I have got a new puppy!

[slowmotion]

I am so going to get an Aldi Christmas jacket for my lurcher, to go with the Christmas elf hat I got him last year.

Smart move. They do tend to shiver.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Smart move. They do tend to shiver.

Not as much as whippets.

Lurchers must be in the wrong country. Or something.

 

[bonsaibilly]

Update trying to cut down on her exercise in the field but that just means she gets bored and exercises herself in the house and garden. Today she ran out of the house with a plastic demijohn. Took it of her and gave her a plastic sweet jar to play with....mistake it had had dog food it it. The lid popped of and she stuck her head it. Well you can guess the rest chased her round the garden trying to get it off. Looked like a doggy spaceman! Once I cought her and took it off her head i glued on the lid. She must of enjoyed playing with it as she is asleep and wagging her tail.

Sounds like she is getting more than enough exercise and not enough play with her owner, if 3 hours exercising leaves her wanting more but a bit of quality fun time up close with you leaves her happily sleeping.

 

[SD1]

Sounds like she is getting more than enough exercise and not enough play with her owner, if 3 hours exercising leaves her wanting more but a bit of quality fun time up close with you leaves her happily sleeping.

Retrieves ball. Climbs fences. Even throw ball in house. To be honest she has improved, not so needy anymore.... as long as she can get up on the sofa. Rod Back! Will be getting dummies soon including the one you fire. So should keep her happy... and knackered..!

 

[SD1]

Certainly not anything you would recognise as humour.

Correct.... for once!

 

[Piemaster]

Dogs were issued with coats at birth.
They are also dogs, they don't understand the concept of Christmas ....or presents... there pagans.

I would have said atheists, or maybe agnostics.
Pagans do actually believe in some sort of higher power - though there may be quite a few related to nature, or depends on the season. Unless dogs believe their human is a higher power, in which case you're right.

Sure there is someone on CC who is a pagan.

 

[Andy_R]

Dogs were issued with coats at birth.
They are also dogs, they don't understand the concept of Christmas ....or presents... there pagans.

This is absolutely true....dogs are pagans....they fear and worship cats....if they don't do what the cat god says, they end up with the pagan cat dog tattoo, ie three bloody stripes across the width of the very sensitive nose....
Barsteward cats........

 

[Andy_R]

Heh

Does that mean you have to move your hand below the line when writing to avoid smudging?

 

[Andy_R]

Cos I'm a leftie, and whenever I write, I have to do that otherwise my fat paws wipe out what I've written in their inevitable rightwards trawl.....

 

[stephec]

Cos I'm a leftie, and whenever I write, I have to do that otherwise my fat paws wipe out what I've written in their inevitable rightwards trawl.....

I had that knocked out of me at school.

 

[raleighnut]

This is absolutely true....dogs are pagans....they fear and worship cats....if they don't do what the cat god says, they end up with the pagan cat dog tattoo, ie three bloody stripes across the width of the very sensitive nose....
Barsteward cats........

my 40kg German Shepherd learnt that lesson from the tiny little balls of razorblades he lived with.

 

[Andy_R]

I had that knocked out of me at school.

My schools tried...I went to a lot of schools based in army bases all over the world, as my old man was a WO2 in the Red Caps. I didn't really respond to them very well...he didn't respond well to me not responding well..it all got a bit "blurred" though when I started to learn to shoot....after winning a couple of awards, teachers were advised that "he's a leftie, and that's not going to change"

 

[stephec]

My schools tried...I went to a lot of schools based in army bases all over the world, as my old man was a WO2 in the Red Caps. I didn't really respond to them very well...he didn't respond well to me not responding well..it all got a bit "blurred" though when I started to learn to shoot....after winning a couple of awards, teachers were advised that "he's a leftie, and that's not going to change"

I'm still left handed, but I was made to use a fountain pen to stop the curling your hand back on yourself style.

 

[Andy_R]

I'm still left handed, but I was made to use a fountain pen to stop the curling your hand back on yourself style.

Do you write in that really uncomfortable style of hand approximatley 90 degrees to the writing surface, wrist bent about 45 degrees? No wonder it was generally illegible.

 

[SD1]

PS the barber has removed a fair bit of fur.