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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: STiG Date: April 4, 2020, 8:00 pm
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Our dogs get lots of outside time in the fenced in yard. And we
take them for at least one fairly long walk every day. Without
fail, Wolfie drops a load on the walk. (He was also the bread
thief.) Take him to the vet? Drops a load in the lobby before
getting into the exam room. Take him to the groomer? He drops
a load inside, before DH and I can even get out the door after
leaving them with the groomer. While it is good he does his
thing on walks, we're starting to call him 'The Inappropriate
Pooper'. ;D
His other nickname is 'The Seat Stealer'. As soon as you get up
to do anything, he steals your seat on the couch. He will move
when you come back but you practically have to sit on him to get
him out of the road. And yet another nickname is 'The Insistent
One'. He insists on being petted sometimes. You can be
sitting, typing on the computer, and all of a sudden, you have a
nose under your arm, followed by the puppy dog eyes.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: XRogue Date: July 2, 2020, 7:36 pm
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[quote author=oogyda link=topic=1314.msg49464#msg49464
date=1585751899]
YDD has been housetraining her puppy. They've hung bells at the
back door and let her out when she rattles the bells.
Yesterday, when she sat down with the kids for lunch, she heard
the bells ring and got up to let the puppy out. As she
approached the door, puppy ran around her, got up on her chair
at the table and was reaching for YDD's lunch (the kids stopped
her).
This process was repeated with GS trying to let the puppy out.
They did physically place her outside for the rest of lunchtime.
[/quote]
What breed is the pup? She does sound scary smart!
As a teen I had a rat terrier given to me by a classmate.
Freddie was stolen out of our yard by persons unknown (the
dognapping was witnessed by the gent painting our house, who
declined to do anything to help us find the dog, since he
disliked dogs to start with. >:( )
Some weeks later, Mom's boss gave us a puppy to make us feel
better (Freddie was never found) House painter had gotten ill in
the interim and had only recently returned to work. New pup was
a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd, very smart, to the extent he
got bored and started inventing ways to entertain himself. ( I
have several Johnny stories lol )
Painter had climbed up on the roof for some reason, and had left
his ladder propped against the house with the base sitting
inside the section of the yard that was fenced-where Johnny
lived. We got back from school to discover that Johnny had
knocked the ladder down and the painter had been stuck on the
roof for a good hour. (Parents were both at work)
Painter was feeling very sheepish by this point and asked if we
could prop his ladder back up. I said sure, just as soon as you
apologise for letting my other dog get stolen. He did, we
propped up the ladder and pointed out he might not want to set
the base of it inside the fence again. Dude was so mortified he
promptly knocked money off his fees and came back the next day
with dog treats for Johnny. who mostly left him alone after
that, save for knocking over a large bucket of paint. (I swear,
I have no idea how he escaped the yard ;) )
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: jpcher Date: July 2, 2020, 10:14 pm
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[quote author=XRogue link=topic=1314.msg53974#msg53974
date=1593736572]New pup was a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd,
very smart, to the extent he got bored and started inventing
ways to entertain himself. ( I have several Johnny stories lol
)
[/quote]
Please share them! ;D
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: peony Date: July 3, 2020, 8:52 am
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[quote author=jpcher link=topic=1314.msg53977#msg53977
date=1593746058]
[quote author=XRogue link=topic=1314.msg53974#msg53974
date=1593736572]New pup was a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd,
very smart, to the extent he got bored and started inventing
ways to entertain himself. ( I have several Johnny stories lol
)
[/quote]
Please share them! ;D
[/quote]
Labs and Aussies are on the list of intelligent dogs who need
lots of entertainment to keep themselves out of trouble IIRC.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: XRogue Date: July 3, 2020, 6:04 pm
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Quite correct, Peony! With pleasure, more stories!
Johnny observed us picking up fallen limbs before mowing (2
silver maples, a sycamore, 2 oak trees and 2 pecan trees in his
fenced area) so he started picking them all up for us and
stacking them neatly next to his doghouse. Then he would gnaw
the branches down to sawdust and I presume ate a lot of said
sawdust as it did not accumulate. He also ate the corners off
the back porch steps and gnawed the door in his wooden doghouse
bigger as he grew taller. In very small amounts, done gradually
as he grew.
