BS: Our Amazing Dogs

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 09:23 PM

Keberoxu, I don't have any other pets. The two I have are enough. I do have a fox that cruises the back field and a family of crows that visit the compost pile on a daily basis, but they're more acquaintances than pets.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 04:10 PM

refresh

(Ranger1, I guess what made me think of the question, was seeing snapshots of that farm where the Highland cattle were. But those are someone else's animals, I understand that.)

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 01:59 PM

How goes it with Beau though?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 05:21 PM

My dog has swollen glands?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 07:06 PM

My back was hurting so I decided to take a hot bath with the massage jets on full. Well my dog nosed tthe door and jumped in with me. Ugh :)

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 07:22 PM

Cannoli in the jacuzzi

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: ranger1
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 10:00 PM

Beau is well, thanks for asking! Took a chance and left him loose in the house instead of crating him today and he was a very good dog. I may be able to get rid of the crate, which will free up a lot of space.

He's also been part of the Photo a Day challenge that I take part in. When I get the photos uploaded to Flickr, I'll post a ink to the album.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 02:47 PM

A very photogenic little long-legged terrier is Beau. Those photos will be a treat. Thanks Tami!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 17 - 05:04 PM

Thinking of everyone at the Mudcat Café who is bonded to their dogs, whether that bond is causing them delight or whether they are suffering along with the suffering of their canine companions.

After all these years, I still miss Mickey the Bagel Dog. gulp.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 12:17 PM

I dispensed with the crate for Beau last week. He's been mostly good, the first day, he ate a chunk off the cardboard cat scratcher that was hanging on the front door (and that the cat never used) and tore the loop that it hung from the knob by. I moved it to one side, and now the cat loves it. Go figure. And yesterday, I had to work a longer and different shift than I usually do at the market, and I guess he just couldn't hold it any more and peed in the bathroom. I give him credit, he was aiming for the cat's litter box, most went in, some on the floor that needed cleaning up.

We also took our first successful off-leash walk int he woods behind the house on Saturday. Thinly sliced hot dogs make excellent bribes/rewards!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 12:58 PM

I miss having a canine companion...my housemates have dogs, and theres this insane cat that adopted me, for some reason...but its not the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 01:54 PM

Thanks, Amergin, for disclosing your goodbye to Yoshi on the Uncomfortable Adventures thread. You have the gift of seeing your dog as she saw herself. And seeing yourself through her eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 03:20 PM

Swollen glands mean lymphoma.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 17 - 09:13 PM

Donuel, your dog has tested positive for lymphoma?
Did I read that right?
What a blow. I'm terribly sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 01:03 PM

When your dog loves you, is healthy, and satisfied with living with you,
every day is Valentine's Day.

That's even more true if it's a cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 11:03 AM

remembering the dogs

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 17 - 01:57 PM

Ranger1, what about those photos of Beau?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 17 - 12:22 PM

I still want to know if those Donuel posts from 30 January and 6 February mean what I thought they meant. I added two and two and got what I posted in response on 6 February, but was I completely mistaken?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 12:47 PM

our dogs are still amazing

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 17 - 03:01 PM

Ranger1, how goes it with the new four-footed member of your household, now that he has got you in better physical shape?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 02:18 PM

Mudcat says hello -- well, I say hello -- to Beau, Cinnamon, Obi Wan Cannoli, Gus Gus, and so many others.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 05:41 AM

What do people think of the Crufts Winner, an American cocker spaniel?
He has the strange name of Afterglow Miami Ink. Lovely dog, but I can't imagine him working with the guns in a muddy field, or crossing streams to retrieve game etc. His silky, flowing fur looks as if it needs a daily visit to the hairdresser to manage it.
The judge apparently used to breed this type of dog, so was he biased?
There's big money in Crufts - a Winner can command thousands in stud fees and advertising...

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 05:55 AM

I fell asleep during crufts
[I could only hear the wife saying "oh isn't it cute...!!!" so many times before i drifted off], and woke up just as the winner was announced...

wtf... it looked more like a cartoon sloth puppet... or a ventriloquist's dummy...!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 07:18 AM

I agree pfr, it was a rather strange-looking animal, and I felt its head was a bit small for the rest of him. I also feel sorry for the dogs who are groomed to within an inch of their lives for these shows, it must be horribly boring and tiring for them.

At the Royal Norfolk Show, they have a section for the Dog Show, but it's generally real working dogs such as terriers, cocker spaniels (English type) sheepdogs, border collies and the like. They actually spend their lives out in the fields and on farms doing what they do naturally, retrieving game, herding stock, catching rats and vermin and so on. I imagine they have happy lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 09:28 AM

I remember the year that Westminster was won by the beagle.
Don't know what the beagle was like in the field,
but he loved baying and howling at the audience.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 02:52 AM

I missed seeing the show. I try to make it a point to see the Westminster show and that other one...

Speaking of working dogs versus the pampered house dogs reminds me of my old miniature poodle, a well-loved dog I had for many years. Mimi was a house dog but wise, loving and alert. My daughter and I have lots of stories about her.

Once I was at my brother's house, out in the paddock behind the barn. He had seen a rat and was dismantling a pile of old lumber where it had holed up. Yankee, his big Catahoula, was eagerly leaping from one side of the pile to the other trying to reach the rodent.

My dog stood by my side watching the excitement interestedly.

Suddenly the rat exited the lumber and dashed straight past my dog. Instantly Mimi's head flashed out and she grabbed the rat by the neck.

She held it until a moment later when my brother's dog bounded over and took the rat. Mimi surrendered it, obviously aware that the rat was the other's prize and that her role was making sure it didn't get away.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 03:17 AM

I'm sure our domestic pets (dogs, and cats too) haven't really left their instinctive behaviours behind, it's very near the surface. A farmer we know demolished an old rundown barn on his land, with the help of his two sons and numerous terriers. The rats apparently were streaking out from the debris in their dozens, but the terriers went wild with excitement and got the lot within minutes.

At the Norfolk Show, they always have a lovely turn where an entire Hunt comes into the arena, about thirty foxhounds, and huntsmen/women in red coats mounted on beautifully-groomed hunters. They sound their hunting horns, and the Whip controls the pack while they bay all round the ring. I know foxhunting is cruel and I'm glad it's been banned, but that is always a lovely sight at the Show!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 05:22 PM

Yes, it really does wonders for a dog's self-respect when it can do what it was bred to do.

There is a breeder of border terriers with that philosophy, in Canada. One of her stud dogs never did well in the show ring during those pup years -- the show circuit makes a big deal of young dogs -- but excelled at "earthdog" events and rallies and the active stuff. Time went on, and the breeder entered this dog at a show in the Veterans class, since his age had advanced. He beat out all the other veterans, not by being a compliant show dog, but because he had a healthy self-regard from years of happy hunting, and because he had been well-bred and kept in top shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 10:32 AM

Ranger1, good to hear that you got through the blizzard in one piece. How is Beau doing?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 02:19 PM

Separated from Beau in a snowdrift!? No wonder puppy was unhappy. Tell more.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 17 - 01:13 PM

Tami??

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 17 Mar 17 - 03:51 AM

Two labrador guide dogs at last night's session - far better behaved than some of the performers...

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Mar 17 - 04:06 PM

What's new with Beau?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 17 - 11:46 AM

Happy Easter, and I just met a service dog -- complete with red blanket/coat saying SERVICE DOG -- and his humans.
He is largely terrier, and a stocky muscular bodied fellow.
And I said, "Is he supposed to be working?"
cause he had his outfit on.
And he was straining at the leash trying to get past the person with the lead, and greet me.
"It's okay," they said. And chided him tenderly when he bounced on his hind legs and wanted my face. I had just washed, though, so my face didn't smell interesting to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 12:57 PM

Dog days of summer ?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 01:02 PM

Keberoxu, apparently there are fake service dogs, and that terrier sounds like one.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 01:08 PM

Read a CBS story about a dog who saved the life of a little girl:


peanut

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Gda Music
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 12:23 PM

I did read about a magic dog
it was an ABRACADABRADOR

GJ

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 06:57 PM

And a gentle but heartfelt congratulations to Acme's Cinnamon who killed a rodent while the Labrador watched.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 18 - 06:34 PM

Well, I may never again be owned by a dog,
but I enjoy hearing about everybody else's dogs.
So, I refresh this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Mooh
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 09:27 AM

Many years ago Rosie The Wonder Dog with the occasional assistance of Cosmo The Other Dog would post here. They are both gone now, a few years apart, the former at age 14 by a twisted stomach (she suffered for a few hours before a vet could put her out of her misery), the latter was riddled with fast growing tumours but didn't suffer long. We now have Otis, a 90lb Lab/Golden cross who got the goofy of both breeds but is sweet and fun and obedient most of the time.

