From: saavik@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Marla Belzowski (K-9's))
Subject: Re: Snow Dogs
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:27:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.191050.11784@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> rlt@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (r l taylor) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.183351.4838@news.nd.edu> mike@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu (Michael George Buening) writes:
>>In article <1gl56bINN7o1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> mfriley@pacman.WPI.EDU (Margaret F Riley) writes:
>>>Hello everyone, this is Siegfried.  Mommy is busy, so I thought
>>>I would post a message to all the doggies out there.  Everyone get
>>>your doggies to the screen.
>
>>Hey Siegfried,
>>	Guess what.  Dad's so non-busy that he fell asleep and doesn't
>>know I am posting to all the newsgroups I can get into.  Anyway I'll
>>try that snow dog thing as soon as we get more snow.  Ours metled :(
>>But I did learn something new this year.  Don't try to fetch snow balls.
>>Everytime I get to where it landed I can't find the darn thing.  I dig
>>and poke around but I can't find it.  In a desparate attempt to fool Dad
>>I tried to catch one from across the yard.  What a mess.  Snow all over
>>and I got quite a mouthfull :-)
>
>>Beamer (in trouble again)
>
>Hey, guys, this is great!  Must have something to do with it being
>Monday...all these humans are so busy grumbling that they leave their
>terminals unattended.
>
>Listen, Beamer, I've found the secret to catching snowballs.  It's
>kind of like a raw egg...be real gentle, and don't bite down.  Dad
>gets a real kick out of it when I actually bring one back to him!
>
>Too bad I don't have long fur to collect snow clumps in - but I sure
>do like eating it!  So does my sister, Babie.  She's funny, though.
>She loves water when it's melted (typical dumb girl - I think she
>thinks she's a Lab!) but she doesn't want to get her dainty little
>butt wet when there's snow on the ground.  Heeheehee...Boy, did she
>ever catch it last night!  Dad took us out, and she wouldn't go to
>the bathroom.  As soon as he went to bed, she started insisting she
>had to go out again.  He was mad, but he got dressed and took her
>out.  She *still* wouldn't go...till she got back inside!  Wow, did
>he ever holler at her.  I thought he was gonna kill her, so I just
>stayed by Mom, like a perfect angel.  Have I ever got her fooled! :-)
>
>Magnum
>...the DoberPerfectOne...
>
>PS  I can catch snowballs, but I can never find rocks when Mom
>throws them in the river.  Where do they go???  Can anybody help
>me figure this one out before Spring?

Hey everyone, Marla left her computer on and we get it now,
Hey isn't snow great!  I just love charging up drifts until I sink,
and then I dig and dig and roll in them... My hair gets all
cluppy and I look like a giant snowdog.  Then I come into the
house and flop on the floor and wait for it all to melt.
Then there is this hugh pool of water to lay in.. and mud everywhere.
It's great!   Mauii, my mom, just barks at me when I go nuts
rolling in the snow....hey..

Wolfie, It's my turn, son.  Snow is this precipitus matter that come
every year, and it is most cold and wet on the feet.  I, personnally,
prefer cool fall and spring days.  Water is the most dreadful thing
to soil one's paws with.  Alway remember to lick each paw off after
comming back into the house.  Also, if the snow balls up in your
paws as you are out walking with your person, immediatly stop
and start pulling it out.  If you just can't get it, cast a
pleading glace to your person and whine a little and they will 
pull it out for you.....

Yes, Mother,  my turn again.... Oh, for catching snow balss,
I don't catch them.  I just ignor Marla when she throws them for me.
I don't like to fetch things, and that's why she said I can't
do Open exercises anymore.  I prefer chasing  ducks  and sheep anyway....
Oh, yes, you can get the rock in the river if you plung your head
way under the water and get them off the bottom.  Then you have
to run arounhd like crazy in the river and splash up and down the banks
and bark and bark.  Then you go right up to your person and shake off
like mad.  It works best if you have realy long fur, because then
you drag mud and leaves along with you to shake all over the place...
Sticks are better to catch of the top of the water.  And FISH!!
Oh but catching fish is fun!!  They flop around on the ground
and in your mouth.....

Wolfie!  Honestly, your justr like your father!  Water is the
root of all evil.  It is used to soil your clean dry paws and give
you baths in.  Dew on the grass is the worst, it's cold and
wet so early in the morning.... Most disagreable.  Snow
atleast isn't wet until your get into the warm house.  Snow isn't
as bad.  AZt least you can follow the deer paths and squirrel trails
easily.  Mice under the snow is the best however.  You can jump 
directly on top of them with out them noticing your approach...

Mom, your too stuffy for this net, they want fun stuff, like
wading in half frozen ponds, up to you belly in mud!  OHhh
and when the pond freezes you can go sliding across the ice,
plowing down everyone in your path!!  And you try to get
a good running start, but you just peel out leaving nail marks
across the ice.  Ohh and chasing a cat on ice -- that's the best!
Even if you don't do anything when you catch them, it's still 
funny to see they try to scramble away and end up sliding
across the ice.. that's the tops.  

Wolfie, dear, we must finish up.  This is getting too long, and
Marla will need the computer to finish her homework.  We
must get off now.

Aaww.. Ok mom...
Have fun over Christmas everyone, and remember to practice your
Holiday Pleading stares!  (Big, sad, brown, eyes --- licking your
chops and acting half starved -- always good for a ginger snap cookie!)

Merry Christmas and have a Safe and Happy New Year!!       

Mauii and Wolfie     


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