One day we had a bad heat wave. Johnny let himself out of the
back yard, did a belly flop in the 4 foot deep goldfish pond.
climbed out once he'd cooled off and latched himself back into
the yard. No casualties among the goldfish, fortunately. :)
We got a mole infestation. Visilble cat's cradle of tunnels thru
the yard. Johnny got annoyed because he sunk a foot into a
tunnel dashing after a squirrel (dog did a frontward rolling
flip and landed on his back with no injury except to his
digniteh) and proceeded to spend the next 2 weeks digging up
mole tunnels. We'd look out a window and see him, nose to the
ground, digging with both front paws going to left and right,
digging out the tunnel all along the line. Eventually he'd trot
back to the house and deposit a deceased mole by the steps.
Never tried to eat one. Not sure why they expired, but they
had. Dad used to wish Sis and I were that good about picking up
our socks.
Johnny also ate his plastic food and water bowls the first day.
We ended up getting a food grade plastic bucket out and putting
water in it, with a metal weight to hold it down. (first time we
put the bucket out there without the weight, doggo decided to
pick it up by the edge and dump all the water straight into his
face. Thought it was a wonderful game. :) If you left the weight
out, he kept doing it, too. )
Visited the store to get a new food bowl and upon realizing the
pet section was out of large size metal bowl, we went to
automotive and got a (new, ofc) galvanized aluminum oil pan for
a food bowl. Went home, served Johnny his dinner. He came
tearing up to the deck and realized he had never seen a bowl
like that but IT HAD HIS LUNCH! Cue doggo circling around it
and barking at the pan for a couple minutes till he got used to
it. Food bowl became his new fave toy. Johnny would run round
the yard with the bowl in his teeth, held by the bottom edge so
he wouldn't trip on it. So it was up in front of his eyes. Never
ran into anything.
Also, the back deck was made of bricks, so he took up the habit
of raking the bowl across the deck to make a rattling noise when
he was hungry. Generally at 3 am under my parent's bedroom
window. :D Dad would ask, Why does he do that? Standard reply
was, he wants to be let out of dog jail.
Then there was the time he dug up the septic tank. No idea how.
The fun part about that was, we'd thought we were on a sewer
line and had been paying a sewer bill. For 4 years. Dad called
and got a refund. Part of this was used to buy steaks for
dinner. 4 for us, one for the dog. :)
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: Hanna Date: July 4, 2020, 9:44 pm
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Wonderful stories xrogue. Johnny sounds like he was quite a dog!
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: XRogue Date: July 5, 2020, 7:57 am
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Oh Lort, he was a character. This was my senior year in HS and I
had several people waiting for the next Johnny tale. :) Have had
other pets do funny things, but never to this scale.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: Hmmm Date: August 21, 2020, 10:19 am
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My DD and her cat moved back home during quarantine. He
developed a love of stealing her makeup sponge from her makeup
bag and bringing them to you to throw and he retrieves and
brings it back. DD has learned to keep her sponge in a plastic
bag so she is not constantly replacing them. He has his own
makeup sponge hat will toss up the stairs for him to retrieve
and bring back.
I had my my makeup bag open yesterday. My bag looks nothing like
DD's, is not in the same room and my makeup sponge is completely
different with a handle attached. The cat still found it and ran
off with it but I was able to grab it quickly and replace it in
the bag.
DD later found the cat had gone back to my room, knocked my bag
off the counter and was trying to dig open the bag so he could
get the sponge back out. So she put the bag in a cabinet. This
morning the cat was trying to figure out how to get the cabinet
door open.
Talk about being fixated.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: TootsNYC Date: August 21, 2020, 10:26 am
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1314.msg56290#msg56290
date=1598023161]
I had my my makeup bag open yesterday. My bag looks nothing like
DD's, is not in the same room and my makeup sponge is completely
different with a handle attached. The cat still found it and ran
off with it but I was able to grab it quickly and replace it in
the bag.
DD later found the cat had gone back to my room, knocked my bag
off the counter and was trying to dig open the bag so he could
get the sponge back out. So she put the bag in a cabinet. This
morning the cat was trying to figure out how to get the cabinet
door open.
Talk about being fixated.
[/quote]
Time to buy him one of his own, so he'll leave yours alone.
#Post#: 57071--------------------------------------------------
Re: Pet hi-jinks
By: Dazi Date: September 8, 2020, 5:17 pm
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So, I'm trying a new litter in one of our many litter boxes. I
only swapped out one in case the herd doesn't like it. My rotten
baby boy (he's about 1.5 years old) dug in it for a good hour
today. He thought it was GREAT FUN. He didn't seem to realize it
was kitty litter until our oldest lady went and did her business
in it. Then it clicked for him and he jumped right in and did
his business. He has now claimed said litter box and has been
guarding it all day. He's letting the others use it, he's just
watching. Crazy effing cat. ::) :D
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