Scudrunners

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/17/do ... anine.html

Is it bad that I empathize more with dogs than humans?

No, but you may find yourself craving garlic, rare steak
and flying biplanes with abnormal accelerations and
unusual attitudes at the surface.

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Merry Retail Season!  I'm hoping for a green Christmas,
and they just cut the grass at the park.

Previous pup. Dumb as a post, would attack a running lawnmower. Really miss him.


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Current pup. Also dumb.


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Years ago, we had a cocker spaniel who used to lie in wait and take a run at passing cars.  Finally caught one.

Found the poor little bugger several hours later and, after a rush visit to the Vet, had to put him down due to a broken back...

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I'll take character over brains, any day.

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I'll take character over brains, any day.
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Yep.

Foiled again by auto-rotating forum attachments.

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[font=georgia]On July 8, 2014, Jeanetta Riley, pregnant and a mother of two, was killed by police officers outside a hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho. Riley reportedly had a history of drug addiction and alcoholism, and she was drunk, incoherent, and waving a filet knife at the three police officers who showed up at the hospital. A dashboard video camera mounted on one of the police cars shows that Riley was at least 10 feet from the cops when they opened fire. Why the police opted to shoot Riley rather than zap a 100-pound woman with one of the Tasers they were carrying is unclear. The officers were subsequently exonerated, no apology was given to Riley’s family, and the story never made national news until it was recently dredged up by a reporter from [/font][font=georgia]The[url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... -for-arfee][font=inherit]Guardian[/font][/url][/font][/size].
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[font=georgia]Fast forward 14 hours and travel 50 miles south to a café in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where Craig Jones was eating lunch, having locked his dog Arfee in the cab of his van. Jones had rolled the windows part-way down so the dog would stay cool. Unfortunately, when the two-year old black Lab mix started barking, someone called the cops. Officer Dave Kelly caught the call. Kelly later claimed that when he approached the van, Arfee (who was initially described as a vicious pit bull) lunged at him, though the van’s window was mostly rolled up. Kelly put a bullet in Arfee’s chest.[/font]
[font=georgia]This time the media did respond. A headline in the New York Daily News proclaimed “Idaho Cop Shoots, Kills Adorable Black Lab Named Arfee After Mistaking Him For Aggressive Pit Bull.” A “Justice For Arfee” Facebook Page was soon created, and a shadowy organization called “Anonymous” posted several ominous videos on YouTube vaguely threatening Coeur d’Alene police officers with retribution. Two months later, when a police review board ruled that the shooting of the dog was unjustified, the citizens of Coeur d’Alene staged a “Justice for Alfee” rally, demanding that Officer Kelly be fired. The police department issued an official apology to Jones who was awarded $80,000 in damages for the loss of his pet.[/font][/size]