What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[mat_the_cat]

Can you let me know when the next one is? Just for research purposes obviously

[vulgalour]

Remember the family dog, Blake, that I adopted when I moved house?  He's making me happy a lot lately.  Since Mum died he wasn't getting the care he needed, the reasons are various but inexcusable and a big part of the reason I decided to adopt him as I knew he'd likely not get the care he needed if I didn't.

 

After an intensive couple of weeks of grooms, walks, pettings, playing of fetch, tweaking of diet and generally making him feel like the most important thing in the world I've been rewarded with a dog who has a new lease of life.  He gets frustrated if he doesn't get his daily walk, he patiently waits for grooms to get all that pesky loose fur off and quite often comes to find me with one of his toys when I've been working too long and should really stop for a cuppa or something to eat.

 

He's still Blake the barky monster, but he's now a happier and healthier version who I feel far less worried about than I did.  He's much more settled and chilled out and while he'll have a bit of a barky-bark at new people or workmen or black people - seriously, I have a racist dog, I have no idea why - he's nowhere near as bad as he was.  He's even made some new friends and loves going to the park to meet other dogs.

 

As anyone here with a dog will attest, having a furry barker around really does help cheer you up and make the days go that bit easier.  I've also discovered that yoofs with swagger and their hands down the front of their jogging bottoms are trumped by a ridiculous southerner walking a German Shepherd.

[KruJoe]

^ That, and I'm not even 'into' dogs

[xtriple]

This last year has been one of the hardest of my life (healthwise and my wife kicking me into touch) and if it hadn't been for my dog (two since Feb when I got Chester back from my wife as she couldn't keep him) I'm sure I wouldn't have made it. Sorry if that sounds dramatic, but I fear it's true. I utterly adore these two scabby gits and without them, I would probably never leave the house. As it is, I take them out 4-5 times a day and now know everyone round here and have quite a little social club that I walk with at 2:00 each day.

 

Phoebe's health worries me as she is now quite lame (again!) and the vets bills have been horrendeous this last six months, but I wouldn't swap them for anything, so I know exactly gow you feel.

[michael1703]

I love my dog walking social club too, I don't religiously walk my dog at set times, so meet different people at different times of day, I've met all sorts of people from it

[Cavcraft]

Also, having a small fluffy dog makes women talk to you. If the situation arose where I needed to take up MILF hunting, I'd get myself one no danger.

[dollywobbler]

Mat - there's going to be a ceilidh at the 2CVGB National later this month. I won't be playing though. We have only played two gigs this year...

[M'coli]

It's not racism, some dogs don't like black dogs because it makes reading facial expressions difficult for them.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Plus black dogs are statistically more likely to have a criminal record

[trigger]

Yeah, but the bitches love them...

[fordperv]

Vulg that's great to hear

[phil_lihp]

That's great to hear, VA.  I occasionally walk dogs for the local Dogs Trust and twice I took out a German Shepherd who I would have taken home there and then, she was getting on a bit but was (fairly) well behaved, friendly and very pleased to get out in the fresh air.  I'd recommend volunteer dog walking to anyone, it's a good compromise for me as there's no way I could have a dog, I'm barely ever at home and we can't have dogs here anyway, some of them obviously have 'issues' that made them a relief to hand back (or so wound up/unruly that they're impossible to get in the car in the first place, twice that's happened now) but occasionally you get one like her that was hard to say goodbye to!  Luckily the easier ones get rehomed pretty quick, the last one I took out and wanted to take home with me, a collie cross, had someone waiting to see him when I brought him back to the centre which was nice.

 

I get the social thing now too, small dogs aren't my cup of tea but I did find that lots of people, mostly women, stopped to talk and fuss over the rather weird-looking boxer/staffy cross I took out a while back.  

[Cavcraft]

Our dog is a white supremacist, he won't look black dogs in the eye.

 

 

[Norbert]

Walking Hound_Norbert is on some days the only respite between a hectic work life and a mega hectic home life, so it's great for both of us (he's tapping his paw and looking at the door as soon as I finish breakfast/tea). Lovely to spend a bit of time out with him and get some fresh air and space to think. He's even got loads better with other dogs now and will be nice and calm, until the moment they snarl at him in which case he reverts to typical JRT and acts like everyone has spilt his pint.

