The 38th 'How'd We Ever Do It Without Jon?' TPBM Silliness Chat

mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #10387264
Thanks Zane. I don't have issues with him dropping things... he does it immediately... if I walk into the room, he will drop what he has... he KNOWS he shouldn't have it. But does it anyway.

He will sit on command. Oh and I tried to gate off the hallway (to the boys rooms). Well the fool dog leaps the gate in a single bound... so I put the gate higher on the wall... and blocked the bottom with something else... he STILL leaps over the freaking gate...

Frustration... I try not to get frustrated. Today was over the top... I hit a limit... I broke...

He has to sleep every night in his crate... or I won't sleep... I tried having him sleep with me... but he moves and I"m awake fearful that he's chewing on something else...

He runs from the boys with the things he takes... but me he sees me and drops it and walks away... So I can see him thinking it was a game with them... Today I tried to get to him to take him outside as I was trying to clean the kitchen and couldn't have my eye on him the entire time so he needed to go out after the 5th time that Sean told him no for chewing on someething....

I'm embarrassed that I can't manage to have a dog successfully....

You have had loads of good advice I especially Like Dan's view although I am not sure how to take the Stepford Dogs line

Positive re-enforcement is what everyone says but it is really hard to do if the dog wont play. You say that he sits on command. Play on that and give him a sit before you do anything else. When he has something in his mouth and he walks away from you, don't use a here command use a sit and then approach him, this way he may be less inclined to move away. Also have the crate in a room that you are in and use it during the afternoon as well as at night, that way he is in the room with you and more relaxed, I am sure it will come good.

T gets a little p'ed off that the dogs will react to me far quicker than they do to her, she is getting a lot better, as she is getting to understand that it is her tone of voice that the dogs react too not the volume, unfortunately I now have a wife that sounds like the Governor of California.

Are you giving him anything he can chew? Rawhide chews are great and can occupy a dog for hours.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10388448
OK, so while Lisa was out taking some really cool wildlife photos, I shot flowers.

and I call this one,"She loves me!"

Beautiful, and I love the last one and title. I'd of never thought to set up that shot, it is great.

cfpackerfan wrote in post #10388770
Athena was one of the Dolan dogs. (sorry, I think I told you yesterday, but can't remember).
She's our newest foster.

When we got her, she was almost feral. Scared of everything.

I can't even describe to you the difference in this dog now...

She reminds me of LB's Baily. She is going to make someone a very sweet best dog ever furkid. If you were closer, I'd have to bribe Curt just so I could take her.

gjl711 wrote in post #10389660
Good morning all. Just a quick stop by before staring the day. Lots of work to do. Got lucky last night. Big storms left all my trees standing. Others in the neighborhood are not quite so lucky.

I heard on the radio you all got it much worse than we did. Just some end twigs down for us. Well there were lines down in the northern part of the county, gave us a bit of a traffic jam getting out of the Dairy Breakfast.

Skrim17 wrote in post #10389750
Just gave the kitty a bath, it had been a while and both of my men have allergies. Much controlled with a wash every 6 weeks or so, it had been about 4 months! He's such a good boy, didn't even try to get out!

OK, now I understand why you give him frequent baths. I was curious.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #10389822
You know, Crissa. I am very well behaved when given a bath too.....Just sayin'.

She is out of bubbles.

Skrim17 wrote in post #10389848
Does Lisa give you a bath every 6 weeks too?

I've been told, by a very reliable source, "Whether he needs it or not.":p

Belmondo wrote in post #10389948
I have one of these out in the garage. Unfortunately, they keyboard and mouse disappeared in one of the moves or garage cleanings.

That was the first model I used with a mouse. I was working as a temp and was confused for a moment when the mouse was at the end of my reach. Brilliant deduction told me to lift it up and set it back down.

Guineh wrote in post #10390030
A couple pictures my wife took:

Like father, like son....

Love it. Uhm, is Christopher's fly open?

kumatron wrote in post #10390473
I have Baxter puppy on me!

(yeah, I did just come here to gloat )

So do I get to gloat and say I have Little D piddle on my backdrop?

Becky N wrote in post #10390678
So do I get to gloat and say I have Little D piddle on my backdrop?

oh no. LOL.
babies and puppies...

Jenn, I don't have a lot to add to what the others have said. Please know that you're not alone. Most dog owners struggle at some point.

I'm currently struggling a bit with Gracie. She is a counter surfer. She recently got a loaf of rye bread off of the counter and ate half of it. Yesterday I didn't take the girls to day care because I worked a short day. Well, she was not happy with staying home so she got into a newly purchased dog toothbrush and toothpaste (never opened) and shredded it. Oh, and she got a new plastic bottle of horseradish off of the kitchen counter. Turns out, she's not a fan. She got the lid off and ate a bit and left it.

And did I mention that she recently decided to explore my desk? She managed to knock one of my hard drives onto the floor. I still haven't gotten it to power on. It's my 1.5 TB drive that holds the majority of my images.

So we all struggle. The key is to not give them opportunity to fail. I've got to modify what I do with Gracie. These things were never issues with Turner or Maggie. Gracie is different. So I need to adjust. No more leaving her home to roam. She'll need to be confined in a dog-proof area. I want to set her up to succeed and take away potential failures.

One good tool is to get a Kong, load it with peanut butter, then put it in the freezer. That will keep them occupied for quite a while.

