The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[sourland]

Tomorrow's flight got canceled, and we are now scheduled on an early Tuesday morning flight. Hopefully.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sour you haven't left yet and already I am missing you badly.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Happy to be able to report the tornado narrowly missed us. It hit pretty hard right down the road though. Lots of emergency personnel and copters just east of us, going down our road, one after the other. News reporter speaking about 2 fatalities,but no body counts yet.

Phew, i saw some aerial video of areas that got hit. Trees ripped out of the ground and tossed around! Houses flattened. Not pretty.

 

[Bamabexchicks]

Yippee! Hubs is making his world famous spaghetti for me! He makes the best I've ever had, and all I have to do is ask! Of course I usually cook, but dont often ask...but so nice of him to cook for me when I do! Thanks @Pawpawchick! You're the best!

 

[N F C]

Yippee! Hubs is making his world famous spaghetti for me! He makes the best I've ever had, and all I have to do is ask! Of course I usually cook, but dont often ask...but so nice of him to cook for me when I do! Thanks @Pawpawchick! You're the best!

Took me a minute to remember who Pawpawchick is Very nice of him to fix dinner for you Becca

 

[rjohns39]

Roomer has it (totally unconfirmed) that my mentor was cooking for Al Capone. I'll never forget a week of smelling a wonderful Friday meal cooking all week just to get fish sticks. What made it worse was the meal actually left on Sunday.

 

[Bamabexchicks]

Roomer has it (totally unconfirmed) that my mentor was cooking for Al Capone. I'll never forget a week of smelling a wonderful Friday meal cooking all week just to get fish sticks. What made it worse was the meal actually left on Sunday.

That is an unusual situation indeed! Hope it wasn't a mass evacuation!

 

[ShrekDawg]

If all else fails, Invisible Fence may be the way to go. In our 55 years we have had many dogs. Almost all stayed home. Our latest and last decided at around 6 months of age to make a break for it and left for half a day. The next week we had Invisible Fence installed and she became a homebody.

They may have to get one of those. They were thinking about it on at least one or two sides, the sides she most commonly escapes on. The neighbor with the dog they don’t want to because the neighbor’s dog and their dogs love to run along the fence and play with each other. But they might have to do it on the other sides.

And they do have an e collar we gave them (used to be Gator’s) and I think they are going to start putting that on her whenever she is outside in case she escapes again because she does not have a good recall still. Some days she does, some days she doesn’t. Although apparently the collar does not seem to work on her.

And apparently she escaped again tonight when FSIL got home, right in front of her like I warned her she would (I had texted her telling her about Libby’s escape and warning her since she had never jumped it in front of people before), and was gone for like an hour, further than before, but of course came running right back when my parents came over (to help, I wasn’t home and din’t find out till after)! But poor FSIL was out on the marsh looking for her, had sight of her for a while but lost sight of her, hysterically crying of course, out there in the dark, could have gotten seriously hurt. Thankfully didn’t but something definitely needs to be done.

Sounds like Libby needs a lot more activity than she is getting.

Sour, on the way to Hawaii?

That could be part of it but idk. I used to come over usually 3 times a week but sometimes more but now I usually come over 2 times instead. Although this past week has been a lot more. And I used to do tons of individual training with her, trick and obedience and some scent work stuff/find it games, but really haven’t since Frank has been here because it is harder to train with two dogs, so maybe she is bored? Idk. They also used to go on 2, 3 walks a day and now some weeks my walks are the only walks they get.

BUT.

They go outside and run around and wrestle and play and go all out every time they are outside and wear each other out and when I am there. I am usually there at least 2 hours wearing them out. I take them on their walk, then let them run and go crazy in the yard for half hour, hour, sometimes training too, and then they usually pass out asleep like they have had enough activity but idk.

Inside and on a leash Libby is really good, calm, obedient, quiet and not insane and sleeps hard most days and she walks on loose leash, yet outside she seems to love to escape. It is weird. She is well fed and loved at home and has plenty of toys and another dog to play with and tire her out. I know sometimes another dog is not enough and but she seems to be calmer.

Before Frank, she used to be crazy and it took forever to tire her out. She was constantly go go go and wanted to go play outside after walks and could walk, train once, twice, sometimes 3 sessions in the time I am there (short sessions of course), play outside, etc. and still want to go. But since Frank she is tired a lot faster. She still wants to play outside after walks but their new game of Frank running and her chasing really wears her out because Frank is like lightning and she can’t keep up. A few rounds of that and she passes out the rest of the afternoon. So I am not entirely sure it’s exercise but idk. Frank has been good for her though. But maybe it is not a matter of exercise but a matter of mental stimulation??? She is a very smart dog and I think could possibly be bored and looking to occupy her mind.

I think I may offer to come over a couple extra days to walk her or even just take her some place and train her somewhere new or something for free because I think she might need a little bit more. They are great owners and love the dogs a lot but it is hard because they both work full time. She works from home now but obviously it is still hard to really do a lot with them during the day because it is still work.

 

[sharron]

Happy to be able to report the tornado narrowly missed us. It hit pretty hard right down the road though. Lots of emergency personnel and copters just east of us, going down our road, one after the other. News reporter speaking about 2 fatalities,but no body counts yet.

thank goodness for y'all, we're still on watch here

 

[Bamabexchicks]

Took me a minute to remember who Pawpawchick is Very nice of him to fix dinner for you Becca

He really does make the best spaghetti! I usually dont even like it, but I will request him to make it. My Italian dish is sweet Italian sausage with peppers and onions in ziti. He likes it!