You have GOT to read this, I laughed til I choked!!

[NMDemDist2]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4132686&mesg_id=4132686

[IndyOp]

1. OMG -- My RIBS HURT !!!

Funniest dog story ever. Dogs in Elk...

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Anne V - 01:01pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1318 of 1332) Okay - I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat? This is not, unfortunately, a joke.

AmyC - 01:02pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1319 of 1332) Um, can you give us a few more specifics here?

Anne V - 01:12pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1320 of 1332) They're inside of it. They crawled inside, and now I have a giant incredibly heavy piece of carcass in my yard, with 2 dogs inside of it, and they are NOT getting bored of it and coming out. One of them is snoring.

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Elizabeth K - 01:57pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1328 of 1333) We definately need to see pics of Gus Pong and Jake in the elk carcass.

Anne V - 02:03pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1329 of 1333)...They don't look out very often. If you stand the ribcage on end they scramble to the top and look out, all red. Otherwise, you kinda have to get in there a little bit yourself to really see them. So I think there will not be pictures.

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CoseyMo - 02:15pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1332 of 1333) What if you stand the ribcage on end, wait for them to look out, grab them when they do and pull?

Anne V - 02:18pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1333 of 1333) They wedge their toes between the ribs. And scream. We tried that before we brought the elk home from the mountain with dogs inside. Jake nearly took my friends arm off. He's already short a toe, so he cherishes the 15 that remain.

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I WANT TO POST MORE OF THE FUNNY BITS, BUT DON'T WANT TO RUIN THE ENDING! GO read the OP!!

[NMDemDist2]

2. i read it outloud to DH and i couldn't get through half the posts LOL n/t

[IndyOp]

3. The post is REAL - there really IS a Gus Pong --

he is a New Guinea Singing Dog (a subspecies of Dingo)...
<http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~solan/dogsinelk/validity.htm>

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[BrklynLiberal]

4. I had seen that a while back and saved it because it was so hysterical.

Here are some follow up posts that I saved as well:

