[Tasha177]

I broke down on the side of the motor way iv never met such a rude man, I had 3 little children my 2 dogs me and my boyfriend. I suffer bad with my mental health I have doctors and therapist letters saying I need my dogs this man wanted me to leave my dogs I asked if I could sit with them if he can’t take them he said no so how is it safe for my dogs when it isn’t safe for a person that’s all I was saying the man kept saying he finishes in a hour and doesn’t have time for this I pay for onward travel which means he should of took me to my destination he was only going to take me 1 mile to the next service station which means I just would of been stuck there because I wouldn’t leave my dogs he just left 3 little children me my boyfriend and dogs on the side of the motor he said that’s it I’m not taking you I don’t have time for this phone the police and he got back in his van drove away I’m a first time driver it was my first time on the motor way this has put me of ill never drive on the motor way again as these people don’t care aslong as there getting paid how can you leave all of us stuck on the motor way in a dangerous situation it wasn’t fair.

[Rolebama]

Reading your post it seems very much that he has chosen the wrong vocation. He night be better off working as a car park attendant.

[olduser]

Would Doctors receptionist be better?

Tasha117,
I hope you have recovered, have you put a complaint in to the RAC, if that is who you paid?

I can see that dogs can be a problem to transport were they in cages or loose?
Loose dogs in a car can be dangerous as in a crash anything loose will tend to fly forwards with great force and cause injury to those in the front.

I once saw rescue services trying to get to a van driver but his German Shepard dog was trying to protect its master. I don't know how they sorted it out, I just saw it as I drove past.

Best wishes.

[NMNeil]

And not everyone likes dogs.
I had a big chunk of may face chewed off by a dog when I was 5, and I still have both the physical and mental scars to this day.
I plain hate dogs and was always sent along with the drug task force when they served a high risk warrant on a drug dealer. The dealers always had vicious dogs in the front yard and I was the only one who had no problems shooting them.

[olduser]

Are Americans as silly about pets as we are in the UK?

We kept a few chickens in a run in the back garden, we bought them as chicks (probably 18 - 24 at a time), we supported them through the pullet stage into laying eggs (I never came across a chicken that could lay bricks! 😃).
Cockerels were killed and eaten, next poor egg layers, and as the rest stopped laying, the remainder were eaten ready for the next batch of chicks.

As a pre school child, the chicks were fun to look after and play with, they lived in the hen house, and went into the chicken run following any hens left over, they could get through the chicken run wire but came back when a hen clucked a warning cluck. (we would loose one or two to cats, birds, perhaps rats).

The chicken house became my quite place, the chickens got used to me being there, I am sure I learned chicken as a second language!
One pullet (juvenile chicken) liked to sit on my shoulder, and we clucked and croaked each other to sleep, she would clean her feathers, and get them into order then start on my hair, we did this throughout her life, she survived to be a matron to the next batch of chicks.

I don't remember it as being a problem when it was time to eat her, though of course I don't suppose Mum would have told me, "this is your friend", when we were plucking it.
I suppose, being in the country, we knew all the farm animals (bar the horses) were being grown to be eaten.

Even in my teens, if life was really bad, if you can remember how bad it could get or at least feel to a teenager, sometimes I would crawl into the chicken house and tell the chickens, and a random cluck or croak in the right place would lift my mood!

If I was angry, digging in the chicken run, which was compacted by the chickens, but rich in worms, would work off the anger.

It was difficult to remain angry, with all the chickens being very excited by this glut of worms, and the sight of two chickens on opposite ends of a worm claiming ownership made it impossible to remain angry.

Anyway, enough of that but before you ask, I never wanted to marry one!🙄