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Post by Lianne Issa on Apr 25, 2007 21:43:23 GMT
well, i thought i would start this thread and stop invading other peoples!!!!
so........the latest.........other than the naughty doggy eating my brand new expensive 'Faith' stiletto (which i havent even worn yet) - Kathryn - i know you feel my pain!!!!!!
I came home yesterday to find absolute carnage! Smart little bugger has figured out how to open our living room door. Mike came home at lunch time to find him lying on our pillows (we havent got our sofa through yet) watching TV?!?!?!?!? must have chewed the remote!
anyways Mikey went back to work securly shutting door behind him. I came home later to find the door open, paper and laundry and torn books, photos, yellow pages, mobile phone box, poo and pee all over the floor!!!!
I immediately saw the funny side (i'm turning into a very patient person!) and grabbed the camcorder............ I managed to capture the mess, Bucks very sorry face, and Mikeys ever so eloquent reaction upon arriving home and seeing the mess!!! i think the exact words were f*** me dog! what have you done!??'
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Post by klpdesigns on Apr 25, 2007 21:53:11 GMT
Well if he's eaten a pair of Faith shoes he obviuosly has taste!!!!! :-)
Lianne - I think a few trips to doggy obedience classes may be in order!!
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Post by sinzi on Apr 25, 2007 22:27:38 GMT
Haha Lianne that's sad and really funny in the same time. I know how it is with animals. they do so many bad things but you just can't get upset.
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Post by ktalbot on Apr 25, 2007 23:02:28 GMT
Dogs just anxious about being left alone, some dogs get it much worse than others. how long are you leaving him on his own? Try just leaving him a very short time first, then praising him if he does no damage. Does he have plenty things of his own to chew?
We never even have to lock our dogs in a room when we go out, they just have the full run of the house and they have never damaged anything apart from one of my boots once when Storm was very young.
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Post by Lianne Issa on Apr 26, 2007 12:16:16 GMT
he's teething so he's got to chew! i think your right keith, he's suffering a little seperation anxiety. we started by leaving him on his own in short stints and then built up. now we leave him for 3 hours in the morning come home at lunchtime for an hour, then he is on his own for another 3 in the afternoon. he doesnt seem upset to see ask go though which i dont understand normally dogs suffering SA get really excited and upset when your leaving. sometimes he follows us to the door but most time he lies in bed sleepy. Just had a call from Mikey, he's been chewing the doors and the carpet we've just laid down on stairs.  he has a load of chew toys, but he prefers the forbidden fruit so to speak!! |
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Post by klpdesigns on May 4, 2007 21:04:50 GMT
Hows Buck doing? Any more chewed shoes or books?? Has he attaked your Goodkind books yet? I was wondering if I could borrow the 1st one to see how I get on with it! :-)
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Post by ktalbot on May 4, 2007 23:31:24 GMT
2 three hour stints is a long time to leave a puppy, I would never normally recomend any body get a dog if they both worked full time its really not fair on the dog. My wife Avril has MS (multiple sclerosis) which means she can't work which is why we got our dogs in the first place, they keep her company and keep her sane during the day when I'm at work. they both love her to bits I think if we hadn't got the dogs she would have fell into serious depression a long time ago.
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Post by Lianne Issa on May 5, 2007 19:31:34 GMT
of course you can kathryn! you'll be hooked! it's exactly your genre and Dave will love it too!
Keith - we're starting to learn this. i'm looking into doggy daycare or maybe a dog walker to keep him company while we're at work. he seems to have settled down a lot now though and is starting to behave but that doesnt stop me feeling guilty every time i leave.
we took him to the local park the other day (as a matter of general interest, it is the same park where they filmed hp and the goblet of fire!! near pinewood studios) he couldnt beleive his eyes! lots of doggies everywhere and people, trees and a big lake! it was the first time we have taken him for a swim and he wasnt very brave at first, just wading a little. then someone bought along a terrier who was jumping straight into the deep bit to fetch sticks and bring them back. Bucky decided to following him and jumped straight into the deep bit, he went under a little bit and then swam to the side and climbed out, i think he shocked himself but not as much as he scared me!! he was fine though and went straight back in again afterwards! the things he does makes me giggle sometimes
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Post by klpdesigns on May 5, 2007 19:38:31 GMT
That's sounds like Black Park! I'll have to pop round one day and meet Buck soon, and pick up that book. Am still getting through 'Wicked' I never expected a book about the story of the Wizard of Oz to be so raunchy!!!!!! :-)
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Post by Lianne Issa on May 6, 2007 18:30:39 GMT
hahahaha, thats funny  Mikeys aunt is reading it at the mo. email me your address and i will buy another on eBay and send to you (i dont think i will ever get the other one back :)and i want to buy myself another one anyways. ) Come round anytime you like, we dont have a sofa until the 13th!!! as we speak i'm sitting on a cushion on the floor with buck trying desperately to sit in my lap  he does love to sit ON me |
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Post by Lianne Issa on May 20, 2007 17:19:49 GMT
ok, new Buckism to add today! probably the most expensive! He's doing well and is really happy, all the problems seem to have stopped but today i sat down this morning to come on the forum, only to find that the bloody dog has chewed all the way through our computer wire!!
dangerous i know!! luckily i've been turning it off! we were in the house too this time, he's such a naughty ickle pooch! i went to pc world to buy a new lead and ended up buying a whole new pc!
I can say i'm that peeved though! it is an awesome pc with wondows vista! anyone used it yet?!? its odd! very different to any other wondows system
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Post by klpdesigns on May 20, 2007 17:25:09 GMT
you'll have to start buying chew toys that look like normal house hold objects - or shoes!!
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Post by sinzi on May 20, 2007 18:35:13 GMT
Oh my Lianne...he was very lucky he didn't get hurt. Like Kathryn said try to buy him some chewing toys or those chewing bones that also have different tastes. It will keep him occupied and give you less trouble |
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Post by Lianne Issa on May 21, 2007 17:32:07 GMT
we've got all of these! chew toys of every description but i think he likes the forbidden fruit!!! like i said we've been turning all power off just in case but he certainly has to learn its not acceptable to chew wires!
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