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The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭toadfly


    Whispered wrote: »

    Ah, haha she was making sure she got her fibre in. Does she scavenge or is she just a little opportunist?

    Phoenix once swallowed a whole tea-bag :o Literally the only thing I've ever found that he doesn't eat is brie cheese.

    I had them wrapped in paper for recycling on the counter but obviously not back far enough from the edge. She chews up teabags and then spits them out so it looks like something else :-(


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    The only think Bailey spits out and doesn't eat is paper when he decides to shred it!! Which is exactly why I've been trying to teach him 'shame' - where they put their paw over their eyes lol :D His leave it is very good in fairness to him - if I drop something he'll wait for permission to gobble it up!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    mymo wrote: »
    I swear oliver likes tea bags, steals them from the bin. He will eat just about anything, except fruit!
    Bananas he will eat cooked in biscuits and muffins, apple again cooked only, pear he will have a nibble but not keen, kiwis, no way!
    He likes Brie, once he ate samples of cheese my daughter got, one was pickled onion, another chilli and other one cranberry.
    Also ate my lunch today, butternut squash soup with chilli flakes and a bagel!
    Hope he enjoyed it, I was mad as hell! Got the "but I thought you left it on the side table just for me!" face, with the eyes....couldn't stay mad.


    Daughter and her friends walked all the dogs for 2 hours today, I had to collect them as they walk too far and it was getting dark(walked along river, not safe to walk in dark) the stink on the way home was awful, all 4 dogs rolled in something!
    My two are currently snoring after a wash and blow dry. Thank god!
    Poor mouse is still very wobbly, trying to keep her still, she's snoozing with dogs at the mo.

    haha the joys of dogs. You just can't keep your car clean. A few years ago, Kieran got a new car. When going for a walk we brought along towels and doggy wipes to make sure Harley was clean getting back into it.

    He went for a swim, and despite cleaning and drying him as much as we could he was still a bit damp. He got into the car and for the first time ever, and since, he started shaking the water off in the car. The seats, windows, ceiling, floors & dash were covered in little flecks of muddy water.

    :D:D

    tk123 wrote: »
    The only think Bailey spits out and doesn't eat is paper when he decides to shred it!! Which is exactly why I've been trying to teach him 'shame' - where they put their paw over their eyes lol :D His leave it is very good in fairness to him - if I drop something he'll wait for permission to gobble it up!

    How are you teaching that? Is it going well?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Whispered wrote: »

    How are you teaching that? Is it going well?

    Sellotape on nose and click when his paw is in the right position as he goes to rub it off. He's done it once on command but it was a fluke - after that he couldnt figure out what i wanted him to do and gave out to me lol! I think he'll get it in a few more sessions though. The stumbling block was getting him to realise it's his nose and not the tape he's meant to touch - I tried to progress to early and took the tape away... he was whacking the roll of tape with his paw lol!! :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    We bought Mouse a kong kickeroo some time ago, she loves the noise it makes and plays with it a lot. Yesterday while she was away being neutered Jake started rolling around playing with it and purring, today Toby is doing the same.
    My daughter just noticed how much they were enjoying it and suggested we get another as Mouse usually monopolises this one. Off she went googling them and suddenly said "oh my god! It's got catnip, they're getting high right in front of me! You are supposed to be discouraging me from a life of drugs and the cats are getting high in front of me in our living room!"
    :D:D:D
    Am I a bad mother for laughing so much? :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    I had Cream sitting on my lap in bed this morning and as my legs were crossed by dodgy knee was beginning to get very sore so I had to move him to try straightening it out, so I went to pick him as I normally would by lifting him by the armpits. He growled at me, this happened on all 3 attempts. So I just had to sit there with my sore knee and let him sleep. Spoiled fecker!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Trying to sleep but Jake purring too loud, even the dog got up off his bed and left the room with a sigh!He usually stops and goes to sleep after a couple of mins but he's very purry tonight. Can't shut him out of the room or he bawls and roams the house calling and wakes everyone. He just snoozes down the bottom of the bed most nights, after a couple of mins of purring, 22 mins so far tonight, gotta get up in 6hrs:(


  • Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭bluecherry74


    Henry just chewed my nightguard to bits! :(:( (A mouthguard type thing I wear at night to stop me grinding.) it was custom made and expensive. I could hear him chewing something but assumed it was the upstairs bone. I swear, just when I think he's grown up and can be trusted he goes and does something like this.

    Anyone want a cute English Setter? :) Just kidding, I still love him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Henry just chewed my nightguard to bits! :(:( (A mouthguard type thing I wear at night to stop me grinding.) it was custom made and expensive. I could hear him chewing something but assumed it was the upstairs bone. I swear, just when I think he's grown up and can be trusted he goes and does something like this.

    Anyone want a cute English Setter? :) Just kidding, I still love him.

    NOooooooooooo!!!! :( I don't think I could sleep without mine - and if I did I'd wake up with a mouth full of broken teeth!!
    The one I have now **touch wood touch wood touch wood** has been my longest serving one @ 4 years in June and is the best one I ever had. Also the most expensive - it was €460! :eek: My dentist packed me off to a specialist after he made me two that only lasted 6 months each.:P

    My friends setter went missing one morning - was found in his bed eating their guest's false teeth!! :D She ran out the door with him to the park and left her husband to do the explaining! :pac::pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    tk123 wrote: »
    My friends setter went missing one morning - was found in his bed eating their guest's false teeth!! :D She ran out the door with him to the park and left her husband to do the explaining! :pac::pac:

    :D:D

    Years ago when I was still living at home we had a golden retriever called Elvis. Every summer most of my family, Elvis included decamped down to Brittas Bay to the mobile home. The mobile across the way had a couple of teenage daughters and one day Elvis decided to take their bikinis that were hanging over the side of the decking. He managed to get 2 tops and a bottoms into his bed which weren't discovered for a few hours. My sister had to wash them and sneak them back in the dead of night:o.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    LOL! Brilliant! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Crazy mad dogs this morning thanks to an inch of snow, bouncy around the house and garden, jumping on beds and sofa! Worse than kids, cats are hiding in warm beds, refusing to go out.I swear the dogs knew it was snowing last night, we're pacing the hall at 3am and woke me, it was chucking it down.


  • Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭bluecherry74


    tk123 wrote: »
    My friends setter went missing one morning - was found in his bed eating their guest's false teeth!! :D
    Elvis decided to take their bikinis

    :eek: :D

    I was so shocked when I saw what he'd done that all I could do was squeak "HENRY" in a high pitched voice. The horrified look on his face was priceless! He knew he'd done something really really awful. In his defense, it's the only expensive thing he's every destroyed. Up until now it's only been boxes of tissues (he's obsessed) and bags of vegetables that didn't get put away.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    mymo wrote: »
    Crazy mad dogs this morning thanks to an inch of snow, bouncy around the house and garden, jumping on beds and sofa! Worse than kids, cats are hiding in warm beds, refusing to go out.I swear the dogs knew it was snowing last night, we're pacing the hall at 3am and woke me, it was chucking it down.

    Ah we just had a few snow flakes falling this morning for a minute! :( He looked up at it and sneezed lol!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    We were looking at google maps to make sure we could find a hotel we're visiting tomorrow and there is a woman lifting her dog up by the lead on it. Imagine one of those moments caught forever and put on the internet for all to see.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    So we took the plunge and decided to start crate training Henry so we might get a chance of a lie in every now and then. Turns out he didn't need much training, he happily went into it himself to investigate, brought some of his toys in, then at bed time went straight in and to sleep he didn't even mind us closing the door. Best of all he didn't wake us up at the crack of dawn this morning he just kept dozing. Can't believe how easy it was!

    Jake even went in at one point for some peace and quiet to have a bone. I'm delighted!


  • Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭bluecherry74


    I got the dogs some cow hooves on zooplus. The reviews warned that they were really smelly but when I opened the bag they didn't seem too bad, a bit like cows ears. An hour later and the room STINKS like a cow shed! I guess they're saliva activated!

    On the plus side they're lasting a really long time. I'll just keep my nose well stuck into my glass of wine...


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    I got the dogs some cow hooves on zooplus. The reviews warned that they were really smelly but when I opened the bag they didn't seem too bad, a bit like cows ears. An hour later and the room STINKS like a cow shed! I guess they're saliva activated!

    On the plus side they're lasting a really long time. I'll just keep my nose well stuck into my glass of wine...

    There's some things on zooplus I just couldn't stomach giving to the dog even though his stomach would enjoy them lol!! The puffy pig snouts for one and def the hooves and tracheas! GAH! :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    I was just sitting here watching telly when next thing I hear this classical music coming from the kitchen. Needless to say I was very freaked out as I'm home alone so I ran out to the kitchen to see what the hell was going on. Cream managed to turn on the radio and switch it to the CD player. I don't even know how to do that!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


    Chillin' on a saturday night :cool:

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    I was just sitting here watching telly when next thing I hear this classical music coming from the kitchen. Needless to say I was very freaked out as I'm home alone so I ran out to the kitchen to see what the hell was going on. Cream managed to turn on the radio and switch it to the CD player. I don't even know how to do that!
    Mouse does this often, radio in kitchen, she turns it on and off, and on, and off and on... Do not do what my daughter did, she turned up the radio to max when off, plan was to scare Mouse into stopping. This resulted in my tea splattering accross the kitchen, me choking and a near heart attack at 7am :o when Mouse did her trick.
    Took me until well after 10 to recover.
    Oh and Mouse was more scared of the tea exploding from my mouth than he noise!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


    Just saw this beautiful animation and wanted to share it with you guys. Made by an illustrator from disney.



  • Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭bluecherry74


    gavmcg92 wrote: »
    Just saw this beautiful animation and wanted to share it with you guys. Made by an illustrator from disney.

    That made me cry! Thanks for posting it, it captures the essence of a dog perfectly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


    That made me cry! Thanks for posting it, it captures the essence of a dog perfectly.

    I believe it is up for awards. Funny how something someone does in their spare time while also working on multi million dollar productions can produce something so beautiful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭nala2012


    Nala has discovered bubbles! Been minding my niece and she brought bubbles today, nala didn't know what to think at the start but after few minutes she was jumping up bursting them with her mouth and paws. So cute watching her and my niece playing she was trying to get nala to blow bubbles too :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    nala2012 wrote: »
    Nala has discovered bubbles! Been minding my niece and she brought bubbles today, nala didn't know what to think at the start but after few minutes she was jumping up bursting them with her mouth and paws. So cute watching her and my niece playing she was trying to get nala to blow bubbles too :)

    I've seen 'dog bubbles' online lol - I think they were in bacon flavour! :D.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    tk123 wrote: »
    I've seen 'dog bubbles' online lol - I think they were in bacon flavour! :D.



    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,316 ✭✭✭gavmcg92


    Millie would go straight for the machine :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    gavmcg92 wrote: »
    Millie would go straight for the machine :rolleyes:

    :D So would my boys! haha what will we do with them??!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    Word of warning, dogs will not distinguish between a bubble floating and one in the process of being blown. I was sporting a nice black eye for a while!!


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