1st technician visit $95.00 - Dx: motor bad - need to order part - coming from Alabama !
2nd technican call $192.50 - part will not arrive til Mon - OK to schedule repair for Tues ?

Jeez - No parts warehouse west of the Mississippi
It's like LG Corp never had a motor go out on a dishwasher on the west coast before this one.
Double Grrrrrrap !

Cheap? It means inexpensive.

My post meant I'll just about give them away...in fact, at the time I would have paid someone to take them. :)

No. I'd say that too. You really haven't heard the phrase?

Duh. :smack:

Day three of looking after my friend's cats and they're both missing. Didn't come home last night or this morning. One of them is a regular disappearer -I've been to all the places she usually ends up, one of them saw her yesterday, but she went again. The other one is supposed to never venture very far from his food bowl. Well done, monster, nice work :(

There's a stream at the end of their land, and apparently there's a tree over it such that the disappearer can get across but not back. but I've been to all the places on the other side of the stream and nada. She has a collar and tag and chip and the "Send me Home" people whose number is on her tag have my number for this week, but nothing.

If it were my cats (whose mom is the disappearer) I wouldnt worry so much, but they're not and both of them at the same time is nuts. And one has a habit of getting herself "adopted".....

....and I have a tax return i need to be doing today......

Crap.

Have you tried shaking a bag of cat food outside, or another noise they hear when it's feeding time? The disappearer might be on a Milo and Otis type adventure, but the other one might be nearby but hiding.

Hope you find them. :(

yeah, I've been out with the shaky rattly food and dinging a spoon agaianst the dish and I even went so far as to take an open can of wet fishy flovored food out and waft it around. Nada.

Well fudge.

(Using awesome mind powers to will kittehs home.)

stupid animals don't know which side their bread's buttered mutter mumble better have their asses waiting on the porch next time I go over.....

Cats remind me of the double high fiving squirrels in the car crash commercial.
Leave em alone and they will come home waggin their tails behind them!
[fingers crossed for you]

They're Back! thanks for listening, guys :)

Oh good! I would have been really worried too. I won't even say: Did you doubt my awesome kitteh mind powers, hmmm? (Oh, I guess I just said it.)

One's gone again tonight. Hope she's having a good time ;)

Kids...

I ran out of my restless leg medicine and my legs are restless.

RRRRRRRR.

Lotion them all up and point a fan at them.

My legs?

Legs/feet.

two nights :(

that helps?

No, I just wanted to see if I could get you to do that.

good one! I nearly did!

srsly, though - it's really annoying.

It helps me when I think I have restless legs, but it comes and goes with me, Ive never been diagnosed or medicated.
Colder the better though, for me.

I'll probably jinx® it but I started taking calcium magnesium and mineral supplements a few weeks ago and my restless leg has stopped. Maybe tonight it will start up again.

three nights. they've sent me a missing poster to put up etc. fukkit

Yes, it really helps. Do you have a webcam? Now, dip your feet into a vat of jello, and slowly, slowly, shave your legs with an old electric razor from the 1950s. Take a drag off a cigarette and blow smoke rings at a Mexican housekeeper's butthole.

What do you mean by restless legs?

Syndrome.

I thought Rush told us not to believe in RLS.

I think oxycontin helps control RLS. ;)

I really hate my life and myself right now. There is nothing major wrong, just all the little stuff is snowballing and I can't seem to find the time/energy/decision making skills to actually handle the issues. Also some of the things I find myself dissatisfied/disgusted with are vain and petty, but bother me constantly. I know shouldn't hate my life, but right now I do.


Sorry for the emo/whine post.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time right now, MTP. :(

You won't feel this way forever - one thing is certain - this too shall pass.

Pet your doggie I promise you will feel better MTP!

She's been having potty accidents although I take her out every 2-3 hrs. She won't even be seemingly "asking" to go out. I'm gonna start giving her praise/treats for going outside, which I had stopped doing the treats and just gave praise because she seemed to not have any issues. Oh, and she's gained 3lbs since I got her on June 10. I have been following the feeding guides. :(
I feel like a horrible dog owner.

Aww how old is she? Does she have a crate to be in when you are not there? The only way to effectively house train a dog is to crate train them. Giving them the run of the house before they are HB prolongs their training. She will get it eventually. :) Not hard to take some food out of her diet. You are not a horrible dog owner if you love your dog.

She has the accidents when we're home. Last night she did it right in front of us. This morning while I was up and getting ready she went on the bathroom floor even though she had already been out. I don't think she's ever had an accident while she was alone, if I'm at my parent's she is left in my bedroom or when its nice out, a pen outside (only for about 4-5hrs usually). I've been staying at my b/f's a lot and she has the run of the apartment then. Still only seems to be doing it when we're home.

She's 2yrs old.

I had never heard of crating dogs, or cats, until living in the US. yet they all seemed to get house trained just fine.
It strikes me as bizarre and cruel, it's a cultural thing, the people I know with dogs they seem to be OK.

I saw this on one those dog training shows, quite possible the one with the English woman.

Submissive Urination

I use to crate Pico when we would leave the house. I didn't like it much, but he had proven over and over again that he rather likes using our carpet as a pee receptacle. Then one day I decided to put him in the bathroom because we were going to be away for quite a while - he peed in the bathtub! And he has done it several times since. So now thats where I put him. I still crate him at night though - at least hes in the bedroom with me.