Good luck and hang in there!

gjl711 wrote in post #10389915
I did that a few years ago. I sort of wished I hadn't tossed some of it. The one I miss most is my first Apple. It was the old ones with the cases without vents. Had to keep the top off or it would crash if used too long. It was equipped with a whopping 4k of memory. I think my toaster has more memory today.

This was my first computer. It had a whole 1k of memory! Yep, just a single kilobyte. I win! I win!

My dad spoiled me, though. He got me the 16k expansion cartridge for it. My dad also hated that tiny membrane keyboard it came with, so he went to a local electronics shop, found a keyboard from an IBM mainframe's dumb terminal, and wired that up to it. I was probably the only person on earth who had a 16k ZX81 with a full sized keyboard.

T.D. wrote in post #10390709
Jenn, I don't have a lot to add to what the others have said. Please know that you're not alone. Most dog owners struggle at some point.

I'm currently struggling a bit with Gracie. She is a counter surfer. She recently got a loaf of rye bread off of the counter and ate half of it. Yesterday I didn't take the girls to day care because I worked a short day. Well, she was not happy with staying home so she got into a newly purchased dog toothbrush and toothpaste (never opened) and shredded it. Oh, and she got a new plastic bottle of horseradish off of the kitchen counter. Turns out, she's not a fan. She got the lid off and ate a bit and left it.

And did I mention that she recently decided to explore my desk? She managed to knock one of my hard drives onto the floor. I still haven't gotten it to power on. It's my 1.5 TB drive that holds the majority of my images.

So we all struggle. The key is to not give them opportunity to fail. I've got to modify what I do with Gracie. These things were never issues with Turner or Maggie. Gracie is different. So I need to adjust. No more leaving her home to roam. She'll need to be confined in a dog-proof area. I want to set her up to succeed and take away potential failures.

One good tool is to get a Kong, load it with peanut butter, then put it in the freezer. That will keep them occupied for quite a while.

Good luck and hang in there!

ho boy.
Seems like we all have one huh? Well, we sort of have 2...Hale is an unwilling to be reformed digger. Even massive amounts of pepper doesn't stop her.

We've been buying bones. Clean, they just gnaw on them and gnaw on them...it's nice...no gunk everywhere.
Nice idea bout the kong and the freezer.

T.D. wrote in post #10390709
I want to set her up to succeed and take away potential failures.

One good tool is to get a Kong, load it with peanut butter, then put it in the freezer. That will keep them occupied for quite a while.

Good luck and hang in there!

Right now Bax is doing fantastic out of the crate during the day but all rooms must be closed off, he has the family room, dining room, and kitchen to roam. All trash cans are behind closed doors and nothing is left on the counters. After several months of this, we'll see about leaving one door open at a time. He takes his "separation anxiety" out on the trash cans and toilet paper. He is at his worse when I'm gone for any length of time beyond a work day.

Never thought about freezing the Kong and PB, I just give it too him fresh from the jar...have stopped myself many times as I'm about to stick the utensil in a second time to get a bit more to stuff.

thomascanty wrote in post #10390715
This was my first computer. It had a whole 1k of memory! Yep, just a single kilobyte. I win! I win!

I'd forgotten about those.

Permagrin wrote in post #10390737
ho boy.
Seems like we all have one huh?

It sure seems that way around here lately...

Except for Phydough (who had *tons* of issues, and I'm sure was severely abused before I happened to adopt him), I never had half as many problems with any dog as I did with Minnie in the first year or so. She still has a few issues we're working on, but she's come a very long way in the last 2+ years, and considering how bad she was in that first year, amazes me daily now at how well behaved she has become.

Becky My dogs have always had their own PB jar. I mark it with their initials. We don't share for that very reason.

Lisa, the frozen Kong works really well. It makes the PB last a lot longer and keeps them occupied longer.

T.D. wrote in post #10390771
Becky My dogs have always had their own PB jar. I mark it with their initials. We don't share for that very reason.

Lisa, the frozen Kong works really well. It makes the PB last a lot longer and keeps them occupied longer.

I meant to say that I was sorry about your photo disk. Will you be able to send it in for recovery??

Permagrin wrote in post #10390787
I meant to say that I was sorry about your photo disk. Will you be able to send it in for recovery??

One of my projects this weekend is to take a close look and see what I can come up with. I'm hopeful it's a power issue and relatively easy to fix. Fingers crossed. But, truthfully, every decent photo I have is uploaded to smuggy, so it's not the end of the world. And I've got a lot of it backed up (not all.ops.

Becky N wrote in post #10390752
I'd forgotten about those.

I'm reminiscing, reading that Wikipedia page. I remember so much of that stuff. Tweaking the volume on the cassette player because it kept failing as it tried to load the programs, which would take up to four minutes (to read 1k of program data!)... Ah, those were the days...

Right now, Kona actually is behaving the best of the two of ours. The ultrasonic thing has nipped his two really egregious behaviors right in the bud. He's been practically (knock wood) angelic of late. Hale's just thicker. She's not as sensitive as Kona...doesn't get the correction as readily as K. Yesterday she was doing her hound dog bark at the neighbors and I scolded her. No result. I scolded her and used the ultrasonic thing. She ran over to me and stopped. Then barked again, (right in front of me) like it was a "you can't make me" moment. I used the device again and she stopped. It could just be that Hale is more stubborn than K.

Permagrin wrote in post #10390804
It could just be that Hale is more stubborn than K.

There is also the maturity level to consider.

Permagrin wrote in post #10390737
ho boy.

That was a nasty thing to call Chris.

Becky N wrote in post #10390858
There is also the maturity level to consider.

Yeah.....explain Neil then!!