Thursday, August 02, 2012

#104. or, Love is in the air

  Our dog is in heat.

  Our female black lab, Abby, is in the mood for love. Well, maybe not so much in the mood for love. I'm not entirely convinced she's all that aware of  anything out of the ordinary going on. The male dogs in the area though, are more than eager to stop over with hopes of getting jiggy with her.

  We have two labs. Our male, Tuke is a really good dog. I know everybody says that about their dogs, but he really is a good dog. So much so, in fact, that we decided that there needed to be more of him. That's why we got our female, Abby. We've never had a dog raise pups here on our farm. If  we do manage to now, some of them are already spoken for. We're just hoping for another good natured dog.

  Abby seems quite oblivious of the fact that she's now the most desirable dog on the block. Tuke on the other hand, looks like he's been to hell and back. The poor fellow is having a terrible time. He's only trying to do what nature intended him to do but every time he puts his best moves on Abby, someones there telling him to get off of her.

  I can't really blame him. He's six years old. That's in his 40's in dog years and as far as I know, the only time he's ever had sex, was one time he snuck over to the neighbours. I imagine he remembers it because  he got into a lot of trouble over that episode.......and, well........he had sex.

  Abby has been in heat twice before. Each of those times, because she was too young, we had to keep her in the kennel. Tuke would spend all of his time, just outside the fence. Inches away from what he wanted, but it might as well have been a mile. Now she's out and what he's wanted so badly is right under his nose. We've had to keep an eye on her because the neighbour's dog is interested too. More than once, Tuke and he have gone a round or two to try determine whose the boss. Also, because Abby isn't  that keen on all this new attention, she'll often spin around and take a nip at Tukes nose.

  OK, to recap, our Male dog Tuke gets placed under a spell of sexual irresistiblity. He has to battle other dogs, has to endure getting bitten on the nose by the one he's under a spell for. Most of "his people" are getting on his case for having sex on his brain. He's in his 40's in dog years and has had sex one time which got him booted in the ass. Plus, we've been losing sleep because he's up all night yowling, and barking and scraping with the neighbour's dog. He's practically a 40 year old virgin. Although, I don't think you can almost be a virgin?

  I can't help feeling a little sorry for the poor guy. I've decided that I'm going to be his wing-man.

  I took him for a walk to the pond out in the back 40 because he loves to swim. I thought he might need to clear his head a bit. Except the swim that usually goes on for 20 minutes only lasted the length of time that he could swim out, around the dock, and back to shore. Then he looked at me with those, "I need to go have sex!" dog eyes, started whining, and got the shakes, and we had to go back. It's like he's hooked on crack or something.

  He needed help. I called him over, cleaned him up a bit, wiped all the gook out of his eyes, tidied up his new scars and took the two of them out to the pond to spend a little romantic time together. Then I pretended to be busy while I was on the lookout for any other males lurking about while they had some quiet time alone together. Last night, I let them spend the night together in the kennel.

  I guess we'll know shortly how well they got along together.

I think they'll make awesome babies?


  I think he appreciated it. I've never really had the chance to be a wing-man before. I don't suspect that in my mid 40's, I'll ever get the chance again.

  ........... But, if my kids turn 40 and are still living in the basement, I might have to intervene again. Of course, by then I'll be in my 60's. My skills might be a little rusty.

  

55 comments:

  1. Good luck to your doggies with their rocky romance. Hopefully we get to see some squee-worthy puppy pictures soon!

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  2. You are an awesome Wing Man!! And they are going to make great puppies indeed LOL

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    1. Thanks Elsie. I've always wanted to be a wing-man. Or be wing-manned. But I'm quite certain I'm never going to need one anymore anyways.

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  3. That is a riot Ken! However I think you may have been more of a pimp than a Wing Man...

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    1. I prefer to think I'm working the grey area between pimp and wing-man?

      Thanks Kevin.

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    2. you mean the 50 shades of grey of canine pimping?

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    3. well, we have a yellow dog and a black dog. I suppose some shade of grey isn't out of the question?

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  4. Doggy gestation is 60 days, on average. Come the first week of October, I'll be expecting puppy pictures.

    I wonder how much it costs to ship a puppy from Canada to Missouri...

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    1. I hope to be able to supply puppy pictures.

