BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....

Subject: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 11:07 AM

This story started in another thread.

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An ongoing conversation with Hardi.
Susan:" Can we get another dog....?
Hardi: "Sure. Which one is leaving?"
Susan: "So lemme get this straight. Your policy is, no more than 2 dogs. If I want to add a dog, how many cats have to go? Which lap-warmer-- Atticus or Isis? And BTW, when was it you were going to make Isis the basement cat like you planned?"
Hardi: "If Sadie goes, you can get another dog. Cats don't count."
Susan: "OK, so if Faulkner goes, then I can get another dog?"
Hardi, really disturbed: "Faulkner is NOT replaceable!"

This, from the avowed "not a dog person," who swears that when he sees Faulkner his first thought is always, "There's that damn dog again-- another mouth to feed." The same dog who has been getting 4 times as much ear/belly-rubbing since Sadie (red-gold lab-golden mix rescue dog) came to the house, because she shows what a GREAT DOG Faulkner is, every minute she's here.

And because Faulkner IS a great dog (who Hardi adores). Faulkner even gets fan mail, and has been mentioned on the radio for his hockey-discernment skills! (He's been incredibly patient with Sadie.)


Last night I dreamed that a little dog named Enid (!?!?!?!) came to live with us. ENID???? She sure was cute-- yellow minidog, sort of a rat terrier/corgi mix but with a miniature bulldog face (ug-leee?). Smart too; highly telepathic. Cat-sized. Enid.... oh Enid..........

~Susan

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05 Feb 08 - 06:42 PM (#2254515)
Subject: RE: Aw, Can We Keep Him???
From: Liz the Squeak

I'd suggest laying off the cheese and altar wine before bed...

Enid ~ for heaven's sakes!!!

LTS

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05 Feb 08 - 07:17 PM (#2254545)
Subject: RE: Aw, Can We Keep Him???
From: WYSIWYG

I know. She CAME with that name, though. Maybe she is out there!

~S~

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05 Feb 08 - 07:56 PM (#2254596)
Subject: RE: Aw, Can We Keep Him???
From: Sorcha

ROF! I've had stranger things happen.....and ALL my cats have arrived with names.

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05 Feb 08 - 11:03 PM (#2254736)
Subject: RE: Aw, Can We Keep Him???
From: WYSIWYG

Eeeeenid..... Eeeeenid.....

It was SUCH a weird dream.

Enid came along the sidewalk to a house like the one where my sister lives in the city of Chicago, and I was outside waiting for something (I forget what). This dog had, instead of a tag on her collar, a teensy cellphone just like the one Hardi gave me. I was really glad it was just like mine, because even tho it was so small I knew where all the features were, even if the letters on the controls were too small to read. I thought I'd be able to auto-dial her owner on it, but the phone was prepaid, and its "juice" had all been used up so it was no good, and therefore the dog was "legally" abandoned. (???)

Later in the dream my sister co-opted the dog when I wasn't looking, and was wondering how she would walk her, because in the city the big dogs go to one dogpark and the little dogs have to go to a different one. (??? Not IRL) (She already has a biggish dog.)

I woke up before I could take the dog away from her!


Now, there WERE a number of things just before bedtime that I can relate to some of the elements in the dream, but the name-- Enid? Enid? NO idea where that came from.

Eeeenidddddd.......

~Susan

!!!???Enid???!!! Is that some subgenre of canid????

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07 Feb 08 - 09:23 AM (#2255876)
Subject: RE: Aw, Can We Keep Him???
From: WYSIWYG

Last night I dreamed that it was the next morning. I was about to leave the house on a busy day, only to find an Asian lady in my kitchen who had come to clean. (We do not have a cleaning lady.)

It took several minutes to get that straight. Then I went to the laundry room she'd entered through, to get Faulkner who sleeps there now, to put him out safely in the dog run so he would not pull one of his great escapes. I didn't want him to get run over on our road. But it turned out she'd already let him escape.

In a panic, I continued on out to the back porch to see if he was there, because sometimes (IRL) he doesn't know he's actually loose right away. I saw him sniffing around on the ground, as I looked through the the bushes. So I started talking to him to keep him nearby, as I went off the back steps onto the ground to circle around to where he was.

As I went down and around, I began to realize that Faulkner is not that color, nor is he shaped like that, nor is he that small.

It was Enid, of course. She didn't know where Faulkner was. She was too busy to come in just then, herself.

I was so worried about Faulkner that it woke me up.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:35 PM

Seriously Wys... lay off the cheese last thing at night!!!

I called the stray cat that lives with us 'Enid' this afternoon, but he didn't look impressed.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:12 PM

Two words................

ACID FLASHBACK

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:18 PM

♫"A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep" ♫

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:21 PM

Does it signify anything that Enid spelled backwards is "dine"?

Perhaps that is a sign that a pet should be eaten in order to make room for another?

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 07:03 PM

Probably not, Ron. But, Whiz, sometime, somewhere, when you LEAST expect it........there's ENID! LOL....evil cackle....

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: GUEST,Enid
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 09:59 AM

Wuff wuf woof, woofly ruff woff.

(Translated - open the can momma, I'm on my way home!)

Enid

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:11 AM

Enid requires no translation with me; she speaks in clear English. Although I am sure she speaks in Canish to others, I doubt she will eat canned food, so perhaps that wasn't her. Canned food is often horsemeat or-- [shudder]-- dog. She may be a FU dog, but I got rid of reflux long ago. LTS's comments about cheese are well taken, but there's the Lactaid; anyway since Brie is our favorite choice, she'd have a proper French name.

If you knew Enid, like I know Enid--
Oh! Oh! Oh what a dog!

She was not in the towns we're just back from visiting; or if she was, she was busy. That's OK-- so was I. Still, I missed her. Her portability would have made her a good companion, and I know she'd have enjoyed several of the stops we made as well as the audiobook we ran in the van, aaargh!

Well, she'll find a good welcome when she turns up.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:21 PM

Pet food in the US may be made from all manner of strange animals but in the UK, by law, it has to be fit for human consumption. There's even a person whose job is to taste those pet foods.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 07:27 PM

You need professional help.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:45 PM

I actually turned down a pair of Weimeraners. And a Pyrenees. And a chocolate Lab. Wrong time, wrong dogs. Crazy, I know.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 10:24 AM

Didn't see Enid at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, nor any near relatives. So she is definitely not a purebred.

Last night, waking in the middle of the night, I thought I heard a summons-bark different from our dogs or the neighbor dog that is tied outside. "Must be Enid on my back porch!" I thought. Fortunately, before rushing downstairs to freeze my feet and wake the house, I turned off the audiobook in my ear for another listen. "There it is again! Enid!"

But on a further listen, no-- it was just Hardi's gentle snore.

Our kennel's owner says she has known some dogs named Enid, and asked me to describe her. Nope-- she has not met MY Enid, but agreed to keep a watch and let me know if she turns up.

I still think Enid will find ME, so I am not calling around the shelters.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 10:11 PM

Eeeeeeeeeeniddddddd...........

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 10:31 PM

scroll down halfway

Plan your vacation accordingly.

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Janie
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 11:19 PM

Saw a poster looking for homes for 4 Italian greyhounds - free - owner moving.

No mention of Enid, however.

Subject: RE: BS: Pets: Waiting for Enid. Eeeeeenidddd....
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 02:29 AM

I hope she shows up soon. On the other hand she may still only be thinking about it. All in good time.