Hi all just back from out of town (again)but it's been great I do air sampling for asbestos removel (i know but it pays the bills)and they sent me to farm country What a great time I had we stop the job at 2 when it gets hot and then i spend time down at the co'op and have meet some great people you will be hearung from some of them it reafermed my dream of getting beond the side walks. took me two hours to go through the froum sheepish keep that 1911 handy.Well to the ?s my dog is a great dog we saved it from a party farm about 7 years ago it was at deaths door some penicilen in raw egg (bad idea i think now) and some t.l.c. and she came back a has become a great dog obedent to a fault I swear she reads my mind great guard dog (doby mix)and when i took the next step and got our chickens she took them under her wing and is just great with them. But a problem has come up and this is hard for me to admit but i now have a chicken s#%t eating egg sucking dog with breath and flagulents to go with it!! I've solved the egg eating by keeping her away from the coop and have gone as far as putting hot sauce on the poop (not for flavor)but it does not seem to work any advice would help!! She is also gun shy I try to take her hunting but she wont come come out of the moterhome if i have a gun in my hand i have to put it in the case thn she will come out I go back in get the shotgun when i come out she's there quivring It breaks my heart shes even scared on my bug zaper! she's still a good dog but has some issues do deal with Dr. jouce brothers where are you. Great being home lots to do in the garden. when I got home their was a new chain saw on the kitchen table so i think Terri wants me to do some thing (you think)? Hope a is well with you and yours in the country side family and love reading all your posts have and remember be safe out their Terri&Shaun

-- shaun&terri (shaun-terri@juno.con), July 29, 2000

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Great to hear from you!! Hmm, what a thoughtful gift from Terri. Yuck, what a nasty business your stinky dog must cause. Nobody's perfect, I guess...even a dobie. However, you never know...maybe the smell keeps predators at bay! lol. And be glad your dog can't be a lobbyist...

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), July 29, 2000.

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Count your blessings at least she isnt viciouse,Animals like people have there own personalitys and fobias,Iam with your dog I have super good hearing[ keeps the teenagers on there toes]and I HATE loud noises to.

-- kathy h (saddlebronc@msn.com), July 29, 2000.

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I wonder what would happen if you got a shyringe of hot sauce and "dosed" a few, discretely marked eggs (so you didn't use them)? Just a thought.

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), July 31, 2000.

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Shaun, there are ways to "treat" a gun shy dog, but your dog may have too many problems for the "treatment" to be anything but torture. Rescue dogs will frequently eat poop, and there are a lot of theories on why-probably the most likely is that the dog acquired the habit while starving and doing what it took to survive. I knew some people who had rescue dogs and one ate NOTHING but the other dogs' poop. They tried everything, spent a lot of money they couldn't afford at the vet's, nothing helped. So they coped by feeding the daylights out of their other dogs so the other dogs' poop would be the highest quality possible for the poop-eater. Did anything seem to trigger her poop eating? Like did this get started when you were trying to get her hunting? You may not be able to get her to stop. All I can recomend is lots of love, and maybe see if you can get some chlorophyll tablets in her. I know exactlly what she smells like, you have my sympathy. Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), August 03, 2000.