When irresistible forces meet sleeping objects
July 9th 2011 22:23
Weekends in our house are marked by battles of wills.
These battles don’t happen on week days, when I get up so early the dogs don’t even leave the sofas to say good morning. They don’t stir until they hear the magic sound – knife scraping butter on toast – and then they scoot to the back door for their daily half slice.
Daisy says warm toast goes down well on these cold mornings, but not before the pleasure of licking the yummy white stuff off the top. Scratchy says half a slice is inadequate for an elite athlete and probably a breach of international pet-care conventions.
Toast consumed, however, the dogs return to the sofas. It’s at least an hour before Little Boss will appear and begin the real business of the day, which is going for a walk. They can not understand why Big Boss chooses to be awake during sleeping hours, let alone actually let himself quietly out the front door and disappear into the night.
It’s dark and cold out there. Humans really are a mystery sometimes.
Things change on weekends. I still get up early – sleeping in is a talent I seem to have lost somewhere along the way - and still make toast for everyone. I then disappear into the study while the dogs return to the sofas. The house is quiet, the world is peaceful. For about one hour.
Walkies time.
Little Boss hasn’t lost her talent for sleeping in, and it is a formidable talent. She has won intergalactic snoozathons and is in several sleeping halls of fame. On weekends, therefore, she regularly sleeps past walkies time, and the Battle of Wills commences.
It goes like this. Scratchy: “Whine.” Daisy: “Whine.” Big Boss: “Shut up.” Repeat every thirty-seven seconds.
It’s going on again right now. How am I supposed to concentrate on important things like Freecell? If Little Boss doesn’t wake soon, I am going to stand outside the bedroom door and whine too.
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Comment by INDIOSDAD
Please Please understand that for a Diva (actual name for a GREYHOUND) a half a piece of toast is NOT enough. Make more there is more bread in the bag. All you deserve as a human is the two ends (our human calls them the heels) the rest should be for us for are we not the most beautyful creatures in the universe. You are at that work thing all week so the weekends should be ours since you desert us the rest of the time. If we want walkies in the middle of the night you should be happy to get up and do it you are here to serve. So get up and do as we wish.
My name is HOLLYWOOD HAPPY and I know these facts to be be the truth cause I am a STAR and you humans are not. Do not whine about it facts are facts.
Just do it humans we want MORE.
Respectfully
HOLLYWOOD HAPPY
Corona California
PS Scratch and Daisey
Buck up for I am with you we will get what we want.
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It's a pleasure and an honour to have someone of your status drop by. Would you mind if I asked for your pawtograph (for my kids, you know)?
As for the toast ration, yes, there is extra bread, and both dogs would be happy to grab it. Scratchy, in particular, could single-pawedly create a global flour shortage if allowed as much toast as he can eat.
Unfortunately, it's a fact of canine and, indeed human, life that's diets must be balanced. A fat Scratchy would be way less photogenic.
Best wishes,
Chris
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Comment by INDIOSDAD
Dear Mister Chris;
My human dad says I must be respectful of his friends wherever they live.
I have attached a picture of myself doing one of my favorite things. I am eating a Frosty Paw (home made doggie ice cream ) this one is chicken noodle. It was so good and cold. We get one each every night for a treat especially now since it is so hot here in California.
I am a star first because of my name HOLLYWOOD HAPPY but you may call me HAPPY. Second because I am the only GREYHOUND here that was actualy on the track. I was in 57 races and won and came in 2nd in a bunch of them.
I went to a home and because they were not watching me right I got out twice and the second time I hurt my back real bad.The people there did not want me anymore so I came to live here. Dad said I blew out three discs in my back. I kinda walk sideways. The humans say it looks like my bum is trying to catch up to my head.
As to the other dogs here Naboo is actualy a GALAGO and was born in Spain.He came here as a pup and lived with a family for 7 years till he got in trouble and was sent to the bad dog place. He was found by Auntie Barb from HOMESTRETCH GREYHOUND rescue and sent to live here with mom and dad. Snoopy was found to be blind when she was 1yr old and picked up by Auntie Barb again and she called mom and dad to take her in.
I hope you like my picture and share it with your fur kids.
Respectfully
Happy
Comment by INDIOSDAD
I must bring up am important issue at least according to my 10yr old grandson Daniel.
According to Daniel we have a problem with the language used here. Daniel who lives with me (as Scratchy and Daisy can tell you) reads all the blogs here on ZOOMIES. He tells me that you do not speak right English when you talk (write) and since I give him the buisness about his spelling that you spell words wrong.