We like to have our dogs overlap in age so that we're never without. Having said that, Otis was terribly distraught when Cosmo died, moping about, wimpering, off his food, and constantly searching for him. In time he got over it, but we have to be careful still even mentioning Cosmo in Otis's presence.

I find dogs to be better company than most humans and I hope I never have to live without one. We're looking for a second dog now, probably a female, to be a friend for Otis.

Yup, when I don't sleep with the dog he's beside my bed. He licks out bowls and plates, isn't caged, and I let him bark at people who he doesn't trust. He sounds huge and mean but he's actually gentle and submissive most of the time. He loves to greet my music students as they come and go.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 10:35 AM

We lost Cinnamon last December, one of those trips to the vet you dread, but know the time has come. She was having so much trouble doing things, and was losing interest in regular food. I took all three for a short walk across the road to Cinnamon's absolute favorite walking place, the woods. She didn't sniff around as much as the others, but I didn't expect it. I took them home and put Cinnamon in the car and we went down to the vet, and the vet could see the time was here also.

Zeke and Poppy are companions but don't play together; Cinnamon was the official kiss administrator, offering up love frequently. These two will kiss me, but not each other. That third dog really was the lynchpin in the pack (me included in that pack). She also energized them.

The sheriff called me at work last month to say I'd left my garage door open, so I told him about the button inside the back door of the garage (separate from the house). I have a stall area in the garage around that door and the gate is kept closed to keep the dogs out of the rest of the area. I told him there is a stick to use to reach the button and don't worry about the dogs, they'll bark but they're friendly. But there wasn't a dog in sight. The entire time. These two spend most of their days in the house now.

Two weeks ago I learned of the city animal shelter putting all dogs on a $10 adoption fee because they were so over-crowded. The next step is the inevitable euthanasia, so I decided to act and researched the breeds and ages they had. I ended up coming home, after several hours in the hot, noisy, crowded, and stinky shelter, with a blue heeler mix I've named Pepper. She's about 3-4 years old, is a little over 40 pounds (could stand to gain about 5 more), has had puppies at some time in the past, was spayed about six weeks ago, is heartworm positive (as are most of their animals).

My vet saw her a few days later, says she's looking good, and says he can go along with the "slow kill" approach to heart worms. The shelter put her on a 1-month Rx of an antibiotic to kill a bacteria in the blood stream that the heartworms feed on, and they give the monthly treatment to kill larval heartworms. After a few months there have been no new young ones and the older ones have slowly died off. If she exhibits symptoms, then we think about the more expensive fast-kill vet method (that requires she not run around for four weeks as the worms are absorbed into her system).

So, Pepper is a pip. She and the others greeted each other at the door, the others are okay, though Pepper would like to be the main dog. There have been a few growls and a couple of snaps, but I think that is mostly past, because she knows I'm the pack leader (primarily because I control the food). I've taught her what the others already knew, to wait to eat until I tell her (the bowls sit on the ground until my "eat" command). She is trained already to the Invisible Fence, because we don't know if she's a climber or jumper or digger, however she got out or was dumped or whatever, we don't want to have happen again. A couple of months at the shelter was pretty rough, but Cesar Millan says dogs live in the now, and this sweetheart is certainly doing so.

First thing when she arrived, we walked out back so she could take care of business, then I put her in the tub because her coat was full of dandruffy debris and dirt. Mud flowed down the drain as I rinsed her. (Everyone is getting a bath today - there will not be joy in Mudville!) That evening before I fed them I took all three for a walk, with Poppy and Zeke on the double lead leash and Pepper on her own on the other side of me. She walks beautifully - like Cesar Millan himself has taught dogs. This dog has had attention at some point, was house trained (though she is a counter surfer), sits. And to Zeke's astonishment the next morning, when I threw his large black and white training bumper for him to retrieve, there was a blur of black and white that flew past me, past him, and grabbed the bumper from him and returned it to me! We tried a couple more times and she tugged the bumper from Zeke and returned it. There was one point when I threw it for Zeke and he sat, dejected, as much as saying "what's the point?" His depression is past, as we're working on sharing - I grab Pepper by the collar, call out "Zeke!" then throw the bumper, then do the reverse for Pepper to fetch. They're getting the hang of it.

