ripanco
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Hi All,
Dogs: yeap, CKC have been on my radar for the kids. Finding a well bred, slightly older one may be a bit harder...any leads would be greatly appreciated! Karen, thanks for the shelter link, I am going to have the kids keep their options open. Little dogs: today I am grooming a Cotton Du Tulear and 2 Havanesse. TOOOOO much coat!
Feeling grateful: While I often go for long periods of time that I don't even think about my new hips, there is always something that reminds me just how lucky I am. Not just for the new lease on life my hips have given me, but my life in general.
Running with dogs: Bob, I am grinning as I write this so please take it with humor. Poor Donna has a very bad incurable disease. There is no choice for her. She MUST run. She is a 'dog person'. I have to admit, I am one too. We are hopeless. Except I am moving away from showing the dogs and back to showing horses! The dogs are a part of our lives, not just an activity or form of exercise. However, the type of running Donna is refering to is not getting out on the road and grinding away for an hour or two. She must run to show (or gait) her Irish Wolfhounds (I show Siberian Huskies). That means the dogs must move at a brisk trot around a show ring probably 2-5 times. When Irish Wolfhounds and Siberian Huskies are at a brisk trot, the handler better be able to move out too! I know my OS felt that type of running was totally acceptable. He ok'd me to be back to showing at 6 weeks post simultaneous bilateral THR (same as Donna) with MIL, posterior, poly/metal (just for the record).
We have 6" of new snow....mush on!
Andrea
Dogs: yeap, CKC have been on my radar for the kids. Finding a well bred, slightly older one may be a bit harder...any leads would be greatly appreciated! Karen, thanks for the shelter link, I am going to have the kids keep their options open. Little dogs: today I am grooming a Cotton Du Tulear and 2 Havanesse. TOOOOO much coat!
Feeling grateful: While I often go for long periods of time that I don't even think about my new hips, there is always something that reminds me just how lucky I am. Not just for the new lease on life my hips have given me, but my life in general.
Running with dogs: Bob, I am grinning as I write this so please take it with humor. Poor Donna has a very bad incurable disease. There is no choice for her. She MUST run. She is a 'dog person'. I have to admit, I am one too. We are hopeless. Except I am moving away from showing the dogs and back to showing horses! The dogs are a part of our lives, not just an activity or form of exercise. However, the type of running Donna is refering to is not getting out on the road and grinding away for an hour or two. She must run to show (or gait) her Irish Wolfhounds (I show Siberian Huskies). That means the dogs must move at a brisk trot around a show ring probably 2-5 times. When Irish Wolfhounds and Siberian Huskies are at a brisk trot, the handler better be able to move out too! I know my OS felt that type of running was totally acceptable. He ok'd me to be back to showing at 6 weeks post simultaneous bilateral THR (same as Donna) with MIL, posterior, poly/metal (just for the record).
We have 6" of new snow....mush on!
Andrea