Retarded pets

[heslopian]

Have you ever had one? What was living with them like?
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/...7/dog.html

[cidermaid]

Yeah, I had a dog once that was almost certainly retarded. We got him as a rescue case...just like you are not meant to, he came from an abusive puppy farm because we felt sorry for him. First off, we thought it was just a bad case of worms. We arrived at the conclusion that the dog was in fact run and organised by a collective of worms that had taken over his brain. It was for the most part very funny to live with. He would allow visitors to come into the house - well actually he would run to the door barking and then take fright and reverse down the steps into the living room and up over the back of the sofa and hide there for several hours. Having sat sit at the feet of our visitors all weekend, he would then ferociously see them off, first tripping on his long ears as he bounded up the steps.
His biggest problem was the washing machine, which he was convinced was some alien that was trying to get at his family so he would try and protect me from it. This involved a lot of barking and rushing at the machine, swiftly followed by the reversing away and over the back of the sofa trick. Sadly the w. machine lived in the kitchen and so was his bed. So with having kids the machine had a hard life and the dog was in constant state of alternating frenzy and fear. The inevitable happened and one day the aliens in the machine got him. He had managed to bite into the rubber door seal and get caught by his teeth...just as his worst fears were realised and the machine went into spin. He was never the same after this. We think that 50% of the worms voted to leave.

[Leanne]

So, then you sold your dog to the Lib Dems and they put him in office?

[cidermaid]

So, then you sold your dog to the Lib Dems and they put him in office?

Sadly he was too much of a radical thinker

[Card]

Oohhh... until I saw Cider's story was about a dog, I thought the thread was "Retarded Poets." Welp, guess I'll be leaving now.

No, seriously though, our dogs are kinda... not bright. One of our beagles, when she wants to be let in, runs full speed at our door. She has yet to break both the door and her skull, but I think her brain may be long gone.

It is entertaining though. We see her from ten or twenty yards off, running as fast as she possibly can, then there's a "whump" ten seconds later.

[billy]

i used to have a rotti that liked to smoke weed, when ever i had a joint, it would jump through the smoke and snort like a pig, after a while he'd chill out in a corner with a big grin on it's chops. it also loved watching man united on tv and went crazy when they scored a goal. he never allowed people to leave the house.