Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta
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See you just have to give Tara a poke and she surfaces.
I remember when I was buying a puppy for my 11th.birthday, I had bought every dog food brand the grocery store had and treats and all manner of toys, and collar and leash and comb and brush. It was the only way I could hold on till the puppy was shipped (old railway express) I can't imagine how I got the stuff when I only had 35 cents allowance. Of course everything was much cheaper in 1958.
Also paid $ 40 for the pup and $ 6 shp. I had been saving up for a dog for a long time( hoarding birthday & Xmas cash) The one we had before died of distemper and they said we had to wait 6 mos. to bring another dog in.
I bet I don't have to tell you how changing brands every day, affected puppy's digestive system. But, what did I know??? Then AFTER I got the pup, I found out seller hadn't given him any shots but, thought I should do so immediately. Cute. I had to sell my bicycle to pay for that.
I remember when I was buying a puppy for my 11th.birthday, I had bought every dog food brand the grocery store had and treats and all manner of toys, and collar and leash and comb and brush. It was the only way I could hold on till the puppy was shipped (old railway express) I can't imagine how I got the stuff when I only had 35 cents allowance. Of course everything was much cheaper in 1958.
Also paid $ 40 for the pup and $ 6 shp. I had been saving up for a dog for a long time( hoarding birthday & Xmas cash) The one we had before died of distemper and they said we had to wait 6 mos. to bring another dog in.
I bet I don't have to tell you how changing brands every day, affected puppy's digestive system. But, what did I know??? Then AFTER I got the pup, I found out seller hadn't given him any shots but, thought I should do so immediately. Cute. I had to sell my bicycle to pay for that.
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See you just have to give Tara a poke and she surfaces.
I remember when I was buying a puppy for my 11th.birthday, I had bought every dog food brand the grocery store had and treats and all manner of toys, and collar and leash and comb and brush. It was the only way I could hold on till the puppy was shipped (old railway express) I can't imagine how I got the stuff when I only had 35 cents allowance. Of course everything was much cheaper in 1958.
Also paid $ 40 for the pup and $ 6 shp. I had been saving up for a dog for a long time( hoarding birthday & Xmas cash) The one we had before died of distemper and they said we had to wait 6 mos. to bring another dog in.
I bet I don't have to tell you how changing brands every day, affected puppy's digestive system. But, what did I know??? Then AFTER I got the pup, I found out seller hadn't given him any shots but, thought I should do so immediately. Cute. I had to sell my bicycle to pay for that.
I'll give you a POKE....
In 2015 dollars, your $46 for the dog is worth $380.33....thirty five cents is worth $2.89...was that for a week er? At a week, you'd be able to save up $150 a year so that was indeed a scrimp and save kinda thing plus you wanted to purchase fun things for the dog and you to have fun with. That $0.35 seems like a decent amount if it was per week, so I am guessing maybe you got that a month? You'll have to tell us and save us from the suspense of guessing.
I don't remember getting an allowance but I do remember I babysat...then I use to ride my bike to town to a gas station to work, then a union job cleaning salmon...that's when I started to really see some pretty good reasons to make money...hee hee. Pizzas and <root> beer, records and such...teenagers, eh. Our dog back then followed us kids home and we were allowed to keep him.
http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm:
Distemper...I heard on the news there is an outbreak of that in BC--that a puppy died of it...ack! I am betting people are getting complacent on vacs and this is how it always creeps back in...blah! The girl dogs, Lacy go her first shots on Friday and Emmy gets hers on Monday. They are all microchipped and application for registrations have been sent off.
Yeh, no doubt you were displeased to find out no vacs...sheesh and they probably KNEW why you had no dog regarding what took the one prior. People...egads. And to have to sell your bike...oh DD...
What breed was he?
Just finished planting another batch of seeds...peas, lettuce, turnip, bok choy, chard, beans. Had to quit, ran outta seeds plus it got too dark to see decently...
Tara
Okay Tara, I will trick someone else into giving you a poke next time..
I had a buff Cocker Spaniel. My mother wouldn't allow any big dogs& only a boy dog.My sister named him Bruce after one of her boyfriends. I don't know why I put up with that name but, idolized my sister so guess I didn't question it.
I did get 35 cents a week allowance - Dog World magazine came out every month and it was 35 cents. I walked to the drug store often hoping it would come in early. I still have the first issue I bought from 1958 but, I read it so often it wasn't in good shape even way back then.
