One of the best nights we had down the pub was when there were 4 customers & two dogs. One of the dogs was a German Shepherd, ours, and the other was a Staffie and they must have spent a good hour & a half play fighting. The Staffie went for the underneath throat technique and the GSD went for the whole head in the mouth strategy. They loved every minute of it. And yes, that is classed as an entertaining fun night out in these parts.
A mate of mine killed one of his mothers Yorkies after giving it a piece of cheese. It swallowed it whole & it lodged in his windpipe suffocating him. So beware of too big a piece. Good old honey works well but if the truth be known the only sure fire way is tilt their head way back, throw it down the throat and massage the throat until they swallow. Then loads of fuss and perhaps a raw egg as a treat & distraction.
That doesn't work with Iggy. He had a course of antibiotics after leaving hospital the other week and it turned into a twice daily battle of wits. Hiding tablets in his food has been a fool's errand for a long time as he just spat them back in his bowl, and he even worked out a long time ago that I sometimes hid tablets in treats, so he always gives everything a good chew rather than just swallowing it. Even popping a tablet onto the back of his tongue, holding his mouth shut and massaging his throat only worked for a short while as he soon learned to fool me with a fake swallow and then spat the tablet out as soon as I released him. Naturally, I would just repeat the process, but he soon cottoned on to that too and started to hold the tablet in his mouth until my back was turned, after which he would spit it out in a corner or into the gap between the cooker and washing machine. In the end I had to use some water to melt the tablet into a kind of paste and then plop the blob onto his tongue and as it was too soft to spit out he had no option but to swallow it.
I suppose you could always resort to the horse 'pea shooter' technique. It's pretty reliable as long as you remember to blow first...
It’s actually not. Also, since he’s been caning the Lactulose, he’s producing prodigious piles of poo in all sorts of interesting colours (mainly yellow and green) which don’t smell like dog shit, but have the slightly sweet smell that a newborn human baby’s poop has.
Some sort of animal (not a fox thank god) did a wet shite on my back outside door mat last night. Guess which idiot stepped straight in it and walked it back through the house…
I have a decade and a half’s experience of dealing with offenders and after bringing all my professional skill and judgement to bear on the issue, I can confidently state that is the face of an entirely innocent dog, a “good boy” who has been the victim of a grave miscarriage of justice. FREE THE HERTFORDSHIRE ONE!
Norma sniffing out some scruffy rats rubbish they couldn’t be bothered to clear up properly. I saw them setting up yesterday and would have laid my house on walking past their shite today. Boils my piss like nothing else.
He’s doing amazing, thanks. Since his new diet kicked in and the hospital increased the dosage of lactulose, he’s back to his old self, by which I mean his old self from a couple of years ago before his health started to decline. He’s put on all the weight he lost (he’d gone down from 15.5kg to 12.5kg) and as he had very low body fat to begin with, he looked absolutely dreadful. His strength and energy levels are through the roof and he’s like a puppy again tbh - EXTREMELY full on and boisterous. His pre-op scan is on Wednesday and then all being well, the surgery to tie off the extra blood vessel will be on Thursday. I’m not sure how long they’ll keep him in afterwards, but if he behaves like he did last time, I imagine they’ll want him to go home asap because once they’d got him over the immediate crisis he wouldn’t eat or sleep and spent the whole time barking and howling and trying to escape from the pen by kicking the door (probably separation anxiety).
View attachment 312483 This old girl went over rainbow bridge last week bless her. I had the pleasure of her company from a pup and she then went to a loving home with other spaniels. She had the best life with her new mummy
