[Ag-eq] test

[Susan Roe]

Hi Jody,

Dover can wine, do a bit of a low growl and a quieter version of what we 
call hound talk.  He can't do the loud sort of yodel howling that a walker 
hound can do and they also can be rather vocal with wines, moans, huffing 
and other sound vocalizations that almost seems like they are talking to 
you.  Dover can still do some of this still along with pushing and rubbing 
his face, head, neck and shoulders up against you.

When I'm sitting on the porch, he stands tall enough that he can just plop 
his head and neck right across my belly and he canpress his chest and 
shoulders all across my knees.  You might as well give him a minute or he'll 
just stand up on his hind legs, put a paw on your arm and shoulder and 
litterly be nose to nose with you.  The silly dog.

When Dover was laid up inside, he wanted to do the same thing with laying 
and rubbing his head and neck all over you.  The only problem with that is 
he had the two open drains and all of those exposed stitches.  Now I have a 
thing about tuching stitches, they just creep the crap out of me.  So when 
Dover insisted on this sort of attention whenever I was sitting down, I'd 
just catch him at the chest with my sock feet and keep him at that distance 
so I could still pet and rub his head, ears, and muzzle without tuching his 
stitches or being covered with his drain liquids.  He unfortunately thought 
this was a fun game for me to slide him backwards with my feet on the slick 
wooden floor, so he blessed me with doing it quite frequently until I had to 
call for Matt to rescue me from the goofy beast.  LOL

  We're thinking about downsizeing the garden this year because we have had 
two locations and with the terrible drout we had last year, we just about 
lost everything because we couldn't irrigate because we lost power the first 
of July for 1 week.  No power ment no running water anywhere and the 
generator couldn't help because the pump is hardwired into my house fuse 
box.  We had a hard enough time bringing in water from about 10 miles away 
for us, the animals and his one row of grapes.  The grapes got enough water 
to survive, but they didn't produce any grapes and we were expecting about 
25 gallons of grapes.  I would like to see him cut back on volume and 
increase his veriety.  With him working 12 hour nights, 4 nights straight 
and then off 4 days straight, it really messes with your awake and sleep 
times.  To keep up with a place like this, it has to be enjoyable and not a 
non-ending burden.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] test


> Hello Susan,
>
> Oh I am so glad hat Dover is better but what a shame he will never bark
> again.  Can he make any sound at all?
>
> Why do you want to shrink your garden?
>
> JODY
>
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