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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I guess it didn't fit, 'cause it isn't here. I've forgotten what came and what didn't and what apparently got lost. *sigh*
The new one is pretty cheaply made, but now that I know I can get heavier rope at Home Depot and do it again...I guess I'm OK with that.
I'm not sure what I can do about this new behavior of Cisco's, and it makes me so mad I could spit.
He won't rush out the front gate if I'm standing there...but the SECOND I get back in the van to drive in, he takes off, as you witnessed. And won't come. And does the whole piddling I'm-really-sorry-so-I-forgot-what-I-did act when I finally catch up to him, as if I'm being incredibly mean.
He's done this three days in a row now. I know I COULD drag him into the house every time I open that gate, but I shouldn't have to.
*spit*
Good newz is that Jr. got the lifeguard job! He goes Tuesday for paperwork and then next Saturday for orientation.
Other not so good news is that my dad's last living sister passed away this afternoon. This is also Josh's grandmother. She was in her 80s, but we thought still in mostly good health. Her mind has been going for a long time.
She called my mom around 3:00 a.m. this morning and Mom took her to the hospital. They transferred her to Roanoke and she died there this afteroon. At least she wasn't home alone.
Figger the funeral is Thursday. Means I'd have to miss a bored meetin' and that's tricksey since it's not an immediate family member. But we'll see.
The easiest thing to do is when you get home, let him jump in the van with you to drive in through the gate. I used to do that, then it really becomes about you being home and getting to go for rides in cars, not about the gate being open.
He doesn't like riding in the car all of a sudden...won't just jump in.
I did that at first, but apparently now he's decided cars are bad.
Grrrrr. I know part of it is just that he likes playing over there, and now he's figured out the side gate isn't the only way to get there. But...grrrrr.
Sorry about your aunt... Sometimes it is sudden huh... what was the symptom at 3 am?
Congrats to Jr. on the lifeguard job. That's one sweet job for a kid.
Woo-hoo!
Sorry about your aunt, Corin...I'll be praying for you folks.
I had an Uncle Basil.
Also had an Uncle Wirt. He was married to Aunt Zenobia.
As for Nanowrimo, I have the setting, but no plot. (It takes place on a little planet at the southern end of the galaxy. In a stretch of stars known as the "Redneck Nebula.")
So, there's that.
Oh, sorry. I left out that detail. She was having chest pains and they determined at our local hospital that she'd had a mild heart attack. That's why they transferred her. Apparently a valve was blocked.
And yes, it runs in the family.
I don't have plot or characters or nuffin.
So there's that.
I've never really named any of my vehicles.
My friends named my college car "Mabel."
"Mabel she'll run, or Mabel she won't..."
Well, there's a number of ways you can work on it.
One intirim step you could take is to attach a leash permanently to a post by the gate that you clip him to when you open the gate. When you get the gate closed again you go unclip him. You'd have to make coming to you right then fun, like with a treat, so he doesn't just avoid you and run around. That can be the place he's supposed to 'stay' when you're coming and going.
I've got a shock collar, and we can zap him for crossing out through the gate, but he's not ready for that yet. First, he'd need to fully understand and obey 'come' and 'stay' without it. It can be used to enforce commands he knows but is ignoring, it can't be used to teach the command. Right now he comes if he wants to, but it's not sure enough even without temptation. Could be, if you don't or can't spend time on obedience without the structure of a class, that a class would be the best thing. I know I always did better in a class. The invisible line at the gate is one concept, but the biggest issue is not obeying come and stay.
I guess I can do more practicing "stay", and also put the leash there. It's just frustrating, because I can't scold him, or he just melts into a pile and I don't think it accomplishes anything. And he doesn't seem to get that a command doesn't cease to exist when I go out of sight for a moment.
I do want to do classes this summer if I can find a good one, though again, I worry about that behavior...how much can I really train him if he just rolls over and pees and won't get up? It'd be rather embarrassing...and it's why I didn't take him to Petsmart with me today.
It's frustrating, 'cause he really is a good boy, and not entirely dumb...I'm just not an experienced enough dog trainer to know how to address this particular personality.
The peeing and melting into a pile is avoidance. He's not really coming apart, he's trying to keep you from enforcing anything. Are you doing anything? Let me come over in a minute and try some things with him.
Evening Corin, that's good news bout Jr. Getting certs is always a good thing.
Sorry to hear about your dad's sister passing.
We were at a wake last week for the wife of friend of ours. As we walked over to the funeral home, the ambulance and firetruck drove past us. By the time we got there, the paramedics were working on a fella that had a heart attack. The viewing and receiving lines kept moving forward and past the scene. A very different wake, condolences for the bereaved and paramedics saving another person's life, just a few feet apart.
Gotta get shoes on...but OK.
Thanks. This has been funeral week. The friend from church, my aunt.
Another couple in our choir lost their (his) niece last week, the funeral was the same time as the one for our choir friend. Yesterday Norm lost his father.
Jr. brought a friend over with his guitar. They're "jammin'" out on the deck.
That'll teach thenaybers to buy a bug zapper...
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