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Mon, 17 August 2009 20:08  |
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 Black Bear
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dear Hellhounds,
Happy Birthday to yoooooooouuuuuuuuu!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19553 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Mon, 17 August 2009 20:14  |
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The old toys have the most matured vintage flavor! Nos if you could somehow get taste-of-ancient-toy to permeate their food........
sixpence
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19562 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Mon, 17 August 2009 21:12 |
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Awww! Happy Birthday Chaos and Darkness!
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19567 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 00:12 |
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It's your Birthday! (hunh!) Happy Birthday! (hunh!)
Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et
On your Birthday! (hunh!) Happy Birthday! (hunh!)
It's your Birthday! (hunh!) Happy Birthday! (hunh!)
While you eat your birthday stew
We will loot the town for you,
On your Birthday! (hunh!) Happy Birthday! (hunh!)
(sung to Volga Boatmen)
Many happy returns of the day! My rescue kitties (one's in my avatar) will be approximately two in two weeks, though like librarykat I have to guess. They seem pretty adult, though occasional episodes of "thunderkitty" still occur.
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19568 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 00:20 |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHAOS AND DARKNESS!!!!
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Now I get to decide which of their old, incredibly disgusting toys I can throw out without traumatising either of them. It’s the old disgusting ones that are their favourites, of course, although if I were never prodded with a gooey, falling-apart tennis ball with attached thingummy again I would not repine.
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Urk, yes. Recently I threw out a few of the ferrets' favorite boxes. It was their favorite because it had Weird Stains and was mostly not box-shaped anymore. All the ferrets were angry. At least Stewie (who is the resident tennis ball fan) just pulls the felt off the balls, and doesn't get them all slimy.
[Updated on: Tue, 18 August 2009 00:21]
Smooshes!
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19573 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 02:51 |
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Diane in MN
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Happy Birthday Hellhounds!
Tasha the Alpha Bitch, aka the Crocodile, would be more than pleased to come and dispose of your dinner for you if you wanted to join the Clean Plate Club.
If I had one, I would attach a commiserating picture of Teddy slinking away from his breakfast. (Although he has been eating it later, when bribes--toast, or cereal and yogurt, or occasionally cream cheese--have been sprinkled over it. Talk about rituals . . .)
They are officially adults.
Ah, but young at heart!
Now I get to decide which of their old, incredibly disgusting toys I can throw out without traumatising either of them. It’s the old disgusting ones that are their favourites, of course, although if I were never prodded with a gooey, falling-apart tennis ball with attached thingummy again I would not repine.
Teddy destroys his stuffed soft toys before they have a chance to get too awful, but the unstuffed fake fleece ones last and last, and washing just makes them less disgusting. (But they have no squeakers, so I put up with this.) He is too big for tennis balls, but I had the gooey slimy tennis ball experience with our Lab years ago and they were SO repulsive.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19575 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 06:58 |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAOS AND DARKNESS.
i love the slide show jodi.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19578 is a reply to message #19573 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 11:59 |
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Happy Birthday Hellhounds! Take a stab at dinner! Revel in the roast chicken! Enjoy your new toys! (I find that if I do it surreptitiously enough, Otis doesn't always notice that I've 'disposed' of his more elderly playthings-just don't let the hellhounds see you sneaking them out...)
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Teddy destroys his stuffed soft toys before they have a chance to get too awful, but the unstuffed fake fleece ones last and last, and washing just makes them less disgusting. (But they have no squeakers, so I put up with this.) He is too big for tennis balls, but I had the gooey slimy tennis ball experience with our Lab years ago and they were SO repulsive.
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Oh, they have extra large tennis balls now! With squeakers (these are outside toys). AirKong makes them and I buy them at the local CountryMax or pet supply place-I even have the Chuckit Mega, which may be the best thing ever invented for the not exactly athletically gifted person who also doesn't want to spend much time handling slimy oversized tennis balls (can't throw...which along with not being able to whistle, is possibly the most embarrassing part of dog ownership). Otis isn't much of a slimer, but all the dogs at the park fall all over themselves to get their turn with the big ball-the only real drawback-even after the squeaker fails, which happens about a nanosecond after one of the labs gets hold of it, is that other dogs will abandon their own toys in favor of stealing this one.
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19589 is a reply to message #19573 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 19:44 |
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Robin
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 18 August 2009 02:51 |
Happy Birthday Hellhounds!
Tasha the Alpha Bitch, aka the Crocodile, would be more than pleased to come and dispose of your dinner for you if you wanted to join the Clean Plate Club.
