Radar

Cody Bought Radar from Stuart Gray. He was a German Short hair pointer with a dark brown head and a white body with brown speckles, he had a huge abdominal hernia that never healed over and it took away the sleek look of usual pointers, and the fact that he was lazy.

Cody originally let Radar sleep in his bed, we shared a room and I secretly envied Cody because it was a cool looking dog. Each night radar would jump into Codys bed and snuggle up. radar slept in Codys bed until one morning when Cody woke up with a giant pile of dog pooh sitting next to his body and Radar sleeping at the bottom of the bed. One of the few times I've ever seen Cody loose his temper, Cody let loose a tirade of Mormon swear words, like "stupid dog" and "crapped" at Radar while slapping Radars backside. Cured of any bowel and urinary incontinence in one night Radar tried to get on Codys bed the next night and was met with a slap on his back side. Radar dejected turned to my bed and slept with me for the rest of his life.

Contrary to the temperament of most short haired pointers, Radar spent his life laying around under a desk, eating and farting. His farts had a very distinct smell and could quickly clear a room. At the first smell someone would yell "RADAR!!!" to which everyone would cover their nose to avoid even the first smell.

Dyke had a girl friend, Kristy, who made him a plate of cookies and had put them in his room on his dresser. radar went in and ate the whole plate. Dyke was mad but Kristy was madder, forever after anytime Radar crossed Kristi's path he was always followed by a "Stupid dog"

About a year into having the dog Cody and I began to wrestle on the ground when we felt Radar gently nipping at our heals, the longer we wrestled the more aggressive his nips became. We often wrestled in front of Radar to see who's side he thought he was on. one day while wrestling in the front yard Bill Marek came running across the street and grabbed Cody around the shoulders, then let out a loud yelp, radar had bitten Bill on the butt. Luckily Bill didn't sue us but simply stated "No, No, your dog was doing what he's supposed to... he was protecting you".

At about 1 year old Radar was through puberty and had started to carouse a little so we had talked about having him "fixed".

One day I arrived home from school only to find Radar walking with a limp, he held his back legs as far apart as he could while walking like he had saddle sores. He would walk a few steps, sit down and begin to bite at his testicles. Cody and I held him down to find Radar testicles were twice the size of normal and discolored in swirls of fire engine red and purple. Near the base of his testicles we discovered a rubber band wrapped tightly around cutting off most of the circulation. Cody and I tried to get to his testicles but when we began to try to cut the bands Radar began to growl and snip, so we waited for dad, all the time infuriated for the hate crime someone had committed on our dog.

When dad came home we went to him "Dad, we need your help"

"what for"

Exasperated and disgusted "some one wrapped a rubber band around radars nuts!"

Dad (silence)

We lay radar on my bed and turned him on his back, Dad held Radars mouth closed and held his front paws and Cody and I took turns holding back legs and trying to cut the rubber band with out cutting the engorged tissue that had surrounded the bands.

still infuriated Cody said "who would do this to our dog!"

"... I did" said Dad

Dad being the from a farm had done to Radar what he had done to hundreds of cattle, slap a rubber band on the testicles and watch them shrivel up and fall off, only this time all of the blood supply was not cut off so the tissue continued to swell and engorge. Not only were the testis's not salvageable but the vet had to piece together the surrounding tissue after the necrotic tissue was cut out. It cost us double the amount for the neuter $120 dollars, a monumental amount to me. Radar came out unscathed and within a week was back to his old lazy self.