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modelled by "Kato" - our neighbour's Malamute. Kato is almost three years old and weighs about 60some kilo. No anorexic model here!
Kato is a bit too big to ride up front in the truck so Darren (neighbour) built this retaining rack so the dog could travel - and he loves to ride in the truck!
This week they bought Kato his first pair of "Doogles". As evidenced in the picture he's taken to them quite calmly and seems to enjoy having them on.
He be one cool Malamute mutt.
jac - desperaudio
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very together dogs Nthn Spitzes, a p-rime example is this one!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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but he sure does love the winter. Give him a metre of fluffy snow and he's the happiest mutt this side of Alaska.
In the spring, this breed, among others as well, do what we call "blow"
Which means the winter fur almost literally explodes from their hide. Going into the neighbours back yard where Kato lives and during the time of the Blow is akin to to walking into a field of ripened cotton bolls during a windstorm. There's fur EveryWhere!!
I can pull the fur off of him by the double handfuls. Thing is - he likes it when you do that.
jac - desperaudio
tend to shed an awful LOT of fur around Spring here in aussiebut they are wonderful natural hunting dogs, and excellent 'take me for a walk NOW!' dogs. Very good on feral porkers on our high alpine marshes and wet gullies!!!!
IME&O
* Norwegian and Danish Elk-Hounds, Huskies, Chow-chows, etc?
Typically they have a nice big ruff round shoulders and a lovely curled tail, and semi-webbed BIG paws. Natural guard dogs, and 'find and corner (then bark)' hunters, very calm with kids.
very loving and very centred dogs too, IMO&E.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
...............My primary interest is a companion/protector dog for the kids. It is very safe around here but I still don’t like the kids going out of sight around the farm.I also think, as do the kids, they have the most wonderful face.
Thanks for the info mate.
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meeting 3 or 4and yes they are quiet fetching, aren't they?
I'd recommend the Norwegian Elkhound - a spayed male, for size. get a vet to vet (the breeder and) the litter chose best of the ones for sale.
they do have some possible defects even the Mams
A mamalute is a far bigger dog!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
were the 3 or 4 not well trained?
I hate it when new trends come along. ;~)
Did you send them?
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
I'll get them in my photo album tomorrow!
As we say dahn here!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Famously 'blank canvas' - serious and comic actor.British!
made lots of money for Blake edwards.
Sellers?
Character? 'Major Dennis Bloodnok OBE, VD (and scar!)- Ind'n Army ret'd'
'Ohh, nurse!' ... (noises off) 'quick! the screens!!!!'
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
I think one can download many of them from the file sharing programs - I'll take a look. None in my own original BBC transcriptions unfortunately.
You'll be needing a a nice new pick-up truck so he can ride in the back. Darren (neighbour) may have his up for sale - a relatively new Ford F-250 4x4 with a honkin' big ass-kickin' V8 that will never pass any California emission standards. (just in case you're interested). I could drive it down to Palmdale for only the cost of fuel and plane fare back (helluva deal) - once I get my Passport cuz' I can't get into ye olde US of A without it anymore.
jac - desperaudio
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Watching the reel as it comes to a close,
Brutally taking it's time,
People who change for no reason at all,
It's happening all of the time.
She chose to crap all over freshly-installed carpet awhile back, which sent Mrs. bwk on some sort of jihadist binge that still rages on.
Always causes trouble......
Watching the reel as it comes to a close,
Brutally taking it's time,
People who change for no reason at all,
It's happening all of the time.
New home built in 1979: $50,000 (?)
Wall to wall carpeting at time of build: $1,500 (?)
Home sale in 1993: $95,000
Three dogs: Many Vet bills
Not having to worry about original carpet: Priceless(But once they kick-off this mortal coil.....)
If you got an active breed, you would never be likely to need to consider the purchase of a home gym or other such questionable equipment to keep your weight down to sensible levels!...After about 2 years of age, well-trained dogs are not ever likely to damage furnishings... Until then, there is some (relatively small) risk that can be countered by sensible feeding, the ready presence of chew toys, lots of excercise(!), and regular opportunities for bodily functions...
YMMV, but I have found, from experience, that our house REQUIRES a dog to become "a home"...
absolutely true. And in our case, cats, fish and a parrot are also required.
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Watching the reel as it comes to a close,
Brutally taking it's time,
People who change for no reason at all,
It's happening all of the time.
True words, Bill, but I have had it "up to here" with dirty floors, old carpeting, dog hair everywhere, and the ever-present "dog-home smell". Our dogs are most certainly housebroken, but now that they are getting older accidents tend to be more frequent (and sometimes very hard to find until one of us steps in a "wet spot"). Due to the smell we had to rip-out the carpeting in the spare bedroom last fall, this being the room where the dogs stay during the day, and it would be nice to be able to replace the carpeting w/o having to worry about it suffering the same (smelly) fate. In fact, I refuse to replace any of our carpeting until the last one passes. Abby is 18 now, and the Collies are both 8, so it's only a matter of time...I realize that this sounds heartless but I have told Gayle in no uncertain terms that we will never have three dogs at the same time ever again. Sure, we will get another dog eventually once these pass on, but I want to fix the damn flooring, and enjoy it for awhile , before introducing another dog into the house. In other words, I want to come into my own home, take off my shoes, and enjoy the feel of clean, soft carpeting on my feet w/o having to worry about what I'm going to step-in (or on) for once in my life. And I would like to be able to walk through the house with my dress pants on w/o picking-up 2 pounds of dog hair on them. And I would like for our furnace filters to last for more than 2 months before becoming hopelessly plugged. And I would like to sit in my own damn chair and read my own damn book w/o having to get "de-furred" afterwards. Are these asking too damn much?
