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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Eva...chillin.
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cts
Social climber
sw PA
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Good looking Dobie, Cts!
Life is good.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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A classic study in Body Language.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Chaz. The pic with the rodent hanging out reminded me of when my beloved but departed dog would catch gophers and moles and as I would try to get them away she would crunch down on them. It was worse than fingernails across a blackboard. Susan
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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Susan,
I had a dog worse than a cat with her "gifts." We would wake up with a collection on the back porch.
AFS
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Cash (The Man in Black) is definitely part Rottie--markings, temperament, intelligence--and they told me part shepherd
Maggie is supposedly lab/shepherd...i can see the lab, the rest i'm not so sure
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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I know that face! I swear it's a shepherd face with their expressive eyebrows.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Maggie has lost weight, John is gaining...
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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thank you, ekat
i'm very lucky; both are rescues (www.lostdogrescue.org) and great dogs...maggie had some fairly serious separation anxiety--she lived her first three years in shelters from georgia to tennessee and finally virginia--but, with a little patience and a lot of affection, has finally left the crate (with only the rare and minor relapse)
we all love puppies, but there are some great dogs out there who will repay you many times over for rescuing them...my friends can't believe cash was at the rescue for over a year because he is such a great dog
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Took the pups to the lake today. We didn't know if Ginny (about a year old) was going to like the water or jump right in. When we walked down to the beach and the water, she waded in up to her hocks and laid right down in the water mystery solved. They both got a huge workout today!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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When we walked down to the beach and the water, she waded in up to her hocks and laid right down in the water mystery solved. They both got a huge workout today!
Another happy dog, another happy Dad. Kick Asss$$ss!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Ekat... Which one of those is the separation anxiety stuff?
The Weim in the pic above is a rescue and she has some separation issues.
She is a sweetie, but would love for her to be able to chill out a bit when we're gone.
We're running out of sheets (she shreds them and then tears into the mattress).
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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thanks for the advice, ekat, i used some emotional therapy
maggie loves her crate; i still put her in if i have to take cash to the vet, groomer, etc.; but i felt guilty keeping her crated for so long while i was at work
so, after work and on weekends, i started taking her everywhere with me: the store, the po, the gas station, etc...first shorter trips, then longer ones to home depot, the bookstore, rei, where she'd be in the car for an hour or more
when i left her in the car, i stroked her and repeated, "you stay here...be a good girl...i'll be back..."
then i started leaving her at home; first, for five-ten minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, etc...and every time, i repeated the mantra: "you stay here...be a good girl...i'll be back..."; this went on for about 6 months
i still say it to her when i leave; occasionally, i'll find a a chewed up tissue she's taken out of the trash or a corner of one of her blankets chewed on but i consider her rehabbed
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