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"HK" wrote in message
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One of my cats, also named Sam, but not Sam Adams, is a vegetarian, but
the rest all eat a special "no weight gain" dry food, supplemented with a
fish-only canned cat food.

The youngest cat, whom we adopted as a stray about a year ago, is
full-grown now, and is also on the no weight gain diet. To get back on
topic, one of the cats, Panda, tries to steal a small fish whenever I come
home with a catch. Sometimes he succeeds. He actually carries it off in
his mouth, the head sticking out of one side and the tail the other.

Cats are cool. I'd have one except Mrs.E. has a severe allergic reaction to
them.
Horses are fine ... cats are a big no-no.

Eisboch

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:35:45 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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I have fond memories of reading the back of the boxes of Wheat Chex,
Rice Chex and Corn Checks as I munched. Ralston Purina.
Feed my dogs a Eukanuba variety that doesn't have them pumping
up so they look like sausages, as some of the fattier/saltier dog
chows do to them. They have never been healthier.
But I'm not knocking Purina here, so I hope nobody gets upset.
Just saying my dogs are eating Eukauba.

--Vic

Sam Adams eats anything he can get his paws on despite Mrs.E's protests.
He's not really fat ... well maybe a little .... he's just a big, broad
chested goofball who is strong as an ox. He loves "tug of war" with socks,
towels, the sleeve of my bath robe or anything he can find not nailed down.
He can easily pull me off a chair. He'll be 3 years old next April and
hovers somewhere between 105 and 110 lbs.

About the combined weight of my 3. My oldest is the biggest and
smartest, and loves tug-o-war and other games, but the 2 dumb ones are
the most affectionate. I've got no favorite. They're all good
barkers.
A friend showed me this trick to measure a dog's smarts/trainability.
Don't know how good an indicator it is, but seems accurate in my
limited experience.
Take a biscuit and a bowl. Show the dog the biscuit, put it on the
floor and cover it with the inverted bowl before the dog snatches it
up.
When my friend showed me the trick with my oldest dog, the dog
wasn't fooled, and quickly knocked over the bowl to get the biscuit.
Good sign, and in fact I'd long ago found she'll learn just about
anything you try to teach her.
For instance, I quickly taught her that when I say "leash" she either
opens the drawer in the hallway to get the leash, or if it's not there
finds it where ever we left it. The last place she looks is the
garage, which is understandable, because she has to find the remote
opener first, and enter a 7 digit code to get in there.
Just kidding about the garage, but I wouldn't put it past her if I
tried training her for it.
Anyway, when I adopted my other 2 dogs, I eventually tried the bowl
trick on them when I saw they weren't very responsive to training.
When I covered the biscuit with the bowl, as far as they were
concerned, the bowl ate it, and it no longer existed.
Pretty funny. A bit disappointing, but that's okay, I love 'em
anyway.

--Vic

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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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A friend showed me this trick to measure a dog's smarts/trainability.
Don't know how good an indicator it is, but seems accurate in my
limited experience.
Take a biscuit and a bowl. Show the dog the biscuit, put it on the
floor and cover it with the inverted bowl before the dog snatches it
up.
When my friend showed me the trick with my oldest dog, the dog
wasn't fooled, and quickly knocked over the bowl to get the biscuit.
Good sign, and in fact I'd long ago found she'll learn just about
anything you try to teach her.


Sam would eat the bowl just to get to the biscuit.

My wife adopted another big dog named "Fudge". I call him Chewbacca.
Anyway, she has done a good job training him and he listens and obeys every
command.

I just let Sam be Sam. He has such a great temperament and personality
that I wouldn't want to change him at all.

Eisboch

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:04:11 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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One of my cats, also named Sam, but not Sam Adams, is a vegetarian, but
the rest all eat a special "no weight gain" dry food, supplemented with a
fish-only canned cat food.

The youngest cat, whom we adopted as a stray about a year ago, is
full-grown now, and is also on the no weight gain diet. To get back on
topic, one of the cats, Panda, tries to steal a small fish whenever I come
home with a catch. Sometimes he succeeds. He actually carries it off in
his mouth, the head sticking out of one side and the tail the other.

Cats are cool. I'd have one except Mrs.E. has a severe allergic reaction to
them.
Horses are fine ... cats are a big no-no.

I used to be allergic to cats. My nose would start running, eyes
itching etc. It would last for a few hours. No longer happens.
Am I dead?

--Vic

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:30:30 -0500, "JimH" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
m...

"HK" wrote in message
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One of my cats, also named Sam, but not Sam Adams, is a vegetarian, but
the rest all eat a special "no weight gain" dry food, supplemented with a
fish-only canned cat food.

The youngest cat, whom we adopted as a stray about a year ago, is
full-grown now, and is also on the no weight gain diet. To get back on
topic, one of the cats, Panda, tries to steal a small fish whenever I
come home with a catch. Sometimes he succeeds. He actually carries it off
in his mouth, the head sticking out of one side and the tail the other.

Cats are cool. I'd have one except Mrs.E. has a severe allergic reaction
to them.
Horses are fine ... cats are a big no-no.

Eisboch


Cats and dogs..........both go running full speed and try to make a sharp
turn while on a hardwood floor, each hitting the wall.

