[mythtv-users] Off topic, about dogs and remotes

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 5/2/14, 9:59 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Saul A. Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com
> <mailto:jaglover at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 03 May 2014 11:02:12 +1000
>     Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     > On Fri, 2 May 2014 06:12:33 PM Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
>     > > and next morning I found two batteries on
>     > > bedroom floor, with little toothmarks all over them. And my two
>     > > little dogs looking at me with most innocent look in their eyes.
>     >
>     > Thank goodness they didn't eat the batteries, those can be
>     dangerous.
>
>     I guess the batteries weren't tasty ... good thing, as you said.
>
>     > > Absolutely
>     > > no trace of remote.
>     >
>     > Heh! hopefully turn up under the couch or something. I know my
>     couch
>     > is an elephants graveyard for dog toys ...
>
>     Nope, I've searched everywhere. I admit I've been checking my front
>     yard (which is fenced for dogs) to find at least some metal parts,
>     like
>     battery springs or whatnot. Absolutely nuttin'. Asked Wife, too. She
>     said she never picked up any debris that would belong to a remote.
>     Baffled.
>     Dogs are small:
>     http://asclinux.com:8000/My_Photos/Aadu_Minnie/medium/000_0185.jpg
>
>
>
> Buried in the dogyard of treasures.
>
> :)
>  
>
>
>     -- 
>     Cheers, Saul
>     _______________________________________________
>
Or, after chewing to content and delight over a part falling off, was
joyfully batted under a nightstand or similar furniture.
Back when we had animals about the house, we found things under the most
improbable of locations.
Look under things that the dogs can't get under, but could have knocked
it under.

That said, the remote could have entered the same interdimensional space
that singular socks and ballpoint pens disappear to.  ;)
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