pyrnet-l-digest-1 Sunday, January 30, 2005
Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers gypsyunltd@yahoo.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers sirving@rogers.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers jsmiller@newmex.com Re: [pyrnet] Weather Predictions? Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Oliverslb@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Oliverslb@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors Nlduzan@aol.com Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers jsmiller@newmex.com
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:36:23 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
At least coconuts and avocados are eatable :)
Ombre has severely pruned by large, old, beloved rhododendrum just to
play with the sticks.
It's comforting to know that "collecting" is just another trait, and not
all that unusual.
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:06:54 -0800 (PST) From: gypsyunltd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
Gypsy has a rather substantial collection of sticks, rocks, old soda bottles, large pieces of PVC pipe, branches large and small, and the occasional live possum. We've worked pretty hard over the years to teach her the difference between "inside" and "outside" toys, because she used to try to bring them all inside! When she was younger, she would always gather all of her precious possessions together on the deck just before a major storm - and then she would try to stay outside and guard the pile as if protecting it from the storm. Now she's content to put all the "outside" toys under the deck and check on them periodically.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:09:32 -0500 From: sirving@rogers.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
Seamus likes coconuts too. My in laws from Florida bring them for him when they visit. He usually tears them apart, but with the last coconut, he dug a big hole in the yard, placed the coconut in it and sat guarding it day after day !?! He's not much on playing with toys, but will always bring his teddy or another favorite to meet us at the door while making "mum mum" sounds.
Susan
----- Original Message ----- From: Oliverslb@aol.com
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
This may be only a "Florida" thing, but mine love to collect cocnuts!
The puppies, especially TrixieSueFrances, have quite a collection.
For some reason, they insist on sneaking them in the house and
tearing them apart only on the (a) bed or (b) sofa.
I cannot deny them this great source of enjoyment and keep the beds and sofas
covered with washable throws for this reason.
p.s. when avocados are in season they have quacamole parties :)
Regards,
Lisa, Oliver (Beardie), Derby (AussieX),
and Pyrs: CeeCee, and Sophie, Taffy (Kuvasz) and Jelly Sammich (Tibetan Terrier)
TrixieSueFrances and Cubbie (9 mo old Pyrenees pups - :) - ALL RESCUED!
Oliver's House, Incorporated
355 Marlborough Road, W Palm Beach, FL 33405 (561) 659-8356 or 379-8328 cell
"Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of dogs in Palm Beach County"
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:31:38 -0700 From: jsmiller@newmex.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
On 29 Jan 2005 at 21:14, Jason Repko wrote:
Do all Grt Pyrs drag a pile of their "prizes" up to the door?
When my Kazak was a puppy, he was quite spoiled. He had about 9 stuffed toys. One day I watched him go all over the house, picking up one toy at a time and taking it to the front hall. When I finally checked on him, he had all his toys lined up in a row and was guarding them! So yes...I guess they do! :) Probably that old instinct of bunching up the flock or herding the flock into the barn when they sense a predator!
Judith Taos, New Mexico jsmiller@newmex.com http://home.earthlink.net/~ksane/judy/
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:02:08 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Weather Predictions?
Never occurred to me to notice whether the major collections on the deck
coincided with storms. I'll pay closer attention.
Ombre doesn't come into the house, but has dog houses and shelters
outside. She has to "work night shift" at her job of protecting the chicken house.
Since she has been in the back yard, not one wild critter has come over the
fence. Her mere presence effectively does the job.
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:04:28 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
Maybe coconuts would last longer than the rubber balls. :) Before we can mow the lawn, we have to fill the holes Ombre digs.
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:06:26 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
When I finally checked on him, he had all his toys lined up in a row and was guarding them!
What a cute picture.
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:23:45 -0400 From: rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
Wow, Lisa you have quite the house full, yours are eating coconuts and quacamole mine are munching on ice, whats wrong with this picture? I am always interested in the names that people give their animals and Jelly Sammich got my attention but also where did a name like TrixieSueFrances come from?
