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OwyheeStar Note: Please feel free to write your story in as a comment. This is an experiment at this point in time. I don’t know if this will work but we would to hear about your Weim’s antics. 
OK I will start off. Honest to God this actually happened. Years ago we had a cat. He was a cool cat named BooBoo. Where do I get these names? I think it was because he was bobtailed. Anyhow he thought he was hot stuff. The Weim kids like to chase him around the house. He liked to bait them.
One night one of the Weim kids was sitting on Cliff’s lap. The other Weim kid had been wanting to climb up but there is only so much room. So the Weimy on the floor pointed the cat and then looked at the lap-sitting Weim. The lap-sitter took off to chase the cat. Then as if on command, the smart pointing Weim climbed into Dad’s lap. It was clearly orchestrated. Cliff and I looked at each and died laughing. We both said at the same time, “No will believe this one!”
Following on the cat stories – Jack our weim, just now over one has his very own cat, yes his own cat. He claimed Gary our long haired black cat as his own shortly after he moved in. Gary seems to be ok with this and pretty much allows Jack to do whatever, whenever to him – not your typical cat, dog relationship. Jack has this great party trick, he loves to do it when people are over and especially when new people are over. Gary will be peacefully sleeping on our bed, when Jack wakes him up and proceeds to drag him by the nape of the neck from the bedroom across our hard wood floors into the living room. Now for the new visitor who has never seen this before it looks like our dog is killing the cat, as Gary goes limp for this trick and allows Jack to do what looks like mop our floors with him. If that’s not enough to shock the new visitor, the two then begin mouthing each other on the living room floor, until Gary has had his fill and latches onto Jack’s face and will not let go, till Jack gives in and agrees the trick is over.
It’s quite the site to see if you have never seen a dog and cat actually play fight like two puppies. The unfortunate thing is that Jack now thinks all cats love this and has yet to find any other cat that will allow them selves to be used as the floor mop.
Great story Brooke. I can see it as if I were there!
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Just for fun here is a little water story. Deli was just about 3 months old and we were heading to our Lake Owyhee cabin. It is a 15 miles trip from the boat launch to our cabin. It is accessible only by boat. We have an older jet boat with a metal roof. This particular day the wind was blowing and there were a lot of waves. We had Dash and Deli along for the trip. I cannot remember exactly what we were doing but we were on the way to the cabin. It was Delis first trip. She was running around the boat and hanging out the side. She was drinking deeply of the spray and breeze off the water. She was being so cute and we were laughing at her.
The boat was being tossed about. Cliff was trying to navigate the huge waves as the wind grabbed at the metal roof pitching us here and there. The ride was a bit like one at the carnival. This didn’t bother us or the Weims. Being her first trip, I was keeping my eye on Deli because we didn’t have her crated or tethered. All of a sudden as she leaned out to get a better view, we caught a huge wave and the jet boat went thump. You guessed it! Over the side she went. I hollered at Cliff and he pulled back the throttle and tried to locate her.
We had to find a way to get to her. This is not a small reservoir. When full, Lake Owyhee is the largest body of water in the state of Oregon–54 miles in length. At places it is nearly a mile across. As you can guess we were not traveling that close to shore. This caused us a great deal of alarm and near panic. We spotted her and she was dog paddling amist the rough waters. With a great deal of effort and skill Cliff was able to get the boat close enough to her to get her attention and call her towards us.
I drove for a bit and Cliff deftly fished her from the water. Long arms can be extremely handy. She was undaunted and ready to hang over the side of the boat again. To her chagrin we crated her until we slowed upon reaching Fisherman’s Cove. To this day she loves the water and to water retrieve.
Regardless of how Deli learned to swim, this is not our recommended instruction method. If this would have happened at the wrong developmental period it might to have turned out so well. During a fear period it might have ingrained a fear of water and lead to on-going water associated fears. We were extremely fortunate in that she was resilient and became an avid water retrieving Weimaraner. Note this is the same Weim Tale as mentioned in the May 7, 2009 Blog Post:
http://owyheestar.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/rain-rain-go-away/
This could be a fun area.
My story is about Vorst our blue weim. At about 6 months my roomate Steve had taken Vorst to a house where he was roofing. Vorst was in the backyard and got tired of waiting for Steve to come down so he just climbed up the ladder to the roof and suprised Steve when he turned around to see Vorst on the roof next to him. After a bit Vorst went back down head first and then back and forth a few more times that day. Now if we can just get him to fetch the roofing without chewing it up. We have phone photos a it would have been great if Steve had a video camera that day.
When Vorst was 2 1/2 months old we had taken him and Kima a 7month old Akida to the shore on our skiff to play on the beach on the Colombia. We were anchored off shore about 100 feet or so and had come back to the boat to get something. Vorst stopped playing with Kima and jumped in and swam to the boat all by himself. pretty brave for such a little pup.
We have had many similar experiences. One comes to mind. If you know how a reservoir (unlike a lake) can rapidly drop you’ll understand how this could happen. We docked and noticed the boat nearly touching the bottom. The dock was near stranded. So, we unloaded our goods and the Weims. We then started to ferry over to the bank and tie up so we could go back and get our stuff and the Weim kids and head for the cabin. We had no sooner left the dock than Minnie (a very tiny Weim that was very young–her first trip to the cabin) dove into the water behind us following the boat. We were only going a little ways to the bank where the water was deeper but she swam following us. I yelled at Cliff that she was following and he said, “No Way!” We stopped and managed to get her into the boat. She thought we might be leaving her, but it is not like she was left alone. She had never swam. She had never been to the lake. She was sooooooo very small. We had kept her due to her size and today full grown she weighs about 30 lbs. We did finally place her with a lovely family in California where eventually she did learn to hunt and she is much-loved!