Re: [PyrNet-L] contest 2nd cut

[clhenke@juno.com]

I'm very honored to make the cut, especially with so many wonderful
stories to choose from.  Good luck to everyone, I know I've enjoyed
reading them all!

#1.  Even though I grew up in a home that always had at least two dogs. I
think the potato chip factor actually entered in during showing of dogs. 
It is so easy to just add when you have so much fun doing so many things
with dogs.  When we decided to get the Pyrs. I actually started out with
the good intentions of not going " over-dog".  But those fat fluffy
little bodies, with happy little faces all trimmed in black eyeliner and
lips and noses, and little tongues hanging out, they are such an
incredibly attractive baby!  Topped off by that always hard to
resist...." I'll let you have them for half, if you take them all now", a
bargain to any good shoppers ears.  Plus the experienced dog person knows
the signs of those who breed, without thinking ahead to when they grow
fast, get too big, eat too much, start getting in  too many things, and I
worried for these little ones.  Once they were home it was just too hard
to decide who would stay and who would go.  We have never had four
siblings before, and the experience of seeing them interact as they grow
has been  wonderful.  The lessons they learn make you understand the
effect we have on them when we send them to homes when they are too
young, how much of their social and mental development come from learning
from each other.  It is true, we have often had four times the amount of
mess, but more often than not, it is four times the pleasure as well!

# 2.  You mean the bed is not theirs, and they don't just let us hang on
two those last couple of inches on the edge?  

Cindy.

Cindy Henke
clhenke@juno.com
Ennis, Texas

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained
in the dog."  ~ Franz Kafka

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