Keep your knives/accessories safe...

haven't lost any knives but socks get dragged behind the couch all the time
i never lose anything too significant because i have an ankle-biter...
 
I don't have to worry about protecting my goods from the dogs, since I don't have any. However, I do have 3 cats (one of whom is my current avatar - that's Angus). They aren't quite so bad about chewing stuff up, but it's really hard to get out your sharpening kit and strop and try to put an edge on a knife with three curious kitties hopping up on the desk to see what you are up to and if they can't possibly help, or at least lay down right where you are working.
 
Thats horrible about your sheath. I always envied those photos of yours and that great idea with the lanyard. Good news is you get to break in another.
 
We have two Border Collie mixes, and when they were young they had to be kept busy all the time (or crated). We came home one day to find that they ate the couch :eek:

Thankfully both mellowed and I only have to worry a little :p
 
I have sent Barlows overseas, Norway, and Sweden, for $17.00 US. That's Priority shipping as well.
Shouldn't cost more. I'm happy to help also!
 
Robert.B said:
you have dogs and then you have dachshunds
Anyone else lost a knife or accessory pre-maturely other than losing it?
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Not lost, but not exactly improved, either. Your dachshund did better work than my Doberman.:eek:
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waynorth said:
I have sent Barlows overseas, Norway, and Sweden, for $17.00 US. That's Priority shipping as well.
Shouldn't cost more. I'm happy to help also!
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Thanks Charlie, much appreciated :)
 
One of my pups pulled an original hardback copy of the Silmarillion off my book shelf and ate part of it. I guess he was trying to really devour the book, ingest it, absorb it. Sorry.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
One of my pups pulled an original hardback copy of the Silmarillion off my book shelf and ate part of it. I guess he was trying to really devour the book, ingest it, absorb it. Sorry. spare me. Even dogs know it's best to stop after The Lord of the Rings.
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Ta da!

;)


("Original hardback"? Ouch!)

~ P.
 
Good looking dogs.
 
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knarfeng said:
Good looking dogs.
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Thanks frank, the little one I think I just found to be the culprit of this incident...had my 2012 which is in a KSF pocket slip as well and i turn and its gone and see her running off with it dragged by the lanyard!!! got some training to do with her lol.
 
Pesky little fleabags.I feel for you but they are only young dogs.With a bit of training they should learn what not to touch.Important. read on.
If I may I'd like to relate a DachsHund based tale of woe that i witnessed about 12 years ago.
I'd just moved in to my new home with my new wifey here at Mt Keira.
There was a big heap of garden rubbish in the front garden. It was January (mid summer). Beneath the heap an Eastern Bluetongue lizard had given birth to its live young and they were just emerging from the nest. I counted 9 in all. Perfect little mini specimens ready to embark on lifes journey.
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Apart from hiding their only defence is to hiss loudly like a snake and poke out this large blue tongue.Basically they've got nothing. Next doors Dachshund came over while I was out ,uprooted the heap,put his canine through 7 of the babies and left them to rot.I didn't think that was fair.If he'd eaten them OK.But they were left for me a lover of native Australian reptiles to find. It wasn't fair either when he came snuffling round again and copped a firemans boot which I hurled at him NB it didn't hit nor was aimed to. He didn't ever come back. I've often wondered if his taste for reptiles ever brought him in to contact with one of the many locals more able to defend themselves and always on the lookout for a tasty slender dachshund shaped snack
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Ironically I got called to a python such as this about 4 doors down the street from my house about three weeks ago. The lady thought the snake on her back fence was in danger from guess what ? her Dachshund(dash hound as she and many aussies pronounce it) .We assured her that it was likely the opposite and removed the 9ft serpent back to his domain up in the bush. Aah the joy of dog ownership.
 
My dog I had in Australia (mini fox terrier) ripped a few blue tongues apart where I lived outside of Brisbane...I got so mad with him then too, blue tongues are awesome reptiles and they disappeared from the yard for at least 5 years and then the months before I permanently left I found several young blue tongues. My dog had died a year before that so I figure the young ones moved in from neighboring yards.

They are young and we're training them...the girl will be the hardest, dachshunds by nature are stubborn so persistence will be the key.
 
and patience .
sorry for hijacking your thread with that reptilian rant .
that big one in the pic is a resident in garden probably female.She pops up at this time most years and then we won't see her again for while.
The little fella "burto" was living in a garden gnome in the native garden I created outside wollongong fire station.I deemed it only a matter of time before it got run over ,eaten by an alley cat or rat.He now resides in his luxury penthouse.
the gnome was named after a retired firey called Burto.

cheers.
The python was up near my kids school and was thicker than my arm and about 9ft.It only had one eye (a bit of a bruiser i think).
 
Jack Black said:
Thanks Robert, I guess shipping has been worked out for the heavier items, even then it seems a bit steep! Maybe I can talk one of the companies here into importing a few, for some reason there doesn't seem to be any pocket sheaths on sale here, and I'm sure these would sell well. If anyone from the manufacturers is reading, there's a great marketing opportunity here! :D
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Sounds like an opportunity for a group buy.... Split the shipping with some other local folks, and buy a bunch of stuff? ;)
 
Dachshunds are the bomb. Had them for decades now. The ones that bite are because they aren't socialized -- and I suspect among hounds dachshunds tend to be kept alone, indoors, and not socialized at a very high rate. They usually like a plentiful supply of chew toys to keep them occupied, as numerous people have noted in this thread.


And to keep this knife related: they've never chewed any of my knives or sheaths ... Watson did destroy a Chinese language textbook in 1995, however. Took several hours and lots of tape to make it useable again. :-)
 
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