Brucie was smart as a whip but, curled up his lips anytime you asked him to do something. If he shook paws, he would dig his nails into your hand. I trained him to do many things: sneeze on command, pray, balance a treat on his muzzle, climb a step ladder, basic obedience. The hardest thing to teach him was rollover. He hated that, and I had to teach him in three steps. Down, on your Side, and Over -eventually he did it just with a hand signal.
He never bit any of us but, we knew he was dying to. It's funny despite his apparent dislike of everyone , but my father, he knew if any of us (5 people) were away from home. He would lay with his chin on the living room windowsill and wait hours till the missing family member showed up. Then he would bark and growl, and go off to bed.
I don't know where his attitude came from because he started as a typical puppy.- When my friends came over he greeted them all and loved to untie their shoe laces.
When my brother and I came home from school for a lunch break, he would do anything to get our attention. His favorite trick was grabbing the end of his ear feathers and holding one in his mouth. We would laugh and pull it away, and he would instantly grab it again. That was the closest he came to showing affection.
He was hard to housebreak and was the barkingest dog I ever had. When repair men, relatives etc. came to the house he would bark as loudly as he could and forever long it took for them to leave. So we would lock him in the bathroom. After a few times he headed for the bathroom on his own and for some reason jumped in the bathtub and stayed there barking his head off.
Sorry - Diva shut up already
, good night .
I did get 35 cents a week allowance - Dog World magazine came out every month and it was 35 cents. I walked to the drug store often hoping it would come in early. I still have the first issue I bought from 1958 but, I read it so often it wasn't in good shape even way back then.
Brucie was smart as a whip but, curled up his lips anytime you asked him to do something. If he shook paws, he would dig his nails into your hand. I trained him to do many things: sneeze on command, pray, balance a treat on his muzzle, climb a step ladder, basic obedience. The hardest thing to teach him was rollover. He hated that, and I had to teach him in three steps. Down, on your Side, and Over -eventually he did it just with a hand signal.
He never bit any of us but, we knew he was dying to. It's funny despite his apparent dislike of everyone , but my father, he knew if any of us (5 people) were away from home. He would lay with his chin on the living room windowsill and wait hours till the missing family member showed up. Then he would bark and growl, and go off to bed.
I don't know where his attitude came from because he started as a typical puppy.- When my friends came over he greeted them all and loved to untie their shoe laces.
When my brother and I came home from school for a lunch break, he would do anything to get our attention. His favorite trick was grabbing the end of his ear feathers and holding one in his mouth. We would laugh and pull it away, and he would instantly grab it again. That was the closest he came to showing affection.
He was hard to housebreak and was the barkingest dog I ever had. When repair men, relatives etc. came to the house he would bark as loudly as he could and forever long it took for them to leave. So we would lock him in the bathroom. After a few times he headed for the bathroom on his own and for some reason jumped in the bathtub and stayed there barking his head off.
Sorry - Diva shut up already
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DD, alot of issues with dogs like Bruce can be simply linked to that "male dog dominance" thingy rearing its ugly head time and again. We have two girl dogs coming, so hoping to avoid that male ego like thing rearing up. Not that the ACD girl dogs are any pushovers but they often seem a bit more sensible as they mature and don't keep pushing it. Males go thru periods where they figure they have to PROTECT and be BOSS which might explain why Bruce would think he had to do the warning barks like an idiot when company came to visit. A bit of obedience and having him do things like the roll over and expose his tender belly are shows of submission...having him roll over, that does enforce that you the human are suppose to be in charge and tell HIM what needs worrying about. Sounds like you had some of it in control but he was sneaking in a bit of a say of his own now and again. Makes perfect sense why him doing the rolly was more difficult to get him to do. Him worrying about a missing family member is really doggy...they know the PACK should be home at certain times, your routines and how the place runs...which in his dog mind was up to him to ensure it got done. My Gran's poodle use to stand at the top of the stairs if my Gran was late about coming to bed because she wanted to watch a late night movie...dog demanded that a schedule be followed or you may upset & anger the dog, eh. Being hard to housebreak would also be him as a male dog showing his ability to own things by marking his territory out constantly re-establishing what was HIS property. I laugh as the ACD girls, they will also mark when peeing too--Fixins, Makins; those girls would mark HER boundaries on the property here--quite the routine to make sure everyone KNEW their turf boundaries...one person told me their girl ACD use to do a literal "hand stand" to pee higher and scent things that they figured they OWNED. Egads...eh!