You have no idea how hard it is to explain to a 10yr old who was very serious about the issue without laughing , the truth. That first we do not speak English here in the states but American English which is totaly diffrent. Also that is us who changed the spelling of words two come to mind right away. 1 colour we spell color 2 favour we spell favor and there are many more that Daniel showed to me.
I explained to him that Australia , Canada , England and the United States are friends that are seperated by a common language. Everyone here at ZOOMIES speak the same language.
Well not everyone SNOOPY from my home speaks Redneck (if you would like to hear Redneck you can by watching the show SWAMP PEOPLE which is shown there on I think it's on MATE 7 and one other chanel with subtitles ) and of course on your end there is one dog who only speaks CLYDE , thanks for the tip if I read it out loud I can make out most of it.
After a long drawn out explaniation of the issue Daniel asked if understanding you all would make him bilingual, I give up the mind of a 10yr old works diffrent then the rest of us.
Keep up the great posts
Jerry
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I don't care if you walk sideways, backwards, bum first or upside down, just grab a few of those frosty paws and sidle over to southern Australia. You shouldn't have any trouble finding us, just ask for Big Boss's house.
You'll know when you get here. You'll see a brindle greyhound looking out the window, licking his lips. Hurry!
Wags,
Scratch
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I'm very pleased to meet you. I think only intelligent people take an interest in language, and only kind-hearted people read blogs about dogs. So you must be both intelligent and kind.
There is a theory (and Google research for once doesn't produce much information on this so I'm not going to swear it's true) that American spelling is in fact the earlier form of English.
The theory I heard is that English in England underwent a radical change in the early 17th century, when the aristocracy started to embellish it. It was, basically, intellectual snobbery, but the changes in spelling and usage slowly went general usage, slowly filtering down through the social classes.
In the meantime, however, the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America, and as the new-fangled language hadn't yet reached their social levels, they took with them the old speech and language conventions.
Hence, Americans didn't change nuffink
Kindest regards from Melbourne, Australia,
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Comment by INDIOSDAD
I talked to and showed Daniel your blog re the english language. His intrest being a typical 10yr old was oh wow then he went on about his normal buisness. However my interest was aroused.
I found two great explainations of this quandry. The first was in Wicipedia after entering "correct spelling of color vs colour". The second was at your dictionary.com after keying "corect spelling of words at your dictionary.com" I was amazed at the number of examples provided in both places let alone the diffrences of useage and punctuation Let alone the funny diffrences reguarding our northern neighbor Canada.To add to the confusion is the fact that in many cases both spellings are correct.
This is all an example of what Daniel and I hav talked about a number of times especially when he gets frustrated in school in language class. Just a simple example is the word dove in one context it is a bird in the other it is the past tense of dive English remains one of the most difficult to learn for those of a diffrent culture to learn.
As an aside in the few moments I have been sitting here at the keyboard I have gotten up 4 times to let dogs in and out to the back yard.
Jerry
Comment by INDIOSDAD
While I would love to come to Australia to visit and bring some frosty paws I don't think I can.
First of all I am not allowed out of the back yard without a lead on and someone walking me. Second the human says it's way too far and there is a thing called an ocean between here and there and the van dosen't swim, don't understand that I can swim and would show it how. Dad says he will attach a thing called a recipe for how to make the doggie icecream at the end. We get all sorts of flavors like chicken and noodles spagetti and meat balls apple sauce all are yummy.
Big wet licks
Happy
If you would like to make a great dog treat at low cost follow this. I realy should not call them frosty paws as that is a brand name here in the States so we will call them Indy Paws (for our first Grey Indio)
A large container of yougert 64 ounce (
1.89 L)
3 6 ounce (.17 L) jars baby food pick a flavor I also use large bottle of apple sauce or any canned fruit or fresh fruit thru a prosser
Mix all the items well with spoon or hand mixer.
this will make appros 27 to 30 4 ounce srevings ( I buy plastic sufle cups at a local supply store along with lids)
pop into the freezer and serve to the fur kids.
as an alternate use ice cube trays.
