aaaaah you people crack me up!!!! i love this thread........and i am one of the nerds who got put in my place early on in my posting so i can tell you it IS survivable!!
I have learned more from the fabulous folks here at Leerburg than in the 5,000 or more books i read about dogs and dog training..........you guys know what you are talking about.

you also make my stomache hurt.....when i finish cleaning off the keyboard and try to breathe again........haven't laughed this hard in a week !!!
Many thanks to all of you!!!!

Speak for yourself Barbara. My goal in life is totally to be a raging betch.

:wink:

You guys are actually REALLY nice compared to other boards. I'm actually really nice on here too. I've had posts deleted by a mod before on another forum. Oops!

Ok, so I am bored. Actually that should be ANAL and bored :-p Another day of crappy weather preventing me from getting Sinjin ready for our agility debut next weekend. I need all the help I can get because I can't seem to complete a course without tripping over a jump. Poor Sinjin - he actually loves the sport and does well in it. Me not so much. I also have to practice because evidently my habit of calling Sinjin a "little bastard" when he blows me off will be frowned (and whistled) upon by agility judges....

However, I have been able to put my anal personality to use even with the crappy weather. While I wait to see if Frost is prego or not, I got her whelping room ready. Yes, I have a whelping room. Yes, I know the room itself is bordering on overkill. So while it has nowhere near the horrific nature of the Wafghan, I do believe it would be considered scary to some ;-)

<begin rationalization> BTW, the baby changing station was a good deal at Goodwill and fit my needs so that is the reason I got it. <end rationalization>

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/5931606223_14432f3167_o.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5938429115_a10a08b2a0_o.jpg

No nuns were involved in the creation of this room.

Ingrid, your room in beautiful!! So practical, so precise. Perfect labeling of the supply boxes – all spelled correctly!!

Accommodations anally attune, aimed at all aspects and altered accordingly.

Wow that was an “A”nal sentence. Constipated Canadian comes crashing to the cranium.

Ingrid, your ears must have been burning last Monday night. With the collar regs at our agility club being what they are, the only decent flat collars I had were all pretty old and scruffy. I stopped at my favorite, high priced raw food boutique and was a bit disappointed in the flat collar collection (she’s a bit anal and has more of a practical training collar collection).

However, I only needed one and when I spotted this it practically jumped off the rack at me. You were totally the inspiration behind this purchase:

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv210/wolfpup2227/EchoAgilityCollar002.jpg

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv210/wolfpup2227/EchoAgilityCollar005.jpg

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv210/wolfpup2227/EchoAgilityCollar003.jpg

This was my agility boy on a mountain outing the other night. As dangerous as it may look, he is one courageous, sure-footed animal. And much like your jumps Ingrid, he definitely doesn’t take after me.

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv210/wolfpup2227/EchoAgilityCollar001.jpg

Fingers crossed and best wishes for swimming spermies.

Oh and can I ask what you mean by Sinjin’s debut? Is this some kind of trial stage you’re at?

Hmmm… I wonder if maybe Connie could be anal about these birthing agility posts and maybe set us up in a new location.

I love the collar CJ! It is totally rockin' :-p Thanks for the kinds words and fingers crossed for Frost. Since I was majorly bummed when she did not take last year after all the time and money invested in a surgical insemination, I am trying not to get my hopes up this time....

By agility debut I mean that this will be the first time that Sinjin and I will have competed together in agility. I entered a two days in an agility trial about 7 years ago with Finn but that is my only competition experience in agility and Sinjin has never competed in agility. We are Novice A all the way :-p

Oh wow, how cool is that. So you’re at the beginning stages with Sinjin too. Are you training with a club or were you able to train at home for this competition?

I hope you have a video camera on the agenda, would love to watch you guys!

When my raw food lady asked about the collar we got talking agility and she said she could order me a kit. Said it’s got the poles, a ring and a chute for sure. She wasn’t completely sure about anything else but said a couple people liked them and they’re only 50.00.

Hubby said he'd go pay her himself for that price – just so he doesn’t have to try and build stuff out of my lame brain plans.

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Since I was majorly bummed when she did not take last year after all the time and money invested in a surgical insemination, I am trying not to get my hopes up this time....

Ummm. Ingrid? I may not exactly be the brightest lightbulb in the pack (however I AM one of the old fashioned, regular bulbs not a mercury filled UGLY new totally asinine bulbs) but even I can detect the fact that you are livin' in La-La Land. The photos of your luxurious, fully appointed canine nursery make it very clear that your hopes are "officially UP".

With this said, if you need for us to play along with the denial game, we are here for you sister!

Here is to keeping all paws crossed that your hopes-which-are-not-up are joyfully confirmed very soon! Hey, by the way, I did not detect any puppy monitoring equipment nor any infrared security system... What gives? Trying to pinch pennies after all the stuffed animals? Bwahahahahaaaaaa!

Ingrid no one will ever suggest that you have a puppy mill with that swanky suite.
It's terrific!
Here's hoping for a litter to fill it up, and many more to come thereafter.

I was so proud of my whelping room until I saw Ingrid's..........

ROFL

Ingrid, the whelping room made my day! Did you build that whelping box, too?