bersaguy

Thats what I was looking for and I should have waiting before pulling the trigger on this one. I have a small female mix on my list that is 7-8 years old and about the size of this one I could have went and checked out that is living in a foster home. I think I should have made the visit before making a decision.

Do me a favor sailor and listen close to the voices in your head...........just sayin...............

Has anyone here ever used 1 of those training collars while working with their partner. My Vet has mentioned it tonight if he totally refuses to listen to any verbal commands. If Obie Wan could talk he would be giving the commands!!!! I want you to know the road I live on in rush house is bumper to bumper and that little firecracker threw himself against the storm door and it opened and he took off right at 5 PM and traffic bumper to bumper and he was headed right towards the road and would not stop wwhen I called but turned just before getting to it and began running across several yards. There was about 4 young men that parked in driveways and help me catch him by cornering him near a fence about 8 doors down from my place. I grabbed a flashlight and leash on the way out the door. Once I got him on a leash I thanked each one of the young men for their help and they all said no problem and one said Merry Christmas and I returned it to him and they got in their car and pick ups and continued on their way. I had to sit on a bench in a neighbors front yard for about 15 minutes trying to get my breath. So that was an adventure I don't want to go through twice and my vet said that the training collars are effective and if he had one on I could just push the remote and it would cause him to stop and follow comands he has been taught after I push the button. I told her I thought they were like shock collars and mean to animals and she said those went away years ago and the new ones don't shock the animal at all. I was wondering if anyone has experience with some of the newer ones. I don't want anything that would hurt him at all.................

What are you looking for in a partner. I can tell you what you don't want!!! Better yet let me show you........

How many folks here believe in Karma. Well for those of you that have doubt when you look at ObieWan your looking at some of the best out there..........I had this voice in the back of my mine saying don't pull the trigger on this one. Don't do it!!! Then I got a new voice in back of my head saying go for it and have fun and have a new companion. In all honesty I truely believe that second one was Kasey wanting to teach me a lesson.... Thing is she also knows I am not a quitter and she may have known that someone else may have got him that would have mistreated him because of his stubborness and bull headedness. Either way I have him and I will have him for as long as either one of us is alive. He won't stay young for ever as nothing does so we will see what the future brings for us both.........

So you all think I'm the one in training huh!!! Well if last night is any indication ya'll maybe correct!!! I was correct about 1 thing. Lights out it's time to go to bed and sleep. Obie Wan was on his bed sound asleep and I thought, this is going to work. I go and get in my bed and just about get to sleep when the Obie Wan lands right in the middle of the bed, pulls up beside me and lays down. I pick him up and head for his bed and put him down and tell him this is your bed. Almost back to sleep and the JEDI Knight is in the bed once a again. Back to his bed again and it was 4 trips until I gave up and he slept in my bed on his side. I don't know when he went and got the toys but woke me up at 6 AM playing with his toys on my bed jumping around and sqeaking them. Tonight the toys will be locked up in a box before bed. Gotta start someplace so no toys at bedtime is a beginning, right? He has an unusual eating habit also. I put his cup and a half of food in a plastic bowl beside his glass bowl of water and he proceeds to paw at the edge of the bowl till he dumps the food all over the floor and then eats what he wants and leaves the rest. I cleaned up all he left and added a little more and put it in an old cast iron skillet I have not used in probably 15 years but was still seasoned well and he spent about 5 minutes trying to tip it over, gave up, ate a little more food and move on to the toys again. Right now I am enjoyng a cup of coffee while to Star Wars Jedi is out fighting bad gus on the zip cable. He has realized he has neighbors that live in a fence pen and is howling at them. Right now I am thanking the weather GODs for nice weather so he can have a ton of fun on the cable and wear out some of his energy before coming back in the house. I just wonder what is in store for today? He does have a throat about like and Arkansas Coon hound when he cuts loose so no mistaken his bark..........LOL

And just what part of foot of the bed you think he might be missing on this issue...............