When I make these there are 2 dogs laying on the floor in the kitchen waiting to lick the bowl # think what you did as a kid when your mom made a cake and you licked the bowl.
you can adjust this as you need to make any number. The dogs love them and is a fairly healthy treat for them
Jerry
Comment by Heidiclyde
YUM! The Missus says she's going to give your recipe to our newsletter (That is the newsletter for Greyhound Adoption Program, South Australia) she says it would be a great cooler for a hot summer day, I say it would be great anytime. Clyde says "Yoghurt? Geeze er bloke wud'n be seen eatin thut stuff". Clyde says to tell you he dun speak Clyde, he speaks dingo lingo, otherwise known as the way the boys from the bush talk. Some of his expressions are out of favour now but you'd hear the rhythm of his drawl just about anywhere you go in outback Australia.
We want to talk to Naboo the Galago. The Boss and the Missus have a boy who grew up to be a man and got married and is going to have a boy or girl of his own soon. He and his wife live in France near to the border with Spain and they are planning to adopt a Greyhound or Galago from an organisation that rescues Greys and Galagos from hunting packs in Spain. Is that what happened to you Naboo? And how did you end up getting into trouble? Didn't you like living with your family? We are looking forward to talking to our French cousin, we hope he or she will be bilingual so we can understand him or her and that she or he will like living with our French family.
Clyde was going to talk to you but he's having a bit of trouble with his eyes at the moment and needs a bigger keyboard or something. The Missus gives him tablets to make him a bit sleepy when his eyes go funny because he gets really restless and unsettled. Everything settles down is a day or so so he'll be back at the board again soon.
All the best,
Heidi.
P.S. I hope Daniel can read all my words, I don't know about different spellings, I just copy the way the Missus does things.
Licks to you Daniel,
Heidi.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
First please tell Clyde Happy was not trying to insult him or anything. Calling the way he speaks speaking Clyde is a compliment what other dog has a whole language named after him. It is also fun to try and figure out sometimes especially for snoopy who only speaks Redneck.
It has indeed been a long time since I have done conversion from ounces to liters so please check my math on the recipe. You can truely use almost anything to flavour (used your spelling there) the mix. The fur kids love them. They get them year round. With 3 or 4 dogs in the house at a time the name brand at 4.25 usd gets awful expensive as a treat so therefore the creation of my own.
As to our Naboo. He was brought to the States as a very young puppy to be a pet. He is a true Galago from Spain. He spent the first 7 years as a pet here living in a home with cats and as the companion for an Autistic child and did very well. Then came a problem. People moved into the appartment complex where Naboo lived with a pomeranian. This little dog attacked Naboo in the common area outside. This happened 3 times the people who had Naboo did nothing to aid him. They did not complain to the owners of the dog or the management of the complex. Now were it me I would have been screaming at the to of my lungs in protest. Well during the third attack Naboo fought back and killed the Pom.The people who had Naboo instead of fighting for their dog they just took him to animal control and abandonded him. Animal control in los Angeles investigated the incident as required by local laws and determined that Naboo did nothing wrong. Since they work closely with HOMESTRETCH GREYHOUND RESCUE they called them and told Naboos story. Barb from Homestretch went down and picked him up and called us to see if we could take him in (at the time we had 4 dogs in the house) and thats how he came here. He is a gentle well mannered boy whose only issue is that he food guards. He only growls no snapping or anything. We just have to be aware around small dogs. As an aside we only take in special needs or hard to adopt dogs which is why we have snoopy the blind and happy with his blown discs now and other loves with issues in the past.The special needs kids give so much back.
Please encourage your family in France to adopt a Galago. he are sweet loving dogs that are great with kids and make wonderful members of a family. The story of what happens to th ones thet do not make it in their assigned jobs is indeed sad and tragic.
the treatment that they indure is so sad including being shot and hung by the neck till dead. If they would like any info they can contact me. Just friend me here and I will send you my E_MAIL so they can contact me.
Please tell Clyde to take care of himself and Snoopy will look forward to hearing from him.
Ok thats enough for now look how I went on and on and on again
Best of everything
Jerry
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One more thing could you ask the Missus if the rescue group you work with has a web site and if she can post it here. I just like to follow rescue groups from around the world to see whats happening. I have also gotten some good tips on the care of my Greys from these diffrent sites
Jerry
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Comment by Heidiclyde
Thank you for telling us about Naboo. Clyde says he's going to send an e-mail to our French family telling them not to bother with the ankle biter, just hurry up and get a Galago (did you know they are called Lurchers in England and Staghounds here in Australia? The Missus said so so it must be right, there’s a bit of funny language difference for Daniel). The Missus laughed at Clyde and said it's a bit late about the ankle biter but we can't see why.
They have already done their research and seen the website of the rescue group in Spain, but when Clyde sends them his e-mail the Missus will help him to give them the link to this blog entry so they can contact you themselves if they’d like to.
