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Yeah, we had a horrible house fire five years ago and ever since Fable is terrified of thunder and lighting, sirens, the little beep the smoke detectors make when they're running low on batteries, when the tv goes to static and pretty much any other 'non-normal' loud or electrical sound ... poor baby ... We just give her extra love and let her up on the bed or couch and sit with us ...

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Well, we just had quite the exciting afternoon ... apparently a gentleman, being pursued by the police, crashed his car next door to my house and took off into the woods ... with several police cars (with sirens) and several (gorgeous!) police dogs running through my yard, in an effort to protect my children from this situation, my husky mix thought a good idea would be to cover my living room carpet with (ahem) diareah ... UGH!!!  I do suppose if the 'bad guy' had entered our home, he would have slipped and hurt himself quite badly!!!

All joking aside ... I love that my dogs 'probably' wouldn't ever hurt a soul, but they bark enough to make someone think twice about entering!!!

They did catch the bad guy, not sure what his crime was ... but now everyone's happily napping on the living room carpet ... did I mention I LOVE my Bissel ProHeat 2X!!!


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Helpful Groups & Dogs in Need / Re: Second Hope Rescue - Maryland
« on: June 20, 2008, 07:22:09 am »
Hi Lacey!

From 'another' Lacey ...

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Introduce Yourself to the Forum / Re: new to forum from Australia
« on: June 20, 2008, 07:20:26 am »
Welcome from around the world!

We have an Australian Shepherd mix puppy named "Ozzy"! 

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Thanks everyone ... I'm thinking I'll just go cheapo Walmart and see what happens ...

We'll keep Ozzy's crate open and let him go in and out as he pleases ... it's funny, we borrowed a crate from a neighbor and it's designed for large dogs (they had a full grown golden retriever who used it all of his adult life!) but Ozzy seems to like to stretch out as far as he possibly can ...

Minerva's crate is larger than Ozzy's!  Her's is the absolute largest one that PetCo sold ... we call it her Puppy Disney!  She's only 9 pounds, so it's basically an apartment, tee hee

One of our dogs (who's no longer with us, sniff sniff) used to sleep on the floor where his crate was YEARS after we got rid of the crate, it was the cutest thing ... He'd look at us like, "I remember feeling very safe right here once!"

Thanks again ...

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Okay, Ozzy is WAY to big to be crated at night anymore ... I'm thinking the next move is to contain him in our room at night (just one room!) ... does anyone have any recommendation s for good quality, puppy proof door gates?

Thanks!!!

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Helpful Groups & Dogs in Need / Two gorgeous boys ...
« on: June 13, 2008, 05:22:51 pm »
Okay, so before I got Ozzy I had inquired about these two beautiful boys (part newfy, part boarder collie) ... I was told they could NOT be adopted to Massachusetts residents ... well they're still available ... (I lovingly refer to them as "the brothers") ... but if anyone out there can get them ... well I'm just praying, that's all!

Jake and Jasper on Petfinder.com at Humane Society of Dover - Stewart County Dover, TN

Thanks for at least looking!!!  (How is it possible to fall in love with dogs you've never, ever met???)


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Anyone have room???

Reply to: comm-717086038@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-12, 7:52AM EDT


My job has gone from working from home 5 days/week to traveling 5 days/week and can no longer care for my Dane properly. He's a sweet boy and great around kids and other dogs. He's pure bred Harlequin with natural ears and recently up to date with all shots. Looking for a good home and loving family that can care for him. If interested, please call me - 781-264-8200 Steve. I can send pics on request.

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / baby teeth
« on: June 05, 2008, 06:01:36 pm »
I can't beleive that I have all four of Ozzy's baby 'shark' teeth ... I found two on the bed and while 'chewing' on my hand (gently of course) I was able to 'catch' two ... My (skin) kids think it's gross that I put them in my jewerly box next to their baby teeth ...

In all my experience of owning (or being owned by) dogs, I have NEVER found a dog tooth, it's so cool to have four!!!

What happens if you put these under the doggie pillow ... do they get liver treats???

Thanks for being the type of place where I can type this email and know that some of you 'get' my excitement!!!

Ozzy's getting so big, I can't beleive this!!!

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We got our Ozzy from a rescue in Connecticut, called New Day Rescue in Bloomfield, CT.  I just checked their site and there are lots of 'lab-mix' puppies (two adorable little girls, more vanilla than chocolate ...). 

I can't say enough about the shelter, the woman I met who had fostered Ozzy was wonderful, very loving but also VERY adamant that her 'charges' went to loving homes only (I had to do really convince her of our committment to our furkids, since I work full time).

The adoption fee is on the high end, I think we paid about $400, but Ozzy was fully vaccinated AND neutered ... and came somewhat training:  mostly housebroken, sit and very quiet ... since she lives in a rural neighborhood and fosters MANY dogs, she had taught them all NOT to bark when people approach the house ... we're RE-Training Ozzy that YES, you can bark to alert us to visitors, tee hee!!!

Best wishes ... always fun to bring home a new baby!!!

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Anything Non-Dog Related / Re: I got a new camera!!!
« on: May 29, 2008, 05:51:09 pm »
OOOOhhhh, you caught my interest, where are you that you can snap photo's of gliders from your home???

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Collars, crates, & other cool things / Re: Hlp with Toys!!!!
« on: May 28, 2008, 09:18:25 am »
We've always taught our dog's the "Not Yours" command ... the best part was, when our (human) boys were small, the dogs knew NOT to touch anything that was in the kid's toybox ... but if the dog found it lying around and we weren't there to catch them, chew city!  The boys quickly learned to put their toys away, tee hee! 

Ozzy's been great about this (but there aren't kid stuffed animals around anymore), and only occasionally runs off with his prize possesion, someone's stinky gym sock - BLEAH!


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Isn't it funny that so many of us 'BIG DOG LOVERS' have tiny dogs too ... although, SHHHHHH ... never let THEM know they're tiny dogs, HA!!!

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I apologige, New England ... made up my own abbreviation there ...

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