mcburniefarm

Sea4th THANK YOU!! posted in another post: "These people have been around for a while. Good place for some information gathering in preparation for a battle with the powers that be --- who, BTW, are not the "Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz" behind the curtains. http://www.adoa.org/ If I can think of anything else, I'll let you know. I'm at work right now and have to go." Super link, thanks!! I'm still chewing on this. I would love any links to the trainer forum rants about the obedience training mandate! Cut and paste any good statements and email to me at mcburniefarm@msn.com.

Lat night we had a small thunderstorm, Pirate was very brave. But afterwards he was positive that there were grizzly bears or sabertooth squirrels out in front of the barn. Real, "there is a killer out there mom, I HAVE to go out" . So I open the door and he flies out, jumps the fence in the kiddie yard, and roars over to kill his intended victim. Got close, realized it might fight back and had to crouch up with a quick scoot back.....2 Tricycles parked where they shouldn't be. I closed the door so he would not be insulted while I laughed at him.

Yeah, gotta love that nyc and rochester are let off......as usual...............wtf. You're right Deb. Today is crammed for me, sick kiddo and doctor visits.....but I think we seriously should contact our members and let them know we think this is absurd and inappropriately penalizing......I can begin to draft a letter and I'll ask for nice snippets of argument.....and find me anyone else out there in NY ? Till then lets at least email them. I am an advocate in DC for my son's disability, with the national group, so i know the drill....and yes emails get read when they are PERSONAL AND FROM A CONSTITUENT. The bulk emails from national groups become a number count of yea vs nay. The only higher contact is a personal visit. If you can make an appointment with your local office and make a personal persentation with factoids and a personal story.....home run you get noticed and heard. Go here to research and go to the members link to get the email addresses: http://assembly.state.ny.us/ More later/tomorrow. Likely I'm doing chest xrays for my kids pnuemonia today so even if i'm hit & miss for the newxt few days I will be stewing on this. It just pisses me off. f^&&%ing NY. hate this state, love the seasons. Sue

I would be interested in formatting a letter to our Assembly and would truly like some intelligent input and suggestions to ammend the proposed bill or have it struck from the NYSA Agenda for 2009-2010. I do feel this effects BC owners, as we would tend to be the legal dog owners looking for licenses.....we already have dog bite laws and insurance penalties, and this law appears to have no exemptions for those responsible owners with trained dogs, dog trainers with dogs, etc etc... This is a flavor of the week legislation. We need to enforce, fund, and strengthen the existing laws regarding animal control, abuse, illegal fighting, puppymills, and other transgressions....not mandate further unfunded restrictions against responsible citizens. This is a step towards labeling dogs as weapons is it not? The criminal and irresponsible owners will not be affected by this law, only us. If there is a faction of the BC culture that would be willing to draft / help draft a presentable letter, I would bring it to Albany.... Or can anyone direct me to a preexisiting rebuttal group that is taking this on already?? Susan in NY mcburniefarm@msn.com

Ya know DR, I bet I'd love to read what you would write, .....let em have it............

If anyone wants to write a well presented argument I would LOVE to copy it and make it a letter I will send out ot my Assembly members. I don't know if I have the background in dog training lingo and vocabulary to sound strong enough. Likely my pissy attitude would shine through................Sue

OMG, what BS to add to a bankrupt state budget. We need an Exemption form wheras the Owner and Dog may receive a waiver of obedience training requirement by demonstrating the basic requirements. WTF. I am SOOOOOO out of NY in a few years. Where is that headbanging thingy?? doesn't cut it. Sue in Saratoga County, NY

That really sounds like a great analysis...I read cat poo is less digested and high protein and that is why dog eat it. "light bulb goes on" of course! Thanks for the input! I'll pass it on! Sue

Mentioned in a diff thread, I have a mine field by our junky truck...we pick it up every few days or weekends and toss it into the horse manure pile. All 3 dogs that visit the stable go there. I agree picking is natsy, but if they gravitate to one area ... eases the search A fine tong plastic pitchfork works good on any poo. I'd be curious to learn about the additives....we have a poo eater that comes here....his owner would love to know!

