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From: addeo@moovax.DEC
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Subject: dog housing
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 08:40:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 08:40:51 1984
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	Please bear with me, this is my first submission...Thankx


	I have a 6 month male Black Lab. named Radar and my problem is where 
should i keep Radar when i am at work or not at home.

	In the beggining, when he was a pup (8 wks.) i kept him locked up
in the kitchen. This was just until he was paper trained. Now he's trained
to go outside in one spot with no problems. I remodeled my kitchen since
then which now makes it impossible to leave him there. 

	At about 4 months old i gave Radar the run of the house. This was
a disaster. He completely ripped up my couch cussions. So i had to act
fast. I figured that he was to young to have he run of the house so i 
deceided to to keep him in the front portch, which is only 4' x 6'. This
worked out fine during the summer even though it did get very hot in there.
What i did, when i was home, was wedge the inner door open and leave the 
outside screen door locked so that he couldn't break loose. I would also 
keep his food on the portch. When i was away i would lock the inner door
and leave him food and water for the day.

	Well now that the colder weather is comming along i can't leave the
inner door open because of energy costs and also i had hopped that he would
have the run of the house by now for "watchdog" purposes. 

	Last week i tried to give him another chance at the run of the house
but is was just as bad. He tore up an Indian rug to shreads. So i gave him
hell and the next day gave him still another chance. When i returned from
work that day he had gotten into the garbadge and it was all over the place.
I cleaned it up and the went to a softball game and when i returned he did
it again. Needless to say he is  back on the portch.

	I have a basement but there are things to be eaten down there also.

	I am in desperate need of some suggestions. Is Radar still to young
for the run of the house? When will he be old enough? Am i doing something
wrong to make him get revenge? Help me before Radar eats me out of house and
home. (and i mean literally).


	Please direct all responses to:

					Rocco Addeo
					Net: MOOVAX (node # 56.40)
					Digital Equip. Corp.
					274 Cedar Hill Rd.
					Marlboro, MA. 01752
					(617) 467-4489

	If you can't get to our node please ask you net manager to
check his network master file. We had a sudden node # change....our 
new node # is 56.40.

					Thankx

					Rocco