Clyde wants to know if Naboo talks American English like you do or if he only talks Spanish? He want's to say G'day but doesn't know any words in Spanish. He says our French family say "Bonshoor" when the meet friends so he hopes that will do for Naboo.
The Missus says to tell you that we are really lucky here in Australia, our Greyhound Adoption Programs are not rescue operations. Greyhound Racing Australia is really responsible and they support Gap in each state. The owners and trainers actually pay to put their dogs onto the program and there is always a waiting list because they really want their dogs to have a home after they retire. Have a look at these entries on the Zoomies blog Really Long Link and Really Long Link The Missus sent him some stuff on our job too, we help her foster new GAP Greyhounds, you can find it if you trawl through the last couple of months blogs.
Here in South Australia we are extra lucky because the Big Boss of GRSA is passionate about GAP, last year at the big annual night to recognise the people and dogs who've been important during the year they had a special award for Angela who runs our GAP and for our Missus. Clyde and I think we should have got her award because we do all the work but it wasn't anything you could eat or play with so we've let her keep it.
This is the website for GAP S.A. <gapsa.org.au/index.htm> you’ll find links there for all the other GAP websites in Australia and in New Zealand. Also if you go to the Newsletters, Clyde wrote a letter for them from the July/August 2008 issue until the December 2009 one. Then things fell in a hole a bit and he had to turn to writing to Chris to get his jags. He’s been invited to start contributing to the new Newsletters but hasn’t got around to it yet.
Tail wags to all your hounds and big licks for you,
Heidi.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
Naboo only speaks American English he came here as a very young puppy so no Spanish.
A Lurcher here in the States is any Greyhound that is mixed with a diffrent breed especially a Saluki. Also a real funny here an ankle biter is any breed of small dog not a baby. We call babies rug rats.
Clyde a G Day from you makes Naboo very happy and is all he needs to make his day.
Greyhounds in Australia are very lucky. Here in the States Greyhound raceing is a very dirty buisness. The dogs at the track and the farms are often badly abused and killed if they do not perform at the track. There are cases where their ears have been hacked off (to get rid of their identity tatoos) and then dumped in the desert to die. Many of the States are now passing laws to ban all Greyhound raceing. That is the story here in California where it was banned years ago. We get our dogs from other States as they are retired or the tracks are forced to close. One of our dogs Fury came to us after being so badly abused at the track that she was so timid that she would hide behind me every time anyone came near her. After years of work on her part she not only became a normal Grey but saved me one day when some very bad men came to our door ( we live in a very quiet and good neighborhood) and were acting out she went balistic and scared the poop out of themand they went running. After this incident we renamed her FURY THE BRAVE. Our hope is that some day there will no longer be track dogs to adopt here.
CLYDE how are your eyes doing good I hope.
Just remember buddy "everything will be ok as long as you smile and wag your tail real hard"
Wet and sloppy doggie kisses all around
Jerry and the pups
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Just thought of one more thing.
Here in the States we have the American Staghound. It is a very specific breed. The breed is similar to the Galago in that it comes in three coats and has larger tougher feet then a Grey also has greater indurance for long runs then a Grey. They were bred as a hunting dog especially to run down stags. So they are sorta like a Galago. They are also like the Galgo and Grey in personality.
Also just watched a video on YOUTUBE You Aussies have crazy dogs. If you can go to YOUTUBE and key in "Crazy dog bites shark" the video is a hoot #redneck for very funny# Two dogs in the surf actualy herding and then biteing shark.
Jerry
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Naboo is truely a sucess story and we are so happy to be a part of it. It is once again proof that a GREYHOUND will over come almost any challenge given the chance. You well know this with your SCRATCHY and his health issues. They just give you that GREYHOUND smile and carry on with their lives without a care and proove to us that love will over shadow any challenge. This is why my wife and I encourage everyone we meet to take in and give a loveing home to those not so perfect hounds. To take a chance on them and get from them an unbridled love that makes any issues they have unimportant.
As long as we are able we will continue to take in those special hounds and give them the love they deserve.
Jerry
Comment by Heidiclyde
You've just shown me my ignorance, here in Australia Staghounds are bred for hunting too, (foxes, rabbits and roos) but although they are usually bred Staghound to Staghound they sometimes reintroduce a Greyhound (if they can get an entire bitch). The breed is still not considered a breed by the Canine Association which I consider a good thing because they remain, like Greys, a dog that still does what it was bred to do. I assumed the Galago was like the Lurcher and our Staghounds still a bit of a mongrel breed with Greyhounds added to the mix at regular intervals, not a true breed in it's own right.
