“Just now thinking about you bt chuck. Sorry about your dilemma. Despite your consistent (and tongue in cheek I'm hoping) banter i wouldn't wish something like this on my enemies if I had any. Now who do I know who could help? I'll get back to you on that one.”

“This morning when I got up and found that the dog had messed in the living room. He is petrified of fireworks and wouldn't go out last night for a walk. I managed to get him out last thing to have a wee but I should have stayed out with him for a few minutes longer.

I do have a laminate floor and a steam cleaner so I soon cleaned up the mess, but I really didn't need to come down to that - remembering he is a BIG dog. :-(”

“Now I'm crying a-flippin'-gain! Now, who do I know that can help? The rest of the day will be wonderful for you, I hope and pray.”

“I run a facebook page for a small, Eastern European dog rescue organisation and all our 'friends' are also involved in animal rescue and on my own timeline, which isn't under my name, I get the most horrific stories, videos and photos of animals (mainly, but not always, dogs) that have seffered terrible cruelty and neglect.

One was the fb page for the Dogs on Death Row group in Belevedre Dog Shelter in West Palm Beach, Florida and I made the mistake of opening the RIP photo album. There were all sorts of cute dogs and puppies, including a 7 month old dachshund who had all been killed because the people from the group hadn't been able to raise enough money and a safe place to foster them.

That gave me a lot of sleepless nights.

I also get upset reading the news stories from Soi Dog Foundation in Puchket, Thailand. People are coming over from neighbouring countries to steal dogs to eat. They are killed in the most horrific way, that's if they even survive the journey. The authorities are starting to stop lorry loads of dogs but they are left with thousands of dogs and nowhere to keep them. Many of the dogs are people's pets and are still wearing their collars but only one out of all the thousands has been reunited with its owner. As there is nowhere to keep them safe they are placed in large compounds with no food. Soi Dog is trying to raise funds to provide food but disease is rife in this compounds and in a few weeks almost all of the 'rescued' dogs are dead.

http://tinyurl.com/42y5vam

And if I get a stupid comment from you know who ...”

“I have to admit that I get emotional quite easily but I think the last time I cried properly was when my Grand daughter was diagnosed with kidney cancer.”

“g69 - my dog has never done an indoor poo until 2 weeks ago. It was the consistency of tomato soup and was in a perfect circle the size of a dinner plate on my living room rug.

Needless to say I didn't bother with a deep clean it had soaked into the pile and the smell was horrendous and made my little lad sick.

My mum who had come for Sunday lunch walked straight back out of the house and my husband rolled up the rug. I didn't cry but the smell did make my eyes water.

Flossy - I to can get quite emotional too, but when I compare situations it has all been put back into perspective and I realise how silly I am - I hope she is doing ok :)”

“Thanks jz but you can`t compare situations that upset us. I broke my dads oven door handle last week and worried sick about it for two days. He just laughed and called me Pansey Potter but it really upset me.

Years ago we moved into a house that had polystyrene tiles on the kitchen ceiling. Hubby tried scraping them off and it was hard work so he decided to just take the full ceiling down while I was at work. He didn`t close one door in the house so when I got home every flat surface, including the toilet, was covered in a layer of black dust. I think I cried then too. So I know what you`re going through.

Grand Daughters a bit poorly at the moment, she`s got chicken pox so she`s back at Leeds in isolation and on antivirals. Not that it`s bothering her, she such an inspiration.”

“jz

I was annoyed with myself for not keeping him out long enough last night.

I couldn't work out how to put my radio alarm back an hour this morning (last year I just coped, this year I googled the instructions as I'd lost them) and my quite new cat flap was lying broken next to the back door with the cold air rushing into the house.

I didn't really cry, but it was a lot of things gone wrong to be faced with when I'd just got up.”

“G69 - Just though maybe he tried to get out through the cat flap for his number 2

Flossy - I can laugh about it now but yesterday was traumatic. Had a little bicker about the bathroom leak coming through the kitchen ceiling. So he said he would fix it I went upstairs to do my ironing and ten minutes later I hear a massive bang so I ran down stairs.

