http://www.lifesavor.com/dogs-category/first-time-dog-ownership musings, memories, & mischief from a passionate life-lover Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lifesavor.com/dogs-category/first-time-dog-ownership/comment-page-1#comment-7 Roz Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:33:34 +0000 http://www.lifesavor.com/?p=25#comment-7 Hi, Nora! Today Buddy Bear was a total gent, hardly barked at all. I was home all day, which undoubtedly contributed to his good behavior. However, he still likes to pyoingggggg! out the puppy door and sprint over to the neighbor's fence to stir up their big dogs. There is absolutely no doubt that he is the instigator, yapping up and down the fence until they start their bass-baritone responses. Times like that, I can call him and shake the pebble-filled tin can and holler COME HERE YOU LITTLE BASTARD! till I'm blue in the face, but he's in an altered state of pure hysterical bliss, like when he chases squirrels on the fence. Today I threw the can across the yard in his general direction, and you could almost see his little synapses saying OH! — and back inside he came. Then we settled down together to watch TV on the big red chair in the garden room. I watched, he dozed. Somehow I don't think the Dog Whisperer would approve of my methods. Hi, Nora! Today Buddy Bear was a total gent, hardly barked at all. I was home all day, which undoubtedly contributed to his good behavior. However, he still likes to pyoingggggg! out the puppy door and sprint over to the neighbor’s fence to stir up their big dogs. There is absolutely no doubt that he is the instigator, yapping up and down the fence until they start their bass-baritone responses.
Times like that, I can call him and shake the pebble-filled tin can and holler COME HERE YOU LITTLE BASTARD! till I’m blue in the face, but he’s in an altered state of pure hysterical bliss, like when he chases squirrels on the fence.
Today I threw the can across the yard in his general direction, and you could almost see his little synapses saying OH! — and back inside he came. Then we settled down together to watch TV on the big red chair in the garden room. I watched, he dozed.
Somehow I don’t think the Dog Whisperer would approve of my methods.

]]> http://www.lifesavor.com/dogs-category/first-time-dog-ownership/comment-page-1#comment-5 Nora Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:29:07 +0000 http://www.lifesavor.com/?p=25#comment-5 Roz, what a wonderful review of "Early-Buddy." He brings much joy to the Van Meter-Goodman household, yes? Cute is an understatement. Roz, what a wonderful review of “Early-Buddy.” He brings much joy to the Van Meter-Goodman household, yes? Cute is an understatement.

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