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Advice can include everything from discipline and house-breaking training programs to neutering programs to food budget savings.
Mike Schwager: Let's Save Our Best Friends Mike Schwager 2011
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Advice can include everything from discipline and house-breaking training programs to neutering programs to food budget savings.
Mike Schwager: Let's Save Our Best Friends Mike Schwager 2011
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The puppies are very cute, but I still remember house-breaking our Golden and I'm not yet ready to do it again.
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Re the house-breaking, this brings me to Fiona's comment ...
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Indeed the man who has made such a house-breaking dust and din in Russia is always so present to me at Bethnal Green that I talk not only of him, but to him.
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Meanwhile, five members of the building hijacking syndicate appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday - on charges of malicious damage to property, house-breaking and trespassing.
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The scene in ST where the hero and his teacher are discussing education as it compares to house-breaking a dog doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence that RAH understood the problems of education.
"If I were sitting in a Tube train and all the people opposite me were reading 'Mein Kampf' with obvious enjoyment and approval..." Ann Althouse 2008
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The puppy foolishness is gone, house-breaking has (in my cases anyway) been done, and in the example of my current dog she had already been trained as a pack-wearing long-distance hiking companion when I became her master and best friend.
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I had no sooner disposed of this criminal than there started up another of the same period, whose profession was originally house-breaking; in the pursuit of which art he had had his right ear chopped off one night, as he was burglariously getting in at a window, by
The Holly-Tree 2007
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I had no sooner disposed of this criminal than there started up another of the same period, whose profession was originally house-breaking; in the pursuit of which art he had had his right ear chopped off one night, as he was burglariously getting in at a window, by
The Holly-Tree 2007
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