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Dogs do funny things

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  • #32
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    failinis wrote: »
    My dog has been dead a few years now but he was a Jack Russell and Pom cross, a right nightmare.
    During summer he slept outside and one morning I went out to see how he was, normally once the door handle even clicks he is there waiting to come see me and get inside for a cuddle.
    That morning he was missing, where the hell was he?
    I heard whimpering, worried I looked around and low and behold, the twat was at my eye level - up a tree :rolleyes:
    It was bent at a slight angle so I can see how he got up (well just about) but he was stuck and crying for me to help so I lifted him down and got many licks.
    I wonder why he did not bark as I would have went to check ASAP but sure I got to him in the end and I think thats the last time he tried chasing a cat up a tree.

    I'm nearly after pissin' myself at the thought of a JRT in a tree.

    I have a JRT Daschund cross.
    Doesn't do **** all other than eat.Won't even go for a walk.

    He did however piss in her sisters handbag one day.I saw him do it and felt it would best to say nothing.


  • #33
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Mine has picked up a couple of my own bad human habits. She likes a good nibble at her nails and is a mistress of the auld ninja fart...leave the smell in one room with its unfortunate inhabitants and go in to another.


  • #34
    Broken Hearted Road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    I'm just after thinking about something else because I'm having tea in the local hotel and in comes the local blind man. This man has a guide dog.

    When I used to take the dog for walks and we met a do dog along the way, my dog would get excited pulling in the direction of the dog and you could easily trip up on the lead etc.

    Any time out walking and I saw the blind man walking in the distance, I'd have to pull the dog in, step in somewhere like a doorframe or a gate or cross the road. Then blindfold the dog. Scrafs were used around her eyes. Or my hands were used. Just block her sight from the blind man's guide dog otherwise she would be jumping all over the guide dog.


  • #35
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Weste - JRT X? That's a handful!

    I have one too a perfect little princess


  • #36
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I have two. One is a typical dog, the other came to me very young - 4 weeks - and he is not like other dogs. In the twelve years we've had him he has never growled, hardly barks, has no interest in female dogs, eats at the table, can open the fridge and presses, always wants to be involved when I'm playing with my kids, reading to them, helping them with homework etc. He loves his showers and having his hair blow dried and his nails painted. Don't know how much of that is him and how much is down to being removed from his mother so early but he's a great boy.


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  • #37
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I'm convinced my dog and cat have a secret relationship going and are having the craic when I'm not around. They ignore each other totally when I'm around and yet whenever I come home they're both in the same room looking sheepish.


  • #38
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    My Russell scoffed a half box of milk tray recently. I thought he had poisoned himself so I took him to the vets.

    They said he was fine and he was. Maybe I'm dreaming but I always thought chocolate was dangerous for dogs to digest?


  • #39
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    My Russell scoffed a half box of milk tray recently. I thought he had poisoned himself so I took him to the vets.

    They said he was fine and he was. Maybe I'm dreaming but I always thought chocolate was dangerous for dogs to digest?

    They're allergic to a thing called theobromine which is found in cocoa, so 70% choc would be far worse than milk tray which has a really low percentage of actual cocoa solids. Basically the better quality the chocolate the more lethal. Then some dogs will just be more sensitive to it than others.

    I think.


  • #40
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    My Russell scoffed a half box of milk tray recently. I thought he had poisoned himself so I took him to the vets.

    They said he was fine and he was. Maybe I'm dreaming but I always thought chocolate was dangerous for dogs to digest?


    I was curious and looked it up - here is a online calculator for it

    Depends on how "good" the chocolate was (levels of methylxanthines I think?)

    Either way I am glad your dog is safe!

    Other things to avoid include grapes, onions, garlic, chives, and Xylitol (sweeter found in gum and some cakes etc shop bought).
    Not all of the above is fatal but can make the dog sick - and the amount eaten is relevant.


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