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Cloud yelling (5.00 / 2) (#5)
by Stellaaa on Sat May 24, 2008 at 10:39:47 AM EST
cripes now Oprah will have to add it to her repertoire of self help products.

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Right after screaming into the pillow :) (none / 0) (#8)
by Militarytracy on Sat May 24, 2008 at 10:40:21 AM EST


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Tracy, a reply to you from the other thread... (5.00 / 1) (#20)
by jeffinalabama on Sat May 24, 2008 at 10:47:29 AM EST
At least your child wants to go to Auburn-- I'm glad to hear it! My son knows there's one university (he's five, so it's universty) and that's Auburn!

Guess where he wants to go-- to where Daddy works!

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When they stand on the playground (none / 0) (#37)
by Militarytracy on Sat May 24, 2008 at 10:55:47 AM EST
and holler Auburn at the kids in the red shirts, it's time to prepay tuition.  I'm sort of impressed with Auburn, not knowing a whole lot about education and the area.  One of our snootier friends graduated from Auburn and swears there isn't any other place to go but, I raise show German Shepherds so I send out for boy swimmers when my girls feel loving.  I also have to have hips xrayed and OFA'd, all sorts of stuff. My vet graduated from Auburn and he's pretty impressive with it all.

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Auburn, UAB, even (gasp, choke) UAT (none / 0) (#41)
by jeffinalabama on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:00:45 AM EST
are good schools-- they ain't Harvard, but they don't have Harvard cost, either. Have you looked at some of the smaller schools, like Samford and Birmingham Southern?

I'd say Auburn all the way-- good education, good quality of life, and close. however, one of my colleagues sent his son to Troy State, and he's now a lawyer in some large firm in Atlanta.  Alabama has some good colleges and universities.

Now, if he's interested in veterinary or agriculture, Auburn's the school, without a doubt!

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UAB grad here--and Roll Tide ;) n/t (5.00 / 1) (#157)
by kempis on Sat May 24, 2008 at 12:26:02 PM EST


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heck, and I wanted to like you! (5.00 / 1) (#160)
by jeffinalabama on Sat May 24, 2008 at 12:28:19 PM EST
just kidding... congrats.

6. heh.

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I like how close Auburn is to us (none / 0) (#50)
by Militarytracy on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:08:19 AM EST
It is two hours.  Far enough away that your kids can feel independent but close enough that if they start partying naked all day you can show up.  University of Wyoming had a lot of partying naked problems, usually from kids back east.  I think it had to do with the high altitude.  Poor kids would show up, go immediately to their first party and drink and then always end up naked.....and not even naked with others, just naked :).  Josh is very mathematically inclined.  It is impossible to tell what your kids are going to want to do at this stage but I'm betting something along engineering lines.

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Engineering=Auburn in this state (none / 0) (#67)
by jeffinalabama on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:16:23 AM EST
excellent to superior engineering program. Ga tech may have more fame, but a lot of great engineers came from AU-- think of the space program, past and present.

Also, molecular biology, chemistry, physics, all require superior math.

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Well, that sort of cinches it then (none / 0) (#80)
by Militarytracy on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:23:51 AM EST
It is nice to know that he innately knew where he needed to start pointing himself.  He's a little mathematical brainiac.  I did very well.  They say that "girls" aren't quite as mathematically inclined but I always held my own and was sadly usually one of the few chicks in my classes.  My husband though is frightening.  Flight school for him was like taking sips of water and when he attempts to explain lift and drag to me as I'm white knuckling the airplane armrest I just want him to shut up :)  Josh is like his father already in his aptitude to grasp things mathematical.

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I believe that (none / 0) (#91)
by Molly Pitcher on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:31:01 AM EST
there's a known genetic marker for degenerative mylopathy now--not from the U of Fla.  I hope breeders check: lost a lovely GSD to that once I could no longer get her in the cart safely.  GSDs have always been my favorite, but I promised my last one I'd never again bring home a big dog I couldn't care for.  Got a Swedish Vallhund instead.

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GSD's degenerative myelopathy (none / 0) (#110)
by Militarytracy on Sat May 24, 2008 at 11:55:36 AM EST
It was something that breeders attempted to ignore sadly because some really really great dogs were carrying it and throwing it.  We are getting a lot better about weeding it out finally and being serious about it.  I'm sorry about your dog.  I have never had a dog with it.  Most of my problems continue to be of the skeletal structure variety......it goes hand in hand with the breed and I hear all these arguments that American bred is less defective or German is less defective when in truth they are about the same.  I breed to the American Standard and the Alsatian concept of the herding GSD, so my dogs have the herding gait and the angulation.  Sometimes when people see me walking one of my dogs they'll say, "beautiful dog, too bad about its hips".  Then I tell them that this dog OFA'd Good which is very upper echelon in meeting the OFA criteria and they shrug and look at me like I'm lying through my teeth :)  Oh Well, that's life in the big dog lane.  Don't get to see enough Vallhunds, cute as snot.  Lots of Corgis though lately in the Southeast shows....it's Corgi heaven.

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OT dogs and more dogs (5.00 / 1) (#178)
by Molly Pitcher on Sat May 24, 2008 at 12:45:09 PM EST
My dog was second generation American--only German working line dogs--bred for Shutzhund work.  My first GSD was born in '67--big (140 lbs. est.), straight back, took 2 flea collars to go around his neck.  Excellent dog that went camping and hiking with 30 girls scouts.  My DM dog had a slight 'banana back' sloping rump; I believe that is precisely where the skeletal issues came from. Went to German lines hoping for fewer health issues; did not know temperament differences then.  I still think a GSD without the sloping back moving along at a rapid clip is about the prettiest thing I have ever seen.

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My husband brought home (5.00 / 1) (#205)
by magisterludi on Sat May 24, 2008 at 01:14:51 PM EST
a BIG black dog he saw roaming around the interstate. Obviously abandoned. Big Joe weighed 100 lbs when we took him to the vet- and he wasn't fully grown. He ended up at 220 lbs and lived to be about nine.

Our vet said he was some mastiff- great dane mix (Joe held the largest dawg evah! record at the clinic). When friends would visit, he didn't sniff just crotches- he sniffed armpits.

I should post pictures. He's been gone 8 years now and I still get misty.

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