Obsessive Rep Point Checkers Club (Volume IV)

boy this place is dead quiet.

I think there's an outbreak of toe jam.

Hahaha - not what I expected you to say at all

Oh good. I can still surprise you.

How's the puppy doing? The piccies on FB are cute.

Puppy is doing really well. No peeing in the house (scratches at the door to go out, and has since we got her). She's 9 weeks now, will be 10 weeks Saturday. Time is just flying by.

And yes, she's really cute. She's looking like a little bear when her ears flop back - but such a sweetheart!

How's the gang your way? I saw a couple Foobat posts last week.

Bella (the greyhound with cancer) is doing well. It's all a waiting game for when the cancer moves to her internal organs. Until that happens, she has no clue she's sick. It's better that way.

The Foo is presently playing with Daisy (the pocket beagle). They've been rough housing all day. It's kinda fun. They're about the same size, so it's kinda cute. She's 12, so she's getting tired of it. He's gonna get bit somewhen soon--and will deserve it.

My daughter's remaining cat has major kidney failure now. He lost about 4 lbs in less than a month. We're doing dialysis on him every night. He's regained a 1/2 lb in the last week and his blood tests came back positive (not good, but positive) yesterday. The vet is hopeful that his kidneys might come back. (If you follow the Pud cartoon, he's the cat under the couch--Duuuuude.)

The rest of the Horde is...well, just the Horde.

As for me, the new job is the new job. Same work, but the bennies are still big (walking to work, bigger paychecks, etc). And I like the people better here. I can actually respect the manager here, unlike the one at the last job. Just got to get used to the rhythm of the schedule, y'know?

Glad everyone is hanging in there for now. That a lot of work with the group.

And glad that the new job is going well. Getting a routine and rhythm with things can take time, but at least you're happy

Puppies are great. Mine is two years old now. She walks me to the door when I leave in the morning, and meets me when I come home. It's like happiness you CAN buy.

Happiness is a warm puppy. -- Charles Schultz


My dad always said that anyone who claims that money cannot buy happiness never owned a dog.

Dogs rule. They rule our house.

Lilly is just friggin' adorable it should be illegal. And she's such a good pup. Never made a mess in the crate or bed. Got the hang of going outside really fast. Now if only she could learn to get along with Toby. Molly gets along with 'em both.

I have a puppy too!

But my puppy is now about 100lbs...

Still loves cuddles though.

Puppies are the bestest. Mine is only 20 lbs and is one of the cutest dogs I've ever met. But, then, I seem to have a thing for owning really cute dogs.

I'm not sure my pup will even be 20lbs. Have to wait and see lol

Mine isn't supposed to weight 20 lbs. He is a pure breed Pekingese, after all. LOL!

When I got my last dog, Amber, the vet looked at her puppiness and predicted she'd get 20-25 lbs. She turned out to be twice that (50) because her puppiness looked more beagle than GSD. Yep, the joys of discovery when owning a mutt. LOL! She was a great dog, and graduated Magda Cum Cute from puppy school.

DeleyanLee said:

Mine isn't supposed to weight 20 lbs. He is a pure breed Pekingese, after all. LOL! ...

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Yep, the vet looked at this one and thought she'd get to be be 40-50 pounds. But then she also thought she'd weigh 6lbs at 7weeks and she only weighed 4lbs. It really is the hair. She a wirey build with poofy curly hair. LOL

I got my conversion completely wrong (we work on the metric system)

He's actually closer to 200lbs. He tries to kick the kids off their beds at night, but they've got smarter so he usually loses.

I'm sure labrador's aren't supposed to be that big...

Ah, no, Sweets, they're not (AFAIK). Housemate had a couple of mixed labs who got up to 90 lbs, and everyone said they were huge. (One was lab/Golden, the other was 3/4 lab, 1/4 dobie.)

Had a purebred Austrailian Shepard that got to be 75lbs. He was all muscle and quite tall for his breed.

parumpdragon said:

boy this place is dead quiet.

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Well, at least it's not quiet because everyone is dead. (I have a very dark sense of humor...heh)


Our dogs were always mutts, and all of our pets were always strays. They always found us. I miss them, but we don't have room in our apartment for pets anymore.

This is my first puppy ever. Quite an experience. Kinda glad I didn't have a puppy as a kid. Lol.

Well, my story came out in Daily Science Fiction, so that's great.

On the other hand, my attempt at red hair to dress as Donna for the Doctor Who party on Saturday went horribly, horribly wrong.

I now have stripey magenta, hot pink, blonde and brown hair. It's... horrifying. I foresee a lot of updos and hats in my near future.

Buzz cut. It's the only answer.


Seriously, you can dye it a darker color pretty much immediately, so you don't have to suffer with it. You just can't do anything to make it lighter for 6 weeks.

My dye job went bad for my daughter's college graduation. I looked like the bastard child of Bozo and Wendy. It made me cry to look in the mirror--but a nice brown dye toned it down to the point where I didn't want to take a razor to my own head.

Hang in there and laugh--a lot.

A friend of mine dyed her naturally white-pale blonde hair purple for a music festival once when we were kids - she had pink hairt for a year waiting to grow it out.

My family still call her Flossy (as in candy floss / cotton candy)

My mom dyed her hair road-cone-orange for my gradutaion... but a couple of days before the big day, a woman crashed her shopping cart into a display in the grocery store, knocking it off its base while staring at mom's head. So she dyed it a reddish brown before grad-night. *sigh*

I must say though, between the orange and the second dye, it came out the prettiest red I've seen in a long time for hair coloring.

DeleyanLee said:

Seriously, you can dye it a darker color pretty much immediately, so you don't have to suffer with it.

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I have very long, very thick hair that has a tendency to get dry and brittle, especially in winter, so I don't want to do anything to damage it further. If I put it in a bun or braid, the freakish color is mostly disguised, so I'm going to live with it while I let the color mellow a bit. Then I'll be going to my hairdresser for a professional fix. It's time to bring in an expert.

DeleyanLee said:

Hang in there and laugh--a lot.

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Good advice for most ailments.