Boyfriend sees a dog!

He'd nipped out for a while when I went out food shopping this afternoon so
when he heard my car pull into the drive, home, he was waiting on the front.
He must know the sound of the engine.
I was unloading Mr F (my car) from the hatchback when I noticed two people
coming along the pavement with a d*g. I could see it, but Boyfie couldn't
as the car was in way of his view. I decided I'd like to see what he would
do, and in case you think that's a bit cruel, it was a tiny Yorkshire
terrier, maybe a foot long and 6 inches high.

Boyfie saw it, rushed down the side of the house in a panic and vaulted over
the gate.
Kitty Farmcat would be ashamed of her apprentice in "what to do about dogs?"
If it had dared to look at her, she would have said "Yeah? Want to fight
and have a million claws in your face? I think not, get on your way.."

Rita, Lennie-the-poodle's mummy often says to me "what will happen to him if
something happens to me?" I say his other dog walker Mary (who walked him
until she broke her ankle and now up to speed 4x week) will take him. She
says Mary has enough with her young Jack Russell, who is apparently quite a
handful. as they are when they are not out killing rats all day.
twer

Strong hints there about me taking him on. I would if I didn't have
Boyfriend. Lennie is a lovely boy. Ruined by his diet. He's supposed
to eat only Burns weight-loss diet. Hahaha..
Lennie has to go to the vet (same vet that saved Boyfie) for an allergy
test. IMO it's not necessary, she is feeding
him too much protein. She won't admit to his rubbish diet to the vet.
However, I am going to shop her. I've tried myself to persuade her to
adjust Lennie's diet for months. His bowels are dreadful. I will phone the
vet to say what he really eats.
She might do what the vet says, that's my plan.

Tweed

On 4/4/2015 2:21 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

Strong hints there about me taking him on. I would if I didn't have
Boyfriend. Lennie is a lovely boy. Ruined by his diet. He's supposed
to eat only Burns weight-loss diet. Hahaha..
Lennie has to go to the vet (same vet that saved Boyfie) for an allergy
test. IMO it's not necessary, she is feeding
him too much protein. She won't admit to his rubbish diet to the vet.
However, I am going to shop her. I've tried myself to persuade her to
adjust Lennie's diet for months. His bowels are dreadful. I will phone the
vet to say what he really eats.
She might do what the vet says, that's my plan.

Tweed

You seem to think they want you to take him on. "Strong hints" are only
your impression. Until they actually ask you to take over full time
care of Lennie, I'd back off.

Jill

On 4/4/2015 3:49 PM, Judith Latham wrote:
If you're going to talk to the vet about Lennie's diet make sure the vet
knows not to tell his owner you said anything otherwise she might stop you
seeing Lennie, which would be sad for both of you and you wouldn't have
any chance to keep putting the point about his diet to her.

Judith

I understand her concern but I'm not really sure the vet has any
business listening to anyone other than Lennie's owners about his care.
She's already said she has suggested different food for him. But
Lennie is not her dog.

Jill

Christina Websell wrote:
He'd nipped out for a while when I went out food shopping this afternoon so
when he heard my car pull into the drive, home, he was waiting on the front.
He must know the sound of the engine.
I was unloading Mr F (my car) from the hatchback when I noticed two people
coming along the pavement with a d*g. I could see it, but Boyfie couldn't
as the car was in way of his view. I decided I'd like to see what he would
do, and in case you think that's a bit cruel, it was a tiny Yorkshire
terrier, maybe a foot long and 6 inches high.

Boyfie saw it, rushed down the side of the house in a panic and vaulted over
the gate.

One place I lived, a woman used to walk her miniature Schnauzers past my
house. I was on my porch one day when she did so, and the dogs seemed
apprehensive. I asked whether they were looking for Patches (my rescued
18 pound tomcat). She said they were looking for the "devil" cat. At
that point Patches put in an appearance to rush at the dogs and jump
over them! (Not exactly an attack, but since he was bigger than either
of the dogs, I guess they had a right to be scared.)

