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I was waiting in the car outside the dentist for my OH at lunch time and some guy walking by flashed me! I reported him and two squad cars arrived at speed and picked him up. Rather dishy cop came to the house to take my statement later. I can understand him needing my name address and age, but why the heck did he need my height?? I told him he could forget asking for the weight, it was a state secret! Found out why they were so quick, he'd done it about twenty minutes earlier to another woman, and they were in the area looking for him.

I was chatting to a friend the other day, and she said her bitches had never suffered incontinence, but two of them have developed cancer of the spleen and had to have splenectomies. The vet said it was because they were spayed too young...anyone else had this?

Oh poor you! Tell you what....I'll take him off your hands for you, I don't mind getting up in the night

He's absolutely beautiful! I really really envy you, even the getting up in the night.....well, maybe not that bit. keep the pics coming!

She's beautiful! I hope you and Mischa have many happy years with her.

Either pick it up the minute it lands....but you have to be fast...or if you can, sprinkle something hot like cayenne pepper on it...lovely habits dogs have dont they? we always had to beat Dylan to the cat litter tray

Biting?? surely not! he looks too angelic

Is it a stepper...as in up and down...or a slider, as in side to side?? could you let me know if it works please! My Christmas cactus (which flowered in November ) has just put out one lovely flower for Easter. I think its confused.

So sorry Mel thinking of you and Trev

Supafrisk...they did an article some while ago in the Daily Mail about those exercise thingies, and used ordinary women to try them out, rather than superskinny models. They all agreed that they worked, but said it really made their legs hurt to start with. I want to get a hula hoop...I used to be good at that, and its only my tum I need to shift weight from, I do a lot of up and down stairs, so my legs and bum are not too bad.

Shouldn't this be April RMF???

He's delightful Julie! stick him in your pocket and bring him over...

Would one or both of these not be perfect for the older couple who have just lost their old lab? they are wanting to foster...but think they might be too old. These girls could be just right for them

for your Auntie and Uncle...sweet dreams Harry.

Great news Claire..hope it all goes smoothly and quickly, so you can get on with your plans for the future and start househunting (if you haven't already!)

I think there is a middle way between the way people of my age were brought up, and what is sadly only too common nowadays. I had to finish a meal, even if I didn't like it...if I didn't, it just reappeared heated up at the next mealtime! I couldn't take a book from a shelf or get a biscuit without asking permission first, I would never have dreamed of interrupting while adults were speaking, and I certainly didn't answer my mother back. I tried that once, when I was nearly sixteen, and got a resounding slap across the face and was sent to my room and not allowed out for a week! No speaking at the dinner table, no putting elbows on the table etc etc. Admittedly my mother might have been stricter than most as my dad died when I was six and she brought me up alone, but all of my contemporaries shared the same manners. My children are now around forty, they were brought up with more leniency than I had but still had the manners instilled, and we always sat a table to eat. The way kids are nowadays makes me shudder, there are five or six year olds around this estate who use language I didn't even know until I was in my twenties, and the other day a lad of around fifteen was walking down the road with what looked like his mum and grandma, swearing like a trooper and they didn't bat an eyelid! I think the liberal society has a lot to answer for, when I was at school if you got into trouble you daren't mention it at home as you got into more, but nowadays parents go rushing to the school to complain that their little darling shouldn't have been told off at all. I agree children need boundaries, I think a lot of parents these days either dont have time for their kids, or want to be their *best friends* and daren't deny them anything they want, or tell them off.

Congratulations Theresa! do we have to curtsey to you now? Maybe its a bidet and the loo has a door on it? I would hope so! there are some things you really dont want to share with your nearest and dearest! Ooooh, I'm creeping towards the 1000 post mark! think of all that housework I could have been doing......

I can only repeat what others have said about back to basics...put her out as often as you would a pup, in other words about three times as often as you think you need to! It's going to take a lot more than a couple of weeks to turn around three years of being able to *go* when and where she wants to. Just a thought..and please don't bite my head off but if your OH isn't keen on animals, do you think he might have raised his voice to her when you weren't around, and she is weeing partly in fear? My apologies if I'm insulting the poor bloke, but I know my ex wasn't a dog lover, and it took him a long time to accept the pup I managed to get eventually through much pleading and nagging. He never hit Fudge but he used to be very impatient with him and push him out of the way with his foot at times and shout at him, especially if he thought I couldn't hear him.

Happy Gotcha Day Bumpy! lets hope there will be plenty more.

My OH has gone out with some friends from his work to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. I had two pieces of toast, a chunk of cheese and a cherry brandy

She's so pretty Liz, whatever they do can't ruin her looks! I know my mother used to clip her pekes very short in the summer to keep them cool. Really whatever is most convenient for you to manage without her looking as if she's been scalped will be fine, hair eared dogs do need some removed and its less nerve jangling for a professional to do it if your not used to it.

Acupuncture apparently works very well for frozen shoulders!

Hi, nice to meet you and your gang...will go and look at the pics

Hi and welcome to the Refuge...I hope you will find it a happier place to be than the forum you tried before

Sadly no longer, but I used to have them. The most beautiful, clever, faithful little dogs you could wish to meet I'd love to have another some day, but I can't afford £500 + for a pup, and they come into rescue very rarely. This was Tilly and Revel looking lopsided because he was having a scratch! (the pups in front of him were my and my friends poms) *chunky* lee?? she won't like that!