Theoretically, Ace could pretty easily clear a baby gate, as he did the front steps in one hop from a standing start yesterday. (Apparently, he's feeling his oats, or whatever non-oat-eating-life forms feel when they feel it.) However, one of the very cool things about Briards is that they are boundary herders, which means its bred in their bones to respect and enforce man-made boundaries. (When doing the job they are designed for, they essentially function as living fences and gates.)
Just to give an example of how well this works, we were out in the back yard, which we share with the neighbors on the other side of the duplex, and the neighbor was grilling chicken on his side of the yard. Dog crack, right? The Briard walked to the invisible line that separates His Yard from the Other Yard, and did not cross it.
Now, Ace actually will wait quite patiently at the bottom of the stairs indefinitely, but it's a little too much temptation for any dog to expect him to stay downstairs without supervision (say, overnight) without a little reinforcement, especially when there are OMG KITTIES! upstairs.
Just now, he was sulking at me until I figured out he wanted me to go sit on the sofa so he could snuggle. Awww.
lap dog:
Also, Spring is coming:
In other news, on page 84 of the worst novel in the English language, and groveling forward. I keep wondering when the resignation is going to set in.
However, "Smile" finally started talking to me this morning, which is encouraging, even if it's really just my brain frantically trying to stop me from working on the novel. In a crowning irony, given how boring I usually find ghost stories (Beloved aside), of course "Smile" wants to be a ghost story.
Of course.
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You're revising my book for me? Thank you! Will you want a co-author credit? How are you finding time to do it with your own book in your in-pile?
It is definitely spring down here--there's a lot of treesex going on.
We have a few large and rather dim-witted Cats, and without the space underneath we had a few "oopses" as they tried to jump over it. ;-)
The GRD has such a nifty coat--I want to spin it.
:-)
Actually it's his outer coat that I love--it has such a delicious luster and color--but alas they don't shed that part.
*If I and my sewing room survive the apocalypse, what with the zillions of yards of actual fabric plus all the fiber in various stages of processing I will be set for a while for clothing raw materials.
So when you brush them, you get a mix of kinds.
I can, you know, start dumping dog fur in a shopping bag tonight....
*grins*
Yeah, architects focus on the damnedest things.
I occasionally consider a baby gate. OTOH my housekeeping is much better since I had to think about what the dog might possibly get into today.
Good luck arranging agreements between dog and cat!
(Utterly adorable, though.)
I live in a bungalow. When Summer first joined us and ventured into the basement, I watched her leap back and forth across the laundry room barrier with glee. After I shooed her back a few times, though, she got the idea, and hasn't cleaned out the cat boxes in ages.
Since I (and the bank) now own the house, I'm considering having a pocket door (with cat access) installed in one of the bedrooms on the main floor, and turning it into a cat room. Is that a little extreme, do you think?
Not at all - one of the couples I dogsit for have greyhounds and a cat. Their solution is that one of their spare bedrooms is the cat room - complete with cat door. They also have a semi permanent baby gate at the end of the hall. During the day the dogs are on one side of the baby gate and the cat is on the other. At night the cat is confined to the cat room and the dogs have access to the hallway/bedrooms.
You know, the movie was just released on DVD, so you could get through it that way...
If you want to buy a walk-through one, some brands are better than others. Ping me and I'll tell you what I know. (-:
OMG, you didn't buy a copy of Space Ark!!!, did you?
I hope that the Eventual Cat and the PC get along... when the Intrepid Roomate's two cats had to deal with the first squeaky baby interloper being brought home, they were unamused. By the next time, they had apparently decided that this was just something that the monkeys occasionally did, and they would just have to ignore it.*
JD
*And occasionally explain to the babies that they were not interested in playing bat-a-nose.
Whatever are you doing revising Atlanta Nights?
Hounds are not so much on boundaries. It's true.
I used to live with an English Mastiff. Fabulous dog.