Hair and Ruthie: These were most excellent posts, We thanks you. We know what to do..implementation with gypsygirl is the hard part. She looks at me with big brown eyes as if to say, "so this is how it starts again?". Natcherly, I melt.
Our lab, Gifford, was trained to sit and stay at dinner time. :-) We could give a 'set', and fix his food, place it on the floor and give him 'go' (boy, did he go). 'Fetch bird' was his favorite, nothing quite as much fun (to a lab) as swimming or running back with a mouth full of recently deceased feathered fowl.
Thanks. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. ;-)
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