The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

tk123

Drama this morning! Bailey was asleep on the HiK9 next to my bed..he stretched out and his leg went between the two beds. I thought it looked a bit dangerous because it could get trapped so went to free it for him. Of course he immediately tried to pull his foot away assuming I was going to cut his nails or worse his fur :rolleyes:, then realised it was stuck and screamed the place down! My mum heard him downstairs and thought his leg was broken (we always assume broken legs in our house lol)! Always he was completely fine but I was expecting sirens outside with police thinking somebody had been murdered!:p

aonb

The fright it gives you when they scream like that :eek: :eek:
So much for human to the rescue preventing an incident - bloody paranoid dogs !!! eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Im in danger !!!!!!!!!!

tk123

aonb wrote: »

The fright it gives you when they scream like that :eek: :eek:
So much for human to the rescue preventing an incident - bloody paranoid dogs !!! eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Im in danger !!!!!!!!!!

I know cheeky pup! He's had so many blood tests etc and often has sore toes so he assumes if I touch his paw I'm must be going to kill him - he won't even shake hands with me unless I show him a treat first! He'll shake with my mum no problems lol! :mad::p
I was actually quite calm - I think because I saw it all happen! I'll block the gap later anyways - could have been a lot worse because he just panicked!

muddypaws

You'd think that as I do this so often, I'd be really well prepared and efficient at packing the van up to go away, not so. Planned leaving time was 2pm, thinking I'd get away at 3, I am now hoping for 4pm and yes, I know if I got off the internet I would get going quicker Heading off to the IFSS European championships in England this time, only running Ghost in bikejore, hopefully another Irish team will win gold, as they have done before, we will take part and have fun.

Bells21

muddypaws wrote:

You'd think that as I do this so often, I'd be really well prepared and efficient at packing the van up to go away, not so. Planned leaving time was 2pm, thinking I'd get away at 3, I am now hoping for 4pm and yes, I know if I got off the internet I would get going quicker Heading off to the IFSS European championships in England this time, only running Ghost in bikejore, hopefully another Irish team will win gold, as they have done before, we will take part and have fun.

Best of luck and I hope you and ghost enjoy yourselves!

SillyMangoX

Peach was lying across my shoulders this evening, which isn't most unusual, she likes to be a scarf especially if I'm walking around somewhere and she needs a lift. However tonight, my mam sneezed and my dad coughed at the same time, poor Peach freaked out, lost her balance and sliced down the back of my head and neck while trying to hang on.
It hurts like hell, but I feel worse about the fact I screamed and accidentally hit her while trying to unhook her embedded claw from my neck she forgave me and sat back up on my lap for the evening...after washing my blood from her claws!!

aonb

Muddypaws post lots of photos of the beautiful Ghost in action Good luck!

borderlinemeath

Coco made me laugh the other morning. She started barking and pawing at the curtains in the bedroom. I thought maybe a ball had rolled under the wardrobe or something so I asked her to show me and she looked straight up to the top of the curtains. We had got new curtain poles a few weeks back and the balls on the end of the poles had caught her beady eye. She wanted it thrown!

VonVix

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Coco made me laugh the other morning. She started barking and pawing at the curtains in the bedroom. I thought maybe a ball had rolled under the wardrobe or something so I asked her to show me and she looked straight up to the top of the curtains. We had got new curtain poles a few weeks back and the balls on the end of the poles had caught her beady eye. She wanted it thrown!

Hahah, my GSD does something similar in our local park, there's a bridge with a fence going across one side that has these metal balls at the top... 80% of the time he will stop, sit and whine.

borderlinemeath

VonVix wrote: »

Hahah, my GSD does something similar in our local park, there's a bridge with a fence going across one side that has these metal balls at the top... 80% of the time he will stop, sit and whine.

Anything spherical is fair game for Coco, if it's not one of her many toy balls or footballs, it's the tumble dryer balls or the apples on the trees which she'll pick on request:D, she even used to get fixated on the towbar cover if it was on the jeep, so we ended up leaving it off.

Dubl07

Pup had a sore paw for a while and I used a 'No Chew' cohesive bandage. Turned out she couldn't read and rather liked the flavour. I'm not sure what that says about her constant enthusiasm for my home-cooked meals. The paw recovered and I put the bandages and e-collar away.

This evening when I thought she was chomping on a piece of antler, she had actually taken a roll of bandage (No Chew, remember) from the box it was stored in and was chomping away.

aonb

Teething?!?!
(my 8 year old dog is STILL teething He does have amazingly clean teeth however!!)

tk123

I was out for a walk yesterday evening with Lucy..we were strolling along and the street lamp in front of us turned off - it took me a second to cop that the power was gone on the road. Now I had her little flashy collar on her in case I let her off lead so turned that on and used the light on my phone to guide us down what's usually a short walk down this stretch - well the road seemed to be miles and miles longer!! Very very spooky. I had been listening to a thriller where a couple are being followed so it didn't help matters lol ! :P

muddypaws

aonb wrote: »

Muddypaws post lots of photos of the beautiful Ghost in action Good luck!

