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External Since: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 126

m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> SAMK wrote:
>> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the
>>>> morning, but
>>>> that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the
>>>> house.
> <snip>
>> We had one dog who was ocasionally banished to the kitchen for sleeping.
>> You could hear him go... stomp, stomp, stomp, click click click all the
>> way down the carpeted hall into the linoleum kitchen. He would then
>> tiptoe back into the bedroom, making none of the sounds he had
>> previously been so loud about.
>> SAMK
>
> Tiptoe? Seriously? Anyone else ever had a dog who could deliberately
> not-click when walking on hard surfaces? Every dog I've ever had
> clicked like castanets on hard floors.
>
Seriously tiptoe. Especially since she was SO loud going, her ability
to return silently was quite amazing, and amusing. She was also the
only dog I've ever had who would "hold hands". If you squeezed her
paw, she would squeeze back.

SAMK

External Since: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 304

>> At the house I grew up in, the neighbors had a German Shepard who
>> would come visiting. It would be rather disconcerting to be leaning
>> headfirst into the irrigation weir late at night, adjusting valves,
>> and have a cold wet nose run up your thigh. Luckily that nose belonged
>> to a very nice dog, but it still made me levitate the first time it
>> happened, since I had not heard anything due to the noise of the
>> water.
>
> At night? In darkness? Cold noses and strange, big-toothed visitors?
> And you a reader of adventurous fantasy novels with dragons and monsters
> in them? I'd have done darn more than levitate!

Can you say teleport? Or Jaunt?
Wail like a Banshee?

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