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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I was at a friend’shouse when I read your column about the “potty-mouth dog” (a dog that liked to eat his own andother animals’ droppings). My dog “Sandy” usedto have this disgusting habit too, but I cured herof it. I placed a piece of pineapple in the drop-pings. (I used canned, chunk pineapple and cut itinto even smaller pieces.) I don’t know why thisworked, but it did. After a few days of eating pine-apple-laced poo, Sandy wanted nothing more todo with droppings. Hope this tip helps, and happy

“clean mouth” to that dog! — Bill O., Sullivan,Ill.

DEAR BILL: That’s definitely a new methodto try. I would exercise caution in using common“human-safe” foods as a deterrent to copraphagia(stool-eating). While pineapple is not on the listof foods that are dangerous to dogs, it is a citrusfruit high in sugar, which might upset their stom-achs. So, as illustrated above, cut the pineappleinto very small pieces and use sparingly.

Other techniques thatare effective in stoppingthis annoying habit in-clude sprinkling the stoolwith hot pepper sauce orspraying with a commer-cial solution designed tomake the stool taste ter-rible to the dog.

Training the dog to“go” in a designated area,in addition to standardobedience training, is an-other method to deterstool eating. Picking upwaste immediately afterthe dog “goes” is anothersolution. But it’s likelythat most dog owners willneed to use a combinationof techniques to limit orstop the habit.

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• On Dec. 2, 1867, English writer Charles Dickens gives his first public read-ing in the United States, in a New York City theater. Dickens was a hit with theAmerican public. The line for his first reading was more than a mile long.

• On Dec. 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a 9-inch aluminumpyramid atop a 555-foot tower of white marble, completing construction ofthe Washington Monument. A city law passed in 1910 restricted the height ofnew buildings to ensure that the monument would remain the tallest structure

in Washington, D.C.• On Dec. 5, 1933,

the 21st Amendmentto the U.S. Constitu-tion is ratified, bring-ing an end to the eraof national prohibitionof alcohol. Missis-sippi, the last dry statein the Union, endedProhibition in 1966.

• On Dec. 4, 1943,President FranklinRoosevelt closes thebooks on the WorkProjects Administra-tion (WPA), one of thegovernment’s mostambitious public-works programs. Fu-eled by $11 billion ofgovernment money,the program createdjobs for 8.5 millionpeople during the De-pression.

• On Dec. 3, 1967,53-year-old LewisWashkansky receivesthe first human hearttransplant in CapeTown, South Africa.Washkansky wasgiven drugs to keephis body from reject-ing the heart, butthose drugs also lefthim susceptible tosickness, and 18 dayslater he died fromdouble pneumonia.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am on Lunesta, a prescriptionsleeping pill for insomnia. The nurse practitioner wantedme to take half a pill every third night, but that didn’twork for me. I have to take half a pill every night. Nowshe wants me to take half a pill every other nightbecause she’s afraid that it will become habit-forming.What do you think of this medicine? — S.S.

ANSWER: All sleeping pills should be taken for as shorta time as possible. “As short a time as possible” impliesthat the person recovers from whatever it is that’spreventing him or her from falling asleep. In the realworld, a correctible cause for insomnia often isn’t found,and then a person is faced with having to stay on asleeping pill or stay awake for most of the night. I wouldchoose option one, as long as the sleeping pill isn’tcausing any trouble, like daytime sleepiness. From timeto time, it’s in your interest to try and stop the pill. Youmight find that sleep isn’t as elusive as it was when youstarted taking it.

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There’s a chance that Kyle Petty won’t be racing regularly in SprintCup next year. In fact, there’s a likelihood. It’s why Petty has alreadyagreed to compete regularly in Grand American road racing next year.He’s the end of a NASCAR line as long and significant as the Frances.Lee Petty had won more races than anyone in the sport’s history untilRichard came along.

Kyle, meanwhile, has had a merely respectable career. Eight victoriesis nothing to be ashamed of, though it would prob-ably conjure up more pride in someone who isn’tthe son of Richard and grandson of Lee. Cruel fatebrought us to what is apparently the end of the Pettyline. Kyle’s son Adam died in a practice crash atNew Hampshire in 2000. Since then, Kyle and wifePattie have built and expanded the Victory Junc-tion Gang Camp for sick children in Adam’smemory.

Richard Petty won 200 races, more than anyoneelse by 95. Kyle is as great a person as his fatherwas a driver. If he’s not around much next year, itwill be to NASCAR’s great detriment.

Kyle hasn’t won a Cup race since 1995. Thingshave grown complicated. Petty Enterprises is nolonger a Petty production. This year, an outsidegroup, Boston Ventures, invested in the most suc-cessful team in the sport’s history. Kyle hasstruggled once again, but let the record note thathe has fared about as well as others who have takenturns in his No. 45 Dodge.

After the race at Texas Motor Speedway in earlyNovember, Kyle and Kenny Schrader rode motor-

Kyle Petty:A Character With Character

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cycles from Fort Worth to Phoenix. They took all two-lane roads. Theybided their time with strolls through exotic locales like Marfa, Terlinguaand the Big Bend National Park. They picked upa few more stories to tell. In Kyle’s case, theremay be a new song or two to write. He’s a finesongwriter.

When the One Great Scorekeeper finally tal-lies up the pros and cons of Kyle Petty’s career,there will be no qualms over how he played hisgame.

Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for TheGaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was namedwriter of the year by the National Motorsports PressAssociation in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week(http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reportingon racing, roots music and life on the road. You can e-mail Monte at [email protected].


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