I have read a bit about Greyhound racing in the States. It seems to me a tragedy that the only solution considered is to ban racing all together. If they policed it and cleaned up their game like Britain and Australia have done there would still be true Greyhounds for future generations to enjoy, instead the breed will either die out in the States or become a show breed with all the problems associated with breeding just for looks.
Another comment on the language issue. You think it's just between countries? Our daughter who now lives in New South Wales tells me she recently asked a staff member to fetch a sack truck to help move some heavy boxes. He looked at her blankly so she explained "you know , tall thing on wheels, you push it along to move heavy things" "Oh" he says "you mean a tip trolley". Telling this story to our son in France he tells me they are called devils over there because they are usually red and the handles look like horns! Bronwyn has found numerous differences in the naming of things in her 10 years or so in Sydney but that one flummoxed her for a while!
Jennie.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
Untill about 2 or 3 yrs ago when we found out that we would be getting a Galago I too knew nothing about the breed. I thought it was just a name given to Greys is Spain and did not know that there were such diffrences.
As to the Staghound tho it is a true seperate breed it as well is not recognized by the AKC (American Kennel Club) which I as well think is a good thing for the same reason. AKC for the most part are just the show dogs and I think in many cases just become show pieces..
Greyhound raceing here is shch a sad story.
I am a proud American but when it comes to the racing industry here I am sorry to admit it.
While some states have indeed passed laws to better control what goes on at the tracks and the farms that breed and raise the dogs there is a word that comes to mind that makes enforceing these laws difficult GREED.
The only way to make sure that the dogs are protected in a unoform manner is to pass national laws to do so. The interest is just not there to do so. There are some good track owners and dog owners that do what they can and work with the rescue groups to get retired racers into loving homes they are still few and far between. Things are changing slowly but far too slowly for my money. I hope that some day we can use your nations example and change racing here. I would be sad to see the dos only be show dogs but if it happens so be it for the dogs sake. I love my greys with a passion but.
OK stack truck tip trolley devil here also diffrences. Two wheeler or dolly or appliance dolly. One more example is drinks like Coca Cola in some parts of America called soft drinks (guess as opposed to hard drinks) or soda or pop or soda pop. There are even diffrences in terms that vary by cities within states One that comes to mind is a plumbing item. The things in public places that you can get a drink of water from.
In a good portion of the country they are called drinking fountians or water fountians however in my home town of Milwaukee Wisconsin they are called bubblers the only other place they are called that is Chicago.
You hunt kangaroos? I had no idea. I would guess for food. We here in the States just think of them as the cute jumpy things with a pouch.
Flummoxed is such a great word and depending where you grew up here you use it on a regular basis.
Have a Lovely
Jerry
Comment by INDIOSDAD
The time diffrence can befuddle you between here and there. There is a 17 hour diffrence from California and Melbourne time. Plus you are on standard time and we are now on daylight saving time since it is the middle of a HOT summer. Tried to explain to Daniel that if I answer a post at 7am here it is midnight there and you will not answer a post right away.
Daniel was a happy camper (California expression for very excited) when he heard about being written to and about by ya all there a half a world away.
Jerry
Comment by Heidiclyde
Ther Missus says yer dun know abaht roo meat. Great nosh! We us'ter get ut er lot in ther kennels, I'd be hangin aht fer me nose bag all right on roo meat days.
Dun get ut much now but. Ther Missus ses ut's high protein low fat high energy food an we dun need ut here. We get's Beyleigh tucker here , av yer cum acroost thut one yet? Ut's real good oh.
Ut's ther hoomans what eat Roo meat here, they cook ut real special an go nuts abaht ut.
Hey youse blokes, can yer give thut Daniel er lick frum me? Me tiddly winks' uv not cum visutin fer ages. Yer gets ter miss them when their gone.
see yer rahnd ther traps,
Clyde.
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I am writinng tonight instead of SNOOPY because she is having a bad eyes day. The human dad had to put her medication in her eyes.
Wow roo meat I'd like to try that I will send dad out to try to find it. That way we can have him make it for us.
As for the Beyleleigh tucker (food# dad copied the recipe thing but had to adept it for here. He said that the mutton stuff we realy can not find it here too easy because the humans don't eat much of it here in California. They eat it in some states like Montana and other ranching places. He made it useing beef hearts and some ugly looking stuff from pigs. IIf the tucker you get is as good as this you are lucky. Dad says i should thank you for the receipe we get it once or twice a week.
