Nearly losing my dog had to be the scariest moment in my life....

[metroixer]

So i'm walking my dog back home right? Kinda in a rush cause I had to go to the bathroom....Badly. Anyway my neighborhood is overrun with stray cats. That usually come out in the evening, the time I was walking my dog. Anyway there was a cat under the car and lets just say when my dog(Max) sees a cat he REFUSES to move until he gets close to it and chases it away. So usually in these situations my dad told me before "Let go of the leash when he's chasing a cat or else you'll fall down and get dragged" which is true. I know from experience <_<. By the way my dad was NOT with me. Anyway so the cat gets under a car and we slyly sneak behind it and surprise it. Cat gets scared to death, runs away, Max starts running 100mph behind it, and I let go of the leash. Now here's the scary part. This chase was fast. I only saw the cat and max for 2 seconds until I lost sight and heard a yelp. Now i'm scared that he steps on something sharp or got seriously injured. When I went out to check he and the cat was gone. No sign of either of them. At all. I ask some people nearby if they've seen them but they said no. So they can't have gotten far....Right? I kept yelling at the top of my lungs for his name. My face was red and I was nearly on the verge of breaking down and crying. Then I heard some light footsteps. I run back and see him with his tail up looking at me, strangely at the same place where the chase began. You have no idea how happy I was. I love that dog (Now don't start getting sick thoughts) and nearly losing him was the most scariest, fearful moment of my life. If I really did lose him how would I explain to my dad who was ALREADY in a bad mood for the day? How am I gonna go to school without turning emo and sulking all the time? Anway now i'm here typing about it. It was less than an hour ago really. Now I ask you people of OWF. Have you had such a scar, feared moment as mine? I need to know.

[Havoc]

I have lost a total of five pets troughout my lifetime, and all of them were equaly painfull. Though they were all cats, they were my pets and my friends. Losing a cat, dog or any other pet you are close to hurts extremely.
About 12 years ago, we had a litter of cats. We kept two of them and the mother still lives a few houses away from here. One of the two cats died recently because of old age. The other one is still alive and kicking but lonely and always asking for attention now that he doesn't have his brother to mess around with anymore.
I also have a dog, pushing 13 I think. He's been my buddy for ages, best dog I could wish for. But he's old, and the thought that he might die soon or at least at some point scares me a bit. Simply because it would be weird not to have him around anymore.
I for one trully believe you can bond with your pet as much as you can with family. So it hurts equaly when you lose a pet.

[Mutual Friend]

So i'm walking my dog back home right? Kinda in a rush cause I had to go to the bathroom....Badly. Anyway my neighborhood is overrun with stray cats. That usually come out in the evening, the time I was walking my dog. Anyway there was a cat under the car and lets just say when my dog(Max) sees a cat he REFUSES to move until he gets close to it and chases it away. So usually in these situations my dad told me before "Let go of the leash when he's chasing a cat or else you'll fall down and get dragged" which is true. I know from experience <_<. By the way my dad was NOT with me. Anyway so the cat gets under a car and we slyly sneak behind it and surprise it. Cat gets scared to death, runs away, Max starts running 100mph behind it, and I let go of the leash. Now here's the scary part. This chase was fast. I only saw the cat and max for 2 seconds until I lost sight and heard a yelp. Now i'm scared that he steps on something sharp or got seriously injured. When I went out to check he and the cat was gone. No sign of either of them. At all. I ask some people nearby if they've seen them but they said no. So they can't have gotten far....Right? I kept yelling at the top of my lungs for his name. My face was red and I was nearly on the verge of breaking down and crying. Then I heard some light footsteps. I run back and see him with his tail up looking at me, strangely at the same place where the chase began. You have no idea how happy I was. I love that dog (Now don't start getting sick thoughts) and nearly losing him was the most scariest, fearful moment of my life. If I really did lose him how would I explain to my dad who was ALREADY in a bad mood for the day? How am I gonna go to school without turning emo and sulking all the time? Anway now i'm here typing about it. It was less than an hour ago really. Now I ask you people of OWF. Have you had such a scar, feared moment as mine? I need to know.

POST NOTES:

-Good story
-Too long
-Needs more explosions

[Rich]

And more sex.

But seriously, I lost my cat earlier this year and I hardly felt bad at all, maybe because I knew she was going to die because she had cancer and was very ill so I'd already resigned myself to it, maybe because I knew it would be better for her to be dead as life was so painful in her last year or so...

My sneaking suspiscion is that I'm just a cold uncaring person and that scares me.

