iluvlucy

my granddaughter's dog is haviing puppies. they are one half aussie. the sire is full blood. the bitch is a mix of two kinds but i don't remember what two. i don't know when the pups are due, but if anyone is interested let me know and i will try to get info for you.

tears come to my eyes when i read these stories- not for the rescued one but for all the ones who go unrescued and to a undeserved death

i know this is entirely different, but 3 years ago i gave my oh a puppy for Christmas. was not a problem because he had been asking for a dog for about 6 mos. our other dog had been put down and he felt like he wanted another dog. he was so surprised it was funny to see. lucy weighed only 7/10ths of a pound and i had fed her good and put her in a gift bag. in that case she was well accepted as agift. he immediately began to take her everywhere he went. now i have a ? although she is supposed to be his dog, she seems to prefer me to him. does anyone else have this in their case?

i know this is entirely different, but 3 years ago i gave my oh a puppy for Christmas. was not a problem because he had been asking for a dog for about 6 mos. our other dog had been put down and he felt like he wanted another dog. he was so surprised it was funny to see. lucy weighed only 7/10ths of a pound and i had fed her good and put her in a gift bag. in that case she was well accepted as agift. he immediately began to take her everywhere he went. now i have a ? although she is supposed to be his dog, she seems to prefer me to him. does anyone else have this in their case?

oh well better to be driven there by dogs than by the doctors. i told one of the nurses yesterday that one of my drs (i have 5) needs to recommend a head shrinker for me because the drs are driving me crazy. if one says black, the other says white, so which one do u listen to?

before my oldest started school, he had a coloring book with the names of the colors to clor the picture printed in. he couldn.t read the colors so i printed the names on the back cover of the book and put the color in crayon beside it. he was able then to follow the colors in the book. maybe this could be used to teach the dogs the names of colors.

PATTY had to laugh. one of my nicknames for lucy lou is fuzz butt

thanks everyone!!!!!!!!!!! i luv it. they all know words that i;m sure we never even thought about. i found it very interesting to see all the different words an phrases. i also tslk to my 2 in sentences.

[!" OTOH, today I got to hold a baby skunk! Some local breeders brought their baby to the reptile show I had a booth at today, and the wee thing was SO sweet and snuggly. (Scent glands had been removed, of course.) i thought a law had been passed rohibiting the removal of scent glands

i began thinking the other day about how many words a dog can recognize. i thought it may be a fun topic to see the different words our dogs know and understand. ifeel sorry for the folks who have no idea that dogs canbe taught to know different words. just off the top of my head here are a few my dogs know: naps bedtime dinner breakfast daddy is home uncle dean is here ice cream cheese i'm sure there are more, but that's just the ones that come to mind.

glad to see that i'm not the only one woth poor sleeping position

Lady as some of u may remember was a stray which i adopted. she has a peculiar behavior which i don't understand. i'm sure most of you have seen the commercial on animal planet where the doorbell rings and the cat answers the door to the bloodhound and they go looking for the cat's litterbox. well when the doorbell rings Lady goes tearing out of the house. its the doorbell that triggers this reaction. does anyone else see this behavior in their dogs. or can anyone tell me why she may be reacting this way?

my question---------------------how can anyone not love a dog???????????

Yup. that looks just like lucy's belly. i had never seen a belly with that much hair before. was just curious if anyone else had hairy bellied dogs. brr that icicle sounds really cold. hope yoou defrosted it for the poor little man soon!!! LOL

Lucy Lou has hair completely covering her belly. I have never seen this in a dog before. Does your dog have hair on his/her belly. If my camera wasn't broke I would take pictures to show you.

WELL,I had to start sleeping with mine out of self defense as they woould find something to get into and tear up ater we went to bed. Now they are always in bed with us all night. Lucy cuddles up next to me and Lady normally goes to the foot of the bed. I'm glad to see that other folks don't find it strange or deplorable that you sleep with the dogs.

i'm in favor of the ghosts.

Bustopher i'm glad to hear that u will go with her all the way. nothing irritates me as much as someone who abandons their dog to the vet to be euthanized. ii feel its the last thing we can do for them.

my daughter and i both have bc's and here is a strange behavior we have seen. we have other dogs as well. the bcs will hang back until the other dogs finish eating then they go eat. lucy eats as though her mouth doesn't work exactly right . she's slow eating. seems that to her there are more fun things to do.

hey aussie red SEND A PICTURE OF THE ROO

i'm with dixie girl. the ghost did it

here in la we have casinoes. my dh loves to go play the slot machines. the problem is it takes 2 hours to get to a casino. tomorrow he wants to go. i will have to put lucy lou in her crate and shut lady outside when we go. if i don't do that they will destroy my house. this means they will have to be shut up and out for at least 6 hours or maybe more. i feel so bad when i do this. lucy can't be left outside because she is an escape artist. lady can't be left inside because she is a demolition expert. is there any alternative anyone can think of?

funny-------my gal thinks she.s a guy and tries to ride lady who is about 4 inches taller. it's comical to watch her try to jump up on lady's back cause then she has no traction. LOL

aaaah if only they could talk!!! but maybe we really wouln't want to hear.

i guess everyone on this board loves their animals. i hurt lady's feelings last nite and i felt so bad about it that i just had to love her and hug on her. i hope she has forgiven me.