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Jestgar Rising Star
Open Original Shared Link turns 50 this year. :o :o :o

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elye Community Regular

Open Original Shared Link turns 50 this year. :o :o :o

Wow. . . ....still the same perpetually-surprised, out-of focus look in her eyes. .. .. ....but at least the two corkscrew ponytails are gone.. .. ..

All right: I wish to return to the subject of dogs. My story trumps ALL of yours, hands down.

The one hazard of having big dogs, at least with me, has been forgetting that your one-year old, seventy-five pound pup is still just that -- A PUP. Hank is big, lanky and looks now like a responsible adult.

He is NOT this yet. STILL A PUP, with intact puppy brain and habit patterns.

SOooOooOoOoo, I am more relaxed now with keeping the small garbages down when we are out, figuring that Hank is big, therefore mature. He rarely pulls any kleenex or paper out of them anymore.

I came home yesterday at lunchtime, and Elsie was at the door, wiggling about to greet me. Hank was not with her. I walked down the hallway and Hank's head came around the corner from the living room. He veeeeerrrrrrry slowly began to walk toward me, head down, peering up at me. Hmm. . . ....something in his mouth. .. . .....

So, what is the ABSOLUTE WORST thing a dog could pull out of a garbage container and chew apart on the only carpet (light beige, Persian, wedding present) in one's entire household?

Not makeup. Worse.

Liquid Paper? Glue? Pshaw.

I'll give everyone a hint. He found it in the office garbage container.

A BLACK PRINTER CARTRIDGE.

:blink:

screaming-emoticon.gif

So, black powdery stuff all down Hank's chin and around his mouth, and I turn into the LIVING ROOM... . . . . . ..

Yup, it's all over the carpet.

My story beats everyone's!!!

Jestgar Rising Star

A BLACK PRINTER CARTRIDGE.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

kareng Grand Master

So, black powdery stuff all down Hank's chin and around his mouth, and I turn into the LIVING ROOM... . . . . . ..

Yup, it's all over the carpet.

My story beats everyone's!!!

Yup! You win? :blink:

GlutenFreeManna Rising Star

Wow. . . ....still the same perpetually-surprised, out-of focus look in her eyes. .. .. ....but at least the two corkscrew ponytails are gone.. .. ..

All right: I wish to return to the subject of dogs. My story trumps ALL of yours, hands down.

The one hazard of having big dogs, at least with me, has been forgetting that your one-year old, seventy-five pound pup is still just that -- A PUP. Hank is big, lanky and looks now like a responsible adult.

He is NOT this yet. STILL A PUP, with intact puppy brain and habit patterns.

SOooOooOoOoo, I am more relaxed now with keeping the small garbages down when we are out, figuring that Hank is big, therefore mature. He rarely pulls any kleenex or paper out of them anymore.

I came home yesterday at lunchtime, and Elsie was at the door, wiggling about to greet me. Hank was not with her. I walked down the hallway and Hank's head came around the corner from the living room. He veeeeerrrrrrry slowly began to walk toward me, head down, peering up at me. Hmm. . . ....something in his mouth. .. . .....

So, what is the ABSOLUTE WORST thing a dog could pull out of a garbage container and chew apart on the only carpet (light beige, Persian, wedding present) in one's entire household?

Not makeup. Worse.

Liquid Paper? Glue? Pshaw.

I'll give everyone a hint. He found it in the office garbage container.

A BLACK PRINTER CARTRIDGE.

:blink:

screaming-emoticon.gif

So, black powdery stuff all down Hank's chin and around his mouth, and I turn into the LIVING ROOM... . . . . . ..

Yup, it's all over the carpet.

My story beats everyone's!!!

