I love the smell of a fucking lawsuit in the morning

[jmowreader]

One of the guys in our Kitchens department has quit working for my store so he could go into the Custom Stone Countertop business. He has many customers at this time and will do very well. I have been engaged to build him a display rack for his stone samples, and that's where our story begins.

The place he's got his store is next to a boarding kennel that offers daycare. A woman I know whose husband is a urologist, and who therefore does NOT need to dig through the couch cushions looking for beer money, keeps her spaniel there while she works. She shows the dog and wins frequently. Anyway, I was hauling tools across the street to start work when I saw her bringing the dog in. Everything's fine, but the dog is in heat so she'll have to play only with other females today, but that should be fairly easy for them to accomplish.

Fifteen minutes later, I'm carrying ANOTHER tool across the street (some of my tools are very large) and I noticed her dog in the main play yard...some scroungy-looking Heinz dog was busily performing a thread-locking act on her $2500 spaniel.

Now! In six weeks there are going to be seven unwanted Heinz puppies in the world. Who should bear the majority of the blame?

The urologist's wife, for bringing an in-heat dog to a canine daycare?
The kennel owner, for not sufficiently informing the employee that this dog couldn't be taken around males?
The kennel employee, for taking the dog into the playyard?
Or George Bush, simply because he's to blame for everything else?

[idgiehkt]

1. Does she know?

Because they can give the dog an abortifacient so it won't carry the pregnancy to term. It really depends on the contract that she signed when she started leaving her dog there. That is a real danger just because unaltered males might fight over a dog in heat. I have in the past had a female that was for some reason aggressive to other female dogs if they were in heat, it was very strange. The employee won't be liable, it would be the owner...and the owner isn't going to sue a customer for their employee's negligence. Bad p.r. for the doggie daycare, though.

[jmowreader]

3. I assume she does

The dog was at the end of a leash when the TLA...oh, the hell with it, when it was being mated with.

[AngryAmish]

15. I have seen several TV shows about wolves

I saw this on TV, so it has to be true...

Anyway, in wolf packs only the alpha female goes into heat and has puppies. So, the aggressive female that came over might have fancied herself as the the alpha female and didn't like other females going into heat and taking her status/causing her puppies to have less resources.

Or not. I am not a dog expert.

[idgiehkt]

27. I never thought of that aspect

it might be related to that. It was always embarassing to me that she behaved that way, I've never known another female dog to act that way besides mine. She was most definitely an alpha female.

I know, I cannot imagine living in a wolf pack...what a horrible den of sexual frustration that must be.

[Colorado Progressive]

2. my dog used to get screwed every day and didnt get preggers

So she may not be.

[ruiner4u]

4. karl rove...

cause GD says hes gay.. and of course in GD land gay = evil...

[amitten]

6. Whatever you say, Mango.

Did I mention I love-a de Mango?

But I know I cannot have de Mango?

[ruiner4u]

8. -YOU- wil never...

have de Mango!

[amitten]

9. I know I won't...and it pains me.

Hey I also just saw your Joe for Clark post.

Is that like a parody of him?

Because if so, it's very good. I could never understand a DAMN thing that guy was talking about.

:wtf:

[ruiner4u]

10. Maine lobsters

will be hard to find this season...


Iraq in the north will boil..

The lobster will scream.

I follow news reports, but cant cite any.. Crappyness will be yours..

[amitten]

11. I can't take this now.

I know many have tried, many times.

It looks like that part is over in the meantime...but STILL.

Are the same people still listening? Who knows if that blood will shed.

Can you hear me? Does anyone care?

I just feel like it's all part of the same plan. You know what happens next.

I didn't want it to come to this.

[ruiner4u]

12. Huh?

I was too busy downing a 12 pack..


Anywho..

Fore score and seven years ago......................

[amitten]

24. ...

:rofl:

[Maine-ah]

13. it's BS

Lobsters don't scream. It's air escaping from their shells.

[mike_c]

5. pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name....

I did it.

[rucky]

7. It they're Heinz puppies...

shouldn't we blame John Kerry?

[Maine-ah]

14. it's the kennel's responsibility

if the owner told them that her dog was in heat. Also, I would think that she would never let her prized pup play with any un-neutered males regardless of heat. JMHO. My MIL breeds and shows Labs and Beagles. She also does boarding. Dogs don't intermix with eachother she has a few kennels set up so that doesn't happen.

[rug]

16. It's the bitch's fault.

[guitar man]

17. You forgot Clinton

It will be blamed on the Clenis.... :hide:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. clenis.

[Deep13]

19. It really is a fucking lawsuit.

And I thought you were being metaphorical.

[DS1]

20. You didn't prevent my dog from being a dog!

Fuck her and her dumbass mutt

[Lex]

21. It's always the woman's fault. What was that bitch wearing?

:P

[skygazer]

22. It's the kennel owner's fault

It's not rocket science to keep a bitch in heat away from the males. If that was going to be a problem, the kennel owner should have told your friend and not taken the dog. Simple as that.

As someone else mentioned, pups don't have to be the outcome if it's caught early. And as someone else mentioned, some overly aggressive female dogs will hump others in a dominance act so you might have seen something along those lines (unless a winkie was clearly visible :P ).

And I think George Bush bears a large portion of the blame.

[Wapsie B]

23. For the dog problem I'd say the first 3 choices equally.

But the countertop guy should not be able to take those those customers away from your store. They came to him while he was employed by the Kitchen dept. I'm suprised he wasn't made to sign a non-compete clause as part of his employment.

I'm not saying that's right at all, just that non-competes are or used to be fairly standard.

[jmowreader]

26. No, actually they didn't

Ben used to moonlight from his job as an English teacher in our flooring department. He bought a stone from a monument company and made a countertop from it...someone visiting his home saw it and the next thing you know, he's got so many people who wanted him to make countertops he was able to take a sabbatical from teaching and a leave of absence from us to make countertops.

This year we're really short-staffed, so the HR guy asked him to come back and work a few nights a week. Naturally, the dumb fucks stuck him in Kitchens. He told 'em and told 'em "I own a countertop company. I make a lot of money there. I can't work in this department. Put me back in flooring." They left him in Kitchens.

Then came Holy Writ from Atlanta: if you work for a company, or own one, that competes in any way with HD, you can't work for HD. So the manager called him in and read him the riot act about owning a countertop company while he worked in Kitchens...Ben explained that he asked NOT to work in Kitchens...Ben went away.

And actually, he wasn't REALLY competing with HD's Kitchens department--his prices are fifty percent higher and he STILL has to turn work away. Then again, he can build countertops HD won't touch.

[KitchenWitch]

25. "performing a thread-locking act" ROFL!

:spray: