@Josephine_van_Rijn sorry about that tree. Sometimes they can come down on their own …
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I know! There’s still a difference between a natural occurrence and plain slaughter.
We’re talking about lifeforms that can live for thousands of years.
People just decide that they are not convenient and get rid of them.
Like crushing an ant.
We don’t even know what a tree really is. Does it think, feel?
There’s a definite sadness around them when the day is ending.
It’s the total disregard for life that gets to me.
It doesn’t stop at trees and other lifeforms. It includes us.
I remember this tree called Methuselah or something. It was over 3000 years old.
There was one guy obsessed with finding a tree older than that.
Eventually he thought that he had.
There was no way for him to take out a cross section. The stem was too wide.
The only way he could count rings was by chopping it down.
He did. Guess what, the tree was older than that.
This guy should be suspended from a tree and have every single bone in his body broken.
Over and over again.
He made a documentary about it. You must have a really thick skull to be able to broadcast something like that as if it’s a good thing.
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That’s the one! It’s even older than I thought it was. So the bastard killed one even older than that. 
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Why not just drill in, and take a core sample, and carbon date it ?
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He couldn’t, the stem was too wide. So he cut it instead. Or are you talking about something else.
He only talked about counting rings.
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@Josephine_van_Rijn I love trees MOST of the time, and sometimes, to my/our own peril. Sure, sure, we could have cut it down years ago, but we figured we’d wait for the straight line / tornado storm, and well, we got our wish LOL. The WORST PART of it was, I was working 3.5 hours away. WHAT A DAY that was. Luckily I knew a great tree guy, who is one of the best Christians I know, and he was ON SITE within 15 minutes.
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Time flies when you’re having fun.
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I hate it when I’m all set for a nice relaxing walk in the park with the dog and the first thing the dog does is run off, disappear into the bushes to eat crap or shit.
I’ve been at the emergency clinic before when she was fucked up on amphetamine after eating poop.
With hindsight I was lucky that my dog hasn’t got one single aggressive bone in her body.
You should find yourself in a room with one of those fighting dogs, fucked up on amphetamines, not knowing who you are any more.
Good luck to you!
Anyway, the punishment for that action is on the leash and straight back home.
I was so angry. It’s going to be 30 degrees Celsius today, the park will be flooded later until way past midnight.
No way she can have a run or a swim with all the barbecues and little kids with balls.
I felt like my whole day was spoiled. She slunk off somewhere in the house, I went into the garden with a book.
That anger was just not going away. I hate it when I’m angry, especially with my dog.
After half an hour I decided to give her another chance, it was still early enough.
She was very well behaved this time and we came home with our moods restored.
Now I can go back into the garden and enjoy my book.
The upside of the disappearance of the tree is that I have hours more sunlight.
If I’m very lucky the renovation of my house will be postponed a lot more and I can finally grow some grass in my garden.
According to their planning they will start at my house in February. They are doing the block in stages because they don’t have enough houses for the people that have to vacate the block to do it all at once.
They are still demolishing the first corner they started on. I will be at the end of the round.
Fat chance that’ll happen in February.
Not to mention all the crap we’re going to get to save the climate and the planet 
As if.
No transport, no materials. 
It suits me fine.
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@Josephine_van_Rijn, I’ve had this awful experience with my Labrador dog on more than one occasion and unfortunately it’s quite a common one especially for that breed. I do exactly the same thing as you did by putting him back on his lead and taking him straight back home telling him that he’s a dirty boy and with him in disgrace for the next few hours. I try not to make any eye contact with him although I know he’s constantly watching me and I don’t talk to him either, it’s hard but he has to know what he’s done is wrong. I feel so disappointed in him when he does this but thankfully it’s not as often now.
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Eating machines! My previous one was worse. He had no standards at all when it came to food.
He wasn’t even a real Labrador, he had Rottweiler in him too.
This one will not eat vegetables or fruit. Unless it’s a barbecued empty cob of corn.
She even refused to eat a chicken foot once. Apparently it was off. So she has some standards, but not when it comes to 
I get really pissed because it can be dangerous. She gets enough anyway.
Quality stuff, untreated, no bullshit added. She eats better than I do.
It costs me a fortune every month.
She will behave the next few days. She really doesn’t like it when I’m angry with her.
I rarely get beyond irritated. When I get really angry the bullshit usually stops quickly.
Wherever that bullshit comes from.
We’ll see how long the memory lasts this time.
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I had a Malamute/Shepard that would do that all the time. He’d run off then come back just within arms reach, and dart off. Damn, he pissed me off. He never understood he was in trouble though. He’d think it was all just a game. My black lab on the other hand would never leave farther than 5 feet away and always came when called. Never trained her. She just got it.
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@Josephine_van_Rijn and @Lostmarbles I found this helpful and at times funny in understanding why they do it.
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She only eats human poop. The other dogs I had would use the box of cat litter as a snack bar.
Preferably fresh from the arse 
She’s not interested in that. She ate her own poop as a puppy, that stopped when she grew up.
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Oh the joys of the cat litter tray and that suspicious empty dug hole.
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My box would be standing upside down. He would get his big head stuck in there and probably had to shake it loose.
I never forget the face of my vet when he asked me about the faeces of the cat and I told him I had no idea because there never was any when I looked in it.
I’m glad she’s not interested in that. Saves me the unexpected waft of breath in my face.
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We always try to clean it up as soon as it’s done but on occasion when the cat has done his business in the middle of the night or early in the morning is when my dog must have gone downstairs to check it out and done the “unthinkable” 
it is very rare that he does this now though thankfully.
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@Lucas_James_Holden and I both have a brown one. I understand there’s a big difference.
They told me the brown ones are a bit mad.
I agree. 
I heard a story about a guy living next door to one of those guide dogs training centres.
He never saw a brown Lab among them.
He went to complain about it because it was discrimination in his eyes. They told him the brown ones were useless for the job.
No attention span.
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