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Nov 2012
2:46pm, 25 Nov 2012
154 posts
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MrsVanoord
Good luck everyone! Puppies are such good fun (I consider puppy cuddles to be one of the perks of my job - makes up for the grotty and downright miserable bits) and it's so crucial to get it right when they are in their prime conditioning and learning phase. I'm sadly dogless at the moment, having said goodbye to a wonderful old girl in September, but have an 'upside down house' - sitting room and kitchen on 2nd floor with a postage stamp sized garden so really can't face the thought of house-training a pup at the moment.
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Nov 2012
2:57pm, 25 Nov 2012
2,387 posts
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Sharkie
Your timely reminder worked for me Mrs. V. Stuck the dish down at 1 pm precisely. Called dog. Jess plodded over to me as she usually does. I uttered these immortal words; 'Food! Enjoy!' and she plonked down about a foot away from her dish looking up at me at me soulfully- or stupidly, take your pick  I then cleared off back to the other side of the kitchen. She sat there for a while ... but the bowl was clean within the requisite ten minutes.
Phew!
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Nov 2012
10:26am, 26 Nov 2012
2,394 posts
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Sharkie
Oh crumbs - woof, bark.
I fear we may have more of a Chernova than an Ennis on our hands. As Jess 'escaped' up three flights of stairs* yesterday (massive excitement for all concerned) we let her explore a few new rooms. We are going to have to give her a bath soon, so as she was sniffing round the bathroom anyway we popped her in the bath - no water - for a moment or two to accustom her in stages. Then we thought we might as well weigh her...
EEK. She is now over 17 kgs. Getting on for three stone on old money. She'll be half what I weigh soon! She was 15 weeks yesterday and is still pretty lean, and quite, er, tall but it's fun calling her fatso'. Meanies!
* she can get up but she can't get down....
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Nov 2012
12:52pm, 26 Nov 2012
1,822 posts
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lazydaisy
Ha Flossie hasn't worked out that there is an upstairs yet, and we're not telling her
I have however just had to go and retrieve her from next door's garden! She escapes through the hedge and as fast as we block up the holes the wretched fox creates another - all the while leaving the most enticing smells for her to follow! We've put chicken wire along the bottom of the hedge and thought she'd lost interest - clearly not Luckily if they have shut their side gate, she can't get any further into the wide world, but still...
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Nov 2012
2:58pm, 26 Nov 2012
2,399 posts
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Sharkie
Oh crumbs lazy daisy - I know what you mean with escape routes in gardens. Raffo wages constant war with the badgers - such determined creatures - never mind the cats and foxes. Jess hasn't escaped the garden yet but she did jump in the pond, and hasn't quite learned garden manners. Like NOT the CROPS Jess!
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Nov 2012
8:29pm, 26 Nov 2012
62 posts
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Peds1
Would anyone like to see some photo's of the Husky puppy we're getting. (I'm hoping I don't come across half as weird as I feel typing that lol)
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Nov 2012
8:41pm, 26 Nov 2012
1,826 posts
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lazydaisy
I would!
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Nov 2012
8:48pm, 26 Nov 2012
3,423 posts
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Jambomo
Me too
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Nov 2012
11:57am, 27 Nov 2012
2,401 posts
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Sharkie
So where's this Husky puppy then?
Despair here. Feeling my (extreme) age. Remembering why I never had kids.
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Nov 2012
1:41pm, 27 Nov 2012
1,833 posts
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lazydaisy
Nil desperandum Sharkie - it does get better, honestly.
I'm repeating this to myself as I had to go and collect Flossie from next door again - yet another gap in the chicken wire - she was lying on her lawn happily eating all the windfall apples they leave out for the birds And while I was out taking the car for its MOT, then running back form the garage, she has chewed yet another hole in the wicker sofa in the kitchen.
On the plus side, she was thrilled to see me back and I got the sort of euphoric welcome only dogs can really do properly, and her walk this morning took me up the hill and past my 5th Gore-illa of the month!
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