Jo, Toby and Hannah(Golden)
----- Original Message ----- From: Oliverslb@aol.com
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
This may be only a "Florida" thing, but mine love to collect cocnuts!
The puppies, especially TrixieSueFrances, have quite a collection.
For some reason, they insist on sneaking them in the house and
tearing them apart only on the (a) bed or (b) sofa.
I cannot deny them this great source of enjoyment and keep the beds and sofas
covered with washable throws for this reason.
p.s. when avocados are in season they have quacamole parties :)
Regards,
Lisa, Oliver (Beardie), Derby (AussieX),
and Pyrs: CeeCee, and Sophie, Taffy (Kuvasz) and Jelly Sammich (Tibetan Terrier)
TrixieSueFrances and Cubbie (9 mo old Pyrenees pups - :) - ALL RESCUED!
Oliver's House, Incorporated
355 Marlborough Road, W Palm Beach, FL 33405 (561) 659-8356 or 379-8328 cell
"Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of dogs in Palm Beach County"
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:29:49 -0400 From: rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
Our Pyr Toby is very like Christine's Cody, he likes to watch the world go by and is not that interested in "things" but I was wondering Nancy, how come your female Pyr is called Ombre, am I getting confused with the word "hombre" does her name have a girly meaning?
Jo, Toby and Hannah(Golden)
----- Original Message ----- From: Nlduzan@aol.com
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
Ombre is just a year old. We were hoping that she'd outgrow her tree limb collecting and blanket dragging and bush pruning. It's impossible to keep bedding in her house because she drags it all out and plays with it until it's torn to shreds.
It's entertaining just to watch her play with her stuff. The best we can do is try to persuade her to pile her collection somewhere other than the back deck.
She's our first Great Pyr and she has us totally enchanted. :)
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:02:45 EST From: Oliverslb@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca writes:
yours are eating coconuts and quacamole mine are munching on ice, whats wrong
with this picture? I am always interested in the names that people give their
animals and Jelly Sammich got my attention but also where did a name like
TrixieSueFrances come from?
Thanks for your message, Jo!
Coincidentally, mine also love ice and have two buckets of cubes downstairs
ready
for our visit to the dogpark this afternoon. I am constantly begging ice
from restaurants and places where I frequent that have the machines I also freeze
stainless buckets 1/2 full so I always have it available if I am unsuccessful
in my treking through Palm Beach County.
I am a rescue and my best goal is to have the adopting owners name their own
dogs when the bring them into their lives. When I got three Pyr puppies last
June from ACC I named them Tide, Wisk, and Cheer (my life became ALL about
laundry). Tide was adopted by a horse farm in Winter Park and is now known as
Argus. Cheer became Chubby and then Cubbie and he is staying here. Wisk has
always been a Trixie from the first 30 seconds I laid eyes on her - she is full
of the devil and the only girl. I wanted her name to be Souffle (very French)
and somehow she became TrixieSou...then the first Hurricane "Frances" wherein
she ran out of the gate and I was literally running on hundreds of
grapefruits trying to catch her - thus, TrixieSueFrances. Many people ask if she was
named after the saint and I reply she is no saint - she was named after a
hurricane!
Jelly was a Newfie I met at a dogpark in Wellington a few years ago and I
loved the name because you cannot say it without smiling. I rescued what I was
told was a Beardie (turned into a Tibetan Terrier) from ACC last April and
decided to name him Jelly (or JellyMan). He is usually sandwiched between the
two remaining Pyr pups who act like slices of white bread so he is the Jelly in
the Pyr sammich. Taffy was thought to be a Pyr that turned out to be a
Kuvasz and had been hit by a car and taken to ACC. She had a broken hip, two
breaks to the pelvis, and her femur was in six pieces - she had three huge
surgeries and was on a morphine patch for almost a month. During that time she became
very attached "stuck" to me and so she became my sticky, chewy Taffy.
