The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

tk123

:pac::pac: (you need sound) he looks at me to press play then watches the bad dogs - getting some ideas for when he gets out the crate lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNcAVOJu5XU

chris139ryan

Bringing Bruno and scully for a walk today, tomorrow Bruno is going for his second puppy socialisation class at dogs training Ireland tomorrow then Sunday might take him to the beach for the first time or up to the park

lrushe

God help me Brook has discovered squirrels, every walk now consists of her going tree to tree obsessively looking up to see if she can spot one!!!!

tk123

chris139ryan wrote: »

Bringing Bruno and scully for a walk today, tomorrow Bruno is going for his second puppy socialisation class at dogs training Ireland tomorrow then Sunday might take him to the beach for the first time or up to the park

Ah how did he get on? He was lovely :pac: Did you see the great dane? Oh yeah btw everyone I'm a certified (well waiting for the cert in the post) canine first responder now

andreac

Aaahhhh seriously, never rain but it pours...:( Have to bring Cooper to the vet this evening now.

Looks like the hot spot he had on his cheek has got infected underneath as his face is all swollen. Wouldnt mind, ive had to put Flo's buster collar on him all week to stop him from scratching the scab where the hot spot was as he kept scratching it and breaking the skin again. He must have got some dirt or something in in.

andreac

lrushe wrote: »

God help me Brook has discovered squirrels, every walk now consists of her going tree to tree obsessively looking up to see if she can spot one!!!!

Oh i know of another Rottie whos obsessed with squirrels too, must be a rottie thing

lorebringer

@ Andrea - bummer Totally know what you mean, have been in and out of the vet god knows how many times in the past few weeks with various problems - feel like I live in the vets waiting room!

Poor Cooper - hope it all gets sorted, poor thing must be driven mad itching.

tk123

Ah poor Cooper and Flo!!

We're doing ok thank god. He'll have had 4 weeks of crate rest can start having walks again on tuesday so I'm going to keep him crated for another week and just let him out for loo breaks and his 2 short walks a day and see how he gets on. I don't want to let him out too soon for him to get hurt like what happened last time!

lucycat

Aww poor Cooper - I'm a newbie to the forum but have been lurking for a long time so feel like I know all the fur babies you guys have! I.m heading home to Ireland this weekend, you'd think the animals know the babysitter is coming tomorrow, they are totally acting up:rolleyes:

Have a great weekend guys, hope Cooper gets on well at the vet andreac

lrushe

andreac wrote: »

Aaahhhh seriously, never rain but it pours...:( Have to bring Cooper to the vet this evening now.

It's always the same in my house, if one gets sick the other two are gauranteed to go out in sympathy :rolleyes:

Get well soon Cooper, don't want that hot spot ruining your superstar good looks

andreac

Thanks everyone. So he went this eve and his cheek had swollen even more since lunchtime. Hes on a strong dose of antibiotics, cost be a bloody fortine for them alone, twice the price of the consultation:mad:

Irushe, we only have 1 possibly 2 shows left til the end of the year but he cant be caught now as top dog so if he has to miss these shows i dont mind, would prefer to get his face sorted so i dont mind if we dont get to show.

mymo

Awww, poor cooper, hope he heals up quick.

And the squirrels are not just a Rottie thing, I've a little Lhasa here that has tried to run up trees after them, saw her first about 2 weeks ago and walks through the wood looking up all the time now:D

Congrats TK, well done.

ppink

poor Cooper is right. God between the pair of them you would be addled!

it must be a week for vets. Our guy has a cyst on his tail about 2/3 the way up and he was at it and opened it.......i cant actually type the rest as it grosses me out so much:(:(
anyway he is on antibiotics now the vet said it is very nasty and he cannot remove it aas he would not have enough skin to close up........so the tail would have to some off.....a long haired, bushy tailed german shep:(:(:(

It is looking better thankfully so I hope to God it clears up or we will be looking for tail extensions to go out in public:P

chris139ryan

tk123 wrote: »

Ah how did he get on? He was lovely :pac: Did you see the great dane? Oh yeah btw everyone I'm a certified (well waiting for the cert in the post) canine first responder now

he loved it, had to drag him out of there today haha. yeah saw that beast of a dog or should i say horse. well done on getting certified

belongtojazz

Just had a wondeful walk with Boe, it is a gorgeous day out there
He even made a new friend which is very unusual for him, he's usually too vocal for owners to let him play, there is no badness in him he just gets excited, so it was lovely to see him play

tk123

I've just fed Bailey Boy a chicken wing!!! His first tasty sample of raw food I'm thinking of switching him to BARF/RAW in the new year when he's allowed off the lead again out to the loo - just in case we run into any problems! :P I held on to it and he slowly chewed it into small pieces of course he swallowed the last piece whole :rolleyes: but it was only about 1cm square so hopefully it'll be ok. I'll have to keep an eye out in the sales for a new fridge with a bigger freezer! :pac:

borderlinemeath

Had a terrible time this morning on the walk. Coco wouldn't come back and continually defied me calling her for about half an hour. Normally if she doesn't respond to recall I walk out of the field and she follows but for some reason one of the gates was open onto the road and I wanted to get her on the lead to get into the next field. I come in a different gate, and always make sure any gate I go through is shut behind me so I was cursing the gobshiite that left it open. Benson all the while stayed beside me the whole time as his recall is brilliant and he could probably tell from the tone of my shouting that Coco was in trouble!

I tried going through the field to get to her, not only getting soaked in the crops but I also lost one of the two leads I had so when she eventually came back I put her on the lead and then had to hold poor Benson by the collar when we got back to the road until we got to the house.