We give our boy # Daniel) licks every day. We are so lucky as dogs to have our own boy living with us every day. I know what you are saying cause when he is gone for more then a day we miss him soooo much.
Dad looked up the news letter from your adption group and read your letters. He read them aloud to us you are real smart and a good writer. Oh did I mention you are funny too, Thats funny in a good way dad says you could write for any comeidan in Las Vegas.
We can now understand more of what you are saying. Dad found and printed up a Australian slang dictionary. So now we can understand you better. So please keep sending messages.
All the Best
Happy
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I forgot to mention that tho you do not find much mutton here what you do find or the lamb you find dad says are very expensive.
Happy
Comment by Heidiclyde
Our Missus uses offal mince instead of mutton mince too. It is a lot cheaper and our butcher does it up especially for us and some other dogs that live around here.
She's added other stuff too, we get lard in ours to try to get some fat on old Clyde's bones and sometimes she throws in a packet of grated cheese, I think she sort of makes it up as she goes along half the time.
She keeps handing the recipe out to other adopters and foster carers, Beyleigh should be famous by now.
I really chewed Clyde's ear about calling the three of you blokes. Doesn't he know Snoopy is a girl dog? What kind of a drongo goes and calls a girl dog a bloke? He says "Ah give er blok er break yer mad Galah! Sorry Snoopy, yer a plurry bonza sheila but, not like some gasbags I know". He understands about bad eye days. He has to have drops in his eyes twice a day.
And Happy, don't go telling Clyde he's a good writer, I've got him bluffed that I'm the smart one around here, and mostly I am. If he begins to think that his letters are pretty good he might end up a bit conceited. He says I'm full of it, with tickets on myself but it's all right to be a bit proud when you are as elegant and sensible as I am, Clyde needs to remain his gentle, humble, calm self or we'd all end up in trouble around this place.
Does Naboo use the computer or is it a skill that only us Greyhounds with our exceptionally elegant long toes can master?
Tummy rubs,
Heidi.
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I am thinking that the ugly stuff I talked about from pigs may have been like the offal mince.
He got it from the butcher department at the Albertsons store here cuz the butcher lady is a friend of his. When mom asked what it was he said you don't want to know. Then he put it into this real old meat grinder thing and turned the handle and did at again and mixed all this meat stuff togerher.Then he made it into little loafs and baked it in the hot place. Your Missus recipe has now gone international as dad is passing it along to to his buddies.
The Snoopers says it's OK that he said blokes. Snoops says that she has been called worse. Also Clyde is a member of the I can see better then you think club so give him a break,We saw in the pictures in the news letter that Clyde was wearing doggles (thats what we call the glasses he is wearing here) how does your mom and dad keep them on him. Snoop has a pair that s he has to wear but she is always trying to take them off.
Clyde is a pretty good writer but then again so are you \. I am so glad we got that slang dictionary cuz sometimes even you use slang that we have no idea what it means. Like the "with tickets on myself" it is even better now that we understand.
Naboo does get on the computer sometimes. Unlike us Greys who have long and skinney toes. Naboo has long toes but they are kinda to be honest fat. So he types slow tell your mom it would be like if she typed with her thumbs.
We wish you all the best
Happy
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I wrote a reply about kangaroo meat that grew so long that I turned it into a new post. See here.
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You ask how do we keep Clyde's goggles on? Answer, we don't! After strong protests from the old fart the Missus gave up and told him if he preferred to go blind a bit quicker rather than have to wear glasses that was all right by her, does Snoopy have Pannus like Clyde does?.
He does wear his boots when we go walking though. He knows that they mean he can enjoy his walks and our outings to dog club instead of limping and hurting every step of the way. He might be as silly as a two bob watch but he does know when to come in out of the rain.
I apologise for dropping into the vernacular on occasions. When it's all you hear all day from the old noong it's a bit hard to remember that it isn't the Kings English.
Tail wags,
Heidi.
Comment by Heidiclyde
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Comment by INDIOSDAD
Snoopys eyesare still buggen her so I get to write for her again. Snoopy has whats called retinal atorphy. One of her eyes is compleetly blown (dont know what that means thats what dad says} the eye is all white cloudy lookin. The other eye out vet Dr Bart says she has mabe 5% of her vision. She can mabe tell diffrence between light and dark and has no flinch responce any more. There is nothing that can ge done to help her. Bart wants her to wear the doggles to protect the eyes from running into things and protect it from the sun. She don't care a lick tho and just keeps going.