If I had one, I would attach a commiserating picture of Teddy slinking away from his breakfast. (Although he has been eating it later, when bribes--toast, or cereal and yogurt, or occasionally cream cheese--have been sprinkled over it. Talk about rituals . . .)
They are officially adults.
Ah, but young at heart!
Now I get to decide which of their old, incredibly disgusting toys I can throw out without traumatising either of them. It’s the old disgusting ones that are their favourites, of course, although if I were never prodded with a gooey, falling-apart tennis ball with attached thingummy again I would not repine.
Teddy destroys his stuffed soft toys before they have a chance to get too awful, but the unstuffed fake fleece ones last and last, and washing just makes them less disgusting. (But they have no squeakers, so I put up with this.) He is too big for tennis balls, but I had the gooey slimy tennis ball experience with our Lab years ago and they were SO repulsive.
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Oh, gods! I'd be HAPPY to bribe them if there were anything I knew of that (a) they could eat and (b) might WORK! Toast! Cereal! Aaaaaugh! And one of the things that I know cause dismay and geysering is their picking up bread or toast in the STREET because they LIKE it and they don't GET it any more. AAAAAUUUUUGH!
As disgusting dog toys go I admit I've seen worse. The hellhounds are very clean mouthed (what have they got to be unclean about? They don't EAT) so it's just, you know, *use* really. But Chaos' favourite toy--and he's the prodder: Darkness likes to lie in the middle of the floor and bark for you to come pester him--is a disintegrating tennis ball attached to a sort of tube thing. And he prods you *hard* and *repeatedly*. Gah. And yes: washing only makes things *less* disgusting. --I've just discovered to my dismay that one of their new toys has a squeaker in it. Suddenly it's more interesting than they thought. . . .
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19594 is a reply to message #19587 ] |
Tue, 18 August 2009 22:13 |
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 18 August 2009 19:37 |
Oh, that's so CUTE. I especially like the first 'p' with the little foot out. This looks like a ferret tiptoeing into new mischief, of course, but that's what ferrets are for (I believe).
Weird stains! Yesssss! Ewwwwwww! Scary!
(Hey! What's the matter with this inadequate colour list! There's no YELLOW!)
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Glad you like! My friend Kat made it for my birthday a few years ago, and I've been getting as much use out of it as I can. The ferret with her foot out is Leanne, and I'm pretty sure she was up to something. You're right: ferrets generally are.
Smooshes!
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19599 is a reply to message #19551 ] |
Wed, 19 August 2009 00:27 |
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Well, happy birthday to the dogs! 
For those of you suffering from Disgusting Tennis Ball Syndrome (DTBS) may I suggest the "Hyper Dog 2-Ball Launcher"? You can find it here as well as other places. It's pretty cool - you can pick the ball up without touching it! It launches the ball pretty far (depending on your skill with the thing) and as you no doubt have guessed it holds two balls.
If anyone is interested in one of these, I've got one. And no, I don't need it... I'm allergic to dogs...  The reason I have it is because my mother lives next door to the inventor. One night a bunch of us were having a very convivial evening that included lots of Adult Beverages, and we somehow ended up next door looking at all this guy's inventions. We even got a free demonstration of an air cannon he is working on that will shoot a life jacket to a person who has gone overboard at sea... his closet wall will never be the same, it's what he aimed at as he demonstrated. Having a tennis ball shot through it did not do it much good, but to be fair there were a lot of other holes, so it seems to be a hazard of his profession. Anyway, I've got one of the launchers if someone needs it.
They say princes learn no art truly, save that of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19602 is a reply to message #19589 ] |
Wed, 19 August 2009 02:29 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 18 August 2009 18:44 |
Oh, gods! I'd be HAPPY to bribe them if there were anything I knew of that (a) they could eat and (b) might WORK! Toast! Cereal! Aaaaaugh! And one of the things that I know cause dismay and geysering is their picking up bread or toast in the STREET because they LIKE it and they don't GET it any more. AAAAAUUUUUGH!
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Bribes don't always work, and I'm lucky they mostly do with Teddy. But he was a good eater until recently, and started the slinking away business partly because I changed his food in the quest for better output, and partly I think because I removed a floor mat from the kitchen to hose it off and dry it outside, and it freaked him out that it was gone. My own homegrown version of the Charles Barsotti neurotic dog. (And yes, the mat is back on the floor, but he's still a little suspicious of the kitchen.)
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I've just discovered to my dismay that one of their new toys has a squeaker in it. Suddenly it's more interesting than they thought. . . .
