montana wildhack said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

I'm waiting for the Trite Pendulum to swing from whisperer
to shouterer before I launch that particular vehicle.

It's already moving...

I know you like Cesar, and I'm on record as liking him in a
general way, but that dang "whisperer" adjective has turned me
off from the day Monty (or his people) coined it.

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

Shelly wrote:
I've been drawing pears for the past few days, and Harriet is *sure*
that she should have one. Last night, she poked the stupid pear I
was drawing with her nose, pushing it off the coffee table. Today, I
had a large box of watercolor pencils sitting on the couch next to
me, and she parked herself right on top of them. It turns out, 72
Pick-up is not a very fun game.

I forgot the pear on the coffee table, and just returned from
checking the mail to find it in the middle of the living room floor,
full of tooth marks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cat-sidh/1937200500/

Harriet had the good sense to scram when she heard me come back
inside, but since the cat DOES NOT HAVE TEETH, I think it's obvious
who the culprit is.

So, if anyone wants a slightly used Boxer with a pear fetish, please
to be letting me know.


You mean she chomped it but didn't eat it?!

My merry band of mental midgets scarfed down green apples off of the
neighbor's overhanging tree, with predictable results. They also
pilfered tomatoes out of my daughter's salsa garden. The jrt likes rose
petals. And Zane eats the hibiscus bush, but that's more like jihad
than grazing. Sometimes he just has the urge to launch a savage attack
the shrubbery.

Kathleen wrote in
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You mean she chomped it but didn't eat it?!

She meant to eat it, but she didn't have enough time. I only went
out to the mailbox, so I was gone maybe 30 seconds. Just long enough
for her to struggle with her pear lust, her pear lust to win, and her
to steal the pear and put a few tooth marks in it.

My merry band of mental midgets scarfed down green apples off of
the neighbor's overhanging tree, with predictable results. They
also pilfered tomatoes out of my daughter's salsa garden. The jrt
likes rose petals. And Zane eats the hibiscus bush, but that's
more like jihad than grazing. Sometimes he just has the urge to
launch a savage attack the shrubbery.

Ha! Harriet is a grazer, and will steal fruit that's down or already
picked. And veggies. Elliott used to go out to the raspberry patch
and pick-n-eat berries. I loved watching him delicately pull back
his lips and pluck fruit with just his front teefies, and then, the
nom nom nom.

I've never had a dog with a shrubbery fetish, though. Perhaps Zane
is a Knight Who Says Ni?

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

ceb wrote in
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Seriously. Think outside the box, man! I mean, woman!

Well, it's all slushy and rotteny this morning, so I think I'll just
lob it into the thicket for the birds. And then, the grocery store, to
procure more pears. Because not only am I insane enough to do
NaNoWriMo and NoMoBloMo (or whatever the hell it's called), but I'm
also doing a pear journal, because I have a painting I want to do of
pears, and I needs me some practice, practice, practice.

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

Shelly wrote:

Harriet had the good sense to scram when she heard me come back
inside, but since the cat DOES NOT HAVE TEETH, I think it's obvious
who the culprit is.

hee hee hee, reminds me of something I saw on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1MgopJD9g

--
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
work with excellence.

"Shelly" wrote in message
...

Harriet had the good sense to scram when she heard me come back
inside, but since the cat DOES NOT HAVE TEETH, I think it's obvious
who the culprit is.

hehehe, good try harriet!

montana wildhack said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

I probably could have been
a little clearer.

No, it's my bad. Perfectly clear after a later read.

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