The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

tk123 wrote: »

Advice PLS!!
My mum usually minds Bailey while I'm at work but has to go out tomorrow morning for a few hours...
- Do I chance him in daycare - he went in for the first time in months the week before last delighted and had a great day..but last friday was too stressed when I was leaving him and after a few trys of taking him in I ended up dropping him home to my mum:(
- Or do we leave him home alone for the few hours - which we've never done for fear of him barking the place down and hurting himself (we had a few years of him needing operations, recovering etc etc etc so never chanced it)? On one hand he mightn't be too bad because I'll already be gone... but on the other what if he gets too stressed out and does damage to himself/the house? Crating isn't an option because he used to try and break out of the crate in daycare with his nose and I think it'd stress him out more!
GAH!

Would you try bringing him to daycare and see what happens and then if all else fails could you leave him in your Mums on his own for the few hours? Or take a day off work? Have you tried leaving him at home for an hour and seeing if you can see him on a webcam or something to see if he gets stressed?

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Would you try bringing him to daycare and see what happens and then if all else fails could you leave him in your Mums on his own for the few hours? Or take a day off work? Have you tried leaving him at home for an hour and seeing if you can see him on a webcam or something to see if he gets stressed?

I have no cover in work - otherwise I would have taken time off or worked from home but there needs to be somebody on site at all times.

I'm trying to think of what I could bring that would make him want to go in to daycare lol - maybe not give him his breakfast and bring it with us.. But at the same time I don't want him there all day stressed out and me worrying about him - he's gotten that bad before he's poo'd himself I could maybe leave him in and when my mum is back call and see how he's getting on and then take it from there - i work 5 mins from it so could take him home at lunch if I needed to.

I'm leaning towards taking him out early for a long walk/run then setting up cameras to watch him - at least that way I can record him and I'll have something to show the behaviourist I'm planning on calling about it. After last week I've decided I was putting it off too long and need to sort it. I'm just a bit worried he'll bark non stop and drive our neighbors mad!

Dodd wrote: »

If you live near Dublin 6 I could mind Bailey for a few hours in the morning.
I have a very friendly JRT.

Thanks but I'm on the northside.

Yeah I think I'll try tiring him out and watching him from work! At least that way we'll know where we stand. I'll already be gone so it'll be my mum and dad leaving him but one can go first etc With Lucy we just leave her and she goes asleep...and when we come back she looks up then goes back asleep lol!

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

We don't drive so we were going to get the train. We'd been using the fire and putting off getting heating oil but I'd to put oil in the tank today since we can't use the fire, that was the money for the hotel gone on that and it'll be 150 euro call out charge for the fire brigade on top of that so most of the spending money was written off in 1 day. We wouldn't be able to get back home on Saturday night after the concert so we've no choice.

I just feel bad as it was my husbands birthday last weekend and the concert tickets were his present from me, the weekend in Dublin was our holiday for the year:( But hey, there are a lot of people out there struggling to keep their heads above water so I have to woman up now and get over it:)

That's so disappointing, but at least ye are all safe, a chimney fire could have turned out a lot worse!

I love when things like that happen, nice to get a blast from the past

I had so much stuff from the secret santa on my laptop that it was a complete mess, now I've a nice neat little folder, feels so much more organised now :P

Foster dog won't stop barking. Want to strangle her

I am so tempted to buy this but my guys will never leave on a collar

http://www.firebox.com/product/6327/G-Paws-Pet-GPS-Tracker?via=whatsnew

I'd love to use it to see where Cream goes, he always comes home smelling like chicken :pac: as in live chickens not the cooked stuff!! But with the rate they lose break away collars it just wouldn't be practical in case they did damage to themselves!

Throws are half price in homestore and more!!

:-( Anyways feeling heartbroken and guilty over Bailey - when I was collecting him and the girl went to get him I knew something was wrong. He got that stressed out that he scraped the walls of his pen/kennel (I don't know what to call it) and wore a patch off one of his pads - his whole paw was bright red with blood. They cleaned and bandaged it to cover it for walking thru the car park . I don't know if I need to take him to the vet or if they'll just tell me to let the air at it but put a boot on for walks etc He's very precious of his front paws so don't want to stress him at the vets if I don't need to. I don't know now if I can take him to hydro now tomorrow either.

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Why did they keep him penned if he was getting so obviously stressed? There has to be an option to keep him out?

No not in this one. They said he'd been fine all day - playing and this evening went into the bed himself without having to be coaxed. I didn't want to send him but was guilt tripped ( LONG story) into it.

TK, you're going to absolutely hate me for saying this, but when you post about Bailey sometimes, especially the last few days I actually get a knot in my stomach as I know you're stressed about him.

tk123 wrote: »

:-( Anyways feeling heartbroken and guilty over Bailey - when I was collecting him and the girl went to get him I knew something was wrong. He got that stressed out that he scraped the walls of his pen/kennel (I don't know what to call it) and wore a patch off one of his pads - his whole paw was bright red with blood. They cleaned and bandaged it to cover it for walking thru the car park . I don't know if I need to take him to the vet or if they'll just tell me to let the air at it but put a boot on for walks etc He's very precious of his front paws so don't want to stress him at the vets if I don't need to. I don't know now if I can take him to hydro now tomorrow either.

I've followed Bailey's story since day dot and I know (genuinely know) how much time and effort you've put into him, but sometimes I feel (and I swear this is just me saying this) that maybe, just maybe you need to take a step back from worrying about him a little bit.

I too went through the crate rest/rehabiliation issue....accompanied by the unreal worrying the comes after that aswell (Beanie's luxated patella).

When you posted yesterday about your anxiety about leaving him for a few hours and the effort you've gone to to prevent his separation anxiety, it seems both of you have gotten worked up in the process. Most dogs, should be able to be left for a few hours with no hassle. I genuinely and honestly couldn't understand why he can't be left on his own for a few hours.

Maybe I'm completely missing the point or something,but there's an awful lot of worry attached to him that I'm not understanding at all, now that's he's doing physically fantastic.