In a message dated 11/17/2002 4:19:18 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > The dogs we got at five weeks were much better behaved. > We got a one-year-old dog some nine years ago, and that dog had never been trained to obey or to do much. His previous owner had been a girl in her early teens, and "walking the dog" meant having him pull her along on her rollerblades. The dog loved to get loose and play "Catch Me If You Can" with us, and he nearly lost his young life playing that game in a tearing rainstorm in the middle of the highway that leads from Flagstaff, AZ, to the Grand Canyon. The only way we could discipline the mutt was to hold a big pillow near him; he was scared stiff of pillows (and still is!). Since he was practically full-grown, training him was a challenge. But he did learn to come and to sit and to wait for us at street crossings. And he's still learning. He knows the sound that Windows XP makes when it shuts down (he learned that one just a few months ago, when we got the new computer), and he'll come out from under the desk and head for the door of the home office, since he knows that I"ll be leaving the room in short order. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr