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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsApocalypse no , the boog is showing his colonel Kurtz
Peace is hard on warriors well it is for the boog the chocolate lab. Why we pulled out we bagged it, It is there real estate the lower pasture at night , who the skunks and raccoons why because you cannot win against a insurgency .
For at least eight of his nine years he has probably gotten sprayed around maybe 12 times. So I put him on a 30 foot wire lead. Once the sun comes up he is a free range boog. At first I tethered the lead to a metal cork screw he would tear it out. Now I have it attached to a weight bar that we bench loaded with 150 pounds.
And so far this morning he has dragged the weight bar probably 3 feet. Barking growling because of the critters out there in the dark. Then he will come back and sit with me on steps. As Im trying to enjoy the morning with my pipe and coffee. He will whine paw at me lick my ears , come on man I have to get them.
Boog it is over with this folly of the skunk wars. Dude you have a bad leg you have a chest full of medals a real fruit salad. I have had to take you for rabies boosters stitches over the years and you have about 6 Purple Hearts. And one big ass body count of raccoons and skunks.
He looks at me I can see his chocolate mug illuminated by the kitchen light. I do love him so much he is a original. And he doesnt like forced retirement as a skunk war vet at all.
Danascot
(4,664 posts)and he wasn't a dog who learned his lesson when he attacked one and came back whimpering, his face looking like a hairbrush. Every skirmish just made him madder and more unreasonable and his next attack would be even more ferocious. We'd tell him, Buddy you can't win against a porcupine. Leave them alone. But in a few months he'd come back with a nose and mouth full of quills. He wasn't a rocket scientist but he was a wonderful dog in every other way (except in the spring when he would shed his weight in dog hair.)
TEB
(12,716 posts)What you are saying
sarge43
(28,939 posts)Old soldiers never die.
TEB
(12,716 posts)Im old 2/325 PIR trooper I served with and understand warriors
sarge43
(28,939 posts)He has an understanding commander.
"Stand down, Cpl Boog. Duty done."
TEB
(12,716 posts)But yea no boog is career private his 201 file is packed with ucmj. Company level and field grades
sarge43
(28,939 posts)Yeah, one of those guys.
Recruit wrangler moment, "Just think in six months at least one of them will be in finance or ammo."