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Jan. 1st, 2012 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI strongly recommend you avoid dropping a laptop on your toes. If you must drop a laptop on your toes, choose a small light one, not a 17" Vaio designed with blade-like sharpened edges and apparently lined with granite.
Before you ask, YES the bloody laptop is fine! It landed on something soft. It landed, in fact, at about lunchtime, and the toe still hurts! Stupid toe.
This afternoon, I did a homecheck for a Dog Rescue Myth - the active retired couple with no kids, no pets, home a lot, real dog lovers with a fully enclosed garden, who live in the country with their own land. Every other dog owner who wants to hand a dog in seems to believe that we have an ample supply of these paragons, and I think this is the first time I have ever actually met them. They seem to be real after all, though I do wish there were a lot more of them.
Oh, also, on the topic of dog rescue? Cesar Milan. Just NO. I am SICK of dogs bouncing from homes that think they know about dog behaviour because they watched a couple of shows with that self-dramatising little wanker and decide to throw dogs on their backs or diagnose them with aggression that frankly, they have not got.
Happy New Year all. I hope the rest of 2012 will be less painful. Now I shall limp slowly and melodramatically away to have a bath.
Before you ask, YES the bloody laptop is fine! It landed on something soft. It landed, in fact, at about lunchtime, and the toe still hurts! Stupid toe.
This afternoon, I did a homecheck for a Dog Rescue Myth - the active retired couple with no kids, no pets, home a lot, real dog lovers with a fully enclosed garden, who live in the country with their own land. Every other dog owner who wants to hand a dog in seems to believe that we have an ample supply of these paragons, and I think this is the first time I have ever actually met them. They seem to be real after all, though I do wish there were a lot more of them.
Oh, also, on the topic of dog rescue? Cesar Milan. Just NO. I am SICK of dogs bouncing from homes that think they know about dog behaviour because they watched a couple of shows with that self-dramatising little wanker and decide to throw dogs on their backs or diagnose them with aggression that frankly, they have not got.
Happy New Year all. I hope the rest of 2012 will be less painful. Now I shall limp slowly and melodramatically away to have a bath.
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Date: 2012-01-01 08:43 pm (UTC)Yay for perfect homes, but just be sure to unplug the telly!
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Date: 2012-01-01 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-01 09:24 pm (UTC)(For the sport of laptop-dropping, I recommended the EEE PC, a tiny laptop with the weight and brainpower of a feather. Mine has survived many a fall and never injured me.)
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Date: 2012-01-01 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-01 10:38 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear about your toe.
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:45 pm (UTC)It's about time I reorganised my house and my life to make room for another dog. Tis several years since my beloved old mutt finally tottered off to the great dog-basket in the sky. And we do have a fully enclosed garden. Trouble is that round here if you don't want to rescue a hyperactive Jack Russell or a disturbed teenage collie, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of choice! We got rather discouraged and stopped looking. But perhaps I should re-start my search seeing as it's a new year. I feel stupid walking around without a dog!
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Date: 2012-01-02 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 10:20 am (UTC)I lay on the ground for some time wailing tragically to myself, it was a sad (if in retrospect, probably rather comic) sight!
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Date: 2012-01-02 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 10:31 am (UTC)Ooo! Would you consider an older dog? We have a lot of dogs around the country listed on http://www.oldies.org.uk/ - many of them not hyper JRTS or disturbed collies! (I set up the website and volunteer for the associated rescue).
Or http://www.dogsblog.com/ is a good place to look for younger rescue dogs.
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Date: 2012-01-02 11:36 am (UTC)Cesar Milan? That four word phrase you used says it all. When you're battling with a long term behavioural problem, having someone say 'Oh, Cesar Milan could sort him out in a few hours!' is not particularly helpful.
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Date: 2012-01-02 12:23 pm (UTC)I think every rescue and behaviourist that I've discussed him with has got at least one nightmare tale of owners who ignore the 'do not try this at home' warnings on his shows and end up seriously messing up their dogs and/or getting bitten (or getting other people, or even worse, children bitten). His emphasis on exercise has some merit, but the 'quick fix' part of it and particularly the manhandling of dogs is just terrible. :-0
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Date: 2012-01-02 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-02 09:55 pm (UTC)