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I just received a call from my father that someone 'found his border collie' I thought that my dog got loose (though how they had his info, I don't know.) But found my dog safe at home. Apparently the tag on the collie is hard to read, and they thought it had his address. Does anyone perhaps know this dog? If anyone knows the owner of this dog, please have them call Placer Animal Control, and ask about the BC found near Vista Creek.

I was thinking about some kind of ear tattoo for them. Like the CCI dogs. The dogs are always together.

So our BC (Rezso) and ASD (Daisy) were roughousing in the house, and I was in the garage. I heard my wife (through 2 closed doors, all the way across the house) making panicked shouts. So I ran out of the garage and into the back room. The dogs looked locked together, and my wife had them pinned so they wouldn't move. Rezso had his lower jaw stuck under Daisy's collar, and it was extremely tight. She was making gasping noises. Couldn't cut the collar off, it was too tight - And the quick release clasp felt jammed. Fortunately, I got it off by pushing the ends together while squeezing the connector. Thank God they did this while we were HOME and PRESENT. Aside from Daisy defecating in terror, no harm was done. Once free, she went back to not having a care in the world. Now of course, the dogs have ID chips in them, but my concern is that someone won't pay attention to that if they ever get loose. Rezso has demonstrated that his dog run is no match for him, and that he knows how the back swinging gate works. (Its currently nailed shut, though. ) Is there any alternative? Anything I can think of (bracelet/whatever) would just get chewed off in a heartbeat...

AVG is the best antivirus I've ever ran across. I have zero experience with Avast, but I know its popular and has a good reputation. Norton and Mcaffee are horrid, and do more harm than good MHO. (Speaking from vast experience.)

So, wife and I get home from a movie. Rezzie is in the front room, tail wagging. "Look dad! I got out! Aren't you proud of me!?" Rezzie finally ate his way out of his "tent" kennel. He made a visit to the office, with a camera on a tripod in the middle of the floor, my new Canon 30D on my desk with a tasty looking neck strap dangling down, and a very tempting Canon 300D on the floor. Not to mention a delicious guitar, amongst other things. And what did he do? Unpacked the stuffed animals, "decorated" the room with garbage, Found a speaker at the bottom of a for-goodwill box and placed it in the middle of the living room. (somehow not disturbing the rest of the contents) Rearranged my wife's shoes around the house. But he destroyed or damaged nothing (Aside from the $100 tent kennel) He just moved things all around the house. Weird dog...

The worst thing my Rezso does is eat cardboard and hump the australian shepherd, but she doesn't seem to mind. I'm pretty happy with him.

He doesn't.

All I will say is: They aren't working at PetCO to pay off their student loan to Yale.

That story gets me every time. But I doubt the majority of sheeple would watch a movie based on it.

I tried many unsuccessful ways, too. My mother-in-law can make him do it *every time* her method, is to: offer hand, say shake, lift dog's collar. Dog's paw comes off the ground, she takes it and says "good shake!" He *used* to do it for me, but recently stopped again.

Many people are as impressionable as clay, and about as smart. Finding Nemo influenced a lot of silly people with poor judgement to kill a LOT of saltwater fish, because everyone wanted a Nemo and a Dorie (doris?) and had no idea the knowledge, skill, and patience it takes to start a saltwater tank. But on the other hand, What breed do you suggest that hollywood uses? I would expect to see Huskies in a sledding movie, and I'd expect to see a BC in a movie on a farm. 8 Below wouldn't have worked with, say, Chihuahuas. But if it did - they should fund Chihuahua rescues? What about BAD PRESS? In a lot of movies, the villain dogs are German Shepherds and Dobermans. Nothing wrong with either of those breeds - In fact, I think Dobermans are sweetie-pups. Should they also run a campaign to say "Hey, sure, a Doberman was the bad guy, but these are really great dogs?" Unfortunately, as long as people are influenced by fictional work to make real life decisions - people will make bad decisions. At the same time, can we really expect them to be responsible for it? Is it disney's fault that a bunch of impressionable sheeple went out and bought Huskies, Malamutes, Etc? Why stop at dogs? In a movie promoting children/families, should Disney offer support for people having children before they are ready, because they want what is in the movie? Though Disney is huge, and has seemingly bottomless pockets, I have a hard time blaming them for people's impressionable stupidity. *edit Meg's mom: That's an excellent idea. Make the movie heartwarming, and appealing to kids, combine shelter experience from professionals... People might learn something, as long as its entertaining Animal planet has a lot of good shows, but its people like us that watch them. *further edit Something familiar... Movie starts in a home, a new BC puppy. Kids love the puppy. Parents love the puppy. Puppy pees on the carpet, puppy chews everything, people start getting annoyed with puppy after a "year elapsed time" puppy has far too much energy, gets very little attention... Kids are sad, adults are uncaring - Puppy goes to a shelter. It's a rough while for puppy. Other puppies are abandoned "too much energy" etc. They think the dog is aggressive because it jumps and nips for attention (True story with my aus. shepherd, she is a friggin sweetie, her previous owners were just clueless.) Dog gets close to being destroyed... Some people try to adopt it, but the KNOWLEDGEABLE staff sees they have small children, advises against it - etc... finally, someone adopts the puppy ,gives it plenty to do, and has a lot of hard work ahead of him... Dog grows up to be a champion frisbee dog, or something.

yeah it looks amazing! But come to fnid out, its about 12/sq foot. So... it would cost me about $1500 in materials to do my dog run. Heck that's almost as much as I payed to carpet my entire house.

What about the rice stuff they use under pools?

Looks like you can spend as much money as you want to, I've found it from 1/ft^2 to 10+/ft^2 $$ right now they just tear the ground up and wallow in mud like piggies all day.

Im thinking about lining hte bottom of my dog run with astroturf. Will this be ok?