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[Kagen4o4]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

I did a bit of modeling. i went to modeling school and had a few dates but quit shortly after.

My instructor was crazy! I walked out one day cursing her. About 4 years later she and her friend took two teens to Lake Tahoe for a shoot. The man kidnapped all 4 of them, murdered Mabbs and her friend and raped the girls for weeks. Luckily they found the girls alive.

Turns out she chose to get in HIS vehicle in a parking lot, he had cardboard plates, his trailer was set up for slave sex. It had a hidden room behind a fake wall where he kept the girls.

The woman was NOT all there. I saw this years prior is why I quit her school.

She was also Donna Douglas's instructor. Donna came to her funeral.

It was all so tragic....just tragic.

WTF thats horrible!

[moondoggy]

Under the jacaranda trees, afternoon tea, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), 1982.

This is incredibly brave of me. But not as brave as the checkered suit.

It ALMOST looks as though my (very strict religious) aunty is teaching me needlework, or some of the other fine domestic arts. But theres no fucking way THAT happened, unless all the drugs we took in the eighties dimmed that particular memory.

Maybe she was showing me how to roll a spliff.

[windhund]

Me in 1984. I still can't believe I had all that hair.


Me and a friend a few months ago.

[Undertoad]

I notice your homepage on your profile, is that puppy an ex-racer?

Rescue greyhound is on my list of possible next dogs. I understand they have great personalities.

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Rescue greyhound is on my list of possible next dogs. I understand they have great personalities.

I have a cow-orker who has done several of those. If you want some first-hand experience let me know & I'll see if I can put you in touch.

[windhund]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I notice your homepage on your profile, is that puppy an ex-racer?

Rescue greyhound is on my list of possible next dogs. I understand they have great personalities.

Yes, he is an ex-racer. We also have one who is not only an ex-racer, but an ex-brood mama as well. We've had greyhounds since 1993 and really wouldn't have another breed now, I don't think, though I know we'll probably get too old to have big dogs at some point.

Most of them do have terrific personalities - Idol, who you see in the pic, while loaded with personality for sure, is also a complete spaz though.

One nice thing about getting a greyhound through one of the ex-racer adoption groups is that they can usually match you up with a dog that will suit you.

[Undertoad]

Do they require a fenced yard? I have not needed one with the Boston Terriers... they don't move very fast and after obedience are pretty good on recall. Not perfect, but good enough so 10 seconds out of sight is not dangerous.

[Cyclefrance]

As far as photos go, maybe I should have waited for this one taken by cycling pal Paul at his recent Murder Mystery Dinner Party. Of course I played the sweet innocent gestapo officer while Mrs CF played the maniacal French mayor's daughter (...I think I got that right...):

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[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

As far as photos go, maybe I should have waited for this one taken by cycling pal Paul at his recent Murder Mystery Dinner Party. Of course I played the sweet innocent gestapo officer while Mrs CF played the maniacal French mayor's daughter (...I think I got that right...):

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And I thought you were dressed up as the late lady Di's son, prince, erm, William, is it?

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

And I thought you were dressed up as the late lady Di's son, prince, erm, William, is it?

I suppose there is a certain family resemblance!

[windhund]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Do they require a fenced yard? I have not needed one with the Boston Terriers... they don't move very fast and after obedience are pretty good on recall. Not perfect, but good enough so 10 seconds out of sight is not dangerous.

A fenced yard will make your life with a greyhound much easier, mainly because they cannot be unleashed in open areas. Ex-racers have been bred and extensively trained to chase. Ever see one of those horrible accidents on a horse track where a horse breaks its leg and keeps running anyway? That's the instinct you are up against with a greyhound - it's somewhere been extremely difficult and flat-out impossible to train a greyhound to come reliably to a voice recall once they've sighted something they want to go after. And they are very fast, so if they see something they want to chase (rabbit, squirrel, neighbor's cat) they are gone in an eye blink. And they don't care about roads or cars, so to prevent an untimely death leashing is essential.

Invisible fences are also a no-no with greyhounds. If they see something they want to chase badly enough, the shock won't matter. It will matter later on, though, if they decide to come home afterwards - the shock will deter them from coming back into the yard. Invisible fences also don't keep other animals out of your yard, which can also be dangerous.

Personally, while I do know a few people who have used invisible fences successfully (all lab owners, BTW), I wouldn't have one myself for any breed of dog. Besides the issue of not keeping other animals out, I was a pet sitter for 5 years and experienced too many problems with them - power outages, batteries running down or malfunctioning, dogs who could get the collars off, etc. Just a few months ago we were charged by a neighbor's dog who came at us teeth first - the battery in her collar had run down and she was out running amok.

While a determined dog could certainly circumvent a regular fence by digging or jumping, I have never experienced that issue with any of my clients or my own dogs.

[dar512]

How do you adequately exercise a greyhound?

[glatt]

That's the problem with reading the Cellar using the "New posts" feature. I read that question too, and though for a second that this was the joke thread. Then I remembered.

[windhund]

Originally Posted by dar512

How do you adequately exercise a greyhound?

It's not difficult at all, actually. A race only lasts 30 seconds, during which they give their all, and then they are ready for a nice long nap! They are not a high-energy breed, nor do they need the stamina of, say, a field retriever, which might be required to run for hours.

We have a large fenced yard for ours to zorch about in if they wish, and they get a mile-long walk once a day. They sleep like babies afterwards.

If you don't have a fenced yard and you can take them to a fenced-in area once a week (like a ball field or something) so they can run around a bit, that's great, but not expressly necessary.

Not too long ago, bout' a year or so.