LURKERS TURNED POSTERS

sessa35 · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: LURKERS TURNED POSTERS

Ok.

I am a lurker turned poster.

meaning: I read and read and read and replied in my own head for months before I actually joined and began to post comments....

I was a LONG time lurker on this forum before joining this spring...I had been trying to join since the fall but was just delayed...I had been lurking since the summer....

when I finally did get "turned-on"-------ooooooo-----off and running I AM!!!

I just LOVE this forum: I learn immensely, have regular hearty and healthy laughs, and I get plenty of oohs and aahhs over photos of all the beautiful doodles around here!!!!

Very Happy

so.
come forward lurkers.
and join.

Very Happy

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ellabee · Senior Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1524 Location: NJ

Very brief lurker. Like, I lurked for about 12 hours and them joined. How could I not???
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gene · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject:

Lurked for about 2 weeks, then needed poopie problems help, and got help and much more, Friends, a support group, and oodles and oodles of doodles!! Laughing

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Cinsmom · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:55 am Post subject:

I found this forum because I had questions, so I jumped in with both feet. Right up to my eye balls!

Linda · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:52 am Post subject:

Haha, great thread. I lurked for about a month, then joined. Not sure if that is brief or a long time?
Here was my first post:

gracielou · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

I chimed rght in and actually was a part from Day One the forum started!!! Smile

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blueteal · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

Lurked for a couple of weeks but as soon as
I made up my mind for sure that I was getting a Doodle
I jumped in with both feet
Biggest mistake I ever made!!!!!!!!!!
JUST KIDDING LOVE THIS PLACE AND YOU GUYS
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lisarundell · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:13 am Post subject:

No lurking here, found the forum when Lani was about 12 weeks old. I had never raised a puppy before this forum was (is) a God send! I could not have asked for a better community to be part of, as I said a while back wouldn't it br great to have all of you as real neighbors not just cyber neighbors!
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MaxandMe · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:54 am Post subject:

Sometimes i am the "all or nothing" type of person but do analzye first.

this time though I joined right away , said HI and then spent numerous hours reading almost every post this forum had to learn more so i wouldn't put up redundant questions.

I know i was soooooooo nervous the first time i said hi and WOW realized this forum was awesome!! EVeryone was friendly, genuine, loving, caring, so informative, and sharing. and then i made a joke one day to GENE and it took off from there.

I did provide a really good laugh down the line for the forum. at 1st i got confused thinking Jac was a guy's name..then said" oh wait Jac is a gal" got that one straight

then GENE has posted some pics and I thought GENE was a woman posting here husband with JONAH hhahhahahaha if you could have seen the shock on my face when GENE PM"d me HE was Jonah's mommie
i alsmost swallowed my tongue with embarrassment then realized
the forum witnessed my 1st major blonde moment hahhahahaa
and now i had to find more since that one was blown. hahhahahhaa

I have had so much support, laughter, friendship, and learning as well as enlightenment on this forum ............not to mention puppy pic fixes!

so i say THANK YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL for making my day brighter !
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gene · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

And you were all wondering why Annmarie is usually my "target" !! Laughing

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FoodLady · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject:

Googled LABRADOODLES. This site was about the fourth down, saw it had a forum and then lurked for about two months. I had never done anything like this on-line and hesitated, but couldn't resist adding my two cents, esp. when the silliness became apparent. Very Happy

The advice, the pictures, the talent on this site provides daily smiles and has helped this doodle debutant get through some interesting times (still haven't decided if I want to go into detail re: gakking doodle in the back seat on a 95 degree day) Rolling Eyes

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blueteal · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

annieG · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:

Some of you know this already but for the newbies...I googled for websites that dealt with labradoodle owners and breeders after we lost our beloved Hannah a multigen at 5 months. She developed grand mall (sp?) seizures after many months of allergies, parasites and infections. I wanted to know if anyone else had experienced this and I was just heartbroken trying to make sense of what had happened.

By chance I clicked on this forum and I had nothing to lose so I jumped right in and I am still coming back...

I found such wonderful, welcoming friends here and through this forum we were put together with our "Tanner". Tanner was a gift from a fabulous breeder on this forum. Tanner helped us heal and move on from our tragedy and I believe understand what happened to Hannah.
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FoodLady · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

Picked Miss Ebbe up from daycare last Wednesday evening. The temp had gone past one hundred earlier in the afternoon and of course, all the radio disc jockeys were joking about how it had 'cooled down' to 95 by early evening. I was hot and tired and the doodle I picked up from daycare was hot and tired. She slumped in the back seat and was ready to go home!

A quick stop to the dry cleaner (in and out) and Ebbe sat up on the passenger side of the back seat. About a mile and a quarter from the house, I heard the sound that strikes fear in all our hearts ... the one Gene has recently experienced ... the gak - gak - gak of a doodle throwing up ... TWICE!

Now she had been at daycare where she had NOT been fed. And so should have had little in her tummy ... BUT OH NO! I can only surmise by the odor and consistancy that what came out of her had previously come out of another dog!

Gagging myself, I all but ran over little old ladies in my effort to get home. I called Marc telling him to be outside to get the dog the minute we pulled in ... he was and he did and then had to run away from the car before he joined the party.

He took care of Ebbe (who after she was wiped off and had a drink of water headed straight for her supper dish. Confused

) I changed clothing, grabbed cleaning accessories and a dust mask and for the next hour ... in that heat ... cleaned the interior of my car and the door with all it's handy little places to put a map. Shocked

Imagine!

The only way I got it done was because of that mask and literally hosed the inside of my car down, scrubbing away with Mr. Clean and Natures Miracle. It worked. No after effects. Except my loss of appitite for the rest of the day and post-event shudders.

Aren't you glad you asked? Wink

Oh ... please don't think badly of my Marc not helping. Two people couldn't have done it ... he stayed on alert if I needed anything to help with the task.
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annieG · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

ooph...that must have been awful. I never thought of it, but there is the possibility of a dog eating anothers ................... at daycare. Glad you were able to get your car cleaned up and glad you didn't get a ticket for racing over the LOLs on the way home. Razz

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