Funny story, well at least you know where you can store all those spare detail parts...
Thankfully my dog only wants to rip up stuffed toys until that squeeker thing is destroyed. The Guinea pig story reminds me of when my children would let the guinea pigs chase the Lionel train around the Christmas tree. They filled the gondola with carrots. what a sight, we would roll on the floor watching the 2 animals chase the train. Every once in a while one would grab a carrot and usually derail the train.
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Thats why I always tie a small tag to mine before trying to install them, they are easier to find if and when they do go flying.
You will not be able to train a Beagle to do that because everyone knows they are boat dogs...silly boy!
I had just seen the reaction of my dog when I set up a test track on the floor, it looks like I'm going to have a problem...she wouldn't shut up until I brought the locomotive to a full stop, and the secound it starts moving again she starts the barking....great, don't look like I'll be running any trains late at night when the wife is out cold from the micky I slip her when I've heard enough....hummmm, more mickys should do it, one for the wife and one for the dog...cool, problem solved!
happy Rails!!!
I have been thinking of training the Beagle to use her nose to find all those grab irons and coupler springs that go shooting across the room from my tweezers. She can sniff out a rock burried in the ground. How about spraying the dogs with stickum and then letting them in the workshop/ layout rooms. Then combing the fur. LOL
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
Hummmm....glue sniffing dog, she better not, thats my department...LOL!
She hasn't seemed traumatized by any of the fur pulling party, but I'm still looking for a HO scale wheel barrel that came up missing...I'm thinking that one might have taken a trip on the inside of the dog!?
I'm sure that will shock and amaze the wife when she is out walking the beast that ate the Santa Fe line!
Sometimes I see things that should not be shared with others but what the heck, this is why they invented the internet right?
Happy Rails!
R. T. POTEET wrote:Horse, you see it wasn't that HO-Scale UFO that you thought was a mutant mosquito flying around your train room that was responsible. I think you owe an apology to all our interstellar friends from the planet Ulungawanagora.
I beg to differ greatly.
Just read my signature.
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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
loathar wrote: Little critters like that can get electrocuted if they walk on live rails. Had it happen to a frog when I was a kid.
Little critters like that can get electrocuted if they walk on live rails. Had it happen to a frog when I was a kid.
alco49 wrote:Gret story, Jess! Reminds me of my guinea pig's adventure... Once (never again) I put them near my half- finished layout just for the hell of it. Then I had to pick up the phone and left them there. When I got back, I noticed something was missing... About a month later I replaced the chewed- up trees.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
Red Horse wrote:Jacky ran off with the stuffed red tomato that held her pins
Sounds like that behavior would be self-correcting..
Chris
"Rust, whats not to love?"
for the last two days my wife has been away, doing some shopping in MA. at a big box store for home building materials so I was once again left alone to my own madness and creativity and it seems that when I mix the two no good ever comes of it.
I tried my best to occupy my mind, I cleaned the whole house, sat down and was bored with the crap on my talking box so I shut it off and went to see what else I could do.
I found a few little projects that needed finishing since last Fall and when those were done I still had a day and a half with no one but the dog to talk too.
I went into the room where I work on my hobbies, drawing, building artworks and working on my Model train layout and this is where things started to go bad.
In the past when I went in to sit there and be creative the dog wanted to be on my lap and that puts my legs asleep after a while and it is hard to work reaching over her all the time so I put a long piano bench seat at my work table so she can be at my side without getting in the way.
I have too watch her like a hawk around my work station since the chopper motorcycle incident, I was building an Orange County Chopper model when I lost the small chrome carburetor off the bike, I later located it when the dog sneezed, yup, she has too sniff everything and after much cleaning the bike was finished.
Yesterday as she sat by me I was busy gluing small parts around the scenery for my train yards and everything went off without a hitch, I would put tiny drops of glue on the parts I needed to bond together and let them set up for a moment before pressing them together, after sitting for two hours my back began to give me signs it was time to go back in front of the TV so I cleaned up after my project and went off to watch some crap TV.
During one point in my creative burst I had to leave the room twice, once to answer the phone and the other to use the bath room but all in all I got a lot done in a short time.
As I sat in front of the talking picture box I was petting Jacky and she was dozing off, at one point I was feeling her nails too see if she was over due to have them trimmed when my fingers found a bump just at the edge of her pad, without looking at her paw I gave the little lump a tug thinking it was something stuck to her fur and it didn't come off so I had to disturb her to see what was going on, a cold chill ran through me....I bet that is a darn tic, how could this be, I used the front line on her.
I held up her paw to get a look under her paw and that is when I discovered that some how she now had a red bubble light that should be onto of one of my tiny cop cars for my train scene, I tugged at it even harder and finally it came away with some fur on it, I'll have to clean that up later....LOL!
Later that night as we were laying in bed waiting for sleep to come and knock us out again I was getting annoyed because Jacky wouldn't settle down so I snapped on the light to see what the heck she was doing and there she was bent in half trying to chew on something near the base of her tail, I pushed her head out of the way and found what was keeping her from falling asleep, there stuck to her butt was a spare tire that should have been glued to the side of my tiny gas station....what the heck, the dog got into my glued parts when I left the room once or twice, after a through sweep of her whole body I recovered one more item, a sticker under her belly that read "New Mexico" the darn dog was ripping me off of parts when I wasn't looking.
All that tugging and fur removal should teach her not to mess with Daddy's stuff when he leaves the room, it is strange to discover that your dog now has extra parts, more than she was born with, when Linda got home I told her the story and she laughed as she recounted the time she was sewing and Jacky ran off with the stuffed red tomato that held her pins, I guess she thought it was a red ball....LOL!
So be warned, if your working on projects around your pets you may want to keep a close eye on them.
If my wife knew half the trouble I get myself into when she is away she would never leave me in the house again!!!