09:29 – Darwin Day, and Colin turns a year old today. Some would say he’s now officially a dog, but he’s still very much a 12-month puppy. He is showing some signs of calming down a bit, but he’s still doing stuff like eating bedspreads. In fact, he’s gone through two in the last month. One was shredded completely beyond salvage, but the other is now in my Trooper as a tarp for times when we haul straw, mulch, and other messy stuff in the back.
Barbara and I got quite a bit done yesterday on the biology kits. We’re shooting to have the first 60 kits ready by 22 March, one month before the book is published. That leaves us a bit of slack in case something unforeseen crops up. I haven’t costed out the kits yet, but just eyeballing it I think we’ll be able to keep the price in the same general range as the chemistry kits or perhaps a bit higher.
Keep posting stories of Colin’s destruction and bad behavior; they strengthen my resolve to never have another dog once our two imbecile goldens are gone. Catz ROOL and Dogz DROOL. Word, homes.
Would it help to get another dog? Maybe Colin is bored, especially with how busy you’ve been lately. A second dog might alleviate the damage caused by boredom. Or double it, I suppose.
Alternatively, would it be possible to involve Colin in the writing process or kit assembly? He doesn’t have thumbs, so he couldn’t help much on the assembly, but explaining what you’re doing every step of the way might keep his brain engaged and his mischievous little butt out of trouble.
Though note that, while I have plenty of experience with dogs, I have very little with puppies or young dogs. I took in several dogs after family or friends got tired of them or couldn’t keep them any longer.
I think Colin must be bored. Send him up to northern NE to hunt some cats, especially those lucky enough to be cohabiting with Goldens. Give him a box of treats for each cat pelt he brings back.
I have experience with puppies, and Bob has another year, maybe two, before Colin “matures”. Some dogs never do.
Yeah, well, you know what I think. The dog and owner need to get out more or one or the other other will continue to eat sh*t and bedspreads.
Perhaps Colin thinks he isn’t getting enough fiber?
Sure, send him on up here to hunt cats. If the two we have here can’t kick his ass in short order we have some bobcats out and about and possibly he would like to track down our very elusive Eastern Cougar, various fleeting sightings over the decades and occasional scat and paw prints from Maine to the Quabbin area of central MA.
One of my brothers and I had two American Pit Bull Terriers for a while, and one day after he’d gone to work and I was sleeping the sleep of the just after a midnight shift as a street cop, they completely tore up the (rented house) wall-to-wall carpeting and all the upholstery in the living room. They also liked to hang for hours by their teeth from fire hoses hung off a tree in the back yard. And they would also climb trees, get onto the garage roof, and there was one who commandeered a bus in downtown Providence and one in a Diet Pepsi commercial water-skiing. But too many years of a bad rep from being used by dope dealers and other scumbags as guard dogs along with totally irresponsible care and interbreeding.
No more dogs for OFD.
BGrigg says:
Perhaps Colin thinks he isn’t getting enough fiber?
Or chocolate.
Just now got another “caint git there from here” when I tried to refresh this site.
I have been getting occasional timeouts from taking too long for a response. It often takes 10 seconds or more for a refresh to even begin after I hit the button, and then it can take another 10 seconds before it completes in spurts.
Wow, you get spurts? I get el zippo, just the usual error screen. And then if I go to my bookmark of the main site here, it pops right up and I just have to navigate back to here.
Probably Colin gnawing on Cat-5 or peeing on something.