[used:)]

I feel kind of guilty for not having much feeling when someone dies. I almost feel mad about it. I guess it's a guy thing. Like I know that the person or pet won't ever be returning, and normally that's the kind of thing that breaks people down. But I dunno.

Anyway, we had to put down my cat over the summer. We don't know what exactly was wrong with her and we couldn't afford a vet. She was just like a decomposing carcus only still alive. Flies were always embracing her like she was rotting meat. She wouldn't eat or drink and she always just sat in one spot. We did what we needed to. I like to think she just stopped living the way she used to because she had a deep instinct that told her it was time for her to die. Like her life had been fully lived or something.

However, life must go on.

[Mutual Friend]

Many years ago, my hamster (forget it's name) was having this slow, extended old-age death. Proper wheezing and stumbling, made me very upset. In the end we got it out of it's cage and just rested it on the carpet, laying there gasping for breath.

I went off to watch my tape of Cats and straight after Grizabella ascended to the Heaviside Layer, Elaine Paige emoting like a true diva (“Up! Up!” they sang!) I found it dead.

God, I hate musicals.

[Facsimile]

POST NOTES:

-Good story
-Too long
-Needs more explosions

And paragraphs.

[Statikk HDM]

Really Metroixer, thats it? No "Holy shit, here come the cops!" moments in your life?
No "Holy Shit, This is going to be really painful!" moments? If all the cats in my house were to walk outside and evaporate I'd throw a block party.
Moments
Nearly drowning
Nearly dehydrating after getting my tonsils and adnoids out.
"Sir, you need to come back here and empty your pockets"(Damn I was stupid 4 years ago)
Going down a steep hill on a used decade old bike and the chain slipped. Such a racking and face plant I hope I never have to live through.
Eating a piece of string cheese that looked fresh but actually was from the late Jurassic period. You thought you've projectile vommited before? You thought wrong. My dry heaves were wetter than most pukes.
Seeing Anderson shank the field goal in the 98 NFC championship game. Felt like I was going to die.
Just the other week my brother set the siding of the house on fire smoking flavored cigars with his dipshit friends. Just threw a hot match right out the window! I was in the basement at the time and the firefighters said that if it weren't for the neighbor's phone call it would have burned for at least 30 more minutes and a quarter of the house would have been destroyed.
Car crash with a truck. Also related, spinning out across the road, over the sidewalk, and through 2 fences during Driver's ed. A noob in a 4 seater shitmobile without powersteering, snow tires, or 4 wheel drive during a borderline blizzard is a recipe for a disaster.

[E'l Scrabino]

What's an adnoid?

Scariest moment of my life was when i nearly drowned in my cuz's swimmin' pool. I dunno how it happened, i just drifted of towards the deep end unwillingly and went under... I was 5 i think...

[Bullet Magnet]

When I was four and my brother was two I was chasing him around the swimming pool in Portugal... or was it Tenerife? Anyway, he seemed absolutely terrified (he often got worked up over nothing) and I soon got him trapped between the bars on the steps to climb into the pool. He had no where to go. Instead of letting me tag him so we could go again, he threw himself into the pool. I say threw himself, he more like... leaned into it. Splash. The sight of him lying two inches under the surface, not making and attempts to move made me burst out laughing.

I have never seen anyone move as fast as the rest of my family and the other pool goers. No one else was in the water, but people were jumping up everywhere and diving in to fish him out. He was fine. And wet.

Ever since, I have been blamed for pushing him in. Which I did not do! Still, years later I would break his ankle, so that can be blamed on me.

[Dusan]

God save my 14 year old dog!

[AquaticAmbi]

Feeling like I almost lost Luke in a car accident (which I witnessed) around 3 and half years and then watching him have a terrible reaction to a vaccine shot and having to go to the hospital pretty win the scariest moments in my life prize.

I also had a pretty big scare on a scube diving trip. 'Twas the only time I've had a full-out panic attack. They had to pull me back into the boat and out of the incredibly rough current that swept the mask right off my face. Heh, 5-10 minutes later, I was back in the water though.

[Dusan]

hmmmm.... are you posting in right thread ambi?

