Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
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LOL...it wasn’t bad for me really...once I realized I couldn’t get a signal, I just went back to sleep on the couch for a while:) Storms really don’t bother me much. Not sure if it’s that I don’t have enough sense to be bothered or it’s just I realize there isn’t anything I could do about it so what’s the point of being bothered:)
Becky
Hi, MT:)
Yeah HGTV has given me lots to think about. Funny thing tho. The realtors I’ve talked with all say don’t put a lot of money into a house you’re selling...one even told me to NOT replace the carpet. Painting of course doesn’t cost a lot, just a lot of work. But my carpet is sooooo bad, it has to be replaced, IMO.
Becky
Well, I guess I was born with more pointless worrying genes than you. We had some ruckus last night with all the dogs wanting out to get SOMETHING.
This morning Barkley got another possum. Gak. Honey had to finish it off.
I thought about turning on the computer and checking the radar...but I was too sleepy:) Besides, you can’t really see where a tornado/high wind is on radar, at least I can’t. I don’t believe there were any tornados around here, altho sirens went off in Tulsa, the news is reporting. We just had straight line winds, gusting to 60mph.
Becky
EWWWWWWWWWW...good for Barkley tho:)
Did you let them out last night?
Becky
I let the others out, Barkley I kept on a line because he won’t come back and I didn’t want to be up all night. He was Baying and lunging on the line. I heard some screeching of a cat fight, I think. The other two came right back when I called so I don’t think they were involved in the screeching.
I think she got the roan gene from her mother, so that’s why she had the dark points to start with, but I think she also got the gray gene from her sire, so if she did she’ll eventually gray on out to white, just like Grace.
Good DOG!! He should be cutting down on the local possum population a good bit by now.
I don't blame you for not letting him out. Beagles tend to go head-down and follow their nose FOREVER. Then they look up and go "Gee, wonder where I am?!" ;o)
He doesn’t have an off switch. I can call the other two off if they’re in something they shouldn’t be in. Usually. ;~)
My vet has a Blue Heeler that’s like that. Once she gets on a cow she won’t come off. He has to keep a shock collar on her. The funny thing is that she knows when it’s on, so she behaves like a perfect angel, but if he leaves it off she knows he can’t do anything and gets after that cow like a Tazmanian Devil. I don’t think Beagles are that smart. ;o)
My lab was that way with his shock collar. Tell me they don’t have consciousness of guilty behavior.
Have I told you the way I cheated at dog shows? I used the shock collar primarily to enforce the long sit and the long down, when we have to leave them in a line with other dogs, at the advance levels we actually have to leave the room. Well, Logan would get up and mount the dog next to him as soon as I was out of sight. So I used the shock collar to enforce the stay.
Well, for show, I used the same leather collar but replaced the shock unit with a brass name plate held on with small bolts with a nut on it. I accidentally left the bolts a little too long. ;~)
Can you send me a link for the HF. I had to come downtown because Jenny needed help, Tucker is sick. He is napping, so I’m interneting, but can’t get to the HF, Charlie set me up my own space on a new computer here, but I lost all my bookmarks.
Becky
Never mind, I found it. When all else fails, google:)
Becky
Heh... well, glad I could help... not. :~)
Veeeeelly Smaaaaaaat! But hey, whatever works!
LOL!! I'll bet that had the crowd rolling in the isles! How mortifying!
Oh it was awful, because he was disqualified of course, but if he made the other dogs break, they’d be disqualified too! But the name plate cheat worked, and I don’t think there was a “rule” against my name plate.
No one laughed, all those snooty dog show people with their shelties thought he was a rank uncouth dog molester and I should have had him neutered. ;~) I finally did. He had way too much testosterone.
It is funny. They were just snooty.
But, I would have been upset if my dog got DQ’d.
Oh yeah - I always felt awful about it. One gal with a golden they let re-do the test and she passed.
I learned, with him, to take him on a casual walk by all the dogs in the class with us. I could tell if there was a dog in there who he was attracted to and if I couldn’t get him over it through exposure to that dog outside the ring, I’d pull him. He was that predictable, and it wasn’t every dog, just some dogs. He’d get that focus on and there was no distracting him.
Pain in the butt dog to try to show.
LOL! Sheltie people do tend to be a big snooty, with their perkey little frou-frou dogs. They're all the time combing and fluffing. And then here comes your big lummox of a Lab humping on their little darling like there's no tomorrow. Horrors! ;o)
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