      I would have to look into that. I suspect there may be a few hoops to jump through.

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  5. Just what I needed to get my mind off of laundry and other torture, a blog post about doggie style. Ken, you're the best!

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    1. At doggie style posts? Gee, I'll have to let my wife in on that little tid-bit.

      Thanks, Funny! :)

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    2. Ha! I just meant you made me laugh with an out of the norm post.

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  6. This was a really wonderful post; I can't remember reading anything this warm and amusing in a long time. Great job.

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  7. So, I guess this makes you a dog pimp.

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    1. But I own the female AND the male. That doesn't sound very lucrative?

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  8. If you were to give a visual demonstration, we might have some problems!

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    1. No visual demonstration, unless you count the descriptive, step-by-step, educational, story boards I drew up?

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  9. You romantic, you. Gah.

    While reading, I couldn't help but cue the cheesy 'bow chica bow wow' (literally) music in my head.

    I hope you provided candles and a little mood music.

    Can not WAIT to see puppy pics in the fall.

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    1. bow chica bow wow! Perfect! :)

      No candles, but I did consider rowing by in a canoe singing a love song.

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  10. What do dogs use for romantic music? I'd imagine that Barry White is a bit too mellow for how they do it. How about The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?

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    1. Considering what happens, I'm thinking Lionel Ritchie, Stuck on You?

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  11. Ken, you are an awesome wing man. Tuke will remember this for the rest of his life. I love Labradors, and yours are just adorable. My first dog as a kid was a lab. We currently have a Texas Lacey (which reminds me a lot of a lab) and she is just the smartest and sweetest dog ever. She's almost 90lbs but she thinks she is a lap dog.

    I hope you have puppies soon!

    Michael A. Walker
    Defying Procrastination

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    1. Thanks Michael. I know all about the 90 pound lap dogs. I guess they remember fitting there as pups and think it should still work?

      I've never heard of a Texas Lacey. I'm going to have to google that and get some more info on them.

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  12. This had me laughing hysterically the whole way through! I, until recently, had two chocolate labs but both girls (one just left us in June :-(. Poor dude having to wait all that time! Hope their romantic, alone time was successful.

    Just love the picture! And love that you took care of Tuke as his wing man. Everyone needs a wing man or wing woman.

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    1. You're right Gina, everyone should have their own wing-person.

      Sorry about losing your chocolate lab. I know when the time comes, it's going to be pretty tough to say goodbye to Tuke.
      Glad I could make your day a little brighter with this post. :)

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  13. Sometimes I feel bad that my dog is neutered and never got to have sex, but he is absolutely not interested now. I watched a friend's female dog who was in heat, once, and Kodi avoided her like the plague! But then again, I suppose he could just be gay ;)

    I hope there are puppies out of that romantic union! Your dogs have the sweetest, sweetest faces, I can't imagine how adorable their puppies would be!

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  14. Maybe you have a gay dog? That's an interesting thought.

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  15. Good luck, never had a girl dog...so no puppies.

    WG

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    1. I fear that like children, puppies may turn out to be a handful!

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  16. We had a girl dog give two sets of puppies. When you 8 years old, it is magical :)

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    1. It's probably magical even if you're 45?

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  17. This sounds a lot like the 'and that's how I lost my virginity' story I would tell. Instead of a dog, it was an inebriated 250lb woman...

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    1. um.......because your wing-man was running point and chasing off all the other male competition?

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  18. My new dog was in her first heat when I got her. I am so scared of all of the male dogs getting a hold of her.

    Best of luck with yours!

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    1. I'm glad there isn't more male dogs around than what we already have.

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  19. I never had a female dog so I'm not sure how to notice those symptoms, but I hope they succeed in having puppies. Black and white lab mixes can have some pretty cool puppies (My dog got around the neighborhood. He impregnated a German Shepherd and White Lab).

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    1. It's easy to tell. There's all those stray male dogs hanging around whining and trying to go for a ride.

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  20. Awww so cute! I'm sure they'll make beautiful babies - and I hope that, in his old age, Tuke is still capable of making them ;-)

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    1. Just because he's old, doesn't mean he can't still make the magic happen! :)

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    2. This is true. I have full faith!

      P.S. Does he have a cape?

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    3. I'm his wing-man, I let him use mine. ;)

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