It's hooooooot! And due to get hotter. The forecast says 39C on Thursday. I like it hot, but not when I have to work and we have no AC! I think an AC unit may be on the cards soon. Wonder how our solar power will cope with that...
Could well be. It is very unusual for him to run off, and this is twice in four days. This time he came back on his own after half an hour - on Saturday he hooked up with a dog walker after an hour and went off with them. If it becomes a regular occurrence we're going to have to do something drastic. Our garden can't be made secure....
I was just wondering when he escaped the last time.....do you think it is "seasonal" in the interval?
He has only run off four times in three years. Two of those were in the last four days. And one of the other times he was chasing our friend on his quadbike, so that doesn't really count. The other time was nearly two years ago. What would a "seasonal" interval look like?
Hmm, just wondering, I think seasons are roughly 2 a year (although a bit of a guess on my part). I didn't realise it was as long as 2 years!! Quad bikes are fair game.
You wouldn't have to secure your entire property though, you could just fence off an area for him. Might not be aesthetically pleasing, but needs must and all that.
Because of that funny sweet smile and look you get when they have no idea what is wrong. Makes the day brighter and all is forgotten But on a more serious note I am pleased he is OK and back.
Rorys having some sort of young boy thing going on, walks are more like rodeos at the moment. One day he's calm the next butterflies in the brain.hes walking well on his lead then he just seems to forget himself. Hes sniffing around a lot too. The only thing which improved Moo disappearing act was removing opportunity. It was hard and intense but it just had to be done. I could never trust her though. I saw a few trainers and even they said she's slightly atypical because she is so responsive and really well behaved, but confident enough to take advantage if she can. I retrained intensively and it did help she was much better but never 100%. My garden has a a fence within a fence so is secure, but if I couldn't secure it properly I would not let Moo out off lead. We have dog thefts round here and dogs have been stolen from gardens so we have to he very careful so I even supervise in a well fenced garden.
So sorry to hear Pongo ran away again! I know how you feel, since I adopted Lucky, he's always bolted off after a smell - usually other dogs. In the autumn he started running away on our walks almost every day, in the end I found out he kept running off to find a homeless man who was living in the woods. The guy was drunk and stank. But Lucky had apparently decided this guy was his friend - maybe he had food with him. Our trainer recommended teaching an emergency recall cue - but in the end winter came and I guess the guy moved on to somewhere else. My strategy is to manage him carefully, I keep him close and busy on walks or have him on the lead. I keep a 5m lead on him at the moment, so if he looks like he's about to run off I can stop him in time. He's only run off twice in the last six months, which is much better than it used to be, so I think it's working. I wouldn't trust him alone in a garden if it wasn't secure though.
We had just had a lovely walk through the park and we were about to reach the point where I would put Ella's lead back on and walk home. And then the puddle happened
