Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

He is cute.

Beautifully clean around the eyes, infact, he's just superbly clean and very shiny!

If we get the promised hot weather this week I think I'll bath special girl and the dogs.

JonnyBravo

lostinrates wrote: »

Invcidentally, a bog togs tail once shattered my mother's knee cap when it was wagging...

:rotfl:



I'm sorry, I know neither your mothers knee cap being broken or the reason you occasionally get spelling/letters mixed up is funny but I couldn't help laughing at a bog togs tail.
Hope you're not offended.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

:rotfl:



I'm sorry, I know neither your mothers knee cap being broken or the reason you occasionally get spelling/letters mixed up is funny but I couldn't help laughing at a bog togs tail.
Hope you're not offended.

not at all, I'm chuckling away.


I feel this afternoon as if a great weight has lifted tbh. Life throws dramas all at one time, its empotionally draining...but at least it gets them dealt with at once. we hope!

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I really want out an door kennel and run. It makes like a lot easier...not just when you are out, but when you have builders in etc. Especially with dog-dog being ''over protective''. Main issue with dogs is routine of feeding (and what comes out the other end) and routine of loo breaks.

In Kent, my parents have a dog flap and some tough fences, so the collies run around all day as they please.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

In Kent, my parents have a dog flap and some tough fences, so the collies run around all day as they please.

If a collie can fit so can a small person who wants to steal. In my house, a flab beg enough for the big dog would be big enough for about 95% of the population I'd guess. I might as well leave the back door open. I can only presume the crime rate and security systems are better in Kent than they are here ATM!

Besides anything else, tbh, I don't want unlimited trips of filthy feet into the house when its wet outside. Also, sadly, my dogs are of a type very popular with people who want to breed lurchers/coursers. I think dog-dogs teeth might win her some enemies though.

My local horse watch coordinator told me its more and more common for intruders to bring crossbows with them to ''deal with'' dogs. :(

lostinrates

A happy post.

Just in from a reminder of what its all about. Took both dogs, off lead, who walked around the poultry while I put them away, and the geese didn't fuss at the dogs. We then trekked the perimetres and went down to remove fly masks from the horses, then, because its idyullic out there and I wanted to do something, we cleared all the poop again (I've done it twice today so will be easier in the morning!) and the very old horse, pleased to see dog dog off the lead, played chase with her (they have an arrangement) . The old girl can't half move when she wants too. Both dogs played ''racing greyhounds, running around the long ring, and the horses followed snorting and tails high....a wonderful game (so long as the dogs are in front not behind ).

Then, cos it was still so lovely, I and I didn't want to go in I fussed a bit with the electric fencing giving the horses about half an acre more grass, so they put their heads down enthusiastically on the new autumn flush of grass....the only thing better for their tastebuds (and worse for health risks) is this tasty sweet soft lush growth.

What a gorgeous evening.

Dogs wanted to go back by the best blackberries where they gobbled (I love watching dogs pick blackberries, its just so funny).

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

If a collie can fit so can a small person who wants to steal. In my house, a flab beg enough for the big dog would be big enough for about 95% of the population I'd guess. I might as well leave the back door open. I can only presume the crime rate and security systems are better in Kent than they are here ATM!

Besides anything else, tbh, I don't want unlimited trips of filthy feet into the house when its wet outside.

the collies don't go upstairs, and the downstairs floors are tile and stone, so it doesn't matter so much.

I don't think even a small person could fit through - it's a twisty stone tunnel.

The collies are the security, BTW!

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lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

the collies don't go upstairs, and the downstairs floors are tile and stone, so it doesn't matter so much.

I don't think even a small person could fit through - it's a twisty stone tunnel.

The collies are the security, BTW!

Our downstairs is still manky farmer carpet in the main. Can't wait for that to go. we're having wood in the ''reception'' rooms and stone in the kitchen. Thoiugh I've been saying recently I fancy having more stone, e.g. in the dining room (so a continuation of the rest of the stone floor)but its more expensive...and then I'd want it in the study and library too I guess.

Our dogs are the security too. And dog dog is surprivsingly tough, better than big-dog. But I don't fancy her chances with a cross bow.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If a collie can fit so can a small person who wants to steal.

Years ago a friend of mine bought a house that had a flap in the back door - it wasn't overly large. He came home one day to find his lighter missing .... he narrowed it down to the kid next door who he'd shown it to - and the kid next door had waited for him to go out and squeezed through the flap.

This was obviously back in my younger days (about 30 years ago), when it was perfectly OK for single men, living alone, to have small boys in their house and be showing them lighters

Those innocent and wonderful years that seem to have been lost.