i have 2 pups with entirely different personalities.. malarky is very forward,,, friendly where caprecious is standoffish.... she was as a tiny pup.. and is still.. also her mother is constantly on her about her dog manners.... i don't understand that-- she lets her 2 sons.. malarkey and jiminey get away with anything. !
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My earlier concern about toilet paper was that the Holder uppers make provision for five inch roll .. and the normal roll is probably four and three quarter inches for years .. and then they began to shrink it ---so that when I did this study it was down to 4 and 1/8 inch .. at which point I had a great deal to say about getting shortchanged with toilet paper .. I have to take that back right at the moment because the last bunch that has appeared here is charman .. and it is 4 3/4 inches wide that's back to full size unfortunately at the end of yhr other toilet paper roll I don't know what brand it was so all I can tell you at the moment is Charman is full sized .. whatever else Costco was selling is a lot less ..
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COSTCO AS A TRAINING HALL
WE ARE ESXTREMELY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A FRIENDLY COSTCO NEARBY... We have it down to a science--- we can give a shopping list to our trainers who then will go to Costco and by what we need ---- which is perfect training for the dogs PLUS.... it's heated and air conditioned .. and get our shopping done at the same time . for a while there we were shopping for other people too which worked out pretty well too .. Their bakery Department produces the white maybe 3 gallon buckets which are perfect to be lined with a grocery bag and used for poo PICKING ..WASTE BASKETS... AND......THEY SAVE THEM FOR US ( AND OTHERS)
and then my daughter started carrying one in her car and found it much more useful in the pocketbook ---besides she could use it for carrying groceries .. so she covered it with stickers from everywhere .. that BECAME a fashion statement .. carrying a pail instead of a pocketbook is not an idiot idea ... you're less inclined to carry a whole bunch of stuff you don't need if you constantly see it .. I once took the pocketbook belonging to one of our recipients .. which by actual weight was over 10 pounds and dumped it on her kitchen table because she wanted have the dog carry it .. she was appalled that what was in there ..
so in this era of trying to reduce plastic grocery bags those white buckets which are free from Costco or a good place to start and it's not just Costco it's any bakery that uses frosting or whatever .. they are food quality plastic buckets .
My other Costco story is I was trying to train or figure out how to train a dog to pull a wheelchair --and it was winter and I don't do cold very well so I took my transfer chair and went to Costco with Bentley ..to figure out --- practice training with him ..
it didn't take 3 minutes for him to figure out that pulling that chair was fun .. consequently the manager approached to tell me there was a speed limit in Costco AND I was going too fast .
The speed of a wheelchair is something to think about-- if it's propelled by the person is so damn slow --- so having a dog pull it at a normal dog speed is quite a relief for everyone .
things roll very easilly once you get over the initial inertia ..GOOD OLE PHYSICS.... objects at rest tend to stay at rest ---objects in motion tend to stay in motion ---those are your 2 problems with having a dog pull your wheelchair --- there are no brakes –
NOW... Rats-- Our first real rat infestation started would they tore up the ground for the development next door and all the forest rats moved into the house and barn ---that was bad but we finally got control,, however there are always a few --- now today.... gisselle and her relatives have moved back in from the forest.. a usual occurrence At this time of year ..I need to explain the holes under the counters ..
when we first moved in here in 1979 .. it sounded soooo. Logical that if I insulated the ceiling in the cellar--- it would insulate the heated part of the house a little bit at any rate .
so that pink fiberglass stapled between the rafters of the cellar became an absolutely perfect place for rats .. and we just plain had too many .. they chewed their way up into the kitchen underneath the sink and then had a field day running around underneath the counters .. becausw ----again in our naive way --- I had raised the height of the counters by standing at 2 by 6 on its side and cover ED it with plywood so I could set the counters on that---- well that gave these rats a lovely warm place to live that I really couldn't rip it out the holding up the counters so I drilled 2 HOLES with a with the door nob drilling hole maker in that space and tried running things like a very strong vacuum cleaner or something either blowing or picking up .. and finally discourage them from being in the kitchen .. that still meant we had to tear down all of the insulation in the cellar which was full of what rats leave behind ..
but those holes do provide the rats with a way to get up and out of the cellar on hunting Expeditions ..these rats are not living in sewers and dirty places they aRe perfectly healthy rats living on horse grain and dog food.
mind you they're not my favorite still but .. they are not the usual type rat problem . The critical information here is that we cannot put out rat poison because they would then eat it and then die somewhere maybe out in the middle of some pasture ----- a dead rat is a dog toy and if it's been poisoned then the poison is in the dog .. so we don't have any rat toys around the property which leaves us with all sorts of designs about falling into water electrocution and all that sort of thing but of someone who's dealt with rats for a long time I do prefer the snap traps have a great big V on him .. I've ordered a couple dozen rat traps and we'll get after the problem here in the house and the barn .
There is a knack for setting at least the mouse ones where if you pull UP on that trip lever and then slowly release the spring you'll pinch your fingers a lot less ...