Awe... at least he knew he did something wrong and was looking sad. I thought the thing he pulled out of the trash was going to be a sanitary napkin with blood all over the carpet. The toy poodle I had as a childhood pet used to do that. :blink:

My friend had a big adult dog that they took in from an abused dog shelter. She was very gentle around people but everytime they left the house even if for just a few minutes she would tear something up. Pillows, toilet paper, mail from the desk, whatever was soft that she could get her teeth into. They tried crating her with a blanket and she tore her blanket to shreds. Finally one day my friend got down on the dogs eye level, looked her in the eye and said firmly but gently, "I have to leave now, but I will be right back. Okay?" The dog wagged her tail, my friend then left, drove down the road to the gas station and came back about 15 minutes later. Nothing was destroyed. She gave the dog a treat for beign good. So she did that same thing the next day when she had to leave for longer to go shopping. It worked again. She went to work the next week and the whole week everyday when she left she told the dog she would be sure to come back. The dog was good all week until on friday when my friend rushed out the door running late and didn't tell her dog she would be back. She came home to a mess. :o

Moral of the story: dogs understand more than we think and miss us when we leave. Sometimes they make a mess to express their grief at our leaving. :ph34r:

kareng Grand Master

I tell my dog all the time. "Don't worry. We'll be back. We are leaving you with all our stuff." He still seems to think it is amazing when we manage to make it home without having been eaten by wild cats or getting lost.

elye Community Regular

Standard poodles are just too smart for any type of management strategy. They simply think, rightly, "Dear gawd. Here she is, calmly assuring me that she will be back. What sort of idiot does she take me for? A basset hound? She goes out every day, she comes back every day. I KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE BACK. I also know that you've left me all my toys. I see them all around me, I am not blind nor feeble-minded. You use your calm voice to communicate that you are being firm but loving. I hear other things in there - - a bit of doubt? Hesitation? Interesting. Well, let's play with her a bit. I'll just take out ONE kleenex from the bin this morning, and she'll think things are improving.... .. .. ..ha.. . ... then wait until the weekend...........


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Standard poodles are just too smart for any type of management strategy. They simply think, rightly, "Dear gawd. Here she is, calmly assuring me that she will be back. What sort of idiot does she take me for? A basset hound? She goes out every day, she comes back every day. I KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE BACK. I also know that you've left me all my toys. I see them all around me, I am not blind nor feeble-minded. You use your calm voice to communicate that you are being firm but loving. I hear other things in there - - a bit of doubt? Hesitation? Interesting. Well, let's play with her a bit. I'll just take out ONE kleenex from the bin this morning, and she'll think things are improving.... .. .. ..ha.. . ... then wait until the weekend...........

:lol:

kareng Grand Master

Standard poodles are just too smart for any type of management strategy. They simply think, rightly, "Dear gawd. Here she is, calmly assuring me that she will be back. What sort of idiot does she take me for? A basset hound? She goes out every day, she comes back every day. I KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE BACK. I also know that you've left me all my toys. I see them all around me, I am not blind nor feeble-minded. You use your calm voice to communicate that you are being firm but loving. I hear other things in there - - a bit of doubt? Hesitation? Interesting. Well, let's play with her a bit. I'll just take out ONE kleenex from the bin this morning, and she'll think things are improving.... .. .. ..ha.. . ... then wait until the weekend...........

I am thinking about getting Cooper a poodle. He needs a dog that is smart and will make him feel safe. I have noticed that when we have the dog next door over (who is sooo clever if he used his mind for good not evil, he would cure cancer) my dog isn't afraid of thunder, slippery floors extra.

Darn210 Enthusiast

Did you guys know that those hollow core wood doors actually have strips of corrugated cardboard in them? I know because one of my dogs ate a hollow core door once (well, the bottom 10% anyway) . . . also stripped the linoleum off the floor . . . also destuffed a couch.

Printer cartridges, pffft!!

kareng Grand Master

I had a 17 lb terrier that jumped up on the kitchen table and ate the whole back half of an iced angel food cake. He did it so that, when we came in the garage door, the side we could see looked great. Took awhile until we noticed. He didn't get sick either.

GlutenFreeManna Rising Star

Did you guys know that those hollow core wood doors actually have strips of corrugated cardboard in them? I know because one of my dogs ate a hollow core door once (well, the bottom 10% anyway) . . . also stripped the linoleum off the floor . . . also destuffed a couch.

Printer cartridges, pffft!!

Perhaps this is his not-so-subtle way of telling you to remodel/redecorate? :lol:

GlutenFreeManna Rising Star

I had a 17 lb terrier that jumped up on the kitchen table and ate the whole back half of an iced angel food cake. He did it so that, when we came in the garage door, the side we could see looked great. Took awhile until we noticed. He didn't get sick either.

