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Stiickygreen

Stiickygreen

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Stiickygreen said:
Our nutsack.
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She was listed as a "Golden/Aussie mix". We believed it. Our Vet said otherwise. Did a DNA test...nope. Vet was right. NO Golden at all!
50% German Shepherd...48% Pyrenees...2% Komondor. Oh my. We stepped right in it.

Super good girl...18 months now...kinda/sorta starting to grow out of the puppy shit like jumping up and mouthing...

bit I've never had a dog so focused on me/us. She has separation anxiety...possibly from being dumped in the woods last Winter (if that's a true story). It's the worst of both worlds...can't be left/won't let you out of her sight...but if you let her off leash and she sees a car/people on the road...ZOOM..like lightning...she's gone...no recall at all. She does come back...but I've seen her run 1/2 mile before I can even get up to the road....As a result...she's either on leash or tethered or in the house. I never go anywhere anyway...but when we do...we have to split up/etc. We're trying to retrain here...but that shit is muy hard to approach/adjust...especially when you don;t know what happened to her/what her real triggers are/etc.

Prolly not gonna get any grandkids....so she is our toddler..@ 65. Now I just gotta outlive her.... yikes. Sure didn't think about that kinda stuff when we got the last one 14 years ago. Ouch.
 
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wakeNbaker46

wakeNbaker46

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good morning! today is quite cool but sunny so i'll be out in the garden, filling up the 2'x12'x2' bed that i finished on sunday. hoping to drag some logs out of the forest to get a good start on it, as i did the math on how much it would take to fill it all with soil...and i want to build 8 more...and frankly i want to be able to still buy groceries and pay the electric bill this year :lol:
yesterday i took a rigid heddle weaving class. made myself a simple scarf, and now i want to buy a loom. anyone else get waaaay too into new hobbies?
...maybe i'm asking the wrong crowd here. LOL
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shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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wakeNbaker46 said:
good morning! today is quite cool but sunny so i'll be out in the garden, filling up the 2'x12'x2' bed that i finished on sunday. hoping to drag some logs out of the forest to get a good start on it, as i did the math on how much it would take to fill it all with soil...and i want to build 8 more...and frankly i want to be able to still buy groceries and pay the electric bill this year :lol:
yesterday i took a rigid heddle weaving class. made myself a simple scarf, and now i want to buy a loom. anyone else get waaaay too into new hobbies?
...maybe i'm asking the wrong crowd here. LOL
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@curious2garden is definitely a resource on this topic!


And cardboard is your friend in raised beds. I raided the recycling bins at the supermarket. That and brush filled my beds nicely.
 
Laughing Grass

Laughing Grass

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wakeNbaker46 said:
good morning! today is quite cool but sunny so i'll be out in the garden, filling up the 2'x12'x2' bed that i finished on sunday. hoping to drag some logs out of the forest to get a good start on it, as i did the math on how much it would take to fill it all with soil...and i want to build 8 more...and frankly i want to be able to still buy groceries and pay the electric bill this year :lol:
yesterday i took a rigid heddle weaving class. made myself a simple scarf, and now i want to buy a loom. anyone else get waaaay too into new hobbies?
...maybe i'm asking the wrong crowd here. LOL
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@curious2garden has a loom or two. You're in good company.

lol @shnkrmn beat me to it.
 
Stiickygreen

Stiickygreen

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wakeNbaker46 said:
good morning! today is quite cool but sunny so i'll be out in the garden, filling up the 2'x12'x2' bed that i finished on sunday. hoping to drag some logs out of the forest to get a good start on it, as i did the math on how much it would take to fill it all with soil...and i want to build 8 more...and frankly i want to be able to still buy groceries and pay the electric bill this year :lol:
yesterday i took a rigid heddle weaving class. made myself a simple scarf, and now i want to buy a loom. anyone else get waaaay too into new hobbies?
...maybe i'm asking the wrong crowd here. LOL
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I love hobbies. I just don't know what to do with the crap I create once I make it. Spent a few years doing pottery and drove the family nuts/tried the craft fair/etc. Ended up giving it all away and sold the press/kiln/tools. Last Winter I made log benches out of some stair treads I've been carting around since we built our log home in '95-98. Stuck with most of those now as well. LOL. I wanna try painting...but damn... I'm running out of room...
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Ah.....huglekuture....er whatever that term is. We don't do that one...but we do shred our cardboard and put it in the compostumbler and make compost/dirt out of it ever since they closed the recycling center here :wall:>:(:mad: Takes a bit of time to cook up a batch but I have a nice pile building up from the last 2 years or so. As an experiment I grew a bunch of veggies/peppers/etc last Summer in 1/2 cardboard compost/1/2 Roots 707. Worked AOK.
 
wakeNbaker46

wakeNbaker46

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Thurston said:
Yes we are working on mouthing and jumping. I am reading all I can about training her and attending local pet shop training sessions. In just a few weeks, she has made great progress.
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body blocking/checking can be really effective with jumping. i had a shepherd mix years ago and she was a really easy dog to train; she understood and didn't have interest in challenging me. now we have a bully mix and he is just that - a bully. LOL he constantly challenges us, and the body blocking actually made his jumping worse so the trainer recommended a squirt bottle and that works wonders with him.
 
Stiickygreen

Stiickygreen

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TCH said:
In theory, yes. Belle accepts it as a challenge. Lol. At least with new people.
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Shanti (on leash) alerts/barks at you when you arrive...but her tail is wagging the entire time. Once you meet...she loves on you (and I try to correct/keep her from jumping on you)...and then it's over. We're very rural and don't have much traffic/many visitors so all of her bad habits are hard things to train out.
 
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Thurston

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Yes she is great with socialization. She loves everybody and shows it by ears back, tail wagging and jumping. We are working on it and sometimes I can see she corrects herself but excitement is a strong distractor.

We go to training sessions at local pet shop and there is a 15 week old frenchie a quarter of her size. She adores him and is very gentle when playing with him.
 
TCH

TCH

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Stiickygreen said:
Shanti (on leash) alerts/barks at you when you arrive...but her tail is wagging the entire time. Once you meet...she loves on you (and I try to correct/keep her from jumping on you)...and then it's over. We're very rural and don't have much traffic/many visitors so all of her bad habits are hard things to train out.
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That's all pretty similar for Belle. The joys of a stubborn ass hound dog (and pretty lazy pet owners)
 
wakeNbaker46

wakeNbaker46

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Stiickygreen said:
Standing...our Shanti is 26 inches tall and 48 inches long. Haven't weighed her but I'm guessing 80+. More shep than Pyr there, thankfully.
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here's our pyr/shep mix, Ginger. Bruce is next to her. they're both gone now. ruby, the black one, is still here. she's 14 this year, Sugar Face is what i call her on account of her white hairs. Ginger was a rescue, straight from the shelter. she had been dropped off as a very small puppy, lived there for over a year until we brought her home. never had much obedience training as she was just generally a good girl. RIP to her and bubba bruce
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