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got to hand one to the town of Ipswich.. every year I get a nice loaf of banana bread from the elderly housing department... the town also apparently has a police officer assigned to checking up on elders and their housing problems—he is also the fish and clam inspector ( from the side of his truck) – I don’t know if it was precipipated by any letters from camera people- but he was here and that visablly shook the camera crowd. I am happy to report he found no undersized oysters here and went his merry way.( I remember....... mark was also some kind of waterways inspector and I have spent time with him discussing undersized oysters......)
the officer did say he wanted to come back with his daughter.....
which brings to mind an absolute brilliant comment from our “chicken gal”. – she said this place is like an adult sandbox to play in... I like that... which started my head spinning with ideas...
so.... may I brag about the number of people who enjoyed my dogs ( and judy) so far. this week???? Monday was Peabody day care –32. And Rainbow residential 49 – Tuesday merimac senior centr 43—Wednesday wakefield ‘s Dutton center day care 40 for a record of 164
and the dogs got better each time..... R&R. run and return??? How long does it take to train a dog to run and eat a cookie? Not too long ----now if I have a cookie back at the base location it becomes run eat cookie—turn-- run eat cookie.. So it doesn't involve any extensive dog training lessons.... for you or the dog... it does require a small frying pan. now if we are doing this with Wanda... our residential Jack Russell terrier weighs maybe 11 pounds-- you might have to break the cookies very small and she might be less inclined to last for a large group of 30 people.. however being great Danes, breaking the cookie is not necessary and you could feed 100 without fear of filling up the dog.
Realistically I can see setting up a program of teaching a dog to do this in the comfort of your living room with one other person to get this go eat cookie come back eat cookie routine set up.. and then you are able to go to these places and entertain people who are absolutely desperate for being entertained/. take Gemini-- he's not thrilled with the general public but he's very cookie oriented.. So when I send him to Judy.. he runs with enthusiasm.. and I found that if there's a dog in the way he simply will jump the dog and the crowd just thinks this is wonderful.. it shows you how hard pressed they are for entertainment.. but if anyone was to set this up In a serious effort.. you could have a little X shaped jump. and teach the dog to go jump the thing and then get the cookie and this would make people absolutely thrilled. I would love to take a jump into these places with me except I just plain can't cope with one more thing to carry....with the four dogs and the cookies and the frying ban and a washcloth which we can't let Larkin get anywheres near.. of course and a few poopickers thus far not needed... but must be there.
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