How is the puppy waiting game going on here...let's see...
Rick mowed this weekend...so I had to ask, jest had to ask...I should NOT have asked...but I had to ask...
The reply I got was ever so cute....
Rick says, "Well I want to train the grass to grow in softer, thicker, and be more lush...I don't want the tender puppy toes to get hurt and all, jest sayin'..."
Course he got the blank deer in the headlights look from moi (but inside I am like
)...but I also knew best and left it at that, dunna wanna PUSH it. I had asked him where I should set up the puppy playground area so it was safe and not an inconvenience to us. He had suggested this area.
And Rick has the audacity to say it's all ME, eh. That "I" have been excited ever since we both decided to import two puppy gals from Australia...
Just me excited...it's ONLY me...me alone, jest me you know, that's excited and planning all this hoopla! I am the guilty yet excited one of the bunch.
Mowing the pasture grass so it grows back in soft and thick...like a green carpet...for the tender puppy toes...yeh, there's NO excitement from him...none. He's completely indifferent ain't he.
Hmm, men...ever so sly, EVER!
Not in the photo but in the works; the puppy slide, the balance beam, the teeter totter, & the big timber braced up sturdy and hung with various cord hung tuggy toys suspended on rubber bungies for bitey bites and tuggy tugs. Australian Cattle Dogs, no matter what age are simply "life support systems for sets of JAWS!"
I need to grab some five gallon pails of river sand from my huge pile--might find time to do that today and fill up the sandbox.
Excited...who me?...ha ha ha...hardly compared to a man that would train rough pasture grass to become soft cushy LAWN grass and a man that would even contemplate his wife would not notice the MASTER MINDED PLAN of the MAN...yeh sure.
Excited...never happen to us here. I near fell asleep during the posting of this.
If'n you believe that...wanna buy a bridge, got a few roundabouts going cheap cheap, CHEEP?? Well...???
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
DD, alot of issues with dogs like Bruce can be simply linked to that "male dog dominance" thingy rearing its ugly head time and again. We have two girl dogs coming, so hoping to avoid that male ego like thing rearing up. Not that the ACD girl dogs are any pushovers but they often seem a bit more sensible as they mature and don't keep pushing it. Males go thru periods where they figure they have to PROTECT and be BOSS which might explain why Bruce would think he had to do the warning barks like an idiot when company came to visit. A bit of obedience and having him do things like the roll over and expose his tender belly are shows of submission...having him roll over, that does enforce that you the human are suppose to be in charge and tell HIM what needs worrying about. Sounds like you had some of it in control but he was sneaking in a bit of a say of his own now and again. Makes perfect sense why him doing the rolly was more difficult to get him to do. Him worrying about a missing family member is really doggy...they know the PACK should be home at certain times, your routines and how the place runs...which in his dog mind was up to him to ensure it got done. My Gran's poodle use to stand at the top of the stairs if my Gran was late about coming to bed because she wanted to watch a late night movie...dog demanded that a schedule be followed or you may upset & anger the dog, eh. Being hard to housebreak would also be him as a male dog showing his ability to own things by marking his territory out constantly re-establishing what was HIS property. I laugh as the ACD girls, they will also mark when peeing too--Fixins, Makins; those girls would mark HER boundaries on the property here--quite the routine to make sure everyone KNEW their turf boundaries...one person told me their girl ACD use to do a literal "hand stand" to pee higher and scent things that they figured they OWNED. Egads...eh!
How is the puppy waiting game going on here...let's see...
Rick mowed this weekend...so I had to ask, jest had to ask...I should NOT have asked...but I had to ask...
"So Rick, what's with the mowing strips of the Ram Pasture (location of the wip puppy playground)??"
I ask me Hero...."Why are you mowing this area?"
The reply I got was ever so cute....
Rick says, "Well I want to train the grass to grow in softer, thicker, and be more lush...I don't want the tender puppy toes to get hurt and all, jest sayin'..."
Course he got the blank deer in the headlights look from moi (but inside I am like
SOFT GRASS FOR TENDER PUPPY TOES...yeh...
And Rick has the audacity to say it's all ME, eh. That "I" have been excited ever since we both decided to import two puppy gals from Australia...
Just me excited...it's ONLY me...me alone, jest me you know, that's excited and planning all this hoopla! I am the guilty yet excited one of the bunch.
