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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:35 am
Sooo cute! and a lucky pup too Seamonkey I just wish I could get him on crutches.. he wants to move so bad, he cries when Randy takes the girl out for her run - he still wants to go! I agree with you SG, the lines on these animals are breathtaking and watching them run still gives me goosebumps. Gorgeous!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 10:42 am
Biscottii, you said sis elected to get his testicles removed when he was neutered. This is what neutering is. I'm guessing you meant he had the extra skin of the scrotum also removed.
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 11:51 am
War, I'm really loving your story about Princess JD. I know how important it is to find her home/owners, but I am hoping you all get to keep her. I imagine her being sent to your family by an angel or something, because I just have a feeling she belongs to you all. Hi Tmagic. Tell us more about Molly. How about some pictures. Serate, when I take Casey outside, I don't do a little song, but I always say in a sing/song voice, "potty outside", "let's go potty", "outside". LOL, yeah, I wonder what the folks who can hear me think, but I don't care. Oh, and then when he goes, I always say in a happy praising voice, "good boy, potty outside, good boy". Well, yesterday, I took Casey to the vet - our first visit. He now weighs a whopping 3 lbs. I don't know what he weighed when I got him, but he's grown so much in the last 2.5 weeks. His belly is so round, but it's probably because of worms, so he got his first round of deworming yesterday, and his second will be in 10 days. The vet and the assistant agreed that his coloring (brindle) is very rare for his breed - schnauzer and poodle. I think he is just beautiful, but I'm not biased or anything, LOL. He has fawn color happening on the base of his ears, that is getting lighter and lighter, and his fur is getting so curly. Jim and I are so curious as to how his coloring is going to eventually turn out. Here are some new pics: Sweater Boy
Big and Little
Sweet Face

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 11:56 am
Oh my goodness Sage ... Casey is so adorable!!! I love, love, love the doggie sweater. So cute!! 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 12:18 pm
LOving the pup pics here!! War, the pup is sooo yours! I have a feeling that flyer you put up will be hung BEHIND everything on the wall LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 12:56 pm
LOL Pamy, my sister suggested pasting the whole neighborhood with flyers...hers, not mine, which is clear across town! Sage, Casey is very cute! He's so posing in that sweater picture, lol, look at him! Puppy is soooo full of energy. She's been bouncing all over the house this morning. Her and little nephew have been chasing after each other and rolling around on the floor and playing with toys, lol. They're having a ball!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:43 pm
I had labs and just couldn't feature saying "go potty", but the breeder of one we co-owned used the British term "Hie on!".. meaning get along and do what you need to do.. and we started our pups as soon as they were walking.. right after they ate we'd blow the whistle for "come" (used in field training too) and call them and they'd race to the door to go out and then we'd use the hie on term (but go potty would work, whatever) and expecially when they peed or pooped.. Then as adults if we let them loose or took them out on lead, saying hie on let them know this was the time to do those things, get the kinks out.. worked so well on trips and at dog shows or working tests, where you DO NOT want them to suddenly decide to poop while working or in the ring.. lol.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, January 04, 2008 - 5:09 pm
Awwww...day hasn't been going so good but I check in here and here are these darling puppy photos! Casey, Jack and Princess LD you make me smile you are so cute!! Our electicity went out last nite til this morning...you probably see on the news we are getting high winds again with 30 to 40 foot high waves. So no beach walking but puppies still need to go out pretty often and they do not like the nasty weather. Thank you so much for sharing the pictures, such a delight to see them!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:22 am
Ack SG, we just went a little over two hours with no electricity and it was miserable. Caleb has a very real fear of storms. Found out that puppy isn't too pleased with them either. The electricity went out and she heard that wind whipping about and ran straight into the crate and wouldn't come out. Dakota finally coaxed her out and set with her in her lap and she seemed to be ok with that. We've decided to keep calling her, for the time being and then it'll be permanent if we end up keeping her, Princess Jeraldine (I think that's usually spelled with a G?) or PJ for short. Dakota wanted to call her Cupcake and I said absolutely not, lol. Somehow Princess just suits her.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:44 am
Still holding onto electricity, thankfully, but the cable company clearly had some problems transmitting during Friday Night Lights, so there is potential for cable to go out. Geraldine is the more common spelling, but PJ is so much cuter than PG.. lol.. you don't want her to become pg anyway.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:48 am
LOL Sea, that was why I opted to stick with the J! I really couldn't picture myself going out there and hollaring for PG to come in the house!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:57 am
a good ole battery or crank radio helps. If you have some noise that kinda drowns out the storm noise, it helps.

