Text 40278, 64 rader
Skriven 2010-07-24 00:09:42 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 40266 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

> -> > Apparently not.  It isn't for everyone.
> ->
> -> I'll tell you who loved it.. My doggie, Priscilla, before she died.
> Sounds
> -> silly, but I felt so bad for her as she was aging, full of arthritis,
> etc.  So
> -> I covered that mattress with a plastic cover, etc. and let her sleep on
> it. She
> -> couldn't jump up on the bed any longer. It took up a bit of room on the
> floor,
> -> but we figured poor old girl deserved some relief.
> ->
> It sounds like a good idea to me.  But then I was raised by cats.

Lol, know what you mean there :)  It's funny, I always was of a mind to not
really be crazy about dogs.. They just seemed like a PIA  - certainly the Irish
Setter my Dad always insisted of having when I was growing up (g).  He'd ALWAYS
get loose and follow me downtown or anywhere I went after school :)  Then when
Ron and I married and had kids (think my first child was about 6) we got a
german shepherd who was the neatest dog in the world.. changed my mind about
dogs :)

> -> > manage.  Chances are your mattress needs to be sent packing anyway.
> ->
> -> It surely does (grin).  I remember the first time Priscilla or Midnight
> (our
> -> first two black labs) ate a hole in the top of the mattress.. We'd had
> it for
> -> maybe month.  Dang dogs just could resist seeing what was under that
> nice
> -> pillowtop covering it had (laugh) so I had to patch it.. Well, I can
> laugh now,
> -> but back then I was pretty upset with them :)

> Dogs will chew darned near anything, if it smells interesting.

Yep, and these two new pups are certainly showing the Lab traits.. of digging
up and chewing every darn thing in and outside the house :(  Some days, the
back yard looks like a chippper was run on all the plastic items in the house!
(grin).  Ron is getting real tired of raking the yard, and it isn't even fall.

 > -> >  An air
> -> > mattress would solve the turning problem, for certain.
> ->
> -> But an air mattress does not survive dogs ... I think we're on number 4
> of
> -> those.  We keep an air mattress around (or TRY to) for when the kids
> sleep
> -> over, or for when we have guests :)

> That could be a problem if you have a dog who thinks a mattress is a chew
> toy.

It's more their nails I think.. Jump on the air-mattress feet (or rather claws)
first and you hear that lovely hissing sound as they puncture the darn thing...
 :)

Take care,
Janis

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