Just random wonderings on the poo questions... We noticed that when Pirate (now 9 months old) was training, he gravitated to my gardens...where the taller weeds, um flower stalks, brushed his tummy. This seemed to always either trigger his impulse to pee & poo, or the weedy place was less like his yard. He's very fastidious, no poo or pee in the middle, only on the edges of the fenceline, or down in the gully brushy areas still now. So leads me to wonder if having a nice yard and not a brushy good poo place might be going against their clean instincts? Pirate also needs a good run for a minute or two before he settles down to "business" and we always tell him he's a good boy for "going pee" or "going poop" or "going potty", just like we did the kids I think he knows the words now for sure. I can send him out to "go potty" right before bed time and he's off running and back in a few minutes for "bedtime". I've got a mine field by the old junk truck...I think every dog that comes to the stable goes there.....is there some territorial thing about common poop areas even among happy playmate dogs?? He hasn't had any real mistakes or accidents in a few months now, no food after our dinner time but water is available. He'll whine at 630 am and we jump up with a "good boy! let's go out and go potty!" Once in a great while we wake to a surprise, when WE gave him scraps or forgot the bedtime outing, not his fault except that he didn't TELL ME, but HE is mortified, I can barely manage to even scowl at him he looks so pathetic.... FWIW his mistakes always happen on or around my 6yo daughters stuffed toys....anyone care to psychoanalyze that one? UTI? No I don't think vets check for that unless you specify it. If it's a possibility don't wait, take him in now and get a sample checked. If you've ever had one, you know, they burn like hell and those are some tender, ahem, parts...

Would it work to seperate the bowls further apart and plant yourself between them? You own the floor in the nuetral territory and tresspassers beware. Sit stay after your scraps are finished and then both bowls disappear? Mookie was first dog and Jin is the interloper? Underlying jelousy? Is Mookie getting his fair share of confidence and reassurance of his place? There may be still some issues of who owns YOU? The toy thing, not in my experience. Is it one or two particular toys? Type? Will they play tug with a longer rope or stick together? So far Pirate shares and asks for playmates, dropping them at his playmate's feet ...then it's off to the races and slobber necks. Yech.

Check out this site : http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/cat1;...es_storage.html I have a 24x24x14 high hoop style for the tractor and hot rod from Freds Sheds. It sheds the snow really well, freezing rain plus snow crusty storms are sticky though, so we pop the tarp and break it so it slides. Make sure you get the "snow load" strength supports, not the cheap ones, if you get a tons. We get 8-12 inches per storm usually and that's no problem. It wads up on the edges and holds the top taut so there's little slack to trap snow and rain. I think the hoops shed better than the angled ones. In the summer roll the sides up for air flow.

Don't take it personally, some people need to lash out and you may have been the closest victim. I was verbally attacked once with my baby in the car when I parked in front of her house. I had missed my son's kindergarten bus and chased it to the next stop. Man she went flippin nuts on me, screaming I can't park there (it's a gravel road) and she's going to call the cops, I better move my car right now you get your car out of here...on and on screaming relentlessly at me...my kids were terrified. The kid's mom from the bus stop called my house, turns out the lady is a certified nut case and terrorizes the neighborhood. She doesn't even understand her ravings. So don't take it to heart, I'm sure you didn't deserve it. (Maybe reverse route and walk on the opposite side of the street, then everyday fling the poo over to her yard from a hiding spot ...if she's gonna gripe at least let it be far a reason)

Just a farm girl addition: Hay/straw bales have excellent insulating properties and are pretty cheap. You can create a nice cozy hay hut, or even a wall just to block wind. We line the house foundation with them in the winters, upstate NY 20 to -25 winters, but I'm a westward farm and get the howling wind, so we added a few bales for perches and a wind brake for Pirate this past winter. He loved them. He was 16 weeks in December and had a waterproof roomy coat just to keep him warm while I did night chores in the barn with the cold concrete floors. And it was reflective so I could spot him. So not so much for him but it made me feel better. Make sure a coat has ample room to allow for his own body heat to circulate and fluff his fur. A tight fit won't allow for that and will compress his fur preventing the insulation..

My mom grew up in a breeding AKC Rough Collie world (Floravale, Dahl)..they used a lead paste rubbed onto the tip of the puppy ear to ensure a proper AKC regulation fold. There was a similar thread weeks back about this. I thought at the time, that if you have a superior bloodline, viable genetics and temperment...was it so wrong to fake an ear tip the please a judge, when your dog actually is the best quality...but not the picture of their ACK need? This seems to my memory to be the justification my grandpa had, that his dogs were the best and others bred on problems, I remember colllie headed eyesight and hip dysplasia being mom's peeves even back in the 70s. So trying to improve the breed while conforming to standard....