Next few days will tell me Hozzie. I might have to take you up on the offer if he shows no signs of slowing down once he has had time to adjust to his new surroundings and the do's and do nots. He loves the Rip Run outside and runs all over the yard and I am not sure if he is actaully peeing or just hiking his leg and pretending but if he is peeing his whole body has to be bladder cause he has marked the yard, buildings and trees dozen times...................

I have never had a dog in a kennel in the house. I have know folks that did but I just never have. I'm hoping that once all the lights go out he will get the hint and go to bed. If you think I might need one it might be nice to have one at least till she matures more or just adjusts to the new home. I will probably know more in next couple days with him.

So you think the dog has the upper hand huh??? Well I got news for you!!!!! Your proably 100% correct but I won't bother closing the door just to have to get out of it 5 minutes later........

I'm still trying to figure out how bedtime is going to work. I have thought about bringing him in bedroom and closing the door but then he thinks he is sleeping in my bed and if I leave the door open he has the run of the house because his bed is in the living room corner. I think that might be my best option and just empty all the waste baskets before bed and that will eliminate those targets anyway. I have found a toy noise maker from one of Kaseys old pet toys and now when he is not where I can see him I squeeze it and he comes running and grabs one of his toys. I think it might change when the lights go out also. The lady told me that there is no lights on at night in the kennels so maybe he will go night night when the lights go out....................One can only hope............

He thinks it is that way already. He wants to be every where I go but then tries to sneak away thinking I am not watching and get in mischef but I follow him and catch him and if it's bad I scold him and if not when I leave the room he follows.

Yea he is chipped and I have the code ring and number to call if he goes missing and turns up someplace other than here. He is a handful for sure but I think a lot of that is because he's in a new place and surrounded by so many new things to investigate. He loves to ride which is a plus cause he will be going most places I go. He was up romping a few minutes ago and now is crashed again. I did learn I need to watchi him around waste baskets. He got 2 of them turned over right quick and got a firm scolding for that and by the way he sat down and reacted my guess is he has been whipped which I won't ever do and I think scolding is more that enough just by the way he reacted. I have a very tall bed that I elevated so Kasey could get her fat butt under it and Obie Wan showed me right quick it was not to high for him to make the leap and was stretched out like this is my side Pops and I told him right fast as I picked him up off the bed and carried him to his bed and showed him that he has his own bed. I'm guessing it's not gonna work but have to try. I do keep my storm door locked now cause my friends just knock and walk in so until all of them know he is here they will have to have me unlock the door. Tomorrow we begin long leash training so he can begin learning where he is allowed to go and where he is not allowed to go. He does have his moments of being stubborn but then most Beagles are like that. I call it selective hearing............

Yea she told me he was a mix but they didn't know with what but I did soon as I saw him and I am guessing your right Omega. I have seen to me heelers to not know that color. I would say he is comfortable but might be viewer decretion...........

That is him now after his run and romp the last couple hours and playing ball.............

Want ya'll to meet Obie Wan. The lady at the Rescue Center ran out of females like I was looking for after bringing 5 to visiting room and just to try she brought him into the room and the force was strong with this one and he melted my heart right away. I know it is going to take some adjusting to having a male but he does appera to be smart and will almost listen to a few commands.............Like I said Allmost...........

I don't have Comcast Internet. I have AT&T go phone broadband service and I really don't want anything else Comcast offers because it would surely become a mess as they use every excuse possible to keep your bill messed up so I figure the simpler the better with them people. I find it's a lot easier knowing what my broad band is the same every month and my phone bill is the same every month and much easier to budget when you know what your bill is every month. With Comcast you never know what your bill will be from month to month without a fight..........JMHO

My Son and grandsons have been wondering what the heck happened to all the deer they had all Summer and Fall on the trail cams. Normally they all have limits by now. Justin put up a bunch of trail cams last weekend and they found out why the deer are gone. Poachers on the property. He got pictures of them two different times dragging deer out during the week off to a road at the back end of my sons property. He called TWRA and they said if he has pictures of them they can do something so a Warden came out to the house and he showed them the trailcams that had the pictures , times and dates the pictures were made. The game warden actually knew two of them as he has arrested them before for tresspassing and poaching. I have not heard anymore as to what happened. I'm still hoping they can put me one more in my freezer this year anyway. I have a Doe my grandson Logan got for me in Muzzle loader in it already.

