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Mixed Emotions

Angus Cattle Shower

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Well, last winter, in late march ,me and a friend were coming home from snowmobiling. My dog buster was sitting on the driveway, a good two meters from the road. He was waiting for us to come and give him a treat. A car was speeding down the grid road. She was doing much more than the 80 kph speedlimit. We were doing it on the snowmobiles and she passed us. shje swerved and hit the dog. My dog. The dog I raised form a puppy. The puppy I saved when he fit in my hand. The best friend I ever had. The friend I could walk with all day, tell him all my problems, and have him cuddle up beside me on the porch and fall asleep, only to be woken up with him bugging me for a treat. The dog I taught to work cattle.

As the car was coming, Buster stood up, I could see the twinkle in his eyes as he wagged his tail, waiting for me to give him a hug. I saw the car swerve, and hit him. As I watched the last bi of life drain from my best frien'd eyes as I held him in my arms. The woman came back and gave me her card, told me to keep my dog from running onto the road. He was on our DRIVEWAY. she drove onto OUR property and killed my dog. She gave me her card and told me I was going to pay damages for her fancy car. I took my helmet off, and held my Buster. I looked in her eyes and said, "look what you did. You just killed the best friend I ever had, and had the guts to say you were driving below the speed limit, and he ran onto the road. Some day this will come back to haunt you, and it may not be me doing it." "I was driving below the limit, I was only doing 60." "Bull $h*t. We were doing 75 on our sleds and you flew past us. now get out of my sight, you already did enough. I held him in my arm and put my helmet on. My friend helped me get him to the abck pasture. We buried him there, after a goodbye, and one last treat with him.


This weekend I am going out of town to play ball. My parents don't know this yet, but I am going to look at a new puppy for everyone. he won't be my buster, but I am sure it will be a great dog some day, none the less.


I just had to say it, we brought it up in a conversation today in school about our pets...
 
I hope that doesn't happen to me, I'm usually packing my H&K USP .40 and would probably had the person on their knees begging for their life. The speed limit used to go up to 40 mph at the top of the hill before our farm, finally they moved the sign to the town line after our farm so it's now 30mph. I've been extremely tempted to put some rounds into their tailgates when they fly by.
One day I was leaving to get some sandwiches at the store, somebody came up behind me going way to fast, they tailgated me around the turn, I got the feeling they were going to try to pass me, unfortunately my S-10 Blazer isn't what it used to be. I checked my console to make sure I had my handgun. As they pulled out to pass I floored it. I held them a little while until my car showed its age. Rode their a$$ all the way to the store hoping they would make a move.
That is straight up BS that this lady would have the nerve to say that. Hopefully next time she'll hit a Moose, anyone in Moose country knows that they usually kill you since they typically hit the windshield.
I'm very bitter against people who drive too fast by farms if you couldn't tell. I did have someone take out about 4 or 5 of our geese in one pass once. I don't really care for the things but it still pisses you off when someone kills them and doesn't even stop.
 
This is a pet peave of mine as we used to live on a road with a lot of traffic before we moved over to this house. the old house was 1/4 a mile away from one intersection and 3/4 mile from another T in the road so folks only had 1 mile of road basicaly to build steam up on.. They would constantly be flying by at 60-70 mph... Scared the crap out of us.. And it wasn't just cars... Semis would be flying by and than hitting the breaks hard to slow down.. Gives you a bitter taste of it... We often wished we could close down half the roads around here and speed bump the rest of them...
 
Oh ACS, I am so sorry for your loss.
Darn, you needed that dog. I'll tell you what I said to Hanta Yo
on another post: "The best tribute you can give a dog is to
go out and get another one to love."

Good luck in finding one.
I'm thinking about you. Hang in there, little buddy.
 
I am going to find another one, and I did need him, but now I opened up and can talk to people more freely. I think it could have helped me in the long run, but it doesn't mastter, he is gone and that lady has to deal with the guilt.
 

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