OT - My grilling helper.

epcotisbest

OK, there are two. This one will stand still long enough for a photo, the other one, not so much.

lkapigian

Great for sopping up grease 

GrateEggspectations

lkapigian said:

Great for sopping up grease 

Yeah, bet that fur is really absorbent!

shtgunal3

Kinda looks like our maltese

jabam

My grill helper, doesn't do much but taste test! Can never get a straight answer as to taste, cause she just inhales it! Lol

RRP

we just lost my helper a week ago today. RIP sweet Brogan.

NPHuskerFL

Left my grill helper with about 6# of Ribeyes on my cutting board by my MM on the Silverado's tailgate during the "rest" before the sear. I was away a good 10 minutes and they were well within her reach. I RAN out after i thought "what a moron I am" for being so lackadaisical. To my surprise she was sitting patiently and not one of them were disturbed. I looked at her and smiled...Well played Lili Ann. Well played. She got some thickcut bacon, steak and an antler.
 

Gulfcoastguy

My Boxer Waldo tried to snatch a bratwurst out of the frying pan while it was still frying. In his defense it had been simmered in a beer, onion, caraway broth first and was mighty fine. He's a counter surfer extroidinare.

WeberWho

epcotisbest

RRP said:

we just lost my helper a week ago today. RIP sweet Brogan.

So sorry for your loss. Before we adopted the two Maltese, we had a Pekingese that was a family member for 16 years. When he died, it took us about five years before we were ready for another dog. 

epcotisbest

Here is the other mischief maker. We actually got him first, and the other, a female, about two years later. Both fixed, so no puppies, and both are adopted rescues.

NPHuskerFL

@RRP Ron. I'm truly sorry your furbaby crossed to the Rainbow Bridge. It's never easy. 

epcotisbest

jabam said:

My grill helper, doesn't do much but taste test! Can never get a straight answer as to taste, cause she just inhales it! Lol

What a great face. She looks like she is saying something like "What? I didn't do nothing."

epcotisbest

WeberWho said:

Great pic. Thanks for sharing.

epcotisbest

NPHuskerFL said:

Left my grill helper with about 6# of Ribeyes on my cutting board by my MM on the Silverado's tailgate during the "rest" before the sear. I was away a good 10 minutes and they were well within her reach. I RAN out after i thought "what a moron I am" for being so lackadaisical. To my surprise she was sitting patiently and not one of them were disturbed. I looked at her and smiled...Well played Lili Ann. Well played. She got some thickcut bacon, steak and an antler.
 

She is a beauty. Ours would never be that disciplined.

RRP

NPHuskerFL said:

@RRP Ron. I'm truly sorry your furbaby crossed to the Rainbow Bridge. It's never easy. 

Thank you - we are still grieving so. He's the first of our 5 guys in all our 50 years of marriage who we had to have the vet put down. Holding him was so difficult while it happened, but we realize we were being selfish keeping him alive in the discomfort he must have been in. He had pancreatic cancer and there was no hope of recovery.

Botch

RRP said:

NPHuskerFL said:

@RRP Ron. I'm truly sorry your furbaby crossed to the Rainbow Bridge. It's never easy. 

Thank you - we are still grieving so. He's the first of our 5 guys in all our 50 years of marriage who we had to have the vet put down. Holding him was so difficult while it happened, but we realize we were being selfish keeping him alive in the discomfort he must have been in. He had pancreatic cancer and there was no hope of recovery.

So hard to have to make it happen yourself, but it says a lot that you're thinking about what your buddy is going through, and do what you have to.  I've been there, I've done that, it ain't easy, but it's right, Ron.  

Cashfan

RRP said:

NPHuskerFL said:

@RRP Ron. I'm truly sorry your furbaby crossed to the Rainbow Bridge. It's never easy. 

Thank you - we are still grieving so. He's the first of our 5 guys in all our 50 years of marriage who we had to have the vet put down. Holding him was so difficult while it happened, but we realize we were being selfish keeping him alive in the discomfort he must have been in. He had pancreatic cancer and there was no hope of recovery.

Sorry for your loss, Ron. I am dreading having to do that to my 13 yr old. Its hard to think about, but, like you said, the pain he was in wasn't good.

Cashfan

Petey likes pretty much everything off the egg. 

