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Old February 15th 07, 04:16 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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This ice crust sure does make for easy pooper-scooping! Poop just sits
on the surface, no sinking at all! Heck - *I* didn't sink, and
unfortunately, I'm no lightweight.

I kept expecting to break through the top layer, but it never happened.
Now, that's good and bad. It means the foot deep plow wall at the end
of my driveway, has no hope of being shoveled. Which is bad, because
driving over it isn't simple. OTOH, I'm not even tempted to try to
tackle it again (as I said to DH yesterday, I decided that he would
prefer to drive over a plow wall, than a plow wall AND his wife's
body!), which means I can stay in and content that I've done all I can
do.

I am a worrywort though. Franklin spun out in the yard, down a little
hill, and I'm a bit paranoid about someone breaking something, so no
ball playing as long as we have this skating rink of a yard.

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Old February 15th 07, 04:42 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Suja wrote:

Same-same. I did let the dogs run this morning. Between no dog park and
abbreviated walks, they've just not been getting the kind of exercise
they're used to.


I nearly peed my pants laughing last night. Harriet was a popsicle,
despite being swaddled in a million damned blankets while I trundled
off to work for a few hours. When I came home, the power was back
on, but it took awhile for the house to warm up. It was obvious
when Miss Brown finally thawed out, because she suddenly popped out
of her nest and started tearing around like a beast possessed. It
was *hysterically* funny.

It's supposed to be really cold for the next couple of days, with
snow on Saturday. Then it's supposed to warm up. I'm hoping it'll
be warm and dry enough to get Harriet out for some real exercise,
before we both lose our minds.

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Old February 15th 07, 04:42 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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"Suja" wrote:

So, what I scooped is sitting
next to the can and not in it.


I flush, but let's just say that I need to do a small amount at a time.
That's after I got the pooper-scooper un-stuck from the patio!

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Old February 15th 07, 04:45 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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"Suja" wrote:


The state maintained portion of our road ends well before it reaches our
house. Yesterday, my neighbor talked the plow guy into clearing the whole
thing.


I found this cool thing yesterday, when checking on whether to put my
recycling out or not:

http://snow2.howardcountymd.gov/GridMap.asp?Col=9&Row=3

Sure enough, when the plow finally came down my street, the little red
star was right there!

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Old February 15th 07, 04:46 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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In article ,
Suja wrote:
Yes to all of the above. I did encounter a problem I hadn't foreseen. My
trash can appears to have been iced shut. So, what I scooped is sitting
next to the can and not in it. If the sun does its job, it should thaw out
sufficiently by this evening.


WTF? Kick it hard, or smack it with a heavy object. Unless
it's encased in an ice cube, in which case nevermind.
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Old February 15th 07, 04:58 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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"Janet Boss" wrote in message:

This ice crust sure does make for easy pooper-scooping! Poop just sits
on the surface, no sinking at all! Heck - *I* didn't sink, and
unfortunately, I'm no lightweight.


Yes to all of the above. I did encounter a problem I hadn't foreseen. My
trash can appears to have been iced shut. So, what I scooped is sitting
next to the can and not in it. If the sun does its job, it should thaw out
sufficiently by this evening.

It means the foot deep plow wall at the end
of my driveway, has no hope of being shoveled.


The state maintained portion of our road ends well before it reaches our
house. Yesterday, my neighbor talked the plow guy into clearing the whole
thing. And he helped me clear our driveway. Overall, a very good day that
way, because I wasn't expecting to be able to get out of our street until
the weekend.

I am a worrywort though.


Same-same. I did let the dogs run this morning. Between no dog park and
abbreviated walks, they've just not been getting the kind of exercise
they're used to.

Suja


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Old February 15th 07, 05:26 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Shelly wrote in news:yb%Ah.14921$O02.6366
@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:

I'm hoping it'll
be warm and dry enough to get Harriet out for some real exercise,
before we both lose our minds.


Amen to that. Q's daycare was closed yesterday, which makes us all a bit
sad.

Love the story about the popsicle unthawing! Zoe starts zipping around
like that in the fall -- she prefers the cold, opposite to Harriet.

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Old February 15th 07, 05:34 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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ceb wrote:

Amen to that. Q's daycare was closed yesterday, which makes us all a bit
sad.


Oh dear. Might I suggest a rousing indoor game of
fetch-jump-chase-wrestle? It's not quite the same as an outdoor
romp, but it might help with the crazies.

Love the story about the popsicle unthawing! Zoe starts zipping around
like that in the fall -- she prefers the cold, opposite to Harriet.


Elliott was like that. He was flat for most of the summer, but as
soon as it cooled off in the fall, he'd perk up and turn back into a
puppy.

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Old February 15th 07, 05:47 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Janet Boss wrote:
This ice crust sure does make for easy pooper-scooping! Poop just sits
on the surface, no sinking at all! Heck - *I* didn't sink, and
unfortunately, I'm no lightweight.

I kept expecting to break through the top layer, but it never happened.
Now, that's good and bad. It means the foot deep plow wall at the end
of my driveway, has no hope of being shoveled. Which is bad, because
driving over it isn't simple. OTOH, I'm not even tempted to try to
tackle it again (as I said to DH yesterday, I decided that he would
prefer to drive over a plow wall, than a plow wall AND his wife's
body!), which means I can stay in and content that I've done all I can
do.

I am a worrywort though. Franklin spun out in the yard, down a little
hill, and I'm a bit paranoid about someone breaking something, so no
ball playing as long as we have this skating rink of a yard.


Gotta beware those plow-created ice dams. During the last storm the
plows pushed up an 18" tall ramp of ice at the base of our driveway.
They came by in the middle of the night so the slush had several hours
to freeze quite solid.

So my husband comes home at 7 am, and still unused to the lower ground
clearance of the HHR, winds up with his vehicle stuck straddling the ice
ramp. We all grabbed shovels and chipped away at what we could reach,
followed up with rhythmic rocking and gunning of the engine. We finally
managed an up-and-over that nearly put the front end of the car through
the closed garage door, though not before detaching a strip of trim
molding below the front bumper.

This time I got out there pronto and shovelled not only my driveway but
also the the side section of the street directly upstream. That way,
when the plow came by there wasn't nearly as much snow pushed into my
driveway. And what was dumped there I cleared all out before it had a
chance to freeze solid.

The back deck is icy, though. I worry about the dogs. We've had
several slipping incidents over the past few months. During the last
storm Scully ran outside, couldn't turn and couldn't stop and flew right
through the railing and landed down onto the lawn 5 feet below.

I suspect Zane has had a scare, too. We have two sets of stairs
accessing the deck, the regular ones, and an extremely long set with
wide, shallow risers - handicapped stairs my husband built when my old
BCs started having trouble going up and down the stairs. And Zane's
afraid of both of them when it's icy. I believe he's fallen off one or
both of them during bad weather (which probably wouldn't have happed if
he wasn't in the habit of charging up the steps going full-tilt boogie).

Cooper's main issue is the cold. He just skitters along over the ice
and doesn't seem to have any problem with slipping himself, he just has
to dodge the careening BCs. He's been wearing his fleece windsuit the
past few days, completely without complaint. I take it off him at night
so he doesn't wind up electrocuting himself with the static generated by
friction between his fleece suit and the fleece blanket. And in the
morning he'll actually come to me to have it put on. Poor nekkid terrier...

Kathleen

 




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