Starting Over (or, "Punkie Does America")

[cecilia]

A dog isn't just for Xmas dude

:roflmao:

i've watched AbFab, so i actually know why that's funny!

[graffias79]

Wain wrote:
COME TO CHICAGO!!!! I'd love to meet you in person!
 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

Yes if you come to Chicago, I can go visit you as well! :-)

[T_Bone]

Hmmm, the problem with visiting America is there are just so many places you'd have to visit to consider yourself having visited here :-)

New York, Toronto, Boston, Charlotte, Orlando, Tampa, Nashville, New orleans, Las Vegas, San Francisco...

screw it, you'll just have to move here permanently, too much to see :-D

[Cyberus]

@ T_bone

I've been looking into visiting the US, and after doing a lot of reading, I decided that I would probably try and go for three months, since this is the amount of time a Brit passport will *usually* entitle you to on a tourist visa.
That's the problem, some of your states are bigger than our entire country!! :-o

The problem with TPG moving to America (as you jokingly suggest) is that your immigration is meant to be really tough. Its meant to be really difficult to get a work permit, let alone residency. My cousin is the CEO of a music company and he lives in Florida, but he is only allowed to stay because of his work, and only gets to stay about nine months of the year (if my memory serves me correctly)

[bloodline]

T_Bone wrote:
Hmmm, the problem with visiting America is there are just so many places you'd have to visit to consider yourself having visited here :-)

New York, Toronto, Boston, Charlotte, Orlando, Tampa, Nashville, New orleans, Las Vegas, San Francisco...

screw it, you'll just have to move here permanently, too much to see :-D

Heheheheheh :lol: I guess you mean "North America" :-)

[MAD]

Hoya!

@Karlos

I disagree.

I always regret what I HAVE done, because I am always wrong.

Be funky

M A D

[that_punk_guy]

The Dale dilemma is unfortunately not a new one. For a while now I've been struggling to give him the quality of life he deserves. It's just him and me, and I'm trying to work as much as I can to get out of debt... I try and get someone to drop by and see him while I'm at work, but that's not always possible. I hoping I can convince the local kennels to let me drop him off just during the day. They have "open" runs, so I guess that'd make him happier.

Sometimes I can't help thinking he'd be much better off without me. :-(

[Karlos]

@tpg

Sometimes I can't help thinking he'd be much better off without me

I guess he doesn't see it quite that way. I'm sure Dale is happy to be alive and well fed, even if he's a bit short of company. Hopefully the kennels will let him stay during the day - assuming he likes to be around his own kind, that is (seems not all do).

[T_Bone]

that_punk_guy wrote:
The Dale dilemma is unfortunately not a new one. For a while now I've been struggling to give him the quality of life he deserves. It's just him and me, and I'm trying to work as much as I can to get out of debt... I try and get someone to drop by and see him while I'm at work, but that's not always possible. I hoping I can convince the local kennels to let me drop him off just during the day. They have "open" runs, so I guess that'd make him happier.

Sometimes I can't help thinking he'd be much better off without me. :-(

Some kennels specialise in this, my kennel is "Kamp Kanine", they take the dog for 9 hours a day, they bathe him, walk him, and even have group dog activities, and you can watch what the dogs are doing on a webcam, and even look at photo's the caretakers have taken of your dog during the day. They have an in-house vet, trainer, and groomers. Pick up and drop off service is also available, and if you give them a key to your kennel, you don't even have to be home for pickup/dropoff.

It's a really cool service, but expensive. I haven't used them since the last time both my wife and I worked the same hours, but we still use them during vacations sometimes.

[that_punk_guy]

There are some daycares around I think (without all those bells and whistles), just none even remotely within walking distance.

[Morley]

But the longer you stay away, the happier he is to see you again,- that's what differ's a dog from a woman.  :-D
No wonder a dog is a man's best friend.

[KennyR]

Not my best friend. Dogs are intensely irritating, noisy, over-excitable, stinking animals. My family's hasn't grown out of its "bark constantly whenever nobody is in the room" phase, and that and its carpet-licking and its penchant for coating my windows with mucus, is really not making me a friend of the animal. Not many women do that.

[Cyberus]

KennyR wrote:
are intensely irritating, noisy, over-excitable, stinking animals.

Are you sure you're talking about dogs? :lol:

[KennyR]

Certain. Whoever's idea it was to domesticate dogs should be reincarnated, dragged out into the street, forced to drink dog slobber, then shot.

[BukkY]

I would encourage any such OE trip to folks, the younger the better. Punkie, I don't think a trip to The States would be complete without a stop in Beaverton to visit with the famous Doom Master. Doomie would you be up to showing an overseas visitor life in small=town America? :lol:

[odin]

@kennyR:

:lol: Your perception of the dog is one I can relate to. Cats rule ;-).