Replying to a message of PETER COGGON to CINDY HAGLUND:

 CH>> Woods are great. :) The only down side is check for ticks. I hate
 CH>> those tings. I forget about them .. we don't have much in that way
 CH>> where I live but they're there  out in the woods someplace I'm sure.

 PC> I have always checked the Rusty for ticks, and other things, but
 PC> he is lucky I guess due to meds i give him as well natural stuff
 PC> in his food.

A teaspoon of vinegar per quart of drinking water seems to keep fleas and
most ticks at a distance.  When Buddy joined us earlier this year I had to
remove several ticks from him until he'd ingested enough vinegar to give them
the message.

BTW there's a neat little device called 'Ticked Off' for removing ticks, it
looks like
a deep measuring spoon with a deep vee cut in the scoop end; just slide the vee
under the tick as far as it'll go and rock it back and out the thing comes,
doesn't seem
to hurt the dog.  Costs about two bucks.

 CH>> You'd love his book. "Cesar's Way" he too grew up
with dogs but not
 CH>> in this country. In Mexico dogs run free, even owned dogs. They're
 CH>> not pampered like they are here.

 PC> In Scotland we did the same.   They all ran free in the village.  No
 PC> problems until the city people wanted village life....then our life
 PC> disappeared.  Same thing happened here.

 CH>> Wouldn't it be great to walk with our dog without a leash and they
 CH>> stay right with you? CM noticed this with the homeless in LA. Dogs
 CH>> stay with their owners. They act as pack members with the human as
 CH>> the leader. They don't get distracted at all.

 CH>> Now that's true loyalty. Not having to have a leash at all.

 PC> Depends on the breed.    The pack moves as a group with point dogs
 PC> wandering out ahead of the main pack.   Seen this a lot with my dogs
 PC> as an adult.  As a child, they stayed right with me.

 CH>> Really? Hmm. I wonder. How did  that work? The cures in Scotland. I
 CH>> take by the poisoned cats you mean the practice of laying out poison
 CH>> against unwanted animals on one's property?

 PC> Try Rat poison.   My Grandmother's forumla saved every cat's life from
 PC> Rat Poison.  She was well known for this for 100 miles.

 CH>> I read of that in James Harris's book. (Another great one!)
 CH>> *(All creatures large and small; and the sequel.. Got both in a
 CH>> tome at a discount book store.) Have you  read it?

 PC> James Harris is from the same area as my family in Yorkshire.

 CH>> :) Well we can't help humanize them a little. I think what CM means
 CH>> is the overdoing it like the ilk of Paris Hilton does for
 CH>> example.... And moneymakers do with fancy doggie hotels ...

 PC> MMmmmm no I don't go that overboard.   Rusty isn't wearing clothes.

 CH>> As long as you are the pack leader your dog will be your follower no
 CH>> matter where you live. But if a dog was running free out in the
 CH>> country once, he may not adjust well to indoor life. He needs
 CH>> walking.

 PC> All our dogs in Scotland were out door dogs. In the winter they came
 PC> home, and were okay.   Country dogs are better then city dogs. They
 PC> know their jobs and what is expected of them.

 CH>> You heard the parrot joke didn't you? About the beguiler who is
 CH>> stopped when the Parrot warns him Jesus will get you! The burglar
 CH>> ignores the dog until this big brute rushes at him. heh.. The dog's
 CH>> name was Jesus. ...........

 PC> Yep... heard that and a few others too....

 PC> And I still like my cats, but not how I am getting them.  Humans are
 PC> the most cruel things to see.  I see it with dogs and cats and other
 PC> animals they abuse.

 PC> Sorry to see you have to take meds due to kitty, but if not your
 PC> home would be over run...with kittys and that isn't fair either.

 PC> I see enough of them dead on the road...and while I am not a cat
 PC> person, and I guess due to too many kitty deaths, and seeing
 PC> them that I fear for my two survivors of the human death camps.

 PC> ttfn  see you next time...

 PC> Peter




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