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To: heartwood

This will provoke attacks, but when I grew up, the dog stayed outside. At some point people stopped having a chain and a doghouse and let the dog inside. One lady I met in the middle of the mountains in Colorado had adopted a wolf... which she allowed into her small log cabin built in 1875... anything that could be chewed up was... it was amazing what people tolerate for companionship.

My old roommate had 2 English Labs... they would shed and shed and shed and I had to vacuum and vacuum and vacuum. Like... dog hair everywhere in the kitchen just like you describe.

I used a furminator and it does a great job... if you can spare an hour of your day once a week grooming throughly.

What worked the best though was keeping the dogs outside... I’d just let them run loose on the farm... go visit the neighbor farm kids and their dog for “playdates”... Cody loved mingling with the people that came every June for U-pick strawberries... but when they came back... They stayed on the sunporch and out of the kitchen.

Compared to the owner, I tended to do a lot more finger snapping and pointing to the doorway when in the kitchen trying to prepare dinner or a Sunday meal. Eliminate the dogsfrom.your kitchen... feed them outside. Remember they are DOGS, not people... well dog, singular, in your case.


53 posted on 02/02/2013 12:00:51 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

My boy has never been allowed in the kitchen.
Never allowed on furniture either.
He lays by the fire place in winter and by the cold air return in the hall in summer. (change the filters often)

Other then that, he is Outside.
Which is where he is now. Rolling around on his back LOL


61 posted on 02/02/2013 12:18:55 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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