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Bailey is lazy and hates long walks. So I don't force him to spend a lot of time outside. We do lots of training instead and play. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, but after 15 minutes he's ready to go home and gets really pathetic if we don't go back.
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Captain Foxy posted:My chickens got eaten on Thanksgiving because we left them in an unsecure coop. The one night we decided not to bring them inside. 'No, they'll be fine, it's fine.' This is why I am okay with Bailey usually being lazy, but occasionally he decides he is A Heeler that Does Heeler Things. Like deciding to jump on the table, occasionally shred things I leave around, follow me around the house, jump and nip (no pressure) my thumb and be afraid of the wet ground.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:31
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Maybe this isn't a confession, but every time I get asked to donate to a pet based charity and can't (poor grad student) I feel horribly guilty. Those humane society ads with the sad cats and dogs? Make me cry like a baby. Donation solicitations from the Schipperke specific rescue? Even worse. Outside of stuff like that I don't cry a lot so I have no idea why I am so emotionally fragile about these things in particular. Am I going to become a crazy rescue lady?
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Nov 28, 2012 16:34
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Fraction posted:I have a weird kind of line between psycho animal lady and being pragmatic. I love animals and give my animals the best care I can, which means decent food/housing/toys/taking to the vets/etc, but there has to be a line. I'd spend more money on surgery on Lola than on Jess, because Jess is nearly thirteen years old and Lola is like two, and more on Jess than on the rats. I think that's a really reasonable position to take.
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Nov 28, 2012 16:58
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adventure in the sandbox posted:I punish my dogs when they are bad. Mainly I yell at them, I have actually grabbed Delta and sort of tossed her to the ground so I could yell at her (we do not nip at cats in this household). And it works, they learn very quickly to stop doing the bad thing. I've yelled at Bailey when he's done things that really upset me or are dangerous, and he just stares at me and gives me really half hearted lip licks and falls over asking for a belly rub. Sometimes just seeing the appeasement behaviors does make me feel a little bit better, even when I know its not that he's "sorry" or guilty for doing whatever got me mad in the first place.
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Nov 28, 2012 21:04
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Especially Sigma. Delta is very resilient and just jumps up and carries on with her day. Sigma will slink around even if he wasn't the one in trouble.
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CompactFanny posted:I fart on my cats. I fart on my papasan chair that Bailey likes to steal when I get up from it. Serves him right.
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Nov 29, 2012 18:55
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I initially read the title of the thread as "Forgive me cattledogs". I have no idea why, but its stuck in my head and I unwittingly read the thread title that way too.
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Nov 30, 2012 13:26
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Topoisomerase posted:Judge me for my deaf retarded Toller please just for comedy tell me what you would think IRL Honestly I looked at a dog in the shelter who was on phenobarbital for seizures and I didn't adopt him because a) he was stoned as gently caress and just didn't seem interested in anything b) medication past the usual flea and tick and heart worm meds can get expensive fast and c) my dad had a dog growing up that had seizures and he always was really upset talking about it so I decided I couldn't handle it. I have no idea how you cope.
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Dec 1, 2012 21:18
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My parents (generally good dog owners, the dogs are vetted, spoiled rotten, and pretty well taken care of) are not interested in learning about clicker training any of their dogs (or any purely +R based training) including one dog who has a very very soft temperament and is not food motivated at all and a Pomeranian who hates being picked up (she's been vet checked, its not a health issues). Of course this means I sperg out every time I go home and my dad calls me a "dog social engineer". I get really mad that my dad thinks the Pom not wanting to be picked up is a dominance issue- she's small and he's like very tall. I've tried to say she's scared and uncomfortable but no, the most logical explanation is that an animal that prefers to spend most of its time being left the gently caress alone is angry and trying to move up in the pecking order over something maybe 50x her size. My parents just think I'm a crazy dog lady, and they show dogs, so I guess they'd know.
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Dec 2, 2012 01:01
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Bailey annoys the poo poo out of me when he isn't being lump like- not because I hate it when he wants to do things, but he's not interested in doing things with me (like fetch or tug or anything that doesn't involve either food that I give him, food that he finds on the kitchen floor while I cook or petting) so its extremely difficult to get him to have a good/ appropriate outlet for his in the house energy. He's constantly underfoot looking for scraps when I cook and will try to steal any onion bits that fall on the floor.
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Dec 4, 2012 18:08
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Avshalom posted:I reinforced my blue cattledog's thunder phobia instead of just ignoring him when he was freaking out, because he was so cute when he came to me for comfort snuggles. You aren't reinforcing fear in that first case, FYI. Comforting the dog is just fine and appropriate.
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Dec 5, 2012 23:21
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The boarding staff at my vet's office always tell me how much they love Bailey and how he's the best. I'm half tempted to ask if any of them want him, especially when he acts up.
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Dec 29, 2012 19:13
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malcriada posted:Funny, there's no white people in Miami, lol. Are you actually retarded or do you try really hard to give people that impression? Because thus far you've demonstrated that you can barely read and that you are exceptionally stupid.
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Jan 7, 2013 00:31
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My boyfriend and I threaten my dog with being "put in to a stew pot" every time he's an rear end to us. Mainly because Bailey hates water, but also because the phrase, "Do you want to be made into Bailey stew?" gets him to wag his tail.
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Jan 18, 2013 14:37
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Superconsndar posted:I think it's a given that it's not possible to be a sperglord doglady and also be emotionally balanced I cry when they air those terrible SPCA ads. I've seen them 100s of times. I don't cry very often. So yeah, dog ladies be cray cray.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:20
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Superconsndar posted:Dear confession thread: That's really kind of you.
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Superconsndar posted:It's really blowing my mind because she's got like screaming dog rage for Frankie but her and Moses are like making out and poo poo and Moses has literally never once in his life interacted in a positive way with a dog that isn't Frankie. She REALLY HATES FRANKIE and it's the funniest thing that has like ever happened. She sees Frankie as competition. 
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