[lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:22:27 EST
You should get another. Lucy is the first dog I've really loved since my
wonderful collie/hound mix...he was such a good pet. Died of old age. And I
have tended in the past to ridicule slightly those people who treat their
animals like people ....but Lucy is such a wonderful companion; I take her
everywhere in the car with me, and even let her sleep on my bed (an absolute
no-no
in general) when I had the flu. She so absolutely has her very own
personality. Sometimes I think animals are nicer than people. My daughter
would
certainly say so. One of her mice recently had babies and one of the tiny
things
(ugly as all get-out, pink, hairless, worm-looking) died. I told her to
toss it in the trash. She was outraged and insisted on a full burial. ("If
you
had a baby, Mom, and it died, would you want someone to throw it in the
trash??"). Of course this is the same child who begged me, years ago, when I
swatted a wasp in her bedroom, to "make it alive again, Mommy, make it alive
again!".
Julie Krueger
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My Sheltie jumped incessantly. Especially if someone were to walk to the
back
door to let him out. And we're not talking, like, little jumps. We're
talking super high monster jumps! It was nuts. I picked him because he was
the smallest, most pathetic looking puppy in the bunch and named him after
an
axe murderer on the X-Files. He didn't really live up to his name. He was
SO
timid. He had cartilage growing in his lungs, though, since he was little.
No one knew about it. We only found out about it when he started to develop
serious breathing problems, i.e., could barely breathe at all. And he
couldn't eat. We had to switch him from regular dog food to soft, canned
stuff that we then had to squish up. The poor thing died of a heart attack
at
the vet's, when the vet gave him a needle. I love Shelties.
Erin
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> I have a sheltie. I had completely sworn off dogs after the last two evil
>
> ones that came my way (the doby/hound mix we rescued from someone who used
> him
> for hunting and beat him; he turned out to be profoundly aggressive,
biting
>
> everyone) and my step-daughter's pit/lab mix (we called her destructo-dog
--
> I
> lost more pairs of shoes to that animal....), but my folks' Sheltie died
> after 15 years and they missed him so much they bought Lucy (well, they
> bought
> two shelties -- male & female, Desi & Lucy). Desi ran into the road and
> got
> hit. Lucy drove them nuts because she's, well, wired .....not the sedate
> thing their previous sheltie was. I fell in love with her.....sweet
> personality, mischievous, incredibly curious, beautiful markings...very
> loyal. Trots
> around after me from room to room and cuddles with me if I'm not feeling
> well.
> But if any other person walks into the house she turns into instant
> tazmanian devil -- I swear she's part rabbit or cat or mountain goat --
she
> has
> springs in all four legs and leaps from one piece of furniture to the
next.
> She's
> not yet a year old, so I trust this adolescent behaviour will eventually
> leave <g>. When I was a kid we had Collies -- when we were very little we
> used
> to ride on their backs like horses. Shelties are a compromise....
>
> Julie Krueger
>
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> Schools Date: 2/16/06 5:29:20 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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> You have a Sheltie!
>
> Aw, I miss my Sheltie.
>
>
> Erin
>
>
> Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
>
> > You have almost as rich and vivid imagination as my daughter.....the
one
>
> who
> >
> > required five "klash-klashes" (washclothes) in her bath for all her
> > friends.
> >
> > Of course now she doesn't need the fantasy type friends. The 15 mice,
8
>
> > cats, 2 doves, 1 beta fish, 1 sheltie, and 2 ferrets are coming close
to
>
> > satisfying her need for company. She does insist that she requires
> either a
> > pet rat
> > or hamster to complete her menagerie.
> >
> > Tomorrow is a home-schooling Lizard presentation.
> >
> > God help me.
> >
> > Julie Krueger
> >
> >
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> > Schools Date: 2/16/06 5:11:16 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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> > Paul: You know what is terrible? Waiting at the
> > end of the driveway with your child in a minivan
> > because god
> > Erin: No, you know what's terrible? The fact that
> > I don't think my brother even knows what a bus is,
> > never mind seen the inside of one.
> > Eric: What's really terrible is wielding an
> > imprivized stone tool to cut your way through
> > seven miles of vines and canebrake thicket,
> > hounded by packs of wild dogs and feral children,
> > fighting gangrene and frostbite, to arrive at the
> > sheer drop from which you are to descend by
> > toe-holds onto the blasted rabblement below, only
> > to discover that your high school has been burned
> > down--again!--and that you forgot your number-two
> > pencils.
> >
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