OH was sat in Stanleys seat. Stanley gave him the stink eye for a few minutes then went and grabbed his shoe. When OH got up to get it off him Stanley ran to the couch and nabbed his seat. Such a clever lad
At our dog club AGM this evening I was awarded a large cup -for best attendance I was giggling at the thought of a getting a prize for turning up!
Ella will be two in April and she's never set foot in a crate. Today I bought a crate. Armed with millions of treats and a plan to slowly create a positive association, I set it up and let her explore. She immediately went in so I dropped a few treats in there. She stayed in there so I dropped some more. Then she lay down and had a sleep! Later, I got her dinner (she was out of the crate by then), pointed at her crate and she went straight back in! She's been in there for about half an hour now, even though her dinner was finished ages ago! I'm not going to rush ahead an start closing the door but she seems so happy in it so soon!
Ugh, I wish. I'm assuming your question was because we bought a soft crate rather than a wire one? We're planning on going to some trials this year, we go camping every couple of months and I often need somewhere to put Ella at dog training so we went with the soft, collapsible crate. My friend bought two of these a few weeks ago and she brought one along to training on Tuesday. I had one look, jumped online and bought one! $58 (roughly £35) including delivery and it was here in two days.
It was more about introducing a crate at this stage at all. I know Ella is a good girl and doesn't need to be in one to stop her destroying things, so assumed it must be a travelling type thing I bought a great soft crate from Ellie-Bo for Luna for the trip back from the UK, having seen Benson in his. It was £20 with next-day delivery, brilliant! Except, I left it on the driveway when I left! On the plus side, I didn't need it for our overnight stop in France, anyway, since that was spent in a broken-down car. Silver linings, and all that
Why oh why do the heating people ALWAYS send the dog-fearing man to service our boiler ? And dogs know...
Weirdly all the double glazing men I had seem to love dogs. They are not happy till they've had a cuddle.....with The dogs obviously
Hmm I've had some that love my dogs, but the last 2 times it's been the same man..I say "are you OK with dogs?" Coco does his big, fierce bark behind the door. The man says .."errr..oohh..well..." I say "it's OK, I'll keep him in here <sigh>"
Yeah my plumbers are dog scaredy cats.its doesn't help that mister fabulous jumped the baby gate to give him a snog
We've had workmen in for the last 4 weeks doing the kitchen. Most of them were great with Holly except for Mr Grumpy the tiler. He struggled to be nice to people, let alone dogs.
Went to the vets with Squidge earlier, to get her registered and on an Andorran passport. There was a GSD puppy there, a bit younger than her. It was really worrying, this puppy at such a young age was showing fear aggression. From across the room, he was snarling at her and not in a good way. The owners were lead-popping and telling him off for it. Sigh. I don't have high hopes for that puppy
