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AUNTIE JACKIE WILL YOU MARRY ME AND DINKIE.

Thanks, Ronnie, I think my husband might have something to say about that.....! jh

I DONT BELIEVE IN LETTING MINOR DETAILS STAND IN THE WAY OF TRUE ROMANCE OR TATO SALAD.

Jackie...glad to hear your up & about !!!

Super news Auntie Jackie!

When your knee is all better, we'll work on knocking Luv Bug in the head with it so she doesn't lean on you. LOL

MMMmmm Tater Salad. Now I'm hungry! May have to make up a batch myself today to provide energy for a little knee-knocking myself!

SS

Thanks, Venzosmom!

Ronnie--Carl is the Alpha male around here, He doesn't put up with much. I was trying to post his picture, but the d*#@*** thing wouldn't work.......anyway, he's a hunk-a-hunk of burnin' love! Sorry, but no contest there! Carl rules my world! jh

SUNNY BEACH.

And to Auntie Shelley--Not only LuvBug needs some knocking! Beckett, while he is very sweet about protecting my knee when just out schlepping around, once we start with 'training'---he really turns it on...I think he thought I was the helper yesterday! I don't want to discourage his biting, but I kinda need to keep the hands intact....any suggestions? He wants the retrieve object back right away after he outs, he sits like a good boy, but the minute he senses I'm going to throw it again he's on it like it was a sleeve. (nice deep bite, too! LOL! OW!) I don't want to create a bad habit....what to do? My thought was to do it once, then take it away & do something else so he's not all hyped up for the object again....but I thought I'd check with you first.....Suggestions? jh

Handlers' hands, arms, legs, etc. are off the menu. Tell him no the instant he puts his mouth on your skin. Beckett is not so fragile in his drives to be discouraged from the sleeve during the process of learning civilized manners. Puppyhood is long gone. He's too old to be molly-coddled.

-Mean Auntie Shelley

The second I say "Ow!" he backs off, & comes sniffing back like he's trying see what happened. He gets so focused on the object he doesn't see anything else, I'm quite sure. How do I make him hold his sit until I throw the object... he should wait for me to send him out, right? What he was doing yesterday was the minute I throw the dowel, stick, dumbell, whatever, he explodes to get it. Should I try fastening him to a post or something immobile, then release him with the command, after I throw the object? jh