[ SHOWGSD-L ] A new GSD activity

From: "L. Hartten" <hartten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thelist <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:15:07 -0600
  Almost-three-year-old Indi has, to my eye, plenty of options for 
stimulation, many self-appointed:
- the dozen toys scattered about the floor
- the humans to lean against and be petted by
- grooming (OK, that's one I insist on and she hates!)
- the attempts to turn the kitchen into a marshland
- checking to make sure that Kate & I have left no paper towels, 
tissues, or plastic bags on any counters or tables (this is one she 
insists on and I hate!)
- the task of keeping the 2 cats on the far (bedroom) side of the gate, 
except after 9pm when Neiman (but not Gongbi) is allowed out into the 
living room to sit on the play structure
- occasionally, the task of deciding the Brittany the ES should stay 
Right Where She Is in the yard, or should be confined to the patio area
- the scattering of lightweight gardening supplies about the yard so 
that I have more things to pick up and less time for grooming
- breaking into buckets of kitchen scraps & coffee grounds before they 
can be put into the compost pile (so much for that restricted diet)
- digging in the garden (late spring only, thank goodness! or knock wood 
...)

  But this is not enough for our goofy girl.  So Sunday she came up with 
another:

- harvesting acorn squash out of the garden (and leaving them in the 
middle of the yard)

<sigh>  I would have more time to play with her if I spent less time 
picking up after her!!!  At least she didn't fling the squash around; I 
don't think the skin got punctured through.

Cheers,
  Leslie
-- 
Leslie M. Hartten                web: http://spot.colorado.edu/~hartten
Indi (TerraNorte's Midnight Indigo, German Shepherd Dog)  &  Brittany 
(Upland Sweet Baker, English Setter)
--
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