On 4/4/2015 1:05 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


Christina Websell wrote:
He'd nipped out for a while when I went out food shopping this
afternoon so when he heard my car pull into the drive, home, he was
waiting on the front. He must know the sound of the engine.
I was unloading Mr F (my car) from the hatchback when I noticed two
people coming along the pavement with a d*g. I could see it, but
Boyfie couldn't as the car was in way of his view. I decided I'd like
to see what he would do, and in case you think that's a bit cruel, it
was a tiny Yorkshire terrier, maybe a foot long and 6 inches high.

Boyfie saw it, rushed down the side of the house in a panic and
vaulted over the gate.

One place I lived, a woman used to walk her miniature Schnauzers past my
house. I was on my porch one day when she did so, and the dogs seemed
apprehensive. I asked whether they were looking for Patches (my rescued
18 pound tomcat). She said they were looking for the "devil" cat. At
that point Patches put in an appearance to rush at the dogs and jump
over them! (Not exactly an attack, but since he was bigger than either
of the dogs, I guess they had a right to be scared.)

Many years ago I had two cats, Tawny and Arky. Tawny was a retired
fighter. Arky was brain-damaged, and a bit simple.

One day my parents came for a visit, and they brought their toy poodle
Fifi with them. Fifi liked to chase cats. She went out into the yard
and saw Arky lying by the side of the house. She ran at him, barking,
and he just laid there and looked at her. She ran right up to him and
shoved her nose into his side. He just blinked. Finally she gave up in
disgust.

A little later, she saw Tawny and tried to chase him. She came away
from that encounter with a scratched nose. She didn't know that, in our
old neighborhood, Tawny had all the cats and most of the dogs terrorized.

After that, for the rest of the visit, she didn't see any cats, even if
they walked right in front of her.

Joy

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:
He'd nipped out for a while when I went out food shopping this afternoon
so when he heard my car pull into the drive, home, he was waiting on the
front. He must know the sound of the engine.
I was unloading Mr F (my car) from the hatchback when I noticed two
people coming along the pavement with a d*g. I could see it, but Boyfie
couldn't as the car was in way of his view. I decided I'd like to see
what he would do, and in case you think that's a bit cruel, it was a
tiny Yorkshire terrier, maybe a foot long and 6 inches high.

Boyfie saw it, rushed down the side of the house in a panic and vaulted
over the gate.

One place I lived, a woman used to walk her miniature Schnauzers past my
house. I was on my porch one day when she did so, and the dogs seemed
apprehensive. I asked whether they were looking for Patches (my rescued
18 pound tomcat). She said they were looking for the "devil" cat. At
that point Patches put in an appearance to rush at the dogs and jump over
them! (Not exactly an attack, but since he was bigger than either of the
dogs, I guess they had a right to be scared.)

haha devil cat

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On 4/4/2015 1:05 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


Christina Websell wrote:
He'd nipped out for a while when I went out food shopping this
afternoon so when he heard my car pull into the drive, home, he was
waiting on the front. He must know the sound of the engine.
I was unloading Mr F (my car) from the hatchback when I noticed two
people coming along the pavement with a d*g. I could see it, but
Boyfie couldn't as the car was in way of his view. I decided I'd like
to see what he would do, and in case you think that's a bit cruel, it
was a tiny Yorkshire terrier, maybe a foot long and 6 inches high.

Boyfie saw it, rushed down the side of the house in a panic and
vaulted over the gate.

One place I lived, a woman used to walk her miniature Schnauzers past my
house. I was on my porch one day when she did so, and the dogs seemed
apprehensive. I asked whether they were looking for Patches (my rescued
18 pound tomcat). She said they were looking for the "devil" cat. At
that point Patches put in an appearance to rush at the dogs and jump
over them! (Not exactly an attack, but since he was bigger than either
of the dogs, I guess they had a right to be scared.)

Many years ago I had two cats, Tawny and Arky. Tawny was a retired
fighter. Arky was brain-damaged, and a bit simple.

One day my parents came for a visit, and they brought their toy poodle
Fifi with them. Fifi liked to chase cats. She went out into the yard and
saw Arky lying by the side of the house. She ran at him, barking, and he
just laid there and looked at her. She ran right up to him and shoved her
nose into his side. He just blinked. Finally she gave up in disgust.

A little later, she saw Tawny and tried to chase him. She came away from
that encounter with a scratched nose. She didn't know that, in our old
neighborhood, Tawny had all the cats and most of the dogs terrorized.

After that, for the rest of the visit, she didn't see any cats, even if
they walked right in front of her.

Joy

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My buddy decided to have his lab enter my house years ago.
Goofy came out of my room to see what was going on.
They passed in the hallway and both jumped like they had seen ghosts.

That was goofys only known dog encounter.

On 4/6/2015 12:51 AM, The Other Guy wrote:
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 02:00:36 -0500, "Matt Ferrari"
wrote:

My buddy decided to have his lab enter my house years ago.
Goofy came out of my room to see what was going on.
They passed in the hallway and both jumped like they had seen ghosts.

That was goofys only known dog encounter.

Many years ago, I had a pair of cats that would STALK and tease
dogs.

One of the cats, a huge grey and black tiger, would hide in the
yard, behind plants in the yard that was about 2 feet higher
than the sidewalk. The other cat, a large colorpoint, would
go down onto the street under a car, and wait for a dog to
come by. He'd then pretend to run away, and the other cat
would sneak over to the edge of the wall and jump onto the dog,
almost always scaring it enough to make it run away.

Tawny (RB) weighed about 10 pounds. One day I happened to be out in
front and saw a medium-sized dog chasing Tawny. They ran behind some
bushes. There were sounds. When they came out, Tawny was chasing the dog.

Joy

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"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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If you're going to talk to the vet about Lennie's diet make sure the vet
knows not to tell his owner you said anything otherwise she might stop you
seeing Lennie, which would be sad for both of you and you wouldn't have
any chance to keep putting the point about his diet to her.

It's the same vet that saved Boyfie, and I've been using that vet practice
since I was a child. they should trust me. He will not say anything to her
if I say not.
Rita will not stop me seeing Lennie because she relies on me to take him
out. He cannot wee or poo unless I do.
She loves him so much that she stuffs him with unsuitable food which is
causing him mega-itching and his poor feet are raw where he's been nibbling
at them.
She so lies about his diet, so I'm not going to let her.

I intend to speak to the vet. Maybe she'll take more notice of him than me,
or Mary.
Seems a bit sort of deceitful, I know. But she is ruining the health of
that lovely dog with his diet. He's having a huge ton of allergy tests next
week.
My guess is that he's allergic to too much protein in his diet, but I might
be wrong. I'm fed up of saying "stop adding stewed beef/lamb/chicken to
his complete weight reduction diet plus he doesn't need ham, a packet of
crisps and chicken for lunch" Plus treats all day.

So I will tell the vet, because Rita won't. I'm hoping he will tell her to
feed him on complete weight reduction food only, with maybe some gravy on.
He's far too chubby. And he does not need puddings, which apparently he
gets at weekends.










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Judith Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.

On 4/7/2015 4:37 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"Judith Latham" wrote in message
...
If you're going to talk to the vet about Lennie's diet make sure the vet
knows not to tell his owner you said anything otherwise she might stop you
seeing Lennie, which would be sad for both of you and you wouldn't have
any chance to keep putting the point about his diet to her.

It's the same vet that saved Boyfie, and I've been using that vet practice
since I was a child. they should trust me. He will not say anything to her
if I say not.
Rita will not stop me seeing Lennie because she relies on me to take him
out. He cannot wee or poo unless I do.
She loves him so much that she stuffs him with unsuitable food which is
causing him mega-itching and his poor feet are raw where he's been nibbling
at them.
She so lies about his diet, so I'm not going to let her.

I intend to speak to the vet. Maybe she'll take more notice of him than me,
or Mary.
Seems a bit sort of deceitful, I know. But she is ruining the health of
that lovely dog with his diet. He's having a huge ton of allergy tests next
week.
My guess is that he's allergic to too much protein in his diet, but I might
be wrong. I'm fed up of saying "stop adding stewed beef/lamb/chicken to
his complete weight reduction diet plus he doesn't need ham, a packet of
crisps and chicken for lunch" Plus treats all day.

So I will tell the vet, because Rita won't. I'm hoping he will tell her to
feed him on complete weight reduction food only, with maybe some gravy on.
He's far too chubby. And he does not need puddings, which apparently he
gets at weekends.

She's the one being deceitful, not you.

Joy



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Judith Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.




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