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04-15-2008 09:14 PM |
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Originally Posted by Loryn
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I can't wait to take Coty to the park and on a trip. With my back and stuff it's not good for me to be running but I want her to get that exercise so great idea on the bike, thank you. Of course I will have to work her up to that pace and I can ride slowly. Now I just have to buy a bike, anything for Coty. Funny story on your puppy though, I can just see him getting chanced and having the look of HA HA HA HA HA and the other dog serious like I am going to get you. I could watch that all day. LOL
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I actually did watch it nearly all day. The other dog was about the biggest beefiest and meanest springer spaniel I've ever seen, and he ("Joe") was hell-bent on tearing Sully a new one. Round and round the cabin he chased Sully, but my dog was just too fast for him. Sully kept turning as he ran, looking back at Joe like "Hey isn't this fun? hahahaha!" :D
Joe eventually quit and went to lay down for a snooze, all tuckered out. Sully took a walk with us down to the lake. lol
Btw I hear you on the bad back and the no running thing. With my back I can't run for shit either, just short spurts and that's it.... certainly nothing that would give a good-sized dog any workout. I used to have my first dog (25 years ago) chase me while I rode my motorcycle around the bay, and he got so fast it was scary, from that. So the mountain bike thing just seemed to be the way to go with Sully and sure enough, he took to it and used to go crazy with excitement whenever I'd take the bike out with us.
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Originally Posted by Loryn
(Post 14073261)
Coty doesn't feel like this is her house yet, but if she only knew how much this house has changed all for her, even me. It's only been 48 hours and every minute of every day she is there with me. We went for a car ride today, because I had a doctor’s appointment and I didn't want to leave her in the house or backyard by herself. I brought her into the doctor’s office, she had to stay in the waiting room but she loved everyone and wasn't shyin' away at all. So she is growing already. I could see it in her little eyes when she walked around the room, she had the, "Yes I know I am beautiful and everyone loves me" look. I was a proud Mama. It was funny too, well not funny GREAT, no one believed that I had only had her for two days. When I went back to talk to the Doc they said she had a constant look of worry or wonder of where I was. That made me so happy, sad, but happy. I don't want her to add to her worry list like that but I guess after everything she has been through and then having someone who loves her like I do she is going to feel that way. Nothing I can do about that.
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Totally natural. It's actually a very good sign, that she is becoming possessive of you, and protective. In all the years I had Sully it didn't matter how old he got, if he saw me from his place in the back yard and I was leaving the house either by car or walking away he would yelp for several minutes. During the years back in the 90's when I worked a job it was an almost daily thing to have him crying and yelping every time he saw me going to work. It tugged at my heartstrings definitely, but the reward and trade-off was the look on his face and that bushy tail of his wagging 100 miles an hour when I'd return.
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Originally Posted by Loryn
(Post 14073261)
I weighed her today and she weighs 65.7 pounds and I can feel her bones (ribs and spine) and lose muscles etc... so hopefully she will put on about 10 pounds with the good food and lots of exercise, which I think would be a great weight for her frame. Her frame is pretty big for a female Shepard, IMO.
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Sounds about right to me. Sully was 65 lbs at his optimum adult weight, and Coty looks to be a bit bigger than he was. That's the perfect size dog in my opinion. Not too small and yappy, not too much of a horse that will eat you out of house and home. :1orglaugh
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Originally Posted by Loryn
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Thank you Mr. Smith again! I’m going to Craigslist to look for a bike. I really don't have the money for a bike but I gotta do what I gotta do. She needs it and it will be good for me too!
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Best of luck with it.
And thank YOU. I'm still getting over the passing of my dog and am not yet ready to get another one (although the urge is there), so I'm living a bit vicariously through you right now. :thumbsup
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