Totally paranthetical story about my dog

So I have this cocker spaniel who is 12 years old. This dog is like no other dog on the planet. First of all, he looks nothing like a cocker. I've had people ask me what kind of sheep he was, no I'm serious! He's got rage syndrome and takes anti-depressants, he's half blind, he's had heart surgery, hip surgery, nearly drowned, fallen out of the back of a pick up truck doing 65 on the highway, been run over twice and has actually been picked up by the police on more than one ocassaion. He's a wild one, this critter.

Yesterday while hubby was cleaning the back yard he escaped and vanished. Normally when this happens (doesn't happen often) he comes home within an hour. Yesterday he stayed gone all night. I searched the whole town (little bitty town), made posters, and even wandered around the woods last night looking for him. He was no where to be found. I was beginning to think Vinny had found his last adventure.

He was just, no where.

So this morning I woke up and he was rolling around on the floor of the bedroom. The house was shut up (not locked) and there was no way he could have wandered back inside alone. He was wearing a collar when he took off yesterday but today, no collar. I have no idea how he got back into the house, nor any idea where he was. The only thing I can figure is the cops picked him up someplace and just brought him to the house and opened the front door and deposited him inside.

So, today I'll try to figure out the great Vinny caper!

I swear, I'm beginning to think he's some kind of fuzzy alien .

Zana

I had a cat do something similar, (shes 15) she is always a indoor cat and has never done something like that ether. We werent where sure if she was inside or outside( parents house at the time, lots of stuff all over) that night I went outside and the dog came with and I jokingly told him to go get her. He ran to the bushes and she(the cat) ran out of them and straight for the door to go in . No one ever saw her get out of the house though in the first place, which was the weird part. My mom tells me she was trying to "run away" she has this theory that sometimes older animals run away so they dont pass away and leave there owners in pain. That way there owners still think they're alive. It all stemmed because this same thing happend to a friends cat and they found it in the woods the next day "gone" with no visable wounds from wild animals. It's been about a year though since my cat did this, and she stills here, so I guess her theory proved wrong

Animals rock.

That is one amazing dog Zana, I vote he gets his own TV series and/or movie.

Thankfully anytime my dog ran out we were there to run after him and didn't have to worry about where he was, the worst was when he ran out in the snow... imagine having to run as fast as you can in knee high snow after this dog going much faster than you, it was insane, lol.

He was a little nuts himself though, he would often eat all our food, he once opened a peanut butter jar somehow, so we had to put him in a cage when we left so he wouldn't get into anything, this was a pretty big cage since he was a big dog, but the bars were small and small spaced about maybe 2 and a half inches apart.

Somehow, he managed to get a roller blade shoe (the part that you put on your foot then in the roller blade, the old kind) in there, along with a sweeper hose both of which are much too big to go through.

Also one day we came home and he was running around the house outside of the cage, the door was still locked and closed, we have no idea how he got out.

I think sometimes animals are just magical.

Almost the exact same thing happened with my dog a few months ago. And oddly, he is also a 12(or so) YEAR OLD COCKER SPANIEL. Although he actually looks like one.

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE???

OMG Cocker Spaniels are aliens? That's what I think. Because there's NO WAY my dog could have evaded 3 people looking for him for an hour without some kind of invisibility or teleportation ability. No way...

I used to know an old cocker spaniel. The poor thing was blind and deaf but he got around the house just fine. Every time his nose bumped into a wall or table leg (which was all the time) I'd think "ouch" but he didn't seem to mind.

And boy that nose kept working perfectly. He loved to eat paper and, of all things, cigarette butts. We couldn't leave ash trays, newspapers, paper towels, money, etc. within his reach because he'd sniff, seek, find, and eat. Occasionally we'd slip up though...

There was the time my ex-bf left a $20 bill on the lamp table. It came out the dog's other end the next day.
And then there was the morning we left almost-empty coffee cups and an ashtray on the kitchen table. We came back downstairs in time to see the doggie on the table, licking out of the cups and eating out of the ash tray. What a great dog!

Oh, he had a skin condition which made him smell not so great, and he'd get real ornery if you tried to remove newspapers, paper towels, etc. from his jaws. I loved him. (I'm still talking about the dog here, not the ex-bf)

I don't think this particular cocker spaniel was an alien, but he was pretty weird.

I used to think Vinny was some kind of genetic freak. But these stories are changing my mind. He's perfectly normal!

Zana

Wanna know something weird? I have a Jack Russle(1 year old), such a crazy dog, energetic, well besides that, she's growing horn...I used to call her the little devil because she would run around the house back and forth 4 times at like...hmm, let's say 15 miles, but now that I see a horn growing I start to wonder...

Ahh, but then how do you explain the teleportation/invisibility powers?

I had a bag of nuts in the shell hanging on a chair and the dog tore the bottom of the bag up...you can just guess what happend to my kitchen floor.

I forgot to mention the bag of nuts was from sams club

Man, here I was thinking my littlest cat was a genius for figuring out how to open the freezer to get to the frozen chicken... heh.