Follow-Up Postings: RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Andrew
([e-mail]) on Fri, Oct 22, 99 at 15:18 Edible pet carriers. You might be on to something here.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: suzy ([e-mail]) on Fri, Oct 22, 99 at 17:07 my daughter's two big dogs used to carry around dead mummified g'hogs...and thigh bones from butchered cows and the occasional deer. their most fav activity in the whole world was running out the back door in the morning and rolling in cow plops.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Becky the DD ([e-mail]) on Fri, Oct 22, 99 at 18:55 And I thought my golden retriever was bad for eating the occasional baby bird!
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Dawn ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 3, 99 at 20:24 Hey, free food for the dogs. We feed our dogs a raw diet, and I wouldn't have to feed them for MONTHS!!! I just doubt that ours would get along long enough to eat any. My poor husband, working in the other room while I sit here laughing like this. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Wally L. Speers ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 3, 99 at 22:49 Ha,ha,ha...I'll never be able to eat ribs again without thinking of this story. I only hope I don't choke while thinking about it.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Jeff ([e-mail]) on Fri, Nov 5, 99 at 17:24 I will go right out and start training my papillon and pomeranian. "No elk. Bad boy! Bad girl! Here's a treat. No elk. DROP!! DROP!! Good boy and girl".
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Barbara ([e-mail]) on Sun, Nov 7, 99 at 10:37 I got word of this site through our dog behaviour problems list! wonder what the advice for Anne would have been from that forum?
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Anita z8 Seattle ([e-mail]) on Mon, Nov 8, 99 at 12:44 A note to some of those who responded: I am not Anne V. I did not write this. This story was forwarded to me by someone who claims to have found it on the newsgroup rec.pets (as I said at the beginning of the posting). If you want to contact Anne V., I suggest that you go to rec.pets, search for this thread, and get her email address there. Thanks.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Sandy B ([e-mail]) on Mon, Nov 8, 99 at 21:07 Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod. I got this off a raw diet list, which really makes it funny. Can't believe none of the Basenji lists have found it yet. They will tonight!!! Maybe they have and haven't passed it on because it is too much like "just another day with a Basenji" type thing. Only thing I wonder about at this point, was there one or two ribcages? Sometimes it seemed like she was infering each dog had its own cage.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Kay Eldred ([e-mail]) on Tue, Nov 9, 99 at 1:21 There are no Elk here in Australia but I spent a few years in Canada so know the size of the animal involved. I have had Basenjis for 26 years and this has to be one of the funniest stories I have every read with regard to this wonderful unique breed. Mine have hunted possums snakes and many small creatures - but elk !!
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Andie ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 10, 99 at 12:37 Well.. I have never read anything this funny! It's jus so good - and so typically "dog"! I never thought anything could be worse than the day my Golden Lab, Lucas, rolled in a very, very dead fox in the mountains and I had to take extremely pongy dog home in car - with windows up coz winter and raining.. but this takes the cake! Thank you so much for sharing it.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Susan ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 10, 99 at 13:52 One of the best dog (let alone basenji) stories ever! Watching the tale unfold was like rubbernecking at an accident site.... you're horrified, but you just can't look away... When I got to the part about the dogs breaking into the bedroom with their edible den, THAT's when I broke up.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Carole DeHart ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 10, 99 at 14:21 ROTFL ... this was posted to Rottie-L, a rottweiler discussion group. I thought my rottie went a little overboard when she "vaccumed up" three fledgling blue jays, I can just imagine her with an elk carcass. Yikes! cj RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: AndieP ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 10, 99 at 22:04 So typically basenji. Hilarious, and believable. Basenjis do not know the word impossible.... During the past 28 years I have seen them do some near impossible things. It reminds me of an incident from those long-ago days when I was very new to basenjis and had yet to learn of their exploits. I have a thanksgiving story from the early 70s when I first had basenjis. After dinner when we were all sitting around groaning in the living room, we heard some odd thumps coming from the kitchen. One of the basenjis had stuck his head inside the turkey carcase and was being "helped" by 2 other basenjis who were trying to pull bits off the outside. He was not trying to get the turkey carcase off his head, he was just trying to keep it away from the other basenjis. I had to sit down on the floor I laughed so hard. this was before the days of camcorders so all we got was one still picture of Jet with a "turkey head". I sent it in to one of the dog magazines but they did not print it, they said it was "too contrived". Obviously they did not know anything about basenjis. Basenjis will not do anything if it is not their idea.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: vicki ([e-mail]) on Wed, Nov 10, 99 at 22:18 not funny. don't get it. personally would have left dumb dogs and elk in the woods!
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Katherine ([e-mail]) on Thu, Nov 11, 99 at 2:37 This tale reminds me of home butchering time on the farm. This of course had to be done in cold weather. Our farm dogs would bury choice tidbits in snow banks and feast on them for weeks.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Richard Gire ([e-mail]) on Fri, Nov 12, 99 at 12:31 Man, it sounds like these dogs are a menace. What the hell are you going to feed these dogs after the meat is gone!!! Don't run out of food and don't fall down in the yard.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Tabatha ([e-mail]) on Mon, Nov 15, 99 at 20:42 Congratulations your story reached all the way to Australia and it's just as funny here.
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Joy ([e-mail]) on Mon, Nov 15, 99 at 23:35 Do you suppose that if the dog groomer saw you coming with the pack for the clean up -- would he hurry and put the closed sign on the door?
RE: dogs in elk * Posted by: Judy ([e-mail]) on Sat, Nov 20, 99 at 22:03 Well, this has hit the UK ! Thanks !!!! . . . Try reading it with a mouthful of red wine. Like I did :-) Judy, England.
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[IndyOp]

5. Turkey Head!

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I am beginning to be very grateful for my Lab and Golden -- they aren't as intense as Basenji's!

[BrklynLiberal]

6. One kick for a laugh for the new year...

[IndyOp]

7. Excellent kick BrklynLiberal --

I laughed until I cried - *again* -

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[BrklynLiberal]

8. Me too.

I thought we deserved to laugh like this again.

[roguevalley]

9. gus pong. what a great dog name. this is the greatest dog story ever told.