Re: [pyrnet] Re: Pyr Smiles

["Susan Irving" <sirving@rogers.com>]

We are often up for hours before Jasmine decides to get up out of bed and
come downstairs. She also doesn't like to go for walks when it is raining
and is not all that interested in any type of dog food (people food, as long
as it isn't fruit or veggies is another matter!)
 My friends with dogs who are not pyrs think this is very strange
Susan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Helfrich-Will" <moomoney@sigecom.net>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:22 PM
Subject: RE: [pyrnet] Re: Pyr Smiles


> Hello All,
>
> I just wanted to share my constant amazement for the pyr breed.
>
> Today I had to go out of town at 7:00 am for a business trip and would
> not return home until 7:00 pm.
>
> So, worried about my pyr baby Rex being in his outside kennel so long
> without being about to take a good run through his 7 acres woods, I got
> up at 5:00 am in order to let him have the opportunity to play and run
> in the woods until 7:00 am.
>
> When I approached his kennel at 5:00 am he was sleeping inside his
> dogaloo.  I had to actually physically wake him up, talk to him for a
> bit while rubbing his head.  Then I had to beg him to stand up and go
> into the woods for an early and only daylight run.
>
> Thinking I was a caring pyr mother, willing to sacrifice 2 hours of
> sleep in order to make sure my pyr baby Rex could get time in the woods
> to play before my business trip, I was shocked after I let him into the
> woods.  He walked into the woods, stood still, looked around for about 1
> minute and turned to only walk inside and lay down in his dogaloo
> located inside the wooded seven acres.
>
> So, I guess it didn't pay to offer him an early morning romp.  Let a
> sleeping pyr lie, because he is sleeping and you make him get up and
> move to another area, he will then just promptly lay back down to sleep
> because that was what he was doing before you bothered him.
>
> Go figure?
>
> Jennifer Helfrich-Will, HFA
> www.askjennifer.info
> www.nursinghomeadministrators.net
>
>
>
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