suzeanna
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Dobes! They look so elegant yet strong, and they have a wonderful nature, intelligent and bold without being aggressive. I'll never have another, sadly, but they are my favourite.
Saphyre (black) and Topaz...both sadly long gone, but never forgotten
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So sorry for your loss.
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Coryn...this is a terrible situation, and you must be feeling so awful. The only thought I can suggest you can cling to is this....YOU know the dogs will be pts...but THEY dont. Yes, dogs can anticipate something that happens regularly in their lives like their meals and their walks, but they cant look ahead to their own death in the way that we can, which is a good thing if you think about it. If that PBT girl has only until Tuesday, then if her life until then is made as marvellous for her as someone has time for, toys, games, treats and lots of fuss, and she is taken to the vet (or do they come?) with no tears, no rough handling, then it wont mean anything else to her than any other injection.With the best will in the world, you cant save them all and you'll end up having a breakdown if you try.
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My OH just got it playing for me.....well, Dyl is asleep so he didn't howl...but my OH did!
He did say if Mel makes an album, he'll pay her not to play it within a 1000 mile range of him! -
I couldn't open it, not having winzip...should I be sad, or grateful?
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erm...The Sound of Silence...or Silence is Golden?
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I think it has become much too commercialised, also that too many parents spoil their children, and give them far too many presents. The kids dont learn to appreciate what they have, they just assume that if they want it, they get it, and make a scene if its not exactly right. I would be surprised if many kids even realised that christmas day was supposed to celebrate anything other than father christmas (aka mum and dad) leaving them presents. Should add I suppose that I'm not a Christian myself....so really I suppose I shouldn't make any comment!
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A lot of dogs dislike being hugged...it makes them feel threatened having someone holding them like that, or it may hurt, if they are older dogs and have arthritis. Your little girl was very unlucky to be bitten at all but lucky not to be more badly hurt, but as the others have said, it comes down to you. You should teach your children from the time they are old enough to understand that they must always ask the owner before touching a strange dog, and that they should never either hug it or pat it forcefully on the head. She looks a lovely little girl, hope the experience hasn't scarred her for life, either phyically or mentally.
I wouldn't report the dog specifically, just mention that dogs were on the beach when they shouldn't have been. Personally I dont think the bans are to prevent people being bitten...more to stop dog poo on the beach that people might tread in and in the case of unwormed dogs, spread disease. edited to add: just saw your last post...the owner of the dog should have been keeping an eye on it, and if she had any notion it would be less than friendly, call it back. I probably would have assumed that an offlead dog which the owner saw approaching someone else would be friendly, but I still wouldn't have touched it, just said hello.
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I'm so sorry...sweet dreams, Sooty.
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I would if the surgeon could guarantee I'd look like I did ten years ago...and not as if I'd just been caught in a wind tunnel, which too many people seem to do. Only facial though...I would never risk lipsuction, and my boobs are ok...at the moment!
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When I couldn't walk for nearly six months, my OH did the shopping..the cleaning..the cooking...and did it all very well. Then he discovered Tesco home delivery
and the shopping got delivered. Now I'm better though, I cant remember the last time he cooked anything! -
My hobbie used to be housework, but it was interfering with my other hobbies too much so I sadly had to give it up
My other hobbies are reading, usually Patricia Cornwell, or TTouch books, or Maya Angelou stuff.
Looking for Avatars and Smilies on the net.
Singing, used to sing in a band, now just in the bath
Trying to clap at exactly the right moment in the FRIENDS theme tune. Never once done it yet!
I envy people who knit, sew, croquet, make cards, and especially people who can draw/paint. Im not creative at all.
You aren't? you could write...you DO write! just try writing for magazines instead of for the Fugees
I used to do pottery..but cant any more.
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i'm not special at all i'm just ordinary
same here! maybe that makes us special??
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I've been reading this thread with sadness for all of you who have suffered..or are still..at the hands of your OH...but there is another type of *abuse* which can stay with you all your life, and that is from your parents. My dad died when I was six from tuberculosis...my mother then moved to sussex from our home in yorkshire with her best friend. (Very best friend as I realised when I was older!). She wasnt well when we moved and it was soon found she had tb too, she was in a sanitorium for over two years and nearly died. I was sent back up North to stay with her much older sister, who had an open dislike of children, lord knows why she said she'd take me. Every time the news from the hospital was bad, she told me when my mother died I would be put in an orphanage, she certainly wasn't keeping me. Against all odds mother recovered, so back I went to sussex. Passed my 11 plus, into a school where I knew no one but everyone else seemed to know each other, and they told me I was a foreigner because I didn't talk like them! I did ok at school..but if I got a B it should have been an A..when I got an A, it should have been a A plus. I had to ask for everything in the house...may I read a book? may I have an apple? never allowed friends home...never allowed to have anything much of my own. I did get a puppy...I called her Jemima Puddleduck....came home one day and she had been given away, she never did tell me why. Mother told me that she always wanted three children, but if she'd just had one she wanted a boy. Made me feel really good that! and I was never told I looked pretty, or was clever...just criticised all the time. She's been dead since 1984 and I'm now ...erm....ancient!
but I still think back and cry sometimes. I never have had good self esteem and despite now having a younger husband who thinks the world of me, I still dont and doubt I ever will. Those of you with friends and caring parents..be very very grateful for your blessings! -
Welcome home Vena...so glad that you found her Laura, after your previous disappointment.
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Trying my best for Blackberry and everyone else....
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What a beautiful poem...it sums things up very well. Sleep well Monkey!
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Have you had this on the main chat board? not everyone looks at the lost/found...and if people live in the area and are out with the dogs they can look out for her? I hope you find her soon, its so cold at the moment
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I've put him onto Terrier Talk...fingers crossed that all the extra publicity will bring a result.
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Has anyone cross posted this to Terrier Talk? they have a lost dog forum...it might help. I'm so sorry he still hasn't been found.
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Was she ever found?
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Is the v the only method of identification, or is she also microchipped? only putting a v in the ear is a common way for a breeder to identify a pup which has been picked out of a litter as sold, to be collected later, they did it with a dobe I had many years ago. I know its easy when chatting to a beggar to fondle his dog, I do it all the time, but if you suddenly grab it up saying *this is stolen!* and it turns out not to be...you could be in trouble, not to mention probably getting a smack in the mouth from the beggar for trying to nick his dog.
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Only just read this........excellent article, and very true. I wrote an email to someone.....some while ago now........which she read and took totally wrongly, and despite my attempts to explain this still wouldn't have it that I didn't mean it the way she read it, which means we have had no contact since.
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Kelly.....my bouncy happy loving girl
Your ashes came home yesterday, in a box
with a card with sympathy..and dried flowers in a bouquet.
You sit on a shelf with Saphyre, Topaz and Jazz for company
Little boxes, silent reminders of the vibrant, silly loving dogs you all were.
We will never forget any of you.
Sleep well, my friends, till we meet again.
Does Anyone Know About Boston Terriers
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I remember fondly a boston terrier a friend of my mother owned. She and her husband ran a small boarding kennels, and specialised in taking inseason bitches in for the duration. One memorable day Dirty Bertie, the boston, scaled the wire and managed to mate three in season pekes before he was spotted! he was a lovely dog, but he lived up to his name.