The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

Cherry Blossom · 25-02-2011 8:11am #1

Have you got that Friday feeling?

How is your day going? Who has any special plans with their pet dogs/cats/hamsters/earthworms etc. ?

I'm off to walk my dog soon before breakfast, then try and locate and figure out what to do about a heavily pregnant very young cat I saw wandering about yesterday. Tomorrow is agility day so busy morning then chillout for the rest of the day with no kids here, yay!

unless the cat problem hasn't been sorted out of course :rolleyes:

Suggestions for what to do on Sunday on a postcard please! (or just post them on the thread)

Whispered · 25-02-2011 12:28pm

No friday feeling here. I'm working tomorow and sunday night, I'm trying to shove the whole weekend into a few hours each day.

The only plan I really have for today is a take away and a glass of wine. Tomorrow I'd like to bring the two dogs up the mountains (phoes first "adventure") but I'm not sure I'll have the time this weekend.

So much washing and cleaning to catch up on. Desperately want to catch up on some sleep too. And look here I am wasting time!

poconnor16 · 25-02-2011 4:43pm

Major friday feeling for me

Once I get the voting out of the way, it's home for the friday ritual. Myself and my other half on the couch watching the Late Late show, flanked on either side by a 6mth old and 4 mth old kitten. Bottle of wine and pizza....one cat eats some of the meat from the pizza while the other likes to take the stuffed crust and run away with it.
No wine for the kitties but they are treated to a box of whiskas temptations.:rolleyes:

We all cuddle up together on our couch - its my happy place.:o

toadfly · 25-02-2011 5:11pm

poconnor16 wrote: »

We all cuddle up together on our couch - its my happy place.:o

Thats so cute

What a crap year, its just one thing after another and I am getting so sick of it all :mad:

My foster dog is pregnant :eek: and the dope of an owner that surrendered her doesnt know who she was mated with. Hope she'll be ok, she is such a baby. I havent a clue about baby dogs and them being born!

Whispered · 25-02-2011 5:15pm

Tillygirl - I'm jealous! I know it's a worrying time but so exciting as well.

toadfly · 25-02-2011 5:17pm

Oh ya I know, I cant wait for the pups to be born and her to be ok. Its just we both work fulltime so maybe a different foster home with more time would be more suitable? I dunno..Im gonna miss her so much when she is rehomed.

Hows Phoenix?

Tranceypoo · 25-02-2011 5:24pm

Well, I'm picking up our foster dog tomorrow so that's my weekend taken care of, settling her in and hopefully she will get on with my dog and they will be good pals and if it all works out we may even end up keeping her, but I'll try and wait for a couple of months to decide that (am I fooling anyone?!)

Very excited, a bit scared (first foster), getting the crate out of the garage and the bedding all clean, fingers crossed.

Whispered · 25-02-2011 5:31pm

Maybe you're right about a more suitable foster home. Pity isn't it, because I'm sure it's something amazing to be a part of. I'd love to have a pregnant bitch here. I know it'd be a lot of work, but something I'd really like to experience.

He's doing great. Getting well able to express himself! Crying to come in from the back garden and crying in his crate, but if left out in the kitchen and I leave the room, crying to come with me. It seems to be a phase that started in the last 2 or 3 days.

He's like a little bird though, once you cover the crate he goes asleep

Tranceypoo - you're not fooling anyone :pac: Best of luck! I'm sure you know this already, but the way you handle the 2 dogs intro's will have a huge impact on how they get along.

Hellrazer · 25-02-2011 7:44pm

Got my voting out of the way at 7.05 this morning.Chinese and a movie tonight.

Cars NCT is tomorrow at 4.00 so I`ll spend tomorrow getting that ready.

Thread stickied BTW.

Discodog · 25-02-2011 8:06pm

Tranceypoo wrote: »

Very excited, a bit scared (first foster), getting the crate out of the garage and the bedding all clean, fingers crossed.

If you are scared & excited the dog will pick up on it. Have a glass or two & chill then your dog won't feel so stressed. Act like it's no big deal. You've bought a mate home & it's up to them to get on.

I sympathise with you poor peeps who need a chillout zone - I am permanently chilled

Tranceypoo · 25-02-2011 8:51pm

Thanks guys, I think I will be ok, I'm picturing them running round the field together, my dog is very laid back and loves other dogs and apparently she is very similar personality so I'm sure it will be fine, I'm going to take them for a walk in the woods and then home for some quiet time, I'm not going to make a huge fuss of her, just let her settle in and find her feet/paws in her own time and let her get into our routine, I will post some pictures soon!!

belongtojazz · 25-02-2011 8:54pm

Well my plans for the start of the weekend got slightly sidetracked, I got in from work to find my daughter had taken the small dogs for a walk... well done I hear you say, well it would have been much better if she had washed the smallest one before I got home!

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She thought I'd get a laugh out of the state of her... oh and she hates giving her a bath :rolleyes:

Edit: Hopefully picture works first time i've tried it this way

LucyBliss · 25-02-2011 10:31pm

Voting is done, dogs are walked and are now sitting comfortably on the couch with my mother watching TV in the other room, while I am putting together a slideshow for this Sunday's Irish Girl Guides Thinking Day celebration in Athlone. When the dogs realised that I was going to be sitting at the kitchen table for a while and that my lap was not sufficient for all three of them to lie on (though bless them, they did try), they decided to go to my mother.

I have been abandoned!!

Cherry Blossom · 26-02-2011 12:21am

Ooohhh, I got stickied! and at a time when stickies are being removed because there's too many :eek:

I couldn't find that ruddy cat anywhere! At least the voting got done, let's hope for at least some sort of competent people, I think it's going to be a fairly mixed bunch, maybe that's a good thing, maybe not.

minxie · 26-02-2011 3:07am

Voted this morning early, walked the hound, slaved for 8 hours!!

Home now and having a few glass of wine

Working sunday so tonights my "off" night .

Currently being given the 'You Dont Love Me' eyes from a spoilt
rotten 5 year old pom cross just because I wont get down on my knees
and Play with teddy with her

GalwayKiefer · 26-02-2011 10:43am

It's Saturday night here which means movie time

I'm going to bring my fella for his evening walk aaallllll the way down to the local Chinese in a minute and then have him prancing like a pony the whole way back trying to walk to heel and get a good whiff of the food at the same time.

anniehoo · 26-02-2011 8:10pm

Hellrazer wrote: »

Thread stickied BTW.

Why?

Theres already an Non Animally Off topic thread, why another one? I still disagree with the decision to unstickie "Departed Pets" yet theres now another waffly thread stickied at the top of the forum.
Sorry no offence AJ at all.

:mad:

Whispered · 26-02-2011 8:43pm

I think AJ started this thread because the off topic thread was turned into a feedback thread because the feedback thread was closed.

I think the idea is any feedback like this is in the off topic thread and this thread is for just a bit of chat and chilling out.

(thread)

Discodog · 26-02-2011 8:49pm

This is the place where old discodogs can come & be whispered to by adrenaline junkies.

anniehoo · 26-02-2011 9:14pm

Whispered wrote: »

I think the idea is any feedback like this is in the off topic thread and this thread is for just a bit of chat and chilling out.

The other threads were unstickied as Seamus said the top of the page was getting cluttered. Stickying this one aswell as an "off topic" thread defeats the purpose no? I dont look at the Off topic thread and this one i definitely wont look at much. So for me its 2 pointless threads stickied when others have been let go.

/*grumbles* as im still annoyed over Departed Pets. Ill take it to PM sorry folks dont wanna ruin it for ya.

Whispered · 26-02-2011 9:22pm

Discodog wrote: »

This is the place where old discodogs can come & be whispered to by adrenaline junkies.

*whispers* Leave me alone or I'll scream

Cherry Blossom · 27-02-2011 12:39am

Discodog wrote: »

This is the place where old discodogs can come & be whispered to by adrenaline junkies.

Why are you still here if you don't need to chill :rolleyes:

Anniehoo - this wasn't supposed to be an off-topic thread, it's a what are doing with your pets today that isn't worth starting a thread about thread.

Issues re: threads and any grievances with mod decisions etc. are to be aired in the off-topic thread not the thread they relate to. I don't know why, I just started a nice friendly thread because I got fed up reading about posters arguing with each other and with mods

Anyway someones having a party next door and my dog is extremely annoyed that she wasn't invited. I suspect she's going to winge about it all night

. I still didn't find that cat either so my chill is ruined now anyway. :rolleyes:

Whispered · 27-02-2011 12:54am

Well at least you're in a position to at least listen to a party! I'm here in work. 2 dogs at home wrecked after a busy day and husband out watching some sports and playing poker.

Found out today I'm being brought to London for a night for my birthday in 2 week. :eek: That's after almost 10 years of me having to remind him it's my birthday. Could get used to this being married malarkey.

We went for a good long exploring walk today. The two dogs had a blast. We saw deer, frogs, a heaving mass of frog spawn (lovely to see so much) we sunbathed on a few big rocks, then got hailed on, sheltered under a tree. About this time phoe got really p'd off. The first few photos show him looking happy and running around. the last few show him with an angry little face. Harley bless him just looks delighted with life all the time.

Have you decided what to do with sunday yet AJ?

Cherry Blossom · 27-02-2011 1:10am

Whispered wrote: »

Have you decided what to do with sunday yet AJ?

I have to collect a bale of hay . . . . somehow, because the grass is refusing to grow no matter how much I scream at it :rolleyes:. Then I'll walk around like a zombie for a while due my hectic social life a.k.a. the privillage of hearing a party as background music to a dog wingeing and crying because the door refuses to open itself so she introduce herself to a load of drunk people.

Discodog · 27-02-2011 1:57am

Whispered wrote: »

*whispers* Leave me alone or I'll scream

adrenalinjunkie wrote: »

Why are you still here if you don't need to chill :rolleyes:

Gosh you ladies know how to hurt

Whispered · 27-02-2011 2:26am

Still partying away AJ?

DD I was just being a bit of a bitch, but I think AJ might be playing hard to get. :pac:

Cherry Blossom · 27-02-2011 3:37am

Afraid so, some people seem to have left though so at least it doesn't look like an all-nighter :pac:

EGAR · 27-02-2011 1:55pm

I have the first two rounds done and am having a quick look through the net and trying NOT to look at my van every time I walk past it...

I am still reeling from the destruction caused in such a short time by such a placid dog...

Whispered · 27-02-2011 6:30pm

I'm sure you felt like having a rethink of EGARS no kill policy.

How are you feeling now? Any hope of getting it sorted?

EGAR · 27-02-2011 7:23pm

I am supposed to get a dashboard tomorrow but there are wires sticking out everywhere and bits I don't even know what they are.. This is going to be very expensive and to be honest, I am feeling like throwing the towel.. :mad:

The Sweeper · 27-02-2011 7:34pm

Monday morning here, 5.30am. Hubby gone to work for the week, dog's bed moved back to the foot of our bed (hubby insists on dog's bed being outside our door when he's home). Was going to walk dog early, but he's snoring here and doesn't want to get up!! Going to go clean kitchen instead. :-)

Discodog · 02-03-2011 9:57pm

So the youngster was charging around sniffing the sniffs & must of run into a rock with his mouth open as a canine tooth was sticking out at 90 degrees. He only let out a tiny yelp !.

A whole day at the Vet, a €100 bill & a dog minus two teeth !

lrushe · 02-03-2011 10:08pm

Shedding season seems to have started in my house, grrrrr, this time of year is a pain in the backside, sick of sweeping up already :rolleyes:

Graces7 · 02-03-2011 11:17pm

Collie must have found something very old and very rotten as she has been sick a few times... Meds seem to have helped..

Either that or old age affecting her insides.Poor old girl; she loves her food so much.

And now they tell me that the Housing Officer is finally coming tomorrow... has taken since September to get this far.. please God collie is not sick as he arrives at the door..;)

Everything here stinks as they are once more muckspreading morning noon and night. In Texas they call it the smell of money. Not what my name for it is....

But there are snowdrops out and even a few daffodils....

belongtojazz · 03-03-2011 10:13pm

lrushe wrote: »

Shedding season seems to have started in my house, grrrrr, this time of year is a pain in the backside, sick of sweeping up already :rolleyes:

Tell me about it!!! I spent an hour and a half brushing my springer last Friday and I'm gonna have to do the same again tomorrow I reckon :rolleyes: roll on the warmer weather when I can get him shaved

The terriers don't seem to have started yet but I'm sure it won't be long now.... and they can't be shaved as they're all short haired, me and my hoover are going to be even better mates

lrushe · 04-03-2011 8:22am

belongtojazz wrote: »

The terriers don't seem to have started yet but I'm sure it won't be long now.... and they can't be shaved as they're all short haired, me and my hoover are going to be even better mates

I think the short haired are worse, my Chihuhua would have a similiar coat to a JRT and it gets everywhere, your clothes, the couch, the mats and because it is straight rigid hair it sticks into fabics like a pin and it's a nightmare to hoover out :rolleyes:
My Spitz, although he is long haired he only really sheds his undercoat which pretty much stays put until I brush him out but even at that he would need brushing everyday for week or so to get rid of it all.
I feel exhausted just thinking about the work ahead!!! :P

lorebringer · 04-03-2011 3:46pm

belongtojazz wrote: »

roll on the warmer weather when I can get him shaved

Here here! I'm brushing and vacuuming like the bejesus and still there are fur ball tumble weeds around the house! When the dogs move, a plume of hair rises off them and they are oblivious to it - well for some!

belongtojazz · 05-03-2011 12:24am

lrushe wrote: »

I think the short haired are worse, my Chihuhua would have a similiar coat to a JRT and it gets everywhere, your clothes, the couch, the mats and because it is straight rigid hair it sticks into fabics like a pin and it's a nightmare to hoover out :rolleyes:
My Spitz, although he is long haired he only really sheds his undercoat which pretty much stays put until I brush him out but even at that he would need brushing everyday for week or so to get rid of it all.
I feel exhausted just thinking about the work ahead!!! :P

I thin in reality I'm in denial when it comes to my Jacks

I found myself this evening on my hands and knees using the furminator on the carpet... the really scary part is I'm not in the remotest bit houseproud

but wow these dogs loose a lot of hair.
I would recommend the furmninator it picked up everything the hoover (which was very expensive and generally great) left behind

Whispered · 05-03-2011 7:59pm

Just back from a lovely run in the curragh. The two boys had a ball! They have so much fun together. It's gas, Harley is twice the size of Phoenix, but it doesn't stop the little fella from trying his best to knock him.

I can't tell you how quickly and deeply he's wormed his way into our hearts.

Discodog · 05-03-2011 8:14pm

So my pup is nursing his still sore jaw & he runs into the only obstacle on my back lawn - the metal clothes line pole :eek:

Whispered · 05-03-2011 8:22pm

What happened to his jaw?

Discodog · 05-03-2011 8:30pm

Discodog wrote: »

So the youngster was charging around sniffing the sniffs & must of run into a rock with his mouth open as a canine tooth was sticking out at 90 degrees. He only let out a tiny yelp !.

A whole day at the Vet, a €100 bill & a dog minus two teeth !

The Vet had to a lot of work as the tooth had split below the jawline & one bit didn't want to come out.

Whispered · 05-03-2011 8:35pm

Ah poor little pet. Did he hurt himself when he ran into the pole? I'm always amazed at how they can knock themselves around and not react.

ppink · 05-03-2011 9:47pm

Whispered wrote: »

Just back from a lovely run in the curragh. The two boys had a ball! They have so much fun together. It's gas, Harley is twice the size of Phoenix, but it doesn't stop the little fella from trying his best to knock him. I can't tell you how quickly and deeply he's wormed his way into our hearts.

:D but will his surname soon be Whispered:p

Discodog · 06-03-2011 1:10am

Whispered wrote: »

Ah poor little pet. Did he hurt himself when he ran into the pole? I'm always amazed at how they can knock themselves around and not react.

This morning he forgot & picked a play fight with my Greyhound. She gave him a playful whack in the mouth & then looked amazed at why he yelped !.

Whispered · 06-03-2011 1:30am

ppink wrote: »

:D but will his surname soon be Whispered:p

His name is phoenix egar (he's on facebook!). Don't think he'll be changing it for a while. Not until he's hairy anyway

Discodog wrote: »

This morning he forgot & picked a play fight with my Greyhound. She gave him a playful whack in the mouth & then looked amazed at why he yelped !.

Ah poor thing. Actually, you'll be able to tell me. If they are hurting each other, they will yelp right? I'm not used to having 2 dogs and their play often looks really rough.

Discodog · 06-03-2011 1:40am

Most dogs especially the younger ones use the yelp as a way of saying "enough I give in" so it isn't always an indication of pain. Also dogs really vary on how they use the yelp. My Greyhound probably had it rough as a pup because she yelps at anything. It's quite funny coming back into the Vets waiting room & looking at the faces, after she has screamed the place down because of a simple Vac. She may of been hit in the past as the yelp is a way of stopping someone from hitting again.

As you get used to watching them interact you will spot the tiniest gestures of body language. The Greyhound can make the pup freeze & stop play fighting just by lifting her top lip ever so slightly !.

Whispered · 06-03-2011 2:06am

I haven't heard Harley yelp for as long as I know him. Same with Phoe (although I don't know him long). See they both have staffy in them, so I'm guessing they probably wont yelp as quickly as some other dogs, tenacious little brats.

Funny story - yesterday, Phoe was lying in bed chewing a bone. Harley went to take it from him and I obviously corrected him. I looked away, and when I looked back, Harley was dragging Phoenix's blanket, with Phoe on it (bone still in mouth), into his crate. Like he was thinking "If I can't take the bone from Phoenix, I'll just take Phoenix"

How old is your greyhound? I saw a man walking 2 fab ones today. They were muzzled. Is this the law?

mymo · 06-03-2011 8:31pm

Just back from the beach at the Hook peninsula, had it all to ourselves, stopped for tea at the lighthouse, looked for fossils in the rocks.
It was my first really good walk in weeks due to illness, and really enjoyed it.
Dogs and daughter knackered:D
I'm having a peaceful night tonight, with the remote all to myself:p!

Happy Sunday!

The Sweeper · 07-03-2011 12:43am

Had excellent puppy play date sunday afternoon. Friend brought over her two dogs - intact 5 y/o male malamute and spayed 5 y/o husky bitch, to play with Gus. Jasper, the entire male, was good about Gus (who was like one ginormous wiggle the second he saw the two of them).

We brought the sled dogs into the dog run through the garage with Gus in the garden, and let the three dogs meet through the wire run fence first, then after watching them for five minutes to make sure there was no posturing we opened the gate. Gus was beside himself, but also extremely respectful of Jasper (who at 40kgs with a head like a bear is an impressive dog). I had been very wary that Jasper might get very irritated by my dog bouncing around 'his' bitch, but he seemed to twig that Gus was 10 months old on 1st March and really is still a pup and was suitably both patient and aloof when Gus was being irritating.

The main thing is at the end of the playdate - 1.30pm to 5.30pm and we had a barbecue lunch while they were playing - I had this:

Whispered · 07-03-2011 3:10am

Nothing like another dog to tire each other out.

Sounds like a lovely sunday!

The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

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