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Thankfully now, My dogs don't have to stay put longer than 4 hours. They
either go with me, Or I leave them with a sitter.

My dogs are rarely alone for more than four hours at a time either. It's
not because of them, they are fine. 100% reliable with the run of the
house.

It's me. I get separation anxiety and have to see them at the four hour
point. That's about as long as I can go without a Jake and Ricki Lee fix.

They are awfully good dogs in spite of me.
Karla

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"diddy" none wrote in message
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(snip)

Thankfully now, My dogs don't have to stay put longer than 4 hours. They
either go with me, Or I leave them with a sitter.

My dogs are rarely alone for more than four hours at a time either. It's
not because of them, they are fine. 100% reliable with the run of the
house.

It's me. I get separation anxiety and have to see them at the four hour
point. That's about as long as I can go without a Jake and Ricki Lee
fix.

They are awfully good dogs in spite of me.
Karla
That's me. If I'm gone longer than 4 hours, I take them with me.
I'm headed to Michigan this week. 3 people, 3 dogs and a duck. The horse
gets to stay home.

In article ,
Rocky wrote:


How old is she? With new dogs and puppies, I like to start
giving freedom at night when I'm semi-supervising.

We're scheduling to start that on February 1st (the 4 month mark). Wish
us luck!

When I got Friday from a rescue it was pretty much the same
situation as yours. I had another dog and they'd be alone up
to 10 hours a day. Different adopters have different
criterea, one should "shop" around.

You bet. Having a plan is really what it's all about.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

In article , diddy none
wrote:

If I'm gone longer than 4 hours, I take them with me.
I'm headed to Michigan this week. 3 people, 3 dogs and a duck.

We've brought ducks on travels. Dead. In a cooler.

I try not to leave my crew for longer than 6 hours. Even that is
not-so-common. I recently had a 2-party day and I was going to be gone
for 10.5 hours. I had my in-laws come stay with the adult dogs and
cats. Marcie was actually invited to the first party, so she went along
and then went home with a friend while I was at the second party. She
got to play with her uncle, which she thought was very cool. I could
enjoy myself.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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In article , diddy none
wrote:

If I'm gone longer than 4 hours, I take them with me.
I'm headed to Michigan this week. 3 people, 3 dogs and a duck.

We've brought ducks on travels. Dead. In a cooler
Ducks in coolers are a good thing. This is a duck in a crate.

I try not to leave my crew for longer than 6 hours. Even that is
not-so-common. I recently had a 2-party day and I was going to be gone
for 10.5 hours. I had my in-laws come stay with the adult dogs and
cats. Marcie was actually invited to the first party, so she went along
and then went home with a friend while I was at the second party. She
got to play with her uncle, which she thought was very cool. I could
enjoy myself.


YaY Marcie, the party girl!

In article , diddy none
wrote:


Ducks in coolers are a good thing. This is a duck in a crate.

For what purpose is this duck? I have to admit that bringing a
semi-frozen duck along to GA was a bit of an odd thing to do, but I
needed to do some work prior to the field stuff at the specialty, so he
came along.

it was obviously worth it:

http://www.gondolinretrievers.com/Ph...s/FCRSA05/Hunt
/7-WCALand/25-24/pages/KH7C2482.html

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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in :

In article , diddy none
wrote:


Ducks in coolers are a good thing. This is a duck in a crate.

For what purpose is this duck? I have to admit that bringing a
semi-frozen duck along to GA was a bit of an odd thing to do, but I
needed to do some work prior to the field stuff at the specialty, so he
came along.

it was obviously worth it:

http://www.gondolinretrievers.com/Ph...s/FCRSA05/Hunt
/7-WCALand/25-24/pages/KH7C2482.html


We are going to a primitive archery hub-bub in Kalamazoo. On the way, there
is a Muscovy Duck breeder, and we are swapping bloodlines.

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Nice retrieve! And so happy doing it!

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

How old is she? With new dogs and puppies, I like to
start giving freedom at night when I'm
semi-supervising.

We're scheduling to start that on February 1st (the 4 month
mark). Wish us luck!

I'm sure that it'll work out, though with one or two foibles.
Maybe had many more "mistakes" than did puppy Rocky and was not
reliable at night until she was about 6 months old. (She was
still uncrated - I just watched my step in the morning.)

I'm thinking that girls are more difficult to housetrain than
boys. Boy puppies seem to give more indication. Girls quickly
squat'n'pee.

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

In article ,
Rocky wrote:


I'm thinking that girls are more difficult to housetrain than
boys. Boy puppies seem to give more indication. Girls quickly
squat'n'pee.

The only accidents we ever have are poop! She holds her urine very
well, and always pees when asked when I take her out. Her pooping is a
bit different, because of her privacy thing. So I have found a poop
behind a piece of furniture. She poops very fast, so a trot down the
hall to get her goose and back again, could result in a little pile,
with the speed of light.

We have another issue though. Marcie carries her blanket around and
chews on the tag. This morning, she was doing just that, when I
realized that the Dyson cord was under the blanket and was the object of
the teeth.

The Dyson is now off at the shop getting a new cord. That's what I get
for sitting right next to her, looking right at her, and assuming things
were status quo.

The cord was not plugged in and we have some Bitter Apple gel that we'll
do some setups with, as well as treat any cord in the bedroom prior to
2/1.

Oh yeah - her goose has a little spot of blood on it. 16 weeks old
today, I believe we are experiencing the first tooth loss - wahoo!

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com