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<DIV>Our daddy built us ramps too, we have our by our back door cause we
have steps that go up into our kitchen, we actually built the ramp
for our miniature Dachshund several years ago because she was way to little to
go up and down the stairs, so we built ramps, we use indoor outdoor carpeting on
them and yes we too use furring strips every so many inches for
traction. both of our girls took to it like a piece of cake only Maggie
will not use it to come up the steps she only uses it to go down, Evil
Annie uses it both ways up and down.</DIV>
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<DIV>funny story, I have been telling hubby that we have a leak under our
bathtub for weeks !!!!! well he wanted to go deer hunting so he
didn't want to be bothered with the leak, well , under the crawl
space it was all wet, to make a long story short, it was old
copper pipe and it had a huge crack in it. so Bill had to crawl under the
house ( did I say he is a big man ) so he is crawling
under the house with his trouble light and I am up in the bathroom in the linen
closet with the wall panel off waiting for him to squeeze his way
all the way over, hello are you there, bill are you there,
HONEY where are you so with that in comes Evil Annie and she is such
a nosey girl that she is looking down into the deep dark hole and all of a
sudden Bill sticks his hand up through the hole and poor Annie
about crapped a pile I couldn't stop laughing she
started barking and just carrying on ! and I was stuck in the closet
on the floor trying to help one scared shit less Basset get out of a very
small linen closet, is it any wonder she is afraid of the dark, oh
yes , she sleeps with a night light, true she really does and a blanket
wrapped tightly around her with only her nose sticking out she is such a
WOOSE</DIV>
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<DIV>Marlene mommy to Maggie wags and Evil
Annie</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>