I was soaked, my voice was hoarse from shouting her name, I was wrecked from trying to run through the fields in wellies and I was just so frustrated as her recall is normally so good, particularly if she senses the tone in my voice. It was like an act of defiance for some reason. And all the while poor Benson was so so good. I was beginning to wonder which was the rescue dog.

zuroph

ok, as the wetter weather (if possible) is coming in, and Dexters digging and general mischief in the garden is getting worse, can anyone please tell me how to train him out of jumping up?! he's jumping and nipping at my hands, paws going everywhere looking to play, and my clothes are destroyed! I've gotten him pretty much out of pulling at trouser legs, but everything is getting caked in mud from his footprints now, and no matter what I try, he's not stopping, turning away, leaving him when he starts, distracting him with commands, i've started catching the paws now, but he still sees this as a challenge.

ppink

zuroph wrote: »

ok, as the wetter weather (if possible) is coming in, and Dexters digging and general mischief in the garden is getting worse, can anyone please tell me how to train him out of jumping up?! he's jumping and nipping at my hands, paws going everywhere looking to play, and my clothes are destroyed! I've gotten him pretty much out of pulling at trouser legs, but everything is getting caked in mud from his footprints now, and no matter what I try, he's not stopping, turning away, leaving him when he starts, distracting him with commands, i've started catching the paws now, but he still sees this as a challenge.

One of mine is a jumper also and particularly with my sisters. So one sister tried raising her knee, catching her paws or giving her a shove....none of this has worked. In fact it just confused the hell out of the dog and annoyed me:(.
The second sister just turns her back immediately when the dog jumped and kept doing this with no talking or looking at the dog until she was sitting nicely....low and behold but the dog no longer ever jumps on this sister:)

tk123

Say your bold word/phrase (ours is 'too bad!!') fold your arms and turn your back...if still jumps then say the bold phrase, put him out of the room and close the door for a few seconds. Let him bark and once he stops to take a breath open the door and let him back in. Time out worked best for us. I had somebody (univited visitors) do the knee thing to him when he was a pup and I was livid!!
Our friends have a red setter who was really bad and I started turning my back and folding my arms and it worked really well - I'm a little over 5 foot - he jumped up at my back one time after being in the bushes (before I started 'training him') and left poopoo paw prints on my shoulders! Bold bratty dogs - what would we do without them!! :rolleyes::pac:

zuroph

he was better this evening once he knew there might be a treat in it for him, even got him to lie down a few times in a row, so I'll keep working at him. the turning my back just istn working, he jumps up and grabs whatever i'm wearing and starts tugging. I've tried bold phrases and time outs, just whines and whines, rarely gives up. the best result i got form it was when he'd bark in the house, he got put out, and he's stopped doing that now.
have a 4 foot penned area inside for him, and another of those panels in the garden blocking the side alley. the other day he worked out he can jump the one in the garden with a little run up, so now he's testing the one in the kitchen, thankfully doesnt have the space for a run up enough yet!

Whispered

zuroph wrote: »

time outs, just whines and whines, rarely gives up.

He'll give up eventually, you just have to make sure he gives up before you do

tk123

How are our crate rest babies? We've done 4 weeks as of yesterday and have had 3 short walks and no probs with the leg!! He was fine yesterday morning and this morning because there's hardly any traffic but yesterday evening he was very jumpy and afraid of the traffic - i got afraid he'd hurt himslef and took him home! Also we almost bumped into the little sh1t who put him back in the crate last year trying to jump up on him and by all accounts has become extremely agresive so i was in a panic waiting for the lights to change to cross the road before they got too close but they changed just in time. I think we'll spend some time sitting at the grass by the foot path so he can get used to the sounds of the busses etc again this evening.

andreac

Flo is doing well but she is mental when i take her out of the crate!! When i get home from work in the evenings is when she is crazy. Ive started bringing her to work again from today as im hoping it will help as she wont be on her own for as long. I just didnt want to be lifting her in and out of the van too soon just in case something happened.

Another 3 weeks and she is going back to UCD for her assessment so fingers crossed we can start some exercise and its healing well.

Oh poor Bailey. Hopefully with a bit of time he will be ok again.

anniehoo

No surgery for Beanie!!!!!Wohoooooo \o/ /o\ \o/ His kneecap popped back into place all by itself and is staying there even with manual maneouvering.After chopping and changing his mind every week for the last 4 weeks,my vet has decided once and for all that he's happy no surgery is required. Will have to maintain his hip dysplasia as best i can when he gets older...but thats a long way off yet.So 3 weeks of crate rest and 1 week of semi rest did the job.

Over the moon so i am.....i was dreading the thoughts of him in a crate over xmas etc :D

tk123

Ah that's great news about Beanie!! I'm probably going to let Bailey out at the weekend - just holding off to see how he gets on with the short walks first!

zuroph

dexter just woke up from a nap and is hyper out, is throwing a massive temper tantrum in the kitchen. repeatedly slamming the door on his crate, Its like having a teenager in the house!

tk123

We need a new harness - is purple ok for a boy dog - the one I want doesn't come in blue lol! :pac:

lucycat

Heehee zuroph, Dexter sounds like my nutter dog Izzy - I let her into the sitting room last night when I was finished putting up the tree and she lost the run of herself altogether! She did laps of the room, jumped all over the couch like a pony and then leaped onto her cushion and did the whole 'lying on her back and punching and kicking the air while growling' thing. Totally and utterly mad
Hope Dexter is a bit less moody today lol

zuroph

tk123 wrote: »

We need a new harness - is purple ok for a boy dog - the one I want doesn't come in blue lol! :pac:

I don't think he'll mind too much