Fudging dog!

[darcyvuqua]

Ahhhhhh nooooooo






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[Nicos]

darn!

We used to have a cat which thought all our seed trays were litter trays conveniently placed on all the windowsills!

Sorting wee and poopy bits out was not fun...nor rescuing uprooted seedlings.
Have you managed to rescue most of them??

[darcyvuqua]

I can't get down to it as I'm still In a cast my wife 5 mins away she will sort it ASAP.

I got onto the floor to play monopoly last week and when trying to get up my family just stood and laughed!!!! Gotta say I would have been laughing too if It was anyone else on the floor but me


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[ancee]

Pesky creature! Mine has so far found it hilarious to uproot my currant bushes and run off down the garden. Walk through a newly weeded and pristine flower bed. Chew a hole in the fence. Pull half of next doors conifer through a small gap. Dig a hole in the scaffold plank decking! Come in with stones, sticks bits of mud and slate - God knows where he found it. I do not leave him outside by himself for long by the way, he is just so quick to cause mischief! He has shredded a carrier bag that's blown in, it is everywhere. I now have to have a shower with his head inside the shower curtain and freeze to death until he settles down on the bath mat, he cannot be left for a second or mischief managed!

[Dorothy rouse]

Pity he can't be 'employed' shredding newspaper for your compost heap.

[Dorothy rouse]

I can't get down to it as I'm still In a cast my wife 5 mins away she will sort it ASAP.

I got onto the floor to play monopoly last week and when trying to get up my family just stood and laughed!!!! Gotta say I would have been laughing too if It was anyone else on the floor but me


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I hope you're not still there?

[Mumbles]

My dogs the same. Ate all my fruit bushes along with a cherry tree and load of seedlings last year. I've warned her this year if she does it again I'll plant her. Not sure she understands though!


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[ancee]

I had a lovely fig tree... now I have a fig twig

[Glutton4...]

Ancee, get one of those plastic 'Buster' collars (aka Lampshade) and put it on when he's left unattended. I have done it with Roxy since I discovered she can't wriggle through, and enlarge, minuscule gaps in the fence with it on. She also can't dig under the shed, or in the flower beds, she can't shred Hubby's paperwork (although it serves him right for not putting it somewhere safe, but you can't tell 'em, can you!? ), or plastic bags/shoes/whatever she can get hold of.

She also wears it on one particular walk, as she finds her way in to the cows' field...

[Two_Sheds]

My dogs have to live with a very strict owner. They're trained from early not to eat or chew anything precious or harmful, and I don't think it's ever too late to start training. The new puppy went through a few weeks of eating his own poo, pebbles, sand (gob fulls of sand, he'd bite it, spit it out then bite it again), but he's almost stopped now.

A harsh "tsssshsk" or a "NO !", use your cross voice, then give a chew toy as a replacement activity. Keep at it, never give up or think they're untrainable (they may have learned that if they continue long enough, you'll give up nagging them).

At the allotment, they're on a 3ft lead tied to the shed. They usually just sleep, because I give them a good walk/playtime before we go up there. They aren't allowed to roam free in the garden, unless I'm with them, watching.

A lot of naughty behaviour is down to not-enough-exercise. If the dog gets a good walk/run in the morning, they're more likely to be content & peaceable during the day.

It's worth a try

[darcyvuqua]

My dog seems to be scared of me! Always has since we got him despite being reassured however since having these crutches he bolts from me in terror!!!
He really is scared he nearly knocked me over two days ago as I was trying to feed him when I stood up from being bent over I grabbed my crutches as soon as he sees them he panics and gets away be any means possible


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[Scarlet]

Our dog has always been afraid of sweeping brushes. I sweep the floors downstairs every day! It's taken years for him to not run off and cower somewhere but he still looks at me with fear I'm really frightened of horses and so embarrassed about it, I've tried for years to be " big and strong" but I can't get near one without a fence between us! Just one of those things..

[Feral007]

We have to get our horse to stand still while my daughter cracks a whip, for one of the competitions she's going in, in May. I was oiling the whip because it was a bit dry, and then just trying to get it to actually crack. Standing about 20 metres away from daughter with horse, and watching him, in case he got scared (which he did, circle went a funny shape) but son came out to enquire why the dog was demolishing the front door again. I swear this dog was no where near as much of a wuss when he was younger! And he's not been beaten ever (cussed at a few times I must admit) and he's never been struck by lightning, nor shot at. But he thinks gunshots are thunder and goes wimpy.

Sorry about your seedlings tho :P

[Linzy]

i have three woofers i know that sight only too well

[ancee]

G4. Those 'cones of shame' that they get from the vets after an op? Bob (the big dog) had 4 of these in quick succession. He found that if he ran fast at a door frame he could crack the bloody thing in two! These were £10 each - the first one was free after his op. I ran out of money! Also we used to have a little dog half Jack Russell half Yorkshire terrier, tiny thing (Kenny) and he was jumping up at Bob as he thought he couldn't get back at him as he had his cone on. Bob quickly figured out that he could trap Kenny inside the cone if he quickly put his head down! Kenny would be stuck inside it running round it yelping his head off!