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narshaadha
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(12/2/04 8:43 pm)
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Fritz
yepper, i thought if i started a thread with that title you would pop in here, gaia..... okay, now that i have your attention i would like it alot if you would tell your doggy shopping story here, and then describe what fritz looks like other than just his weight. thank ya hun
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Gaia Angel 
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(12/3/04 11:33 am)
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Re: Fritz
Ewwwwwwwww! an invitation to talk about fritz??? try and stop me! lmao thats actually what I was showing up in here to do! lol But...since you asked for it I refuse to feel guilty! lol I will start by copying and pasteing the thread from ULB...and save my fingers loo
To start with: I was NOT happy to get a new dog:
I hate it. I feel like I am replacing gryphon and am only going because I promised paul no solo week long hikes without a reliable canine companion who has been trained as a guide. We are hitting the pounds, there is a lady who evaluates dogs in terms of how usefull they are to the visually impaired and I am armed with a list of training facilities for the both of us...and im afraid i am gonna resent this poor dog. It is not gryphon. Thats 2 year oldish I know, and not at all fair. but I am a little more then a little resentfull that paul thinks I NEED a guide dog on the trails.
I didnt get any over nights like I had planned this season because I made one stupid mistake because of my vision on a day hike and paul refused to take me. I misjudged how close the trail was to a run off and tipped down hill and wrenched my ankle. I made it home just fine and wasnt seriously injured anywhere but my pride but it seemed it was the ammo paul needed to "ground" me with my deteriorating vision as reason. BLECH! I have problems with details...thats about it! I procrastinated getting a trail dog because i didnt want grif to feel as if i was replacing him. Now that he is missing for 5 weeks, I dont want him to think I have forgotten him.
Maybe Im being a butt and paul, honestly all his flaws aside is seriously concerned and I understand this. The "what if u mistake a rattler for a stick of wood" arguement did get threw. but, I resent the hell out of it and feel I have no choice...and i HATE that. It feels sometimes like any and every ounce of independance I gain, some one somewhere has to have a finger in the controll button!
Some times I just wanna be left alone. *sigh*
Thanks for listening to me rant lol all i really wanted to know was how others coped with missing/deceased pets.
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Gaia Angel
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(12/3/04 11:34 am)
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Re: Fritz
Yes narsh....I think grif would love Fritz. Yes, we went with the guide lady, paul paid for her advisory services....which i promtply ignored!
Fritz (then chubbby....honestly...his brothers name was bigg his name was chubby...come ON thats so mean lmao) Is a nearly 80 pound youngster...10 months old. He chews, he barks, has NO leash manners, jumps on me to hug me and knocks me down, has a condition I have to have surgery for where eyelashes grow inside the eyes, drags me along when we go for a hike, ignores me when i say sit unless i deepen my voice, is scared of men in general (paul fussed at him for licking the babys face and he actuclly HIDE behind ME! lmao) and hes absoloutley unsuitable if my vision should go the route the dr assumes it will.
I LOVE him! hehehehe
Now that ya know his bad points let me introduce you to fritzie....fritzie loves my kids, though sams close enough to man to evoke a fear response, the sun apparently rises firmly from between punkys butt cheeks. I cannot go to the bath room, take a bath, brush my teeth, sleep or even check the mail with out my little shadow. And whats more, he adores me. He will sit while i pet him a paw on my shoulder and just gaze adoringly into my eyes with such love and gratitude i am ashammed I ever resented adobting another dog! Hes so opposite griffie that I am content in the knowledge noone has succeeded in trying to replace him....you cant. and there is a great gryphon sized hole in my heart still today. But this morning I actually started the greiving process, on fritzies back of course. I think someone some where knew that i couldnt greieve without someone who would understand my pain...fritz was abandoned at the shelter by his owner when she decided to move and couldnt take him with her. He lost the only mistress he ever remebered, his litter mate and best friend and the only home he had ever had, dropped in a shelter and was the VERY next on the list for destruction, though the angels at the shelter had put it off as long as they could because he really is an awesome dog. his brother was adobted sat....fritz was adobted yest.. In a way I think we are therapy for eachother. Now for the best part... He loves his collar so much that when i took it off to add his tags he snatched it from my hand dropped it at my feet, sat down stretched out his neck like "hey thats mine! put it back!" lmao he likes the leash even if he ignores it...if he has to pee he drags me the lish and does a potty dance lol (nothing like being woke up at 4 a.m with a leash in my mouth lol) and he LOVES hiking! He sets a brisk pace so im hoping training and maturity will slow him down a bit but when i took him to the woods this morning he looked at them at me back at them and actually YELPED with GLEE children! The worse part was being drug threw the 7 million below degrees water in the creek as he chased something only he could see...but I laughed the whole time i was being annoyed lol
he needs chew toyswhich i plan to get today. also, hes vomitted twice and eaten very little so I think we may have allergy issues noone was aware of, but, thats what this time is for....to learn.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I have to tell my first "fritzies cute" story!! I was in the tuim last night and he was very distressed that i had locked him out, so i let him in and was bathing, leaned back to wet my hair and was woofed in the face....turns out fritzie didnt like my face underwater lol so i sat up and began to wash my hair...and felt a weight in the water with me...I openedmy eyes got a eyefull of dove shampoo and dog tail! I was laughing....half blind shampoo running down my face dragging him from the tub. yeah i think we will get along ok hehehe he will annoy me im sure
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Gaia Angel
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(12/3/04 11:35 am)
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lol narsh... with the good and the bad comes the ugly.
