I have a dog.
He uses a "paw bowl"
I never knew how elegant my dog was until I observed him using his water dish as a finger bowl.
He would very carefully place one front paw in his water dish and then do the same with the other front paw.
Now, "elegant" may be a stretch as that is the same bowl that he drinks out of but then again there is the obvious attempt at clean paws.
About the "clean paws" thing... my back door has dirt from his paws when he was out in wet weather and digging so ground into it that it will not clean. It's either sand blast (steel door) or repaint.
I already checked with a local sheet metal shop about getting a piece of stainless bent to cover the wooden door jamb that he has clawed up so bad. I was trying to describe what I wanted and they started laughing. They said it was a common request for people with big dogs. That was supposed to make me feel better. hmmmmm.
I'm going with stainless steel. Aluminum is too soft, he would probably claw it up or eat it.
So...
I have a dog.
He uses a "paw bowl" to clean his paws.
One should probably not draw any conclusions from that act.
Regards,
WebMouse
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Dog Run... Construction Advice
I have a dog
I built my dog a nice dog run.
It's a very large rectangle.... well, one end is a little narrower than the other.
Strong suggestion if you are going to build one. Make it so one end is MUCH narrower than the other.
When (and it WILL happen) your dog absolutely refuses to come to you or do anything you want him to do, you have to catch him. This is where the "run" part of "dog run" comes in.
I do, upon occasion, seem to get more exercise than other times.
My dog is VERY fast and can laugh while running at full speed.
It sort of works, sometimes, if I sit down and point at the ground and tell him to get his furry butt over HERE right NOW. I'm doing a little better than 50% at that so "it sort of works".
I know he can hear me because I cleaned his ears this morning and when I call him he looks at me with a "yeah, sure.... like that's going to happen!" look that is unmistakable. He then goes back to chewing whatever he has which may be anything from an actual chew toy to most anything at all including rocks. I can't even try to explain that part.
Regards,
WebMouse
I built my dog a nice dog run.
It's a very large rectangle.... well, one end is a little narrower than the other.
Strong suggestion if you are going to build one. Make it so one end is MUCH narrower than the other.
When (and it WILL happen) your dog absolutely refuses to come to you or do anything you want him to do, you have to catch him. This is where the "run" part of "dog run" comes in.
I do, upon occasion, seem to get more exercise than other times.
My dog is VERY fast and can laugh while running at full speed.
It sort of works, sometimes, if I sit down and point at the ground and tell him to get his furry butt over HERE right NOW. I'm doing a little better than 50% at that so "it sort of works".
I know he can hear me because I cleaned his ears this morning and when I call him he looks at me with a "yeah, sure.... like that's going to happen!" look that is unmistakable. He then goes back to chewing whatever he has which may be anything from an actual chew toy to most anything at all including rocks. I can't even try to explain that part.
Regards,
WebMouse
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Gardening Dog
I have a dog.
I have learned that he has heretofore undiscovered talents.
I was digging patches of grass and clumps of weeds out of the back yard gravel path and Danny showed these new skills.
When you dig up a clump of something it is normal to shake out the good topsoil before you throw the weeds or grass clump away.
My dog is absolutely wonderful at this "shake the dirt out" process... well... maybe not perfect, he won't pile up the green parts. They sort of get scattered.
I'm sure he thinks it's some sort of game but it works for me. I just have to be careful to not let him know it's work.
I have a dog.
I shovel the weeds out.
He shakes the dirt out.
The work gets done.
Oh yeah, after... I go around after and rake up the green parts.
It's actually a fair division of labor. I'm tall and work from the end of a shovel or rake. He's short and does the "ground level" work.
It works.
WebMouse
I have learned that he has heretofore undiscovered talents.
I was digging patches of grass and clumps of weeds out of the back yard gravel path and Danny showed these new skills.
When you dig up a clump of something it is normal to shake out the good topsoil before you throw the weeds or grass clump away.
My dog is absolutely wonderful at this "shake the dirt out" process... well... maybe not perfect, he won't pile up the green parts. They sort of get scattered.
I'm sure he thinks it's some sort of game but it works for me. I just have to be careful to not let him know it's work.
I have a dog.
I shovel the weeds out.
He shakes the dirt out.
The work gets done.
Oh yeah, after... I go around after and rake up the green parts.
It's actually a fair division of labor. I'm tall and work from the end of a shovel or rake. He's short and does the "ground level" work.
It works.
WebMouse
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Helthf... hi thungue ith thuck!
I have a dog
My dog lick all sorts of things, including me.
