Funny Pet Residue Story

17 years ago

When watching Oprah the other day with the dog trainer, she made the comment that when you have dogs you must deal with lots of poo and lots of pee. How true, how true.

I've had four large dogs over the past 16 years, and can't count the times I've had to deal with this. Lots of people have issues with it, but having the strong stomach that I have fortunately been blessed with, I am not one of them.

I have many funny stories now that I think about it that deal with this subject, but one of my favorites takes me back to the week of 9/11. What an awful week. I was in a complete funk, as was everyone else. I simply was not functioning properly. Of course, this didn't mean that the two large dogs that I had at the time were going to have their schedules altered. I tried my best to keep everything on track.

When going for our morning walk, I put on a pair of sweat pants with no pockets. I did this frequently, and had to put my house keys in the plastic bag that I carried two poop bags in. Because I wasn't functioning properly, I put the keys in a poop bag, and didn't noticed when I picked up the poop that the keys were in it!

When I got back to the house, I searched all over the place, think I had dropped them. Then I discovered the keys covered with poop, and no way to get into the house without using them.

The whole thing was so ridiculous that I just had to laugh. It was something that I really needed that day.

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munkos
17 years ago
Haha, the things we do when we're not quite with it.

Kinda OT, but big guy made me laugh this weekend. He just wouldn't sit down. I'd tell him to sit, and he'd back up and put his head down. I probably told him to sit about 6 or 7 times, each time he'd back up. Finally he sat down, and he let out just about the biggest toot I've ever heard come from a dog, and I've never seen him hang his head so low in embarassment before.

Never thought a dog would be so conscious of their bodily functions. I guess now I know next time he refuses to sit, it means I should probably give him some privacy!
shiollie
17 years ago
When Doggies was still with us, he liked to play with stuffed animals and the first thing he would go for is the plastic eyes, one day when my husband was cleaning up the yard of dog poo, he came across a pile that was "staring' at him, it really freaked him out! I could not stop laughing!!
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sammy zone 7 Tulsa
17 years ago
Cute cute stories.
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quirkyquercus
17 years ago
This isn't so much a funny story as it is a success story. My boys don't potty on our regular 1 mile walks anymore. They either go before we leave or when we come home I let them out.

If the walk is more than a mile, the one mile point seems to be the limit, they will have to go. So for our extra long weekend walks that is different but most of the time I don't have to pick up any of this anymore.

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Ok now that is the success story, now for a disgusting story.
When you have a long haired dog(s), every now and then there will be little dried doodieballs in the coat under their tail somewhere. If you don't discover this at grooming time or if they have to go potty before that then all that comes out could get stuck there in the hair and you have to wash it all out. It is nasty! Every now and then we have to do "butt checks" and take a quick whiff to make sure there's nothing hiding under the tail. What is worse is diarrhea. You have to wash that out of their coat also.
socks
17 years ago
Are you saying you don't pick up after your dogs on the longer walks? Huh?
sheltiemom
17 years ago
On the subject of disgusting . . . as some of you know, our senior sheltie is in very bad health. One of his medicine's side effects is "less-than-solid" poop. It has become necessary to clean him up after he goes. This morning, he came in and backed up to me and waited for his clean up. I started laughing so hard, I could barely do the job. Guess it has become a "routine" and who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
quirkyquercus
17 years ago
A hot water tap outside might be a worthwhile investment.

Socks...
What I meant was the dogs don't stop to potty on the walks that are a mile or less. The used to go early on in all walks. The longer walks they stop to go. Walking with baggies full of poo is not enjoyable so I invite them to go in the yard before the walk. This affords us new freedom to go more places without having to worry about walking around with full baggies.

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