Fritz has began displaying dominancy issues (though so far his aggression is aimed at hank and while he will fight him, he keeps teeth in check and stops *somewhat* when I tell him to) He is going to need serious training. yest. he and hank were not quite fighting and hank lunged, i dropped the leash to snatch hank (crippled little bit of nothing has gazongas the size of texas....fritz outweighs him by a good 60 lbs!) but when i dropped the leash fritz got smacked with it....is response leads me to beleive he has been trained not with love but with slaps. he snapped then realized who he was snapping at and backed off fearfully. I told him a firm "no! Sit! Stay! did u bite mommy??" (he didnt but biting at and biting are not so different.) He crawled over and belly up, submitting in apology.
We were playing last night and he managed to get me down so im thinking "ok good enough time as any to test where he thinks he stands" so i let him think he had me down....when he moved to dominate, I flipped him over and got him in a vulnerable position and sat on him *lightly* and grabbed his throat "HA! I got YOU!" (the yelp of suprise was priceless) His response was a bit concerning...he nipped playfully at me but it DID tell me while I HAVE the upper hand NOW, Fritz doesnt expect it to last...now I have to make him see who top bitch is and go from there.
His first drs appointment is for mon. and while I am there I am going toreveiw the Guides report with her and we will go from there on training and weather he will need to be boarded and trained (which I dont wanna do if i have an option) or if it is safe to continue training the way we have been.
And his former owner (who i am quickly loosing respect for ) lied....he IS cat aggressive, though so far he only barks if they show aggression first. Thats the thing with him....he responds to ANY aggression with aggression..... cats, hank, even me though my aggression is a low woof and a dirty look when i tug his chain back when he heads for the road. Im thinking he is about on a mental level with thalia...if it makes me mad i wanna hit it. so this is something i feel confident we can work threw.
Oddly enough, Thliacan tell him to sit chew his ears and bite his tail and there is virtually no aggression there though he did (briefly) take a dominant stance over top her yest.
I think i better just start a fritz journal on my own board....this promises to be an adventure I have not undertaken yet and boring yall is not what i intended lol
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Gaia Angel
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(12/3/04 11:47 am)
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Re: Fritz
Ok now for the down and dirty details:
He is about 80 pounds, black with a little white at his neck. He is built exactly like his Black lab father but has the barrel cheast of his rottie momma. Already, on his back to legs he stands a good 2 inches taller then my 5 ft 2 frame (i think thats about accurate.) He has serious eye gooage....his brother was taken tothe vet and while he was asleep to be fixed, they found out Bigg has an eye condition where the eyes grow an extra set of eyelashes inside. he has to have surgery and chances are monday Fritzes dr will find he has the same condition as his eyes are really red and sticky looking....until then im going to get some clearasil for red itchy eyes and see if that soothes them. His paws are as big as the palm of my hand....that tells ya how ginormous he is but weirdly enough he is not a real huge eater. *whispers prayer of thanks* lol
We have been working the better part of the day and we have "sit" down pat (almost and "stay" is nearly there.... "down" and "lay" we are working on but not with the same urgency sit and stay call for. I pinned him again just to show today im still able to win top position and this time he licked me lovingly.
Ill definantly keep yall posted.
(pssst narsh: thanks for theencouragement to tell my fritz tails lol)
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narshaadha
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(12/3/04 10:07 pm)
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Re: Fritz
no problemo, gaia, i wanted to hear it!
narshaadha
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