Baymule
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I lost my glasses once. The dogs found them before I did. 
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Bruce
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oops. Hope you had a spare!
I sure hope Merlin doesn't decide to do the bucket thing like some of your animals! He and the alpacas are drinking out of the same one. That would make quite the mess in the alpacas' area in the alley.
I sure hope Merlin doesn't decide to do the bucket thing like some of your animals! He and the alpacas are drinking out of the same one. That would make quite the mess in the alpacas' area in the alley.
Baymule
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Paris buried her feed pan-never found it.
purplequeenvt
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I feed my dogs in pails and they like to carry the buckets around.
Merlin's brother, Bruce, once stole a scrub brush when someone's back was turned and it was found weeks later stuffed into the round bale.
Merlin's brother, Bruce, once stole a scrub brush when someone's back was turned and it was found weeks later stuffed into the round bale.
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- #195
Bruce
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I think I need to build a feed tray into the barn wall! I put his food dish on a big square of plywood in an attempt to minimize the amount of floor shavings that get in it. But like DD1's cat with the water bowl in the house, Merlin pushes his bowl around on the plywood and often off it into the shavings. I understand the cat thing, they presumably don't see things up close well if they aren't moving so by pushing the bowl the water moves and he can see it. Don't know why Merlin pushes his food dish.
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- #196
Bruce
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"lunch buckets" used to be quite common. Guess your dogs are taking their lunch to work.
So about that giant knuckle. How long would you expect it to last? (Question posed to anyone with a GP that has given them a knuckle).
CntryBoy777
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Well ya found something that 'Occupies' him, so let him have it as a Toy.....ya wouldn't have to 'Entice' him to play with something he didn't Like....just get another food bin for him....also, it isn't a Chicken either!!....
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Bruce
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True and there wasn't a mark on the metal pan. The non-skid ring was off a bit but other than that one wouldn't know that a person hadn't put the bowl out in the snow. I know he carried it, otherwise there would have been a trail in the snow.
NH homesteader
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My crazy dog carries her metal food dish around with her and drops it on the wood floors with a giant CRASH! when she feels that it's time to be fed. She also will go put it in the strangest places so we have to have a scavenger hunt to feed her dinner. My least favorite was when she placed it on my pillow. 
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Bruce
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Perhaps she was hinting that she wanted breakfast in bed that morning! At least I know that won't happen given Merlin lives in the barn ... when he isn't sleeping in the snow. I was working on the post hole for the hinge side post for the gate between the barns this afternoon. Merlin looked for all the world like he had just dropped dead in the snow 20' away. Didn't move until I started to pick up the tools when it was getting dark.
