OM45GE - Posted - 10/02/2017:  02:52:45

If I have to give Toby a pill I put it in a little PB.

DeanT - Posted - 10/03/2017:  07:07:25

We use hot dogs for pills. Slit the piece of hot dog, insert pill.

OM45GE - Posted - 10/03/2017:  17:26:31

Too much salt in hot dogs for the Tobster. They give him the runs.

DeanT - Posted - 10/03/2017:  19:15:33

Chicken skins are what our greyhound can't handle... unless we want to be up all night!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/04/2017:  03:13:36

I just don't give him people food, except for the PB now and then for meds. A lot of mess are chewable now too, which solves that problem.

DeanT - Posted - 10/04/2017:  12:57:09

Ours get PB every night on their rawhide... we are such pushovers

OM45GE - Posted - 10/04/2017:  14:40:19

I have to restrain my wife or Toby would weigh 200 pounds.

DeanT - Posted - 10/04/2017:  16:54:33

we've been through that... our 8 pound Shih-Tzu made it up to 13 pounds at one point...

OM45GE - Posted - 10/05/2017:  02:38:49

Yikes!

DeanT - Posted - 10/05/2017:  07:18:30

all is well though, as she's back to normal!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/06/2017:  02:48:39

Toby got up to 80 lbs. He’s back down to 70 which the vet says is good. He’s still big for a Springer Spaniel, but not overweight for how tall he is.

DeanT - Posted - 10/06/2017:  06:50:34

Our greyhound is 62 pounds, which is average for greyhounds. She's a picky eater, and has never gained an extra ounce

OM45GE - Posted - 10/06/2017:  17:53:33

Male Springers are supposed to be around 55 pounds. Toby is just big. He towers over normal sized Springers.

DeanT - Posted - 10/07/2017:  04:52:59

Our shi-tzu is 8 pounds, when she's shaved for the summer there's nothing there...

Edited by - DeanT on 10/07/2017 04:53:41

OM45GE - Posted - 10/07/2017:  08:17:32

I had a Golden Retriever who was enormous too. He was 110 pounds and all muscle. He used to play with a big Rottweiler and more than held his own.

Maybe it's the food I use.

DeanT - Posted - 10/07/2017:  09:13:51

I've met a 110 pound greyhound... he was enormous! I'd hate the food bill!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/07/2017:  17:26:57

I can't imagine a greyhound that big. He must have been amazing.

DeanT - Posted - 10/07/2017:  18:07:24

That's him on the left

OM45GE - Posted - 10/07/2017:  18:22:11

He is gigantic!

DeanT - Posted - 10/08/2017:  02:26:15

The greyhound on the right is a small 75 pounder compared to the big one!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/09/2017:  03:18:28

Do you think you’ll always have dogs Dean?

DeanT - Posted - 10/09/2017:  06:49:30

Yes, I've had them my whole life, I couldn't imagine live without them

OM45GE - Posted - 10/09/2017:  07:27:20

I have too, but lately I've been wondering if I want to get another when Toby goes. Hopefully that will be a long time from now. He's a great dog and a joy to have around, but they are a ton of work.

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/09/2017:  08:53:28

I thought about getting a dog for a trucking companion...,a lot of drivers have them.

DeanT - Posted - 10/09/2017:  10:23:39

I can see myself going to smaller dogs as I grow older. The greyhounds are work, but the little Shi-Tzu is nothing. She was a stray 5 years ago that found us. I was never a little dog person, but she won my heart.

OM45GE - Posted - 10/09/2017:  16:44:30

I knew a driver who's sleeper looked like a jungle terrarium. He had about a dozen snakes in there including a big constrictor. I wouldn't be able to sleep.

DeanT - Posted - 10/09/2017:  16:57:34

That's too creepy for me!!!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/10/2017:  02:44:57

He had grow lights for the plants and what I think were plexiglass tanks for the snakes. I’m with you Dean - too creepy.

DeanT - Posted - 10/10/2017:  04:22:10

He probably didn't do to good with the ladies...

OM45GE - Posted - 10/10/2017:  06:18:50

Good point. I'm sure it limited his choices.

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/10/2017:  07:53:13

Hah.....when I sometimes get my truck inspected at the borderthey always ask first,” any snakes in there?”

Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/10/2017 07:53:42

OM45GE - Posted - 10/10/2017:  09:51:07

I wonder why they ask that.

DeanT - Posted - 10/12/2017:  18:38:50

Mess with them by throwing a recording of a rattle snake, in the CD player...

OM45GE - Posted - 10/12/2017:  19:13:10

Or put a realistic looking one on the floor by the door

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/12/2017:  20:00:26

Or this...

OM45GE - Posted - 10/13/2017:  02:34:57

What’s the most remarkable thing you’ve seen in a four wheeler while you’ve been driving your truck?

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/16/2017:  19:55:30

In Georgia years ago- this gal was in a car with her boyfriend driving. She was topless and would hang out the passenger window showing her “wares” to every truck they passed. Crazy

Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/16/2017 19:55:57

OM45GE - Posted - 10/17/2017:  03:32:55

One time I was stuck in traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike next to a car with a woman enthusiastically pleasuring a man.

DeanT - Posted - 10/21/2017:  13:04:45

That's why everyone has tented windows now...

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/21/2017:  13:22:01

Actually I rarely look down into cars 😇, kind of feel like a peeping tom

OM45GE - Posted - 10/21/2017:  20:00:50

This was pretty hard to miss.

DeanT - Posted - 10/21/2017:  20:17:14

what, no cell phone video?

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/21/2017:  20:18:41

Yeah, I wonder how many racy vids have been made like that in those situations

OM45GE - Posted - 10/21/2017:  20:22:00

This was back in the 80’s - no cellphones

DeanT - Posted - 10/22/2017:  07:16:08

The BeeGees were probably playing on the radio

OM45GE - Posted - 10/23/2017:  03:27:38

Good chance. They were getting a lot of airplay back then.

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/23/2017:  08:23:04

Bobby Osborne just did a BeeGees song - “Gotta Get a Message to You”- on his latest album, Bluegrass style of course. Actually sounds pretty good. The guy’s over 80 years old. 

Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/23/2017 08:26:59

DeanT - Posted - 10/23/2017:  10:13:22

Dobro is the best part!

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/23/2017:  10:30:05

Rob Ickes on dobro,, nice guitar solo too.
youtu.be/pABaFx3jY90