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I do get my chuckles I let my dogs out this morning at about 6:00 not realizing that Michelle and let her dogs out at the same time. MY2 Danes Carl and fizzle went roaring off to the fence that is between the two groups and Carl stuck his nose through the fence purely to sniff at the 4 LB yorkie it was on the other side of the fence but the 4 LB yorkie misinterpreted it and bit carls nose who then went yelping off to the back door SAVE ME. SAVE ME!! All 160 lbs of him --
MY TAKE is... Dogs do not like surprises---and my guess is that Carl will not go to hear that place in the fence again for fear he gets attacked by this beast that he doesn't understand.... sizzle on the other hand being older and more experienced knew better than to stick her nose next to one of those things that snap.... be it another dog cat or mousetrap. which makes me remember the one way to keep your dog off your favorite couch is to get a mousetrap the victor is a good brand not a rat trap with a mousetrap and set it maybe with a little bit of dog food put it on the sofa and cover it with an open piece of newspaper eventually young inexperienced dog go investigate the snap would make the paper jump at him and probably he could not go near the couch again for fear of that would happen again they don't like to be surprised . In my sometimes peculiar form of dog training I often use that concept of a surprise-in my career I know I have used a simple glass of water to train a dog not to eat off the counter. .... By simply pouring the water on his nose and as he backs up shaking his head explained to him in a very nice soft voice “that was a bad idea that was a NO “
I remember doing exactly that with a very young Jeanine---and as I stood next to the electric fence repairing something I told her not to touch it.. being a
normal child she reached out immediately and grabbed it the electric shock really scared her it didn't hurt her but it certainly was the great lesson.. Listen and think about what people are saying around you--- I think she even mentioned that in that book she wrote about dogs donkeys and circus performers or something like that.
I spent yesterday moving furniture in my one room apartment it's not terribly easy to move furniture around when you're in a wheelchair but it worked except for the portable closet when I caught Wallace in the driveway and he just picked it up and it moved it so I now have it set up to receive the Glenwood cook stove although all we will be doing with it from now through next fall is enjoying as its its presence and and figuring out how to get it vented through the roof or something at any rate it's very attractive and a very usable piece of countertop which should save the wooden countertops elsewhere in the kitchen. my memory being such it may be wise table to photograph the entire stove before we start removing pieces.. one thing that makes this stove so enjoyable is that nothing is missing ---- very often these stoves are minus they're chromium wings or warming boxers... so I have now positioned the rest of the furniture in my room and use the dog bed as a spacing device where the stove will go. this does give me plenty of room to walk around with The Walker ///. The word plenty being taken lightly but it does give me room to make a very tight Figure 8 and get a little bit of practice as it actually is snowing today with 100% rain forecast for this afternoon but I do enjoy that's sitting in front of these great big windows which were once a garage door and watch the rain come down and the various bar pieces go up yesterday these Brazilians made an absolutely lovely gate ohh literally of my piles of miscellaneous semi valuable supplies in the G tent ..
At least I know where the stove is---Michelle is using it as a countertop in her cabin Where it's been stored since I left the main house---another favorite relic is the doctor scale which sat in the yard for months getting rained on at sundown and everybody said was going to be a rusty wreck but a quick wipe with a dish towel and the thing functions beautifully. Another interesting object is the 24 inch by 24 inch piece of plywood on which I put many coup hooks That that now hold probably 100 ohh the second keys for the many vehicles that I have owned in the last 50 years I had intended to put the second key for my wonderful new scooter on that board= because it would take any one four days to figure out which key is which... which of course means I have forgotten a lot of them too but the concept is good and interesting.
interesting is another word for mental stimulation and living in one room I'm a little bit short on it/I hope I can begin to accumulate a friend who will walk me up and down the driveway and get me back in shape somehow
