Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Good for Shelley:) Great story.
Becky
Blue feeds with Bob now of an evening (mornings belong to the queenslands) and is learning to stay where he's supposed to, he hit an electric fence a couple of days ago and that got his attention. Belle is growing like a weed, she will be much bigger than Blue I believe. And she's now six months old, hard to believe time went by that fast.
Does your fence get plenty of sun?
Having the store out of view in the summer would be good. That’s the main time you’re outside anyway, and would want privacy.
Becky
That fence gets the most sun of anywhere... at least from noon on.
What is her perverse sense of humor?
I will. You too (prariecanes...shaking my head)
You can buy groceries online. Kind of pricy though
Shelley bringing home the bacon after a land-water-land-water retrieve. Look how big Ruby's gotten:
(there are live pigeons in that crate!)
Future dock diving competitor (she has a big water entry). Shelley gets into the water like "September Morn" . . .
We had a “grocery on line” around here for awhile. It failed miserably after only a few months. I don’t know if they couldn’t get enough critical mass together to make it go, or what. The quality - even of the produce - was good, but it was very pricey and that may have been the problem. Also, in this area it seems like there’s a grocery store on every corner. I have a Kroger I can easily walk to (it’s less than 1 mile away) and a Publix that is probably 3-4 miles away. Then there are at least 4 other stores within a 10 mile radius, plus a CostCo and Harry’s.
Well, Dusty Rose is as good as gold with a baby on her, or small children or adults who don't know how to ride, or handicapped. Put a good rider on her and she's liable to shy right out from under you. Or if you insist that she do what you want, she'll crow hop a couple of times. After watching her for ten years, it's obvious to me that she does it for the h*ll of it, not because she spooks, etc.
Acckkk!!! this is so frustrating here at work. I’m allowed to see red x’s only. I’ll look from one of the public computers later.
It sounds like she sizes up a persons abilities and capabilities and adjusts accordingly.:’)
I think this can be said of a lot of horses. They really can sense when they have someone on them who does not have much experience, if they are a child or adult. I’ve always been amazed at how different a horse will act with different riders.
Becky
That’s it exactly. :)
I can see, I can see :) Great pictures.
< g > it's actually some French girl, by Paul Chabas . . .
She looks like an Impressionist painting :)
That retrieve with the house in the background is the most difficult Shell has ever done. The bumper-thrower was standing on the OPPOSITE side of the lake, to the right just out of the picture, and throwing the bumper into the water rather near the shore on his side. So Shell had to run down from my position, jump in the water, swim to the little narrow strip of land, get out, run across, jump back in the water, and then swim about 50 yards to the bumper. Grab the bumper, and return the same way.
A couple of temptations involved in this retrieving problem. First, any time a dog changes from land to water or vice versa, the dog wants to stop and start hunting for the bird there, instead of where it landed. Same thing happens if a mark is thrown across a road, a headland (edge of a plowed field where the tractor or horses turn around) or a wood line. Second, that narrow strip of land is connected with the near shore, and the dog will want to "bank run" - that is take a detour and run around by the bank, instead of getting back in the water and swimming. Hey, the dog knows he can run faster than he can swim! They have to be taught to take the straight line out and back. Multiply these challenges by the number of times the dog has to enter and exit the water -- and add distance, plus the difficulty of seeing across the grassy areas -- and you have a problem that will cause dogs to shut off.
We ran the younger dogs from that narrow peninsula, so they only had to enter the water, grab the bumper, and return. Some folks in the club have a poodle, which is a problem in and of itself (they used to be water dogs but that was many generations back) and they don't like to use a check cord OR an electronic collar. So their poodle got tired or bored or whatever and turned back about 10 yards from the bumper. Ruby was waiting over to one side and she went nuts as soon as the bumper was thrown, I took her up to the line and she was STILL marking the bumper, so I said what the heck and sent her, she swam right out, grabbed it, and brought it back. She was so excited about getting another dog's bumper that even in the cold water she still got overheated . . . . her motor runs pretty darned hot.
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