Pets and Stoves

That's a happy cat !

Miaou

GaryFerg wrote:actually burning wood this day I think

absolutely beautiful dog. we've had several of that breed, I call them " a man's house cat ".

all of ours were fabulous around all other animals, children and strangers. the exception being that every one of them had the oddest untrained trait.

you could enter our home in our absence , eat and drink anything you wanted even destroy any and everything in there,but, if you tried to leave....................you would get fair warning................if that went unacknowledged then parts were going to start coming off.

weirdest thing.

Not just that breed Steve.

Girl I dated in HS's family had a beagle that was the same. Friendly as can be, glad to have people stop by, would sit on your lap if you were watching TV. But watch out when anyone but family tried to leave.

They'd have to lock the dog in another room so that people could get out the door without getting bit.

Paul

I'ld like to talk to a "doggie psychologist" and hear the whys(?) of that one.

Sunny Boy wrote:Not just that breed Steve.

Girl I dated in HS's family had a beagle that was the same. Friendly as can be, glad to have people stop by, would sit on your lap if you were watching TV. But watch out when anyone but family tried to leave.

They'd have to lock the dog in another room so that people could get out the door without getting bit.

Paul

first I've heard of any other dogs doing this. we always thought we had somehow telegraphed it to them but had never had any issue in their presence of not wanting or trying to keep any one from leaving.

joeq wrote:I'ld like to talk to a "doggie psychologist" and hear the whys(?) of that one.

i think it's the "where the wild things are" affinity. they absorb you into their "Borg" and will "eat you up" if you try to leave.

joeq wrote:I'ld like to talk to a "doggie psychologist" and hear the whys(?) of that one.

It's easy, that beagle was nuts.

The dog was spoiled. It used to limp around the house all the time with a very sorry look on it's face wanting sympathy. They'd lift the dog up onto the couch, carry in and out to the back yard, and carry it upstairs at night. They treated it like it was 100 years old. But the second that dog heard the mailman at the mailbox, it flew up on the furniture to bark at the window like it had a rocket stuck up it's behind !

Paul

But the second that dog heard the mailman at the mailbox, it flew up on the furniture to bark at the window like it had a rocket stuck up it's behind !

My guess is it did not like ponies, even expressed ones.

coalnewbie wrote:

But the second that dog heard the mailman at the mailbox, it flew up on the furniture to bark at the window like it had a rocket stuck up it's behind !

My guess is it did not like ponies, even expressed ones.

My guess is it was the result of not having a stove to sleep by to mellow it out.

Paul

Sunny Boy wrote: My guess is it was the result of not having a stove to sleep by to mellow it out.
Paul

"BINGO!" Give that man a "CIgar"

Sunny Boy wrote:

joeq wrote:I'ld like to talk to a "doggie psychologist" and hear the whys(?) of that one.

It's easy, that beagle was nuts.

The dog was spoiled. It used to limp around the house all the time with a very sorry look on it's face wanting sympathy. They'd lift the dog up onto the couch, carry in and out to the back yard, and carry it upstairs at night. They treated it like it was 100 years old. But the second that dog heard the mailman at the mailbox, it flew up on the furniture to bark at the window like it had a rocket stuck up it's behind !

Paul

The dog was trained to limp to gain attention and in turn the owners were being trained by the dog to give it.

I heard something similar FB. Our friends took their puppy to "obedience school", and it was more geared to training the owners, than the dogs.

It's long been known that most pet problems actually trace back to an owner problem.

My stepson's girlfriend is a pet trainer. She says she spends most of her time trying to teach the owners,.... most of which are in denial and think that it's the pet that has the problem. She says pets are easy to train, owners not so much.

Maybe more pet owners should spend time by a coal stove and mellow out too ...... like we all are.

Paul

Picture from this morning