A quick update on Chip’s potty training for everyone…
He’s doing well, the first ring is entirely removed and he doesn’t care a bit. We had a scary incident this morning, his back foot fell through the hole as he was walking around on the toilet and got all wet. He jumped down and seemed really “pissed off” (as Monkey would say). I had to work with him for about 10 minutes with treats to try to encourage him to get back up on the toilet. I think it scared him. Luckily I saw it happen and got him back on track right away. Would have been really bad if he had become scared of the toilet and stopped the process. *sigh*
Hopefully he’s ok with it again and nothing is peed on when I get home.
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National Safety Commission Supports Proposed Ban on Radar Detectors
UGH! If this bill passes I will be ticked. To be honest, I really don’t speed that much anymore, now that I sold my Talon and got the Durango, but thats not the point. For one thing, I don’t think cities and states would like this bill either. Traffic violations are a *huge* source of income for many municipalities. Also, there are other studies showing that higher speed limits actually reduce the risk of accidents. Sometime in the last year, Indiana increased the limit to 70 on I-64, which is great for when we go visit my parents in St. Louis.
Not that I think something like this would ever pass because there are many businesses that make a lucrative amount of income based on these devices (Valentine, Bell, Cobra, Escort, etc.) and I’m sure they would lobby the heck out of Congress to ensure it doesn’t happen.
Heck, there’s also the geek factor in this. I love my gadgets and my radar detector (from www.CarDomain.com) is pretty nifty.
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We visited my family in St. Louis back for my sister’s birthday in February. When we showed up late on Friday, dad presented us with some great gifts. For those that don’t know, one of my dad’s hobbies is woodworking, specifically Shaker reproductions. His current focus are on these:
We also got a beautiful little chest. Details and photos when you click on the photo above!
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The local Women’s Crisis Center is having their second annual Doggie Derby on April 28. We missed it last year, but are planning on going this year. It’ll be lots of fun; a dog walk, tshirts, pet psychic, pet portrait photographer, demonstrations, and prizes. Megabyte is really excited about meeting new friends. Anyone want to join us?
Click here for more details.
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Monty Pythons Spamalot ™ – Presented by AddictingGames
This is a fun Monty python flash game. You basically play either as a Stinky Frenchie or a Silly English Person (I only played as an English). If you play the English team, you have to catapult various barn animals at the approaching French, Black Knight and other characters in the movie. Fun stuff!
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I came across this list of country-western song titles that should have never been released due to their rediculous titles. The only one I’ve heard of is “Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavor on the bedpost overnight” A good belly laugh for everyone on Friday.
Check them out:
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Pointe/2474/country.html
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Little Chip is getting his manhood stripped away from him this morning. He was pretty angry at me when I left him at the vet. Hopefully he’ll forgive me. I’ll tell him it was Paul’s idea.
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I finally caught Chip on the potty and snapped a picture. It’s pretty silly, but I wanted to prove to everyone that he was actually using the toilet 🙂
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My mom told me last night that her dog Sadie (the one with the eating disorder – eats everything in sight) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. She has to receive insulin shots every 12 hours for the rest of her life! How crazy is that?
Everyone in the family has to learn how to give shots now, so that there’s always someone around that can give it to her. Well, everyone except Paul, since he’s deathly afraid of needles 😉
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I admit, I wasn’t suppose to start step 4 until after this weekend, but as I said in a previous post, the mess of step 3 was getting to me. So, I went ahead and cut 1/2 of the small inner circle out. Amazingly, he’s going on like nothing happened! He was a little curious about the ‘missing piece’ in his potty, but didn’t miss a beat “going” in it. He’s doing really well with his “aim” as well. The trick of it all is to gradually get your cat to move his feet to the outer rings and eventually onto the seat when they go. He’s actually making it close to the hole, or even in it sometimes. He’s so smart!!! How did we ever get such smart kids?
Must be the awesome parenting 🙂
I’m still trying to snap a picture of him on the toilet cause it’s so cute, but every time I hear him up there, he’s done by the time I grab the camera. I’ll keep trying.
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