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Kloppers you should have taken the Allis anyways, so people would think your a real farmer!


I tried! Except I couldn't get the grader blade off today. The snap coupler seems to be wedged and won't release the tongue.


Went out for a Friday night fish fry. Yum! There a lot of things about Catholicism that I don't understand but I sure do enjoy a good Lenten fish fry
 
Sadie is Tennis ball nuts. Typical labrador retriever nuts on Tennis Balls. Our First, Alex, was like that. she'd get it full of saliva and mud and drop it on your white canvas shoes. Jasmine could give two rats about tennis balls. She was probably the weirder one of the 3 dogs when it came to fetch. She liked to fetch hunted birds that was it. I guess that was all that counted.

Sadie shows us her teeth when we holler at her. So I was listening to the kids and DH reprimanding her on a good pair of snowmobile/ice fishing gloves. Or maybe it was my leather gloves for chicken chores...I've went through 3 pairs so far this winter with her. And I got to thinking that I think she shows her teeth because she is afraid when we scold her and she defends herself. So I tried some really really soft baby talk with her during the good moments. Because she really hasn't had many....and I *think* she might be understanding that we don't want to holler at her all the time. Like if she's good ...she'll get nice baby talk. I have no idea how to approach this dog. Because to be honest...in the average family living in a town house say in Minneapolis with say toddlers...this dog would have been taken to the pound. My son has superficial scratches and scars up and down his arms from her "play" my daughter and son have been scratched and bitten in the back. She has ZERO respect for my kids. DH and I-- she listens to. But she'll even do tactical sneaks and pounces off of me...say when we go down to the coop and back. I've grabbed her jaw and pressed the teeth to the gums over and over and over again. It's just not getting the job done. I think she needs tons and tons of exercise. When she runs she just doesn't run...she bounds in 6 foot graceful leaps and bounds. She's an athlete of a dog at 48 pounds. But Her Head is in a different lane than I've ever seen for a labrador. We'll never give up on her. She's not even a year old either...but I just thought she might be "getting" a few things. You know?
 
Sadie is Tennis ball nuts.  Typical labrador retriever nuts on Tennis Balls.  Our First, Alex, was like that.  she'd get it full of saliva and mud and drop it on your white canvas shoes.  Jasmine could give two rats about tennis balls.  She was probably the weirder one of the 3 dogs when it came to fetch.  She liked to fetch hunted birds that was it.  I guess that was all that counted.

Sadie shows us her teeth when we holler at her.  So I was listening to the kids and DH reprimanding her on a good pair of snowmobile/ice fishing gloves.  Or maybe it was my leather gloves for chicken chores...I've went through 3 pairs so far this winter with her.  And I got to thinking that I think she shows her teeth because she is afraid when we scold her and she defends herself.  So I tried some really really soft baby talk with her during the good moments.  Because she really hasn't had many....and I *think* she might be understanding that we don't want to holler at her all the time.  Like if she's good ...she'll get nice baby talk.  I have no idea how to approach this dog.  Because to be honest...in the average family living in a town house say in Minneapolis with say toddlers...this dog would have been taken to the pound.  My son has superficial scratches and scars up and down his arms from her "play" my daughter and son have been scratched and bitten in the back.  She has ZERO respect for my kids.  DH and I-- she listens to.  But she'll even do tactical sneaks and pounces off of me...say when we go down to the coop and back.  I've grabbed her jaw and pressed the teeth to the gums over and over and over again.  It's just not getting the job done.  I think she needs tons and tons of exercise.  When she runs she just doesn't run...she bounds in 6 foot graceful leaps and bounds.  She's an athlete of a dog at 48 pounds.  But Her Head is in a different lane than I've ever seen for a labrador.  We'll never give up on her.  She's not even a year old either...but I just thought she might be "getting" a few things.  You know?
that i s a tough row to how, God bless you for your patience and love.


So Jerry, my raspberries don't "run" each plant has a long tap root. I get "baby" plants all over my raised gardens every year that iu have to continually pull out, to the point I'm thinking of moving them way far away in their own garden. So are you saying birds are propagating these seeds?
 
Thank you Cluckies. I see a good girl in there amongst the other stuff. We get glimpses.
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You are right Sadie is still very young. She is family, I would never give her up either! Gabi is not three until later this summer, she is very active and needs exercise. She loves to play ball, tennis balls we took away because the vet said they are hard on a dogs teeth. Her favorite now seems to be a basketball, we give it a good kick and she will jump in front of it and block it if she can then push it back to you to go again. She is smart but I really think she'd have been further ahead if she hadn't gotten lyme disease as a puppy. Her main growing and learning months she was sick.
 
