Recently I had to drive my dog out of town to relieve himself because someone was lighting fireworks

[NNN0LHI]

No biggie. I have to do it a lot. Especially around the 4th. Well I was standing on the side of the road and I see and hear a carload of teenagers out roadhogging heading my way. Tunes cranked to the max and lots of laughing and such going on.

I thought to myself watch em give me some shit as I seen them getting closer.

Flash back eight years ago when I got this old boy. My wife and I used to walk him around the whole neighborhood. He was so young and full of vinegar back then. Man oh man. And he just loves kids. Well whenever we got to this one area where a bunch of little kids always hung out we would always hear one little girl scream out at the top of her lungs FROSTY! as we approached them with a very distinct voice and they would all come a running to play with our young Keeshond. I never knew which little girl that was. I still don't.

Flash forward again. Well as that car got nearer and I was thinking about getting razzed by some teenagers for being out in the middle of no where walking my dog guess what I heard? FROSTY! That same voice. And as that car continued on I thought to myself life goes on and I smiled.

Don

[Redstone]

1. A Keeshond? Great dogs, but people always call them "keesh-hounds," don't they?

Redstone

[NNN0LHI]

3. Yes many people mispronounce Keeshond

But its no big deal with me. I usually just call them Dutch barge dogs and avoid the problem.

But they really are great dogs. I got two of them. A male and a female. We are on our second set of them. We have had Keeshonds for 20 years. They sure like kids.

Don

[Connonym]

5. what is the proper pronunciation?

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Based on the individual words,

I would case Kayz' hond.

I had a Dutch tennis coach in college, and he pronounced his name that way (Case, or Caze, depending on your individual accent)

[NNN0LHI]

8. You got it exactly right

Including the (Case, or Caze, depending on your individual accent) part.

Don

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. I RULE!

:woohoo:

[DS1]

2. awww cute

the last time I was with some friends and a carload of college kids went zooming by, they called us all 'fuckin fags'. little did they know there was a police cruiser with its lights off, hot on their tail. we got to walk by them all on the way back home while they were up against the SUV and the driver was miserably failing his field sobriety test

[xchrom]

4. i kinda know what that is -- i had two dogs --

1 was my baby -- an 80lb mutsky and the other was a 5lb yorkie.

those two were famous because of their size difference.

i would walk them and people we didn't know would come up and know their names and pet and fawn all over them.

they loved it and i was just amused that i had such famous dogs.

[Tyler Durden]

7. Deb was walking Charlie....

This was before he was "altered." Someone rode by on a bike with his SO and as they passed they must have looked back and seen Charlie from the rear, because Deb heard:

"Did you see the BALLS on that little dog???"

She had to sit on someone's lawn she was laughing so hard.

[NNN0LHI]

9. That is one good looking boy right there

I like it when dogs smile. Makes me smile.

Don

[Tyler Durden]

12. This one's smiling too:

That's Vinnie.

[NNN0LHI]

13. They are just like our kids aren't they

They really are.

Don

[Tyler Durden]

14. No "just like our kids" about it.

Having companion animals is entering into an emotional, spiritual, and ethical contract. The only legitimate way to change that relationship other that you or the companion dying is to arrange for another home for the companion that provides the same level of involvement.

Our responsibility to them is more than that we have to kids: children grow to independence. Companion animals are eternal children.

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. My Fargs...

has the most gorgeous smile, but he gets really paranoid when people pull out cameras, and it makes him skittish.

I think it's because he was a rescue, and that used to mean they were advertising for a home change. Here's one where he's a bit more relaxed. He's sure digging all this snow!

[zingaro]

10. heeee

I can't stop laughing :rofl:

[zingaro]

11. I love this story.

Thank you so much for telling it.

[ceile]

15. Very sweet story. n/t