The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

mymo · 26-07-2015 9:56am

borderlinemeath wrote: »

I'm hoping when the baby arrives it'll be a doddle compared to this!

It's just like having a new born puppy around, but it takes longer to grow up!
Yet somehow feels so fast.

My baby is learning to drive now, it feels like yesterday she was a baby, sitting on the floor, surrounded by pillows, trying not to fall over. Enjoy it, every minute, even when you want to murder someone.

The building work is more stressful, rope in some family/friends for a big clean up, and put your feet up!

borderlinemeath · 26-07-2015 4:42pm

Even though the building work is stressful, the builders have been brilliant, work will be finished before baby arrives and they have been incredibly neat and tidy and adore the dogs too

. It's only this week where things have been a bit hectic, plus the fact that I'm getting less mobile and am more tired than I think I've ever been! The lack of sleep has been great practice for when baby actually arrives!

tk123 · 27-07-2015 9:28am

Well I was told off earlier in the park because of my audacity to say that a dog can still get kennel cough even if they have the vaccination! :rolleyes: SIGH I had mentioned in passing that I had to make an appointment for Lucy at some stage this week for her check up and lepto shot and that I wouldn't be getting KC as it's a waste of time.

Anyways a funny thing happened yesterday :P I had the dogs out in a deserted Santry park. Just off the path - so not in the woods anything - Lucy stops to rustle in some long grass and next there's whoosh sound followed by the squawks of of a huge pheasant!! She was delighted with herself lol!

mymo · 27-07-2015 10:14am

My daughter came home Friday evening after being away for 2 weeks, animals have been all over her (and me if they can't all sit on her) and Ruby even hung around the house instead of disappearing for the day as she usually does.

At least now daughter can walk dogs and I can rest my foot!

ShaShaBear · 28-07-2015 12:19pm

Any advice for getting ear mats out when concerning a dog that barely lets you brush him with a glove?

I haven't tried scissors yet as he is quite standoffish about them, although he will let me massage them with my fingers?

tk123 · 28-07-2015 12:30pm

Could you try having two people pet him at the same time and then one tackles the mats while the other keeps petting? We did that to Bailey last week for stickybacks lol!!

ShaShaBear · 28-07-2015 12:39pm

tk123 wrote: »

Could you try having two people pet him at the same time and then one tackles the mats while the other keeps petting? We did that to Bailey last week for stickybacks lol!!

I might have to double-team him when my OH gets home! I hate leaving them like that, just went out and rubbed at them and as soon as he saw the scissors his teeth locked onto them (no growling) and I figured since I need my hands to look after my child, I better let him away with it for now

Gone are the days when Shadow would simply lie down and grumble through grooming!

VonVix · 29-07-2015 1:41pm

Well, puppy seems to have had a growth spurt during the night and he's started to eat like a horse. Couldn't put his harness on, had to adjust it as it was an inch or two too small. The heck.

tk123 · 29-07-2015 2:09pm

VonVix wrote: »

Well, puppy seems to have had a growth spurt during the night and he's started to eat like a horse. Couldn't put his harness on, had to adjust it as it was an inch or two too small. The heck.

Thats normally - tomorrow he'll look like a skeleton and all the do-gooders will point out he's too skinny! :rolleyes::pac:

reallyrose · 29-07-2015 2:36pm

Spent €200 on cat stuff on Zooplus last night. :eek:

VonVix · 29-07-2015 3:42pm

tk123 wrote: »

Thats normally - tomorrow he'll look like a skeleton and all the do-gooders will point out he's too skinny! :rolleyes::pac:

He's all fluff so that might hide it a bit.

reallyrose · 29-07-2015 4:01pm

reallyrose wrote: »

Spent €200 on cat stuff on Zooplus last night. :eek:

I decided to list what we got so I can be enabled...

Cat tunnel for hiding in
Several feather-onna-sticks
Squeaky mouse
Fancy litter tray
Cat Hammock
Huuuuge scratching post
Then some fancy elk food for the Large one and fancy Poultry and Fish food for the Little one.

They're going to love it when their new cardboard boxes arrive.

muddypaws · 29-07-2015 4:15pm

I was working at a pet show from Friday-Sunday, which was 2.5 hours away, hence 5 hours driving each day, then talking to people all day. I've still not recovered, am exhausted and my voice is just beginning to come back. A sign of old age I think, I need to realise I'm not in my 20s anymore.

mymo · 30-07-2015 8:25pm

reallyrose wrote: »

I decided to list what we got so I can be enabled...

Cat tunnel for hiding in
Important to have hiding places

Several feather-onna-sticks
Saves your hands from attack, always keep toys far from fingers

Squeaky mouse
Practice for bringing you gifts

Fancy litter tray
Saves smells and litter getting everywhere

Cat Hammock
Errrrm, mines in the cupboard as they only used it once, but looks pretty

Huuuuge scratching post
Saves your furniture, great investment, no more jumping on your head while you're watching TV!

Then some fancy elk food for the Large one and fancy Poultry and Fish food for the Little one.
Investment in your kitties health, good food is essential.

They're going to love it when their new cardboard boxes arrive.

Will you adopt me too reallyrose?

aonb · 30-07-2015 9:38pm

I am so happy.
Since we lost our two elderly dogs late last year, we have been down to one dog who is a bit intellectually-challenged (or maybe our other dogs were super smart!) and anxious and freaks out when another dog comes into our house.
We usually have house sitters come to feed the animals twice/day and walk the dogs, when we go away. Since we only have 1 anxious-ish dog, this has not been possible. So today, I took him to a doggie daycare session at a nearby kennel, that has been recommended to me, to see how he got on. We are going away for the weekend, and I want to find a solution for leaving him in a kennel/whatever.
Anyway, dropped him off to a lovely lady, there were about 10-12 other dogs there - all loose in a massive well fenced garden, her house doors all open for access. So off my poor chap went - delighted with the other dogs - no growling/messing/posing etc. They were all the same size dogs - so cute - picked him up later & he was so relaxed and good and happy

tk123 · 01-08-2015 11:43am

Two little sh1ts in St Anne's this morning egging each other on to kick their football at Bailey and Lucy :mad: Mummy and Daddy smiling over at their little darlings until I told the kids what would happen to them and their ball if they kicked it near the dogs! Slacker parents!!! :mad:

Zapperzy · 02-08-2015 2:19pm

I'm dangerously close to entering failed fosterer territory! Have to hand Freya back on Tuesday and I'm already feeling like I'm handing back one of my own. Going on holidays at the end of the week so she has to go someplace anyways but it's going to feel strange coming home to only 1 cat again! And herself and Jesse get on so well together.

Somebody talk some sense into me!! I can't fail at the first foster kitten!

VonVix · 02-08-2015 6:18pm

Zapperzy wrote: »

I'm dangerously close to entering failed fosterer territory! Have to hand Freya back on Tuesday and I'm already feeling like I'm handing back one of my own. Going on holidays at the end of the week so she has to go someplace anyways but it's going to feel strange coming home to only 1 cat again! And herself and Jesse get on so well together.

Somebody talk some sense into me!! I can't fail at the first foster kitten!

Why would it be bad to keep her? Why would it be good to keep her?

Go with your gut instinct. Do anything else and you'll be thinking "what if?" for a long time!

aonb · 02-08-2015 9:24pm

Zapperzy wrote: »

I'm dangerously close to entering failed fosterer territory! Have to hand Freya back on Tuesday and I'm already feeling like I'm handing back one of my own. Going on holidays at the end of the week so she has to go someplace anyways but it's going to feel strange coming home to only 1 cat again! And herself and Jesse get on so well together.

Somebody talk some sense into me!! I can't fail at the first foster kitten!

see this is why I dont want to be a fosterer!
As I see it being a FAILED fosterer is a win/win!

If you feel this way about Freya going back then DONT give her back!

Jesse and Freya are friends - you cant deprive Jesse of her buddy?!?!
You cant rehome Freya when she is happy with you and Jesse, and you dont want to give her back
If you are going away on holiday, Freya will keep Jesse company in your absence!
All win/win really
There! Have I talked some sense in to you?!?!?

tk123 · 03-08-2015 1:51pm

Oh Zapperzy I thought you were tough!!

This is why I wonder if we really could take on a puppy to socialise then hand it back. I think I could knowing it was going to a child.. but know it'd be a bit heartbreaking at the same time!

Anyways looooooook - SPACE!!!! The liner is a bit manky with sand and muck and it's before I put the vet bed back in - which I think I'll have to change as it's straw/gold colour and doesn't really fit in now lol!!! :pac: The dogs are delighted with it!

reallyrose · 04-08-2015 3:09pm

Henry had his first vet on Saturday. He was quite good but very wiggley - at one stage he was trying to climb the wall beside the vet's computer while the vet was filling in his details.

Better behaved than Swanson ever was though!

The two cats are getting on well, they play together. Swanson just has to give Henry the odd box to keep him in line. :pac:

tk123 · 07-08-2015 7:18pm

We're watching Emmerdale and one of the characters was crying - Lucy looked up and watched it for a min then turned around and cried to us lol!!

Kovu · 08-08-2015 11:29am

Have to bring Kovu in to the vet again for another LA injection, three weeks in the collar now! While on the phone to the vet, she asked if he'd stopped going up to the attic, which he has at it must have been irritating his leg.

Anyway after I hung up, I turned to mum and said ''Thank feck Conehead has forgotten about the attic, he's not looked to get up for over a week!''
And Kovu, who had been lying on the kitchen floor, got up and walked out of the kitchen up the hallway and started looking up and miaowing. The brat knows the word attic!! :pac:

08-08-2015 5:40pm

Amelia just posted in the Dublin forum.

She typed "N", and posted it.

I deleted it, it didn't seem relevant to the discussion.

angeldaisy · 10-08-2015 8:41am

Just back from holiday late last night, very strange to come back to a house with no dogs. I can't pick them up until later this morning! Have to say as much as I love them and enjoy doggie cuddles, it's lovely not to have dog hair everywhere and to find stuff in the same place I left it!
Only a fleeting thought though, can't wait to get the 2 troublemakers home!

tk123 · 10-08-2015 10:13am

angeldaisy wrote: »

Just back from holiday late last night, very strange to come back to a house with no dogs. I can't pick them up until later this morning! Have to say as much as I love them and enjoy doggie cuddles, it's lovely not to have dog hair everywhere and to find stuff in the same place I left it!
Only a fleeting thought though, can't wait to get the 2 troublemakers home!

I'm the same when I come back. You like the peace and quiet... then it's TOO quiet lol!! :pac:

ShaShaBear · 10-08-2015 10:40am

Anyone want to house Opie while I go on holidays?
I promise we will come back for him :pac:

mymo · 10-08-2015 12:21pm

I'm currently out of the country and miss the furry monsters, very quiet without them, hope to be home in a few days if all goes well. Can't wait to get them home, I even miss Ruby's wailing!

angeldaisy · 10-08-2015 2:03pm

Well got them back home and they've had a ball!! Got told that they were lovely affectionate dogs if a bit bouncy. Which I interpreted as nice but mental!!

I forgot to leave food for them, so their coats are a bit flaky. Just shows the difference food can make!

Elly is asleep as close to me as she can get without actually sitting on me and Tara is asleep in the sunshine.

SillyMangoX · 11-08-2015 5:43pm

We have two big ant hills in our garden and they seem worse than ever last year. The three cats are being eaten alive by them because they're silly and like to sleep on/beside the hills. Cream and Dude are both on antibiotics and have to wear cones, and all three of them are on steroids for the itching! I won't let my parents call out rent o kill because the chemicals would be damaging to the cats too, but I'm really getting fed up of all these ants and my poor itchy cats! Only good thing is that the ants haven't come into the house.

ACD · 14-08-2015 3:33pm

Yesterday I made my first ever homemade treats for our dogs, they are killing themselves for them, guess that couple hours I spent making them paid off

tk123 · 14-08-2015 3:45pm

ACD wrote: »

Yesterday I made my first ever homemade treats for our dogs, they are killing themselves for them, guess that couple hours I spent making them paid off

I made a big batch a few months ago and gave my friend a bag for her dog - dried sweet potato and strips of turkey etc. He managed to open the press where she had them and robbed the lot! :pac::pac:

muddypaws · 14-08-2015 5:44pm

ACD wrote: »

Yesterday I made my first ever homemade treats for our dogs, they are killing themselves for them, guess that couple hours I spent making them paid off

What did you make? My lot love the beef jerky I'm now making for them.

ACD · 14-08-2015 7:03pm

I made liver-cheese-spinach cookies, used rice flour instead of wheat. They are quite big, so I break them into small pieces when I use them for training. Would love to do jerky, but have to buy a dehydrator first, I tried once in the oven, but it didn't turn out that great... Maybe I did something wrong

tk123 · 14-08-2015 7:32pm

muddypaws wrote: »

What did you make? My lot love the beef jerky I'm now making for them.

Beef stir fry strips on offer in Lidl atm!!

Dubl07 · 14-08-2015 9:18pm

SillyMangoX wrote: »

We have two big ant hills in our garden and they seem worse than ever last year. The three cats are being eaten alive by them because they're silly and like to sleep on/beside the hills. Cream and Dude are both on antibiotics and have to wear cones, and all three of them are on steroids for the itching! I won't let my parents call out rent o kill because the chemicals would be damaging to the cats too, but I'm really getting fed up of all these ants and my poor itchy cats! Only good thing is that the ants haven't come into the house.

Buy a bag of popping corn and grind it to powder before dousing the anthills. One of those internet tips that apparently works!

angeldaisy · 14-08-2015 9:19pm

just did a bit of brain training with my two, we have one of those toys that you hide food either under a slider or under a little cover.

Elly, the super intelligent collie x(:eek:) , managed the sliders but really struggled with the covers, resorting to attempting to scratch the food out.

Tara, the jrt / daschund x,did it with no problems, neatly lifting off the covers with her teeth.

Will be interesting to do it another day and see if she improves!

tk123 · 15-08-2015 12:15am

Lucy puked up the night before last - tripe and salmon mix that day so nice and stinky. She's just woken me up there about to puke again jumped up out of my sleep with a towel sending poor Bailey jumpong out of his bed (he's on the bottom ('bunk'). She doesn't really get the whole puking on a towel think so I had to keep moving it under her and she's move her head... Anyways job done she pukes and I bag up the towel and put a bath towel over the bed. Both waiting for me on the landing while I left the towel down in the kitchen in for the morning. Come back up and they both decide they're sleeping on my bed after the trauma.. Eh grand but there's just one problem with their sleeping formation - where am I supposed it fit!?

mymo · 15-08-2015 11:17pm

We're home!
Picked up two very tired dogs, Oliver got his fav toy and went and got in my bed!
I painted the windowsills as the cats aren't being collected until tomorrow, finally got them done, they better dry quick!

FelineOverLord · 16-08-2015 12:03pm

SillyMangoX wrote: »

We have two big ant hills in our garden and they seem worse than ever last year. The three cats are being eaten alive by them because they're silly and like to sleep on/beside the hills. Cream and Dude are both on antibiotics and have to wear cones, and all three of them are on steroids for the itching! I won't let my parents call out rent o kill because the chemicals would be damaging to the cats too, but I'm really getting fed up of all these ants and my poor itchy cats! Only good thing is that the ants haven't come into the house.

Mix equal parts baking soda and icing sugar and scatter around the ant areas. The ants will eat it and it kills them. It's cheap and non toxic to pets and other wildlife.

SillyMangoX · 16-08-2015 12:16pm

FelineOverLord wrote: »

Mix equal parts baking soda and icing sugar and scatter around the ant areas. The ants will eat it and it kills them. It's cheap and non toxic to pets and other wildlife.

I think we will have to cover the entire garden at this stage! We've identified two hills which are the main source but they are also all over the driveway and cracks in the footpath. The cats finished up their antibiotics last night so their itchiness isn't quite as bad, back to the vet tomorrow for a check up!

FelineOverLord · 16-08-2015 12:39pm

SillyMangoX wrote: »

I think we will have to cover the entire garden at this stage! We've identified two hills which are the main source but they are also all over the driveway and cracks in the footpath. The cats finished up their antibiotics last night so their itchiness isn't quite as bad, back to the vet tomorrow for a check up!

I leave little mounds of it scattered around and they find it in no time.

mymo · 16-08-2015 11:52pm

We have a lot of ants too this year, my neighbour has had his house treated last year and again this year, but he's still having issues, thankfully they are just in certain spots in our garden.

Picked the cats up this morning and they all wailed all the way home, then, Ruby spent the day following us and wailing, the others just followed us around, with the odd meow. Jake even followed us to the bathroom to watch the dogs getting washed.
Sat on the side of the bath purring and looking smug!

Kovu · 17-08-2015 8:32am

I'm now living up in Dublin and Conehead can't come cause of traffic. He's grand in low level stuff but he'd be like a pregnant nun in a nunnery if I brought him up.
I miss my Kovu

reallyrose · 17-08-2015 3:52pm

Henry has stopped running around at 300 miles an hour, 18 hours a day, and has learned about Rubs. Now he's a little rub savage and Swanson just sits there like a lonely little sad alone cat, remembering when HE got rubs and was full of youth and joy and kibble. Even though he can have rubs any time and actually spent all of Sunday outside whoring himself out to GAA supporters.

19-08-2015 12:38am

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Much love,
Amelia.

Yup, she actually managed to send a bloody email this time. Exact text (apart from the sign off obviously!). At least it was to a friend of mine who knows and loves her, probably feels special.

I must say it's hard to play webgames with a cat on the laptop and her tail in your face.

Dandelion6 · 19-08-2015 6:42am

Deleted User wrote: »

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Much love,
Amelia.

Yup, she actually managed to send a bloody email this time. Exact text (apart from the sign off obviously!). At least it was to a friend of mine who knows and loves her, probably feels special.

Sammy did the same last week, via direct message on Twitter. The message: [pp-;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;--

borderlinemeath · 19-08-2015 10:31pm

Benson has been following me around the house for the past couple of days. If I go anywhere he's behind me within about 10 seconds. Right now he's snuggled into my side with his paw resting on my leg. Usually he's more independent during the day, ie if I moved about he'd stay in his bed or be just out in the garden.

PS Baby is due next week, was thinking that it might have something to do with it!

tk123 · 19-08-2015 10:39pm

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Benson has been following me around the house for the past couple of days. If I go anywhere he's behind me within about 10 seconds. Right now he's snuggled into my side with his paw resting on my leg. Usually he's more independent during the day, ie if I moved about he'd stay in his bed or be just out in the garden.

PS Baby is due next week, was thinking that it might have something to do with it!

My mum suffers with migraines and Bailey is always glued to her giving his paw non-stop before, during and after! So maybe something is going to happen with the baby(!)....or you're going to get a headache lol!

borderlinemeath · 19-08-2015 11:04pm

This is him last night

I rarely have headaches, and don't feel sick apart from tiredness and lack of mobility so hopefully it's baby getting a move on!

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