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Springfield Missouri came up with a great idea after a growing problem of dog poop in public places. They had signs made and put them around their downtown parks and parking lots in hopes people will start picking up after their dogs.
We need to get some of these. There are too many dog owners who think they don't have to do this.
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Monday afternoon we had to say good-bye to the best dog in the world, our Ferdie. The staff at Northgate Small Animal Shelter in Collinsville were wonderful while doing a sad task. Ferdie left us calmly and peacefully while I stayed at his side. I am not able to really accept this yet, this life without Ferdie by my side at every hour of the day. All I can do is show his first day with us being adopted from Dirk's Fund Golden Retriever Rescue after being dumped on a neighborhood street in Collinsville on a cold snowy January night back in 2009. His life was amazing in how so many who have come and gone from here remember him with affection.
This shows the bottom of Bob, the head of Dirk's Fund who put us through the wringer before he allowed us to adopt Ferdie. When I got back to the seminary with him that day he met Dale for the first time in the sem office. It was love at first sight.
From that day on it was a whirl of meeting and playing with endless neighborhood dogs, sem kids and sem students and staff. Our love for him knew no bounds and we miss him terribly.
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I came across this chart on dogs emotional life and the things that help or hurt. Now I realize we can't get into a dog's head, but this is actually pretty good.
click to enlarge in order to read it.
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The woman who runs the Golden Ratio on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube lost one of her dogs late in the spring. It about broke her heart and sometime later she came across a person who makes small, felted, replicas of dogs. She sent in photos of the dog she lost and yesterday the replica arrived. It is so real you'd think it would wag it's tail.
Here is the link to how it turned out.
I know in my heart our Ferdie is wearing down and getting weaker and it's getting closer to the day we lose him. So I've made a note of where this felted dog maker is.
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I was doing a few things on the campus this morning and as I walked up to the Walther Arch which holds the big bells, this is what I saw.
Yes it is what you think it is. One of our fine local neighbors decided it was too much trouble to take their dog's poop home and left it next to the bench in a nicely tied up bag. Now you may think she probably didn't realize it had fallen, but we've come across so many of these bagged dog poops laying around it doesn't strike me as an accident.
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Someone in the Golden Ratio 4 Twitter page what brand of vacuum cleaner they use to suck up the dog hair dropped by their 5 Golden Retrievers. If you haven't seen or followed The Golden Ration 4 on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, you should. This is an amazing couple who both manage all these wonderful dogs as well as their own full careers. Each day they put up at least one video or photo of the dogs eating or running around or sleeping and they have, I'd guess, thousands of followers.
Anyhow, as you might imagine, they need a vacuum cleaner. She recently bought the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Turbo Plus Upright and likes it. She puts it to the test for sure.
Here are their 5
We have a hairy Golden Retriever, just one dog, and he drops the hair and a couple of years ago I bought the Shark Navigator vacuum and it works very well. The best part are the attachments, one of which reaches under beds without having to move the bed. Also the canister lifts off the base so it's easy to vacuum stairs.
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We had a nice Easter this year until the late afternoon when Ferdie's back legs went out on him and he couldn't get up or walk. The physical horror we felt for our much loved dog was painful. This morning we took him to our vet in Collinsville and they were so helpful getting him out of the car and into a room I never knew existed. It had a couple of couches and the floor was totally carpeted so dogs in Ferdie's condition wouldn't slip and fall.
We don't know much yet, because they took him back for xrays of his legs and lower back which involves a sedative. We should hear something soon and we hope, really hope, they can help him.
Here is a picture I took of him yesterday before this all happened. I can see in his eyes, now and didn't then, that he had some pain.
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One of our former neighbors brought her new puppy by yesterday to visit Ferdie. Abner is a 6 month old English Sheepdog and his size belies the term puppy. But he is a real sweetie and just adorable. Problem is, Ferdie is really feeling his old age these days and isn't able to play due to a bad rear knee. But he was very patient with Abner and seemed to enjoy the company of another dog for a while.
Abner tried his best to get Ferdie to get up and play.
No go and Ferdie finally looked over at us as if to say, "someone make him understand I'm an old man".
Resignation.
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The Golden Ratio 4 couple, they have 5 Golden Retrievers, recently bought a second home in the Florida Keys and this week added a new mailbox which is so darn cute. A Manatee! Or Mailatee!
If you haven't paid attention to the Golden Ratio 4 stories and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, you are missing the best thing online.
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