Fred19Flintstone

I egg out on the driveway and Muffet will run away if not secured in the fenced backyard.   Someday when I get the covered patio built, I'll move the eggs there.  I have no doubt she would be an excellent egging sidekick.  She does have fine taste in schools.

rsterman

We got a Siamese lavender point kitten when my daughter was 2 yr old.  I've always been a hunter and fisherman.  Cats were never my favorite.  This one was different.  She made me her favorite.  I taught her how to retrieve little balls of tissue paper I rolled up and tossed. People were flabbergasted that she would go get them and bring them back to me, only me.  Bixia lived to be 22 years old.  She was finally so old that she could hold no liquids.  I had to make the dreaded decision to put here down.  I,took her to my vet friend.  He said It was time.  I already knew that.  The young teenage helper asked if I would like to wait outside while Bill put her down.  I told the young man that Bixia was older than he was.  I also said that we had been there for the beginning, so I would see it through to the end.  I was already blubbering uncontrollably.  When she closed her eyes, I just lost it.  Geez, it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.  It has been ten years now.  Just can't go through it again.  We had had several cats over the years with our children.  This one however was the best and last.  Still have to dignify that life at every opportunity.  Sorry for the long-winded sob story.....

Dave in Florida

Here is Jake.  If the smoke is rollin, he will be my best friend.  


If it's not rollin, he's the wife's.

epcotisbest

rsterman said:

We got a Siamese lavender point kitten when my daughter was 2 yr old.  I've always been a hunter and fisherman.  Cats were never my favorite.  This one was different.  She made me her favorite.  I taught her how to retrieve little balls of tissue paper I rolled up and tossed. People were flabbergasted that she would go get them and bring them back to me, only me.  Bixia lived to be 22 years old.  She was finally so old that she could hold no liquids.  I had to make the dreaded decision to put here down.  I,took her to my vet friend.  He said It was time.  I already knew that.  The young teenage helper asked if I would like to wait outside while Bill put her down.  I told the young man that Bixia was older than he was.  I also said that we had been there for the beginning, so I would see it through to the end.  I was already blubbering uncontrollably.  When she closed her eyes, I just lost it.  Geez, it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.  It has been ten years now.  Just can't go through it again.  We had had several cats over the years with our children.  This one however was the best and last.  Still have to dignify that life at every opportunity.  Sorry for the long-winded sob story.....

Cats are family members too. Our Goadie was 18 when she passed a few months ago. Miss her like crazy and a couple of times since she died I have gone over and absentmindedly started to fill her food bowl, or looked outside to check on her at the spot on the deck where she most enjoyed soaking up the sun.

Gamecockeggman

RRP said:

we just lost my helper a week ago today. RIP sweet Brogan.

Ron, I'm sorry for your loss.  I lost my dear Kelsey after 14 years.  She was my sweetheart.  There are no words that can soften the blow of losing your best friend.

Gulfcoastguy

This is Trudy who I had to have put down September 30, 2013. She had been having seizures probably related to brain cancer for several months. When I took her to the vet and she showed no interest in a litter of pit bull puppies I knew it was the right time. Her is one of the last good pictures after I had tumors from her face and breast removed. The phenobarbital that they were using to slow down the seizures wasn't working anymore and just left her stoned. The only dog I know to eat an entire hambone in 20 minutes one time.
Okay I can't get this God forsaken iMac to copy and paste a photo from Photobucket or from the computer.

johnkitchens

Very nice looking dogs. I have always been a dog person, and the older I get the more I like them. 

fruitguy

RRP

Gamecockeggman said:

RRP said:

we just lost my helper a week ago today. RIP sweet Brogan.

Ron, I'm sorry for your loss.  I lost my dear Kelsey after 14 years.  She was my sweetheart.  There are no words that can soften the blow of losing your best friend.

and we also share your grief. Some people do not understand our love for a pet whether it be a dog or a cat. Just the same our fur covered children never hurt us nor destroy our love for them as many parents are often hurt by the offspring from their loins.

Dinah_Moe_Humm

Great posts.  Thank you for all of them.

These posts have brought me back to 5 years ago.  It's the worst thing I've every had to do, to put my best friends down, a month apart.  And I question now, why I've set myself up to do it all over again.

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