The Retirement Thread

[PeteXXX]

Better than fox

or whatever it was that mine used to try to find
she was sneaky - normally just ranged around on either side of me where I could see her

Then she would start wandering more directly behind me and suddenly I would glance round to see 4 legs waggling crazily over the grass and an ecstatic Alsatian rubbing her shoulders in orgasmic joy


Whatever it was it STANK!!!

in summer I hosed her off in the garden - her coat was pretty much waterproof
in winter I had to apply the medieval torture device known as the bath


she didn;t manage it often - but the times she did are engraved in my memory due to the smell on the drive home!!!

I would have to rehome a roller, tbh. Couldn't put up with it.

Bad enough when one of the GSP's that lived opposite did a fox roll - what a foul stench it was!

Dogs! I love them but they can be unsavoury characters.

Our Weimaraner wasn't a 'roller' but would happily scoff sheep, cat and on one occasion human crap (some filthy individual had relieved themselves just above the Halfway Lochan on Ben Nevis).

We scrubbed our dog's muzzle with soap when we got back to our holiday let - he was less than impressed!

Fox poo is acceptable to her, too.
One of her favourites, though, is goose 💩 as it tints her a lovely shade of green and makes her smell like a swamp 🤗

 

[Mo1959]

I've had head scans, have regular eye tests, still get them.

I'm wondering if theyre related to my recent post-prandial hypoglycaemia diagnosis?

And thank you for asking and showing some concern for this old grouch.

Sadly some of us just seem to get more than others. My mum got a fair few and think she passed on the propensity for them to me too. Mostly caffeine, exercise and stress that cause mine. I worked with a colleague that said she had never had a headache in her life. Must be amazing.

 

[Drago]

I usually dont get killer headaches. Theyre typically 3 or 4 on the richter scale, enough to make me feel miserable but usually not bad enougn to stop me functioning. The annoying oart is they tend to last for 3 or 4 days

 

[tarric]

Molly has had 3 jabs….painkiller, steroid and anti sickness as Sarah suspected pancreatitis for her sudden loss of appetite so £114 for that plus she’s booked in to have all her remaining back teeth removed in 2 weeks which will be £1000. Good job I love her to bits.

Vets bills where eye watering when I had my pets, 2 dogs and a cat. It looks like they got a lot worse since.

 

[mrushton]

Vets bills where eye watering when I had my pets, 2 dogs and a cat. It looks like they got a lot worse since.

A lot of practices have been bought by investment/private equity groups because money can be made. Don't think there are rules so prices are whatever the Group can set. Drugs can be bought in quantities and suitable markups applied

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...ivate-equity-firms-vet-ownership-rules-change

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.