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Sep 2017
2:31pm, 24 Sep 2017
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LazyDaisy
I don't know - but I hope Lottie grows out of it soon because she stinks now  Interestingly, she doesn't seem that much of a water lover - there's a stream on our walk that Flossie *always* jumps in; Lottie just watches her but doesn't join in. Next weekend we'll take her down to Devon and the beach - her first trip to the seaside - and it will be interesting to see if she follows Floss into the sea
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Sep 2017
3:27pm, 24 Sep 2017
6,795 posts
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BaronessBL
Wanda found something unbelievably smelly on the beach at Sheringham on Friday and would not stop rolling on it. We didn't realise quite how smelly it was until we went back to see what all the rolling was about!! We couldn't really wash her while there although we did give her a good brush and I was going to wash her today but it's been a busy day and she doesn't quite seem so bad now (or maybe we are just used to the smell). But we were going to take her to our favourite dog-friendly pub on Friday night and decided against it as she would have put all the other diners off their food.
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Sep 2017
9:48pm, 24 Sep 2017
23,574 posts
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Derby Tup
It's International River Day today. We walked by the Wharfe 
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Sep 2017
9:51pm, 24 Sep 2017
5,231 posts
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Helegant
You have a beautiful dog and this is a lovely photo.
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Sep 2017
10:05pm, 24 Sep 2017
24,029 posts
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halfpint
DT - I just love your dog. Something almost regal. Don't tell Ernie but he's more of a court jester type.
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Sep 2017
5:02pm, 26 Sep 2017
11,804 posts
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Chrisull
Dog barking manically today and running around this poor chap:
Tis a Privet Hawk moth caterpillar. Also it can flick itself quite violently, which led to no-one end of extra barking. Googled it, found out it feeds on lilac, found our lilac which had massive chunks bitten out of the leaves, put it back on, but hour later... bark, bark, bark. So rescued it a second time, and put it right on the top of the hedge bordering next door. Not much you can do I'm guessing? Dougal can smell it and he doesn't like it one bit.
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Sep 2017
5:40pm, 26 Sep 2017
19,818 posts
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LazyDaisy
How funny Chris! Fancy a caterpillar causing that much trouble
Hmm. Son and GF are in the throes of selling their flat and buying a house, but they are still a week or two off exchanging contracts. GF is a regular volunteer at the local dogs home, walking mostly the dogs with 'green' classification (there's amber and red for increasing degrees of reactivity.) She has fallen in love with a collie dog who is in for rehoming because it 'reacted aggressively towards a man in a home where domestic violence was taking place.' (GF's description.) Anyway, she is desperate to adopt the collie.
I think this is not a great idea. They both work full-time, though they do work from home a few times a month. They will have their hands full moving into a new house (with a largish and by the look of the pictures, not at all low maintenance garden.) Son1 commented to me that my comments in our family Whatsapp group show my hesitation about this plan.
GF points out, reasonably enough, that she has experience of rescue dogs and knows this dog. But collies surely need a lot of input both mentally and physically and I fear they're underestimating this - let alone the work needed to overlay its earlier life experiences. Am I being a miserable pessimist? (I should say that the charity seems moderately inclined to rehome him with them.)
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Sep 2017
7:00pm, 26 Sep 2017
5,232 posts
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Helegant
Oh dear LD.
You may remember that Sproglet and her OH rehomed a reactive dog. She was always a lovely dog towards me, but not to everyone (and she would attack Jet at random intervals). They had to give her up for yet another rehoming experience before their baby was born.
The more I think about the more cautious I am about where dogs are placed because there seem to be a lot of good-hearted and temporarily-optimistic people around.
Wanda is a classic example of a charity getting it right
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Sep 2017
8:08pm, 26 Sep 2017
3,678 posts
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Mazlin
Rory and I had an agility lesson today. He went through the tunnel and over a jump at the end, and he went all the way up one of the A-frames and down the other side And he only did 5 or 6 unsanctioned laps of the field to look at birds.
Then we had scent class, and he successfully searched my car for a tiny bit of cloth with clove scent on it about 5 times. Gold star for Rory. NOT gold star for Maz, who poked a tiny bit of cloth with clove scent on it into the front grill of the car and then couldn't fish it out
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Sep 2017
8:14pm, 26 Sep 2017
3,679 posts
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Mazlin
That's difficult, LD. Would the rescue let her foster the dog, since they know her, and then they could see if it would work long term?
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