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trimmed my front garden
Jun. 4th, 2023 10:18 pmHere's a picture of when I stopped weeding:
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Hope it's good enough. It's been raining for days. It's going to rain for at least another week. The little dog still needs to be carried outside suddenly and frequently, but is too miserable to do anything once he gets there.
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He gets a towel and a blow-dry when he comes in.
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Hope it's good enough. It's been raining for days. It's going to rain for at least another week. The little dog still needs to be carried outside suddenly and frequently, but is too miserable to do anything once he gets there.
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He gets a towel and a blow-dry when he comes in.
morning. dog. garden.
May. 29th, 2021 11:30 pmMorning used to be get up, let the dogs out, start the coffee, let the dogs in, give them breakfast, let them out again, drink coffee and start thinking about the day. But Dutch hurt her foot and is not allowed to race around, so now the morning starts get up, take the cone off, put the leash on, walk the dog around the back yard until she pees.
When I got Dutch, she would not relieve herself on leash. She knew that peeing in the house was Bad, but apparently peeing near a person was Worse. She spent a long time alternately in the crate and leashed to me, and eventually she learned that peeing outside is Good, even when there is a person on the other end of the leash.
But apparently being on leash AND in the back yard is a completely different, confusing new situation, and peeing in this new situation might very well be Bad. So we walk around and around, while I chirp "Go pee!" and she tries to rush back into the house whenever we get near the steps.
Sometimes she'll squat and immediately stand up again, without peeing, so I think she knows what we're there for. She just can't bring herself to risk it.
Dogs' brains. Gotta love em.
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When I got Dutch, she would not relieve herself on leash. She knew that peeing in the house was Bad, but apparently peeing near a person was Worse. She spent a long time alternately in the crate and leashed to me, and eventually she learned that peeing outside is Good, even when there is a person on the other end of the leash.
But apparently being on leash AND in the back yard is a completely different, confusing new situation, and peeing in this new situation might very well be Bad. So we walk around and around, while I chirp "Go pee!" and she tries to rush back into the house whenever we get near the steps.
Sometimes she'll squat and immediately stand up again, without peeing, so I think she knows what we're there for. She just can't bring herself to risk it.
Dogs' brains. Gotta love em.
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Generational differences: I sent ( this photo ) to my sister and my nieces and said "I got a dog!!!". My sister's first question was "Girl or boy?" My niece's first question was "What's their name?"
Her name is Dutch. It didn't come from Killjoys, but after I said "Dutch", I thought about Hannah John-Kamen in lots of dark eye makeup, and it stuck.
Her name is Dutch. It didn't come from Killjoys, but after I said "Dutch", I thought about Hannah John-Kamen in lots of dark eye makeup, and it stuck.
Tiny dog loves having people over, but it presents him with a problem: whichever lap he is sitting in, he can see another lap that needs sitting in. Tiny dog is a problem solver:
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