[pyrnet] "Cool dogs"

[Rhonda Collins <rhonda@castlepublishing.com>]

Yep, Pyrs seem to definitely prefer the cold.
Understandable, I suppose, with all that hair. Down here in Texas, where
it can soar to 120 degrees in the summer, Newman MUCH prefers air
conditioning during the summer (loving to sleep in the bathtub or on the
porcelain tile), and now that it's winter, if it's the least bit cold, he
prefers it out THERE instead of in the house. As someone else commented,
you don't see him panting as much (or slobbering as much) in cooler
weather, either.

And speaking of the "Newman Dog" as our dog trainer calls him,
he goes tomorrow for his "graduation" from his obedience class.
We'll see if he passes. LOL!  

I gave him a "mini-bath" tonight to try to get rid of the
yellow under his chin and at the elbows and the pinkish stain under his
ears. BTW, anybody got any suggestions for the best whitening shampoo to
use to get rid of those stains? I swear, I'm going to make that dog wear
a bib! For the most part, the rest of his body stays pearly white, but
under his chin, under his ears and at his "elbows" in front, he
gets stained. I'm  curious, too, as to why he ends up with pinkish
stains under his ears--I clean his ears, and they don't LOOK dirty
inside, but the hair directly under his ears gets stained. He had ear
mites when we got him, but we doctored those away, and he's on
Revolution, now, which is supposed to do the trick for heart worms,
fleas, and ear mites, and as I said, the ears LOOK clean and I keep them
that way...so why the pinkish stain? 

As for  inadvertent "injuries", I may have mentioned that
Newman almost broke my finger the last time I grabbed his collar to catch
him when he didn't want to be caught. He did a gymnast's flip, throwing
himself into the air, twisting and doing an about-face...taking my finger
(which was caught in his collar) with him. May not have broken it, but he
definitely sprained it.

Marie, is Valentino the dog whose picture is on the PyrAngel webpage,
where it says he was adopted? I'm so happy for you...and definitely for
HIM!