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Laura's Abode
Just a place to spill my thoughts, and inform any friends interested in being updated on my life.
last modified Apr 6, 2002 at 20:43
To let you know that I'm switching journals. Visit me at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/montina
Also check out all my pictures at: http://photos.yahoo.com/bookworm1083
Enjoy!:D
Ok, a much more complete post about our dog. Daddy just appeared with her after work last week, to the complete shock of us all. I mean, we've been begging him for YEARS to get a dog. And suddenly there she is!:-D She was a stray who'd been hanging around the house where Dad was working.
From a good friend who knows alot about dogs, we found that she's about 11 months old and is half collie and half German shepherd. (although my Gramps doesn't think she's german sheperd [from seeing pictures of her] he says shepherd mix maybe) *shrugs*
Anyways, she was being called Lily, but we changed it to Lady. She's a all around GREAT dog. Doesn't hardly bark, doesn't jump, or lick much. Like every human and animal she does have her faults. Hers is that she likes to kill chickens and rabbits. My friend told me that's just a simple matter of teaching her to "protect" instead of "attack". She told me how to do that, and I've already begun.
I got permission from the neighbors to take Lady down there around their free roaming chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits. I also want to take her to some friends house where they can hold the chickens and I can bring her closer to them. I'm sure it will come in time. I'm very pleased how she's learning "come" in just two days. I think I'm going to work her on a longer line. We keep her on a 15ft. leash otherwise she'll run down to the neighbors.:/
Each day I fall deeper in love. We're growing quite a bond. I really love her. I'm just afraid we'll get ahold of the owners and they'll want her back. But if so, it was all God's will, and obviously He wanted to teach me something through all this.
One great thing about having Lady, is that I get outside more, and I've been getting regular excercise every day. She's my responsiblity to train, I've been taking her around the property line a couple times a day to teach her her bounderies. I'll surely keep you informed on my "baby". I'll have to scan some pictures of her.
Other updates: Latin's going well, I'm at chpt. 5, though I missed this week's assignment, just too much going on. Flute is going great though! I've had 4 lessons, and just switched to getting lessons on Monday instead of Tuesdays. It was my teacher's choice, we'll see if it works better or not. She says I've got the best sound she's ever heard for someone who's only had 4 lessons. I'm really loving the flute the more I play it.
Anyhow, I'd better be going. Gram's trying to take a nap, and I need to watch Hosanna. So long!
I suppose Truepath wasn't joking when they said they were going to shut down their free accounts. Now, I'm quite lost. I lost all my pictures, can't use my other blogger, etc.:/
I have to go, but WE GOT A DOG!!! More details later!
Cya!
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