Dogs!!!

[xgorton]

My Cocker Spaniel is in for a major op on her ear next Tuesday so if all goes well she will have the dreaded lamp shade on for a week or two which will majorly curtail her thieving mongoose tendencies for at least a while.

Make sure you buy the one with the cotton cord tape round the edges of the lampshade otherwise they can be sharp and cut into the dogs skin.

 

[meeesh]

I lost my cocker spaniel last April,still upsets me to this day,although she was 13,still hurts.

However....we now have another,almost 6 months old,but can we get her to piss and shit outside ? No chance whatsoever.

She can be outside in garden or yard and does nothing,but as soon as she comes in,she is straight down on training pads,I mean don't get me wrong she only does her business on them,nowhere else,but we are beginning to scratch our heads as to why she won't do it outside....any help appreciated !

 

[Fat Chance]

Move the pad closer to the door and treat with a titbit and excited tone...eventually moving the pad outdoors when you feel the pups bursting.

 

[Armchair Supporter]

I started out with the best intentions and did much of what you have said, the thing is he is my best mate so he gets away with murder. He looks at me, thinks I am going to get told off for this but in 30 seconds he will have forgiven me so bollocks, he eats it/does it etc. I see him on the field sniffing fox shit, he looks at me and decides the bollocking is worth the 30 seconds of fun he will have, again knowing we are best mates in minutes.

I would rather him be like that than too good that he has no fun.

As it should be :)

One thing about my dog is that it has a very sensitive tummy. Give it tid-bits and you are playing dog-shit roulette, which leads me to last night where somebody gave him the left overs of the steak we had.
I came down this morning and instantly knew something was up because he didn't come to great me, instead staying on his bed. At that point i knew he'd shit in the house which he knows i absolutely detest. Luckly it was on the tiles, so easy to clean up, but as soon as he saw me he lept up and went to the back door looking very sheepish.

He was let out (And kept out) and shown his deposit once it was removed. I placed in his normal shitting place for him (hopefully) to remember that the toilet is outside not inside.

One thing i can't train the bugger to do is bark. It can be bucketing down outside and the most you will hear from him to come inside is a pathetic warble lol. So it is a lost cause trying to get him to bark to go out .
Lovely dog. Thick as custard.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Our first Springer, the appropriately named Jack The Bastard was always good at not touching any food he wasn't given. Until one day when almost 14, and we had left a just cooked beef joint on the kitchen counter to cool.

He must have thought 'Feck it, I'm old ... what they gonna do apart from shout at me? Havin' that ...'

Add insult to injury and all that, the next day it's me having to pull out the string it was wrapped in, which was hanging from his arse that he couldn't pass. Lovely ....

 

[meeesh]

Move the pad closer to the door and treat with a titbit and excited tone...eventually moving the pad outdoors when you feel the pups bursting.

Yea gonna have to try this,but I'm reluctant (current weather conditions) to actually put the pads outside,as I'll be picking shit up and pads being blown all over the place,roll on the spring !

 

[Blue Mist]

My mates Boxer escaped its crate and polished off half a tin of Quality Street, wrappers n all then had some crazed sugar rush and chewed one of the legs off the dining table. Must have had some shiny shites in the days after.

I mentioned in a post the my dog did a load of Ferero Rocher, we were on the field, some dick had dumped a box of them and my dog found them. I wondered why he wouldn't come back, he had the silver foil the lot.

 

[Fat Chance]

Yea gonna have to try this,but I'm reluctant (current weather conditions) to actually put the pads outside,as I'll be picking shit up and pads being blown all over the place,roll on the spring !

Ok...then keep encouraging the pup outside in the gaps in the weather and eyespy for it havi g a wee...once you get a result...usher it back in all excited and treat with a titbit...it wont take it long to tipple that perhaps the tomtits would be better outside with the wee's...ive got a little wide-head here, she's learnt to jangle the keys in the door blagging a wee's needed...out into yard and about turn straight in the house for a treat

 

[Magicpole]

Prefer them to people most of the time.

You fucking got that right. Having said that, I like wasps more than most people. I’ve never met a wasp yet who wants you to help them dig their garden.

 

[Magicpole]

I lost my cocker spaniel last April,still upsets me to this day,although she was 13,still hurts.

However....we now have another,almost 6 months old,but can we get her to piss and shit outside ? No chance whatsoever.

She can be outside in garden or yard and does nothing,but as soon as she comes in,she is straight down on training pads,I mean don't get me wrong she only does her business on them,nowhere else,but we are beginning to scratch our heads as to why she won't do it outside....any help appreciated !

Put the mat outside and take her to it.