…don’t offer your last pet, which has died of neglect, as a trade-in. (Via FARK)
This really beggars belief.
It might be Pit material, but I’m just too dumbstruck to compose a flame.
What the hell?
plunk “I need a new dog. The play’s gone right out of this one.” :eek:
Hmmmm… Dogsicles? Pup pops? Perhaps you could puree it and add tequila for a dogqueri? Make some pug ripple ice cream? What would you do for a Klondog bar? A Pugsicle? An ice corgi sandwich?
A Baked Alsatian, for dessert? A bowl of Frozen Yorskshire?
Mmmmm… Slush puppy.
(Gwon to hell.)
I’ve always been fond of chili-dogs.
A Boston Cream Terrier?
The shelter should have yelled, “Take that terrier and burrier, you ain’t get any more of these bitches.”
My former landlord had two big hunting dogs. One dog had really short haired, so for X-mas we got him a doggy sweater… He ate it. (The dog ate it, not our landlord.)
Mty landlord build the dog’s kennel so that it was connected to his garage, the dogs could enter a doggy door that led to a space… kinda under the counter top of his workbench actually. Then my former landlord build a heating system for his garage with a wood stove. So his garage and the kennel could be heated in the winter.
On really cold nights… he still brought the dogs into the house.
How do you freeze your pooch solid in Santa Fe??? You have to be a total… looks around… oh, this isn’t the pit… **poopy-head/b] to do that!
Santa Fe is in the moutains. It’s cold every night, even in the summer. Ask NinjaChick.
I often find myself wondering how people that stupid manage to survive into adulthood. Then I realize we still apparently need things like instructions on a shampoo bottle, shake my head, and start silently weeping to myself.
Pupsicles, anyone?
I wouldn’t say it is exactly cold on summer nights, but Santa Fe’s elevation is higher than Denver’s and it is certainly not put-the-dog-out weather right now.
At various times I have seen small packs of semi-feral dogs running around the hills down in Santa Fe. What with neglectful owners and the coyotes, I suppose those dogs just have to stick together. 
When my step daughter was a teenager, her cat Scandal disappeared. A week later a neighbor came over and asked if we were missing a long haired gray cat. He said there was a dead cat in his backyard. I went over and looked and it was Scandal. Did I mention that the weather had been below freezing for a couple of days? He was frozen solid. Amber wanted to give the cat a decent burial but wanted a way to defrost the cat first. I suggested putting him in the refrigerator, thats where we defrosted other frozen stuff. I’ve never seen anyone laugh and cry that hard at the same time.
My Mom called me at school years back to tell me a stray dog had killed my kitten, Max. She left the little guy on the elevated birdbath to keep his body safe in case the dog returned but it was hours before I could get home, in the middle of winter, and by the time I got to him not only was he frozen solid but so was all the birdwater to the edge of which he’d become temperately attached. The hole for burial I had to dig in the frozen tundra for him made it appear as if I was burying a giant tick.
Actually, my family lives just north of Taos. My relatives have an entirely different concept of “cold” than this here Canadian. (They kept trying to foist sweaters on me.)
However, reading the story, for some reason my brain was picturing Albuquerque which is a lot less frigid than Santa Fe. You are correct, Santa Fe and Taos is ski country and cold enough to freeze a pooch in winter.
Indeed, 'tis. It can get warm during the day in the sun - I routinely walk home from work sans jacket, but it can get downright frigid, owing to the altitude (7500 feet or therabouts). Got a wee bit more snow today, too - just a dusting, but, snow!
Also, when trying to adopt a cat from a shelter? Don’t tell them you live in a dorm, because they won’t let you adopt. And if you go back the next day with a friend who has a permanant address in Santa Fe? Don’t talk to the same woman who remembers you.
Unlike humans - who are a tropical animals -dogs evolved in colder climes and are very cold resistant.
Unless it was a tiny Chinese Crested or some other hairless breed - they are pretty much resistant to hypothermia if the temp. is above zero. It is infinitely more likely that the dog died of something else; starvation, disease, etc. Once dead the body would freeze if left out in below freezing temperatures.
Either way - the owner shouldn’t be allowed to adopt another animal.
Is there a hum in Taos?
(Sorry. It had to be said.)