[OANST]

So i'm walking my dog back home right? Kinda in a rush cause I had to go to the bathroom....Badly. Anyway my neighborhood is overrun with stray cats. That usually come out in the evening, the time I was walking my dog. Anyway there was a cat under the car and lets just say when my dog(Max) sees a cat he REFUSES to move until he gets close to it and chases it away. So usually in these situations my dad told me before "Let go of the leash when he's chasing a cat or else you'll fall down and get dragged" which is true. I know from experience <_<. By the way my dad was NOT with me. Anyway so the cat gets under a car and we slyly sneak behind it and surprise it. Cat gets scared to death, runs away, Max starts running 100mph behind it, and I let go of the leash. Now here's the scary part. This chase was fast. I only saw the cat and max for 2 seconds until I lost sight and heard a yelp. Now i'm scared that he steps on something sharp or got seriously injured. When I went out to check he and the cat was gone. No sign of either of them. At all. I ask some people nearby if they've seen them but they said no. So they can't have gotten far....Right? I kept yelling at the top of my lungs for his name. My face was red and I was nearly on the verge of breaking down and crying. Then I heard some light footsteps. I run back and see him with his tail up looking at me, strangely at the same place where the chase began. You have no idea how happy I was. I love that dog (Now don't start getting sick thoughts) and nearly losing him was the most scariest, fearful moment of my life. If I really did lose him how would I explain to my dad who was ALREADY in a bad mood for the day? How am I gonna go to school without turning emo and sulking all the time? Anway now i'm here typing about it. It was less than an hour ago really. Now I ask you people of OWF. Have you had such a scar, feared moment as mine? I need to know.

Goddamnit, I wish I had your life. If that's the scariest moment you've had you must live in a freakin' paradise.

[Mutual Friend]

Or maybe just an ordinary world.

[OANST]

The ordinary world that I know is a tad more interesting.

[Mutual Friend]

I'm not sure how that should be read...

I'm not suggesting this kind of, admittedly, really dull (needs more explosions and sex and paragraphs) story is the height of emotional conflict, just that people aren't generally terrified by stuff. Apart from the usual mundane stuff (see above), or the big, intangible things.

Your post just came across as very strange. I didn’t really see what you were getting at.

[OANST]

Yes, well.........Screw you, too.

[Dusan]

You do have kinda booring life...

[Statikk HDM]

Hey, more power to this guy for leading a "boring" life. Whats that old curse, "May you live in interesting times".
My life is boring, too. Nothing wrong with it.

[Rex Tirano]

My life's chaotic at best but I don't need to share the ins and outs with you.

Oh and about pets dieing. I know when we found out that my first pet was terminally ill with a tumour I cried for days and days.

When each of my first pets [we got 2 guinea pigs but 2 weeks later one gave birth to twins] died, I cried for weeks.

- Rexy

[Dusan]

Whats that old curse, "May you live in interesting times".

It's not a curse, it is a paradise. Life without any risks isn't a life, or maybe i'm just that kind of a person.

[quote]My life is boring, too. Nothing wrong with it.[/uote]
Nothing wrong, but, as you said, it is booring.

[Mutual Friend]

It's strange... the people who do live relatively easy, ordinary lives are quite content with that, and yet some people who have had some hardship are like 'oh ho, how dull, you don't know what life is until you've been rounded on by a group of flick-knife mobsters or stood and watch your family be gang-raped.'

By strange I mean stupid.

And of course there's people who are like Dusan, who states something very obvious and thinks he's special because of it (this is even stupider).

What was the topic again?

[used:)]

Ha, I'm busy enough with tenth grade itself. And don't tell me how easy I have it. I'm in tenth grade, I'm still growing up, so let me focus on my tenth grade problems. Don't dump that other crap on me. Because it's in an entirely different world. I hate it when people do that, especially my mother.

[/emo]

[Wil]

Because it's in an entirely different world.

Call me pedantic, but it’s not. Such things are real and you shouldn’t distance yourself from them. Not that I’ve ever played the “get some perspective” game before, because it lacks fun.

Just thought I’d advocate this translating tangent in the absense of anything on-topic to say other than “I can think of nothing that scares me that profoundly.”

p.s. perhaps some topic division would be appropriate.

[used:)]

I was speaking more poetically than I think you perceived. I meant as in "I have my own world to deal with and I could care less about others' problems at the time." Sounds insensitive, yes, but that's the simple truth. You and I may not like it but it's the truth. I'm saying I shouldn't have to deal with more adult problems yet because I have enough on my plate already. Complain if you wish about how I'm being an insensitive biatch or whatever, but it's all the legitament truth in my eyes.

[Statikk HDM]

Eh, I guess the problems I'm facing are trivial and I'm happy for it.
I'm going to go home, nap, watch t.v., do homework, and go to bed. That and school will probably be my life for another month, with part time work thrown in.