Big Paws Only Dog Forums

(according to hubby) he found said *IT* last night along the interstate 20 while on his way home.  contained in this package of about 20 pounds is quite a bit of trouble.  it is red, with beady little eyes that seem to have a distant stare, like it's looking into your stomach for food.  it has an exasperating amount of energy.  it's quite short with a longer body and these stringy little legs.  it's not shy.  it came barging through my door and all over my house the second it got here.  it likes to poop ON beds.  i found that out within ten minutes of meeting it.  it is apparently a boy, because of the humping that seems to happen to everything in my house if you don't keep an eye on *IT.*  it likes to eat random things.  in fact, it will eat anything.  and everything.  it will not leave food alone, even after three bowls.  it will not walk on the grass in the back yard...  but it will on the grass in the front yard.  i can imagine how *it* got away or even why someone may have dumped it, as the second the door opens, he's gone but is like a boomerang and just comes back eventually.  not to mention his non existent manners.  it jumps, and runs over everything, including people and computers.  and tables.  and everything else from 4 foot down.  as said before, it has literally no matters.  husband deemed said *it* "bull" on his drive home.  aiden quickly changed it to "bull sit" (say that fast and you'll know exactly what he calls him) in a desperate attempt to get him to calm down.  i call him "it" or "thing" because i have no idea what "it" is or is supposed to be, except that i can imagine it would be considered a dog or maybe a science experiment.  with all this energy if i could contain it i would be running marathons my whole life until my body just gave out.  i'm hoping to find *it's* home soon, my sanity is running very short, or that *it* at least calms down and will sit still for just long enough for me to recuperate from my experience with him and figure out what to do. 

pictures will be here as soon as i find my camera again.  hopefully before that happens we'll have found *it's* home.  (someone save me!)

ok so i found a freaky program that will make you look older than you are.  i don't have any pics of me on this comp, i'm working on that right now, but here's the ones i have of the guys.  brandon's looks like something off of stargate, tristan's didn't come out so good, but OMG aiden's sent chills down my back.  thought some of us might be interested in laughing at what we come up with.

hey everybody!  sorry it's been so long.  it's been a CRAZY past two months.  we moved to mississippi just to be told that we got up and moved for nothing and that we WEREN'T being relocated.  we just moved into the new house on the 1st, and were told on the 3rd that they actually did decide to move us, and it will now be 30-90 days.  i couldn't be more angry at the army.  the whole time in mississippi was a disaster.  long story short, hubby's family and i did NOT get along.  hubby thought it was me.  yeah.  anywho. 

i was going to go home to have the baby (which we found out is going to be a girl, and we're going to name her maya) but when i finally got back to atlanta to set up housekeeping so that when she was born we could go home and chillax, i started having a few problems.  long story short, i was supposed to have her the end of october / first week of november originally, which got changed to the middle of september, which has NOW changed to "it could be any day now."  none of the doctors quite know what she's got on her mind, as she's really eager to get out one day, and i'll be having contractions every hour apart and she's ready to go, and then it'll stop like nothing and i'll go without a single one for a day or two and then i'll have another day where it's h*ll on earth for me all day and all night just to once again have something click and it stops again.  the doctor told us that he's just waiting for a call and will be there shortly after we are (we only live about 5 minutes from the hospital now).  today and tomorrow we'll be going in for a bunch of stuff trying to figure out what's going on, how old she REALLY is, etc etc etc since there's a big debate that the doctors chose the right due date to start with.  the really odd thing is that all of our doctors have told me i don't look more than about 4-5 months pregnant, and are quite confused by everything.  any advice on what to think, anyone??

on a sour note, i had to rehome caine, sheeba and diesel.  diesel went to a home that could give him more one on one attention that he really needed.  he lives here in atlanta now, and is doing very well.  i'm waiting on pictures from him, which should be here sometime in the near future.  his new family is awesome, with no kids and he even still has a little furr-buddy (pom) to hang out with.  rehoming him was truly awful for me and him both.  i kept it together until his new daddy had to pick him up and put him in the truck because he would not leave my side.  diesel even went so far as to growl and show teeth at his new dad, which is when i knew it was the right family b/c the man just comforted him and was really great about understanding.  i could tell he was upset, and visa versa.  they e-mail me weekly most times just to give me an update.  i think i cried for three weeks straight, and it still really hurts to think about it, but at least i still keep in touch with his new family and they have offered for me to come visit.  honestly, i don't think i could do it.

while in mississippi, sheeba and caine "turned vicious" at hubby's family's house.  we didn't have a choice but to rehome them with a mutual friend of ours (together) because of the fact we were staying at his family's house and i could not find anywhere to stay or board them because they waited until the last week of june and there was nothing open until the end of july, which was "unacceptable."  i swear it was pre-plotted.  this is what started our whole fight with his family, because after i did this, they started doing the same thing towards axle and i later found out that hubby's cousin was taunting them through the fence.  even more ironically they backed off of axle when he chased would-be robbers out of the house, yard, and jumped the fence after them.  he kept not only hubby's grandma safe, but also kept the thieves out of the new appliances / new furniture that was being stored at her house.  now, they "love" him and have even bought him treats when before all they did was tell him "go away" and talk crap about him.  i can't believe how forgiving dogs are, because i sure would have let the thieves in.  i have already let hubby know i don't want his family anywhere near me ever again.  on a good note, i still do talk to our friend and sheeba and caine live on the river and get to play all day with their kids and go swimming, etc. 

