The new dog door
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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
E-mail Donna at donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com.
Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
E-mail Josh at josh.grossberg@dailybreeze.com.
Hahaha. For those of you who don't know, Dolly (from the Peter Zippi Fund) is the person who set me up with Annie the Cat a year ago -- it all came about after I'd stopped to chat with her at the Blessing of the Animals booth at 1st. Lutheran Church in Torrance. I was looking for a good "mouser" who got along with dogs. My childhood friend Shirley had originally introduced me to Dolly a year earlier, at the Family Pet Expo in Orange County. And, yeah, cats (and Annie especially) are very, very smart. :-) This is just further proof I suppose.
What does it mean you ask.....
The answer is so simple, ready??
CATS are SMARTER!!!!!
DOGS are just SMART...
Love them ALL, ADOPT.
:-) Funny story Susan.
(Cowboy nearly took my fingers off tonight when he was outside and I was inside, trying to persuade him outdoors with a treat.)
I've pushed more than my share of dogs in and out of doggie doors in years past. But it's funny how the basic "concept" doesn't translate when you simply get a new door. ? I still say that doggie doors are worth their weight in gold.
Ha! That reminds me of when we installed a doggy door for our dog when he was a puppy. We were trying to teach him how to use it. We would go outside and leave him inside and encourage him to go through the door and come to us. Then we would go inside and leave him outside and try it that way. Well, our neighbor saw the puppy outside in our backyard all alone and yipping wanting to come in. Thinking we were gone and being horrible new dog owners, she tossed a handful of doggy treats to my puppy! He loved it and after the shock of seeing it raining dog treats and realizing what just happened, we just laughed and laughed!!