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Skriven 2008-02-21 01:47:52 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 2831 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Hi Ruth!

>> > I need to get back into it too. Most of the writing I do now is
>> here. > (G)

>> Understand :)  I try to organize my daytime, but you know, things
>> never go as planned it seems... at least often enough (g).

> I know the feeling, all too well.

Yep... I feel like "Emily Litella", the character that Gilda Radner played :)
do you remember Saturday Night Live? that's what she always said (in the skit
she was in).."It's always something" (g).  Gilda was such a great commedienne.

>> Ah you had a cocker? We had one for about 11 years.. poor guy was
>> raised in one of those pet-factories out West... gross.. we bought him
>> anyway because he was so beautiful and I felt so sorry for him.. he

> We adopted Sam in spring of 1994 when he was 4 1/2, from a family going
> to Scotland. They didn't want to put him into a 6 month quarentine.  He
> was AKC registered, very sweet, but dumb as dirt.  We had him until
> December of 2000, shortly before we left for HI.  We didn't want to have
> to put him into quarentine there; he'd developed some health problems
> and his age made it a risky propisition. In talking to our neighbors
> down the street (who had come from HI), it turned out that the husband
> wanted a cocker spaniel; the wife didn't want any dog.  After meeeting
> Sam tho, she said that "she didn't want Any dog, she wanted Sam".  So,

That is so neat :)  I'm glad for the dog ...

> he went there, to the delight of 3 little girls.  Now Deborah is telling
> us she has an opportunity to adopt another buff colored cocker named
> Sam.  Don't know if she will or not but she said that if she does, she
> will brush it's teeth and teach it to sing, 2 things she did with the
> first Sam.

hahahaha.. that is so funny.. I did the same with Chester :)  Sometimes most to
his dismay.. but that's why I named him Chester.. it was after "HowlinWolf",
the Blues singer, who's real name was Chester Burnett :) I taught Chester to
sing and howl just like Howlinwolf (bg) And he really didn't like getting his
teeth brushed, or even his coat brushed .. boy do I remember that :)

>> had a touch of distemper from being in that place as a pup, and I had
>> to give him dilantin every day so he didn't attack us :) He'd have
>> petit mal seizures, and wouldn't recognize anyone...

> That must have been hard.  Our cocker was raised with lots of love and
> it showed.  He adored little kids, having been raised with a child about
> his age.

Yes, it was.. it first happened soon after we bought him.. he'd been marked
down in the pet store in the Mall..I used to insist on going there because I
knew they bought all their dogs from those darn puppy mills out west.. I
couldn't stand the thought of those poor dogs growing up in those
places..Anyway, he wasn't "on sale", he was marked down because he was getting
older and no one had bought him yet (we thought).  Turned out he'd been bought
by someone and returned, but we didn't know that. We didn't find out, until his
papers "never arrived" for the akc registration.. I called the store and they
said, oh.. well, the dog was purchased by someone else first, and the papers
must have gone to them .. but after all we didn't care about the dog's papers..
we weren't going to breed dogs :)  Anyway, after that, it seemed every time Ron
would put on his dark blue robe with red trim, the dog would go ape.. and then
when the kids would come home from school, he start snarling.. after the second
time _that_ happened (that was enough (g)), I said to Ron, there's something
wrong with this dog :) :) I took him to the vet and the vet told me that he
obviously had a touch of distemper when he was a pup given the place he was
raised and he told me he'd had a dog just like chester with the same kind of
problem... and it was causing the epilepsy he had. So the poor guy had dilantin
for all of his life .. at least he had 11 good years though, that's the only
consolation I had... actuallly the best thing I ever heard was that pet store
was forced to close because of a law suit that someone had brought against them
:)

>> > did. Either one of them would pester us until we'd put down a
>> handful > for them--and then come back for more once that was gone.
>> haha.. sounds like our cat.. she loves popcorn too... the labs get it
>> first though :)

> You just have to put it down where the labs can't get it.

Umm.. you can try :) :)  There are few places a tall lab can get to, one darn
way of the other.. they really are my "comic relief" :)

>Sam would eat
> almost anything; it was funny to see him with something we'd think "no,
> he won't eat that".....and he did. Popcorn was his "vice"tho. (G)

haha.. I bet.. it's like my male lab, Toby.. he eats and loves bananas.. or any
human food he can reach :)  Priscilla, our female, is older, and she won't eat
them, but she will eat grapes when 'given' them ... :)  Then again, labs are
weird.. (these are Black Labs).. one of my friends told me that his lab once
ate the boxsprings out of his bed, and then neatly passed all those metal parts
out through his butt (g) (geez, ouch). Sounds scarey until you study the gut of
the Labrador Retriever.. they can digest just about anything but plastic wrap..
it can get entangled in their intestines.  And they will indeed make whatever
they want edible by licking it until it's a goopy mess. I saw it happen with
the first two we bought in Lousiville (Priscilla was one of them).. the two of
those girls liked the walls until the plaster board was edible, and did the
same thing with the the hardwood floors.. Cost us a fortune! Pricilla's sister,
Midnight (her full name was "Alexander's Midnight Companion") died when we were
still in KY.. she was hit by a car when we were away at my Dad's funeral. We
bought Toby about 6 months later.. what's really funny is in talking to
_another_ friend and he told me his male lab never ate walls and floors like
Priscilla and Midnight did, but his Male lab stole food right off the dinner
table if you didn't watch his every move... I laughed so hard.. because that is
Toby's MO (bg).

>> > Yes, and it gets cold there in winter. (G)

>> If it's like here it's finally warming up a bit though :)  I'll have
>> to go outside and see if I have any thing growing out there yet :)

> Probably not, unless you've got a greenhouse.

Heh.. in the spring in NY don't you remember those blue bell things working
their way up through the snow? :) Maybe that's more in March.. but with these
weird weather patterns we've had.. last year it happened in February.. this
year it's been pretty cold though..

>> > Yes, but we couldn't pull up the things we didn't like--oops, I
>> thought > that was a weed--(G) either.

>> Lol :) The kids are great when they come over in the summer.. they
>> love to do it so I'm happy :)

> It's still a novelty for them.

Sure.. I remember when my kids finally stopped just getting things for people
because they were "asked".. I think it was about when they were seven :) :)

>>> True, especially at some functions where people are expecting super
>>> sweet treats, etc..
>> > As they do most al of the time in the states, or at least the main
>> land.

Yep.. I sure do remember that at church functions :)

> In HI there was a variety of treats, not all of them on the
>> sweet side.

>> That's interesting.. when I think of "polynesian" flavors, I think
>> tropical, sweet.. probably all wrong there :)

> It's not the tooth itching sweets like on the main land.  Lots of fruit
> flavors, yes, but fruit sugar has a different taste than cane or beet
> sugar.

It sure does :)

Take care,
Janis

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