Cat: I meant to do that.

Dog:
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/...oofy_laugh.wav

LOL

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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:04:11 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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One of my cats, also named Sam, but not Sam Adams, is a vegetarian, but
the rest all eat a special "no weight gain" dry food, supplemented with a
fish-only canned cat food.

The youngest cat, whom we adopted as a stray about a year ago, is
full-grown now, and is also on the no weight gain diet. To get back on
topic, one of the cats, Panda, tries to steal a small fish whenever I come
home with a catch. Sometimes he succeeds. He actually carries it off in
his mouth, the head sticking out of one side and the tail the other.
Cats are cool. I'd have one except Mrs.E. has a severe allergic reaction to
them.
Horses are fine ... cats are a big no-no.

I used to be allergic to cats. My nose would start running, eyes
itching etc. It would last for a few hours. No longer happens.
Am I dead?

--Vic

Your nose died. Did it turn green or blue?

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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:04:11 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
m...


One of my cats, also named Sam, but not Sam Adams, is a vegetarian, but
the rest all eat a special "no weight gain" dry food, supplemented with
a
fish-only canned cat food.

The youngest cat, whom we adopted as a stray about a year ago, is
full-grown now, and is also on the no weight gain diet. To get back on
topic, one of the cats, Panda, tries to steal a small fish whenever I
come
home with a catch. Sometimes he succeeds. He actually carries it off in
his mouth, the head sticking out of one side and the tail the other.

Cats are cool. I'd have one except Mrs.E. has a severe allergic reaction
to
them.
Horses are fine ... cats are a big no-no.

I used to be allergic to cats. My nose would start running, eyes
itching etc. It would last for a few hours. No longer happens.
Am I dead?

--Vic

Same here. They used to bother me too.
Once the wife got the kids onside, she got her way adopting cats. It was my
problem to adjust.
As long as the cat stays away from my pillow, I'm ok.

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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A friend showed me this trick to measure a dog's smarts/trainability.
Don't know how good an indicator it is, but seems accurate in my
limited experience.
Take a biscuit and a bowl. Show the dog the biscuit, put it on the
floor and cover it with the inverted bowl before the dog snatches it
up.
When my friend showed me the trick with my oldest dog, the dog
wasn't fooled, and quickly knocked over the bowl to get the biscuit.
Good sign, and in fact I'd long ago found she'll learn just about
anything you try to teach her.


Sam would eat the bowl just to get to the biscuit.

My wife adopted another big dog named "Fudge". I call him Chewbacca.
Anyway, she has done a good job training him and he listens and obeys
every command.

I just let Sam be Sam. He has such a great temperament and personality
that I wouldn't want to change him at all.

Eisboch

My 18 month old Springer Spaniel would stomp his feet , look directly at me
and then at the bowl while barking... demanding that I remove it so he can
get the treat.
This would keep up until I was so irritated, I'd remove the bowl just to
shut him up.

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:15:13 -0400, "Don White"
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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A friend showed me this trick to measure a dog's smarts/trainability.
Don't know how good an indicator it is, but seems accurate in my
limited experience.
Take a biscuit and a bowl. Show the dog the biscuit, put it on the
floor and cover it with the inverted bowl before the dog snatches it
up.
When my friend showed me the trick with my oldest dog, the dog
wasn't fooled, and quickly knocked over the bowl to get the biscuit.
Good sign, and in fact I'd long ago found she'll learn just about
anything you try to teach her.


Sam would eat the bowl just to get to the biscuit.

My wife adopted another big dog named "Fudge". I call him Chewbacca.
Anyway, she has done a good job training him and he listens and obeys
every command.

I just let Sam be Sam. He has such a great temperament and personality
that I wouldn't want to change him at all.

Eisboch

My 18 month old Springer Spaniel would stomp his feet , look directly at me
and then at the bowl while barking... demanding that I remove it so he can
get the treat.
This would keep up until I was so irritated, I'd remove the bowl just to
shut him up.

You know what that's called right?

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On Dec 23, 8:17*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:15:13 -0400, "Don White"





wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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A friend showed me this trick to measure a dog's smarts/trainability.
Don't know how good an indicator it is, but seems accurate in my
limited experience.
Take a biscuit and a bowl. *Show the dog the biscuit, put it on the
floor and cover it with the inverted bowl before the dog snatches it
up.
When my friend showed me the trick with my oldest dog, the dog
wasn't fooled, and quickly knocked over the bowl to get the biscuit.
Good sign, and in fact I'd long ago found she'll learn just about
anything you try to teach her.

Sam would eat the bowl just to get to the biscuit.

My wife adopted another big dog named "Fudge". *I call him Chewbacca.
Anyway, she has done a good job training him and he listens and obeys
every command.

I just let Sam be Sam. * He has such a great temperament and personality
that I wouldn't want to change him at all.

Eisboch

My 18 month old Springer Spaniel would stomp his feet , look directly at me
and then at the bowl while barking... * demanding that I remove it so he can
get the treat.
This would keep up until I was so irritated, I'd remove the bowl just to
shut him up.

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Behavior modification? The dog did a good job of training Don.