So long and thanks for all the fish
Hi everyone.
As some of you may or may not know I have two dogs. They are both female, both beagle cross kelpies. This makes them somewhat intelligent, with a keen sense of sight AND smell. Our old dog, Pearl, is 11 years old. She is going blind and deaf but in an adorable, cute and cuddly way. She was a fantastic puppy and we took her for walks all the time. She started to get bored by herself all the time at about age 6 when we moved to this house, so we thought we would get her a companion.
Meet Maudie. She was named after my nanna's exclamation "Lordy Maudie!". She was also a very cute puppy but a bit strange. After all, she adored Pearl, but did not get on with other dogs or people. She particularly hates men. "No worries!" we thought, but she didn't get the regular walks Pearl did because she was dangerously anti-social. Despite choker chains (cruel but also ineffective), muzzle style chains and regular collar and leashes, she could not be tamed.
Then one day I decide that what we need is a body harness that goes around the neck and body and is connected. That would solve both the cruelty problem and the amazing escaping ability problems at the same time! Genius! The first body harness was too small. Fat bum wouldn't fit in it properly so back to the shop to get a "large".
We get to the top of the stairs, up near the street. Oh no! Theres a dog coming down the stairs on the other side of the road. No worries, I pull her behind my mum's car so that she doesn't have a direct line of sight to the dog. Unfortunately she noticed it and was not distracted by my attempts to practice her sitting and dropping.
MAGICALLY SHE GETS OUT OF THE HARNESS. Yes, that is correct, the escape proof harness is in fact not escape proof when put into use by Maude. An interesting encounter with the dog (not even on a leash) ensues, I manage to grab Maude and yell at her to get round the back (into the backyard) and thankfully she did and ran down the stairs.
The entire problem was of course exacerbated as the other dog looked a lot like the fox that lives in the bush behind my house so Maude probably went nuts because of that too.
As Jeremy so succintly put it:
Maude: 1
Erin: 0
Thanks Maude for putting me in such a helpless situation! Stupid smart dog.
As some of you may or may not know I have two dogs. They are both female, both beagle cross kelpies. This makes them somewhat intelligent, with a keen sense of sight AND smell. Our old dog, Pearl, is 11 years old. She is going blind and deaf but in an adorable, cute and cuddly way. She was a fantastic puppy and we took her for walks all the time. She started to get bored by herself all the time at about age 6 when we moved to this house, so we thought we would get her a companion.
Meet Maudie. She was named after my nanna's exclamation "Lordy Maudie!". She was also a very cute puppy but a bit strange. After all, she adored Pearl, but did not get on with other dogs or people. She particularly hates men. "No worries!" we thought, but she didn't get the regular walks Pearl did because she was dangerously anti-social. Despite choker chains (cruel but also ineffective), muzzle style chains and regular collar and leashes, she could not be tamed.
Then one day I decide that what we need is a body harness that goes around the neck and body and is connected. That would solve both the cruelty problem and the amazing escaping ability problems at the same time! Genius! The first body harness was too small. Fat bum wouldn't fit in it properly so back to the shop to get a "large".
We get to the top of the stairs, up near the street. Oh no! Theres a dog coming down the stairs on the other side of the road. No worries, I pull her behind my mum's car so that she doesn't have a direct line of sight to the dog. Unfortunately she noticed it and was not distracted by my attempts to practice her sitting and dropping.
MAGICALLY SHE GETS OUT OF THE HARNESS. Yes, that is correct, the escape proof harness is in fact not escape proof when put into use by Maude. An interesting encounter with the dog (not even on a leash) ensues, I manage to grab Maude and yell at her to get round the back (into the backyard) and thankfully she did and ran down the stairs.
The entire problem was of course exacerbated as the other dog looked a lot like the fox that lives in the bush behind my house so Maude probably went nuts because of that too.
As Jeremy so succintly put it:
Maude: 1
Erin: 0
Thanks Maude for putting me in such a helpless situation! Stupid smart dog.