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#Post#: 329--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: West Morse Date: August 13, 2021, 11:33 pm
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Hey, TwoASAP ! SO good to see you, too ! People keep popping up
and I'm just over the moon here !
Kevlar - haha ! - maybe I need to look into that...
Mine are going through a phase right now where they ignore the
eleventy million dollars of toys I've bought because all they
want right now is THE STICK !!!
More than 50 acres, thousands upon thousands of trees, and all
they want is just that ONE stick...
They are good boys ;)
#Post#: 356--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: TwoASAPsAgo Date: August 14, 2021, 8:59 am
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[quote author=West Morse link=topic=25.msg329#msg329
date=1628915600]
Hey, TwoASAP ! SO good to see you, too ! People keep popping up
and I'm just over the moon here !
Kevlar - haha ! - maybe I need to look into that...
Mine are going through a phase right now where they ignore the
eleventy million dollars of toys I've bought because all they
want right now is THE STICK !!!
More than 50 acres, thousands upon thousands of trees, and all
they want is just that ONE stick...
They are good boys ;)
[/quote]
💞💞💞
It is clearly the BEST stick in the world!!! How can you not
see it -- too much land clouding your vision??? 😆
Cyrus is mostly about the one plastic water bottle I bought on
my way to SC when I couldn't find my regular water bottle. He's
such a spazz over it, especially when it rolls. 😁 And
of course cardboard boxes! He's obsessed with them. Jumps all
over them, sits in them, brawls with them, tears them up, chews
on a chunk and then thoughtfully spits out the fully masticated,
umm, mound of pulp on the floor. 🤨 I thought
something like this might happen, so I never went overboard on
store-bought toys, though he has plenty of those too.
#Post#: 494--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: TwoASAPsAgo Date: August 15, 2021, 8:41 am
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Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.
Cyrus (12 weeks and 1 foot tall) has had four successful
breakouts in three days. 😰😰😰
First (Friday). Unsure how it happened (gate was closed
properly, found no gaps when I walked the fence). I suspect the
neighbor's lawnmower scared him into jumping onto and climbing
over the 5-foot chainlink fence. Unfortunately, he now sees
going over a fence as a viable option. This was the big issue I
was warned about with whippets, and one of the reasons he has a
"covered" playpen instead of an open one. Once they realize
"over" is an escape option, they'll find a way.
😭😭😭
Second (Saturday morning). I need to figure out exactly where Cy
broke out. So I let him loose in the yard after he handles his
business, which happens to be near a section of 4-foot-tall wood
fence. He doesn't mess with his own poop (yay!), but is also
very territorial about it when I try to pick it up (boo!). So I
toss a ball to the opposite side of the very large yard,
thinking I have a few seconds to scoop. Nope. I look up just
in time to see him racing at me and barely pull the poop bag out
of his way.
That's when I see him shift his gaze to the wooden fence ten
feet beyond me. Damn. He decides to go for it. Of course this
is all in slow mo for me. I shout "Noooooooooooooooooo!" and
calculate spending the day at the animal hospital and explaining
myself to Puppy Protective Services. It is obvious from his
trajectory that he is going to crash at full speed about 8
inches short.
And yet he manages to fly through a 5-inch gap toward the top of
two slats. Cyrus couldn't fit through a 5-inch gap if he tried
walking through it, after rolling in a pound of butter!!! I
self-gaslight and tell myself I didn't see what I just saw with
my own lying eyes. I run over to the fence, and there is the
face of supreme self-satisfaction grinning back at me. "You're
not getting a treat for that, bud. Or a gold medal." I was
damn impressed, but dutifully scowled. Then he strolled off to
investigate the front yard, while I ran around to lure him back.
Sigh.
Third (two hours later). I'm setting up to lead virtual
meditation outside on the deck, and go back inside to crate
Cyrus for 30 minutes. He is in the kitchen (blocked off from
the rest of the house), and the door doesn't close fast enough.
So he is off to the races! Down the steps and toward the locked
gate (5 feet tall). Phew. I stroll over in time to see him
pull up the metal bar with his teeth, push open the gate and run
out. Ugh. This is a puppy who gets frustrated with a basic
food puzzle. He looks back at me like I'm going to chase him,
and I casually make it seem like I have treats (I don't) and
that he's about to get locked out. He "barely" sneaks back into
the yard, as I "try" to close the gate on him. (Yeah, I'm still
slightly smarter than you, puppy.) I am 5 minutes late to
meditation. Sigh. And then the Song of the Suburbs, Leafblower
Cut, starts. Double sigh.
Fourth (8 a.m. today). Cyrus finds a small gap at the bottom of
the wooden fence from attempt 2 while we're playing fetch --
that game where I throw the ball and he hides it in his favorite
pile of leaves near the gap. He strolls around the front yard
and then over to investigate the garbage can. I casually walk
out, as if we planned this outing, and pick up my end of the
leash. I let him sniff the garbage cans, as I think about
spending the day at the hardware store. Sigh.
Duck is tired and needs a hot bath in a soaker tub at a spa.
#Post#: 502--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: LabPartner Date: August 15, 2021, 8:51 am
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[quote author=TwoASAPsAgo link=topic=25.msg494#msg494
date=1629034901]
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.
