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Same thing happened to a friend who had been in France for 8 years, split with her hubby, came back to the UK – 0 years No Claims, despite driving the whole time in France ( named driver on hubby’s policy.)
@sgb101 – how did you get on with your recycle bin problems?? Did you find out who was stitching you up??
Nothing special about a POE cable because there is no such thing. The power is carried on the “spare” pairs of an ordinary Ethernet cable.
Ooooppsss!! I thought the cable industry might be on a money-making scheme like the gold plated HDMI cables for £50. Teach me to comment on things I don’t know about!!:) …….or maybe it won’t. :scratch:
Been there – done that!! :whistle:
Are they POE? If so, they are probably doing the same with them, as they did with HDMI – they become popular when needed for the latest popular gadget so they think they can charge what they like. Should have taken Dave up on his offer. 😉
I’ve got a friend who rents and their boiler was in the loft. It was a real PITA when it needed the pressure topping up, or, more often in their case, the gas meter ran out and needed to re-ignite it.
When ours was fitted in ’09, if an outside wall wasn’t an option, you could also vent it through the ceiling and pipe it out through the roof using special tubing and a “tile” like a tumble dryer vent.
Save it for the weekend – some people spend a lot of money in pubs ( not just on booze 😉 ) for that effect!! :yahoo: :wacko:
More relevant than the “hand in mouth” aspect is if you put your thumb on their tongue and press down. I tend to put my fingers round their lower jaw and press down with the thumb. Although this places your thumb across the line of teeth, they lose the full extent of the clamp. They hate the feel of it and try to spit your hand out more than bite it away.
This is a handy method to use on dogs that hate tablets, and won’t fall for the tablet in one piece of chicken and a second, in front of their nose, to get them to eat the first and then go for the second.
Being as it’s a Barratt home, you’re likely either in an estate of similar houses, or a small bunch of houses together, as this is what they mostly did. Your local planning department will be a good place for a recce online. Someone in a similar house will have had the same idea and you might be able to check out some plans.
Homes under the Hammer might also be a good place for some ideas. Bigger kitchens, kitchen-diners and the like are all popular at the moment.
Don’t forget to get references – and follow them up – speak to people that have had the work done by the builder, and go round to see it as well, don’t feel you’re being cheeky or nosey.
Spend more on the boiler and get a good make if you can, many of them have 7 year warranties now I think. We bought a cheaper one ( Main ) 8 years ago and it’s given us grief for the last 4 – we’ve spent more getting it repaired each year than it will cost us in total to get it replaced!! We’re are now looking to get it replaced soon, and we’ll probably go for a Worcester-Bosch this time.
He most likely wouldn’t have become the nice lad he sounds. We have a couple of un-neutered dogs that come to us. They both have a tendency to “mark” various items round and about. Mostly outside, but also beds, door-frames etc, I even had one mark another dogs empty dinner bowl!! They just do.
Don’t make the common mistake of putting human behaviour onto dogs. I highly doubt they miss getting laid!! :yahoo: 😉
The final 2 pics is the week he had his knackers off. He doesn’t look happy. https://goo.gl/photos/A6VMBwwSuKLRXQhe9
Would you!! Let’s be fair now!!:):)
That all sounds good. Best of luck with your pondering. :good:
A lot of people use them for the first 6 – 9 months and then don’t bother. The “don’t soil where you sleep” bit cuts the house training time in half.
Your last rescue sounds a lot like my first GSD from Battersea. I’ve a feeling he belonged to a guy who thought he owned the area he lived in, and all others, people and dogs, had to clear out of his way. It was like throwing a switch – he’d see another dog and would want to fight. ( even a bitch in season!! )
But he loved people – he even converted my MiL who was scared of big dogs. He would wait for me to go out of the room, start doing little tricks to all and sundry in hope of a treat, but as soon as he heard me coming back, he would scoot off to a corner and lie down looking all innocent – (Who me??!! )
Training was a challenge as I had to overcome and clamp down on his initial instinct to fight anything else in the Church hall, until he accepted other dogs around him. He wasn’t particularly happy, but deferred to my “rules”. We went through life like that, he missed out on so much running free, but I think he would have ended up euthanised had he gone to someone else. I did have a washing line that I had lashed a clasp to one end and a handle at the other. This would have been about 30 yards long, and I would go for a run through the park/woods with him, just on full alert at all times.
The one time he nearly came a cropper, we had a very big bathroom in the flat above a shop, and at the time, I was rebuilding a Royal Enfield 250cc Continental GT engine in there. I had just finished the bottom half and was waiting for the re-bored barrel and oversize piston to be ready. The poor lad got an upset tummy and somehow managed to squirt it all down into the engine, past the con-rod. So another strip down, clean and re-assemble was needed. :negative: 😥 I was not impressed.
