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Old September 27th 03, 08:15 PM
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Crikey Suja your house sounds like mine. Someone asked today why I always
have a perfumed candle in the hearth, am I candle mad? The truth...my lounge
stinks of dog (not urine or anything similar just a dogy smell)....I'm going
to rip up the carpets, floorboards don't retain smells.

I don't like strangers in my house but if it's necessary I don't have a
problem, if it were the choice of me having a dog or not then that's fine as
my house is a dogs haven, certainly not aimed at humans

Shell

"Suja" wrote in message
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Chris Jung wrote:

My biggest concern with having people in my house is that I'm a -ahem-
"casual" housekeeper.


Mine as well. There is always newspaper strewn about, and assorted
computer parts and tools scattered around. Of course, DH starts
disrobing as soon as he enters the house, so there is also a little
obstacle course consisting of shoes, ties, socks, and an odd sweat shirt
or two.
Dave and I putter around absent mindedly and don't realized how junky

this
place looks until people visit.


Ditto. I get a little upset when people give me little or no warning
before showing up. But, I have greatly improved in the efficiency with
which I straighten up (read stick clutter where it is out of sight), and
have also loosened my definition for what "neat" is.

but after 4 weeks at Frau Jung's School for Kitten Hooligans, they have

been
socialized up the wazoo and are ready to cause major havoc in their new
family's homes.


Yay! Do they have homes waiting for them already?

Suja



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  #812  
Old September 27th 03, 08:16 PM
Debbie the Underdogged
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In article ,
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Subject: Home Visit Checklist?
From: Suja

Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2003 1:47 PM
Message-id: M5kdb.21539$sp2.14295@lakeread04

Chris Jung wrote:

My biggest concern with having people in my house is that I'm a -ahem-
"casual" housekeeper.


No problemo here,as I do not even notice, and take this from someone who is a
neat nick.


I'm not even a "casual" housekeeper, I'm a complete slob.

I was terrified when Susan, the rescue lady from whom I adopted Tanner,
came for her home visit. It was the first time I'd had a home visit;
even though all my critters were adopted, I'd gotten them from city
animal shelters that didn't do visists (except for Laika who I took
when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc. What she found was a messy house
scattered with cat and dog toys and beds, and 3 contented cats and one
happy dog. She'd brought Tanner with her and left him with me on the
spot (for a one-week evaluation to see if he would fit in to my
household - I called her the next day to say "yes'!). Since then, Susan
and I have become very good friends, and when I adopted Dolly, her
rescuer knew Susan and took her word that I'd be a good dogmom. I leave
my dogs with one or the other when I go out of town. I really like
having this relationship with both of the rescuers, as I know I can call
them when I have questions and that my dogs will always have a safe
place to go if necessary (Susan took care of them for a couple of weeks
when I was recovering from surgery, and I have it in my will that either
she or the other person will get the dogs for rehoming).

--
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"I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years."
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  #813  
Old September 27th 03, 08:16 PM
Debbie the Underdogged
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In article ,
says...
Subject: Home Visit Checklist?
From: Suja

Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2003 1:47 PM
Message-id: M5kdb.21539$sp2.14295@lakeread04

Chris Jung wrote:

My biggest concern with having people in my house is that I'm a -ahem-
"casual" housekeeper.


No problemo here,as I do not even notice, and take this from someone who is a
neat nick.


I'm not even a "casual" housekeeper, I'm a complete slob.

I was terrified when Susan, the rescue lady from whom I adopted Tanner,
came for her home visit. It was the first time I'd had a home visit;
even though all my critters were adopted, I'd gotten them from city
animal shelters that didn't do visists (except for Laika who I took
when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc. What she found was a messy house
scattered with cat and dog toys and beds, and 3 contented cats and one
happy dog. She'd brought Tanner with her and left him with me on the
spot (for a one-week evaluation to see if he would fit in to my
household - I called her the next day to say "yes'!). Since then, Susan
and I have become very good friends, and when I adopted Dolly, her
rescuer knew Susan and took her word that I'd be a good dogmom. I leave
my dogs with one or the other when I go out of town. I really like
having this relationship with both of the rescuers, as I know I can call
them when I have questions and that my dogs will always have a safe
place to go if necessary (Susan took care of them for a couple of weeks
when I was recovering from surgery, and I have it in my will that either
she or the other person will get the dogs for rehoming).

--
Debbie the Underdogged das at spamcop dot net
"I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years."
_Steel Magnolias_
  #814  
Old September 27th 03, 08:16 PM
Debbie the Underdogged
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In article ,
says...
Subject: Home Visit Checklist?
From: Suja

Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2003 1:47 PM
Message-id: M5kdb.21539$sp2.14295@lakeread04

Chris Jung wrote:

My biggest concern with having people in my house is that I'm a -ahem-
"casual" housekeeper.


No problemo here,as I do not even notice, and take this from someone who is a
neat nick.


I'm not even a "casual" housekeeper, I'm a complete slob.

I was terrified when Susan, the rescue lady from whom I adopted Tanner,
came for her home visit. It was the first time I'd had a home visit;
even though all my critters were adopted, I'd gotten them from city
animal shelters that didn't do visists (except for Laika who I took
when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc. What she found was a messy house
scattered with cat and dog toys and beds, and 3 contented cats and one
happy dog. She'd brought Tanner with her and left him with me on the
spot (for a one-week evaluation to see if he would fit in to my
household - I called her the next day to say "yes'!). Since then, Susan
and I have become very good friends, and when I adopted Dolly, her
rescuer knew Susan and took her word that I'd be a good dogmom. I leave
my dogs with one or the other when I go out of town. I really like
having this relationship with both of the rescuers, as I know I can call
them when I have questions and that my dogs will always have a safe
place to go if necessary (Susan took care of them for a couple of weeks
when I was recovering from surgery, and I have it in my will that either
she or the other person will get the dogs for rehoming).