For the first week, especially while I was training her to Invisible Fence, I kept Pepper in the hall bathroom at night so she wouldn't go into the yard without me, and she stayed in there while I was at work. What a change from the noisy shelter. She was okay with that, but after a week there was some crying that she wanted out, and the next morning I found Zeke, who usually waits outside my door for me, lying outside the bathroom door waiting for Pepper.

So she's loose in the house at night now, and when I'm at work. I leave my bedroom door open at night but the dogs know it isn't an invitation to sleep in there (unless there is thunder and lightning, at which time Poppy comes in to sleep). One morning midweek I hear the clatter of claws on the tile and Pepper's head pops above the mattress edge. "Where's Zeke, this is his job?" I ask her. Darned if she didn't turn around and head into the hall; moments later both Pepper and Zeke clatter into the room to tell me it's time for their breakfast.

Poppy is okay with Pepper, but she's a lot older and is also part blue heeler, so also wants to be my main dog. They are very faithful to their owners, that's why I got another blue heeler instead of another lab mix or pit mix. (I feared too many comparisons to Cinnamon if I got another pitbull right now.)

The new dog met the mail carrier the other day and was happy to do so, but a day earlier there was an unexpected knock at the door and there was a burst of dog barking at the door, they then came to bark at me in the office to tell me there was someone at the door. I opened the wooden door, leaving the steel and glass security door in place, and they barked a couple more times before settling down to hear the conversation, in which I told a guy who wanted to discuss cable versus fiberoptic infrastructure to get me to change my Internet provider, that he needs a permit to peddle in the village. I'm sure he had no clue as to why the four of us were so pleased with ourselves over our performance at the front door just then.

I think this about catches the Mudcat world up to my dog situation.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 11:06 AM

"I find dogs to be better company than most humans and I hope I never have to live without one. We're looking for a second dog now..."

And I'm in complete agreement with Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 18 - 02:05 PM

Backwoodsman, did you say his name is Baxter?
How is life with Baxter the border terrier?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 01:27 PM

I'm only refreshing this thread
in order to
play the Name Game on another BS thread.

And that's a fact.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 06:26 PM

Newbie is settling into QUITE a nice service dog for mobility assists. She also is welcome now, with or without vest, at all my local stores. She has to come in not to help me there, but because I don't want her stolen if I leave her outside; also my loaner-car doesn't hold her crate AND it's often too hot to leave her anyway. There are security issues precluding leaving her behind for more than an hour or two. And she is needed when I'm using my scooter to get back and forth.

So every time I take her inside when I may not directly need her, I focus on training. Currently she's learning to tolerate being between the scooter and a narrow check-out lane, patiently, pressed snugly against the side of the lane.

Her official vest is helping reduce the number and insistence of folks wanting to pet her, and she's learned not to solicit petting when I take her to a lunch meeting.

I love scootering past a gaggle of store employees and hearing them talk about how pretty she is-- she's the prettiest ugly-gargoyle-face I ever saw, and it's neat to hear that others see that too!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jun 18 - 10:16 PM

On television the other night, while channel-surfing,
I stumbled across a dog show, don't know what show.
Gorgeous Australian herd dog, whatever breed that is.
Anybody else see that?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Nov 18 - 08:45 PM

refresh this thread

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Nov 18 - 02:58 AM

I'm pleased that 'The Dog Whisperer' (Cesar Millan) is being repeated on one of our UK channels. I've seen all his TV shows, but they still fascinate me.
His idea of the Human being the Pack Leader seems to work with unruly dogs.
I wonder how he's faring after his divorce and re-marriage to another lady. His first wife Illusion seemed to be a key figure in their Dog business. He lost a lot of money in payouts to her for the Divorce Settlement.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Amazing Dogs
From: Thompson
Date: 15 Nov 18 - 04:53 AM

I love Karen Pryor’s book on animal training, Don’t Shoot the Dog. Very funny and useful.