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I had a dog that hated it when I worked outside the home.

Posted By: bad doggie on 2008-01-03
In Reply to: So, I started - Misha

She would climb up on the kitchen table and then jump over to the counter. We wondered for a long time which one of the kids was wiping a slice of bread or something across the top of the butter in the dish and leaving the lid off. Then I figured out after coming home one day to dog vomit on my kitchen table that it was dog lick marks in the butter. EWWWWW!!!! She used to go potty in the house and sleep on the furniture. I couldn't leave her outside all day in the winter so we put in a dog door. That worked OK until a city employee operating a grader drove over our back fence and she got out.


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Negativity is contagious though.
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That was one of the most hated on the list! (nm)
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She does have a real brother though. That was the connection on our part.

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Home Alone 1, A Christmas Story, Home for the Holidays, Chevy Chase's Christmas, sm
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Home sweet home.
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Home, Home, On The Range SM

where the beer and the cantaloupe play . . . where seldom is heard . . . .



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5-HTP worked much better for me.
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It worked!
I'm not as dumb as I look.
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When I did catch him, I took him directly to the area in the yard which was the potty.

They catch on eventually. Be consistent and don't scare him.
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worked at an
less expensive places gave the food they were going to throw out to employees, however the expensive place I worked at was 20% discount only.
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Lower your carbs starting NOW. Eat plenty of protein, along with a little fat at each meal, to keep you full. Do not drink your calories. Stay away from ALL refined carbs until you get where you want to be and then really keep them low because most of them are plain old not good for you anyway. Never allow yourself to feel *starving* because your body goes into a mode where it holds onto fat and the amount of calories you burn really drops down. Also, you have GOT to exercise, no way around that. Get moving EVERY single day, no excuses. Following these rules has allowed me to keep off the 20 pounds I had put on from never moving out of my chair (typing ALL day) over 5 years ago. Just had my blood work done and it is EXCELLENT. Good luck to you! :-)
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Glad it worked for you!
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Actually, I worked for a PC company
a long time ago supervising the commercial aspect. They always tell you that, but they can and do die in walls. We were sent out many times to cut them out after people insisted on using poison.

The best advice that I can offer is that once you get rid of them, you seal off any areas where they can get back in. If you don't do that, then you will continue to have problems.

Now rats instead of mice, I don't know what to tell you to do if they are eating through the walls!

Me personally though, I had a rat as a pet. In fact, we had to put her to sleep about a month ago.
The foil worked! Thank you so much! nm
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When I worked as a nurse (sm)
There was this CNA who would open up the windows every time someone would die. I thought she was kooky (for many reasons), but she said it was to release the spirit of the person.

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I know and have worked with several doctors
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if the original had actually worked,
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I think my mom worked at Kresgies

right out of high school for a short time.  Wasn't that like a five and dime department store?  My aunt used to say my mom spent her check before she had it.  They closed Kresgies before I was born so I don't remember it at all,but the building is still there and they have renovated part of the downtown where Kresgies was with a theme on Warner brothers as the city was the first place they filmed. 


OH THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!! IT WORKED!!! SM

i'm going to write that down so i'll remember.  hopefully it won't happen again.  i told 5 y/o stick to playstation!


 


thank you so much!!!!  


When I worked in an MD's office,
this was discussed a lot. We identified 3 factors:

1. The rare but memorable mothball smell where people put on their best duds to see the MD, but they are from 1952, and have been stored in mothballs.
2. Corn starch powder, which has a very musty smell to my nose.
3. Rose water perfume. Everybody in the office would be nauseated when one of these ladies would come in.


Worked there. I can answer this.
Worked at clinic.  Some employees better than others at following thru. Some times super busy, i.e., emergencies, overload on phone calls, dr. needs this, do that, come here, etc. There are many reasons for delays. As far as Dr. not listening, what is surprising about that. Try to get Dr. to repeat back to you what he :THINKs you said. You might have asked, "Can you tell me again what this medicine is expected to do?"  Drs would sure like us to believe they are a couple of levels above us lowly mortals, but as MTs we all know they are only human.  And some humans are better, smarter, more patient, better listeners, etc than other human.  You need to be proactive and take charge of your issues.