have teeth--- the dentist was almost a comidy of coverings.. between waiting in the car til called for temp taken to cover after cover.. i have teeth where once i had holes of fillings long gone. i was afraid to go til 2 shots and 2 weeks..
a guy named paul called... connected to kuranda. we have alot of his kuranda dog beds... and they are great--- dogs do not like to lay on th e floor any more than i do. i dunno why... but these do work well.. are handy / stashable and cleanupable --- at about 6 inches off the floor... they are a baby dog's first "under" experience and eventually they are outside lollygag in the sun type beds.. you can see quite a few on the puppy hill camera. with unreasonable use... like a 178 pound dog with a 200 pound person sitting on the bed... the cloth will sometimes tear..... but with just the dogs ...perfect... well almost..... we do use many of them outside and they will collect rain... you can get ones made of net which drain.. but with solid ones we do have to make a neat tiny slit dead center to let teh rain out.
speaking of lettting the rain out... then there is teh donkey cafe tarp. .. now it is lovely to buy tarps with neat little grommets along the edges for tie downs... i think they put those in for the photographs.. because in the real world of any breeze at all.. them grommets ain't worth a damn-- altho if you are psycologically addicted to grommets they can be replace with a $2.29 grommet repair kit at home depot.... so they will break again... let me suggest... there is no duplication for a golf ball and hay string---- that will hold. for those of you not familiar with the technique... put a golf ball... or small rock.. under teh tarp..tighten a loop around it... and that will hold... if anything does.-- and while you are at it, run a hose on thtarp, and any place that even suggests water will collect, needs to have a slit. for drainage... that will increase the useful life of the tarp by years !
i remember the first time i saw gallon water jugs hanging from a tarp -- holding it down--yet allowing lift if it got tooo windy... i was shocked to think? .. how come i never thought of that before..
dripping rain.... i am not a great fan of teh barrels to collect rainwater.. some have a very unique tip off deal .. so teh first part of the rain off the roof gets tipped on the ground... thus washing off whatever the birds did on the roof. at least that is the theory.
so horses... and water... i have watched sooo many horses drink out of all kinds of water collection devices... and. they are good at it. they sink thir lips about 1/2 inch.. which avoids anything floating and draws the middle part without involving the sunken stuff... and most everything either sinks or floats. they can get water out of a fairly shallow puddle.
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I like rain it kind of cleans everything up how else do you wash a mattress that somepup has inadvertently peed on except to put it leaning up against the fence and collecting it about two weeks later-- we have the need for that kind of thing now that chaos is just getting older somehow having a lot of children means that in later life they're going to have to deal with an overflow situation .. which properly managed is not a problem .. this is one thing we use all those puppy pads for .. and any monstrous use of them can be reduced to minor problem by putting them out on the fence in the rain ..the monstrous use of them now is getting to be if chaos drips three drips then larky who is very enthusiastic but not sure what he's supposed to do about anything comes in and pees on top of it .. this increases the amount of laundry we have to do considerably and it's not just the dryer electricity .. the use of water is horrendous around here .. so the fence is in the rain it is lovely ..
This bit about urine being a communication device is not often studied by normal people but if sizzles goes out and makes a puddle Bentley will end up standing behind her waiting for her to finish so he can drip a little bit on top of it and after him Germany will come rushing in from the sideways to drip on top of whatever Bentley did with a bunch of dogs particularly young ones that aren't too sure about things you get quite a lineup before sizzle has to back be on top of everybody else and I've always wondered as I watched male dogs lift their legs higher and higher whether that's some sort of bragging other height or capability ..
I better quit there .
I've also spent hours studying barking of dogs and there are sequences and I've tried barking back at the dog to see whether I could get any sort of recognition ---in the hundreds of pages of nighttime barking notes that Lynn did there is definitely a sequence where a puppy will come out of the barn move their bowels bark once and go back in the barn and be quiet -then there is the sequence where they bark once and wait a split second and then bark again that seems to be to see whether anybody has answered them at a normal dog or normal grest dane any rate have the conversation of the combinations of 1 two or three barks rarely anymore .
dogs in general have a terrible reputation for barking because most dogs are put in a cage or kennel and are frustrated and that's when you get the constant constant barking we work overtime to never have that ..and one way is our dogs have never been in a crate they have never been tide up to a tree or anything else if we want them to go away from us and stop bothering us they are often told to go lie down somewhere and they do and that leaves no barrier between the dog and the person which is what causes the frustration of so many dogs .. if I hear a dog on our property go at it for more than one minute and somebody's gotta go figure out what's the matter because that dog is just alerting us to something which is what as a service dog they're going to be responsible for doing .. I should have made a list long ago of some of the things our dogs have done most notably at the moment is the service dog that went and collected the post man back to the guys house because he had fallen and couldn't get up ...or the dog who went and got someone out of the garden because someone's electric wheelchair had rammed the patient under the bathroom sink ..these are not things I've taught but these are things that our dogs do on a very regular basis and I think it comes from allowing the dogs to think without restraining them behind chain link fence too much or tying them to a rope we're having a leash that's tight that's another thing that we don't allow around here is you don't restrict a dog with a leash .. you talk to them and explain to them what supposed to happen leash is there because people think it's supposed to be and it would be an emergency break if it if needed but if you watch Bella come down the stairs in that famous video she's dropped the leash and don't even have all of it .. so I make all of our leashes for recipients about 24 inches long because so many of the kids just playing drop him and I don't want them walking on them .. plus the fact there's no reason for a dog on a leash to be anymore than 6 inches from you anyway ..
so there you have it .. if you let the dog get 6 feet in front of you they're going to pull keep them by your side and they'll be well behaved even Caesar says that . he must have learned it from me. I'm older .
