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Nothing special. Nothing in particular. Maybe a story or something weird. Maybe you have something that doesn't fit anywhere else but here. It'll only be as good as you make it!
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19 Replies
October 27, 2009 11:17 PM
STARE DOWN,
Here's a weird one for you. My big dog doesn't like to look me in the eyes for more than a split second or 2 and then I usually need to be holding a treat up around my nose.
If I take my glasses off she will look me in the eyes up to the point where it becomes an unconfortable stare like it would for any dog or person.
Anyone out there think they can fix THAT? Because I can't! Getting Lasic or contacts doesn't count.
October 28, 2009 3:55 AM
Just thinking about babies and toddlers, they often act strange with a person wearing spectacles, often showing fear to the extent that they will cry.
Could it be that the glass in spectacles acts as a screen, maybe getting reflections from lights etc. around them and the dog doesn't like not seeing the "windows of your soul" with the " reflecting blinds on". Once you remove them she is feasting on the opportunity to see your eyes for "real" and is making most of the rare chance to do so. :=)
October 28, 2009 4:26 AM
Just another quick note "close shave, re: Moose".
I was driving back around 3.30pm with my hubby and Logan (my GSD) from the daily walk and play in the forest.
I happened to glance at my speedo and noticed I was only doing about 65km/h in 80km/h zone, so put my foot down to pick up speed.
We had just passed our local graveyard when suddenly my hubby shouts "look out!!!". A large moose had appeared from the right side to gross the road! It was only few meters in front!! I slammed on the brakes and thought flashed through my mind " we will NO WAY stop in time (I had been picking up speed, as I mentioned before) this will make headlines in next mornings paper "ANOTHER Moose crash involving middle aged couple and their GSD. Car is a total write off and the couple both in intensive care."
I'm still pressing the brake pedal down as hard as I could, but we were still moving forward and the moose was getting closer and closer.
And then as the moose's hindquarters were in front of me, the car finally STOPPED! Distance to moose 1m (3ft) MAX!! Phew!!
( Is it not amazing how much can flash through your mind per second, when in close shave situation?)
Logan managed to give a couple of LOUD barks at the moose, who carried on crossing the road as nothing had happened!
That was the closest call I (we) have ever had with a 6ft tall moose weighing around half a ton.
Had we come along a second later.... I would NOT be writing this.
Someone "up there" was watching over us, I'm sure of that. :=)
October 28, 2009 11:37 AM
Well I am glad you missed by a meter to be here with us. It just wouldn't be the same without you.
I've only seen deer on the roads and had a few close ones but not that close. The great deer like Elk and Moose, I have only seen at a distance in the forest
Weird Deer: While hunting squirrel and sitting on the ground, a deer passed within "spiting distance"... stopped... turned around and reared full up on its back legs, between my splayed legs and then smashed its 2 front feet to the ground and just missing my "private pride and joy" parts and repeated it twice more. THAT was scary. Funny now, not funny at the time. Bambi can get pretty mean if she thinks you're a threat!
Peeping Tom Turkey: During a late evening drive with my first wife a large wild turkey was flying toward the road from her side. I even pointed it out and thought no more of it until we noticed we were on a collision course, but it was too late.
WHAM! Right into the windshield! My wife began screaming in terror over and over "Its in the car, GET IT OFF ME!" and I smased on the brakes!!!
I turned the car light on and could not see a thing but she was still screaming. I looked at windshield but it was fine and not even so much as a crack.
I had to scream at her for her to hear me over her terror that "IT's NOT IN THE CAR... LOOK... NO HOLE!!!!!!!" She exclaimed that she clearly felt it hit her and that it hurt and she didn't just imagine it because her arm was brusied.
This stressed out conversation went on for some time and eventually we clamed down after resuming our drive.Then she started laughing "OMG OMG OMG the mirror".
Turns out that the turkey hit the spot where the rear view mirror was mounted knocking it free. So it went like this. Turkey hits windshield which sends the mirror into my wife where she found it in her lap. It happened so fast that we thought it was the turkey itself!!!
To top it it off, it was the eve of Halloween, pitch black dark and we were traveling along in secluded countrysides of crop fields and forests! Only the arrival of the headless horseman could have made that any scarier and we didn't see another vehicle the whole time in the event we would have needed help!!!
October 28, 2009 4:48 PM
Thanks for the kind words. :=)
I think the Bambi must have been friends with all the squirrels there and decided to move you on! LOL
But my absolute vote goes to your perfect "Halloween story" about the unfortunate wild turkey (with a serious headache or worse after making contact with your windscreen) and the series of events that unfolded from the impact!! GREAT STUFF. :=)))
October 28, 2009 5:03 PM
Funny you should say that about Bambi and the squirrels. Even most hunters do not know that wild game animals share warning signals. If you are deer hunting and some squirrels sit there and bark & chatter at you, the deer know to stay away. If the squirrels and other game see a deer run with it's tail up showing the white underside, they know danger is somewhere behind them.
October 29, 2009 4:41 PM
yeah..that was a really scary situation...thank god you missed!!
October 28, 2009 10:42 AM
The frame is thin and just enough to hold the lens which is anti-glare and smallish. I'm thinking that maybe they magnify my eyes and make them look extra big to my dog? I've seen some glasses that make people's eyes look really HUGE.
October 28, 2009 1:43 PM
Gizmo the puppy pug loved to go everywhere with mom and/or dad. He went four wheeling, camping, to the store, to visit, and fishing. He also thought he liked swimming. On the boat on day, he decided to take a jump into the cool water. Pugs don't like the heat, ya know? Dad hears "hey your dog jumped in the water" to which he replied.. "MY DOG CAN'T SWIM!!!" As he turned around, all he could see was Gizmo's bottom sinking and his little face starting to go down. Someone grabbed the fishing net and fished him out.
Silly Gizmo. Everybody knows pugs sink.
October 28, 2009 4:33 PM
Everybody knows pugs sink..... not quite.....I didn't....silly me:=)
See, I always thought that all dogs could swim if the situation presented itself.
I have learned something new, thanks! :=)
Happy ending, I like that.
October 28, 2009 4:52 PM
My little dog thought a solar pool cover was solid ground and became enveloped by it. He can swim and luckily, it actually prevented him from drowning. He was pretty scared and I'm sure it left an emotional scar. As long as I hold him I can carry him around in the pool but he's never been big on swimming before that anyway. He eagerly rides on pool floaties and goes in our inflatable boat for hours at a time and swims at the dog park pond once in awhile.
Normally, he wades the shallows of any natural bodies of water... he goes fishing! He can do that for hours too.
I had an English Springer Spaniel that would swim UNDER water to 10-15 ft. That's a bit amazing because humans need to equalize the pressure in their ears at those depths or it can be quite painful. Never bothered him!
October 28, 2009 5:15 PM
I have trouble keeping the big dog IN THE BOAT! The little dog tries to lap at the water and his problem is that he slides off the smooth rounded sides of the boat into the water by accident. (Inflatable boat so dogs can reach the water easy.)
They now wear life vests with handle straps fore and aft, so we can more easily lift them back into the boat. They both get soaked every time we boat. Wouldn't be so bad except we have an electric motor on it. They plunge, we zip past them and have to get turned around to get them back. It's actually great fun and we just expect it.
October 29, 2009 4:37 PM
Well in the summer our lab goes in the lake and stays there for hours catching fish...heh!!
As for the staring in eyes K-Nine..well my BC will literally stare you out :=)
This evening we went out for a very dark walk along the country roads.. I had a lamp on my forehead and we were doing power walking.. Our lab suddenly stopped and what crossed the road not far off.. a supikoira..heh heh!! The one that looks like a raccoon.. :=D
November 1, 2009 11:04 AM
Oh yeah, I remember that discussion. The raccoon dog that can climb trees. Cool! I would love to own a domesticated Supikoira but I'll bet they are a real handful. I imagine them climbing the drapes like a cat and pulling the whole thing down!
November 1, 2009 11:05 AM
I heard what sounded like a blood-bath coming from the living room so I jumped up to see if I had a problem to settle.
Turns out my big dog was whacking the little across the head and mouth with the carcass of a stuffed toy. So I just watched to see what this was all about. The big one kept trying to push it into the little one’s mouth and when she thought she had grabbed it she would whip it away only to do it again and again. The little one was getting wound up and literally screaming about it all.
Finally the big one waited until she was certain that the little one had a firm grip and started the familiar “tug-o-war” game that her and I usually play. She is very strong and while you are SUPPOSED to always win games of struggle with your dogs, let’s get real, it doesn’t always happen when they are much stronger, younger and have more endurance than you do. My dog is different and it doesn’t matter.
If I lose my grip she immediately brings the tug item within reach so we can continue. She was doing the same thing for the little one. If he lost his grip, she would come back so he could grab it to continue the game. He wasn’t thrilled when she would whack him across the head with it but then again he kept coming back for more…
November 2, 2009 11:47 AM
Ha Ha!!
Yeah that's my BC:s favourite game too..he loves tug of war :=) I sometimes loose my grip too but he brings it back and the game goes on :=)) My dog's often play tug of war together over a small sized tree :=D YEP you read it correctly..our lab drags them from the forest next to us :=DD
November 2, 2009 3:21 PM
You DID NOT MENTION that the "TREE" your lab brings from the forest was STILL GROWING, roots firmly in the ground until Rocky (lab) came along and chose it for the tug of war! I have seen with my own eyes how he brings down a quite a sizeable young tree. LOL, I think Rocky is a wrong name (he dont like rocks :=) He likes wood!!) LOL!!
November 2, 2009 5:25 PM
I know I said about how my dogs chewed the branches off a small locust tree last year and this year it grew back BETTER then ever. Now I've bee prining that thing for 5 years to try and get it to do that and they just knawed at and do it better!
They haven't uprooted any tress for tug-o-war but they have done it with those branches. Now I just leave a length of rope in the yard for them.
November 3, 2009 4:29 PM
K-Nine, have a better one on dog eating trees. I got a small puff a fur, not a dog I wanted because it would not be as big as I wanted.
It got to 85 lbs, and before I made some changes, was a tree hound.
For this time in my life, I worked dog was out in the back yard when I was at work. I had moved a 3, diametier, tree into the back yard to and put in a new tree in the front. My dog ate the tree in the back, not fully. Then I decided to plant a pican tree in the back, small, dog ate three of them. I had a covered patio for the dog, moved an old couch out for the dog to sleep on, it ate it, right down to wood and springs. I put out the matching chair, dumb me, and dog at that one. I planted roses in the back, thinking thorns would help them live, dog ate all of them. Dog also pulled wood out of my wood rack and chewed the bark off.
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Overall I have never had a dog customize something I owned that came out better. They have a poor choice of figuring out how something looks better once they chew on it.
For this one though, fixed the problem with the first dog with a second, it was not bored anymore. Then I decided to do a garden and put it in the dog run, that came with the house, keep the dogs out, not in it. New dog figured a way in, not jumping the fence, and ate a tomato. I had 4 tomato bushes, never got one tomato. That dog also use to stand on its back legs to get to peaches. Not only that, but peach pits became a great chew toy, and dogs, after the dog door, brought them in the house to chew on.
I knew you could not do too much when you were gone, so not anything I really tried to do, except try to dog proof. A dog house was built, actually two, when the first one was too big. I took what they did was kinda fun, at least they had some, and then I didn't do it again.
I won't get into my first dog when I was 5. Dad tought it to climp a ladder. Dog learned that a chain link fence had paw holes, no problem for the dog on breeding instincts. That is why I will not teach a do up. Paper bring in, good thing. Problem on it, is if one is good, many others would be better, so all neighbors would come to our home to find their paper.
Overall on this, if you are gone at work for long hours, dog is doing what it thinks is best, and not what you think is best. When people can't observe, then dog proofing is waranted, and if you train your dog some, they will still figure something out. For me, that is why I love them.
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