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Show r SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, August 7, 2008 Been There, Done The dog days of Liz Elder I used to tell people I was going to marry my dog Prince, the Lassie of my youth, my own collie. Deep in my heart, I knew this was avoiding some big part of the marriage issue that I wasn't ready to deal with, but no one ever said anything back to me like,-"You like,-"You can't marry a dog, you moron." Even my sister, who, had she been more on the ball, would have been glad to point out that I was deficient, defi-cient, somehow didn't. My parents never mentioned the whole dogpersonmarriage dogpersonmar-riage thing, but they also didn't mention the facts of Does Does the furniture at your home seem to have a constant coating of animal hair? Are you tired or buying industrial size amounts of lint rollers just to be presentable to others when you leave home? May be your pet is shedding like you, well... crazy. Some dogs shed quite a lot think this is related to length of daylight, with spring and fall encouraging more loss of hair. Some dogs seem to shed constantly. Those same researchers believe be-lieve this type of dog shedding have lost their winter- summer coat cycle because time indoors in identical lighting year-r.ound. Wondering about the shedding process? There are three phases: anagen, when the hair grows for approximately ap-proximately 130 days in the average dog; catagen, growth stops and the hair gen, when the follicle shrinks still more and the hair alls out of the main coat. There are over the counter products that aid in reduction of shedding. Some are about promoting healthy skin such as flaxseed or fish oil plus brewer's yeast. Experts suggest a much like those used with The time to see your veterinarian is when your dog's hair becomes thin andor patchy. Suspects for these symptoms my include allergies or thyroid conditions. con-ditions. 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Researchers they spend most of their follicle shrinks; and tele- full - spectrum grow light plants. dog training with this issue because Maggie, my mixed labterrierunknown, labter-rierunknown, snapped, AGAIN, at one of the grandkids on our last campout-and I finally got embarrassed. I'm also sick to death of her barking for fifteen minutes every time a UPS truck drives by, and practically doing back-flips of craziness when she sees the postman. A leaf drops off a tree and suddenly she's under attack from all sides and defending our home against a pack of marauding wolves on the hunt. I mention that I finally got embarrassed because I usually take Maggie's side. I know, I'm unbelievable. unbeliev-able. But I wasn't raised on a farm; I was raised in the same land as Paris Hilton and her Chihuahua. I think animals should be allowed in schools and churches, just like guns and six-packs six-packs belong in the Delta Center. But obviously I'm out of step with much the thinking of Utah County and my husband's entire thinking. So I called a dog trainer. Immediately Bethany Barnes, the trainer I called, established herself as the alpha dog in our relationship: relation-ship: she gave me homework. home-work. Before our first meeting I was to buy and read "Cesar's Way" by Cesar Ce-sar Millan, a man who has made a killing from the fact that he actually was raised on a farm. And he has the notion that dogs are dogs, not just people with a speech impediment. Cesar wants me to become be-come the pack leader. ' As does Bethany. Immediately resisting her efforts to establish my "calm submission" in our relationship, I was only one-third of the way through Cesar's slim book when Bethany came to train me. Like mother, like doggy. SATunonv, ffllEUST 16 7 p.m. In the Arena ' I was prepped for humiliation humil-iation and the most humiliating humili-ating fact was how little I wanted to read the whole book. r Right away she told me that Maggie was going to be a much happier dog when she was treated like one. And then she started laying down the rules for me to follow.' There's a reason I can't play the piano very well. I never practiced. My greatest consistency is my inconsistency. When the words "schedule" and "everyday" start to be bandied ban-died about in conversation, I know I'm going to be in trouble. Some samples rules: Maggie will eat just once a day, after we eat, because the pack leader always eats first. Then we exercise exer-cise her and after that she gets fed. Everyday. Beth showed me how to walk her and how to calm her down when strangers strang-ers come to the door. We talked about her nipping at kids and how to control her behavior in crowds. She's not a bad dog, she just gets ticked off when someone two years old whacks her by surprise about seven times. Once, after being fed a whole box of Milk Bones and being asked to "shake" about twenty times, she got mad and snapped. Obviously the solution to that is not to let it happen again. All of this is going to make everyone here at home happier, and that will include me, once I get the hang of it. ' But it also means I'm going to have to let go of the idea of Maggie as my three-year-old child. When we worked on getting get-ting Maggie to not attack everyone who comes to the door, I realized how much I'm going to miss the dance where she and I sums $7 Kids All you need to know about parking strips in Sprngville A park strip is the area located between the back of the curb and the side-, walks and most areas of the Springville City include them. While this property is within the public right-of-way, by state law, their ' maintenance is generally the responsibility of ad-; jacent property owners.' This is' also the case with sidewalks. ; The parkstrip provides a place to locate mailboxes, mailbox-es, a buffer between vehicles ve-hicles and pedestrians, a place to put snow plowed from the street and sidewalk side-walk and a location for certain underground improvements im-provements in addition to street treesBecause the widths of these vary, there are different standards stan-dards based on the width of the park strip. Park strips of three feet or less in width may either be landscaped or filled in with concrete or other impervious material. materi-al. Street trees are generally gener-ally not allowed in these areas because of problems prob-lems with root systems lifting sidewalks. Park strips of greater than three feet up to six jockeyed to be first. It was bad, it was frustrating, but it was us. I'm going to miss letting her run free when we walk instead of staying sedately at my side. I'm going to miss letting her be the boss. I hate changing old habits, hab-its, but it won't be the first time, or the last, I've had to. And really, she's too big to put in a purse and take on a plane. OTHER GREAT EUEIITS! Jr. livestock Show Kitfway nest Carnival Ail Day Entcrtaiment AV .WLca PR0FESSIONAL SOUND & LIGHTING ; feet in width are required to be landscaped with living liv-ing plant material which can be chosen by the adjacent ad-jacent property owner. The only concern is that the. plants be maintained at a height of no more than two feet to ensure , adequate visibility. Plant materials that require limited lim-ited amounts of water are encouraged. Plants need cover 75 of the park-strip park-strip within three years of planting. Park strips of six feet or greater in area require landscaping and city-approved street trees. A list of approved street trees is available at the Community Commu-nity Development Department. Depart-ment. These trees have been chosen based on their limited water needs, ability to be trimmed to adequate. heights to provide pro-vide safe passage for pedestrians pe-destrians on the sidewalk and vehicles on the street, appropriateness for soil types, and other important impor-tant considerations. The City Forester may approve trees not on the approved list when unique circumstances, justify such an action. Landscape groundcover is required in the same manner as the narrower parkstrips. An appropriately landscaped land-scaped and maintained parkstrip contributes to the curb appeal of your home and an attractive community. If you have further questions, please contact the Community Com-munity Development Department at 491-7861, or the . Buildings and Grounds Department at 489-5742. Productions Inc. womoim |