My sincere apologies for the rant, but I had a rather shitty day at work and when I came home just now I was welcomed by dirty dog paw-prints all over the entryway and kitchen floors, not to mention the fur that clung to my dry clean only pants as I walked up the stairs.....
Yes Jim, sharing one's home with dogs will always involve some form of compromise, though your listed problems do seem rather severe!...That said, as with children, if a person has any compulsive need for a surgically clean "showhome", then IMO they would best avoid having either pets or children in the home... Eating out, and discouraging visitors (especially those with children and/or dogs) should also be built into the lifestyle of such folk...
And I hope that those folk enjoy the lives they lead!...
Having multiple long-haired dogs is always a challenge, and currently appears to provide you with a number of continuing problems, though twice-daily use of a "stripping comb" (it looks like a looped, thin one-sided saw-blade with a handle!) removes both loose undercoat and hairs on the topcoat that would otherwise be likely to be shed during the day, radically reducing potential problems...
Yes, if you have aged dogs whose bladder-control is suspect then obviously a garage-style space and floor surface is likely to be ideal to keep the dogs both warm and safe during any fairly lengthy times you are out during the day, especially as you can train dogs to use a strip of astro-turf as their "ablution" area... In the absence of this facility, I would recommend a sealed surface (linoleum?) - rather than carpet! - for any area dogs left for any time that is likely to exceed their bladder control, as any "accidents" can be easily mopped up, leaving the room smelling of pine or other chosen aroma...
Though mentioned with some reservations, a weekly shampoo for each of the dogs will radically reduce any notably "doggy" aroma for those with oily coats...
Any other problems you'd like addressed?... No, I'm unable to undo those scratches on your garage-sale LPs, but I can handle most queries!...
I wish you a happy George Washington Day...
I have (somewhat) gotten over my rant of last evening, and I think I may have overstated things a bit there.Some (good) issues you bring-up, in no particular order:
1. Daily grooming. It saddens me to day this but neither Gayle nor I have the time to do this. Without going into our daily routines, suffice it to say that were we to be given a mere spare hour or two we may be able to squeeze this in, but until the Earth slows sufficiently or one of us retires (whichever comes first), daily grooming just ain't a-gonna happen. And you know as well as I the volume of hair that one long-haired breed dog can produce in one day, let alone two (not to mention the "old timer"...)
2. "Showhome". I am not comfortable either when I find myself in such a place, nor would I ever wish for my home to be like that, but I sure would like to replace our carpet that is going nigh on 30 years of age. You can only imagine how matted down, uncomfortable, and thread-bare it is....
3. Bladder control issues. We don't really have any "issues", per se, and the dogs do get plenty of exercise/opportunities to relieve themselves, but the level of smell due to undiscovered accidents in that bedroom just got to be too much. The smell got into the carpeting, and the padding, and even into the sub-flooring. I cleaned the flooring and covered it with "Kilz", a product you may be unfamiliar with, and the smell has gone.
But we still have an area in the living room where there is a definite "aroma" if you pay attention....
4. Tiled and linoleum flooring may indeed be the answer, but the only enclosed space where we have such a thing is in the bathroom, and Gayle simply will not stand for that. I won't even raise the issue with her. We do have a utilty room in the basement, but neither of us would feel like loving and caring pet owners were we to shove them in that space.
5. Bathing. Yes, they get bathed quite regularly (although not weekly) and have healthy and shiny (though un-groomed) coats. It's not the dogs themselves that smell but rather the urine smells that remain in the carpeting that one notices.
I cannot see living w/o a dog either, and I think this would absolutely crush Gayle. I just want to scale back and get things under control- the hair, the smell, the dirt, the expenses (!!!), etc, etc, and it is for these reasons that I have "bad dog days". Thankfully they go away.
Grooming sounds rather more time-intensive than it actually is, with a Husky-sized dog (eg hairy Husky "Hoki" - one of Cass's play-fighting friends who has sometimes seemed to moult sufficient hair each day to spin a cardigan from!) taking less than 5 minutes to give a thorough (outdoors!) top-to-bottom treatment, using a proper "stripping comb"**... After the initial week (when about two carrier-bags/treatment of dense hair and fluff were removed), Hoki has often only required a brief daily "going over"...The main point is that if a dog's hair is going to resist coming away with the stripping comb, it is not going to be loose enough to fall on your carpets or chairs!...
** IMO it is vital to get an effective tool here, in that before I lent Hoki's owner my stripping-comb, she was almost tearing her hair out from having unsatisfactory results from lots of supposed grooming aids and was desparate to find a vaguely effective, speedy excess dog hair removal method... She purchased her own the day after she had a chance to try the stripping-comb I had loaned... The fact that Hoki and brother Storm now LOOK groomed is simply a welcome bonus, as of course is the absence of hair at home!... So if you find that you have difficulty sourcing one to match the description in my previous posting - since I have a "spare" in the car - if you email me, I'll post it on to you...
Regarding any smell in the living-room, I can only suggest fairly regular carpet-cleaning (as the problem is probably likely to be a cumulative effect of a number of small "accidents"), together with an appropriately aromatic post-cleaning "powder"... "Kilz" might be a bit extreme for this application!... As dogs tend to repeat bladder function at locations where previous release has taken place, the absence of such a scent may minimise the problem...
Sadly, apart from suggesting keeping a bag in the porch containing towels to clean mud off their feet before they enter, there may not be much to be done about keeping paw-marks out of the house during periods of wet weather, though thankfully any paw-marks are both easy to clean from an insulated surface at any time, and easy to hoover from carpets (after they've dried!)...
I don't think I can do much about the expenses(!), so I think that's about it, in terms of addressing your posted problem check-list!...
;-)!I LIKE dogs mind.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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