[jim]

Originally Posted by flyXwire

Yeah , I recall it was even featured article in one issue of FlyPast magazine!

Next time I speak to my friend in Germany I will ask him to post photos.

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by jim

Next time I speak to my friend in Germany I will ask him to post photos.

Amazing Jim! (That you have friends, apart from the nose-bubble blowing Collie .)

[jim]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Amazing Jim! (That you have friends, apart from the nose-bubble blowing Collie .)

Few and far between Cardo, few and far between.

Also note that they live a long way away!

BTW hot news, my dog has fleas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by jim

Few and far between Cardo, few and far between.

Also note that they live a long way away!

BTW hot news, my dog has fleas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like a song ...

(Try to get some of the treatment spray that they sell at the vet. Once the fur has been treated and it's dry, your 'best friend' will have protection from the ravages of fleas for a couple of months - Skunky swears by it! .)

[jim]

Both dogs and the pen have had the treatment Cardinal, they are now sitting in there looking thoroughly shall we say not happy.

I check them almost every day because we live in the country along with a few thousand sheep, what seems like even more rabbits plus foxes etc. Fleas and Tics are an ever present problem. ( I even check Loraine now and again).

Its quite funny to watch the dogs when they know its time to be deflead , they put their heads down and make a run for the woods.

It takes a sharp command to bring them back. They then walk very very slowly back , heads down and looking really ...... off.

Tramp the collie is not very bright although he is very brave. Lorraine and me were out walking through the woods one day with the dogs and stopped to watch a couple of squirrels playing in a tree. I heard a humming sort of noise and looked around to see a cloud of bees milling around.
I shouted at Lorraine to run quick, as I did so I tried to see were the bees were coming from.
I couldn't believe my own eyes, Tramp had his head deep inside a hole in the side of a banking and was growling and snarling like a lunatic.
Yes it was the bees nest inside there. (did I mention that Tramp is very partial to a bee supper)I grabbed him and pulled him out just as the bees attacked. We ran like crazy and left the bees behind, not however before they had taken revenge on Tramp and inflicted a few stings on his nose back and legs.

Tramp then started to limp and looked very sorry for himself. We checked him over and he was ok apart from a few swellings. Anyway after a a mile or so he forgot all about it and stopped limping.
BTW he still runs down to the stream and blows bubbles although his latest fixation is stalking the Shetland pony in the next field.
Typical Collie behavior and interesting to watch, he crawls on his belly then lays still a while and then crawls a bit nearer until close enough to pounce. He doesn't attack the pony but runs in a circle around it.
The pony (Gilbert is his name) is used to this behavior and takes no notice of Tramp at all.

It just shows that dogs although domesticated still have that primeval instinct lying beneath the surface.

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by jim

Both dogs and the pen have had the treatment Cardinal, they are now sitting in there looking thoroughly shall we say not happy.

I check them almost every day because we live in the country along with a few thousand sheep, what seems like even more rabbits plus foxes etc. Fleas and Tics are an ever present problem. ( I even check Loraine now and again).

Its quite funny to watch the dogs when they know its time to be deflead , they put their heads down and make a run for the woods.

It takes a sharp command to bring them back. They then walk very very slowly back , heads down and looking really ...... off.

Tramp the collie is not very bright although he is very brave. Lorraine and me were out walking through the woods one day with the dogs and stopped to watch a couple of squirrels playing in a tree. I heard a humming sort of noise and looked around to see a cloud of bees milling around.
I shouted at Lorraine to run quick, as I did so I tried to see were the bees were coming from.
I couldn't believe my own eyes, Tramp had his head deep inside a hole in the side of a banking and was growling and snarling like a lunatic.
Yes it was the bees nest inside there. (did I mention that Tramp is very partial to a bee supper)I grabbed him and pulled him out just as the bees attacked. We ran like crazy and left the bees behind, not however before they had taken revenge on Tramp and inflicted a few stings on his nose back and legs.

Tramp then started to limp and looked very sorry for himself. We checked him over and he was ok apart from a few swellings. Anyway after a a mile or so he forgot all about it and stopped limping.
BTW he still runs down to the stream and blows bubbles although his latest fixation is stalking the Shetland pony in the next field.
Typical Collie behavior and interesting to watch, he crawls on his belly then lays still a while and then crawls a bit nearer until close enough to pounce. He doesn't attack the pony but runs in a circle around it.
The pony (Gilbert is his name) is used to this behavior and takes no notice of Tramp at all.

It just shows that dogs although domesticated still have that primeval instinct lying beneath the surface.

Your posts about your dogs never fail to amuse Jim .

I often wonder why they go so crazy when treated for fleas - perhaps it itches . My Great Dane (since passed away) would thunder around the yard as if he were being chased by a 'Deutsche Dogge' nightmare and end up rolling on the grass like an absolute lunatic - heaven help you if you happened to be in his way as you would resemble a cartoon with dust and the like in one big crumpled heap! Let's not even discuss their behaviour associated with 'bathtime' - ne'er to be found ...

[jim]

Cardinal, The thought of trying to bath a Great Dane when he doesnt want to have bath conjures up hilarious mental pictures,
I just wonder who gets wet-est man or dog.

Good one Cardo.

[flyXwire]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts (besides your thoughts on the Dornier DO 335A-1 Pfeil) about DOGS, gentlemen!

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by flyXwire

Thanks for sharing your thoughts (besides your thoughts on the Dornier DO 335A-1 Pfeil) about DOGS, gentlemen!

It's all thread related FlyXwire - you see the pilots of the Do335 were reknown for their fondness of our canine brethren ...

And I'm sure it was Jim who started to go off thread again ... okay, it wasn't but it was an interesting detour .

(It could've been a lot worse had we digressed and discussed cats - MoMo alert!)

[pulqui]

Originally Posted by jim

There is another being rebuilt in Germany,

http://www.airventure.de/tips_Schwenningen/Do335.jpg
I would not call this "another" by far.
The Caption to this picture says:
Ein Nachbau der Do 335 ist das aktuelle Projekt des Herrn Pflumm. Es werden auch einige Originalteile verwendet.
That means:
A reproduction of the DO 335 is the current project of Mr. Pflumm. Some original parts will be used.