Take my dog....FULLSTOP!

CAYLA

CAYLA

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It really amazes me how people can phone and give a scenario that they themselves are being stressed over and yet they just want to off load the problem and honeslty think someone else will deal with it and more importantly won't take any advice, even when offered it for FREE

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Caller 1

I have a 3 year olf terrier, he has bitten 2 people, first time he was fighting another dog and someone stuck their hand in (so he did not really meant to bite then):rolleyes: second time, he bit a referee who stepped on him whilst stepping over him:rolleyes:
He is dog aggressive = He lives in a single dog and never socialises, he did go to training class and improved but still gets het up when on his lead.
He also escaped from the front door when kids are playing and he could bite, CAN SOMEONE HAVE HIM:confused:............Erm.....NO!

I can help you with these problems, starting with (you need a fence around the property to stop him escaping) yes they really had no fence *shakes head*

Caller 2

We havea 9 year old female spaniel, she lost her companion (other old dog) and my daughter who used to own her gave her up, she is now left alone in a kitchen when her parents who the dog now lives with are out and she is howling, chewing and has ripped a door off.
ME "I can help you with that, do you want some advice or a home visit,"
NO! Can someone take her:confused:


Rant I know, but it annoys me, that all they want is the dog taken away and a new home (cos they come in abundance) be found!
 
Jesus you have the patience of a saint. Poor, poor old spangle especially.

I know I ding on about this book all the time but I keep going back to this chapter in The Culture Clash by Jane Donaldson, called "It's All Chew Toys To Them" - the first time I read it, I cried. I read it and re-read it.

It starts with a planet where all humans live with a species called The Gorns who communicate telepathically and in a strange language.
The human in the story hasn't spent time with another human since they were a small child and when they do so, are curious, bewildered, and scared.
When the human tries to go to the pee in a big flushing porcelain bowl, they get yelled at. So they do it when the Gorns have gone out.
When they try to shake hands, smile or say hi, they get yelled at.
The human is only allowed to eat one type of human food, or else they get yelled at.
The human is left alone all day with a crossword puzzle, even though they hate crossword puzzles.
At the end of the day, the moral of the story is, dogs are not humans in dog suits, people don't realise that and get rid of their dogs for being...dogs :(
 
Sounds familiar then, maybe I should read that book.

Some people will go to their last lengths to get help and solve an issues and hang onto a pet, others simply want rid, it jsut suprises me more that they lay on the issues then expect someone else to take the dog on, they wont listen when you try to reason and advise they are better off with the owner and solving the problems, I was actually pretty blunt and said dont's try and palm these dogs off anyhwere and don't place them in kennels instead be responsible and put them to sleep, atleas then you know where they ended up, this was after they told me they had given the terrier away and he was found straying and ended in the pound and only got back to them because it was chipped, they sounded rather miffed it ended back with them, not relieved:(

I think thats another thinks that gob smacks me, they are happy to send them on their way to whoever will take them because they dont want to put them to sleep (there are alot worse things than pts) I reiterate, obs in their pink and fluffy minds they land in a loving home with 2 kids to love them and takes them for a walk and an owner who never leaves the house and stays home all day and does not mind that they bite, howl or chew, I may move to that land:rolleyes:
 
Ah, the "good home in the country" - out of sight, out of mind and all that, not my problem anymore guv...etc etc etc.

**disclaimer, we have moved youngsters on before now and will probably do so again, but I as you can imagine, we were slightly overbearing for the rest of said youngsters lives!!!**
 
I am going to be completely honest here and tell you a story that I am ashamed of...

When I had Badger (Huntaway x Labrador) and I was visiting a neighbour, having coffee in the kitchen and left Badger outside ( you have to understand that this was home from home for him, just across the lane, been there a million times etc). Anyway when I finally came out of my friend's house - we saw carnage :( Badger had got into the chickens and killed just about every one of them :(

You cannot imagine the tears and upset in that half hour - it was awful, we were trying to rescue chickens and bring them back to life.

