To suddenly hear the sound of four legs and panting from the living room....
... and then as I turn my head around, I see a dog running towards me, a border colley or something like that. and it comes up and puts it's front paws on my knees and I give it a big hug and say "Hello fella, where did you come from?" and it nuzzles my kneck. Suddenly, I'm dressed in my hawiaan style shorts and t-shirt, and there is a lead around the dog's kneck "C'mon, we're OFF TO THE PARK", where I take it out for a walk to the park, pass the really old estate mansion and through the trent park uni, where I let the dog off it's lead in the field and it runs off up to a (very very) pretty girl (with a dog of her own), and we get talking about the dogs, "It's the strangest thing, I was in my office, and there was this dog ! I have no idea where it came from", we would laugh and joke, take a walk down to the cafe in the park, and the dogs will share a saussage sandwich and we'd both enjoy a Twister ice lolly each. She'd take the piss out of my hawiaan shirt, how I must have gotten dressed in the dark, and I'd call her a bitch, then we'd both laugh a little too long and have a bit of eye contact. I'd then walk her back to the campus, tell her I've had such a wonderful day, and explain how she should give me a kiss, because otherwise Monster (we've decided on the name 'monster' for the dog) will feel like he's not good enough at helping me "score it big time with the honiez", then she would give me a peek on the cheek and her phone number. It would take me about a week to eventually call her back, me not being any good at this sort of thing at all, but we'd get talking again, mostly about the dogs. I tell her of my jackpot lottery win, nothing too big, just a few million, it's enough. We then have a very happy life for the rest of our lives. Granted, it has it's hard points, but the adventure with our dogs are the kind of things books are made of.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:26, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oh Gonz!
If only.
( girlinthehole, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)

Noone would be more deserving of this than you.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)

Don't be so mean!
He may have been a huge success with Herman's Hermits, but I fail to see why that makes him more deserving than Gonz.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:41, Reply)

superb

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Ahahah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Took me a minute
Nice one, sir. Consider your 60s-teen-pop-referencing-punnage applauded.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Don't get a border collie. They are evil and obsessive compulsives.

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)

This is a lie they are loving and loyal dogs who are easily trained
I think you may have had a bad experience
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)

Thety are lovely dogs BUT
can be quite neurotic and if they don't have a job they will make one. You can only throw a ball so many times before your arm falls off but the dog will NEVER stop trying!

(No dogs are evil.)
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I concur
Border Collies are beautiful and intelligent dogs, and full of win - provided you have enough energy to take care of one properly. Sadly my Uncle didn't.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)

You need to know what you're getting into before you get a dog.
AS our kids are pretty much our to the house now and I travel a bit too much for work, my wife got a Golden Retriever for company and she thought to possibly scare any bad guys off. So she now has a giant friendly 11 month old puppy who is everyone's friend, sheeds a lot, and wants complete attention at all times. I can't go anywhere in the house without him being at my feet (He has decided he likes to sopend time with me best).

I never had a border collie but have known people who did and shouldn't have.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:47, Reply)

He'll realx as he gets older, he'll still want to be with someone but the same room will suffice

My parents have a retriver anbd he is just the nicest dog ion the entire world without being clingy, he is ten this month, happy birthday doggles!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 11:53, Reply)

It does strike me as a little arse-about-face
that when our kids are hyperactive and neurotic and we can't control them, we pump them full of drugs to calm them down, but when our dogs do the same, we have them put to sleep.

Given the racket next door's kid was making the other night I'd happily reverse the situation.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 12:08, Reply)