I'm going to strangle him

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ARGH:mad:

We are having a bunny plague at the moment, there are little corpses everywhere of questionable vintage. Which Henry keeps eating:mad:

He thinks it is just GREAT, he runs after me with them (I ignore him) and eats them, just out of reach:mad: I am worried this does not bode well for if he ever works properly, in case it leads to him eating any game he picks up:( Working dog peeps, is this likely?

Have emailed my trainer to ask for advice - I did get him to hand over a leg today with a LOT of very cross voice shouting :o and we did some 'leave' and retrieving practice with it (bleurgh bleurgh) minus the very cross voice shouting.

Why is nothing ever simple with this dog?:(
 
Don't worry, Otto was nearly thrown in the trent with lead boots on the other day :mad: After being a little angel for weeks, he disappeared completely (unlike him anyway) and didn't reappeared even after 20 minutes of me calling (VERY unlike him) I started panicking at this point, convinced he'd been hit by a train/attacked by killer swans/drowned :o
We later found him galloping around the marshy bit, chasing ducks :mad: Little sod was in a world of trouble!!
 
OH went shooting last season and friends labrador ate a brace of pheasants in the back of the car! Just left the legs with the baler twine holding them together...
 
On a more boring note having found this out from a rabbit eating cat that brings them home for my Cockers - You'll need to worm more often. For the first time ever when I wormed my girls ( dogs) they passed dead worms eeuugghhh. The only change to their diet and routine is the additional meals from the cats :( To top it off the girl with the pups had passed it onto her babes in her milk so when they had the wormer they passed spaghetti too :( I was horrified.

So now I make sure Gary the cat's kills are cleared up before the dogs go out to play. And I will be worming him more often too little sodlet.
 
Oh HONESTLY! This dog is a PAIN!:mad:

Fortunately he is Advocated every 8 weeks so he should be ok, I hope, as far as worms go. Thanks for the info:)
 
Swap you - for a week you can have my hyper-active sprocker who will retrieve anything, dead or alive, and leave it all in a pile at your feet. Comes with an instruction manual containing useful phrases for when you return the bedraggeld, but still sqwaking, rooster to your neighbours :o

You will have no wildlife, dead or alive, left in your area, I may placate my neighbours :D:D
 
kirstyhen said:
Don't worry, Otto was nearly thrown in the trent with lead boots on the other day :mad: After being a little angel for weeks, he disappeared completely (unlike him anyway) and didn't reappeared even after 20 minutes of me calling (VERY unlike him) I started panicking at this point, convinced he'd been hit by a train/attacked by killer swans/drowned :o
We later found him galloping around the marshy bit, chasing ducks :mad: Little sod was in a world of trouble!!
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Whilst i feel your pain, and hate that "oh my god something has happened feeling" i can also imagine his little spangley face shouting "Wwwweeee!!! Fly away Duckies!!!" accompanied by mad spangle eyes and an unstoppable tail :D:D
 
Oh my lovely whippet was ragging a dead rabbit around today in the field, he does drop and slink back once I realise what he is doing:rolleyes: but it's still yack:eek:
 
JoG said:
Whilst i feel your pain, and hate that "oh my god something has happened feeling" i can also imagine his little spangley face shouting "Wwwweeee!!! Fly away Duckies!!!" accompanied by mad spangle eyes and an unstoppable tail :D:D
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He did it in the woods tonight :mad: I was having a major panic as I'm not sure how close the nearest sheep field is (possibly the next county, but that means nothing in Otto terms) he doesn't chase sheep, but him running around like a loon in their field would NOT be appreciated!
Turns out he was just in the woods, sneaking around out of sight, but he got a very smacked bottom when I caught him and behaved for the rest of the walk :rolleyes:
 
I'm blaming the phenomenon known as "Spring Fever" - which one has developed a general rule for. *Ahem*

Numptynovice's Law of Springful-ness: The more daylight available in the day for walking beloved pooch is inversely proportional to the amount of time you wish to spend with hound of hell, due to hooligan behaviour and pissing off when least appropriate. :D
 
numptynovice said:
I'm blaming the phenomenon known as "Spring Fever" - which one has developed a general rule for. *Ahem*

Numptynovice's Law of Springful-ness: The more daylight available in the day for walking beloved pooch is inversely proportional to the amount of time you wish to spend with hound of hell, due to hooligan behaviour and pissing off when least appropriate. :D
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This is TRUE!:eek:

Bleddy useless animal:rolleyes: I want a refund:p Also, I keep cleaning and he keeps shedding more fluff all over the place:mad:

I am going to cling-film so only his head sticks out:D That'll sort him out:D
 
It is definitely in the air :( I refer to mine as "the solar powered spangles" :rolleyes:

I relented on the fluffiness and got a Furminator :o split ends yes, fluffy dog no :D:D
 
My new lurcher of five wks ownership to me has been fantastic, she's obedient and friendly, can't really complain. But now, she is starting to get quite confident in her new home and just pushing her luck. She is a complete waterbaby and is in the river at the drop of a hat. My aim has been to get her in the shallows which are a good walk on so I can get down there too and haul her out if nec. Had been going well... Tonight, feeling jaded, I couldn't face a long walk so was throwing ball on big field at the side of the river where the banks are near vertical and the flow is quite strong. She was being brilliant and I thought (wrongly) we've got this cracked. Next thing, she's heading off towards river, ball in mouth and cotton wool in ears. When I got to bank, there she is swimming in the little rapids, trying to chase after ducks and leaving ball floating to head off south. She did come out after a few mins but only on her own terms. Don't they know they are making you feel pathetic and incompetent?!!
 
kirstyl said:
Don't they know they are making you feel pathetic and incompetent?!!
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That's exactly it, isn't it? That awful knowledge that anyone watching thinks you are hopeless, and will wander off muttering about people who can't control their dogs:o:p:D

Of course, when they do behave, it is only when there is no one watching:rolleyes:
 
You've got it completely! There was a man sitting on a bench with his two subservient dogs sitting next to him while I scream like a fishwife trying to get my errant dog out of the rapids and up the vertical bank back to me. I may be ringing tailwaggers training classes tomorrow! I would be mortifed if my horse and/or children were running off causing havoc, now it's the dog! I don't think she's really that bad (having witnessed plenty of dogs running off in the distance) but better control than this would be welcome!!
 
Strangling is a bit of a waste of energy surely? I'd go with my weapon of choice- a big stick with a nail in it! Certainly works for the pesky jack russell terrorists.
 
CaveCanem said:
Silly me. I use a cannon on my two :p
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Thats one way of training them for a gun test!

Plagued with rabbits here too, if the dogs aren't crawling under the car to get the entrails the cats have left (so much for Buffys bad back), they are disappearing across the field after them (not Buffy this time as she can't see them).
Son took Evie jogging round the field with him the other day, he had his headphones on totally oblivious to everything, I watched as she did one lap very nicely to heel, then stopped, looked at him for a reaction, then turned and ducked under the fence and off bunny hunting! He of course didn't even notice and I had to go and get the little madam back.
Agree about the worms, it seems like I have only just wormed the cats and they are producing them again, and its not as simple as popping a tablet down a cats throat is it.:eek:
 
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