bebeboom
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posted on February 12, 2007 11:33:58 AM new
I received an early Valentine's Day gift this morning from my dog.. I had let her out for her morning run when she came scratching at the back door. No sooner had I opened the door, and she came bolting in covered with black mud and carrying a rabbit in her jaws. I screeched and she dropped the dead rabbit on the floor, I screeched again and told her to pick it up and take it back outside.. of course she just looked at me like I was out of my mind. she was very proud of her present... OMG.. I disposed of the poor bunny and hosed the dog down..
Hope my other Valentine's Day Gifts will be a whole lot nicer than this one was..!!
You know I could see how she was confused while I was screeching at her and telling her how bad she was.. but how else could I have handled the situation? I wanted her to know this was not acceptable...
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classicrock000
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posted on February 12, 2007 02:56:47 PM new
aaahhh well ya could have put her to sleep...she might have gotten the message
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Bear1949
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posted on February 12, 2007 03:53:14 PM new
Be glad it wasnt a rat.
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
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Helenjw
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posted on February 12, 2007 04:16:21 PM new
What an ungrateful bi'tch!
You could at least teach your loyal and loving companion to bury his precious love offering.
After screetching like a banshee, I doubt that you will receive another gift like this one.
As tweedledum says, Tsk, tsk, tsk. 
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bebeboom
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posted on February 12, 2007 04:29:30 PM new
LOL you guys/gals... If that poor bunny was still alive and twitching, I'd have had to call the sheriff.
I don't know, Bear, a rat, I have no feelings for, but a bunny..how sad. I gave the dog a bath this afternoon and brushed her teeth, still, still I won't let her give me any kisses for a long time..yuck.
Classic..you meanie..
Helen, loved the pic!
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classicrock000
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posted on February 12, 2007 06:44:24 PM new
"I gave the dog a bath this afternoon and brushed her teeth,"
well at least someone in Mississippi has teeth....
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Bear1949
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posted on February 12, 2007 07:15:09 PM new
"I gave the dog a bath this afternoon and brushed her teeth,"
Easy job when the teeth are in a glass on the night stand.
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
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classicrock000
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posted on February 12, 2007 07:17:37 PM new
ya talking about Maggie ?? 
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Bear1949
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posted on February 12, 2007 07:27:51 PM new
ya talking about Maggie ??
Aint touching that.
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
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bebeboom
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posted on February 12, 2007 07:36:22 PM new
Goofballs... I still have all my teeth, thank you.
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profe51
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posted on February 12, 2007 09:23:28 PM new
winter rabbit. m-m-m-m-m-m
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Helenjw
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posted on February 13, 2007 06:33:24 AM new
Bebeboom,Boum...Boum...Boum...! Amuses-toi avec mon coeur!
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Bear1949
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posted on February 13, 2007 07:46:18 AM new
Goofballs... I still have all my teeth, thank you.
You brushed your teeth too?
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
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kiara
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posted on February 13, 2007 07:52:55 AM new
I love that pic also, Helen.
Maggie, she was just being a dog. Be glad she didn't bring you this bunny.
A German is breeding them as he wants to feed the North Koreans. One bunny feeds a family of six.
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bebeboom
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posted on February 13, 2007 08:22:28 AM new
Helen, thank you for the link.. what a fun site!
Kiara, that bunny is huge! I love their soft faces. We have some very large Swamp rabbits down here, much larger than what my little Yorkies were.
I know, Poor Pokadotty, she didn't understand what all the fuss was about..
Bear, you aren't that far from me...don't make me come over and spank you!
LOL Profe, winter rabbit yummmm... rabbits and squirrel will never be on my plate..
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logansdad
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posted on February 13, 2007 11:48:57 AM new
"I gave the dog a bath this afternoon and brushed her teeth,"
Maggie, you made Bear jealous. He will not get either until March 1st.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
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Bear1949
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posted on February 13, 2007 01:27:09 PM new
Bear, you aren't that far from me...don't make me come over and spank you!
Promises, promises, promises.
