➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Conan]

You can. I gotta get back to doing my chores. Then I gotta do a readback here, seems like I'm about 400 posts behind.

Haha - there was a battle.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Who on earth suggested I hate pie??? I love pie! Cherry or peach are my favorites closely followed by apple. Then there's cobbler. Wild blackberry or fresh peach. I'm drooling just thinking about it. I am not a cake person though. Frosting (other than a simple whip cream or ganache ) makes we wanna puke.

Well, you don't have a sweet tooth, and besides, everyone that's as mean and bitter as you can't possibly like good and nice things like pie.

Lol meanie

Looks like one cause she is one.


I'll tell Crazy Lady. Pure Borzoi. Got the papers to prove it. She is show quality, but was kept as a house dog with her brother. Talk about couch potatoes!

She was kept on leash for 3 years because she would go over the 6' privacy fence and run the roads. Shameless hussy!

This breed has a strong prey drive. Small, fuzzy and running?!? Game on! The chihuahua is lucky to be alive. He lets them go first and doesn't run away. He learned.

Oh wow sound challenging but fun lol

They can be trained. But if it runs, play can be fatal.

Jake, Crazy Lady's first, was but a puppy running around with our toddler. Very cute watching them play running back and forth. Jake tripped toddler and went for kill at base of skull before I could move. Left marks, but didn't break the skin. We stopped that game. He raised our kids. RIP Jake. The good ones leave too soon.

Fostered a chocolate lab too. Jake would lay on his belly and play tug of war with his puppy. Too cute. He was still taller than her laying down.


Ahem, the official name is needle nose.

Borzois sound like big dogs?

They didn't want a photo shoot. They wanted love. Poor deprived animals. HAH! New puppy and the old man. Grey muzzle and all.
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Motivation is also different. Some view High School as unwanted and unnecessary. Attitude goes a long way.


Aggressive, no. He was in full play mode. Pits and boxers are also enthusiastic players. Lots of fun IF you know what to expect and can handle them. This was our fault. He was playing. No malice at all.

They are predators and so much natural instinct is there. I hope I have conveyed to them the chickens are "mine". The puppy will charge the fence and flush the flock. Working on her. The others only "hunt" the chickens occasionally. I've been discouraging them. Good fences make good neighbors has a new meaning.

Oh yeah, I figured he wasn't or else you probably wouldn't have kept him if he was an actual threat but I just mean some people who don't know any better would label it that or be afraid. Plus the way you said he went for the kill made it sound really scary. But I guess they "kill" toys too. But I assume he eventually learned that was unacceptable? Or you just didn't play that game again?

Good luck with the chickens

 

[RUNuts]

@007Sean - Mr. Bond, here are some pheasant pics for you. They hatched June 14-15. Your thoughts? Thanks in advance!

@PirateGirl look sunflowers! Conan has big beautiful sunflowers. And pheasants.

 

[Conan]

@PirateGirl look sunflowers! Conan has big beautiful sunflowers. And pheasants.

I didn't plant any this year either. I put a few in last year and this year, they came up like crazy! I had to rip a ton of them out so I could still plant beans and squash in that bed.

 

[Conan]

@PirateGirl look sunflowers! Conan has big beautiful sunflowers. And pheasants.

Here are some better pics of the sunflowers. I love leaving them until Halloween. The dead ones make great creepy decor.

 

[Morrigan]

I was in IB too! Believe me, college is sooo much easier then the hoops they make you go through. The hardest thing about college for me is the being an adult part. Don't skip class unless you are dying. Once you skip the first time it's easy to convince yourself to skip again because no one is watching over you.

I found college much less stressful.

 

[RUNuts]

Borzois sound like big dogs?

Oh yeah, I figured he wasn't or else you probably wouldn't have kept him if he was an actual threat but I just mean some people who don't know any better would label it that or be afraid. Plus the way you said he went for the kill made it sound really scary. But I guess they "kill" toys too. But I assume he eventually learned that was unacceptable? Or you just didn't play that game again?

Good luck with the chickens

Jake made 110 pounds, full grown, live weight. Big, even for a male. They are TALL dogs. Tristan is just below 50 pounds but will put her paws on my shoulders and be eye to eye and I'm 6'. Black boy is heavier and taller than both of us and only got to 75 pounds. Goofy as can be. The breed has a reputation of goofy males and conniving females (read bitch in more than one way). The males will steal puppies to play with.

Extremely intelligent. As such, they will play you.

One story had the Lady of the house walking by the kitchen window and saw her Borzoi on TOP of the fridge trying to get the puppy treats. All 4 paws. Flat footed on the frig.

Jake stole a rotisserie chicken off the counter and only left a greasy spot on the kitchen floor. He was guilty, so we went to find what he did. Yep, the whole bird.

Another story had the Borzoi jumping over the couch. Long ways. The Whippets went around. He went over.

Also been known to take out ceiling fans. Hey, it was moving and looked tasty.

 

[Morrigan]

Yup. I hate it. Definitely a mistake. Would have been better off doing AP.

I did AP -- not even sure IB was an option back in my day. I hated it, but basically I hated all the structure and make-work of high school.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Yup. I hate it. Definitely a mistake. Would have been better off doing AP.

I did AP for the last year of high school (I switched schools a lot since we had just moved to Texas so I never got to be in any of the IB programs) but I would agree that AP was much more consistent to college than IB was.

 

[BantyChooks]

@KikisGirls no peeping. Any day now. You're gonna tell me to candle again, aren't you? Compare air cell for the draw down. Watch for blob movement.

Not going in the closet. Nope. I'll wait until after dark. I told my Dad I was scared of the dark. You know what he did? He gave me a .45.

Are you quoting Supernatural at me?