Dogs can be so funny

[michaeladkins]

Well, sometimes... I got a 20 pound turkey out of the freezer on Tuesday in preparation to smoke it on Saturday. So that means thaw, brine, and marinate the bird throughout the week. Saturday finally came and I was ready to do some smoking. I got up at 6:30 and put it in. 12 hours later and she was done. Low and slow is always best.

So around 7 Saturday night I took the bird out and it smelled amazing. We had planned on eating it that night but changed our minds and thought we could just make sandwiches for work that week. I was not happy about it, but hey whatever. The wife and boy wanted to go see Box Trolls. (Don't waste your time)

So tonight I get home from work and I get the bird out to start carving it up. I get the breast all done and I realize it is time to get my boy in the shower. So I leave the bird just sitting on the counter. Yes, you guessed it, the scene from "A Christmas Story" was about to unfold.

The boy gets out of the shower and dressed, my wife and I head back into the kitchen and see the pile of chicken breast gone. Lol. She screams out the dogs name and he comes running with a goofy smile. Serious, the dog smiles. He only really smiles when he is in trouble. He knew he had been caught. He is a beautiful dog and has an awesome personality but man, he ate my bird!

My wife and I did get one sandwich each from the bird. It was very good. I will be smoking one again soon. I told my fishing buddies I would smoke a turkey and pig butt for our U.P. Trip the 22nd.

I need to take a picture of that dog when he is smiling.

Here's the bird.

[esshup]

Friends of my parents had a standard sized beagle. This happened when I was a kid, so the details are somewhat sktechy. I don't know why the ham was sitting on the counter, nor why they left it there when they went out. When they came back home, the ham was completely gone, and the dog had drank the toilet dry.

I honestly can't remember if the house was a mess or if the dog was able to hold all of that inside.........

I have Springer Spaniels. They are good about not getting up on the furniture, etc. Well, 99% of the time.

I caught some salmon in the St. Joe river, and 2 were females full of roe. I got the skeins out whole, brined them, using one of the prepared mixes that also has a red and orange dye in it. If you get it on your fingers, they'll be red for a few days. Anyway, I had them on the counter drying before I put them in the fridge. They were laying on wax paper.

I go into the kitchen to finish the skeins and the wax paper is on the counter, but no eggs. WTH?? Thinking my girlfriend finished them for me, I scour the fridge and freezer. No skeins. I even looked in the trash. Nothing. Now why the heck would the wax paper be on the counter but no skeins? It wasn't until 2 days later that the Female Springer pooped red/orange that I knew what happened. How she was able to get them off the wax paper, not move the paper and not get any dye on her is beyond me. She must have jumped from the floor to the counter, since there were no tables or chairs nearby that she could have used as a intermediate step. I was in the house the whole time and I never heard a thing.

[michaeladkins]

Great story esshup!

[Genesis 27:3]

Great looking bird too. That pink tone is a great sign of delicious things to come!

[span870]

Have an English mastiff. Left a three pound bag of boneless chicken breast in the sink to finish thawing out. Went outside to do yard work. Came back in and bag and all were gone. Wife blamed my cat. Wouldn't believe it was the dog until about three weeks later came in the kitchen to find him finishing up a 4 pound plate of raw pork chops. He was taking one from the counter at a time, eating it, then going back for another. Hey at least he has manners. Yes they are funny. I just peaked around the corner laughing and watching him eat all of them until he was done. Scared the living tar out of him on the last one and he hasn't done it since. Oh but he will stalk whatever's sitting there. Looks like a shark circling a seal in the water.

[swilk]

Good grief...what kind of cat do you have that would even be able to eat 3lbs of chicken?? Mt lion?

[span870]

Wife hates my cat. Gets blamed for everything. That's what I tried to tell her but she wasn't having any of it. I agree they all are funny and all have there quirks. With 14 dogs the laughs never end here. The laughs and the vet bills.

[throbak]

Span870 Finally some one with more dogs than us we have a measly 13 But I have one up on ya My wife works for a vet LOL

[span870]

Oct 10, 2014 20:14:22 GMT -5 throbak said:

Span870 Finally some one with more dogs than us we have a measly 13 But I have one up on ya My wife works for a vet LOL

That's just the dogs. Not counting chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pot bellied pigs. You're what we call in the animal collecting world, a rookie.

[throbak]

Now just wait I didnt get to mention the 14 GUINEAS 5 Cats ,a rescued 30yr old Mule and the 2 Horses lol

[esshup]

Do fish in a pond count?

[michaeladkins]

And I think my one dog is plenty. ;-). You guys are a riot!

[Russ Koon]

Wow! When we got down to one cat and no other critters, I swore that when he was gone, there would be no more.

Then a couple of half-grown kittens showed up in our hedge out front on a cold late spring day. I agreed to take them in and see to their needs "until we could find them homes"....yeah, right! Placed one with the folks across the street who already had half a dozen, and the other had pretty well won me over by that time and is still here after four years. Getting soft in my old age.

Then last year at my youngest sister's house for the holidays, we met an eight-month-old rescue kitty....an almost perfect match to our rescued male, except for longer hair and a completely opposite personality. He's polite, reserved and cautious, and is under the furniture somewhere if there's a person in the house he's not familiar with, and she's never met a stranger, or a challenge that slows her down. Couldn't resist, as she was going to be returned to the shelter because one of sis's dogs just insisted on wanting to eat her, and wasn't responding to their efforts at retraining. Getting REALLY soft in my old age.

Best move, pet-wise, we ever made. Those two are FAR more than the sum or their parts. The interaction went very well very quickly, and our human families are now tired of our cat stories. The kitties hit the jackpot, as we have no other grandkids.

[span870]

Oct 11, 2014 7:23:11 GMT -5 throbak said:

Now just wait I didnt get to mention the 14 GUINEAS 5 Cats ,a rescued 30yr old Mule and the 2 Horses lol

Right now I have almost 100 rabbits alone. Checkmate.

[throbak]

Things you eat dont count

[span870]

Oct 12, 2014 14:33:56 GMT -5 throbak said:

Things you eat dont count

We don't eat them. They are Tennessee redbacks. We raise them and use and sell them for beagle training. Have less meat on them than wild. I tell you I don't know how I got into the situation that I am. I wouldn't want to guess what I pay on feed bills in a month. At least the rabbits have some type on income. Heck my wife even gives the eggs away. They are all fun though. We view them all as pets. All are spoiled even my breeder rabbits.

[schall53]

Okay span, I happen to be a farm boy from way back and I know as a fact there isn't a
breed of rabbit that lays EGGS!!!!!

[Woody Williams]

Oct 13, 2014 7:45:01 GMT -5 schall53 said:

Okay span, I happen to be a farm boy from way back and I know as a fact there isn't a
breed of rabbit that lays EGGS!!!!!

WRONG!!

Everyone knows The Easter Bunny does..

[oldhoyt]

I saw that one coming...........

[span870]

Yeah missed some appropriate punctuations there.