Mickey strikes again ...

All weekend the kitchen zink has been gurgeling ........ so I knew it was time to get it fixed, especially yesterday evening, when like no water ran out of the zink when I was doing the dishes - so I had to finish doing them in the bathroom zink, where the water is not so hot ....... Early this morning I called the plumbers and as it seemed to be something that would take more than one hour, I decided to take my bike, Mickey and Asta and ride to the store for a little shopping - Almost there I have to cross a road and today there were a lot of cars in both directions and as I was thinking this, Mickey decided to make his move, jumping to the right as I was looking to the left and surprised me so I fell ......... I was standing with my bike and fell ! How dumb can this be ? There I was, lying on the ground when 2 young men :-) came out of their cars and helped me up ..... My elbow and right hip was hurt, plus my pride - otherwise I was A OK ....... I wonder if Mickey did this because the plumber came through the kitchen door and his van was just outside, and it is only when we are off to dogshows that we use the kitchen door.... Mickey did at first think we were going for a drive, but alas ........... nahhhh - he couldn't have tried to get even, could he ? hmmmmmmmm

Monday morning...

what a morning - Kira had to go out around 4am due to a bad stomach, so all 3 dogs came along, and there we stod watching folk get up and ready for work !? (and some complains when dog-folk say they get up around 3am to travel to dogshows!) - Also the garbage truck came around 4.15. am and he is not one of the most quiet people but we did not care, as we were awake and outside ..... it was very humid due to the rain the evening before -


I had just made a nice cup of tea around 7am, the first of the day, when Kira had to go out again .... when we got back inside all hell broke loose - thunder, lightening and heavy rain - I am glad the dogs are not afraid of thunder or lightening, however I am - Today is the first day of the school year, so not a good beginning ...

After I showered and washed my hair, Kira had to go out one more time ......... sigh .... I never meet anyone, but this morning met a neighbour who took one look at me and asked if I had been in the rain !? Needless to say it was a good exuse :-)) I must have looked like a drowned mouse ..... the weather is now very humid and the neighbour has her windows open and her dogs are barking every 10 minutes .......... this is why I hate Summer, open doors and windows and barking dogs -

Expenses/Udgifter

In connection with Asta's upcoming and planned litter I have written down all the expenses I have had so far and will have for this litter, as I am a bit tired of folk saying: " you will make a bundle on this litter!" - Really - well read and be quiet ..........

I forbindelse med Astas planlagte kuld har jeg skrevet hvad jeg til dato allerede har brugt af penge og vil fortsætte med dette til hvalpene er kommen hjemmefra da jeg er lidt træt af at få at vide, at jeg tjener "kassen" på et kuld hvalpe ! Mon dog ......... læs selv ......

it is on Asta's website - www.fallohide.dk/asta.htm

6. and 9. August 1945

On 6. August 1945 USA threw a bomb over Hiroshima - read more here http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm

and again on 9. august 1945 USA through a "small" bomb over Nagasaki and killed 80.000 people - read more here http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm

not something to celebrate, but to remember, hoping it never happens again .......

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By the way, did anyone, I wonder, read the below article about the domestic dogs ? anyways, I enjoyed it so no matter .......

Domestic dog origins challenged

Domestic dog origins challenged
By Judith Burns Science reporter, BBC News

African village dogs possess plenty of genetic diversity
The suggestion that the domestic dog originated in East Asia has been challenged.
The huge genetic diversity of dogs found in East Asia had led many scientists to conclude that domestication began there.

But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in African villages is just as varied.
An international group of researchers analysed blood samples from dogs in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia.
Today's dogs are descended from Eurasian grey wolves, domesticated between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago.
I think it means that the conclusion that was drawn before might have been premature
Adam Boyko, Cornell University
The authors say the process by which humans domesticated the dog is poorly understood.
Lead scientist, Dr Adam Boyko of the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University, says he decided to look at village dogs because they are so much more genetically diverse than bred dogs that they may hold the key to the origins of dog domestication.
The team analysed DNA from 318 dogs from villages in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia and measured their genetic diversity.
They also analysed the genetic make up of dog breeds thought to be of African origin, for example the Saluki, the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and the Pharoah Hound and compared all the resulting data with results for non African dogs such as Puerto Rican street dogs and non-pedigree dogs in the US.
The emphasis on African village dogs came about because Adam Boyko's co-authors, his brother and sister-in-law, were travelling in Africa on honeymoon. They collected all the blood samples from the African dogs.
Genetically diverse
The team found genetic diversity among African village dogs is just as diverse as that of East Asian dogs, leading them to question the hypothesis of an East Asian origin for dog domestication.
Dr Boyko told BBC News: "I think it means that the conclusion that was drawn before might have been premature. It's a consequence of having a lot of street dogs from East Asia that were sampled, compared to elsewhere.
"The reason that East Asia looked more diverse than elsewhere was not because East Asia as a continent had more diverse dogs than elsewhere but because non breed street and village dogs are more diverse than breed dogs."
He said he was not ruling out East Asia as a possible location for the origin of the domestic dog - but it could equally have been anywhere else on the Eurasian landmass where there were both grey wolves and humans.
Co-author Paul Jones of The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, UK, said: "It's interesting to know the answer to the question of where dogs were first domesticated and this paper goes some way to giving us an answer."
The team are now in the process of sampling street and village dogs across Europe and Asia from Portugal to Papua New Guinea to pinpoint the areas of greatest genetic diversity.
Dr Boyko said that all the dogs sampled in the study have grey wolf DNA so he is not questioning the hypothesis that dogs descended from Eurasian wolves.
The results led the team to conclude that today's African village dogs are a mosaic of indigenous dogs descended from early migrants to Africa.
They also went some way to proving the origins of some pedigree dogs purported to be of African origin. For example the Saluki breed shares DNA with modern day village dogs from Egypt - as does the Afghan Hound, despite its name.
Likewise, the Basinji breed is genetically very similar to some Namibian and Ugandan village dogs.
However the Pharaoh Hound and Rhodesian Ridgeback have little in common with any African indigenous dogs which suggests that these two breeds have non African origins.

hjæææææælppppppp - hellllpppp

en edderkop - en mega stor sort edderkop sad på væggen i aftes .............. tror dens ben var 5-6 cm lange på en meget stor krop - fornemmede den kiggede på mig, så tog en pind og ville skubbe den ned fra væggen, men den landede med et plonk på noget papir ......... hele aftenen sad jeg og var lige lidt nervøs for hvor den var landet og om jeg skulle se den spurte over stuegulvet, men indtil nu har ikke set den ........ den har nok gemt sig et sikkert sted, det håber jeg - for den var godtnok stur og grim .........

a spider - a mega huge black spider sat on the wall yesterday evening - I think it's legs were 5-6 cm long and on a mega big body ....... I had a feeling it was looking at me, so I took a stick and pushed it off the wall and it landed with a plonk on some paper ...... all evening I was a bit nervous as to where it had landed or if I was going to see it speed across the living room floor .... so far I have not seen it, hopefully it has hidden a safe place - 'cause it was huge and ugly .... yuk !

naboens hunde, der gør

hold kæft hvor er jeg træt af naboens hunde, der evig og altid gør og ejeren har det med at lukke ørene i stedet for vinduerne .... det er snart i døgndrift at disse 2 hunde gør og jeg har til dato overhørt det fordi jeg selv har hunde - Jeg får hovedpine af de kræ, en gravhund og en shit-zu og nu har jeg måtte lukke hoveddøren, selvom her er lige varmt nok, fordi de gør for åbne vinduer - suk - giv mig styrke !