Mowing the pasture grass so it grows back in soft and thick...like a green carpet...for the tender puppy toes...yeh, there's NO excitement from him...none. He's completely indifferent ain't he.
Hmm, men...ever so sly, EVER!
PUPPY PLAYGROUND IN FLUX, work in progress...
Not in the photo but in the works; the puppy slide, the balance beam, the teeter totter, & the big timber braced up sturdy and hung with various cord hung tuggy toys suspended on rubber bungies for bitey bites and tuggy tugs. Australian Cattle Dogs, no matter what age are simply "life support systems for sets of JAWS!"
I need to grab some five gallon pails of river sand from my huge pile--might find time to do that today and fill up the sandbox.
Excited...who me?...ha ha ha...hardly compared to a man that would train rough pasture grass to become soft cushy LAWN grass and a man that would even contemplate his wife would not notice the MASTER MINDED PLAN of the MAN...yeh sure.
Excited...never happen to us here. I near fell asleep during the posting of this.
If'n you believe that...wanna buy a bridge, got a few roundabouts going cheap cheap, CHEEP?? Well...???
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
Coming soon - But, NOT soon enough - two cattle dog princesses - which ONE will wear the crown?
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I truly hope there is enough room at the Rat Ranch for duo ruling. The nasty fights between dogs happens when the humans show favouritism by doing stupid things like handing out only one treat when there are TWO slobber mouths to fill. I always packed treats that could be broken up into how ever many mouths were there to be rewarded, otherwise it was a rubby or "good dog" reward. Not into setting up fight night, eh.
I have made sure we have sets of identical toys for the girls...special one off item toys too but that will be reserved for special supervised play time where we learn the golden rule of "sharing & caring." EQUALITY where the human says when it's OK to have a toy to yourself and when to share it. I don't like and disapprove of stealing or whomping another's butt to take something by sheer force--this is not raw Nature where I need a scene from "Animal Kingdom" replayed and off to the Vet's to sew them back up. I know of some packs of ACDs where dogs are missing portions of ears and such from hatred fights that are allowed to go on. We don't allow that...peace, love, and tranquility...or else they deal with the humans and that's not a happy thing to go pushing wrong buttons over.
Besides, it is TRUE! Canadians make some of the best peacekeepers not a referees, thanks but one of those can keep their black and white stripes, eh.
Some of the worst dog fights happen between two equally matched dogs that turn it into a constant rivalry to jockey for top spot. The human's job responsbility is to step in and say, "I am the RULER and you all get to get along now!" Equal stature in two dogs has them always testing to see who gets on the top of the dog pile when the humans should be tip top spot, not the dogs. I hope we don't have that going down here and will be diligent about watching that don't get a paw hold here. The happiest of dogs are the ones that solidly know they are NOT in charge...that just allows them to relax enough to be happy dogs and leave the worry behind.
I also plan for one on one time, dog alone with us. THEIR limelight moments. Alot of issues can happen if you let the two pups bond with each other or always being in one big puppy mob with no "me" time.
Feeding time is another hot setup for nonsense and potential nightmares. I use to feed five ACDs at once twice a day. All lined up by the back door and lay there while I made their dinners. Then I set bowls under the counter at the kitchen sink and they ALL had to wait until I was ready to say, "EAT" and then each dog knew their spot for their bowl and went there to eat--a set routine. HyBlade would guts his dinner down the quickest but that never meant he got someone else's food...he was allowed to stand there and look around but not bother anyone else that was still eating. It WAS hilarious to see him re-lick his empty bowl for the third time while dogs like Makins relished her dinner, slowly and with delight.
Dogs are alot like raising human kids...yeh...alot!
Tara
Ya gotta love a man that worries about tender puppy paws and claims that he is not excited about the new puppers.
Scott
Scott
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Absolutely...
So what IS wrong with a manicured lawn...
I can just picture HyBlade going back to his empty dish hoping by magic some new morsel appeared. I had one pup that would sleep with his head in the bowl, in case food suddenly appeared.
Once I was kidding around and positioned some goody near the nose of a deep -in -sleep puppy, the nose twitched, and it woke with a bit of a start and gobbled it down. Then looked all over for the good food fairy that must have put it there. Hard to fall back asleep after that happens.
Once I was kidding around and positioned some goody near the nose of a deep -in -sleep puppy, the nose twitched, and it woke with a bit of a start and gobbled it down. Then looked all over for the good food fairy that must have put it there. Hard to fall back asleep after that happens.
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