Sadie is Tennis ball nuts. Typical labrador retriever nuts on Tennis Balls. Our First, Alex, was like that. she'd get it full of saliva and mud and drop it on your white canvas shoes. Jasmine could give two rats about tennis balls. She was probably the weirder one of the 3 dogs when it came to fetch. She liked to fetch hunted birds that was it. I guess that was all that counted.

Sadie shows us her teeth when we holler at her. So I was listening to the kids and DH reprimanding her on a good pair of snowmobile/ice fishing gloves. Or maybe it was my leather gloves for chicken chores...I've went through 3 pairs so far this winter with her. And I got to thinking that I think she shows her teeth because she is afraid when we scold her and she defends herself. So I tried some really really soft baby talk with her during the good moments. Because she really hasn't had many....and I *think* she might be understanding that we don't want to holler at her all the time. Like if she's good ...she'll get nice baby talk. I have no idea how to approach this dog. Because to be honest...in the average family living in a town house say in Minneapolis with say toddlers...this dog would have been taken to the pound. My son has superficial scratches and scars up and down his arms from her "play" my daughter and son have been scratched and bitten in the back. She has ZERO respect for my kids. DH and I-- she listens to. But she'll even do tactical sneaks and pounces off of me...say when we go down to the coop and back. I've grabbed her jaw and pressed the teeth to the gums over and over and over again. It's just not getting the job done. I think she needs tons and tons of exercise. When she runs she just doesn't run...she bounds in 6 foot graceful leaps and bounds. She's an athlete of a dog at 48 pounds. But Her Head is in a different lane than I've ever seen for a labrador. We'll never give up on her. She's not even a year old either...but I just thought she might be "getting" a few things. You know?

Oh ye of little faith. SHEs a baby! She will drive you crazy til around two years old. And she does get it - she is just too busy to show you she gets it. Our black lab just turned two and I remember when she came to live with us at eleven months. EEE gads - I thought. I forgot about this stage of doghood. Thank you for reminding me. She was rough, rowdy and rarin to go. Could not go fast enough to suit her. Training collar just so she would not get hurt. Abbey never (well, once in a great, great while) gets zapped anymore. We live on a busy highway and I will take no chances of a smushed puppy. And chew! O M GOSH! We weren't prepared for that. And up on the counter to eat a stick of butter or anything else left out. Yeah. Been there - done that. I think your gonna make me cry. I am so glad to be out of that stage. Sigh.
 
Thank you @Erlibird. It would be good for me to get exercise with Sadie too. We both need it. Makes me wonder about her small size. she had that Tick disease discovered last month. Huh. Maybe I'll ask Dr. Adkins his thought on that. She is an odd dog.

Tonight I watched an interaction between her and my son and it was GREAT! He's learning to use a lesser energy with her too...instead of amping her up all the time. She wanted to "nibble" but she sat down beside her and her eyes drooped and she sat in a relaxed pose....and licked his arm and face a couple times. She was comfortable with him. We're all learning to take a step back I guess and give her what she seems to be needing.
 
Good Advice Ivie...to remember how old she is. Our lab before this one was so easy and so submissive. They are different personalities though...I swear. One labrador is not another....Ha! I'm learning. But the one before although she was calm over all at 1 year old did indeed yank out new landscape bushes and chew 4 holes in my sheet rock walls.

The mittens are nothing....
 
Good Advice Ivie...to remember how old she is. Our lab before this one was so easy and so submissive. They are different personalities though...I swear. One labrador is not another....Ha! I'm learning. But the one before although she was calm over all at 1 year old did indeed yank out new landscape bushes and chew 4 holes in my sheet rock walls.

The mittens are nothing....

Good Advice Ivie...to remember how old she is. Our lab before this one was so easy and so submissive. They are different personalities though...I swear. One labrador is not another....Ha! I'm learning. But the one before although she was calm over all at 1 year old did indeed yank out new landscape bushes and chew 4 holes in my sheet rock walls.

The mittens are nothing....

LOL - The positive thing is that it ONLY takes a couple of years. Compared to parenting humans - its a drop in the bucket. LOVE the dogs but the war stories are remembered. I truly do think I am on the last of dogs. I think that mine will live for quite a few years yet and then I will be into my seventies and I simply cannot imagine raising anything from babyhood at that time in my life. Plus what do the kids do with any of my animals when something happens to me. One of them mentioned 'the pound.' I would have slapped him but I can't reach that high (humor.)
 
Hey ya'll! Sounds like things are warming up for ya. We have daffodils & magnolias in bloom here.

Bogtown/Cluckies....saw a spot on our local PBS channel about how the high school shooting clubs are quite popular here in Tennessee. Not owning any kids I had no idea. But did note there are collage scholarships available for these kids.

It takes a lab three years to grow a brain. :lol: So hang in there! Also, the teeth showing thing is usually a sign of submission.
 

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