]I contemplated posting the photo I sent to the terrier's owner while she was in Africa.....pitch black, sideways rain and her damned terrier with a half eaten pigeon he had caught doing circuits of the yard refusing to come indoors or give it to me...at midnight. I just wanted to go to bed!!
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I’ve always thought it’s a niche skill of mine that I can identify all my dogs poosI have been stood out in the garden supervising with my morning cup of tea and still had a baby GSD go through a 6ft fence panel, because a pigeon landed on it. Popped it clean out of the concrete posts. Yes she knows better now (and the panels have been screwed in
I also like to know when they have pooed and what that poo looked like, if I am about to put them in a car for a long journey to an event I've paid a lot of money for (especially when it's a venue where you'll be fined if they crap indoors).
thank goodness I'm not the only one. It is very obvious to me if mine has pooed. It's either there or it isn't.My dog has free access to the garden. Doors are often wide open on a dry sunny day. But she toilets like clockwork, so I'm always on hand to pick up her little gifts
but I do have a relatively small back garden and one dog.
My lurcher caught a mink once. I will never forget that day.
We all have different set ups though. So no one should be judged or questioned on their choices.thank goodness I'm not the only one. It is very obvious to me if mine has pooed. It's either there or it isn't.
I had a standard poodle who chased swallows, they drove him nuts. He didn't chase the horses or other livestock (except the connie, but that was their own private game) but swallows
We once went to a horse show, big grassy event and he'd been a good boy all day so as I got back to the car park I thought he deserved a leg stretch and some off lead time. Whereupon a swallow swooped past his nose, he turned and set off in pursuit. Through the showing line up, into the jumping arena in front of some poor girl in between jumps (I think her pony was so surprised he did nothing worse than snort) and eventually stopped at the cross country warm up jump. He returned looking decidedly sheepish, I was red as a tomato.
Yes I got totally pissed off with walking him. If I took him out with the bike walkers just let their loose dogs come at him even when I put him between me and the hedge and when I took him into towns all I got was "my small dog likes big dogs? so we gave up. He was too kind to actually retaliate and I'm not that keen on other people's loose dogs jumping up at us. We are lucky to have a choice.
my dogs have always been leaded in public, it was other people's dogs that lacked recall off lead that caused our lack of enjoyment. So as we, or at least I, was not enjoying it then it was pointless. Yes I was lucky that I had a choice.
often do stupid stuff when not under close supervision . Yours has obviously grown out of doing stupid stuff, I am not that lucky . Can always tell though when the tail is stuck out and quivering
My late lurcher once picked up badger by the scruff and shook it off its feet. Lurcher wasn’t huge, about 22”. Labradors were bouncing around them barking ‘fight fight fight’ like a school playground, I was screaming blue murder. Lurcher finally dropped the badger which bogged off sharpish!
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Mine does this too, if I have a wee in the stable, but I certainly won't be squatting in the garden to remind her to go!
