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Sunday, December 6, 2015

It is a great improvement

When we go out in the car Georgia likes to sit with her head on the console between the front seats. To do this she has to sit with her bum on the back seat and her front paws on the floor in front of the back seats. This looks every uncomfortable so I made a little wooden platform so that she could lie flat out and did not have to support herself with her front paws. This was a fine piece of carpentry - with a covering of carpet. It was built for comfort.

This was not a success. She got in the car and discovered this awful thing and tried to get away from it by shrinking into the corner. When I got into the car she tried to climb on top of my head and then sat on the front seat and would not move.

As she wears a harness and is tethered to the back seat belts – this was quite a feat.

The car was very unhappy that something was in the front passenger seat and not wearing a seatbelt – so dinged during the entire trip. The next day she would not even get in the car so I have removed the offending object.

That same day she had a horrifying experience when the Christmas tree was delivered  and I put the cardboard box on the back porch. She was terrified of this box and regarded it with great suspicion from the corner of the back garden until I chopped it up and put it in the recycle bin.

I am beginning to doubt Georgia’s capacity to be an effective guard dog – although she is an excellent barker. She barks loudly for no particular reason and this is particularly exciting at about 3:00 AM when we are all fast asleep.

Having scared the shit out of everybody – cats included – she just rolls over and goes back to sleep - leaving us in a state of some disarray.

However – I have changed her diet and have reduced her farting substantially. She no longer gets rawhide things and this seems to have reduced her level of flatulence no end. Of course we still have to be wary of naked flames - but it is a great improvement.


9 comments:

  1. You must be genuinely feeling that your life has never been so full, exciting, and richly rewarding. Dogs - one of life's bonuses.

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  2. That photo of you two is a great us-ie, one of my favorites.

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    1. I had never heard of problems with rawhide products before. Cooper used to be scared of many things but he gradually caught on. I used the shovel with a growl in my voice, which he thought was menacing while digging in the yard or garden.

      I rescued a ficus elastica from my wife at the business location and brought it home to my sunny back door jungle. I had great joy this last week as I discovered that the orchid that I thought had been killed by the dishwasher installer a long time ago has now started popping out a new leaf. My wife got me two more orchids besides the one I had got in mourning my 'dead' orchid. But I had just kept watering it way past the time I had expected anything to happen. So now I have 4 orchids.

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  3. Alexia: It has certainly never been so full - or smelly. But I love her to bits.

    esb: It is one of my favorites. I too have been surprised here by things which appear to be dead and suddenly come back to life. I fear it would be too cold here for orchids.

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    1. My orchids are in a nice spot by the west facing glass back door. They are near the glass but there is an overhanging eave so they get mainly indirect light except a blast of direct at the end of the day. There is a room divider that helps keep the solar heat near them and the moisture and a rain barrel conveniently nearby outside. But I do allow for some air flow from the kitchen so it doesn't get too cold at night in the winter. Sometimes it can be incredibly warm just right on a bright winter afternoon with winter, ice and snow just inches away beyond the glass. Plus there are movable vertical blinds to kill massive hot summer days. The Adjustable Jungle

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  4. esb: Yes well I don't think we can provide that sort of nurturing climate here. We will have to stick to hardier types. We cannot even keep normal indoor plants alive.

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    1. I understand, I got lucky and just happened to buy my next door neighbor's perfectly facing-west double glass door with a house attached to it.

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  5. Georgia sounds a real character who likes things as they are. I totally agree with Alexia in her saying, "Dogs - one of life's bonuses."













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  6. Janine: She is wonderful and we love her to bits.

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