In a moment of sheer panic and desperation - I was frightened like hell that next it would be lambs - I rang a rescue centre. I was in flood of tears telling them that once this dog had got hold of the kill there would be no stopping him and he would end up being shot by a farmer.

Fortunately for me, the rescue lady tried to calm me down and said she would ring back - she never did and thank God for that because Badger became the best loved family pet, working gundog... hell, just the best dog I have ever owned and he never attacked another living creature ever again ....... apart from a pheasant or a partridge ;)

So I just want to put the scenario across that sometimes owners panic - I did - but sometimes the rescue owners are sensible enough to judge that panic phone call. Thankfully this lady did.

Disclaimer: having learnt this lesson - I can honestly assure you that I am more than adequate to deal with this behaviour now - for example Rose, our BC pup and her natural instinct to herd sheep that I have quelled successfully :D
 
RW I will not speak for Cayla (or bore you with hairy sheep moments, cat-nailing or being pulled through a barbed wire fence in hot pursuit of a goat :p) but you are NOT the sort of person who needs to be ashamed.

You had a dog, who did an annoying dog thing, you channelled his talents :)
 
We/people do indeed panick, I do can chat with these people for up to an an hour at a time and offer them all the advise I can but sometimes they just want us to take them and they will not accept any advice claiming they have already tries everything, dont get me wrong there are those who do, and I go out to their home and spend evenings sitting chatting for 3-4 hours, I often go to the whole salers to buy them crates and kongs and good quality foods and leads/collars just to make sure they have what they need, Just recently I had a panick call from a lady whos neighbours where threatening her because her j.r.t was barking through the day, I spent 3 hours with them and the dog never made a peep 2 days after my visit, and she was shocked I never charged her because she had been quoted £75 for a 30 minute visit for a behaviourist she rang, suprisingly she never got my number through the rescue she got it from someone whos dog I board, I will go to nay length to stop a dog becoming a rehoming statistic but some just wont toe the line and they just think there is a home that will just welcome these dogs, to be honest if we where not decreasing due to my mam waiting for a date for a rather serious operation whcih means she wont beale to walk for months after we probably would have taken them.
 
CAYLA said:
I will tell you a secret:eek: the day I got my akita (she was only staying temp back then) she scalped one of my whippets:eek: yep....she literally took the whole of her scalp off......... why? the akita was spinning around playing, (they do this):D and she knocked my little whippet (not the one I have now), and the whippet (bad tempered as they are) latched onto ther cheek:eek: the akita turned like lightening and the result, my whip was scalpless:eek: (can u imagine my horror) I phoned me mam and said, "I want this dog out now"! and hour later I calmed down and come to my senses and realised the whip snapped the akita retaliated and they are capable of this kind of damage simples! she was not a killing beast and never even started it, she was simply playing, and she was only retaliaiting to the whippet, the akita still remains with me today and she is the most well behaved dog I own, we both learnt a lesson that day;)
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I have corrected my rushed grammer and now I cannot re post till I have enough words.............:rolleyes:
 
Your Akita is a WHIPPET SCALPER :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Poor Amy, a lucky lucky escape there :o:rolleyes:

Dogs can do these things sometimes - a friend of my mum's had a CKCS which lost an eye when her dobermann turned around when playing and snapped. The dobermann was not nasty in any way, it just happens :(
 
How timely - just saw this on the freeads...

We are looking for a new home for our beloved little pooch. He is a rescue dog that we rehomed about 2years ago, however he suffers from separation anxiety and needs to be with someone all the time. As both my husband and i work full time, its not fair to him to be left.

He has a lovely nature, walks to heel, is crate trained, loves to play and thrives on attention. He is a rotti/collie cross but i would say he is 90% collie and 10% rotti. Mostly a black and tan collie really.

As ive said he needs to be in a loving home with someone there full time otherwise he he worries himself silly. He is around 5yrs old. He is fine with children and fine with other dogs, not sure about cats, he wont chase them if you tell him to leave them.

We really dont want to part with him, but it will be better for him to be with a loving family that will shower him with attention and be there with him all day. He can be left in his crate for 2hrs at the most. He loves walks and loves to play and swim.
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