Is this group still "live"?

anniew...@gmail.com

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Aug 27, 2013, 7:43:50 PM8/27/13

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Since there doesn't appear to have been any posts this year...

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AnneJ

jbm

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Aug 28, 2013, 5:24:09 PM8/28/13

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On 28/08/2013 00:43, anniew...@gmail.com wrote:
> Since there doesn't appear to have been any posts this year...
>

I still look in occasionally, but you are right, it is a bit quiet in
here (unlike my Border Collie!!!).

jim

R C Nesbit

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Oct 23, 2013, 2:37:34 PM10/23/13

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Anniew...@gmail.com spoke:

> Since there doesn't appear to have been any posts this year...

Oooh! I just noticed it in my messagebase window with unread 3
posts! one spam, this one, and jbm's reply!

I wonder how long it takes for anyone to notice this post?

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Max (Field Springer)
Tillie (95% prossibly field cocker)
Benson (Pup from those two - Sprocker)

jbm

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Oct 23, 2013, 6:33:54 PM10/23/13

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On 23/10/2013 19:37, R C Nesbit wrote:
> Anniew...@gmail.com spoke:
>> Since there doesn't appear to have been any posts this year...
>
> Oooh! I just noticed it in my messagebase window with unread 3
> posts! one spam, this one, and jbm's reply!
>
> I wonder how long it takes for anyone to notice this post?
>
>

3 hrs 56 mins. Exactly 5 seconds after opening my news reader!!!!!

jbm

R C Nesbit

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Jan 22, 2014, 3:31:35 PM1/22/14

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Jbm spoke:

> > I wonder how long it takes for anyone to notice this post?
> >
> >
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> 3 hrs 56 mins. Exactly 5 seconds after opening my news reader!!!!!

And this one?

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Max (Field Springer)
Tillie (90% possibly field cocker)
Benson (Pup of those two - Sprocker)

jbm

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Jan 22, 2014, 6:07:12 PM1/22/14

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On 22/01/2014 20:31, R C Nesbit wrote:
> Jbm spoke:
>>> I wonder how long it takes for anyone to notice this post?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> 3 hrs 56 mins. Exactly 5 seconds after opening my news reader!!!!!
>
> And this one?
>

2 hours 35 minutes, quicker than last time!!!

You're testing me, aren't you?

jim

R C Nesbit

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Jan 23, 2014, 2:57:35 AM1/23/14

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Jbm spoke:

> >>
> >> 3 hrs 56 mins. Exactly 5 seconds after opening my news reader!!!!!
> >
> > And this one?
> >
>
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> 2 hours 35 minutes, quicker than last time!!!
>
> You're testing me, aren't you?

Slacker!

Anyway, back on topic, we have just (or more precisely) are in the
process of moving to live aboard a narrowboat with our 3 canine family
of Max (14 years old working Springer) Tilly (unknown age rescue dog -
probably working cocker) and Benson, one of their offspring.

It's a dogs life on the cut!

We expected Max to be OK, Tilly to be OK, and Young Mr Benson to be the
one to worry about.

Max is still a little confused, but seeing as we are on the water and
it is his all time favourite place to be, is happy.
Benson is excited and loves it. Although he is not a water spaniel, he
fell in off the bank the other day proved he could swim, but got
himself out pronto!
Tilly is not a happy lady at all. Especially when the engine started
for the first time!

On our first shake-down cruise about 5 miles up the cut and back[1] to
Norbury all 3 were at out feet on the back deck laying down watching
the scenery drift by at 3mph, when Max (the 14 year old!) from a lying
down position leapt straight into the water and swam to the offside
bank chasing a bird.

On the Chesterfield canal the offside bank is usually shallow, so he
can splash along it doing what springers do best and flushing birds
from the margins, but on the Shropshire Union the water is deep all
across, so he swam back to the towpath side but it was to high for him.
By this time we had stopped the boat and were slowly reversing towards
him, he saw this and swam to us but I could not reach down to grab him,
we got the boat near the bank and I had to leap off onto what has to be
the dirtiest muddiest cutting on the canal so That I could hoik him
out.

Honestly, at his age you would think he had more bloody sense!

jbm

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Jan 23, 2014, 5:54:14 PM1/23/14

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Waddyamean "Slacker"? Email/news client is the second program opened
when this computer is switched on each night. Bearing in mind the amount
of traffic and its content in this group, I reckon under 3 hours is a
bloody good response.

Rescue dogs are probably the hardest dogs to understand. No-one knows
what has happened in the past, which might have a bearing on why they
ended up at the rescue centre. For your Tilly maybe she's had an unhappy
experience on water, or perhaps the smell of diesel might bring back
some bad memories. Lots of TLC is obviously required, but give her time.
With a bit of luck seeing her two mates thoroughly enjoying themselves
and making a mess of it might encourage her to settle down and start
enjoying it too. But don't push her, just let her take her own time.

As for Max, well older dogs have a lot more experience and tend to know
how to get into trouble and make sure their owners join in the mayhem!
It's their idea of fun.

I've had Molly now for seven years and she's just turned 10. It took her
almost 5 years to accept her new life, and has at last settled down and
lets most of life just pass by. Though she still isn't happy with other
dogs, she does at least now not fly off the handle every time one
appears. She waits till it's about 5 yards away! Most of the dogs around
here have accepted that and just leave her alone. I wish the owners were
as understanding!!!

jim

Anne Jackson

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Jan 7, 2018, 11:27:56 PM1/7/18

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On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 20:31:35 UTC, R C Nesbit wrote:
> Jbm spoke:
> > > I wonder how long it takes for anyone to notice this post?
> > >
> > 3 hrs 56 mins. Exactly 5 seconds after opening my news reader!!!!!
>
> And this one?
>

Almost three years, near as dammit...

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AnneJ

Anne Jackson

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Jan 7, 2018, 11:38:55 PM1/7/18

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oooooops! FOUR years... (I'm still in 2017!)

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AnneJ

jbm

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Jan 8, 2018, 6:15:34 PM1/8/18

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Dead and buried I think. Though I still look at it occasionally.

jim