Not many around this time, apparently the official photographer didn't turn up. There are a few, I'm only home tonight, so will see what I can do

dashoonage

my doggie used her new bed last night! had it for months and she just ignored it, preferring to stretch out on her blanket. So last night i brought it into the sitting room and put her blanket on top of it. She looked at it for a while....barked at it...got angry and attacked it...then in the process of attacking it kind of went....oh..hold on...this isnt half bad....then fell asleep :P

VonVix

Our cats (four now, was five) have never needed to go the vets for any health issue for as long as we have had them and they range from the ages of 4 years old to 9 years old, but ever since Sox died in March (and we had the house re-done) a month after having his eye removed, all the cats with the exception of one have needed the vet this year.

One broke her toe, another ended up with an infection in his eyes and glands, now our other kitty has gotten a bad (what appears to be) hotspot... just one cat left who hasn't needed the vet, she still has another month left if she wants to make it a full house...

SillyMangoX

I just got sent pictures of a new, rather unexpected, arrival who may possibly be joining my gang early next year when he's old enough.. and I have completely fallen in love!

VonVix

SillyMangoX wrote: »

I just got sent pictures of a new, rather unexpected, arrival who may possibly be joining my gang early next year when he's old enough.. and I have completely fallen in love!

Eh, hello, pictures if possible? :P

SillyMangoX

I won't post them just yet in case it doesn't come to pass, but if it does you can be guaranteed there will be beyond plenty of him

Zapperzy

SillyMangoX wrote: »

I won't post them just yet in case it doesn't come to pass, but if it does you can be guaranteed there will be beyond plenty of him

Details? :P you can't leave it at that :P

SillyMangoX

Zapperzy wrote: »

Details? :P you can't leave it at that :P

Well, he's small, brown, extremely adorable and looks so cuddly he actually looks a fair bit like dude at the same age but still distinctive in his own right.. think that might have sealed the deal

SillyMangoX

The little kitten I was supposed to be getting in the new year passed away very suddenly hadn't even met the little fella and I'm heart broken

tk123

oh no

muddypaws

Oh no, thats very sad, poor little thing

VonVix

Ah no, so sorry to hear that.

Also secretly waiting for an update from shakencat as to how the little pupper is doing.

Zapperzy

Oh no, so sorry to hear that

Cherry Blossom

Old neighbours are back. When they were here before they had two unsocialised docked Rotties and an aggressive Jack Russell. I just walked past on my own and their gate is open. There was a massive mastiff type dog with cropped ears sat at the back of the drive watching me walk past. just sat there stock still. I clicked my tongue at it and got no reaction. I was trying to figure out if it was friendly or not. it was still in the same spot on the way back, following me with its eyes it was some what unnerving. Now I'm wondering if it is actually a real dog. Has anyone heard of a dog statue that follows you with its eyes that's used as a burglar deterrent? It was freaky the way it just sat there looking at me.

Latatian

My dog has lost her most recent toy and I'm holding off on giving her the new one until Christmas.

So today I heard her scampering around like she does when she invites me to play the 'catch me, catch me!' game. The game is I chase her, I catch her, she gets lots of cuddles, and then I throw the thing again.

She had picked up a leaf. "In my day, we were so poor we walked six miles uphill each way on our daily walks, our lead was a bit of string, and we had to play with leaves."


She later stole a sock out of the clean laundry and that was much more useful for the purpose.

Fakediamond

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

Old neighbours are back. When they were here before they had two unsocialised docked Rotties and an aggressive Jack Russell. I just walked past on my own and their gate is open. There was a massive mastiff type dog with cropped ears sat at the back of the drive watching me walk past. just sat there stock still. I clicked my tongue at it and got no reaction. I was trying to figure out if it was friendly or not. it was still in the same spot on the way back, following me with its eyes it was some what unnerving. Now I'm wondering if it is actually a real dog. Has anyone heard of a dog statue that follows you with its eyes that's used as a burglar deterrent? It was freaky the way it just sat there looking at me.

I'm unnerved just reading about it. Personally, I'd be very nervous walking by that gate and would be looking for alternative routes as it doesn't sound like they've a great track record in training dogs!

Choc Chip

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

Old neighbours are back. When they were here before they had two unsocialised docked Rotties and an aggressive Jack Russell. I just walked past on my own and their gate is open. There was a massive mastiff type dog with cropped ears sat at the back of the drive watching me walk past. just sat there stock still. I clicked my tongue at it and got no reaction. I was trying to figure out if it was friendly or not. it was still in the same spot on the way back, following me with its eyes it was some what unnerving. Now I'm wondering if it is actually a real dog. Has anyone heard of a dog statue that follows you with its eyes that's used as a burglar deterrent? It was freaky the way it just sat there looking at me.

I'd hope it's not a real dog from your description of the neighbours but unfortunately I don't know of anything like that...

The tongue clicking actually made me answer - I used to do a lot with horses so I naturally use a lot of horsey noises/sounds with my dogs. If you'd tongue clicked one of mine they'd be trotting up the street after you in an instant.