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It is so hard to find good dog toys without a squeaker. My guys are good at squeakectomies, but that means I have to be on the watch and grab the squeakers before they go down someone's throat. The stupid noisemakers are a nuisance in all respects.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19610 is a reply to message #19589 ] |
Wed, 19 August 2009 17:54 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 19 August 2009 00:44 |
Oh, gods! I'd be HAPPY to bribe them if there were anything I knew of that (a) they could eat and (b) might WORK! Toast! Cereal! Aaaaaugh! And one of the things that I know cause dismay and geysering is their picking up bread or toast in the STREET because they LIKE it and they don't GET it any more. AAAAAUUUUUGH!
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Is it all cereals they react to, or would gluten/wheat free bread/toast possibly be an option?
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19647 is a reply to message #19615 ] |
Thu, 20 August 2009 10:20 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 19 August 2009 18:10 |
I wish I had been there. The Mad Inventor Lives. (You wouldn't make something like that UP, would you? )
I have the SINGLE ball version, which is ENOUGH. My guys don't get off lead all that often anyway because of where I live, and when I do risk it I want something interesting that will be INCLINED to keep them TOGETHER, like fighting over ONE ball.
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Not only wouldn't I make it up... I couldn't. He gave us another one of his gadgets too, one that flings clay pigeons for skeet shooting. He insisted on demonstrating it, at 3 AM, and we were in this very posh neighborhood - the kind where all the houses look like small hotels, sitting on huge lawns all mowed perfectly because everyone has their mower set to the same height - and there he was, flinging tennis balls and clay pigeons all over Kingdom Come like it was perfectly normal. All I could think about was that we were going to end up in jail. You probably would have enjoyed it immensely.
I was going to suggest canned tuna for the Hellhounds, but cottage cheese sounds like a better suggestion to me, if they are able to tolerate it.
They say princes learn no art truly, save that of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19651 is a reply to message #19642 ] |
Thu, 20 August 2009 17:27 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Thu, 20 August 2009 10:16 |
| Robin wrote on Wed, 19 August 2009 17:13 |
Darkness hasn't eaten more than a mouthful or two in two days. When do I start to panic? I know they hate hot weather--and Darkness hates it more--but . . .
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There's probably no point in panicking unless they're running a temperature or getting dehydrated. I think they read the panic (or frustration or anger or whatever) just like they can read fear, and it adds to the stress of the whole mealtime experience for a sensitive dog. Not that it's done me any good to feel this way because I still panic; I just try not to let the dog know.
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Good luck with that. Wish I could advise something (do they do Rescue Remedy for dogs?) but I am ignorant.
Yes, how do you stop yourself from panicking when they mean so much to you? I never got the hang of it when my man was ill. And I am /certain/ that they pick it up, and weave it into their paranoia. Dogs, I mean, and other perspective-disadvantaged beings, not my man
<edited to correct appalling spelling. sorry.>
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Life always, always finds a way.
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| Re: happy birthday [message #19653 is a reply to message #19651 ] |
Thu, 20 August 2009 18:42 |
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| NotLonely wrote on Thu, 20 August 2009 17:27 |
<...> (do they do Rescue Remedy for dogs?) <...>
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I think they do have one for pets? Anyhow - I've used the one for humans on a sheep (and it did have a positive effect). Amazing what you will try when you are desperate...
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I think they read the panic (or frustration or anger or whatever) just like they can read fear, and it adds to the stress of the whole mealtime experience for a sensitive dog. Not that it's done me any good to feel this way because I still panic; I just try not to let the dog know.
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Yes, the whole "don't let them know you are stressed" thing is a laugh. True, but a case of "good luck with that!". Dogs read body language and all those little "vibes" we give off a heck of a lot better than we do. (Drat!)
Belle can be pretty ambivilent towards food. (If there is a choice between work/doing something with me or food, then food loses every time.) If I am around her and feeling stressed she will not eat.
This is what works with her (it only took me 2 yrs to work it out  )
1) I don't feed her when she is all excited / hyped up about something. I wait until she has settled down a bit.
2) Once she has calmed down I put her food dish by her kennel, pat her, call her a good dog and then walk away inside. (I have watched her and she will not eat until she is *sure* that I won't be heading out to do something else!) She will not eat while she is being watched or I am in the same room.
3) I never leave food out for her all the time if she has left something. I put it up out of reach and then give it to her hours later.
Treats that never fail for Belle:
1) Cheese, butter (very useful for worming tablets haha)
2) Tinned sardines in oil
3) Raw meat
4) Liver treats
(of course there are other "delightful" "treats of discovery" she finds in the paddock at lambing time..... bluurrrrrrgggh)
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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