| Puppy [message #4308] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 18:40  |
 b_twin_1
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Puppy
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Puppy [message #4314 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 18:45  |
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So glad you found Daisy her puppy - and the right colour... yes, just look through the kennel club breed standards to realise that dogs are very oddly coloured - blenheim, smut(that's a bullie variation), landseer, harlequin, belton...
and any time you want a mini, I know all the best breeders Mwahahaha!!!
[Updated on: Sun, 09 November 2008 18:55]
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Puppy [message #4315 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 18:50 |
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Oh Robin! That was such a lovely thing to do!
(and I'm now on tenterhooks to read about Daisy's reaction...)
But how dreadful for poor Daisy to lose all three pets in one fell swoop like that. *sends hugs*
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: Puppy [message #4329 is a reply to message #4324 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 19:15 |
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*grin*
Hazel was a great icebreaker!
And bookshopping is always good, sounds like a fine plan!
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: Puppy [message #4336 is a reply to message #4332 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 19:29 |
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 00:24 |
And just think.... you got to play with puppies ... and hand them back. Cake and eat it too.  Hehe
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Just how I feel! Puppies are lovely, but the longer I have my dogs the more I love them; and dogs are so much more fun when you have a bond with them - Hazel is a hoot to live with, but as a puppy she was *whispers because she is next to me* hard work!
Puppies are great when you can have them for short burst (and I AM officially an old grump lol)
and looking forward to puppy photos! Yaay! (OK so not totally an O.G.!)
[Updated on: Sun, 09 November 2008 19:30]
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Puppy [message #4344 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 19:43 |
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This summer all three of them died within a few weeks of each other. How colossally unfair and awful is that.
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Oh NO. Yes, that's horribly sad. I can't imagine. Tea and chocolates to her.
Glad she finally came around to admitting she needed an animal friend. Some of us just...do. *cough cough*
And a Cocker Spaniel! Fuzzy cuteness! I do hope you can get pictures up. I don't think I've ever seen a Cocker Spaniel puppy before. *bounce*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Puppy [message #4345 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 19:45 |
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Laura
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Awww. I've been so wishing to do the same thing for my grandmother. The whole family wanted to get her a pet after my grandpa passed away, but she's a dog person and her apartment complex only allows cats. You don't want to foist a litter box on a person who isn't used to them...
And she is even a Cocker Spaniel person, too. Her most cherished pet was a golden (or lemon, I guess?) cocker named Honey Alegretto.
...But anyway, yay for puppies and providing them to people in need! I can't believe all three went around the same time. I can only imagine how horrible that must have been for her.
Post Edited because I realized it was way too much of a downer. Apologies, everyone!
[Updated on: Sun, 09 November 2008 20:36]
Known on both Ravelry and LibraryThing as thelorelei.
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| Re: Puppy [message #4348 is a reply to message #4344 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 19:54 |
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| jmeadows wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 00:43 |
And a Cocker Spaniel! Fuzzy cuteness! I do hope you can get pictures up. I don't think I've ever seen a Cocker Spaniel puppy before. *bounce*
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Couldn't resist taking photos of these puppies this summer when I went to help a friend look for her labradoodle puppy...
[Updated on: Sun, 09 November 2008 20:42]
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Puppy [message #4354 is a reply to message #4338 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:00 |
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| blondviolinist wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 17:32 |
And because I am an utter evil cow beyond human brain to comprehend–and because I am again spending waay too much time on this blog–I am going to finish the story tomorrow.
Noooo! You can't stop there! What happened?!
Sigh.
Patience is a virtue I'm not sure I want to have.
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What blondviolinist said.
I can't imagine losing so many anumals so quickly. I reall hope Daisy bonds with the puppy. That was kind of you to do.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4364 is a reply to message #4348 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:20 |
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| southdowner wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 19:54 |
] this summer when I went to help a friend look for her labradoodle puppy...
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*faints*
I'm in love!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Puppy [message #4367 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:25 |
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I got a finch once...
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4369 is a reply to message #4353 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:26 |
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| Robin wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 19:58 |
I entirely agree! But puppies are *gorgeous* for half an hour, and it's a total self-indulgent WALLOW then to go home to hellhounds and think they're MINE! And THEY KNOW they're mine! --Which is completely the thing about puppies. They're just all about cuteness. You haven't had TIME to create a bond yet.
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Yes, to what you both have been saying. Same thing with ferrets, too. I like playing with tiny kits, but man, I *love* my business, and they love me back. I can read their individual moods by their body language, and they know just how to convince me to sit on the floor and play with them. (Tummies!!!) I don't have that with cute stranger ferrets.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Puppy [message #4370 is a reply to message #4349 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:26 |
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| Julia wrote on Mon, 10 November 2008 00:55 |
And now, after reading all of you talking about puppies and such... oh I WANT A DOG. Or a cat. Or SOMETHING. But only "non meat-eating fish" allowed. Sigh.
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And this is because the meat eating fish are noisier than the non meat eating ones? Or they make more mess? Or is it because they have to be let out to hunt each evening?
*ponders on the sanity of the people who make up these rules...*
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: Puppy [message #4373 is a reply to message #4308 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:30 |
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My sister got a puppy and her landlord told it was her (my sister) or the puppy, so she had to give it back and it broke her heart. Soon she will be in her own house and then, like you, Robin, I think it will be puppy surprise time. (Landlord said yes at first, then chenaged her mind...)
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Puppy [message #4375 is a reply to message #4366 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 20:37 |
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Julia
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 20:24 |
Someone surprised me once with a horse. My first horse. I was 19 and at Uni. I nearly fell over. I thought they were joking. She was the most wonderful horse too. 
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REALLY?!?!?!?!?!
Oh WOW.
I remember one time, when I was maybe ten or twelve, and my sister [two years younger than I am] was going through a "made-you-look" phase. Well, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my back to the big window that looks out to our front yard, and she suddenly said "Oh, Julia, there's a horse behind you". What? There's a horse behind me? But I looked, and good thing I did... evidently this beautiful gorgeous oh I wanted to keep it so very very much horse cantering by had escaped from a farm somewhere and had been running down the road before [wisely] turning down my road and off the main one... My house is one of five off of a circle. Surrounded by forest. But the horse had been on the only large busy state road in town which is not really very large, though just then it was quite busy. So there was this woman who had noticed a horse running wildly down Route 53 and followed it. But that all happens later. So, ANYWAY I yelled for my mother and then rushed outside. It was in my neighbor's yard by then, but coming back around the circle to me. I think I was sort of in shock-- there was a horse! here! for me! it had to be!
But no. Actually, I don't know what happened. I presume someone caught it and took it back to whereever it belonged. But oh! That moment, when I turned around and saw a HORSE there in my front garden, like it was waiting for me...
sigh. happy sigh.
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| Re: Puppy [message #4387 is a reply to message #4379 ] |
Sun, 09 November 2008 21:26 |
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| Vikkik wrote on Sun, 09 November 2008 20:57 |
What I'd REALLY like to know, is how they'd KNOW if your fish was a meat eater or a vegetarian! Do they have a special team of fish experts who pop into random rooms to check out the fish? Or do they come in, chuck in a bit of sausage and wait to see if the fish eats it?
(I should probably go to bed fairly soon, I think I may have hit the slightly hysterical stage...)
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They know because you're keeping live feeder fish (goldfish, guppies, minnows) in your room, or--god forbid--pinky mice. I've had friends who keep piranhas and oscars. And it's what they eat, there's nothing wrong with it; but it's not pretty, and in dorm living there's a fair chance your roommate might be squicked out by the whole thing.
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