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I was really, really hoping Spike's energy level would keep pace with his healing; but I admit I didn't really expect it.
Today he's climbed his first tree since the surgery, actually managed to pick up a stick (it was a bow-shaped one, and he spotted the opportunity to seize it by the raised part a split second before I saw the need to stop him) and grab hold of the leash in an attempt at leash tuggy. He dropped both leash and stick instantly and he hasn't bashed, bust or split anything - I checked very carefully.
still. holy shit. I really hoped he was going to stay chilled a little bit longer than this.
Today he's climbed his first tree since the surgery, actually managed to pick up a stick (it was a bow-shaped one, and he spotted the opportunity to seize it by the raised part a split second before I saw the need to stop him) and grab hold of the leash in an attempt at leash tuggy. He dropped both leash and stick instantly and he hasn't bashed, bust or split anything - I checked very carefully.
still. holy shit. I really hoped he was going to stay chilled a little bit longer than this.
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it makes me think of how i tried to tether luce to a crate at night after her knee surgery in order to prevent her from jumping onto my bed, and how i woke up at some point in the middle of the night with her in my bed, having dragged the crate halfway across the room to get there.
you can't keep a good dog down!
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clearly I need to think of a bunch of silly non-face-involving tricks I can teach him to do n the interim.
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I'm thinking by this time Saturday we'll be seeing a LOT of
OMFG HOW THE HELL DO I STOP THIS?
remember - wounds heal, chicks did scars and glory lasts forever!! (apparently when sticks and fetchy things are involved all bets are off though)
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i'm wondering now about the feasibility of Really Huge beachball-type balls that could be batted about a field with the cone. I'm obviously going to have to find some kind of non-face-impacting play.
...can I borrow a goat or three?
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Like these, but huge. (http://www.southan.co.uk/8-coloured-plastic-football-5705-0.html)
I don't think I could stand there holding two dogs and inflate a ball from scratch, not with Spike going mental and Squish possibly terrified (he's not keen on large balls for some reason.)
I'm thinking I may need my mum to help me make this workable. She could walk Squish while I play with Spike. or something.
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2.) My love for Leonard Cohen is epic. Not just for his craft with words and music but for the fact that I would do his seventy-six year old self in front of witnesses.
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I went to see him back in November 2008. Was every bit as awesome as you'd hope for.
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Yeah, I'm also hot for him. He does not look like my dad.
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We have this game, he and I. There's a couch blocking my hallway and you have to climb or jump over it t get in and out of the flat. When we go out for walks, Spike jumps over it first and then when I climb over it, he does this huge fierce YOU SHALL NOT PASS mock attack. If I'm wearing my thick coat he bites me, though he is Good Dog and no longer bites bare arms except by accident.
he didn't do it for the first few days after he came home, but he's doing it today. With snarling and full-on conepoking.
he's also learned to use the cone as a cat herding aid. Cassie = unimpressed.
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he's pretty good at not hitting people with it though.