From my recent tames, Taffy, Jelly, and Souffle; one may think that I have been hungry the past year...
Thanks for asking and helping me to remember how special these wonders are!
If you would like to see a picture I can e-mail it to you directly!
Best regards,
Lisa, Oliver (Beardie), Derby (AussieX),
and Pyrs: CeeCee, and Sophie, Taffy (Kuvasz) and Jelly Sammich (Tibetan
Terrier)
TrixieSueFrances and Cubbie (9 mo old Pyrenees pups - :) - ALL RESCUED!
Oliver's House, Incorporated
355 Marlborough Road, W Palm Beach, FL 33405 (561) 659-8356 or 379-8328 cell
"Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of dogs in Palm Beach
County"
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:03:24 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
We picked the name Ombre blindly from French translation of the world
"shadow" (and in our total ignorance of the French language.) It is commonly
assumed that we meant the Spanish word "hombre", and we pronounce it that way.
Once we finally found someone who could pronounce Ombre in proper French, we
found that it strains our Midwestern mouth muscles to say it correctly. :)
Bottom line is: She doesn't care a bit and comes galloping across the
yard no matter how we pronounce her name. :)
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:09:27 EST From: Oliverslb@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:04:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Nlduzan@aol.com writes:
Maybe coconuts would last longer than the rubber balls. :)
Definitely! If you have access to whole coconuts they are a great source of
entertainment (though a little messy when the coconut hair gets all over the
place).
My vacuum bags are filled with white Pyr fur and brown coconut fur :)
We don't do tennis balls anymore as they all became "naked" with their felt
removed.
Even my hardest of rubber balls have big chunks taken out of them from the
puppies chewing.
I only let them have the dried (not green) coconuts and I shake them first to
make sure the milk has even be dried out of them. Maybe I could start a new
business of dog toys - All Natural Coconut Dog Toys!
Mine also loved the frozen pint sized water bottles when they were teething
and still love crunching on an empy water bottle. I have seen toys in pet
stores that have the crackly water bottle sounds inside of them so I guess someone
has already thought of that.
Regards,
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:23:59 -0400 From: rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
Thank you for the explaining your dogs names, Lisa, you have such an imagination, I just go the easy route and choose people names, although my first Bernese we called Pharoah for some reason. We adopted a 9 year old Pyr who was called Challenger, we thought it an odd name at the time but we shortened it to Challi, he was definitely not a challenge he was a sweet boy. Our other Bernese was Gus, adopted adult Golden Abby, female Bernese Chloe, adopted adult Golden Jake. our now Pyr Toby and Golden Hannah.:o) I would love to see photos, thank you. The reason my guys are eating ice is because we are surrounded by it here in Nova Scotia, Canada Brrr!!!
Jo, Toby and Hannah(Golden)
----- Original Message ----- From: Oliverslb@aol.com
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca writes:
yours are eating coconuts and quacamole mine are munching on ice, whats wrong with this picture? I am always interested in the names that people give their animals and Jelly Sammich got my attention but also where did a name like TrixieSueFrances come from?
Thanks for your message, Jo!
Coincidentally, mine also love ice and have two buckets of cubes downstairs ready
for our visit to the dogpark this afternoon. I am constantly begging ice from restaurants and places where I frequent that have the machines I also freeze stainless buckets 1/2 full so I always have it available if I am unsuccessful in my treking through Palm Beach County.
I am a rescue and my best goal is to have the adopting owners name their own dogs when the bring them into their lives. When I got three Pyr puppies last June from ACC I named them Tide, Wisk, and Cheer (my life became ALL about laundry). Tide was adopted by a horse farm in Winter Park and is now known as Argus. Cheer became Chubby and then Cubbie and he is staying here. Wisk has always been a Trixie from the first 30 seconds I laid eyes on her - she is full of the devil and the only girl. I wanted her name to be Souffle (very French) and somehow she became TrixieSou...then the first Hurricane "Frances" wherein she ran out of the gate and I was literally running on hundreds of grapefruits trying to catch her - thus, TrixieSueFrances. Many people ask if she was named after the saint and I reply she is no saint - she was named after a hurricane!
