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The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)
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ShaShaBear have you tried offering more food while he's still eating? It may be the next step before swapping.
That's where we are currently at, Mymo. If we have to approach or walk past, we drop treats, so that he knows our proximity is good. That approach has got him from snarling, baring teeth and even warning snaps if we walked towards him at all to now, when he is eating his normal feed you can walk past him and even let your leg brush his side/back with no reaction at all. High value treats such as raw meat are still tense, but he usually takes it to his crate and we leave him at it. We do the same thing (throw him treats) but the arm gesture can actually set him on the defence!
He gets a few treats when he is going into his crate at night/when we're headed out, and you can now lock the crate while he is eating with no reaction as well. However, meat is another kettle of fish!
He doesn't guard any of his toys at all, except for his blue treat ball, and only when he knows there is food in it!0 -
She brought us a live fly!
It's now a walk and won't last long.
This made me laugh out loud
I always say any injured flies are called walks and my mother just groans and walks away from me :pac:
I'm in charge of putting drops in my uncles dogs eyes as she has some ulcer/cloudyness. It's turned into a three person job to get her done!0 -
Neighbours a few doors up from us have either got a new dog or are minding someone else's dog and Jazzy and Poppy are freaking out about it. They like to walk along the walls and have a snoop but the dogs presence is putting a stop to that. Jazzy is constantly on guard at night in our garden. How he thinks the dog will scale a 7 foot wall and squeeze through a cat flap I don't know. It sounds like a big dog, especially at 6.30am 0
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ShaShaBear wrote: »
Had a full blown crying episode today - boiled two eggs to perfectly dippy states, and Opie stole them from the saucepan when I wasn't looking. He licked every tear off my face and all I could think was "Is that just to wash the bloody egg yolk down, Opie? IS IT???"
:rolleyes:
Aw, poor old Opie, that you think so bad of him
Walked the dogs on the beach this morning, there is snow on top of the local hills and mountains, after shorts weather last week :eek: Had the usual Sunday morning off lead dogs, and their "ah he's fine" owners.0 -
Aw, poor old Opie, that you think so bad of him
Walked the dogs on the beach this morning, there is snow on top of the local hills and mountains, after shorts weather last week :eek: Had the usual Sunday morning off lead dogs, and their "ah he's fine" owners.[/QUOTE]
I was out for a walk one evening and a dog jumped up with her paws all over me, now I didn't mind because I like dogs. What I did mind was when she said 'you should be honoured, she doesn't usually do that to people'
She was lucky to have it happen to someone who likes dogs.0 -
Other tools (both dogs and owners) is the reason I go to the park at 7:00am. By 6:00pm it's been a long day and I just don't have the patience for idiots anymore. Don't want to neuter your dog - thats great I support your decision but let it pester my dog trying to hump her to the point of her snapping while you stand laughing getting a kick out of it and driving her two big brothers mad thinking they need to step and disciple the dog - NO. Sh1te on about breeding said dog NO Continuously pull/hit a stick out of your new dogs mouth shooting at it NO Don't spot that your new dog is extremely stressed out while thinking you're an export NO Let your dog attack every other dog in the park NO I could go on and on and ON
It was lashing rain here this morning so we had the whole (nicer one not the one next to us) park to ourselves - just Bailey, Lucy and Reb! We were walking down towards the lake and saw one of the swans - Lucy is STILL oblivious to the fact that swans are dangerous! It was coming at her wings out ready to peck her bum off and she didn't even realise :rolleyes: Then we saw a sign that read "Swans taken away for annual touch ups" which got us wondering what they had done lol!!
Both of them were there though... One was sitting on what we're guess is their nest!! We've never seen any cygnets there all the years we've been walking there which is a bit sad thinking something may be killing them every year? 
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Went to play with some rescue kittys yesterday
One in particular was such a dote, sat in my husbands lap and purr'd away! Would love to bring her home but not sure of the logistics with our indoor free range bunny, anyone got any experience of cats and rabbits living together? 0 -
loveisdivine wrote: »Went to play with some rescue kittys yesterday One in particular was such a dote, sat in my husbands lap and purr'd away! Would love to bring her home but not sure of the logistics with our indoor free range bunny, anyone got any experience of cats and rabbits living together?
I had a cat and a rabbit. Well, in fairness - we had the rabbit first, and the kitten was 6 weeks old when we got her (this was about 15 years ago). They were inseparable. Tigger would sleep in Benji's (the rabbit) hutch when inside, and outside they used to play together constantly. Separation did have to take place on one or two occasions where Benji would take to wooing the cat in a rather "forceful" manner :pac:
He was extremely protective of her and would chase other cats out of the garden while barking!
When we got the kitten, we moved her bedding into the hutch so Benji would get used to the smell, and when he was outside playing, we would let Tigger explore the hutch and get the smell of him. Intro was slow, but very successful after that. Mind you, he was way more likely to hurt her than the other way around given how small she was, so I have no idea how that would work with an adult cat!0 -
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