Hubby stood there in best gear not moved anything from the kitchen and the plaster board had been ripped down. Its an older house and when the bathroom got done the plumber had decided to stash the debris under the bath including cans of beer which was the icing on the cake on a wet kitchen floor.

The house looked like the fall out from hiroshima and my husband looked like a reverse negative / albino chimney sweep. He had also used a grinder to maximise dust and annoy me further.

He said just go up stairs and jump up and down in the bath, fortunately I had the sense not to as the bathroom floor board had rotted and I would have broke his neck and killed him outright.”

“jz

That's sounds dreadful,

Are you going to get anyone in? I can recommend two great plumbers and they employ a builder too. Had them replace my old boiler for a combi one just before Easter and they did a really good job.”

“jz,

Are we married to same man?”

“thanks g69 - but i think we have it sorted

flossy - no but I would consider it an option ... I could do part time hours as 'carer' instead of round the clock...

I think we should set a charity for all those poor women with daft husbands :)”

“I must admit I had a slight mist in my eye when I was told about my dogs liver problem, I thought it was just a bladder infection.

Flossy,
I never realised your grand child was so ill. As others have said, other problems pale into insignificance, I hope she keeps well and will be in my thought s.”

“how is your dog steveodore?”

“do you work at aak?”

“bt,
My dogs fine at the moment, you'd never know there was anything wrong with her, the specialist in Derby said he's never known anything like it and is at a loss to explain how she copes with a liver that only functions at about 20%. He says she's lived this long with it she may have somehow just learned to cope with it, most dogs don't last a year with it, she was four last month!

No I don't work at AAK, do you?”

“Steveodore,

Thank you for your concern about my grand daughter. She`s fine now and is on her way home from LGI. Actually, although her body is very poorly, she isn`t, if that makes sense. Because she`s so young (4) as long as she feels ok, she just gets on with it. She really is an inspiration and puts me to shame.
I try not to mention it too much because I tend to go into proud grandma mode and could waffle about her forever. That must be so boring for everyone else ;-)”

“flossy,
Nothing wrong with being a proud granny, some other posters are quite happy to bore the baby feeders off others with nonsense, you are not one of them:)”

“flossy not boring for me either.

Stevedore ... I imagined you worked on dock .. you seem too funny for customs officer... I hate them I always get stopped...

I looked at your profile pick and thought the lights were BMW jeep and I have seen one in the car park .. that's why I am not a maths teacher 2 + 2 = 5 or a detective...

"some other posters are quite happy to bore the baby feeders off others with nonsense, you are not one of them:)" ... I'll get my coat :(”

“Flossy: There's not much any of us can say except 'best wishes'. Some of us have lived lives which deserve what they get. Little children, not.

Steveodore: Just a slight tweak. Some of the posts on this forum are quite boring. How are your baby feeders holding up? Mine feel fine, but they still don't work. Maybe the HDM should put up a warning...”

“Mr Septic

Don't you find that some people live much better lives than they deserve though? This isn't a dig at anyone, just an observation.”

“jz

Is your dog OK?”

“bt,
Right car make, wrong model ;)
What you doing driving on dock anyway?”

“Dog is recovering - My friends dog had same thing and recommended some yellow drops that stink. He is a scratter though and makes it worse.

I am a regular on dock :) on the east side though - just people smuggling and drug running :)”

“jz

As long as you're not a dock fairy.”

“whats a dock fairy?

I searched urban dictionary n google?

I know what a furry dock is ;)”

“Isn't a dock fairy a lady of the night who specialises in tacking care of ships crews "needs"?

Is a furry dock something a bottle of Veet would cure?”

“Yes steveodore. That is what they are/were called when I lived in Goole (for a very short time) when I was in my late teens. My father took me there with him when he moved with his job (I'm surprised that he wasn't prosecuted for child cruelty) but I managed to escape to Uni soon after. I don't think I'd have even gone to uni if I wasn't so deaperate to get away.”

“g69 - I may be 'exited' but you are 'deaperate' :)”

“jz

I can feel exitment too, waiting for steveodore to reveal all. It affects our spellings of individual words differently. We're all individuals after all.”