OT (as usual) Dogs are OK

More Maxi. She trashed my mobile phone. Honest to God.

(wish I could write as well as Don Foreman - )

Was standing in the laundry, trying to remember WHY I was in the laundry (yeh, OK, seniors moment) when Maxi the Dog....well, slithered past on her way to the door. OK, here your a dog person or not - you know when the dog is trying to be devious, shifty. You just know, racial memory as Jung would say. And did. (gratuitous idiot irrelevant Lefty comment here ) So, you say Loudly, with meaning

WTF are you up to........ She looks back, sprung. She has my mobile phone in her mouth. She sighs, drops it, goes out the door with all the dignity she can muster. She had dropped it in her water bowl. This dog is either a total devious bastard, or a Total Klutz.

I am going with hope towards the latter theory - I mean, it was an act so breathtaking, you had to applaud it. Didn't pay out on her, it was she being a Dog. Went and got a new mobile phone - no idea how the bloody thing works, can just about dial a number so far...

Andrew VK3BFA

Try one or two teaspoons of molasses in her food once a day. Worked for us.

The younger of our two poodles has that problem -- putting yogurt in his food helped immensely, except after a while he stopped eating it. You can get powdered pro-biotic stuff in little capsules, which really isn't that much more per dose than yogurt. Just get the stuff that's mostly probiotics, and not mostly sand or sawdust.

Before yogurt, I was thinking maybe I could get an ARPA grant to study how the army could use him for crowd control: "stand back! I have a flatulent poodle and I know how to use him!".

Andrew, you'd bloody well BETTER hope your "wide" doesn't read that.

To create gas? Sugar plus carbs (dog meal) = instant farts (usually)

-- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes

I saw that too, it could start a world-wide nickname trend!

Will it work for me too? How long before I go to church do I have to consume?

SWMBO is much, much safer, methinks.

(She Who Must Be Obeyed)

It varies, but with me, it works within a couple hours and lasts for hours. Go for it!

-- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes

Look for something with a substantial protien count otherwise they fart a lot and eat ( and subsequently s*it ) a ton of it...

--IOW look for something with meat instead of grain fillers in the first and /or second ingredient line.

I've read that training dogs is almost trivial - they _long_ to please their master (or mistress, depending.)

The problem is training the owners.

You seem to be OK in that respect - just tell your "wide" ;-) not to feed the dog leftover corned beef and cabbage, or leftover chili. ;-)

Is giving a dog a spoonful of peanut butter animal cruelty? ;-D

Cheers! Rich

I had a can of Hormel Chili for late dinner last night (about 8 PM) and was farting REAL GOOD by 6 AM. ;-)

For church, I'd suggest a midnight snack. >:->

Cheers! Rich

ROFL! I swear, this is the closest I've come to actually falling off my chair! (good thing I wasn't having coffee - I'd have had to send you the bill for the keyboard. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

If you'd like to try it but don't have any molasses, we have lots of moles.

--Doggies rock; my wife rescues Cockers and has found new homes for several dozen. Great to have a watch beast, even a small one, out in the boonies where we are... ;-)