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Have had some scary time lately with Tammy, my miniature dachshund.  Two weeks ago she hurt her back around her hind quarters area.  I took her to the vet and sure enough, she probably injured herself jumping onto and off from the sofa and bed all this time.  The vet gave her three medications and I’ve been sleeping in the living room since then, close to where she’s made a nest of her blankets on the floor.  Just making her take it easy.

Fourteen days later and Tammy is much better!  She’s still not allowed to try to jump onto furniture, so I’ve been carefully picking her up and putting her on the sofa so she can be near me while I work.  She seems to be satisfied with the arrangement.  Here she is from this afternoon:

A very dear friend is in the process of making Tammy a ...

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I really should post more pics of Tammy, my miniature dachshund.  She’s just so cute and comical… and sometimes too smart for her own good.  She has also literally saved my life and sanity.  I would be a far different person – and maybe not here at all – were it not for Tammy.

So last night we were getting ready for our Saturday evening ritual of tuning in to Svengoolie, on the MeTV network.  I was finishing up a few things at my desk before the show, and Tammy had peeked her head out from under her blanket.  And she just looked so cute, reclining back on the sofa.  It was such a good pose that I picked up my iPhone to snap her picture.

And it so happened that I caught her about to yawn.  I quickly hit the button.  And got this pic:

Maybe I’ll ...

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A man in Brazil has died after a cow on top of his roof crashed through the ceiling of his house and crushed him in his bed.

From the story at The Telegraph…

The cow is believed to have escaped from a nearby farm and climbed onto the roof of the couple’s house, which backs onto a steep hill on Wednesday night.

The corrugated roof immediately gave way and the one-and-a-half-ton animal fell eight feet onto Mr de Souza’s side of the bed.

His wife, and the cow, both reportedly escaped unharmed.

Rescuers took Mr de Souza to hospital with a fractured left leg but no other
obvious injuries, reporting that he was conscious and talking normally.

Hours later however he died from internal bleeding while still waiting to be
seen by doctors, according to his family.

Mr de Souza’s brother-in-law Carlos Correa told Brazil’s Hoje em Dia

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These two sweet little chihuahuas need help.  Your help!

They have a home.  They have love.  They just need names.

My girlfriend brought them home this past weekend from an animal adoption agency.  Right now their names are Lou and Blue.  Lou is toward the top of the photo and Blue is in the bottom half.  They are a mother-and-son pair and Kristen took both of them into her heart and home.  And they are absolutely cute and sweet and loaded with personality.

But Kristen is thinking that they need some real names.  I mean, “Lou” and “Blue” are what they came up with at the agency, after these two were rescued from a really horrible situation.  They each deserve a proper christening.

So I’m putting it to this blog’s readers: what would y’all suggest we name them?  Remember, they’re a mother-and-son pair, and Kristen would like that to ...

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Poor Tammy.  Ever since I brought her home last year, she has often sat alongside the horse pasture next to our land and watched the horses.  I can’t help but think that deep down, she believes she’s going to grow up to be that big someday, too!

Tammy, miniature dachshund, dog, horse

I always tell her that she doesn’t need to be a horse and I wouldn’t want her to be one either! I mean, a horse can’t snuggle up next to you on a sofa while you read a book. It can’t play with you indoors. It can’t sit patiently at the dinner table with those irresistibly cute eyes waiting for a tasty morsel of steak or barbecue chicken.  It can’t lay against your bedroom door as you sleep at night, guarding you against monsters and the bogey-man.

And for my money, I think a miniature dachshund can outrun a horse any day!  ...

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A retiree in Argentina bought two toy poodles for about $150 (American) each.  When he brought them home it was discovered that the “dogs” were in reality two ferrets pumped-up with steroids and then had their fur styled to make them look like poodles!

From Mail Online’s article about this very bizarre con…

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“Beware of rodent”

Gullible bargain hunters at Argentina’s largest bazaar are forking out hundreds of dollars for what they think are gorgeous toy poodles, only to discover that their cute pooch is in fact a ferret pumped up on steroids.

One retired man from Catamarca, duped by the knock-down price for a pedigree dog, became suspicious he had bought what Argentinians call a ‘Brazilian rat’ and when he returned home took the ‘dogs’ to a vet for their vaccinations.

Imagine his surprise when his suspicious were confirmed – he had in fact purchased two ferrets that had

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In the state of New York a government agency is ordering pet cemeteries to cease and desist with interring the cremated remains of human pet owners with their beloved dogs and cats.

Meanwhile in Fort Pierce, Florida (I happen to have lots of family there) two women were taped by video surveillance at a Winn Dixie supermarket stealing seventy-five sticks of deodorant. Police figure the ladies will try to sell the deodorant to convenience stores.

Not the craziest stories that I’ve heard lately, but certainly worth passing along for your mirth and merriment 😛...

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I don’t know if this warrants a 9-1-1 call or what, but to this blog’s readers here in Rockingham County, North Carolina:

Be advised that a large black bear was spotted by Yours Truly on Vernon Road not far from Rockingham Community College earlier this evening.

Yeah, I’m certain it was a bear. At first I wondered if it might be a large black dog instead. Until I saw its face and muzzle. It’s a bear all right.

It was acting a bit lethargic. Walking on all fours with its head going from side to side. Maybe he (or she) had just woken up from hibernation and was looking for a mid-winter snack?

Anyway, now y’all know. There’s a bear somewhere around Vernon Road.

Ummm… don’t tease it?...

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Awright, so at this point we’ve got…

…Thousands of dead fish and birds in Arkansas

…Thousands of dead fish in a river in Florida

…Bunches of dead birds in Kentucky

…More dead birds in Louisiana

…Thousands of dead fish in the Chesapeake Bay area

…Dead fish in New Zealand

…Countless birds found dead in Sweden

…Tons of dead fish washing ashore in Brazil

…Thousands of dead birds found in eastern Texas

So, what’s going on here? This kind of thing worldwide, I’m rather reminded of what Goldfinger told James Bond: that first is happenstance, a second time is coincidence, a third time or more is… something else?

No, don’t go calling me a “conspiracy theorist” or anything like that. But any person would be hard-pressed not to admit: that is a rather peculiar (and disturbing) pattern going on lately.

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