I was nominated for the 3 day Thanksgiving day challenge by @coolguy123 .
Rosco
Rosco is our rescue dog that we got when he was 4 years old. He is a basset hound. When my wife started working on me to get a dog i was very against it because we have very busy and I didn't feel it was fair to a dog to keep it alone or in a cage all day. So as an effort to meet in the middle (because that is what you do when you are married) I started looking into lazy ass dogs because i knew i was going to end up being the one walking the dog and such.
The search
It was pretty easy, I googled lazy + couch potato + dog = basset hound
The deal
Almost instantly my wife was on the hunt. She found a dog that she knew was the one on craigslist.com . I mean what can't you find on there? So she took some undisclosed amount of money to meet a stranger somewhere and get a dog. When I do something like that it is prostitution but not today. She came home with this little guy.
He was super skinny with his ribs showing and scared of everything. I felt so bad for him and at the same time i was furious that someone treated an animal this way. I was also concerned because i had a 4 and 6 year old in the house now with an abused unpredictable animal. My wife refused to let me contact the previous owners most likely because she didn't want to have to go bail me out of jail because she knows how i get with stuff like this. So i run to the store and get him some special soft dog food and dog shampoo and treats. Upon my return home he is cowaring in the corner and pees when i get close but i butter him up with some treats and he realizes i mean him no harm. That was when the first pic was taken. After being able to pet him you could feel where his ribs had been kicked and caved in, there is an actual indentation in the shape of a steel toed boot. I still have not gotten the last owners info out of my wife but it I ever do I am going to kick his teeth down his throat. The next day he went straight to the vet for all his workups, got his teeth cleaned, micro chiped, found out he was 25 pounds underweight, all the shots, everything.
Fast forward
Now we are a couple months in the future from getting him. He has turned into "my dog" and my wife is grumpy because he only listens to me well. I explain to her that that is how dogs work. I am his Alpha. He insists that he has to sleep on our bed and he muscles in between me and my wife because he is a jelous asshole and he will lay his head on my left arm and he has to have his paw on me so he can fall asleep so he feels safe. By now we are inseperable, he goes almost everywhere with me and rides shotgun everywhere. He really cleans house in drivethroughs because he is so adorable.
The point of all of this
The point is that i am thankful for this wonderful dog who really keeps me calm like a service dog and I am his protector. We make a great team and he is everything i could want in a dog. He is a good boy and he is lazy as hell. Like professional sleeper lazy.
