<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Hi all, momPerson here,</DIV>
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<DIV>I have news for everyone. NEVER overstimulate your basset hound. Especially if your basset hound is a rescue who is overcoming "issues" like fear and food aggression. If you were to say, send his favorite kid away to camp for a month and then have her come back with her sister and then have your mother in law come to visit for a week arriving the day after the kids get back from camp ... that could be bad. Especially from the perspective of your beloved Labrador retriever.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cyrus has been very patient and loving with Snoopy. For the month while the kids were gone they were inseparable. For whatever reason, when Snoopy feels overwhelmed, he invariably turns on Cyrus. Snarls, snaps, chases him through the house. He doesn't actually bite (thank goodness) but he can sure talk trash. Cyrus tolerates it all. You know, it's the weirdest thing. If Snoopy is trying to assert authority (like when they wrestle and Snoopy trys humping his head ... it's happened) then Cyrus will make Snoopy back down. But if Snoopy is simply running on pure adreniline and needs to vent then Cyrus just takes it all off of him ... just rollls with it and lets Snoopy get it all out.</DIV>
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<DIV>It really bugs me ... him yelling at Cyrus like that. I mean he's loud and he's rude and he's persistant and he's ... well ... he's hounding my poor Lab. Darn hound dog. And he was doing SO well before all of the comings and goings. I guess he has to get accustomed to accepting change and feeling secure through it all. Cyrus is a much better momPerson than I am at this ... so Cyrus is taking care of Snoopy.</DIV>
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<DIV>And I am loosing my mind with this darn basset hound who overnight forgot how to walk on lead and leave us alone at the table and leave the girls things alone and be NICE to Cyrus. He's lucky he's cute.</DIV>
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<DIV>Flustered momPerson</DIV>
<DIV>with Snoopy doing the Natalies home dance since Sunday now</DIV>
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<DIV>Cyrus ... who doesn't really mind if the little twerp looses his manners periodically ... but it drives my momPerson crazy</DIV></div></body></html>