My mom sent me this forward. 1: I don't understand why she thinks all this crap is true. 2: Why the fuck I would ever buy into this shit.

That ran across my mind too, but I don't see any of the other signs of submission. Its both urination and defecation, at random. I don't usually see her do it, but I'll know a spot was clean, and then a little bit later she'll have dirtied it. Maybe she's mad at me or is marking territory.

Have you tried leashing her to you when you are home? I did it with Pico when I first brought him home and I did see a result after a while. (He just isn't consistent - being the silly chihuahua that he is)

I disagree. I can't speak to cats, but

dogs ≠ people

Dogs are den animals and, in general, like confined spaces. See UT's post about his dog burrowing under his pillow.

If you can train your dog without using a kennel, more power to you. I assume you have the leisure of spending every waking moment with your pup.

But a kennel is invaluable in keeping the puppy from making mistakes. If you can't watch the puppy every moment the dog is awake, then keeping it in the kennel (when you can't keep an eye on it) is the more humane thing to do.

I've raised three dogs this way. They've all been happy dogs and the only time they have ever had a mistake in the house is when they've been sick.

OTOH, anything can be abused. Keeping your dog in the kennel when it is unnecessary, is as bad as dumping your kids in front of a tv as a babysitter.

There's a lot of possibilities. Sick? Abandonment issues (have you been gone more than usual)? Your vet or a good dog book will have more on the subject.

Make sure you use an odor neutralizer (not an odor masker) available at any pet store. Dogs want to go where they've gone before. The odor neutralizer actually modifies the urine/bm smell by breaking the traces down chemically.

Dogs don't miind crating. They like to have a place of their own; if it's enclosed like a cave, they like it better.

Funny story and too-much-information time. I crate-trained Pearl, and she still has her crate but the only time it's useful is when J and I are, you know, doin' it :doit:

You don't want your dog interrupting

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Yeah. You don't want your dog interrupting.

So I crate Pearl before. She knows the word "crate" so it's easy.

Now the funny bit. J and I are getting romantic on a whim while downstairs on the couch. And so we head upstairs. I wonder where Pearl is, so she can be crated. I call her. No answer. I start downstairs but I realize... Pearl is in her crate. She has sensed what is going on and has crated herself.

Good dog!!!

Pearl has never been the most intelligent dog, but she is always sensitive to the needs of the pack, a kind of intelligence that we don't measure.

DO they make crates for kids?

"I can't believe this, I bet my daughter knows my name."

Alzheimers?

Sheesh. Just found out a woman in another office had a massive heart attack last night and passed away. I didn't know her except in passing, but she was really nice. An immediate cow orker gave her rides to work quite often, and I bet he is very upset (and not here today.)

Life's short, people. Live as well and happy as you can. :(

Yup, but for kids they call 'em playpens.

Not exactly upsetting, but a lot more than mildly irritating or groove scorching, is the state of Australia's election.

It looks like we will have a hung parliament, with the largest bloc (73 - 76 needed for a majority) being the Lib/Nat coalition, headed by Tony "the Mad Monk" Abbot. I do not want him to be PM. His attitudes would have gone well in about 1935; got elected largely by manipulating xenophobia about boat people.

The best thing is a substantial swing to the Greens, my party of first preference, but they just managed to win their first lower-house seat, and are a decade of phenomenal growth away from actually being a government.

So, in general: crap. Next election might be three years away. Unless the minority government thing doesn't work - then we might be back at the polls sooner.

It's official. Two spots on my arms, one on my shoulder, and a new one on my scalp. The cancer is back. $3000 to take care of the last patch and I damn well don't have the the extra cash to take care of this shit.

If you had to choose between treating stupid but ugly cancers and your kid's very real mental issues which would you choose? Yeah, me too.

Oh Lookout! but you need to look after you so that you can look after the little one ...

Remember that his mental issues will not be served by losing his dad early on... Does "ugly" mean "completely, 100% benign, and there's absolutely no chance we're wrong about that?" Because otherwise, take care of yourself.

Sorry man.

ugghhh tough choices. Any help from the state available?

Damm, sorry to hear it.

That sucks LO, hope you're able to find help. There should be state or federal resources....

There should be national health care or at least affordable insurance that actually pays claims, but that's a different story.

Sorry to hear about that Lookout, but I'll jump on the bandwagon to say, you need to stay healthy for your kids.

Mine is partially my own fault...I lost a friend, as in they stopped being my friend I guess.
Here's the story the best I can tell it...
Friend and I hung out, got a bit drunk. Her fiance called...got pissed that she was hanging out with me and my B/F (I think her fiance is a little-dicked emotionally abusive loser idiot). He breaks up with her because she can't be trusted. I attempt to make her feel better, a little bit happens b/t her and I. (My B/F is perfect OK with this)....
Next day, come to find out her (now ex) fiance told her parents (she lives with them) that she had drunk with me. She's 21 in 2wks but still got in trouble. Haven't talked to her since, I just figured it was 'cuz she was in trouble.
Well, we were supposed to have a class together (I was only taking it to take with her). It started yesterday, and she wasn't there. She dropped it without telling me. Apparently she's back with the abusive fiance and doesn't want to talk to me. I have no reason to take that class now. I dropped it, but can only get 70% refund. If she had told me by 8/22...I coulda gotten a full refund.

I don't know what to say other than I'm sorry, Lookout - that truly sucks.

And MTP - was she *really* a friend???