Jelly was a Newfie I met at a dogpark in Wellington a few years ago and I loved the name because you cannot say it without smiling. I rescued what I was told was a Beardie (turned into a Tibetan Terrier) from ACC last April and decided to name him Jelly (or JellyMan). He is usually sandwiched between the two remaining Pyr pups who act like slices of white bread so he is the Jelly in the Pyr sammich. Taffy was thought to be a Pyr that turned out to be a Kuvasz and had been hit by a car and taken to ACC. She had a broken hip, two breaks to the pelvis, and her femur was in six pieces - she had three huge surgeries and was on a morphine patch for almost a month. During that time she became very attached "stuck" to me and so she became my sticky, chewy Taffy.
From my recent tames, Taffy, Jelly, and Souffle; one may think that I have been hungry the past year...
Thanks for asking and helping me to remember how special these wonders are!
If you would like to see a picture I can e-mail it to you directly!
Best regards,
Lisa, Oliver (Beardie), Derby (AussieX),
and Pyrs: CeeCee, and Sophie, Taffy (Kuvasz) and Jelly Sammich (Tibetan Terrier)
TrixieSueFrances and Cubbie (9 mo old Pyrenees pups - :) - ALL RESCUED!
Oliver's House, Incorporated
355 Marlborough Road, W Palm Beach, FL 33405 (561) 659-8356 or 379-8328 cell
"Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of dogs in Palm Beach County"
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:36:02 -0400 From: rnjhodgson@eastlink.ca Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
Of course she does, it is a great name. Whenever we have been expecting to bring home a puppy I would spend hours pouring over the books that list endless choices of names, it would become an obsession to get the right name, but I almost always went for people names, I am obviously not very imaginative :o)
Jo, Toby (Pyr named after his English grandfather) and Hannah (Golden named after her Mother.)
----- Original Message ----- From: Nlduzan@aol.com
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
We picked the name Ombre blindly from French translation of the world "shadow" (and in our total ignorance of the French language.) It is commonly assumed that we meant the Spanish word "hombre", and we pronounce it that way. Once we finally found someone who could pronounce Ombre in proper French, we found that it strains our Midwestern mouth muscles to say it correctly. :)
Bottom line is: She doesn't care a bit and comes galloping across the yard no matter how we pronounce her name. :)
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:03:31 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
whole coconuts they are a great source of entertainment
Maybe you're on to something there. Not many coconut trees here in Southern
Indiana. The mud is frozen solid. Sell them as dog toys on e-Bay. :)
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:10:18 EST From: Nlduzan@aol.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Stick Collectors
an obsession to get the right name
Ombre (shadow) was chosen because as a puppy she followed hubby while he
was doing the critter chores outside, just like a fluffy white shadow. It was
an obvious name based on her own behavior; but our neighbors have a dog named
Shadow, so we had to get creative and make it a translation.
Fortunately, the neighbor's dog doesn't understand French (at least the
way we pronounce it) and doesn't respond to "Ombre", so there's no conflict.
Nancy
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:41:04 -0700 From: jsmiller@newmex.com Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Our Clothesline Robbers
On 30 Jan 2005 at 13:02, Oliverslb@aol.com wrote:
From my recent tames, Taffy, Jelly, and Souffle; one may think that I have been hungry the past year...
I have a young fella in rescue now who is petrified to walk inside a
building on any kind of flooring...the shelter was calling him Bert, but we
call him skidmark as he plants his butt, splays his rear legs and we skid
him across the floor. I finally moved his crate to just inside the back
door and Skidmark is being so brave now, taking 3 big steps across the
evil floor into his crate...LOL!
Judith Taos, New Mexico jsmiller@newmex.com http://home.earthlink.net/~ksane/judy/
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