I had some file names for photos temporaily written in here but I had not actually uploaded them to blogger yet ... oh - when I went to upload them I realised why - they were videos, which take a while to upload - so I probably ran out of evening and decided to do it later when I had more time) ... I wrote most of this post, and added the first 2 videos, back in the middle of 2008!
So why drag out some draft post from 2008 and post it now? ... well - I had already uploaded 2 of the videos, wanted to put at least one of those other ones on youtube anyway (the last one) ... and this will do for a Y post for ABC Wednesday (I already did one on my main blog, but it is ages since I posted something here and this is a good excuse - LOL)
So ... here is a post about a Yummy (not so) new bone:
Guess who got a "new" bone?
(and guess who just rememberd that blogger now has a thing to upload video here, instead of having to put it on youtube or somewhere and link to it? lol ... so of course I have to have a play with it ;-)
I sometimes bring some very strange things home from work - probably something to do with the fact that I have a slightly strange job - I am the "science assistant" at a high school (in most states I would be called the "Lab Technician" or something fancy like that, but here in the ACT I guess we are not as highly thought of as that? lol) anyway ... I often get to bring home "leftovers" from when students disect hearts or kidneys or something yucky like that (all quite edible ... well they were before the students sliced them up with scalpels and poked their fingers in them and dropped them on the floor or whatever ... I buy them from the butcher - in fact I don't think the students are allowed to use stuff that is not fit for human consumption).
Anyway - the other day (actually a week or 2 ago I think) we had a clean out of one of the store rooms and we threw out a pile of old cow skulls that were lying around on some top shelves … most of them were gungy old ones and some even had a few bits of old skin still hanging off them … and even if a teacher wanted to show their class a manky old cow skull … we only needed one, not about 10 of the things! - so I “rescued” one from the rubbish pile – a big one with horns and all, and a few bits of “yummy” dried skin hanging off the nose/etc – and brought it home and gave it to Diesel.
Here is the cow skull, in the driveway after I got it out of the car.
I decided to be nice and carry it out to the back yard for him (he wasn't sure if he should try and drag it somewhere or just start eating it where it was!)
– I think he thought it was Christmas! LOL
I don't think he knew what bit to chew first! LOL
- I would not want to be on the wrong side of those teeth! ... actually ... I guess I sometimes am! - this is the same dog who will play rough wrestling/etc games and chew the back of my neck or grab my ear or my arm or whatever - and never do any harm - he knows just how hard to grab so it sort of almost hurts but doesn't do any damage (and he knows exactly how much harder he can grab if I am hiding under the doona and he is out on top) ... btw - he can also carry an egg without breaking it (yes he has done that - the first time I gave him a raw egg, still in the shell - he didn't know what it was or what to do with it so he carried it outside and put it down in the back yard ... I had to go get it and break it open - then he ate it, shell and all!)
… I even opened the gate and took a photo of the open gate and him in the back yard looking at me and chewing the skull ...
(not a very good photo, rather boring looking in fact - so I won't bother putting it here)
... and he didn’t stop chewing it to try and come out (usually when I even go near the gate he shoves his way past me and squeezes out the gate as soon as I open it a few inches) ... he did do that the first time I went out the gate after I carried it into the yard for him ... but then when we went back in the gate (after I took the sunset photo I went out there for ;-) he went straight back to it and really got into it (that was when I took the above video) he decided it was just too good to leave alone ... lol
a few minutes later:
[p6200037] (figured I may as well leave these file names here just for the heck of it, normally if I do that sort of thing I delete the notes to myself once I have done the things that I wrote the notes to tell myself to do)
- he is really getting into it now! ... "just got to get that bit of gungy dead skin off because it is just so yummy" ... lol
"maybe if I try another angle?"
[p6200038]
" ... or 2 ... or maybe I will just put it down and eat the other bits I have already chewed off"
still less than 35 minutes after I got home - and look how much "damage" he has already done:
[p6200047]
… I hope they don’t want it back – LOL – there is now rather a lot of it missing! (like half of each horn, and all of the nose)
[take another photo of whatever is left ... and look and see if those were fresh buglies in it or old ones!]
... and that is where I saved it and never went back to finish it - LOL
hmmm - I wonder if I actually DID that? ... I guess I will find out when I look in the folder of June2008 photos to find the other ones I have to add in here (I know it is June from the file names and I know it was 2008 from the date the draft post was saved - lol)
ah good - found one - p6280179, and p6280180 ... if I don't find any even better ones (that I may have taken later than those 2) I can add them when I do the others ( well ... i was going to - until I actually looked which photos those file names were and realised they were videos - I guess that is why I didn't have time to throw the last 3 up there - videos take a lot longer to upload than photos do so I probably ran out of "evening" as usual ;-)
and while I am at it ... may as well put this one here too ... because it kind of looks ... er ... weird
- it was just after the last one, and he is pulling weird bits of stuff OUT of the nose and eating them - lol
ok - went to upload the videos and noticed that now google own both blogger and youtube - I can just click a button or 2 and choose videos from youtube ... so I might stick those other
And ... that isn't the only time he has had a lot of fun with something dead ... I found a video that I took 2 or 3 weeks later ... and, before I decided to to the others that way as well, I started uploading that to youtube (easier to gross out my facebook friends by sharing it if I put it there ... and I can gross out the rest of the big wide world too ... lol)
ok ... upload says it is done, I may as well add that the same way as I am now doing the other 3
well ... all 4 are now on Youtube ... only took half a minute to grab them from there and put them here ... all looks ok at this end ... except a link I just remembered I have not added (just did that ;-) now I guess I had better post this ... once I work out how to add this blog to the thingy that puts the posts on my other blog onto my facebook ... lol (ok, found it and figured it out - that appears to be working now;-)
Time to post this mess and finish some of the other things I have been trying to do at the same time ...
5 comments:
great sequence!
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
OH, my goodness! I hope my dog doesn't see these videos, because I'm one of those worrying owners who is afraid she'll choke on a sharp piece of bone.
But I watched all the videos and laughed. Diesel looks so much like our Lindy, except she has curls.
Isn't it wonderful how retrievers have such soft mouths? They're bred to retrieve birds without ruffling the feathers, and that raw egg story really proves it.
A very fun post. I enjoyed it.
-- K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
How old was the skull? I was impressed that there was still taste and stuff for Diesel to get. I watched all the videos and enjoyed them. :-)
I'm very impressed that he managed to eat so much very old bone and digest it without getting it stuck, cutting his mouth - or getting constipated, which a lot of dogs do with large quantities of bone!
Well, he certainly enjoyed it, didn't he? LOL!
I'm impressed at how organized you are -- that you had these videos stored away and that you know how to post to you Tube and Google. I rarely post video clips because, as you pointed out, they take so long. I'm also impressed with your dog's very healthy teeth and his tail wagging throughout. It was obviously a high point of his day. Beautiful dog.
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