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Re: Ferdinand [message #11830 is a reply to message #11829 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 19:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 18:10

Diane in MN wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 05:53


One Great Dane crate in a minivan leaves you room to pack other stuff. Two Great Dane crates in a minivan make you decide that you need a full-size gas guzzler if you're going to take two dogs to out of town shows. (Thus a 12-year-old megavan sitting in the garage.)

Driving through town with 11 dogs in a Ford Fiesta van has been a memorable experience!! Hence the reason for gradually larger vans... I can't imagine the size van I'd need for 11 great danes O.O


I think it would require a full sized bus. O.O


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11843 is a reply to message #11789 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Well hounds ARE stubborn. I suppose at this point I'm just USED to it. :) Also, as stubborn goes, my first whippet (girl!) could've won PRIZES.
Re: Ferdinand [message #11845 is a reply to message #11797 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 20:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Weird weird weird weird WEIRD. I liked the movie but I didn't BUY any of it, except maybe Preston. The whole is-she-or-isn't-she thing never worked a damn for me, and the punches were so thoroughly pulled on the James Garner (?) character it made me cranky.

And I've liked Andrews a lot more lately with her breathtaking gallantry over having had her voice wrecked by mangled surgery than I ever liked her climbing every mountain.

Mind you I have some INCREDIBLY embarrassing pet favourite films, so I am NOT setting myself up here as anything in particular . . . except divergent in opinion. I'll (probably) tell you about some of them some day . . . but not today. :)
Re: Ferdinand [message #11846 is a reply to message #11802 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 20:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes. Agree completely.
Re: Ferdinand [message #11847 is a reply to message #11804 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 20:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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LOL! And you're still alive to tell the tales! :)
Re: Ferdinand [message #11848 is a reply to message #11828 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 20:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, yes! People of character! I knew there was a better description than NUTS!!! :)
Re: Ferdinand [message #11859 is a reply to message #11847 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 22:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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yeah, The road got repaired and so is not nearly as fun. I got older and acquired a husband who can't be bounced very well.(bilateral amputee, doesn't like hitting the truck roof)
so the last time I took a ten minute run over a twenty minute road was a medical emergency. I beat the ambulance and the paramedics to the base of the road with someone in the back of the truck in insulin shock convulsions. That was a wild ride in the dark.


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11861 is a reply to message #11845 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 22:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 20:16


Mind you I have some INCREDIBLY embarrassing pet favourite films, so I am NOT setting myself up here as anything in particular . . . except divergent in opinion. I'll (probably) tell you about some of them some day . . . but not today. Smile


Tomorrow, then?

Smile We'll tell you ours if you tell us yours...


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11864 is a reply to message #11755 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Diane in MN wrote on Wed, 18 February 2009 22:56



Subaru wagons seem to generate devotion.


Not just wagons. I'm still driving an '89 Suburu Justy I bought in '91. My daughter promptly named it Maxwell for Maxwell coffee, because - she said - it was shaped like a coffee can. But it's always passed its emissions tests with flying colors (cross my fingers; it's due again next month) and still averages 25 mpg in the city. The last time I drove the freeway to a friend's lakeside cabin, I topped up before I left and again when I got back. I didn't believe my odometer, but my friend assured me that, yes, it's a fifty-mile round trip. I put barely over one gallon of gas in it when I returned.

Alas, it doesn't carry sofas. But I seldom take my sofa with me when I go for a drive.
Re: Ferdinand [message #11865 is a reply to message #11828 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 17:07


The "not listening" is classic terrier unfortunately as well as hound; I'm so used to it that I tend to accept the tendency and view variations with interest lol. We're obviously people of character, wanting to live with such interesting and independent characters Very Happy


I think that selective deafness is practiced by all of them. When your words have no effect whatsoever on the dog across the room, but that dog is at your side in a nanosecond when the lid of the treat jar in the kitchen is lifted, it's pretty clear what's going on. Smile



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Re: Ferdinand [message #11866 is a reply to message #11829 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 17:10


Driving through town with 11 dogs in a Ford Fiesta van has been a memorable experience!! Hence the reason for gradually larger vans... I can't imagine the size van I'd need for 11 great danes O.O


I think you'd be up to a motor coach!

And how do you get 11 in a Fiesta??

[Updated on: Fri, 20 February 2009 23:16]



"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
Re: Ferdinand [message #11868 is a reply to message #11864 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Who needs a van to carry a sofa? My husband had a Ford Taurus sedan with a roof rack that could (and did) carry a sofa. Not to mention Christmas trees, 6x6 deck posts, 12 4x8 sheets of plywood (in one trip), a desk, etc., etc.


