patch of fur missing

"naked on the phone" wrote in message
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meeee wrote:
LOl yeah we hate that about the city too....yesterday we had to pay $5 to
just dump some cardboard;

around here they pay you for your cardboard


What?? Geez I would have made a packet then!!


did you know that without recycling you couldn't buy a new car?
or write a letter on a clean sheet of paper?

more people are employed by the recycling industry than the automotive
industry



We have recycling bins for tins, bottles and plastic, but not for paper
products yet; other aussie cities do the lot, but not here yet.

in the country we would have just had a bonfire
and roasted marshmallows!! Hubby helped me fix up a temporary fence
yesterday, we've had trouble with honey (terrier) digging out under the
fence, so we've rigged up a fence that keeps her further back from the
road.
Now she can't see people walking past, she doesn't try to dig! Yay~!

oh, that's grand! how nice...
if you're like me, it does your heart good to see them happy.
of course it does


Yep, took them for their first walk in ages today; we have a large backyard
but I've had to wait to walk them daily until my 2 year old was a bit more
road savvy; and I was glad I waited; I had my hands full trying to hold back
two excited dogs, I was very glad the two boys knew how to stay on the
footpath! I'm going to do this daily now; it will help my fitness and my
dog's as well...

I was
getting very worried, and as this is a rental we can't change anything.
We'de like to buy this house, then I'd fence and cover the side are
properly
so the cats can have an outdoor playpen. What fun! They'd love it....your
dogs sounded adorable...I'd love a great Dane one day....when the boys
are
big enough to handle it!!

get a female, see.. a female is gentle enough to handle her pups.. so
she would be even more gentle with you boys.. we only had her a short
while, but we can imagine
they are super smart.. to the point they learn what is important and
precious to you
(as in your boys)... the bitch we had, she was... so intuitive.. I
think she was 7 years old.

she loved to stand on her hind legs and put her front feet on my
shoulders.. and look me in the eye.. nose to nose... Im 6'3" and she
was almost as tall as me.
very intimidating, but super docile


Awwww what a sweetie. We only have female dogs, my husband used to only want
males, but after a few bad experiences with competitive male dogs and
children, we vetoed the male dog idea and now we only have girl doggies!!
And they are both little angels, even if Sasha is a bit of an idiot and
tries to mortally wound herself every week or so....

meeee wrote:

Awwww what a sweetie. We only have female dogs, my husband used to only want
males, but after a few bad experiences with competitive male dogs and
children, we vetoed the male dog idea and now we only have girl doggies!!
And they are both little angels, even if Sasha is a bit of an idiot and
tries to mortally wound herself every week or so....

your prolly well versed on dog training, more so than me, I haven't had
dogs in a while
I did learn when walking them if they want to pull ahead what one book
suggested was to stop. make them wait..till they stop pulling.. do this
for as many times as they pull you. the idea is to get them to walk at
your pace. HOWEVER i know good and well two excited dogs are not going
to be very interested in training, not with all that energy...at least
not at first... for some reason they sound like small to med size dogs.
maybe it's the name Honey.

I bet they have a blast with the cats.

Yeah we recycle everything around here. I think it's great although im
not a tree hugger, I still throw plastic bottles and milk jugs and
various cardboards and papers in the trash.
(it goes to the landfill)

"naked on the phone" wrote in message
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meeee wrote:

Awwww what a sweetie. We only have female dogs, my husband used to only
want
males, but after a few bad experiences with competitive male dogs and
children, we vetoed the male dog idea and now we only have girl doggies!!
And they are both little angels, even if Sasha is a bit of an idiot and
tries to mortally wound herself every week or so....

your prolly well versed on dog training, more so than me, I haven't had
dogs in a while
I did learn when walking them if they want to pull ahead what one book
suggested was to stop. make them wait..till they stop pulling.. do this
for as many times as they pull you. the idea is to get them to walk at
your pace. HOWEVER i know good and well two excited dogs are not going
to be very interested in training, not with all that energy...at least
not at first... for some reason they sound like small to med size dogs.
maybe it's the name Honey.

I bet they have a blast with the cats.

Yeah we recycle everything around here. I think it's great although im
not a tree hugger, I still throw plastic bottles and milk jugs and
various cardboards and papers in the trash.
(it goes to the landfill)


That sounds like your council is on the ball. I'm not much of a dog trainer,
just baisc obedience, I am attempting to get them used to walking next to
me....in their world, a walk is a ramble through the fields with us....so
they don't really get why i am attaching things to their neck and forcing
thme to walk 2 feet from me. Honey is a neurotic wire haired terrier/****zu
mix, very sweet and smart but nervy to the max, sasha is a staffy, very
lovable and enthusiastic about life but, well, stoopid...she regularly
impales herself on trees and bushes as she hurls herself around the yard
like a dribbling cannonball.....I just finished treating the latest injury;
she spiked herself on something then kept scratching at it....I had to put
an adhesive sports bandage over the dressing til it healed....when I took it
off it practically waxed her!! Poor baby! And the cats terrorize
them...Congo and Jasmine gang up on them and 'herd' them back into the yard
if they are out for walkies with me and the dogs try to join in!!

"tension_on_the_wire" wrote in message
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naked on the phone wrote:
they eat birds, birds have little bones

i've never seen a cat die from a bird bone
i've never seen a dead cat in a tree

I have heard of cats dying from
chicken bones, though.


Blimey, I am just catching on my 975 unread! and notice once again that
crossposting to h&b should be avoided if things are not to become
contentious.
The reason cats are able to eat bird bones from their prey - which one of my
cats does regularly - is that these bones are raw and therefore reasonably
soft and able to be digested. Like nature intended.
The danger from chicken bones comes from the fact that they are cooked,
which makes them brittle and liable to splinter into sharp shards which can
puncture the stomach or intestines.

Tweed