Well with my limited income I have to watch every dime I spend. I have Comcast Cable with 1 step up from beginner package, I think it's the beginner HD digital package and when I first got it my bill was 59 & change. Then in February it went to 99.00 and I called them up and they said I was on a promotion price package and it expired so I told them to connect me with a supervisor that spoke english which of course I did not get but got one that understood it when I told her that is they did not drop my bill back to where it was I was cutting my cable. She ask me to hold on and all at once I was speaking to someone in Michigan that spoke really good english. I explained my delima and she said she would be making adjustments accordingly and she could not bring my bill back to 59 bucks but could get it to 65 & change for same service and I took it. She told me tha Comcast has price increases every February across the board and gave me her number in Michigan and told me to call her when I got an increase. I think that was like 5 years ago and each year I call her and so far my bill for this past year is $76.98 so she has been keeping my increases to a minmum each year to keep my business and keep my package the same. My internet is an AT&T Broad band package. Not a super high speed program but I am not in that big a hurry I can't wait about 7 seconds to get connected. I get 5 GB per month for 50 bucks and I have never used 5 GB yet. I do try to push close because it does not roll over. My phone it a Cricket/AT&T and costs me 25.00 a month and I have been with then since 1995.

Is there still a market for nice locking gun cabinets or are they a thing of the past? I have 1 for sale that use to belong to BT that his wife would like to sell. I will post pictures of it just in case. It is gonna be an reasonable offer price. There ia also and anwar for sale that is in nature wood and ready to be stained and it is about 7 or 8 feet tall and I will include a few pictures of it. Pricing the same as gun case. I guess while I am on a roll she is also selling a leather double Recliner Sofa I will show a few pictures of. Pricing same as the rest. If you are interested in any of it make a reasonable offer.

Yea, I don't go there either..................

Well, I sent an inquiry into Marilyn to the Freedom Farm email address listed on the site. Got a replay back yesterday telling me that they could not find any records about Marilyn in their files yet my Vet called them on Monday and spoke with a lady about her and she said yes, she was familiar with Marilyn and told the Vet everything she knew about her. Ashlee sent me an email to that effect but now they can't find her. I guess that can happen when all you have is an office and not an actual kennel and depend on Foster homes strictly to care for the animals. I sent the person all of the information including everything my Vet sent me but have not heard back yet but then it is a holiday weekend so can't expect much till probably Monday......

And my friends ask me why I don't go to malls. I don't go to any place that draws crowds of people, especially many young people that have their noses stuck in their cell phones and have zero clue what is going on around them........

I was a dog rescurer long before dog resues existed. We lived on a country road about 5 miles inside the cook county/ Will county line and folks would come out of Chicago and just drop dogs off and I guess I was some kind of magnet cause they would seem to always find my house or follow me home while I was riding my bike. At the age of 6 I think I had about 6 dogs of all kinds and my dad would help with food when he could but my parents where raising 4 bottomless food pits. Me and 3 older brothers so I would do odd jobs for neighbors or work for a farmer down the road to by dog food and I would find homes for a couple and soon as they were gone it's like 2 or 3 more would show up. I kept doing that until we moved south in 1967 and when we moved I knew we were going to be living on my grandfathers Ranch/Farm so when we came south I brought 7 dogs with me that I had when we moved south and they had 2000 acres of land to run and romp on there was always plenty of food for all of them then. My grand father bought dog food 500 lbs at a time to feed his stock dogs that he worked cattle with. He had 8 of them and I loved watching them work the cattle and listen to the commands he would give the dogs and watch the dogs react. We could go to a pasture with 2 or 3 of the dogs and he would say fetch the cows and the dogs would go and in about 15 to 30 minutes depending on how many cows were in that pasture they would bring all of them to where he was so he could count them. If there was not the right amount he would send them back out and sure nuff they would bring the missing ones back to the gate. He made fun of my mutts and said they were a waste of food and start laughing.