Lucky dog!

That salty dog.

Jake's attitude during and after the rescue in one word:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!

(from the events described in the article)

Could be the snarling issue is the reason Mr. Dog is in the water in the first place.

Could be the snarling issue is the reason Mr. Dog is in the water in the first place.

Most dogs under stress will attack a human -- even one trying to save it. Be very careful when trying to help a dog hit by a car, for example

Where is the boat it came from?

Where is the boat it came from?

#7 | Posted by MURPHY

Did you read the article?

GOATMAN

As someone who's taken in a lot of stray dogs for days or weeks (until owners can be found, or new homes if not - sometimes mine), I've found that irresistible food for dogs is as effective as the old saying, "the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach".

sorry--

too tired to read anymore--

in LA for a couple of days on fire duty for homes damaged.

It may have been part of the Navy's innovative program for monitoring tidal patterns with domesticated animals. They had tried it with homeless people but they all kept being swept onto the Jersey shore for some reason. Karma, maybe.

Touching story, I guess, but, who the heck wrote it? Was it a journalism assignment for a ninth grader that accidentally got published in the paper?

A retriever is a very good swimmer..have had them for 20 years now...and have seen them swim as much as 3 miles following my boat..this aint nothin special .

grok you in your fullness

A retriever is a very good swimmer..have had them for 20 years now...and have seen them swim as much as 3 miles following my boat..this aint nothin special .

Why are dogs following your boat? I never heard that one before. Most say that it is the FBI that has been trailing them for twenty years.
They're not really there you know.

Why are dogs following your boat?

Some dogs like to follow. From the time I was i 5th grade to 10th grade, I had a paper route. It was 3.5 miles long. My dog followed me every day on my bicycle, even when it was 105 F outside in the hot Texas sun.

Twice she had a litter of puppies and we had to lock her in the garage to keep her from following me -- even the day the puppies were born. Who can explain why dogs do what they do?

Maybe he had seen the Peta ad which calls fish "sea kittens" and got confused....

From the time I was i 5th grade to 10th grade, I had a paper route.

Damn

Another thing that dates us.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a kid on a bicycle delivering papers.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a kid on a bcycle delivering papers.

Come to think of it . . .

"My dog followed me every day on my bicycle..."

Dude, that dog should have been in the circus.

This might inspire a few somalis in terms of new tactics to board tankers. I wonder how hard it is to swim in a dog suit?

I had a yellow lab. That guy loved the water. First time we went camping I headed over to the river to do some nymph fishing. First cast and he jumped in after it.

Without tying him up it was impossible to fish.

I loved that guy. RIP Samson.

Well, he wasn't swimming per se. Just sorta dog paddling, actually. Nyark nyark.

I had a dachsund as a kid. She loved the water, but with that long back, she tended to be bottom-heavy. Hilarious to watch her at the lake or ocean or whatever - she'd paddle along, using her tail as a propeller, and usually her hind end would start to sink. We'd have to pull her out of the water. Then she'd race along the shore and bite -- literally bite -- the waves until she was so full she looked like a big brown water balloon.

I don't recall her being a particularly SMART dog.

Got a basset named Myrtle. Theoreticly she can swim. Right to the bottom of pool. Now she sits on the pool steps on a hot day. She's not so smart either.

But then neither is my son. A couple of weeks she started barking near the little woods by my home. my seven year raced over to find out what was there. Turned out to be a skunk.

Headlines could be

"Dog hears of Obama Presidency and swims to Europe"

or in Dog Media

"Cool Blonde on swim harassed by drunken humans on boat"

What did Murphy say when the dog jumped over the cliff?

Dog gone.

My yellow lab swam like a rock. He liked hanging out on the stairs of the pool. But on the several occasions where he got into water that was over his head, he had to be rescued each time.

Turned out to be a skunk.

#22 | Posted by trooper at 2008-11-21 10:35 AM | Reply |

Had a Samoyed when I was a kid that got sprayed real good by a skunk...like tears to your eyes kinda stink. Having heard that tomato juice neutralized the smell, my mum and I washed Chimo in a big vat. The poor fucker stank of tomato juice AND skunk for about 2 weeks. Same dog would chase thunder...RIP my crazy hairy friend.

Murphy,
You are a fireman?

Getting sprayed by a skunk seems to be a rite of passage for country kids. I was sprayed several times, once when I was out coon hunting and my moron dogs tried to tree a skunk.

We all smelled pretty bad. I got home and my mom was still up and wouldn't let me in. Had to strip off in the barn and go down into the basement to try to wash off the stink.

Ahh, the joys of coon hunting. The real sport of redneck working class hillbillies.

Never, ever, shoot a skunk in your front yard.

One of Larry's escapees, probably.

Dogs are habitual followers..I once looked after a friends husky-wolf cross...I was living at my cabin as I was working as a guide at a lodge 2 miles from my island. Every morning I would get in the boat to go to work...guaranteed 20 minutes later Bones was there..he would run through the bush..swim a small narrows to another island..run down that island and cross over to the lodge..that dog was a pain..but well behaved...and I didnt have the heart to tie him up where he could run free all day .

Gotta love those labs.

I'll bet the fisherman would have gladly caught a dolphin if he'd had the chance, and he would have been quite proud of his catch.

Yet, that same fisherman would never have "caught" a dog in the same way, despite the fact that dolphins are a lot smarter and a lot closer to us than dogs.

Just something to think about.

Murphy's the old woman that gives out the donuts and coffee.

Spud's heard a lot of improbable fishing stories and a lot of shaggy dog stories.

This one's a two-fer.

Be Well.