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hahaha great photos.  Marit, at least you cannot use the excuse, sorry, just having a senior moment, I can.

Peggy

haha, did you bid on the magnet?  I one really funny magnet I have seen (not about dogs) said in very flowery print:  11th commandment


 "Thou shall not weigh more than Thy refrigerator"

Not sure about the eyes.  Are those Ridgeback eyes?  Doya think? I know Ridgebacks are extremely intelligent.  I hope to have a meeting first even though it is a long drive.  Thanks for your input.

Peggy

This is Canuck.  She got that name because of the white marking on her chest that looks like a maple leaf, thus the Canadian name.  She is Rhodesian Ridgeback/Lab mix and is in foster. I found her in Petfinders.  I have been talking to the foster daddy and he says she is a great 18 month old that is very loving.  The only problem she has is that she is timid with strangers.  I am not sure yet, I don't mean to sound picky but this is a lifetime committment so it is a big deal.  Still working on it.

Peggy

Grumpy, you are in San Diego and that is about an eight hour drive from Merced.  I am in Fresno and several members are in the LA area so if we need to, we can do a relay up the state.  Just remember California is so long if we were on the East Coast we would drive through as many as five states to cover the distance.  Just a thought, set up a relay.

 I have never fostered but would like to, however, we will be going into our vacation period.  Maybe after October when I will be home the rest of the year, I could.  How does it work.  Do they sometimes give you a dog and then forget about you or do they still try to place them?  I would like to know and then would consider taking a dog and training him to be more adoptable.  Just a thought, can someone give me a clue on how it works.

Peggy

haha we do not have any people farts in our home, they are just blamed on the sleeping dog.

I was watching Niki sleep the other day and I have noticed this many times in the past, it is so much fun to watch.  Her eyes are closed.  Her feet start moving slowly, then faster than furiously.  Then she whelps lightly and then her mouth starts moving.  HaHa she must have been chasing a rabbit and then caught it.  So much fun to watch and try to figure out what her doggie brain is doing.  Wonder if I do that in my sleep - I can remember some pretty bad dreams but they did not have a rabbit it them.  Anybody else observe the same thing?

Peggy

I was on a trip once and met a vet who told me that he had a milk cow that produced such a volume of milk that she was said to be the highest producer of milk on record.  A university got her and when she died, they cloned her.  She was brown and white and I asked him if her clone had the same identical markings.  He said NO.  Now that seems strange to me because I thought everything physical would be identical to the "host" animal.  Funny too because he said that her clone was not a very good milk producer.

  I guess I am really against it but I really don't know enough about it to make an intelligent decision.  If I really understood stem cell research, maybe I would change my mind.

Peggy