 

It's even better when it's a nice day and we can get out into the lanes and fields between Slade village and HMP Slade, then I take the extending lead and he dashes about at Terrier VMax.

[spike60]

It made me smile to see Ecclestone pay £60m to get bribery charges dropped, it must be the cynic in me.....

[HillmanImp]

  On 05/08/2014 at 12:10, spike60 said:

It made me smile to see Ecclestone pay £60m to get bribery charges dropped, it must be the cynic in me.....

 

Mental isn't it, being able to buy yourself out of bribery charges. What next, getting off a flashing charge by showing the jury your cock or avoiding a murder charge by stabbing the judge.

[mat_the_cat]

  On 05/08/2014 at 12:45, HillmanImp said:

What next, getting off a flashing charge by showing the jury your cock

 

Never worked for me...

[The Moog]

Going to look at an XJ8 for my brother which is advertised as being owned by Rusty Lee! Why this should have any impact on value I will never know

[Jim Bell]

Pics or gtfo

[dollywobbler]

Fact. She used to own a Lotus Excel. 

[Jim Bell]

She's moving right up on my coolness barometer.

 

 

 

As if Rusty Lee could GET any cooler.

[cms206]

The 940 Classic now has a clean bill of health for the year - huzzah!

[Jim Bell]

  On 05/08/2014 at 14:05, cms206 said:

The 940 Classic now has a clean bill of health for the year - huzzah!

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 04/08/2014 at 23:28, vulgalour said:

Remember the family dog, Blake, that I adopted when I moved house?  He's making me happy a lot lately.  Since Mum died he wasn't getting the care he needed, the reasons are various but inexcusable and a big part of the reason I decided to adopt him as I knew he'd likely not get the care he needed if I didn't.

 

After an intensive couple of weeks of grooms, walks, pettings, playing of fetch, tweaking of diet and generally making him feel like the most important thing in the world I've been rewarded with a dog who has a new lease of life.  He gets frustrated if he doesn't get his daily walk, he patiently waits for grooms to get all that pesky loose fur off and quite often comes to find me with one of his toys when I've been working too long and should really stop for a cuppa or something to eat.

 

He's still Blake the barky monster, but he's now a happier and healthier version who I feel far less worried about than I did.  He's much more settled and chilled out and while  he'll have a bit of a barky-bark at  new people or workmen or black people - seriously, I have a racist dog, I have no idea why - he's nowhere near as bad as he was.  He's even made some new friends and loves going to the park to meet other dogs. 

 

As anyone here with a dog will attest, having a furry barker around really does help cheer you up and make the days go that bit easier.  I've also discovered that yoofs with swagger and their hands down the front of their jogging bottoms are trumped by a ridiculous southerner walking a German Shepherd.

german shepherd- they all do that sir

[The Moog]

  On 05/08/2014 at 13:45, Barry Shitpeas said:

Pics or gtfo

Sadly it isn't her selling it, unless she has got manly and now works in a trading estate near Stockport.

 

Still if I buy it you are welcome to come and have a free seat sniff

[Cavcraft]

  On 05/08/2014 at 13:41, The Moog said:

Going to look at an XJ8 for my brother which is advertised as being owned by Rusty Lee! Why this should have any impact on value I will never know

Take Vulgalour's dog with you, you might get a discount.

[Jim Bell]

  On 05/08/2014 at 15:00, The Moog said:

Sadly it isn't her selling it, unless she has got manly and now works in a trading estate near Stockport.

 

So devastate.

 

[Lord Sterling]

  On 05/08/2014 at 10:06, Corsaviour said:

Our dog is a white supremacist, he won't look black dogs in the eye.

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Billy, your dog looks scarily like Dave Lee Travis.

 

 

Btw, nice one 'forum layout' for showing Billy's pic as a link and not a pic as it should be.

[The Moog]

Jag bought. Rusty Lee not met.

 

How about a Rusty phact to impress your friends down the pub?

 

She only got rid of her current 51 plate Jag because JLR gave her a new one gratis. These A Listers...

[Pillock]

That's a bit off, I reckon I'm about as famous as Rusty Lee these days.