on the first of this month, packed and ready to go, my truck also let me down.  at the most inopportune time.  my brake line busted (supposedly due to the road salt that i encountered two years ago ) and let me run through a red light.  my SIL says to me, "...you know that light is red, right?" to which i calmly replied, "yes"...  then she asked, "do you intend on stopping???" and i said "no" and got the typical why, and i stated quite bluntly, "because my breaks just went out."  her face was priceless.  luckily, it was in our hometown which is very quiet as far as traffic goes.  unluckily, the only person i almost hit was the sheriff himself ha ha.

anywho, enough rambling.  i just wanted to give everyone an update and ask how everyone is!  i've missed you all!

esp those with multiple children.  my first two pregnancies were great.  no discomfort, etc, until the last week or so.  well, not this time.  up until now it's been great.  heck, it's been so easy i didn't even realize i was pregnant at first. 

anywho.  i was told i have round ligament pain, but omg.  my tummy hurts all the time, but only in a half circle from mid side on one side around the bottom and then up to the mid way up my side again.  it hurts when i'm sitting, it hurts when i'm laying down.  it hurts when i get up.  it hurts to walk, or stand, it even hurts when i have to go pee.  i don't want to eat, because if i eat even a bite too much my tummy goes from just a throb to a full blown bending over for an hour b/c it hurts b/c of the tiny bit of extra pressure.  same thing if i drink more than a sip at a time.  it literally hurts to take too deep of a breath.  i'm having to limit my driving to where i only do it when i HAVE to b/c it makes me so uncomfortable.  it's not like a little dull ache, it's constant and feels like i've been running the entire week without even stopping for a minute.   i thought to take some cramp medicine, but don't know if i can now that i'm pregnant and midol, etc, are for period cramps.  it's been like this for a week now, and hasn't gotten any better or worst, but makes life very uncomfortable.  i can't pick the kids up b/c it hurts me, nothing.  vacuuming / sweeping has even become torture.  i can't even put anything on my tummy if it's heavier than a blanket b/c i'll end up puking or hurting worst b/c of it.  even a coke bottle sends me over the edge b/c of the weight.

i haven't gained a lot of weight.  actually, it's evening out b/c i'm losing some weight everywhere else, but gaining it on my tummy.  i still fit in my normal clothes, except that my pants are too big now.  i haven't even been overly active.  i've been "chillaxin" because i didn't want to push it and end up hurting, but i still didn't avoid this.  about twice a day, my whole tummy also tightens up, and on top of my normal tummy pain makes it all but impossible to do anything until it's stopped (usually last about 30-45 seconds).  like contractions, but they never get stronger or more frequent.

has anyone else had this happen, and did you find anything to do about it???  i'm making an appt. for this week or next, first available one that i can make, but wanted to ask if anyone else has had this happen to them.

i don't know how many of you know about us having problems with caine.  we CAN'T keep him in our yard.  every time we fix one problem he starts another, he either goes over under or THROUGH the fence (literally he chewed a hole through it).  well, all was honky dory with him escaping into our neighbors yard b/c she didn't mind (she even said she liked having him in the yard and felt more secure with him there)  and he acted like a gentleman.  until today.  i put caine outside and less than 5 minutes later i heard barking and walked out JUST in time to yell at caine and make him turn from biting the neighbor's dad's face.  the guy is about 6 ft tall and caine was jumping to get his face.  unprovoked.  i guess he sees her yard as his, but i can't have a dog act like this, unprovoked, and i have NO idea what i should do or what's causing this behavior.  when i saw what was going on i yelled at caine, he turns mid jump and runs back into our yard (under her fence) and goes straight inside, tail wagging like he was proud of himself.  i've been keeping him inside all but pottying him a few times a day, but it's really not fair to him or us.  i'm at a loss of what to do, the guy chewed my butt out horribly and wouldn't even listen to the fact that i'm TRYING to fix out yard, but it's  hard to do with just me here, pregnant, with 2 kids.  esp. when i can't get in touch with the land lord who owns that house to ask how he wants to go about replacing the fence line.  actually, i never even got a chance to get past "I" before he started his ranting again.  i know he has good reason, but i wish he would have given me a chance to talk.  my neighbor just stood there and didn't even back me up when i said i had made several attempts to fix the fence, just let him continue to chew my butt off.  shows me how much of a friend she is.  finally i just walked off.  caine's behavior just keeps getting worst, no matter what we do.  he even bit brandon's hand, leaving several puncture wounds and it was gushing.  all because hubby reached over the fence when he was outside.  brandon walks him most every morning, but the more we walk him the more hyped up he gets around the fence.  i'm not sure why.  he's never had anyone tease him through the fence, and he is awesome with the AC guy (when he came out here b/c someone said our dog was running loose, which was a false claim).  he's fine with the construction workers who replaced the telephone pole and was wagging his tail, playing with them every chance he got.  i'm at a loss of what to do, so if anyone has any advice please tell me!  because of the neighbor's dad's threats, we think he's going to call AC out here for a "vicious dog."  although we don't want to i'm starting to think it would be best just to find him a new home where he has more room and less people around and AC won't be able to confiscate him.   

for all the people on here who have sons, i'm sure you'll appreciate this lmao

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=758580763

i downloaded this thinking it would help me know when my kids were terrorizing my computer.  yeah.  right, now it's a game ha ha.  anywho, it's a "guard dog" that attacks the screen barking and "scratching" it whenever someone touches a key or your mouse.  i thought it was too funny not to share so here it is.

http://games.ncbuy.com/downloads/title_10003.html