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This kinda sucked, and kinda blew my mind.
So I was driving home today on i 30, 4 lanes wide a side, and the traffic was thick, slow, and I looked up ahead and saw this white pickup, and then I saw a young german shepherd dog flip backwards out of the truck, and I felt my stomach sink; the dog fell up ahead to my left, in front of a car, and the guy stopped, and....I couldn't see what was going on, if he was hit, and I slowed down, then looked behind me to make sure I wouldn't get rearended. Then I stopped, and so then I started cruising up really slow.....
and then I saw the pup, he was maybe 6 months old, but he was up!
Oh my God! He was alive!!! He was limping but he was up!
So I drove up next to him, then stopped and he was limping, and I started getting out of my car, then I think "man, this is a bad f~~@ing idea, on a highway,...." but I look back and all four lanes, at least 10 cars back are completely stopped for this pup. Nobody's beeping or anything. I expected them to be mad and beeping. Wow, it was surreal, so I came up on the pup, to try to get him out of the road, and I picked him up, and like NOBODY was beeping. And two ladies were out of their cars too...I approached the dog from behind, picking him up, and one lady just totally approached him from the front, and she was trying to comfort him, and I said "be careful; he might bite you;" but she wasn't listening to me. But he was allright, and the owner guy had pulled over and he ran up to us, and we b+%+@ed him out about riding with his dog in the back of a pickup truck,
then we had to get in our cars, because this backed up tide of cars had to get going, and this really pretty girl was waving at me from her car, so she tells me my seatbelt is stuck in the door, and then the traffic started moving and I drove home; and I kinda felt like I was in shock for 45 minutes.
Well, you did a really good thing, so take a breath and let all that tension out.
I also have a dog-on-the-freeway story, and it also is somewhat weird.
Once, years ago, I had a job loading freight trucks, and sometimes, seasonally, we had to be at work as early as 3:30 AM. Well, one early morning, around that time, I was driving my Mustang, whose engine had just been rebuilt. Because I was still breaking it in, I was in the slow lane, all the way on the right, going down 101 here in the SF Bay Area.
There was almost nobody at all on the freeway, it was really dark, and so I was kind of shocked to see something in the next lane over, way up ahead. As I approached, I realized it was an animal. It was pretty big. We have a lot of deer around here, so I thought that's what it might be.
As I came up alongside, I realized it was actually a dog! A gigantic, Marmaduke-big Great Dane. It was running, straight up the lane, like it belonged there! I slowed down, afraid it might veer into my lane, but it stayed in its own lane, flat out running. I rolled the window down, and the dog looked right at me with this huge dog smile on its face and this long dog tongue lolling out. He truly seemed to be enjoying himself. It was kind of beautiful to see.
Anyway, back in those days hardly anybody was packing a cellphone, but I saw behind me a car was pulling over to a callbox to call it in. Last I saw the dog, he was still running up the lane, like a galloping horse.
He was racin you! ;)
Yeah; my neighbor had some great danes.....they'd get loose all the time, and I'd help catch them if I could. And then,.....I'd lead them back, ever so carefully, with two hands on their leashes, because you couldn't necessarily hold them with one hand it they decided to yank out of your grip and you weren't braced up.....
Weird.
Good on you Spanky. Also good that it ended OK because I've seen what happens if nobody stops to help an animal on a freeway, it ain't pretty its just sad and gross.
Good on you Spanky. Also good that it ended OK because I've seen what happens if nobody stops to help an animal on a freeway, it ain't pretty its just sad and gross.
Thanks, dude!
Yeah; it was wild though......I mean, everybody stopped. Everybody.
Aw! Whose a sweety! Yes! Whose a good boy! Here have a treat!
Yes Heathy you is a wonderful person for giving a s$&$ about a puppy. Consider yourself permanently on my Better than Human List.
Hatas make me famous!!!
Wow, that's weird. Didn't know dogs would do that, but oh well.
I miss having a dog now...
Me three.I miss having a dog now...Now I do, too.Same here. Damn this heart warming story and the memories of pet ownership it brings up!!!
shakes fist
I miss Scraps.
I miss Tubby, the one dog we kept from Scraps' first litter.
I miss Ebony, the one dog that survived (of the two born) from Scraps' second litter.
Hmmm. How does that grammar work? Possessive form of a singular noun that ends in "s". Is it "s" followed by an apostrophe or "s" followed by an apostrophe and another "s"?
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Me three.I miss having a dog now...Now I do, too.Same here. Damn this heart warming story and the memories of pet ownership it brings up!!!
shakes fist
I miss Scraps.
I miss Tubby, the one dog we kept from Scraps' first litter.
I miss Ebony, the one dog that survived (of the two born) from Scraps' second litter.
Hmmm. How does that grammar work? Possessive form of a singular noun that ends in "s". Is it "s" followed by an apostrophe or "s" followed by an apostrophe and another "s"?
Yes.
Yes.Me three.I miss having a dog now...Now I do, too.Same here. Damn this heart warming story and the memories of pet ownership it brings up!!!
shakes fist
I miss Scraps.
I miss Tubby, the one dog we kept from Scraps' first litter.
I miss Ebony, the one dog that survived (of the two born) from Scraps' second litter.
Hmmm. How does that grammar work? Possessive form of a singular noun that ends in "s". Is it "s" followed by an apostrophe or "s" followed by an apostrophe and another "s"?
Thanks. I think.
:)