... now you got it.... draw this one... no no no! there's another exception... draw that one... no no no! there's another exception!!... draw this here... no no no!! don't you remember that exception!?... draw this... no no no! this is an exception i should have taught you... draw this one... good... draw this one... no no no! there's an exception for this... draw this one... almost... but there's an exception... draw this one... NO! there's an exception... draw this one... another exception... see?... draw this... no!!!! no no no! there's an exception... draw this... good... draw this... good... draw this... no no no! there's an exception... draw this... no no no! there's an exception...


assign the partition... good... assign the partition... no no no! this is how you do it.... assign the partition... no no no!


and on and on and on and on...

I hate your life.

I lost my cat once. It was unsufferably hot outside and I was worried sick about her. She's an inside only cat and had snuck out when I was bringing groceries in the house...only time I left the door open. Anyway...so we spent ALL Saturday morning looking for her and then made up fliers and stuck them up all over the neighborhood. We walked around the neighborhood for 2 hours then gave up when the temperature hit 102 at 3:30 in the afternoon (middle of July). We then drove all around the surrounding neighborhoods till 6:00. Finally when we came home I heard a pathetic mew coming from my neighbors back yard. They were gone for the summer and the gate was locked. My husband climbed the fence and found her in our neighbors dog house. Poor kitty was so thirsty and hot. I wasn't mad at loosing a Saturday, I was just so happy to have Calley back!!

So...I understand your plight...glad he's safe and sound at home where he belongs. Funny...they didn't really go far, but we look all over heck and gone!!