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We May Be Getting A Couple Dogs This Morning

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  1. Marie Mallery

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    Spaghetti is on the front porch knocking on the door, I told Jake, to tell her nobody's home!
    Jake said she don't know that when she comes in she is going to get a bath, fixing to get from bad for worse, for both of them.:rolleyes:
     
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    @John Brunner , Jake is adding pictures in a few minutes, so you can see what she looks like.

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    Those are freckles on her nose, camera is old so not clear.

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    Jake put the fence back up so we can let her out when we're on the porch, of course later today it will stay open, and she can go into the yard whenever she wants to thru doggie door on other side of porch.
    Spaghetti is 2 1/2 yrs old.
     
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    Jake and Spaghetti are getting a shower. Not that jake wanted one.

    She is a happy very high energy dog that is slowly learning not to jump on us, she is the strongest dog I've ever had. So very important to teach her no jumping on you.
    She also knows how to open doors, we had her drying off in bathroom, she came out to say hello and jumped in Jakes chair.:rolleyes:
    @Beth Gallagher, yes Beth just what you need to make life 'interesting', not!
     
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    I think you have to wait a while after neuter before putting them together. Ask your vet about stray wigglers.
     
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    Jake appt is 8am Tuesday, leaves same day after 4pm. Maise will come back when they have next appointment for her surgery later, but she can come home long is Leo is fixed Tuesday.
    Leo will be 4 in February will be reoperating from surgery for a while, have to keep him separate from 3 females for a while.
     
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    Correction, Jake isn't getting fixed, it is Leo's appointment at 8am.:confused:
     
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    Haha. A Freudian Slip, Marie!! :D:D
     
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    Yes, and those are happening more often, anyway I'm already fixed in more ways than one so no worry there, 'that dog don't hunt',
     
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    We have a doggie door on screen porch. Its just screen opens big enough for them to come in and out.
    Getty saw Foxy and Leo flying thru it so she sped to that side of porch and went straight thru another section, so now we have two doggie doors on porch.:rolleyes:[​IMG]
     
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    Leo wishful thinking, Tuesday that will end.Getty is spayed already.

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    We went for Marie's walk with Leo, Foxy, and Getty; right before the walk was over, Getty who I was walking with Foxy, flipped right out of her harness like Houdini, and took off for about twenty five yards and stopped looking at me. I told Marie here; hold Foxy; she said just wait she'll come back, I told her no she won't, she ran off twice from her last owner. About then, she took off flying away from us, I got on the golf cart, and went after her, but couldn't find her. I came back around the trail to where she had left, and told Marie, I can't find her; she said I know she's sitting up here on the porch. :rolleyes:
     
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    Leo telling Foxy, Tuesday morning. :)
     
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    Some dogs are just strange that way about running off. Way back when, we had a little terrier that I got from a lady and she said they found her running down the middle of the highway. She also lived along the highway, and she had this little dog tied on a heavy chain (like a logging chain, that you would use for a giant dog, not a tiny terrier), and she had puppies trying to nurse and could not get away from the puppies.
    So, I asked to buy her. Paid too much, but she was rescued.

    Anyway, every time a door opened at our house, that dog dashed out like the house was on fire and ran off down the drive way. Eventually, she came back up, which was good, because there were lots of coyotes in north Idaho and would have killed her. Even in the dead of winter, 20 below zero, and she didn’t need out, she would dash out the door when it opened, and then want back in.

    After we got the restaurant, which was on a busy highway, I had to stop her from doing that or she would have run onto the highway and got run over. So, I stood by the door, slowly opening it, and as she stuck her head through the opening, I closed the door tight enough that she was trapped. She would try to keep getting out, and then she would try to go backwards and get back in, and I made her stay there until she had her whole body desperately trying to go backwards, and then I loosened it enough for her to fall back inside.
    After doing this a bunch of times, she finally stopped dashing out, but I still had to be careful with her because if she got loose, she ran off.
     
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