Cyrus (12 weeks and 1 foot tall) has had four successful
breakouts in three days. 😰😰😰
[/quote]
When I first got Dakota, I took her to my sister's house when I
went to have lunch with my dad. She has a full yard, a total
lot. Two bites into the hot dog, my phone rings. It's someone
calling to tell me that Dakota just walked into their garage to
say hello. They lived across the street from my sister. Next
time, I leave her in the yard, walk through the house to put
something in my car, and she's standing by the car door grinning
at me. So I send my nephew out to hide in the yard and leave
Dakota to walk through the house again.
She used a downspout to gain about 4", enough to reach the top
of a 3' chain link fence. Then she jumped on the fence and
pushed off the house with her hind legs to get over the fence.
Not even 10 seconds. They're way more clever than we are.
#Post#: 512--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: oreally Date: August 15, 2021, 9:33 am
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Debbie Downer here... that's impressive work by your sweet,
smart creatures, Lab and ASAP. My girl was so impossible to
contain that she could not be left for a minute unattended. She
did get hit by a car, tracking a squirrel across the street,
after escaping the backyard when I stepped inside for a second.
This time it was apparently my fault because she seemed to have
walked right out the iron gate, and had not eaten through the
wood fence that time. I think I just had not closed the lock
correctly. In any case, it's $3,000 later and she is doing well
with only one hip joint, but I sure would have rather it had not
happened at all.
#Post#: 538--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: animaniactoo Date: August 15, 2021, 11:39 am
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Please allow me to tell you about my neighbors down the block
when I was growing up.
Luther was the DUMBEST dog in the world. Except for when it came
to food. He was a golden retriever/lab mix, and clearly saved up
all his smarts for food.
This is a dog that knocked a jar of peanut butter left out on a
countertop over, and managed to lick up every last bit of peanut
butter without cutting his tongue on any of the shards.
Roast left out on the kitchen table for 2 seconds? Goodbye. Xmas
dinner had some last minute substitutions that year.
His sister Athena wasn't much better when it came to food.
Eventually their humans decided they had to lock the
refrigerator door and had a giant chain on it to keep it closed.
The cats climbed up on top and opened the freezer door for them.
#Post#: 607--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: TwoASAPsAgo Date: August 15, 2021, 4:08 pm
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[quote author=oreally link=topic=25.msg512#msg512
date=1629038020]
Debbie Downer here... that's impressive work by your sweet,
smart creatures, Lab and ASAP. My girl was so impossible to
contain that she could not be left for a minute unattended. She
did get hit by a car, tracking a squirrel across the street,
after escaping the backyard when I stepped inside for a second.
This time it was apparently my fault because she seemed to have
walked right out the iron gate, and had not eaten through the
wood fence that time. I think I just had not closed the lock
correctly. In any case, it's $3,000 later and she is doing well
with only one hip joint, but I sure would have rather it had not
happened at all.
[/quote]
Oreally, I'm so sorry! I'm glad though that yours is doing
better, and hope you aren't judging yourself too harshly for a
momentary lapse. You certainly didn't intend for any of it to
happen.
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Re: Cyrus
By: LabPartner Date: August 15, 2021, 4:12 pm
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[quote author=oreally link=topic=25.msg512#msg512
date=1629038020]
Debbie Downer here... that's impressive work by your sweet,
smart creatures, Lab and ASAP. My girl was so impossible to
contain that she could not be left for a minute unattended. She
did get hit by a car, tracking a squirrel across the street,
after escaping the backyard when I stepped inside for a second.
This time it was apparently my fault because she seemed to have
walked right out the iron gate, and had not eaten through the
wood fence that time. I think I just had not closed the lock
correctly. In any case, it's $3,000 later and she is doing well
with only one hip joint, but I sure would have rather it had not
happened at all.
[/quote]
This makes me so sad.
#Post#: 713--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cyrus
By: oreally Date: August 15, 2021, 8:58 pm
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[quote author=LabPartner link=topic=25.msg610#msg610
date=1629061967]
[quote author=oreally link=topic=25.msg512#msg512
date=1629038020]
Debbie Downer here... that's impressive work by your sweet,
smart creatures, Lab and ASAP. My girl was so impossible to
contain that she could not be left for a minute unattended. She
did get hit by a car, tracking a squirrel across the street,
after escaping the backyard when I stepped inside for a second.
This time it was apparently my fault because she seemed to have
walked right out the iron gate, and had not eaten through the
wood fence that time. I think I just had not closed the lock
correctly. In any case, it's $3,000 later and she is doing well
with only one hip joint, but I sure would have rather it had not
happened at all.
[/quote]
This makes me so sad.
[/quote]
Thank you. It made me very sad.
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Re: Cyrus
By: oreally Date: August 15, 2021, 9:02 pm
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[quote author=TwoASAPsAgo link=topic=25.msg607#msg607
date=1629061690]
[quote author=oreally link=topic=25.msg512#msg512
date=1629038020]
Debbie Downer here... that's impressive work by your sweet,
smart creatures, Lab and ASAP. My girl was so impossible to
contain that she could not be left for a minute unattended. She
did get hit by a car, tracking a squirrel across the street,
after escaping the backyard when I stepped inside for a second.
This time it was apparently my fault because she seemed to have
walked right out the iron gate, and had not eaten through the
wood fence that time. I think I just had not closed the lock
correctly. In any case, it's $3,000 later and she is doing well
with only one hip joint, but I sure would have rather it had not
happened at all.
[/quote]
Oreally, I'm so sorry! I'm glad though that yours is doing
better, and hope you aren't judging yourself too harshly for a
momentary lapse. You certainly didn't intend for any of it to
happen.
[/quote]
Thank you. It was sad. We are all better.
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