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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">Two drool posts in
particular got me chuckling this morning one about Bassets eating or not eating
I agree they will eat kibble when they are hungry people teach dogs to hold out
to get what they want we worry and fret they are not eating so we cater to them
we REWARD them for not eating so why should they eat kibble we are training
them to hold out for something better. They will eat when they get hungry. I am
not condeming I do the same thing but I know they will eat if I just do not feel
well and do not give into their demands, I know I trained them to hold out and
now I need to train them to eat what they need to eat. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">The second was the one
about a dog eating the dog beds. It reminded me about one morning I woke up and
I heard a faint whimper and a faint woof. I looked and looked and could not find
where it was coming from. I then noticed one of the dog beds was moving. Just a
little and a very faint woof coming from the vicinity of the bed. I kept looking
at it and saw a snout peeking out of a small hole in the corner of the bed. One
of my Bassets had chewed a hole and had chewed its way into the bed and was now
stuck. She had been chewing on that bed for days and I kept vowing to sew it
with metal thread to fix it so she could not spread stuffings like snow all over
the house but I kept procrastinating and never got that done and now she chewed
her way into the bed. We unzipped the zipper and dug her out. She never touched
the bed again. We were fortunate she did not suffocate. It was scarey on both
our parts hers and ours but like I said she never chewed on a dog bed again, now
it is sheets she loves to tear the sheets up on our bed it drives me crazy. But
at least she cannot get trapped and is safe. That is more important to me than
anything. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>