AW.....you guys miss the SHEER JOY on the face of a young dog playing in their
water
bucket!! Water buckets and sprinklers....that's what it's all about for
young GSDs.
Kiddie pools for some......
How they LOVE to bury their head in the water of a big 5 gallon bucket and
fling it out with
their paws like they are digging a huge hole. When they come up for air they
look like looney
happy puppies and their faces show sheer joy! Messy.......OH YEAH!
Just think what good physical condition they keep us in as we go out there ONCE
AGAIN
to clean and re-fill it the bucket. Sprinklers.......much cleaner....same
sheer JOY!
It was 104 yesterday in N. Calif........you guys are missing out on the fun
that myself and Patrick
Green are describing! <G> I would hate to see them using a Lixit for water
while I head for the
river. Taking the 3 young males this morning to teach them the river way of
cooling off.
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.marhaven.com
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Dogs, Buckets and Tiddly Winks
My dogs have been on water lickers for over 25 years! I used to teach the
puppies how to use them by putting honey on the stem of the licker, but I don't
do it anymore cuz they see mom doing it, solves so many problems. Ed
From: Mary TrippTo: grnlfgsd@xxxxxxxxx, Carolyn Martello
Get Lixits from Revival. Always fresh water no more scrubbing buckets.
Switched over about 5 years ago. Best thing I every did.
Mary
At 08:26 PM 8/17/2015, Patrick Green wrote:
Carolyn I wonder the same thing nearly every day. I,....... I want their water
to be clean and crystal clear! They sure don't seem to care. But while I am
cleaning buckets the older ones all have to come up and drink the clean water
and give me the look like "it's about time!"Â "We've been stuck drinking that
old nasty water that Stevie Ray has been playing in all day!"Â The truth is
that they could give a rat's a**. And at six months Stevie Ray is so proud of
himself because he can drink out of the hose. No really! He can! Probably
the most talented dog on the planet, just ask him! And he has to show me
multiple times while I am scrubbing buckets. It's not like he's in the way or
anything so I feel privileged to get to see such an amazing feat. Shame EdÂ
Sullivan's not on any more, we could go on and Stevie could show the world.Â
Yep, drinks right out of the hose. It's something. Tell me again, who's in
charge?
Patrick
 Â
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Carolyn Martello <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
wrote:
While scrubbing water buckets this morning and re-filling them with fresh clean
water I began
to question why do we care so much, or bother that the dogs have clear water
and their buckets
and bowls are clean and free of any  'swamp water scum' ?   They sure don't
care!!  Â
Within hours, our dogs can make the water in their buckets look like we are
incubating another
German Shepherd Dog in there!! Â Â Â Â THEY seem fine with it.
They ALL Â love to drop their bones in the water when they are through with
them..and anything
else they can find. You never know what will dump out.  Cowboy loves to
stand in the water
while he drinks. ( he learned that when herding ) Â Guess how long HIS water
stays crystal clear!!
( Â does THIS question fall under "complaining"..... )Â <G>
Also...I SWEAR some deliberately hold water in their mouths to come over for a
pet and drop
it in my lap!   Now that IS a complaint!! <G>
With their dinner bowls ....it's a whole other game. Â Â Â Rainy MUST move her
bowl full of dinner at
least three feet or more from where I placed it before she eats.  It MUST be
moved! Â Â Another
one MUST flip it over and scatter the food all over the place and eat it
scattered ...our old girl
wraps her front legs around it and eats laying down...and our two big males eat
it so quickly they
seem to forget I fed them by the time I've fed the other three.  Our 4 mos.
male pups seem to
play all around and IN the bowl while eating.   ( I'll pray for their new
owners! ) Â Â <G>
Also MOST of our dogs love flipping the bowl around like a tiddly wink on the
cement when it is
empty....or batting it around like a soccer ball.   We've had people
visiting look confused when
they ask, and we explain its just the sound of GSD tiddly wink games coming
from the back yard
area.<G>Â Â Â If they ever have 'tiddly wink'Â competition at the
National......WE'RE IN!!
Â
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.marhaven.com <http://www.marhaven.com/>
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Patrick GreenÂ
grnlfgsd@xxxxxxxxx
http://GreenleafKennelsGSD.com <http://greenleafkennelsgsd.com/>
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