I WANT TO GIVE HIGHEST PRAISES to this group.IS THERE ANOTHER GROUP ON THE INTERNET THAT you could blinldly give a phone number too, AND NOT GET 15 IMPROPER CALLS AT MIDNIGHT????... i was prepared to take the phone off the hook, but i had only one call just as sheila had requested... and it was from NORWAY--- WHAT A DELIGHT !! AND SHE IS COMING TO THE RETREAT AND STAYING WITH SOMEONE FROM ?IDAHO?? AND SHE COULD NOT WAIT TO GIVE EVERYONE A BIG HUG... PERFECT !!
LAST YEAR IT WAS GREAT FUN--- AND VERY LITTLE PLANNING- OTHER THAN ORDERING A PORTAPOTTIE AND THE LOBSTER DINNER, I REALLY DIDN'T DO A THING. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS YEAR....
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NOW AS FOR BUSINESS...
MEGAN AND I WENT TO MAINE TO MEET WITH THE SCHOOL WHERE HUNTER WILL BE GOING WITH WENDY NEXT YEAR- THE ONLY MESSAGE I HAD TO DELIVER WAS "IGNORE HIM UNLESS HE ASKS FOR HELP." WHAT AN INDEPENDENT KID !! AND WENDY LOVES HIM.
THERE ARE A COUPLE THINGS I REALLY NEED TO ADDRESS..
NUMBER ONE... HE IS NOW USING A "NORMAL" LEASH WITHA LOOP AT THE END-- AND HE SLIPS HIS ARM THRU THE LOOP..
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE NO IN MY WORLD...
YOU NEVER TIE YOURSELF TO ANY ANIMAL BIGGER THAN A HAMPSTER. I WAS SHIPPED ACROSS COUNTRY TO BE WITNESS IN A LEGAL CASE WHERE A LITTLE BOY WAS KILLED BY WRAPPING A CLOTHES LINE AROUND HIS HAND AND THE DONKEY JUST WALKED OFF DRAGGING HIM AND HE HIT HIS HEAD. HOWEVER UNFORTUNATE THE ACCIDENT, IT WAS NOT BECAUSE THE DONKEY WAS MEAN OR VICIOUS... THE MOTHER HAD GIVEN THE CHILD THE CLOTHESLINE AND ATTACHED IT TO THE DONKEY THEN BACKED OFF TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE KID AS HE WRAPPED THE LINE AROUND HIS WRIST.
SOOOO HUNTER MUST STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY---- LOOP A LARGE AND WEAK ELEASTIC BAND THRU THAT LOOP AND USE THAT AOUND HIS WRIST-- THEN IF HE FALLS THE ELASTIC WILL BREAK AND AT LEAST ELIMINATE THAT POSSIBLE DISASTER...
MY OTHER CORRECTION IS THAT DAD, IN HIS CONCERN... AND I CAN NOT BLAME HIM AT ALL. HE IS HANGING ON TO WENDY WITH A SECOND CHAIN COLLAR--- AS AN EMERGENCY BRAKE-- AND I CAN NOT BLAME HIM ONE BIT... BUT I DID SEE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN HUNTER CORRECTED, WENDY RESPONDED WELL...
SO AS AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION HE NEEDS A SECOND LEASH ATTACHED TO HER HARNESS... HE WUOLD BE ABLE TO STOP HER BY HER HARNESS IN AN EMERGENCY, -- MAYBE EVEN A LEATHER COLLAR AS THE EMERGENCY BRAAKE.....BUT SHE COULD CONCENTRATE ON HUNTER ALOT BETTER IF HE WAS NOT IN THE MISDDLE.. AND SHE IIS TRYING... HE WENT UP AND DOWN A LONG FLIGHT OF STAIRS I WOULD NOT HAVE ATTEMPTED.. AND HE DDID IT WELL.
THERE ARE DETAILS FOR THE SCHOOL TO DEAL WITH-- LIKE GETTING HIM OUT IN A REAL FIRE-- NOT A DRILL-- HE WEIGHS 50 POUNDS-- PICK HIM UP AND GO AND HOPE WENDY DOES NOT THINK YOU ARE STEALING HIM... BECAUSE SHE WOULD INTERFERE I AM SURE---
SO IN THE CASE OF A FIRE--- EXCITEMENT WILL BE HIGH AND I AM SURE SHE WOULD AT LEAST TAKE THE ARM OF THE GRABBER-- PROBABLY NOT BITE DOWN-- BUT IT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY DON'T DO SOMETHING SIMILAR AHEAD OF TIME...
NICE DOGGIE -- VERY HAPPY DOGGIE.. DOING A GREAT JOB... AND TAKING THAT JOB SERIOUSLY-- SHE IS VERY VOCAL IN GIVING OPINIONS-- AT ONE POINT THE PT WATCHED THEM COMING DOWN THE STAIRS BY STANDING AT THE BOTTOM MOTIONLESS AND STARING AT THEM... WENDY GAVE A QUIET GRUMBLE SORT OF "I DO NOT KNOW WHY YOU STARE LIKE THAT-----THIS IS MY KID AND WE ARE COMING BY YOU--- JUST STAY OUT OF OUR WAY"
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BARKING.... LOUD... GOING
