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Skriven 2014-11-30 21:07:00 av Ophelia
Ärende: Re: Turkey Lurky
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<spamtrap1888@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:20a3f733-6156-48df-a6fe-60ac8ebccff5@googlegroups.com...
> On Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:58:47 AM UTC-8, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Janet Wilder" <notreal@notreal.com> wrote in message
>> news:547a60dc$0$22335$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com...
>>
>> > My friend watched Mickey for me in October when I went to New Jersey.
>> > Her
>> > best buddy was so taken with Mickey Charles that he went to the shelter
>> > and got him a dog.  Now she is considering a rescue dog who appears to
>> > be
>> > mostly Poodle, but from the photo she showed me, it looks like a mini
>> > which could be upwards of 20 lbs.  She wants a tiny one she can pick up
>> > like Mickey, who weighed in today at the Vet at a 'hefty' 7.5 pounds.
>> >
>> > She is blaming their wanting their own dog on Mickey's charm.  He is
>> > such
>> > a little sweetie. Becca and George will vouch for him.
>> >
>> > I will go with her to meet the dog later in December.  It's at a rescue
>> > place.
>>
>> I take rescue dogs and they can be ... errr different <g> My latest one,
>> Bonnie, hates postmen, motor bikes and cats in that order.  I have
>> trained
>> her out of trying to kill all postmen on sight and motor bikes ...
>> mostly,
>> but I still have work to do with cats!  Yet with us and children, she is
>> a
>> real sweetie:)
>
> Antipathy to postmen is quite logical. To the canine mind they are not
> to be trusted. They come up to the door every day but unlike other
> visitors, no family member ever lets them in.


Yes!  You are quite right - a postman told me pretty much the same - but she
has learned now!  She is never comfortable when she sees one but I just say
her name and she puts her head down and walks on.

Dogs rely on the judgment
> of their owners in this matter. Cats also are trespassers, and motorbikes
> with their popping noises are an abomination unto the lord
> ever invites the

I can only guess the end of that sentence <g> but you are right:) She will
still shout at a motor bike far off, but not one nearby:)  Cats!  They sit
on high walls and look down at her and calmly wash themselves<g>  She goes
bananas but she can never reach them:))


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