My 10 pound toy poodle climbed up on the kitchen counter and ate a an entire tub of butter once. She did get sick and made quite the mess all over the carpet. She was fine after that however and we learned never to leave the butter out again. :blink:

psawyer Proficient

I had a 17 lb terrier that jumped up on the kitchen table and ate the whole back half of an iced angel food cake. He did it so that, when we came in the garage door, the side we could see looked great. Took awhile until we noticed. He didn't get sick either.

And the new Kween of the Psillies is ...

Karen!

kareng Grand Master

And the new Kween of the Psillies is ...

Karen!

WOOOOOO WHOOOO! (Jumping up & down)

Wait.... That isn't very Queenlike.

Sitting calmly, gently waving my hand at my subjects. slight smile on my face.

Jestgar Rising Star

And the new Kween of the Psillies is ...

Karen!

And she brought (half-eaten) angel food cake!

Oscar Apprentice

Congratulations, Your Majesty.

elye Community Regular

***********************ALL HAIL, KWEEEEEN KHERRIGHNNE!!!*******************************

Dear gawd, that was a long reign I just put in. .. . . . ...was that, like, two years er somethin'? Time tends to drag when one is scrubbing up black ink from a Persian carpet.

AND off a big dog's phace. :angry:

Dogs ingesting marvelous things.. . . . . ... . ...our substandard poodle before Gus used to produce poop that would have, the odd time, a sewing pin or two in it. :huh: She lived to fourteen, incredibly. . . . ..

curlyfries Contributor

Soozle needs to be here for this conversation. Weezee has gotten into quite a nimber of things and produced quite interesting poop.......sparkly, even.

My Zeus has chewed the corner off the wall. He is deathly afraid of helium balloons, squeekers in toys, and football games on tv.

Darn210 Enthusiast

Congratulations Karen . . . and now we are off to dog poop stories . . . some segue, huh?

Dogs ingesting marvelous things.. . . . . ... . ...our substandard poodle before Gus used to produce poop that would have, the odd time, a sewing pin or two in it. :huh: She lived to fourteen, incredibly. . . . ..

JoDog used to eat crayons . . . made for colorful poop.

. . . and now we transition to dog vomit . . .

Once MaggieDog ate a bunch of chocolate (she got into some Christmas gifts). I called the vet and it was determined that it was not enough to kill her but she would be miserable and it would be best to make her throw up. (I feel like I've already told this story on here before). I had to give her hydrogen peroxide. After I gave it to her, I thought "Damn, I should have asked how long it takes to kick in." It became apparent . . . I assume that you are all familiar with the dog-hurling-sound. I took her outside where she went from location to location hurling up chocolate and foil wrappers. Then I thought "Damn, I should have asked how long it takes to stop." Well, you can tell that, too. It's over when they go back to start licking up the vomit piles.

Darn210 Enthusiast

HiYa Lisa!! Long time, no see. Been busy?

curlyfries Contributor

Yep.

When DD and her family were living with us, I felt like I had no time to myself. Now that they've moved out, I still feel like I have no time to myself. I've been helping them get settled in their new place. Been trying to wean them off.

Still dancing. In fact......flash mob at Castleton Mall is supposed to happen this Saturday, but no time has been mentioned, yet. Becoming suspicious that it will be canceled.

School is out, so I'm hoping to get some much needed work done around the house.....painting and such.

Been reading along faithfully.....just haven't taken the time to be social.

elye Community Regular

. . . I assume that you are all familiar with the dog-hurling-sound. I took her outside where she went from location to location hurling up chocolate and foil wrappers. Then I thought "Damn, I should have asked how long it takes to stop." Well, you can tell that, too. It's over when they go back to start licking up the vomit piles.

Annnnnnnnnd it's time for my breakfast. . . . . . ... :rolleyes:

Still dancing. In fact......flash mob at Castleton Mall is supposed to happen this Saturday, but no time has been mentioned, yet.

Hi, Leeeesargh! Let's hope there is someone filming this, and we can see it on youtube. . .. .!

kareng Grand Master

Still dancing. In fact......flash mob at Castleton Mall is supposed to happen this Saturday, but no time has been mentioned, yet. Becoming suspicious that it will be canceled.

Would be nice if you knew the time. As Queen, I decree that it must be filmed & put on YouTube. The film must feature Lisa prominently.

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