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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:06 am
But of course maybe the pup is a Survivor fan? I hadn't thought of a crank radio for background noise. I do have a couple of those around here somewhere, never used them. Wonder how long it take to crank them up for a significant amount of air time? I have a little crank flashlight and you don't get a whole lot of time per crank, so to speak. I guess you could play music on a laptop as long as the battery lasted. Here we don't need to drown out the noise. I kinda like it and Critter, unfortunately, but fortunately when there is thunder or fireworks, cannot hear much, so she's blissfully unaware.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:26 am
i think it is around five minutes of cranking LOL I dont have a radio, I asked for it on my Christmas list though. My crank flashlight works for days on a two minute spin.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:39 am
Oh now that's just dumb of me. Dakota's got a battery operated radio/cd player and it never occured to me to get that and drown out the storm noise with it. LOL, Harvey isn't deaf he's just oblivious to most loud noises (the space shuttle landing bothers him.) I don't think he even got off the couch earlier and he barely raised his head when we got back from the store!
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Slinkydog
Member
11-30-2005
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 7:29 am
My Alex, God rest her soul, was deathly afraid of thunder until she lost her hearing. There were many nights that I was awakened not by the thunder, but by her standing right by and looking into my face, whining and shaking. I would pull her next to me and hold her tightly. She shook so hard she had to have really been burning some calories. She may have even burned some of mine. Great pup pics, everyone!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 7:53 am
WG, 'space shuttle landing"? When it lands it is just a powerless, silent glider. What am I missing here?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 11:26 am
The double sonic boom when it re-enters. We live near Edwards, there is always something in the air and sonic booms are the norm, but the shuttles are especially loud, literally rattling windows loud. And because Edwards is a back up landing sight (and it costs a fortune to get it back home, though one of the coolest things I've seen is them flying over the valley when they piggyback it home) it's fairly rare to have it land here so something you never really get used to. Last time it landed here, poor Harv sat at my feet, head in my lap, whimpering for a good 15 minutes. Like us he pretty much tunes out the normal ones, but you can't ignore the shuttle!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:35 pm
Ah, the things you can learn at TVCH. Thanks for 'splaining it WG.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:53 pm
You're very welcome! Question...the puppy is a chewer! I don't know if it's cuz she's a little more comfy here or she's just wound up this morning but she is chewing on everything. She was dragging off shoes til we set them up on a chair. We were taking down the Christmas decs so had a lot of stuff sitting on the floor and couch and so far we've had to also take newspaper, decorations, and a strand of lights from her. We tell her NO in a firm voice and take away whatever she's chewing on and then give her her toy but I'm not sure we're going about it the right way. I've never had a pup that chewed on stuff like this before. Any suggestions?
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Spraying bitter apple on things and having plenty of chew toys handy worked on my dogs (after one chewed through my laptop cable and the other chewed through the cord for a lamp).
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:50 pm
Sounds like the Princess needs a variety of her own chewies lying around. Teething ain't easy on a dog...or the owner. lol
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Wow, lots of new furbabies in our doggie thread! They are adorable and I love seeing all the pictures as well!! Here's our newest addition, Harley. He's a red mini dachshund and Dixie has taken to him so well. They are already chasing each other all over the house! Hi TVCHer's...I'm Harley!
Dixie meet Harley. Harley meet Dixie
Harley

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 9:04 pm
Oh my goodness ... Harley is just beautiful!! His coloring is gorgeous! I didn't know there was such a thing as a 'mini' dachshund ... so cute!! 
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 9:11 pm
War with Jack we take what he's not supposed to be chewing away, say NO, give him something to chew. When he starts chewing something he's supposed to chew we say GOOD CHEW GOOD BOY. He doesn't chew too much that he's not supposed to now, except for paper. When he was really little we would hold the scruff of his neck and shake lightly while saying NO. Vet said that thew shaking was like w hat his momma would have done to him. But PJ is probably too old for that now. My aunt Joyce's aunt's name was Jeraldine with a J.
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