As for comeing in out of the rain we like the rain so me and naboo like to stay out in it till we look like a drown rat (dads redneck thing# the best part is when we come in all wet dad will dry us with nice soft towels its like a massage all over.
Snoopy says we should let Naboo send a message one of these days. I said OK but it will take time for him cuz of his big feet. Dad says his feet are so big he could stomp out brush fires.
Don't wory about slippin into Aussie slang now that we got the slang dictionary #man it's long 9 pages single spaced dad says probably not all of it) and it's fun looking up stuff you and the Clyde man write.
Happy Tails to You
Happy
Comment by Heidiclyde
The bit about coming in aht'uv ther rain? Ut's ter do with bein er drongo. Ef yer've not cot the sense ter cum in aht uv ther rain ut's becos yer thick us two planks, er garbla bricks short uv er load, got er garbla'roos loose en ther top paddock an yer could'n organise er piss up in er bush pub.
So dus thut mean you an Naboo are er real wombats?
Grins,
Clyde.
Tell Snoopy I'm on her side abaht those plurry goggles, real dingbat uv an idea ef yer arsts me. I c'n just see aht uv one eye an ony light an shadows aht uv ther other but yer jus keeps blattin erlong.
C.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
You do not understand. We live in a desert and do not get much rain here. So stayin out in the rain is a real treat. Plus we only get rain in the winter and not much to boot. So we think it makes perfect sence to stay out and play in the rain. If dad lets us we will also play in the water sprinklers when the humans water the lawns and the lemon trees. So we aint no Wombats we are Greyhounds who play in the rain and then get a good rub down with a soft towel when we come in , it's better then a bath
Happy
Clyde my bro;
Snoop dog here. Me thinks havin ta weer dem silly dog glasses is bout as kool a frog stuck in the tar drive on a summer day. Da hoomans tink they looks so funny on us. Me ain laffin. Dey don feel good an don look so good eder. I kin not see out one eye an only haze thru de uder buts I gets long jus fine.
So NO DOG GLASSES
Snoop
Comment by INDIOSDAD
You always make me laugh. Especially now that we can understand more of what you are saying with our list of Aussie slang.
Drongo = a dope Roos loose in the top paddock
Oh Clyde !!!!!!
Ya know some of the things on that list would get your lights punched out here in the States.
Built like a brick s&*t house. If you told a big strong bloke here that he would not be happy. Here if you say that it refers to a very lovely woman who has lets say some rather large assets.
Keep up the good work and great posts we love them
Your Fan
Jerry
Comment by INDIOSDAD
OK just to poove I can this is Naboo.
Yes I can use the computer thing. Yes dad says I have big feets SOOOOOO
His feet aint xactly small.
But he dosent type with his feet and I can.
I am a GALAGO and proud of it. I came here as a pup. Ilive here in the Corona Ca. and am quite happy thank you. Snoopy is a redneck and speaks it well tho sometimes I look at him and go HUUUH what did you say. Happy thinks he is all cool cuz he speaks right American English. Well I speaks good old American. No fancy stuff here just normal. Dad and the other dogs call me a slow poke cuz I dont run as fast as the rest of the dogs WELL I am a Galago I am not as fast as the others but I can go a lot further.
I want to thank whoever told our human about putting fish in our food. We get tuna not sardines cuz the tuna is cheaper here.So we get it once in a week so good.
Barks and woofs to all
NABOO
PS
Picture of me in Cockie position the only way I can do it on the couch leanin
Comment by INDIOSDAD
What Naboo forgot to talk about is his tail or lack there of.
Naboo had a beautiful long graceful tail that almost reached the floor.
One Sunday about two years ago I was sitting reading in our living room whan Daniel came up to me and said "what did BOOBOO do to his tail (Ya we call him BOOBOO) as I looked up his tail was spilt right down the middle about 8 inches long. Being a Sunday Bart's office was closed and he was out of town so I could not call him. So off to the emergency room. Well they bandaged it up and we took him home. I was unhappy with the way it looked so Monday morning back to Barts office.I had to admit I had no idea how how he did it. Bart in looking at it said that half the tail had been degloved. He did not like the looks of it. We decided to give it a day to see how it looked not so good so the decission was made to amputate. So now Naboo is tailless. I think he still misses it. So you were lucky to have your tail.
