eating stations

Hehehehe. No offense, but my wife and I both watch HGTV and we -snork-
at the terms used nowadays, like calling a 'room' a 'space'. What the
*#$&# ??? I think an 'eating station' is something astronauts must
use. My dogs have a food bowl.

Listen, tonight I have to go to my Worship Center to perform my
personal religious belief rituals, and then my wife and I are going to
have a little comestible ingestion period in our eating stations, which
is in our dining space. Later, I'll perform the sanitation activities
on the ceramic disks and the stainless steel utensils. We'll take the
canine companions for a period of activity in the nature center that
surrounds our domicile.

Translation: I have a Knights of Columbus meeting tonight, then we'll
have dinner at home. I'll do the dishes, and then we'll take the
pooches for walkies around our neighborhood.

I have a sister-in-law who ends every phone conversation with "Be
Well." What is that, an order? Be well or else? New-Age-Speak
squicks me.

Eating stations. LOL! Seriously, Melinda - just kidding!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

on 2005-03-08 at 18:12 wrote:

Honestly, swatting a dog won't convey the intended message -
the dog will learn to fear your hand instead of understanding
why the hand was used.

no kidding. the way my dog's little pea-brane works, she'd be
more likely to associate the swat with the cat and decide the
cat should be exterminated for causing her an, ahem, pain in
the arse.

(elliott would assume the swat was some new kind of game.
he's fuzzy butted *and* fuzzy-braned.)

--
shelly
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette
http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com/ (updated dailyish, apparently)

Rocky wrote in
:

KWBrown said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

My Golden foster is due to arrive in two weeks, although
her official owner is having a last-minute attack of, "no -
I DO have time to raise this puppy right now! Really, I
do!"

I better take a picture of Murphy, the Big Red Golden. This is
his last day here. I've spent the last two weeks teaching him
manners and now he's leaving!


I just got the phone call I've been half-expecting:

No foster Golden for me. Happily, she'll be growing up a mile from here,
so I can go over and get plenty of puppy fixes.

Onward ho: now I can look forward to the black one! (Go, Rip! Come into
season already!)

--
Kate
and Storm the FCR
arfenarf at hotmail dot com

Rocky wrote in
:

KWBrown said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

http://www.growlery.com/puppies/pupp...15_2004_10.jpg

This is one of the best dog portraits I've seen go by in
ages.

Nope, this one is:
http://www.growlery.com/puppies/pupp...15_2004_14.jpg


You win.

--
Kate
and Storm the FCR
arfenarf at hotmail dot com

Janet B said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

I've spent the last two weeks teaching him manners and
now he's leaving!

which means you've probably done a great job with him that
his owners will hopefully continue!

Nah. The owners were on a 2 week vacation and their daughter
couldn't keep him during the work days. I'd like him back,
though.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

On 8 Mar 2005 10:16:30 -0800, "The Bill Mattocks"
wrote:

eating stations

Hehehehe. No offense, but my wife and I both watch HGTV and we -snork-
at the terms used nowadays, like calling a 'room' a 'space'. What the
*#$&# ??? I think an 'eating station' is something astronauts must
use. My dogs have a food bowl.


My dogs have food bowls IN an eating station - how's THAT? ;-D

We call it the "dog kitchen". It a corner of base cabinets, outfitted
primarily for the dogs. We put a double drawer in the base and that's
where the bowls are - it pulls out to expose the bowls, and gets
pushed back in when dinner is done. it's incredibly handy and it
means I don't kick a &*(*)* water bowl in my kitchen (the water bowl
is on a mat at the end of the dog kitchen cabinets - it doesn't go
away).

--
Janet B
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfr...ence/my_photos

Suja said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Don't worry Matt, if he is going to people who didn't
bother teaching him manners in the first place, he'll
un-learn all that right quick. Next time around, you'll
have to do it all over again, although it should go a
little faster.

Heh, true, though he seems to have a pretty good foundation on
some stuff. "Sit" never worked when he came here, but I once
whispered (I'm quiet on my commands) to my dogs "lie down".
Turned around to the sudden clump, and there was Big Red in his
down, too.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Thank you both so very much for the kind words about my pooches. Here
are a couple of more recent shots - they're going up so fast!

http://www.growlery.com/puppies/DSCN1870_small.JPG - at the park about
two weeks ago.

http://www.growlery.com/puppies/DSCN1874_small.JPG - Closeup at the
park.

http://www.growlery.com/puppies/DSCN1916_small.JPG - Milo an hour ago -
while I was home at lunch time. Our fenced backyard. It's raining
here today.

http://www.growlery.com/puppies/DSCN1924_small.JPG - Mollie in the
kitchen an hour ago. She has a thinner face than her brother, and her
ears stick up, while his either flop over, or one up and one down. I
am guessing he also has like 10 pounds of weight on her.

These are just quick grab-shots, not the kind of photography I normally
do. Just thought you'd like to see what they look like now - since
they change so fast.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

That Blue eye. with RED EYE is just plain spooky

Well, the red is a little 'red-eye' from the flash on my wife's digital
camera. But her one eye is really, really, pale blue and it can be
spooky all by itself. Sometimes it looks like she is giving me the
'whale eye' but it just the way her funky eyeball is. The vet says she
must have some Huskie or Samoyed in her lineage somewhere. Nobody
knows, since these two were found in a trash can outside a vet's office
in Nashville. NC, not TN.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

How did you get that picture? The camera is in the picture!

I go out armed with a ton of camera kit, and shoot film, which I scan
and put on the web or print out. My wife, bless her, cuts to the chase
and has a digital camera. She took this photo!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks