The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

Whispered

Harley wants to be scattered in a river we walk to, up the mountains.

Phoe would like to be stored on the couch I reckon. Or in the fridge.

Cocolola

I wasn't sure if this warranted its own thread so I'll ask here for now if that's ok? Mods please move if you like

Is there any quick and easy way to get the smell of urine off a dog? Bathing isn't really an option for a couple of reasons, we don't have warm water in the taps and it's just impractical to be washing and drying his furry little legs every day, plus he really hates it!

Around 3 out of the 5 days a week Ollie goes to daycare, he comes home quite stinky, usually it's just his legs. It's not his own doing because this only ever happens when he's been there (it was lovely having the last few months off college, no smelly dog!). It's driving myself and the OH mad, we've been trying to leave him at home as often as possible this college term just to avoid the smell alone. The car trip home requires all windows down and then all evening is spent with the whiff of pee in the background. I've tried doggy versions of baby wipes but they don't seem to work much.

Oops sorry that was so long

tk123

Baby wipes!

aonb

My husband used to say our old dog has smelly feed (:cool: - he (the hubby) has a super sensitive nose) and we used to use BABYWIPES too.

The other thing you can try which we do cos our dogs all HATE HATE HATE being bathed (but would jump into any river/lake/stream with wild abandon) is put a little basin of water on the ground, add some vinegar or doggie shampoo - quick splash of each leg in, rub with a flannel/rag, job done in less than a minute!! (Course even with this foot bath my dogs act as if Im immersing them in boiling oil!!)

OP does your dog enjoy the doggy day-care? You could maybe ask the staff to de-smell him for you before your pick up time?!?!?

DBB

You can get no-rinse shampoos too, so you don't have to use water at all. Would something like this be of any use to you?

Cocolola

tk123 wrote: »

Baby wipes!

Oh dear, that's really obvious... Haha thanks tk! Should I go for the traditional Johnsons ones?

aonb wrote: »

My husband used to say our old dog has smelly feed (:cool: - he (the hubby) has a super sensitive nose) and we used to use BABYWIPES too.

Now I really am embarrassed I didn't think of these

The other thing you can try which we do cos our dogs all HATE HATE HATE being bathed (but would jump into any river/lake/stream with wild abandon) is put a little basin of water on the ground, add some vinegar or doggie shampoo - quick splash of each leg in, rub with a flannel/rag, job done in less than a minute!! (Course even with this foot bath my dogs act as if Im immersing them in boiling oil!!)

OP does your dog enjoy the doggy day-care? You could maybe ask the staff to de-smell him for you before your pick up time?!?!?

Again, this is such a simple and obvious solution, made worse by the fact that we just bought a spare basin (for no reason) the other week! He would probably tolerate this ok, he's quite a good creature.

Ya he's always tearing in the door to her in the mornings and seems to enjoy it there. The thing is it's just a small, run-from-home daycare with the one lady (and one man when it's her day off) minding the dogs and I'm far too shy and awkward to say anything!

DBB wrote: »

You can get no-rinse shampoos too, so you don't have to use water at all. Would something like this be of any use to you?

Ooh these sound good, *off to Google

EDIT: Ya these also look the business and there's a few reasonably priced ones on Amazon with good reviews. Cheers!

tk123

I just use aldi/lidl wipes! Furminator no rinse shampoo is great btw. I've seen it in Maxizoo

Pumpkinseeds

I think our favourite vet has left the practice we use. I asked on their Facebook page and got no response, so I'm taking that as a yes. We'll really miss her as we built up a lot of trust in her over the years.

Pumpkinseeds

We needed to replace the coffee table in the living room, the cats love to sit on it and watch out the window. I couldn't find anything I liked, so I bought one of those figure of 8 style wooden scratch tables instead. It was reduced to 45 pounds on Amazon and since they use the table and we don't it made more sense to buy it.

honerbright

My OH was checking something in the yard before and I asked what it was and he didn't want to tell me because I'd get upset. Finally got it out of him, it turns out he found a little stray kitten that had been knocked down in our estate a few days ago and bought it home to bury it and was just checking the burial site. Poor little thing :-(

Pumpkinseeds

Cocolola wrote: »

Oh dear, that's really obvious... Haha thanks tk! Should I go for the traditional Johnsons ones?



Now I really am embarrassed I didn't think of these



Again, this is such a simple and obvious solution, made worse by the fact that we just bought a spare basin (for no reason) the other week! He would probably tolerate this ok, he's quite a good creature.

Ya he's always tearing in the door to her in the mornings and seems to enjoy it there. The thing is it's just a small, run-from-home daycare with the one lady (and one man when it's her day off) minding the dogs and I'm far too shy and awkward to say anything!



Ooh these sound good, *off to Google

EDIT: Ya these also look the business and there's a few reasonably priced ones on Amazon with good reviews. Cheers!

We use Water Wipes, they're very gentle and work for Mr Pumpkinseeds, he uses them instead of loo roll, so they'd probably work fine on dogs:D

Cocolola

honerbright wrote: »

My OH was checking something in the yard before and I asked what it was and he didn't want to tell me because I'd get upset. Finally got it out of him, it turns out he found a little stray kitten that had been knocked down in our estate a few days ago and bought it home to bury it and was just checking the burial site. Poor little thing :-(

Your OH sounds absolutely wonderful honer, what a lovely caring thing to do. RIP little kitten

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

We use Water Wipes, they're very gentle and work for Mr Pumpkinseeds, he uses them instead of loo roll, so they'd probably work fine on dogs:D

Bahaha Well if it's good enough for him it's good enough for the mutt!

mymo

We decided to light the fire and watch a movie this evening, first time we lit the fire since about mid April.
Normally cats run in and find positions around it pretty quick, so we put a piece of vet bed about 3ft from the hearth, fluffy bum (the grey fluffy kitten we still haven't home and I refuse to name or she'll never go) plonked herself down and stretched out full length, smack in the middle. Our own three just looked on in disgust!

(Daughter has nicknamed her Gandalf as she's grey and no one could pass her to get near the fire)

SingItOut

I'm going to a rescue centres big fund raising event tomorrow, i very rarely bring moone to these things any more as she is a magnet for small children which is fine but she only has so much time for belly rubs before she looks to me to "save" her when they get too rough. She's also not a fan of hyper dogs and will correct them, I've never brought both her an Alli to an event on my own before so that could be interesting I just dont have the heart to leave moone at home and only bring Alli!

honerbright

Coming up on Maxs gotcha day in about a week and I finally managed to pick him up a few times the last day. Not full on picking him up, but working on it slowly by when he's sorting beside me just moving him onto my legs/stomach etc.

He's the clingliest cat I've come across in my life (not that I mind!) I went to England for two nights earlier in the month and my OH stayed at home and Max screamed the house down the entire time I was gone. He follows me everywhere in the house and if I'm on the couch he's pressed up beside me or on the bed he's right there as well... Even wake up to him licking me like crazy often enough. If I'm in a room with the door shut he prowls the house meowing at the top of his lungs. I think it's because when we bought him in he was riddled with a flu and I cleaned out his nostrils (he couldn't breath) and syringed him food and water for a few days.

I'll have to look through all my photos and do a then/now post in the picture thread because there's some difference in the sick, scrawny and scared little cat we caught to this big, shiny cuddle monster we have now.

Pumpkinseeds

Toby and Max sound very alike:) Toby follows me everywhere in the house and tried to come for a walk with me one night, I looked back and he was galloping up the street behind me. As soon as I come down he's into the living room, when I'm heading out he goes back to his chair in the kitchen. As soon as he realises I'm off to bed he gallops up ahead of me. He lets me pick him up briefly, usually if Felix is blocking the way, to get him indoors, but he isn't a lap cat, yet.

Pumpkinseeds

Mr P left a cooked chicken breast under a microwave lid on the kitchen counter instead of putting it in the fridge. He just went to make a sandwich with it and found Jasper up on the counter having munched his way through half of it already.:D That cat misses nothing. He decided yesterday, after several months of not trusting me since I did his flea/worm drops, that he now trusts me again. So I've been getting lots of head boops.:)

mymo

I just stopped Toby eating the leftover ham from in the oven!
He was balanced on the back of a chair, pulled down the door I left ajar, and was walking onto the door reaching for the ham!
Gotta give him a bit for effort, chair wasn't that near the oven, must have taken some serious acrobatics!

Fluffy bum claimed the fire for herself again tonight, can't see her going back to living outside full time, too fond of her comforts.

Pumpkinseeds

Felixs' ear is flared up again. The first sign we get of it is when he goes back to his aggression towards Toby.

muddypaws

Entered my first ever proper dog show yesterday in Belfast, only entered to support the judge, who is a breed specialist, and has working dogs. Riley came second in his class, so has now qualified for Crufts :eek: So, just for the experience of it, I think we may be going to Birmingham on a Friday in March.

tk123

muddypaws wrote: »

Entered my first ever proper dog show yesterday in Belfast, only entered to support the judge, who is a breed specialist, and has working dogs. Riley came second in his class, so has now qualified for Crufts :eek: So, just for the experience of it, I think we may be going to Birmingham on a Friday in March.

well done!

borderlinemeath

muddypaws wrote: »

Entered my first ever proper dog show yesterday in Belfast, only entered to support the judge, who is a breed specialist, and has working dogs. Riley came second in his class, so has now qualified for Crufts :eek: So, just for the experience of it, I think we may be going to Birmingham on a Friday in March.

That's brilliant! It seems like only yesterday we were watching Crufts and discussing it on here. I read somewhere that the Irish Wolfhound James who was in the final died a horrible death, he ruptured a blood vessel while playing and slowly bled internally to death:(

SingItOut

borderlinemeath wrote: »

I read somewhere that the Irish Wolfhound James who was in the final died a horrible death, he ruptured a blood vessel while playing and slowly bled internally to death:(

Aww no I was routing for him in the final

Pumpkinseeds

I really hate how some lazy dog owners treat their dogs. I was out for my walk last night and I came across a little Jack Russell with it's leash on and the handle of the leash tied around it's nose as a muzzle.:mad: It's not my neighbourhood so I don't know who the people are, I've seen him hitting a ball to the dog with a tennis racket one night but that's about it. Anyways, the dog was in the garden, the gate was wide open and the lights were off in the house.

I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to take the leash off the dogs nose in case he's snappy and it didn't look like there was anyone at home. It looked like they'd gone out for the evening and left the leash on the dog so it couldn't go far. So I did nothing.:( A neighbour leaves the leash on their JR when they let it out on the street, seems to stop them running off from outside the house. Doubt the dog has ever had a proper walk.

tk123

Victory! :D:D I submitted video assessments a while back for a trick dog title (after I did a tricks seminar) and Bailey and Lucy both passed!!

DBB

Well done to the three of ye!
What tricks did you teach them?

tk123

DBB wrote: »

Well done to the three of ye!
What tricks did you teach them?

Lucy's slo-mo turning compared to Bailey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfjVglTmdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLB4OGfQjrc

muddypaws

Sometimes I do despair for the human race. I picked up 3 pups yesterday from the pound, am fostering them for a few weeks. They are terrified of people. The 2 boys desperately want affection, have started to come around already, but the little girl wees everytime I go near her. She wouldn't eat yesterday, until I threw the food at her, a bit at a time, but only if the boys were also fed, she curls up in the corner in fear. Was heartbreaking last night when she ran into the bed as it was in the corner, and felt the soft vet bedding, I guess its the first time she's ever laid on anything soft. What on earth has been done to them to make them so fearful?

tk123

Well somebody in our park arrived with a 4 month old Rottie pup and I had to be very careful with Bailey and Lucy around it - it was a viscous little thing!! Lashing out at them because it had never been socialised by the owner - who got it from a breeder not like it was a rescue or anything!! Then all the dog experts telling her the pup would be grand in a few weeks...of flooding!

muddypaws

Thats so worrying TK, just what RB dogs don't need