Jerry
Comment by Heidiclyde
Geeze mate yer sound like er real dag uv er dog, whisht I cud go jaggin with yer. Y'know, ut sounds like yer fust family wer er bunch uv wankers dumpin yer like thut! Plurry ratbags! Sounds like yer as happy as er box full uv birds with Jerry though, even if he does call yer Booboo. Geeze, whut sort uv er name us thut. Hoomans! They leave yer wonderin ef yer punched or drilled ther way they play arahnd with yer name.
Sorry abaht yer tail Naboo, I lost a chunk uv mine too. Ther Missus ses ut's me'roan fault cos I stopped in er doorway but how'za bloke ter know where 'is tail ends when ut's half agen us long'us ther rest uv'im?
ooroo f'now,
Clyde.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
It would be great to hang with you. We could have fun going for a walkis and talkin about our Hoomans and how silly they are.
I am happy and lucky to be here. I get to do anything I want (well sort of). My hooman says that he will take anyones rejects cuz they are the best dogs to have. He also tells all his friends that he will not judge anyone about not wanting to take care of their pups as long as there are people like our Auntie Barb that are on watch to make sure they can find a new and happy forever home in places like here.So everything came out the best for me.
As far as dad calling me BOOBOO he says its a good thing. When he was a young pup there used to be on the magic window (television) a cartoon show that he said was his favorite. It was called Yogi Bear. It was about some bears that lived in a park and spent all their time trying to steal picnic baskets from the hoomans that came to the park. They always got the baskets and fooled the park ranger. The big boss bear was Yogi and his bestest buddy was BOOBOO. So when I came here dad discovered I was good at stealing food (I can open a closet door or a cabinet and get alll the food I want) he decided I would be called BOOBOO. His bestest buddy and food theif.
I don't need no tail I got's a nub to wag when I am happy. Except mom laughs when I starts ta wagging cuz my whole bum wags.
Keep smiling
Naboo
Comment by Heidiclyde
Hello Naboo,
This is our friend Yogi, when he lived with us he was called Goldibear because he was a great big cuddly bear of a dog. He was surprisingly smart too when you consider that he is a boy dog. Here he is getting all the little squeaky toys out of the cagey cube. He'd then wait for the Missus to put them back in and do it all over again, the hoomans thought that showed how clever he was! I ask you! How smart does it say you are when you prefer to do something silly over and over again instead of getting your beauty sleep? I do like to play with my toys but there is a limit to the amount of time one can spend in such exhausting activities.
Goldibear is now called Yogi and is the apple of his new hooman's eye. He goes to a different dog club to ours and is flying through the grades. I'm not jealous of course, some of us know we don't have to show off just to let hoomans know how intelligent we are.
Tail wags (from my elegant full length tail, some of us know how to look after ourselves as well!)
Heidi.
Comment by Heidiclyde
In a recent conversation I had with Bronwyn we commented on the ability of your blog comments to take weird and circuitous routes with very little relevance to the original blog.
Do you think this is due to the fact that most of your comments come from canines?
Is there a possibility that the minds of dogs are unable to stick to the point?
This is really quite surprising considering the fact that the dogs concerned are all (or almost all) Greyhounds, and the only interloper is also a sight-hound, namely Naboo.
Considering the fact that these dogs have been bred for thousands of years to have one track minds and to stick to the point of chasing and catching the prey I find it intriguing that they seem to be unable to apply these principals when involved in a conversation.
Perhaps there is an intriguing research project here waiting to be undertaken by some keen student of animal behaviour.
Yours sincerely,
Jennie.
Comment by INDIOSDAD
I is a Galago not an interloper. What kind of dog is a interloper.
The reason that the blogs get so far off the original subject is due to a simple fact. We Greyhounds have such large and expansive minds that we can totaly connect what seem to be unrelated subjects and make them seem to be a single intellegent conversation.I think the study should be related to the inability of humans to understand the workings of the Greyhound mind. If someone decides to do a study I would be happy to assist in the examination of the hoomans. Your friend Naboo
Comment by Heidiclyde
I really hate to admit this but I do believe that Galagos must be more intelligent than Greyhounds. Never in a million years would a boy Greyhound have managed to make such a sensible and smart response to the Missus' rude comment on our rambling conversations. I'm more than happy to assist you on the examination of the hoomans though I think it would take more brains than even we two intelligent hounds could muster to understand the workings of that peculiar system known as a hooman brain.
respectfully yours,
Heidi.