Loving my Oldies

Good grief!! :laugh:

May you have the strength to continue to fight for this.

That is very funny :laugh: . Sammy Esq is one handsome fella.

Yes that was my thought as well, it's spring & a young man's thoughts turn to love. :laugh: Or following a good smell? My Jeune has a certain something and even if she goes downstairs to wee, the other dogs will either follow her or sniff her madly when she comes back upstairs. Maybe another femme fatale has been walking in those streets.

What devastating news. Poor little puppy. I am sitting here feeling so sick with sorrow and rage - I can't even beging to imagine how Orange's family must feel. Such f**king low lives. I hope with every ounce of my being that they are found, prosecuted and named and shamed. Oh, Orange - my heart breaks for you.

When I came to Sydney from Brisbane many many years ago, I was a morning runner. My morning runs in Brisbane were regularly like a social occasion - everyone said hello, people waved from cars, early workers waiting at bus stops, said hello, how are you, you're looking well ..... and so on. I remember with great fondness the elderly woman who ran down the front steps of her high Queenslander one morning with an umbrella because I was running in the rain. :laugh: :laugh: I assured her I was fine and that the rain was a welcome relief from the heat. What a shock Sydney was. No one said hello or even nodded. Quite the reverse in fact. Rigid faces staring straight ahead and total ignore. However, I pressed on and only when I'd finally given up after about 3 months did I actually get an unsolicted hello. I wondered whether the person was from Brisbane :D I am surprised that so many posters have assumed, quite incorrectly, that I am a cranky grump who doesn't like to talk to people :laugh: :laugh: . I couldn't count the number of times my walks turn into a chatting session with some neighbour or other, and even some stranger who happens to make a comment on the dogs. Luckily my dog are well behaved and will sit quietly around our feet while we chat. :D :D Not everyone who says hello is being friendly, however. A few years ago, I was walking Tiny Tilly, now gone to god, on her own because she was blind and I preferred to be able to give her my undivided attention. Plus the fact we could stand in the one place for 5 minutes while she happily sniffed. This particular day, I was about 100 yards from home in the next street when I saw this man walking along the street. He looked familiar and he was obviously coming towards me. I said hello (thinking how nice the neighbours were) he said hello and then started to abuse me for not picking up after my dog. Anyway, he was right off base and I told him that I always picked up after my dogs and pulled out bags from my pocket. He huffed and puffed for a while and then turned around and stomped off home. After a little chat the next day outside his house about being polite and neighbourly ( :D :D ) he came charging down the road to my place with a huge bunch of Camellias.

What is it about Bull Terriers? Baz was certainly a beautiful lump. Condolences for your loss, but my thanks and gratitude for sharing your life with him.

I thought it was pretty restrained too, LC? I think some posters are worried that he has suffered severe psychological damage and that I have comprised forever the chances of older women being able to engage in meaningful conversations. :rofl:

Come on, shortstop. I'll race you to the end of the paddock.

Goodness, these photos are calendar material. Love the one of the old staffy with teeny little kitty snuggled up. Love them all actually.

I can't remember, tlc. Just a few months. DiscoDobe, there used to be a Doberdave - or something like that - a long time ago.

Probably because persephone and I "know" each other from DOL for more years than we care to rememeber and she absolutely and totally knows that I am most scrupulously polite and caring person. Nope, I am obviously horrible, rude, shouldn't walk dogs until late at night, and probably shouldn't even have dogs :laugh: :laugh:

Very heartwarming. Beautiful photo.

The OP, me, Danny's Darling - aka Mother Moocher - LOL.

But that is funny, tlc, and original .... I think. :laugh: A single dog to equal your four would be BIG. Who's upset. He was just lucky :laugh: Now that's funny too.

That happens only occasionally around where I live and is so rare that it comes as a shock. It is not unusual to see a group of regulars with dogs in tow and babies in strollers gathered on a footpath passing the time of day.

Oh, Nooooo you're human. Sometimes even I wonder :D

Beautiful dog and well muscled apparently from those photos.

I've arranged for the packers and removalists, I just need your address.

Just the other day a group of people were walking towards us and I said to OH "Ready for the "Where's the saddle?" comment?".... As we passed them one of them said "Wheres your saddle?" I had to laugh. I don't mind it though and I wouldn't be nasty in return! They're just being friendly. Wasn't there a DOLer who had as part of her signature: What part of my dog looks like a horse? .... something like that :laugh: :laugh:

I live in a street that goes around in a loop so doesn't get through traffic as it were. Because I walk the dogs generally twice a day and it is a popular are for dog walkers and women with children in strollers, I see the same people several times a week and it is all very friendly and chatty. Strangers are always greeted with a friendly smile and a hullo. I understand it was just a comment and not a judgmental one. Just a case of one time when I wasn't able to let it go through to the keeper.

reply..................... "Oh, Thank you :) I just knew I had to buy a new red globe for that outside light :) " In some places, persephone, that denotes a doctor's practice - :laugh:

Depends on the council. For instance, my council doesn't have a restriction on numbers, provided there aren't any complaints. I can empathise. I would have been cross too. I think the one that surprised me the most was when I was walking the five of them, "I hope they aren't all yours?" Why for goodness sake? Do they look badly fed, poorly groomed, sick ???? The man was in a van and cruised along the other side of the street, hanging out the window making this comment. Yes, generally mine are just strolling along on loose leads.

Unfortunately, they aren't archived - they are deleted in the interests of space . I stuffed up some photos once and I remembered that I'd posted them on DOL, so contacted Troy to see if the thread still existed. Sadly no. Terribly Off Topic, but do you remember the man who had a litter of Dalmatians and they were named after the King Arthur characters? That must have been around the same time as Hamlet's puppyhood ???

Only that much ????? Yep! Total failure, persephone :laugh: