"Can we have him, Mom? Can we have him? Huh, Mom? Can we have him?"
NO!
Focker has been renamed. His name is Achilles now. If the day ever comes that we get a dog, it will not have the word "bull" in its breed. English bull terrier is close enough to Pit Bull in my book. If I were thinking of getting a dog, it would have some variation of the word "poodle" in its name. Not "bull".
Anyway, Achilles in a super friendly dog. He's not at all like his psychotic mother. He's just really, really, really, really hyper. He's 10 months old, I think, so I'm not sure if he'll turn mean as he gets older, so I keep my metal feed bowl with me at all times in case I need to whack him. I also don't trust him around the kids without me. Call me crazy.
Speaking of his mother, Bob put Bitch down this week. She had cancer. It was really bad and giant tumors came out on her back and were bleeding and full of pus. Bob had spent the last six months taking her to vets and administering antibiotics and steroids and then the vet called and said the bloodwork had come back as cancer. I didn't ask Bob what kind of cancer but the dog could barely walk. It was horrendous and she was in severe pain. Putting her down was definitely the right thing to do but Bob felt really bad about it.
I'm not going to lie and say I will miss the vicious, psychotic dog, but I do feel bad for Bob because Bob feels bad about it. At least he has Achilles now, I guess. Who knew that would turn out to be a positive?
Sarah looked at our rooster T-Rex today and said, "Are we going to eat him?"
"Yes."
"He looks YUMMY!", she said.
We might be growing up right in the middle of a city, but I proclaim my kids as full-fledged farm kids now.
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Growing up in Utah we raised sheep and cows on our farm. Many a night we sat down to the table and wondered who we were eating. Sounds terrible doesn't it.
Wait a minute, I think I am mixed up. Didn't Bob have two female dogs, mother and daughter? And this pup is brother or son to the one he just put down? Is Achilles now his ONLY dog or does he still have the other female? Because dogs have no qualms about incest and Achilles will be breeding back to his sister or whatever he can get to, if he's not fixed asap. I'll bet Jerry can do the job to save the vet fee. We want pictures on that one.
The family tree is Queen Bitch begat Bitch, who begat Achilles. Bitch is dead. Achilles' grandmother is still alive and well and lives in the house with Bob's daughter. She only goes in the front yard and the house. Achilles lives in a kennel on Bob's back porch. When he's not in his kennel, he has the run of the whole backyard where he spends most of his waking hours stalking my chickens.
My thought is that Bob's daughter will be moving out soon and taking the grandmother psychotic dog with her and I'll only have one dog to deal with. This might be overly optimistic?????
Just saw a story that I'm dying for the backstory on, and I thought if anyone knew it would be you: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/26/national/a140120S55.DTL&tsp=1 (quads born in Utah, tight security as some crazy lady has tried several times to get into the hospital, but no detail as to why).
Anita- I don't know who she is but I put it out to my people to see if anyone is friends with her.
I'm sorry for Bob, because he's sad, but otherwise, good riddance. Perhaps she was meaner because she was ill and in pain, I mean, cancer usually causes a lot of damage and pain before you can actually see it. Anyway, how is your class coming along?
It's going fine. I'm in it right now. Sarah woke up saying she 's sick to her stomach and she's warm. Greg is at the store and I've got to make the call. School or no school.
I have a Bullmastiff and believe me- they are nothing like the other Bull breeds. He's a giant dog, but really acts like a Basset House.
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