Re: Cabbage: Re: Very sad, true story.

On Oct 6, 8:52 am, Don Gray <dong...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Ophelia" <ophe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This probably sounds daft, but since we got our dog we haven't eaten out:)
We used to eat out 2/3 times a week, but I don't like leaving her.  She is
an old lady and we like to spend all our time with her while we have her:)
Anyway, I do make an effort to make my food look pretty for serving.

You've just reminded me. I'd always wanted a dog so when I bought a
bungalow my partner suggested it mught be the right time. So we got a
beautiful short-haired labrador pup. He was a darling bundle of fur
but he just couldn't be left alone. He fretted, cried, and tore up
whatever was at hand. we got him during the summer vacation so he had
a few weeks to settle down.

We both worked. The only solution - I would take him to school with
me. The kids would love him. The head and I had had battles in the
past and he refused entrance. I already had a spare pets refuge room
which housed neglected rabbits, guinea pigs and rats which we, the
children and friends funded. It provided therapeutic help for lonely
or bullied or problematic children, so a puppy wouldn't be a pest.
Still the answer was no!

So out into my car he went. He was walked at break times and lunch
times. There was no shortage of offers. Unfortunately, he still pined
and proceeded to tear up seats. In a month he had destroyed the car.
In the end we had to give him away to a more spacious life on a farm.
We were never allowed to meet up with him again and it broke my heart.
--
Don

If you had crate-trained him at the start, you wouldn't have lost
him. After crate-training until age 3, our Lab could be left alone in
the house and never did anything bad at all. Ever. And everyone
worked all day. She died just about a year ago, at the age of 14.

N.
.

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