Sometimes his tongue gets stuck.
Now... we are not talking about what happens when you take a finger tip with a gob of creamy peanut butter on it and stick it on the roof of his mouth just behind his front teeth. That is entirely different. Funny, but different.
My Golden Retriever, Danny, is going on 7 months now. Picture that long tongue stuck way out of his mouth, wrapped around the tip of his lower jaw and sandwiched back against the bottom of his lower jaw and the thing he is licking.
It may be a Geko lizard phenomenon. You know how their feet stick to smooth surfaces and they sort of peel them off. It's why they don't fall off the ceiling.
Danny will be busy licking me, my shirt, the arm of my chair or some such place and all of a sudden his tongue is stuck... evidently... since he remains in that tongue sandwich position for quite some time and looks at me like he is asking for help.
Maybe it's some sort of hyper-extension thing going on and his tongue gets stuck past the "return point". Fishing reels do that. Usually accompanied by a great knot of line that magically appears.
I've had a lawn mower do it too. Pull the cord too far and it won't reel back in. Could be like that.
All you have to do is lift his chin a tiny bit and the tongue pops right back... more or less. It does sort of hang out the side sometimes.
He never seems in pain so it's probably not a "tongue cramp". "Tired Tongue Syndrome" possibly. Syndrome is a nice useful word. Doctors use it when they have no freaking idea what the problem is. Doctors also use "Idiopathic" sometimes. I translate that as an idiots pathetic attempt to explain something they have no clue about.
I'm not too sure about TTS (Tired Tongue Syndrome), all you have to do is sort of kick start the licking process and he is right back at it. Just move the jaw a tiny bit or what ever is being licked and the licking motor in there takes right off again.
I am VERY glad he is not a cat. That size tongue applied as thoroughly as he does would be stripping meat from my arm in no time. I got licked by a Cougar one time and that is some serious licking. Believe me! She was a friendly adult but that was still one heck of a lick.
Danny's licks are worth restarting.
He cleaned my dinner off my T-shirt tonight. The shirt is good for another day now.
You know, maybe the licking thing is so good he is just "stopping in place" to "enjoy the lick".
Could be!
He won't tell. He's only a dog you know!
I have a dog whose "licker" sometimes gets stuck.
No problem.
Regards,
WebMouse
My dog lick all sorts of things, including me.
Sometimes his tongue gets stuck.
Now... we are not talking about what happens when you take a finger tip with a gob of creamy peanut butter on it and stick it on the roof of his mouth just behind his front teeth. That is entirely different. Funny, but different.
My Golden Retriever, Danny, is going on 7 months now. Picture that long tongue stuck way out of his mouth, wrapped around the tip of his lower jaw and sandwiched back against the bottom of his lower jaw and the thing he is licking.
It may be a Geko lizard phenomenon. You know how their feet stick to smooth surfaces and they sort of peel them off. It's why they don't fall off the ceiling.
Danny will be busy licking me, my shirt, the arm of my chair or some such place and all of a sudden his tongue is stuck... evidently... since he remains in that tongue sandwich position for quite some time and looks at me like he is asking for help.
Maybe it's some sort of hyper-extension thing going on and his tongue gets stuck past the "return point". Fishing reels do that. Usually accompanied by a great knot of line that magically appears.
I've had a lawn mower do it too. Pull the cord too far and it won't reel back in. Could be like that.
All you have to do is lift his chin a tiny bit and the tongue pops right back... more or less. It does sort of hang out the side sometimes.
He never seems in pain so it's probably not a "tongue cramp". "Tired Tongue Syndrome" possibly. Syndrome is a nice useful word. Doctors use it when they have no freaking idea what the problem is. Doctors also use "Idiopathic" sometimes. I translate that as an idiots pathetic attempt to explain something they have no clue about.
I'm not too sure about TTS (Tired Tongue Syndrome), all you have to do is sort of kick start the licking process and he is right back at it. Just move the jaw a tiny bit or what ever is being licked and the licking motor in there takes right off again.
I am VERY glad he is not a cat. That size tongue applied as thoroughly as he does would be stripping meat from my arm in no time. I got licked by a Cougar one time and that is some serious licking. Believe me! She was a friendly adult but that was still one heck of a lick.
Danny's licks are worth restarting.
He cleaned my dinner off my T-shirt tonight. The shirt is good for another day now.
You know, maybe the licking thing is so good he is just "stopping in place" to "enjoy the lick".
Could be!
He won't tell. He's only a dog you know!
I have a dog whose "licker" sometimes gets stuck.
No problem.
Regards,
WebMouse
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