Replying to a message of Richard Webb to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> Stormy, a black lab mix and mother of most of the dogs
 BA>> still here, used to grab my hand and pull me over to the
 BA>> driver's side door of the car. The first time she did it I
 BA>> had no idea what the heck she was doing. Of course, she
 BA>> wanted to go for a ride - she LOVED to ride in cars and
 BA>> pickup trucks.

 RW> CAn believe that one, seen similar.  Schotze likes to go for
 RW> a ride still.

 BA>> Had her neutered after the pups were weaned (one litter is
 BA>> enough). The night after the surgery she chewed out the
 BA>> stitches and gave herself a massive infection we couldn't
 BA>> control.  2 weeks (and nearly $700) later she died.

She's buried out in what is now my orchard ... under a dogwood tree,
really (I planted the tree there after I buried her).

 RW> YEp, sounds like you needed one of those cone shaped things
 RW> they put on a dog to keep them from worrying at such a
 RW> wound, but I've only seem them used on the little lap dog
 RW> breeds at vet's offices.

Those cone-shaped things are called 'Elizabethan collars' (after collars
popular a couple of centuries ago in England) and cost about $15 a pop.
I recently had my newest arrival spayed and she destroyed one and I
had to have it replaced.

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