Sully

Definitely some truth here. Be assertive. That doesn't mean overbearing and yelling and all that jazz but be calm, be serious, and don't lean over or encroach on the dog. Don't give the dog affection just for the sake of giving it affection, but if you call it over and it comes, show some affection. Calm affection. Soft but meaningful movements. If you crounch down to get him to come to you, keep your back straight. I can't emphasize enough not hovering over the dog. And that goes for any dog of any breed.

 

I would say if you are a dog person, keep him. I do training ha ha.

I got your pm. Thanks. I'll let you know what I decide to do. If he's going to hang around, I may just keep him as an outside dog for now.

Do you have any pics? If you can't find a home for him, check with these people... http://www.measlesanimalhaven.org/

I emailed them. They are not accepting any new dogs at this time.

This seems to be the response I'm getting from everyone. I've left voicemails at 4 or 5 places now. No one has called back. When leaving a message, I have even asked for them to call me back to just help give me some direction.

Well, he slept on my front porch all night, right on my door mat. I think someone dropped him off in front of my house last night and since I gave him some water, he's not leaving now.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to take him in, but I travel quite a bit for work, and will be gone two weeks in July.

I'm sitting here watching tv with my front door open. I hear a sound at the screen door. I get up, turn the light on and there is a pitbull sitting on my door mat. He's beautiful. Brownish greyish in color with a white patch on his chest. No collar. Appears to be friendly. I gave him some water. He knows sit. There is a small scrape above his left eye, one on his front right elbow, and one on his rear right paw. They are not bleeding at this time, but look fairly fresh.

I don't want to bring him in the house because I don't know how he'll react. I have no clue if he has fleas or if he'll bite. He really wants inside though. He seems scared.

What should I do? There's quite a bit of traffic by my house. I'm afraid he'll get hit by a car. I don't want to call the Franklin County dog shelter because they'll just put him down.

It looks nice but maybe I'm wrong here....

 

It doesn't look big enough to have your grill a patio set and a fire pit on it though.

I thought that too, but that is an 8' table that's sitting there now. It's taking up a lot of real estate, which is why I'm getting rid of it.

Looks good. Is it the pics that make the sidewalk look really narrow?

Must be. The sidewalk is 3' wide.

^^ fixed. Congrats. Looks good.

Word! I like how you think!

That was happening to me as well as the 'all circuits are busy' message, but should be able to get through now.

I was just curious if it's possible to get a credit for that outage.

No. I didn't do it. Broke out the checkbook to have it done. I just didn't have the time.

Anyway...

Before:

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/OsuSully/House/Patio/Patio002.jpg

After:

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/OsuSully/House/Patio/Patio022.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/OsuSully/House/Patio/Patio021.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii316/OsuSully/House/Patio/Patio025.jpg

The lattice is there as a windbreaker. I'm going to plant some viney plants that will completely cover it to also help block more wind and I'm going to put my grill up against it in the center. I'm selling the picnic table and picking up a nice patio set. I already have a firepit that will go on the patio. I chose not to have one installed in the patio so that I can move it around. In the flowerbed type areas, I'm going to put weed barrier down and back-fill with gravel.