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
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roadsmith
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posted on February 13, 2007 05:50:09 PM new
Our daughter lives in So. Calif. in a city on the coast, and they have lots of possums. One nightunbeknownst to her the dog brought one as a gift and laid it on the living room floor. Later our daughter was picking up toys and picked the possum up, thinking it was just one of the stuffed animals. I'm not sure she's recovered yet, and that was at least 5 years ago.
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bebeboom
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posted on February 13, 2007 06:18:24 PM new
OMG.. Roadsmith... eek! I'm shaking my hands at just the thought of it..bless her heart..
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mingotree
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posted on February 13, 2007 06:24:12 PM new
bebe, just think of it as a roast with the fur still on
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bebeboom
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posted on February 13, 2007 06:33:39 PM new
Wait a minute Mingo... this roast had two eyes staring blindly at me and a cute little tail!
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profe51
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posted on February 13, 2007 07:47:31 PM new
I don't like squirrel either maggie, but my grandfather kept rabbits here when I was a kid. Chicken fried they are real tasty.
Kiara, that big boy is either a Flemish Giant or a Giant Chinchilla. Yeah, I know it's not a chinchilla it's a rabbit. The word refers to the appearance of the hair in that breed. Nice specimen. He'd make a week's worth of stir fry. Those North Koreans would need quite a few puppies to take his place.
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roadsmith
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posted on February 13, 2007 09:19:25 PM new
Yeah, bebe, it was pretty awful. But by the time she told me about it, she could laugh. This was an evening when we were visiting and I saw a couple of possums on her back wall, headed toward the avocado tree. I'd never seen one before. Such a SPECIAL evening!
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Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine . . They start out as grapes; and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. ~Dave Barry
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kiara
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posted on February 13, 2007 11:59:40 PM new
Profe, the big bunny is called a German Gray Giant according to the sites I can find and those all show the same fellow in Germany like he's got the secret recipe for growing them as I can't find any other ones.
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mingotree
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posted on February 14, 2007 12:09:14 AM new
Ya, bebe, so did that roast at one time.
And the hamburger ...and the veal...
Kentucky Fried used to be an adorable fuzzy little yellow ball of fluff.
Almost forgot those big brown eyes that used to be on the venison we had last fall
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kiara
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posted on February 14, 2007 12:12:59 AM new
Have you ever named any of the animals you've eaten on your ranch, Profe? We had an older neighbor who raised rabbits and I'd feed them and play with them in their cages. One time when we were over there his wife served us some little meat balls and they were unbelievably tasty so I asked her how she made them and then he casually told me I was eating..... I think his name was 'Fred'.
He named each of his bunnies and he seemed to be very attached to them and then he ate them with no feelings at all. It made me feel terrible because I didn't realize I was eating bunny burgers, or 'Fred' and they just kept eating him like it didn't matter.
It was just a way of life for the guy that raised them and he taught us how to pan for gold and he taught me how to witch for water and he can fix almost anything. It's weird that I felt so bad at the time and now a few years down the road I can't even remember the bunny's name for sure but I remember the little bunny burgers tasted so good.
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profe51
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posted on February 15, 2007 12:26:18 PM new
kiara, German Giant will do it too. There's a kid nearby here who raises Flemish Giants and Giant Chincilla rabbits and shows them all over the place. Some of hers are that big. Rabbit fur gives me hives so we don't keep them, but they are sure tasty.
As far as food animals with names, nope. My girls learned early on that if they had a favorite meat goat or lamb or calf that they didn't want to end up in the freezer or the auction the best way to prevent that fate was to give the beast a name and make it people friendly with lots of personal attention. No way Papi was going to slaughter an animal that answered to it's own name. My biggest problem is with the excess buck goat babies we always have. They just beg to be named and are so darn cute I have to sell them real soon, or I get stuck with hayburners who don't earn their keep. Last spring when the girls came home for easter I took all the sale goats and put them in an out of the way pen so they wouldn't go out and play with them all and name them.
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kiara
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posted on February 16, 2007 12:33:53 AM new
Smart girls - smarter Papi.
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profe51
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posted on February 16, 2007 05:01:28 AM new
The boy and I are outnumbered two to one around here, you gotta be pro-active.
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