I’ve had one of those days too – thought it was age related!! :whistle: 🙂
It’s a generational thing then, being born in 51 I knew them as Alsatians, ( their origin being from the Alsace-Lorraine region on the French /German border, that belonged to either country depending on who won the last war and which date you used!!) but it all changed back to GSD again in the late 70’s which was when I was heavily into dog training.
There’s an interesting article HERE.
People are always asking us about training, and one of the best house training aids are crates. A few people are against them as they would not “lock up/imprison” their pets, however the dogs see it as security – a place they can enjoy. We have had dogs that have never seen a crate and yet they will claim one as theirs. If you give them a treat like a dentastix or Bonio, they will take it off you and go into a crate to eat them. A good way to acclimatise a dog to a crate is to put their bowl of food down into one and leave the door open.
Dogs will never voluntarily soil where they sleep, it’s inherent in their nature.
Dogs will normally let you know when they need to go out, you just have to recognise the signs, and they vary immensely. Take every opportunity to imprint what’s what with the dog. Take him into the garden when he asks, tell them ” Good boy/girl, go do your wee’s and poo’s” – yes you sound like an idiot, but dogs are inherently smart and will pick up on a phrase and react accordingly. Always reward the desired behaviour. Just a small piece of chicken can be the best training aid.
Choose yourself a place in the garden that you want them to use and next time they wee indoors, mop it up with one of those training pads and stake the pad into the ground at the spot with a tent peg or similar. Placiing a dump there helps too – no!! – one of theirs:):)
Bob, that’s a great idea with an older, smaller rescue dog, just be aware what you might be taking on. Some insurance companies heavily penalise ( or won’t cover ) dogs with pre-existing illnesses and that can get seriously expensive. Don’t always believe how the rescues describe the dogs, try for one where the history is known. Always judge with the head, not the heart.
I only ever knew them as Alsatians up until the mid to late 70’s. They were called GSD to distinguish them from other “wolf like” Shepherd Dogs as opposed to “border collie like” Shepherd Dogs from around the world. Belgian and Australian SD’s are probably the next best known.
I got my first dog – a GSD – when I left home and went to live in a big flat. I got him from Battersea, and to this day I still think we chose each other – eventually. The first time I saw him in his pen, he was at the back of the pen, snarling at anyone who went past. But there was something in his eyes that I read as not meaning it. ” I don’t trust anymore, so go away”. I did due diligence and went round the other pens, but my heart wasn’t in it any more, so I went back and stood at the front of the pen, looking into the distance. About 5/10 minutes later, his curiosity got the better of him and he came and stood at the front, leaning against the mesh. I put my fingers through and scratched behind his ears and that was that. He was 2 – 2 1/2 years old and I had him for 10 years, until his back legs gave up on him. We also got a GSD pup, he was a big lad too. He weighed in at 98 lbs at 6 months old. The only way we could get him worn out enough to start training was to take him on a 5 mile walk and hope to meet something that matched him for energy and chased around. Then I’d stop in a field just before the car park and put in an hour with him. He had so much energy he would jump over a settee to get out of the room, instead of walking round it. Unfortunately, we had just brought our son home and whereas he would never have hurt him deliberately, he could easily have just landed on him.:( Still, as I was into training at the time, we had two police dog handlers that ran the group and they sent their Inspector round to see him and he said they would love to take him on, so he became a Police Dog and had quite a career by all accounts.
Steve – I describe that voice as a cross between a stroppy teenager and an anal headmaster!!I just spent 45 minutes formulating probably the longest post I’ve made and it kicked me out. Told me I had to be logged in to reply to the post, well I was, or the “Reply To” box wouldn’t be there!! :scratch: 🙁
Chatting with the wife over breakfast this morning we were talking about his first week and how, in stark contrast to all other politicians, he has hit the ground not just running, but true to his word, his manifesto and his election promises.
Has he set the bar for incoming politicians/parties to stay true and not water down what got them elected?? I hope so!!Also, in light of the above, do you think Hilary is checking out some properties in countries that don’t have extradition??!! Is she sh*tting bricks atm??
Today’s meeting with our PM will be interesting as it’s him and not one of his appointees that will be doing the talking – mainly because he doesn’t have one for trade yet, plus a lot of others have just either gone, or been shown the door!! It will also be interesting as to whether he will take the opportunity to have a dig at Merkel/Brussels and bolster our negotiating position for Brexit.
Interesting times indeed.
Is the CoA barcode an old style barcode, or is it a QA code?? If the latter, it may take you to a webpage with codes?? (Grasping at straws!!)
When a new dog comes in, it’s only the small ones that react to the bell. Mainly Jack Russells, Shih Tzu’s and a Puggle ( Pug/Beagle cross ), the bigger ones just watch at the door to see who’s coming to play!!
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