--
Debbie the Underdogged das at spamcop dot net
"I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years."
_Steel Magnolias_
  #815  
Old September 27th 03, 08:20 PM
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"Gwen Watson" wrote in message
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Suja wrote:

Went on to declare bankrupcy later.

Suja


And that makes her an unfit dog owner???

Just curious. I sort of find this implication
offensive.

I have never done that but I think filing
backrupcy and being a good dog
owner have nothing to do with each
other at all.


Jumping in a little late here but................

But as some one who has lost money because someone filed bankruptcy, I would
find it interesting information. I know people get in over their heads and
bankruptcy has become like calling a big Mulligan and starting over. It's
not starting over for the guy who never gets paid back. And they're not all
big banks and credit card companies.

I *do* find it a moral issue. If you owe someone money, you owe someone
money. There are extreme situations where I would find it *less* offensive
than others, but I know too many people who spend the rest of their lives
making it right again to accept that most people can't do that.

If you promise to pay me and you don't - ever - , I would also question the
promise you are making to a dog.

~~Judy


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Old September 27th 03, 08:20 PM
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"Gwen Watson" wrote in message
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Suja wrote:

Went on to declare bankrupcy later.

Suja


And that makes her an unfit dog owner???

Just curious. I sort of find this implication
offensive.

I have never done that but I think filing
backrupcy and being a good dog
owner have nothing to do with each
other at all.


Jumping in a little late here but................

But as some one who has lost money because someone filed bankruptcy, I would
find it interesting information. I know people get in over their heads and
bankruptcy has become like calling a big Mulligan and starting over. It's
not starting over for the guy who never gets paid back. And they're not all
big banks and credit card companies.

I *do* find it a moral issue. If you owe someone money, you owe someone
money. There are extreme situations where I would find it *less* offensive
than others, but I know too many people who spend the rest of their lives
making it right again to accept that most people can't do that.

If you promise to pay me and you don't - ever - , I would also question the
promise you are making to a dog.

~~Judy


  #817  
Old September 27th 03, 08:20 PM
queenmother
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"Gwen Watson" wrote in message
...


Suja wrote:

Went on to declare bankrupcy later.

Suja


And that makes her an unfit dog owner???

Just curious. I sort of find this implication
offensive.

I have never done that but I think filing
backrupcy and being a good dog
owner have nothing to do with each
other at all.


Jumping in a little late here but................

But as some one who has lost money because someone filed bankruptcy, I would
find it interesting information. I know people get in over their heads and
bankruptcy has become like calling a big Mulligan and starting over. It's
not starting over for the guy who never gets paid back. And they're not all
big banks and credit card companies.

I *do* find it a moral issue. If you owe someone money, you owe someone
money. There are extreme situations where I would find it *less* offensive
than others, but I know too many people who spend the rest of their lives
making it right again to accept that most people can't do that.

If you promise to pay me and you don't - ever - , I would also question the
promise you are making to a dog.

~~Judy


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Old September 27th 03, 08:21 PM
Suja
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Debbie the Underdogged wrote:

when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc.


You know, I know at least one person who tells potential adopters that
if she finds the house utterly spotless, they're probably not getting a
dog from her. She said that she knows of no one who is OCD about having
their home dirt and hair free (to say nothing of the occasional vomit
and diarrhea) who would make a good dog person. FWIW, I think that she
was only half kidding, although it certainly seemed to put the potential
adopters at ease.

One of the HVs I did, I walked in, and when asked whether I'd like to
see the house, told them that the point of the visit was to get to know
them and not to inspect the house. The guy blurted out 'You mean there
was no need for me to shove everything in the closet?' We had a good
laugh about that.

Suja

  #819  
Old September 27th 03, 08:21 PM
Suja
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Debbie the Underdogged wrote:

when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc.


You know, I know at least one person who tells potential adopters that
if she finds the house utterly spotless, they're probably not getting a
dog from her. She said that she knows of no one who is OCD about having
their home dirt and hair free (to say nothing of the occasional vomit
and diarrhea) who would make a good dog person. FWIW, I think that she
was only half kidding, although it certainly seemed to put the potential
adopters at ease.

One of the HVs I did, I walked in, and when asked whether I'd like to
see the house, told them that the point of the visit was to get to know
them and not to inspect the house. The guy blurted out 'You mean there
was no need for me to shove everything in the closet?' We had a good
laugh about that.

Suja

  #820  
Old September 27th 03, 08:21 PM
Suja
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Debbie the Underdogged wrote:

when my mom died). I'd picked up the house (sort-of), but was still
very uneasy. However, she told me she wasn't there to judge my
housekeeping, but to check out how dog-friendly my house was, how my
other pets looked and acted, etc.


You know, I know at least one person who tells potential adopters that
if she finds the house utterly spotless, they're probably not getting a
dog from her. She said that she knows of no one who is OCD about having
their home dirt and hair free (to say nothing of the occasional vomit
and diarrhea) who would make a good dog person. FWIW, I think that she
was only half kidding, although it certainly seemed to put the potential
adopters at ease.

One of the HVs I did, I walked in, and when asked whether I'd like to
see the house, told them that the point of the visit was to get to know
them and not to inspect the house. The guy blurted out 'You mean there
was no need for me to shove everything in the closet?' We had a good
laugh about that.

Suja

 




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