Karen
Re: Ferdinand [message #11869 is a reply to message #11866 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have this circus car visual with great dane after great dane popping out of the door.


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11870 is a reply to message #11869 ] Fri, 20 February 2009 23:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dances-with-needles wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 22:19

I have this circus car visual with great dane after great dane popping out of the door.


They'd probably all be trying to get out at once. That's the other reason for having them ride in crates.



"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
Re: Ferdinand [message #11881 is a reply to message #11865 ] Sat, 21 February 2009 03:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 05:13

southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 17:07


The "not listening" is classic terrier unfortunately as well as hound; I'm so used to it that I tend to accept the tendency and view variations with interest lol. We're obviously people of character, wanting to live with such interesting and independent characters Very Happy


I think that selective deafness is practiced by all of them. When your words have no effect whatsoever on the dog across the room, but that dog is at your side in a nanosecond when the lid of the treat jar in the kitchen is lifted, it's pretty clear what's going on. Smile


I think it is practised by all pets. My cat does that all the time. She pointedly looks out the window, as if saying "I can't hear you!".
Re: Ferdinand [message #11884 is a reply to message #11869 ] Sat, 21 February 2009 05:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dances-with-needles wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 04:19

I have this circus car visual with great dane after great dane popping out of the door.

ROFL
Now so do I!


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11885 is a reply to message #11848 ] Sat, 21 February 2009 05:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 01:21

Yes, yes! People of character! I knew there was a better description than NUTS!!! Smile

There are obviously a lot of us n... I mean people of character here Smile


Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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Fake Frenchie wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 08:27

Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 05:13

southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 17:07

The "not listening" is classic terrier unfortunately as well as hound; I'm so used to it that I tend to accept the tendency and view variations with interest lol. We're obviously people of character, wanting to live with such interesting and independent characters Very Happy

I think that selective deafness is practiced by all of them. When your words have no effect whatsoever on the dog across the room, but that dog is at your side in a nanosecond when the lid of the treat jar in the kitchen is lifted, it's pretty clear what's going on. Smile

I think it is practised by all pets. My cat does that all the time. She pointedly looks out the window, as if saying "I can't hear you!".

Cats seem to be even better at it than dogs - one of my minis, Sumo, used to wag her tail when I called her, to be polite and acknowledge me... at the same time as she accelerated away over the horizon. She was a charming dog Smile


Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
Re: Ferdinand [message #11887 is a reply to message #11866 ] Sat, 21 February 2009 06:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 04:15

southdowner wrote on Fri, 20 February 2009 17:10

Driving through town with 11 dogs in a Ford Fiesta van has been a memorable experience!! Hence the reason for gradually larger vans... I can't imagine the size van I'd need for 11 great danes O.O

I think you'd be up to a motor coach!
And how do you get 11 in a Fiesta??

Definitely a motor coach, a double seat each, preferably with seat belts Smile

The Fiesta - it was wall to ceiling crates in the back, three big dogs on the passenger seat and two minis in the footwell - all settled except when we stopped at lights when first one head then another would pop up to see where we where - a mobile meerkat colony
One journey like that proved an elegant sufficiency - as Diane says, it was the car exit which gave me grey hairs


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Re: Ferdinand [message #11897 is a reply to message #11885 ] Sat, 21 February 2009 13:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There is a distinct difference between a person of character and a nut. The nuts have a disconnect between themselves and reality, sort of a pale grey void.
This is in contrast to the "I am not worried about how I appear, this is what I do and this is how I do it" attitude of the person of character.
There are lots of those here. It only looks similar to people who have pigeon hole minds.


Dances
Re: Ferdinand [message #11930 is a reply to message #11865 ] Sun, 22 February 2009 10:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 21 February 2009 04:13


I think that selective deafness is practiced by all of them. When your words have no effect whatsoever on the dog across the room, but that dog is at your side in a nanosecond when the lid of the treat jar in the kitchen is lifted, it's pretty clear what's going on. Smile


I think that's telepathy, though. My mother once said that even though she knew perfectly well that one dog was asleep in the cloakroom, if she tried to give another dog a treat in the kitchen - quite the other side of a relatively large house - the dog that was ostensibly asleep would appear within seconds demanding her share!


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Barbarians!
If you don't want your Great Danes to drive they should definitely be free to hang over the back of your seat giving you advice and being entertaining. Hmpf.


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