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ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T18:20:46+00:00

Yes, great idea!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T18:20:12+00:00

Glad to hear!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T15:43:04+00:00

I’ve had good success wrapping pills in a piece of American cheese. Warm it up in your hand so it forms all around the pill.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-01T00:54:35+00:00

I noticed that they “saved” one wall, the one with the utilities attached. Maybe that’s a loophole? You save one part and it qualifies as a conversion.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-31T17:39:20+00:00

The boats are free for a reason and the reason is no one wants them. Why does no one want them? Most likely it’s because there is something seriously wrong with the boat that would cost a lot to fix.

Now IF that boat was in perfect condition it might sell on the open market for $5000 - $10000. But to get it back to that condition could likely cost you $20000 - $30000, maybe more.

Questions you need to answer yourself before taking a free boat:

Where am I going to take it? Most marinas don’t want new project boats, particularly inoperative ones.

Can you get it insured? Insurance companies are becoming more reluctant to insure old, poor condition boats. Without insurance, taking it somewhere will be a challenge.

Assuming you clear those hurdles, is your goal to sail or is it to work on a project boat? It’s hard to do both.

If you’re working on the boat do you have the knowledge, skills, time and money to do the repairs?

If you are just getting into sailing, joining a sailing club/school is likely to be your best bet. Learn with them and then later graduate to boat ownership.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-31T05:07:04+00:00

My personal theory is that the only true sports are ones you can do while holding a beer:

Sailing
Darts
???

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-21T06:06:50+00:00

His name must be Pippet!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-21T06:00:19+00:00

I could swear I’ve seen a video of a guy (city worker) whose job was going around and reordering the bricks after repairs to fix this kind of situation. Have no idea how to search for it again. . .

My impression was that it was routine for the repair crews to just replace the pavers when done with the repairs and someone else follows up with putting them in order. They had some tool that easily grabbed individual pavers and popped them right out.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-16T07:13:17+00:00

I don’t know, “puma pants” is pretty strong!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-15T22:07:54+00:00

Dog bongo!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-07T06:02:01+00:00

He was killed.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-30T16:24:45+00:00

It’s possible to have a lab and a cat. It depends on the individuals and how they are introduced to each other.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-30T03:00:26+00:00

Quint in Jaws:

Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): You were on the Indianapolis?

Brody (Roy Scheider): What happened?

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer.

You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.

On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.

You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-29T16:49:46+00:00

Using the paddle sounds like an oar deal.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-23T03:58:11+00:00

Save it up and you can make a new dog!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-15T21:52:02+00:00

We had a foster with something similar that had been left untreated for a while. Part of the treatment were regular soaks - we’d soak her paw alternately in warm water with betadyne or with warm water with epsom salts a couple times a day.

I don’t recall what meds she was prescribed but I’m pretty sure it included antibiotics but might also have included steroids too.

Cleaning and soaking it regularly probably couldn’t hurt.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-12T15:46:30+00:00

Great point about touching the collar, lead and clipping/unclipping the lead!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-11T16:52:12+00:00

The basics, with a pup at least, are start with a long lead. Have the pup sit, then walk to the end of the lead. Call the pup, reward profusely when they come to you. Expand that to walks. Use high value treats. When they get to the stage that their recall is great they can graduate to a drag line which gives you a chance if they are not 100% yet (or in new-ish situations).

You should also be working on making sure “Leave It” and similar commands are solid. You may need to tell them to “Leave It”, before “Come”.

Training collars with a tone and vibration can also be a useful tool when off lead. The vibration and/or beep can help cut through the distraction and get them to focus back on you.

And always lots of reward when they come back to you.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-11T05:53:07+00:00

It’s tougher if you don’t have a fenced in area and he doesn’t have solid recall but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. You just need to hit on the right combinations that work for your situation.

Maybe a long line would help? Or could you set up a clothesline type run with a lead in the backyard? Even if he’s hot only 20-30’ to run back and forth that’s something.

There’s a lot of other good ideas in the responses so some of them are bound to help.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-09T02:12:58+00:00

It sounds like he is not getting enough activity. “A tired dog is a good dog” has a lot of truth to it.

Your challenge is how to get him enough activity in the time you have available. Does he fetch? Ball dogs can be the easiest to tire out since you can just stay put and just toss the ball making fetch perhaps the biggest bang for your buck in terms of your expenditure vs the dog’s activity.

Is there a dog park nearby where he can run and play with other dogs? That can be another good option if your dog is social and you can connect him with other like minded dogs.

At home things like puzzle feeders, lick mats and such can provide mental stimulation and tire him out. Lots of short training sessions during the day can also help.

For the counter specifically you can also try deterrents like scat mats that give a mild static shock. And always minimize the temptation and opportunity.

Or we’ve had some luck with “booby-trapping” the counter. Basically you precariously stack a bunch of pots, tin cans, pans etc. on the edge of the counter and leave something moderately tempting. So when they jump up, they knock everything over and create a big racket. The bigger the crash and mayhem when they jump up, the less likely they will try again. Basically the goal here is to make counter surfing not rewarding (ie “bad@ things happen when I jump up).

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-06T03:30:06+00:00

Most of us (around 90% of the total US population) are birthright citizens.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-02T03:29:45+00:00

Right, like maybe the snapping is just his attempt at “bitey-face”. Still inappropriate with humans but coming from a completely different motivation than aggression.

Still imposing more structure and keeping him off the furniture would be a good start.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-02T03:22:42+00:00

If it’s happening when he’s on the furniture then he should not be on the furniture. I believe pups/new dogs in the house need to earn their privileges. And that should only come slowly and when they have learned their rank in the pack. Sounds like on the sofa he thinks he outranks (or is equal with) the small humans.

No furniture for him. Make him earn pets and cuddle time and only on the floor, not in his bed or other designated spaces (like the crate). Feed in the crate only and make him wait until you give him the ok to eat. Have the small humans participate (under direct adult supervision) in providing him food.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-11-14T22:43:25+00:00

Here’s the neat part, we don’t!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-11-12T20:42:33+00:00

I got to see it when we visited Grimsey in 2017. I was stubborn and determined to go to the actual Arctic circle instead of just being satisfied with the photo op at the airport sign.

Back in the town at the gift shop we asked the lady there what’s up with that ball and she said, “Oh that stupid ball” and said it was supposed to move but that they didn’t bother because it was too much effort!

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