A new experience for my friend's puppy. He was standing on the roof (my friend has a penthouse, so the roof is his back yard) when it started to hail. You could see the quizzical look on his face as he thought "Who is throwing bits of ice at me?" Eventually he decided that it was an attack, and came running in to me for protection from the "rain that hurts".
I later started teaching him the "lamppost" command. This is for when he is on a lead and goes round a different side of a lamppost or tree to me. I train dogs to go round the other side when I yell "lamppost". However the training involves me yelling "lamppost" and pulling on the lead, so that the dog is pulled back round the post. Eventually they learn to go round the post on their own when I yell. This was the first time I tried it on the puppy, and he got scared from the weird fact that he could see me pulling on his lead, but was getting dragged further away from me!
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Originally Posted by Greenguy
What happens to snow & ice when the temp goes above 32°F?........just another catastrophe in a looooooong list of just rotten bad luck  |
My sympathies. When I was a kid we often got flooded out by a stream at the end of the road bursting it's banks. This never did any serious damage, and the council widened the stream decades before we moved out. But it worried my father enough that he now lives on the side of a hill so that any flood water will (hopefully) run straight past his house.
And for those of you who think I exaggerated my journey woes yesterday, here is how the national press reported it:
Life threatening chaos at railway station
Police are called after rush-hour services at London Bridge grind to a halt AGAIN
And here is a photo of people trying to get on the station:
