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The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


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    How cute!!

    Also

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    And finally

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    Been having some lovely things sent to Phoes FB account lately. These are my favourites. :)

    I've been feeling very Christmassy lately. It's freezing and wet out and I'm broke! Yep definitely coming up to Christmas!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    I have both cat and dog nose art, Ollie has decided if the cat can climb on the windowsill then so can he.
    I must find the pic I took, I come home and as the car pulls in his head appears in the window.


    Found pic and posted in the pet pic thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Well after 5 and half weeks and 70 XL kongs filled with potato and salmon Robbies my crate rest kong factory has shut down!! :D No more making up kongs in advance like babies feeds lol :D The walks are going fine - we're up to 20-30 mins twice a day. He's had some time out of the crate in the house say for 30 mins at a time where's he's safe in the kitchen. So next step will be letting him out in the sitting room to see what he's like with jumping on and off the couches - hopefully he won't use them as trampolines like last year!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭toadfly


    Wow tk you are dedicated :D Andrea how is flo getting on?

    Lexi puked at half 10, she was fed at half 5. Lying on the couch for few hours and then she jumps down and gets sick on the rug in front of the fire. Only piece of carpet downstairs and that's where she wanted to do it! Poor thing she isn't long after having the runs on and off for a few weeks and she lost 3kg so really don't want her going downhill again.

    They're such a worry!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    anyone got any tips on how to get dexter happy to use his kennel? put bed, blankets etc in, he's hopping in and out happy enough to get treats, but when it started raining, he didnt seem to consider it for shelter, and sat in the rain. Just a case of waiting it out?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 318 ✭✭chris139ryan


    Whispered wrote: »
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    How cute!!

    Also

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    And finally

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    Been having some lovely things sent to Phoes FB account lately. These are my favourites. :)

    I've been feeling very Christmassy lately. It's freezing and wet out and I'm broke! Yep definitely coming up to Christmas!
    I love them pics :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭belongtojazz


    My house is deathly quiet! The 3 girls are at the groomers for a pamper session and the big guy is curled up in his crate eating a bone... At least the parrot keeps whistling, barking and giving out so I don't feel completely abandoned :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    come home to a big lump under one of dexters eyes, off to the vet with us, hopefully its just a nasty bump, but i wanna make sure there isnt something in there causing the swelling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Back from vet, checked teeth, and eye, figures it was just a nasty bump, gave him an anti inflammatory. There's tonights drinking money seriously dented :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    zuroph wrote: »
    Back from vet, checked teeth, and eye, figures it was just a nasty bump, gave him an anti inflammatory. There's tonights drinking money seriously dented :p

    Late late toy show is on tonight!! Surely you were not considering going out!! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Whispered wrote: »
    Late late toy show is on tonight!! Surely you were not considering going out!! :eek:

    it was my birthday yesterday, friends coming home for the beers tonight...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭are you serious


    I havnt actually posted here on this thread yet about time though I recon..

    Anyway I was out with my 2 today with a friend and his Beagle, a guy pulls his car up beside us and asks my friend where he got him because his 7 yr old son wants a dog for Christmas....

    So needless to say I didnt take to this in the best of manners, I asked him a few questions and told him I am all about dogs. Asked what was his budget or how much he thought he would be spending... Now this bit made me laugh, he said "ah sure €150 is the going rate isnt it".. I looked at him and looked at my 2 and said are you winding me up, sure these 2 are worth more than your car pal. He asked how much did it cost to feed them I said about €100 a month, his reply ah sure its all money isnt it... I laughed again at him. Gave him as much advice in about 15 seconds as I could because clearly he didnt deserve any more of my time.

    I do hope his sons new dog will be looked after as his santy letter asked for a real dog!

    Happy friday/weekend to everyone!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    garkane wrote: »
    I havnt actually posted here on this thread yet about time though I recon..

    Anyway I was out with my 2 today with a friend and his Beagle, a guy pulls his car up beside us and asks my friend where he got him because his 7 yr old son wants a dog for Christmas....

    So needless to say I didnt take to this in the best of manners, I asked him a few questions and told him I am all about dogs. Asked what was his budget or how much he thought he would be spending... Now this bit made me laugh, he said "ah sure €150 is the going rate isnt it".. I looked at him and looked at my 2 and said are you winding me up, sure these 2 are worth more than your car pal. He asked how much did it cost to feed them I said about €100 a month, his reply ah sure its all money isnt it... I laughed again at him. Gave him as much advice in about 15 seconds as I could because clearly he didnt deserve any more of my time.

    I do hope his sons new dog will be looked after as his santy letter asked for a real dog!

    Happy friday/weekend to everyone!

    Hopefully he isin't the sort to follow you to see where you live and look for an opportunity to pinch your dogs, in hindsight it probably wasn't a good idea to say your two dogs are worth more than his car!

    People looking for Christmas pups really annoys me, especially for their kids from Santa. What does that teach the kids about pets, that they're as disposable as their new toys and they can shove them in the corner and forget about them when their bored with it. When will people learn! A dog is for life not just for Christmas is one of the most well known sayings yet people still buy dogs for Christmas. >:-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    zuroph wrote: »
    it was my birthday yesterday, friends coming home for the beers tonight...

    Happy birthday!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Happy birthday Zuroph!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Happy Birthday! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭are you serious


    Ah no he was only interested in the Beagle, not my Rottie's he wouldnt even rub them!! The cheek :p

    I was actually over in Blanchardstown walking with my friend who lives over there, I was on my way to my van then so he'd have had to go a long way to follow me ;)

    Although you do make a good point, burglary's are on the up and what is happening even more these days is a burglary where pets are being taken!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭toadfly


    Well Lexi is back at the vets today. Got sick again Saturday, brought her to local vet to get different food and to weigh her. She is down another half kg in two weeks. Rang our own vet as we were worried there was something stuck she couldnt pass so she was in first thing this morning for xrays, bloodwork etc.

    I'm off sick as well and meant to be picking up a dog this evening for a local rescue and forgot we have a 2 hour appointment this evening that we have an hours drove to get there. can feel the tension headache coming on! :-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Awww, tillygirl hope she's ok.:(

    I have put some vet bed into cardboard boxes for the cats in preparation for the move (they love cardboard boxes and will be getting shut in various rooms while the place is sorted), and came home from walkies and Oliver jumped into a box and tried to curl up.
    There's bits of him hanging over the edge of the box and its fit to burst, you'd think he had no where else to go (there are two empty dog beds here):D:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭belongtojazz


    Well my never ending saga with my neighbour and her vicious lab continues :(
    I came across the neighbours pup while I was out walking my springer last night about 10 minutes walk from home. Pretty much every day this pup escapes and I keep bringing him home. I knocked on the door to hand the pup back and had Boe with me on his lead, they open the door and vicious dog charges out and pins my Boe to the ground! Thankfully he wasn't hurt and the son managed to pull her off my boy. I was so angry I cpuldn't respond when they apologised and told me they would tie the pup up again :(
    So cross with them and there is nothing I can do about it :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Bubblefett


    Hey! Though this might be usefull to some posters here- pigsback mega deal are doing €25 petstop vouchers for €12.50. I ordered 1 to buy my boy his christmas pressies :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    bubblefett wrote: »
    Hey! Though this might be usefull to some posters here- pigsback mega deal are doing €25 petstop vouchers for €12.50. I ordered 1 to buy my boy his christmas pressies :D

    Oh very tempting!! :D Our nearest one is in airside though - it could be like a warzone so close to xmas!! :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Bored at lunch in the office and came across this vid on youtube. Hillarious and cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxCv_yrcCY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    :D Got 2 of the vouchers - saving one for the new year when he's back on his feet and can run amok again. I've had to hide some of his toys because he's going mad playing with them - flicking them up and catching them, jumping on them etc. He's 6 weeks post op now (7 on tues) and so far so good - everything is fine. :) Out of the crate during the day and then I've been putting him in it at night - I'll probably take the crate down in the next week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Brought the dogs over to my new house last night, they loved the garden even in the dark, but Oliver had to be carried inside and freaked:(
    He doesn't like the new house:(
    I will have to move over some more stuff and his bed and things and hope he takes it better at the weekend.
    I'm sure once my daughter is there too it will make a difference, Tiffi didn't seem bothered and followed me around.
    Anyone any tips for moving with an oddball dog?
    He freaks at the oddest things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭TooManyDogs


    One of mine is a nightmare to move house with, she hates anyone moving around the furniture and cries if she sees anyone taking furniture out of the house. I found she only settled back down when all our stuff was in the new house and the sitting room was set up. Having said that it always involves a trip to the vet for nervous colitious!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    :D Yaay!! So Bailey Boy has passed his probation over the last week and half - building up the time he spent out of the crate to just going in at night so we took the crate down today and put his bed back! Delighted with himself lol :)

    @mymo thanks for posting about your scaredy dog - it made me realize I'm not the only one with one! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    TK123, he's complete nutter, we had him over in new place yesterday he still goes nuts, won't walk far on the wood floors, but upstairs he's fine (getting him up there was a whole other story.
    I ordered a thundershirt but had to get it sent to my dads in UK, hoping he sends it soon. He runs away when we open the new fridge (its different to old one he liked to stick his head in), he freaked when I flushed the loo (sounds slightly different to old one), but did improve with my daughter and her friends there.

    One thing he does like is the big garden, they both christened it within an hour of being there. :rolleyes:
    Still going over and back, hope to be moved in fully by weekend. Just hoping the basket case adapts quickly.

    TooManyDogs, he is just like that, hates us moving things around, and a lot of the stuff we have here isn't moving with us, just hope the colitis doesn't happen:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    On our walk earlier one of the houses we pass has some lovely new xmas lights in the garden - 3 or 4 reindeer along the path in the garden - not plastic model type ones just the outline of the reindeer in white lights if that makes sense. Anyhoos bold boy decided they didn't belong there and barked the place down at them. He barked at LIGHTS lol!! :pac: :rolleyes:
    I'm wondering if I should have him assessed by a behaviourist when his leg his better - I want to make sure I'm doing the right things to try and make him less fearful?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Yep, we've had that, but with the little dog growling at the reindeer.
    Funny thing, the snowman in another neighbours garden never bothered her.
    Amazing thing is mine aren't afraid of cars or trucks, fireworks or other stuff, Oliver even watched the full St Patricks parade, brass band and all, no bother.:rolleyes:

    TK is he fine after seeing things a few times?
    Mine are, its just the first time or two that bother them, I don't worry to much, just carry on like normal and act like I've no idea what the problem is. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    mymo wrote: »
    TK is he fine after seeing things a few times?
    Mine are, its just the first time or two that bother them, I don't worry to much, just carry on like normal and act like I've no idea what the problem is. :D

    Some times yes and sometimes no. EG he's 2 now and still afraid of the tin foil!:rolleyes: He's still afraid of buses and trucks etc - sometimes I can get his attention so he's focusing on me instead and he ignores them and sometimes I can't and we have to wait until the pass or he might try and pull away from them. If I change our route on a walk he gets stressed out, we always have to walk so that traffic is coming towards us and not behind us or he's looking over his shoulder the whole time or pulling to try and get away. I could go on and on. I think I'd like a pro to tell me how good/bad he is on a scaredy dog scale and go thru a plan of how to work with it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 318 ✭✭chris139ryan


    Gave Bruno his first big bone today my god did he enjoy it. He never stopped chewing it from 2-6pm great way to keep in occupied for a few hours. Will certainly be keeping this up :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭belongtojazz


    TK I think a behaviourist is a great idea, a really good one can see amazing things that us loving amateurs can't... Even if it is just to reassure you that you are doing the right thing by him it is money very well spent ( in my humble opinion )

    I have just come in from possibly the coldest walks we have ever been on! At least in the snow and -15 last year there wasn't a wind there ready to cut you in half :(

    It was also ruined by meeting my neighbours lab from hell... Thankfully all dogs were on lead but poor likkle Jazz got so frightened she hid behind me and just kept darting out to try and look big by barking loudly, Boe was great he just stayed by my side although he was tense and barked a bit :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    I dodged the snow last year - he had his op and was on crate rest for the first round and then hurt himself and went back in the crate so I dodged the second round!
    Walking this evening we were later than normal so passed the church at 6:00pm and the bells started ringing then a car alarm went off :rolleyes:...I'd left the thunder shirt off him and he was terrified walking away from it for ages but we were lucky enough to bump into somebody we know so he settled and perked up when he saw her but then got stressed again :( I'm going to try him with the thunder shirt for the next few days and see how he gets on but will def get him assessed I think. Just so I can get a plan of what to do. Every time I think we've turned a corner something like the bells or a car alarm etc will crop up and we seem to be back to square one.

    ANYHOOS - on a happier note here's a funny pic from the weekend.. :pac:

    ":eek:Hey..where's my crate gone!?.... oh wait never mind!!! :cool:"
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I usually walk the guys on Portmarnock beach at night, its safe and we've usually the run of the place.

    But last night I decided to try a different area, Father Collins Park (D.13).

    I never realized it would be so dark, then we'd a storm last night and the noise of the wind turbines all but drowned out my voice - and I lost my dogs!.

    I never realized how terrifying it is to lose a dog (or two) so I was on the phone immediately to get some people up to help look for them.

    After 30 minutes I was imagining all sorts, from them drowning in the lake to being robbed by the near by caravan'ing community who'd think they were fighting dogs!.. And whatever about Richo the male, Ruby would die of fright.

    Anyway, they're safe at home now. And even when I was dropping off to sleep I had flash backs and 'what if's!!.

    Back to Portmarnock from here on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    And even when I was dropping off to sleep I had flash backs and 'what if's!!.

    GAH!! You must have been terrified!!:( I know what you mean thou - it just stays with you for hours/days worrying what could have happened and ultimately that it would have been your fault etc etc.. My guy was acting a bit strange a few months back one morning on our walk - he wouldn't come to me etc and I got a bit annoyed cos I'd be late for work so decided to just put him back on the lead - in hindsight I walked towards guns blazing:rolleyes: and added to him being stressed and he took a few steps away..then a few more..then a few more and ran across the road down into the park :eek::eek:. For anyone who knows glasnevin/drumcondra it was Mobhi road which can be dangerous because cars speed down the hill when the traffic is light... A lorry was coming down the road but thank god saw him and slowed down to let him cross. I felt sick for hours afterwards! :( He had to go to the vets that evening for something and we walked the same way with him on lead and he wouldn't come with me - it wasn't until I got further down the path that I saw all the cones and barriers at the end of the path. He would have seen them when he was up on the hill and didn't want to go near them! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    I usually walk the guys on Portmarnock beach at night, its safe and we've usually the run of the place.

    But last night I decided to try a different area, Father Collins Park (D.13).

    I never realized it would be so dark, then we'd a storm last night and the noise of the wind turbines all but drowned out my voice - and I lost my dogs!.

    I never realized how terrifying it is to lose a dog (or two) so I was on the phone immediately to get some people up to help look for them.

    After 30 minutes I was imagining all sorts, from them drowning in the lake to being robbed by the near by caravan'ing community who'd think they were fighting dogs!.. And whatever about Richo the male, Ruby would die of fright.

    Anyway, they're safe at home now. And even when I was dropping off to sleep I had flash backs and 'what if's!!.

    Back to Portmarnock from here on.

    What a nightmare. I think I would lose the plot.

    Get yourself a whistle, I have one attached to my keys, when I can't see my pair (usually cos they've disappeared into a ditch) a shrill blast of the whistle brings them straight out to me. It's far better than shouting which gets lost in the wind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    What a nightmare. I think I would lose the plot.

    Get yourself a whistle, I have one attached to my keys, when I can't see my pair (usually cos they've disappeared into a ditch) a shrill blast of the whistle brings them straight out to me. It's far better than shouting which gets lost in the wind.

    Good idea, usually I use an LED torch which they run to - but a whistle will be got ASAP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    I got my guy a high vis bandana lol (we use a whistle too but he's not allowed off lead for a while yet) - after that post a while back about the dog getting hit in Sutton I got paranoid since we'd doing all our walking when it's dark!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭ppink


    I picked up little flashing lights that attached to their collars to stop me freaking out when walking the fields in the dark. One quick scan and you can see all their locations. the whistle is great for getting attention asap though.or a packet of tayto can be heard from a good distance too;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    - and I lost my dogs!.
    :eek: Oh janey, the panic of that is dreadful isnt it. So glad you got them back safe.
    ppink wrote: »
    I picked up little flashing lights that attached to their collars to stop me freaking out when walking the fields in the dark. One quick scan and you can see all their locations. the whistle is great for getting attention asap though.or a packet of tayto can be heard from a good distance too;)
    Was just going to suggest the same. Use the flashing led lights on their collars along with a high viz jacket too.
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    I used to mind 2 red setters and when it was dark running around our local park it was like watching 2 little glo-bugs floating around with their flashing collars. Very easy to keep track of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭lrushe


    Cat's in the vet overnight after getting in a fight with a wild cat. The wound lead to an absess swelling her eye closed, absess then burst which above anything else not very nice to see. All this happened within 48 hours.
    She's now had the wound drained & clean but the skin around it had died so had to be cut away leaving a large open wound which the vet said was best not to stitch.
    Getting sick of this wild cat now, it injured the dog last time, now the cat!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    I posted a pic in the photo thread before of my dog squeezed into my knitting basket. Though it was waaayy too small for her and there were needles sticking into her she had to be dragged out of there.
    Well todays bed of choice.... the toy box :confused:

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    She stayed in there for 20 minutes :confused:
    Night before last she curled up on top of the hoover and some shoes.
    A lot of the time she chooses shopping bags over her nice soft bed(s). If I have left a bag full of other bags in the hallway after shopping she will pull them all out til she find the most comfortable one.
    Strange strange dog...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    You know there's something not quite right when you realise that you spend more money on food for your pets than you do on yourself, and that your pets eat a hell of a lot healthier than you do! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭belongtojazz


    Well it has just been pointed out to me how obsessed with my dogs I am! I got an amazon vOucher and spent it on dog books... When my dad asked me what I want for Christmas I asked for money to get decent footwear for doing agility and then when when my daughter asked me I selected some long sleeve tops that I can put a jacket over to keep warm again for agility :o

    Hhmm just as well it's a reasonably healthy and very fun :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Hehe I'm watching javari (amazon's shoe shop) like a hawk for new dog walking runners! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭belongtojazz


    tk123 wrote: »
    Hehe I'm watching javari (amazon's shoe shop) like a hawk for new dog walking runners! :D

    I can't buy shoes online :( got nerve damage In my foot due to a spinal injury a few years ago so have to spend ages trying shoes on and walking round in them annoying my daughter no end :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    babysitting a hamster for Santa. Damn those wheels are noisy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    zuroph wrote: »
    babysitting a hamster for Santa. Damn those wheels are noisy!

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Spinner-Hamster-Wheel-Regular/dp/B004B9CSMY ;) From experience it works very well! Get the biggest one available if you/santa is getting one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    yeah, she plans to swap the wheel out for the silent one ASAP, this just came with the set. I think the little thing is training for a marathon, only stopping to go get some water then straight back to the wheel! Crazy!


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