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For those of you who pick up (poop) after your dogs, do you ever pick up a wrong pat and get totally grossed out? :lol: You know? You expect nicely formed, slightly squishy, WARM (fresh) poop, but your fingers (in a plastic bag) wrap around a hardened COLD lump? :placz: *shudder* When that happens, I freak out. :P :lol:

Oh GROSSS!!!!! *where's that gagging icon?*

My dog had fluid retention in his testical sacs as well. They never felt hard though. Great that you're taking him the vet to check it out. :)

Can't help one single bit, but am sending you positive thoughts. Hope your labby improves (ALOT!) soon!

Definitely the plushy pillow beds at our house. :roll: Otherwise Cosmic will give us his "I can't believe you're treating me this way" look the whole day. And try to hijack OUR pillows. Ours are filled with (supposedly) some sort of superior fluff. But they still get flat! :-? :P Sucks but thankfully a quick trip to the laundromat gets them all poofy again! I have no idea what the laundry guys to to the beds.

I say BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WALLET around that girl!! :lol: Bets are it wouldn't be too difficult for her to figure out how to exchange the papery stuff for food & toys next! ;)

Cat! :D Cosmic does this weird flexing of his paws all the time. He'll grab his favourite toy in his mouth, plonk himself on his bed, stretch out his paws and kinda flex his "claws" - sometimes until he falls asleep! :lol:

This is an idea that bf & I have toyed with for a long time. We'd like to teach Cosmic to "read" a menu. :lol: How it might work: [b]Tools:[/b] - 4 Menu "Cues" ---> Laminated pictures (a fish, a cow, a sheep and a chicken) glued onto differently shaped objects. (Could be children's plastic toy blocks or something.) - Lots of cooked fish, lamb, beef and chicken. :lol: - A clicker. Starting with one cue, we'll teach him to associate bringing us (or pawing) a specific cue with a certain type of food. Eg.: When Cosmic paws the 'chicken' cue, he gets a piece of chicken. Once he learns one cue, we teach him the next - and interchange them so that he understands that the different cues stand for different foods. Once he learns all 4 :D (YAY!) we can ask him at dinner: [b]"Chicken, Fish, Beef or Lamb today?"[/b] :eating: :lol: :lol: And he'll paw the cue to 'order' his meal!! :lol: Cool or what?! 8) And we don't have to guess his favourites anymore. ;) Anything you guys would like to teach your dogs? And how would you go about teaching it?

The Thai King is my favourite monarch in the whole world - and I'm not even Thai. He keeps a pack of rescued street dogs right in his palace! :D His favourites even follow him about - sometimes all the way to important meetings. He's well known for his kindness and compassion - both to his subjects and to dogs. Hell, there's even a book written about the King's "stray" dogs. :lol: Anyway, because he's much loved, the Thais are quite kind to stray dogs. :D It also helps that most of the population there is Buddist - Buddist teachings preach kindness to all animals. :) Not that they (the dogs) don't need help. :P

:lol: Looks like Kes has been pretty busy!

What a kind, lovely man Trouble met! :angel: Glad she's home and safe. :D

[quote name='JackieMaya'] and Jackie, who had been lying down, leapt up in the air.[/quote] :lol: Poor Jackie. Cosmic hates balloons. Especially when we make squeaky sounds on them. Heheh. :evilbat:

Turning 28 soon and already, dreading the 3.0. :lol:

[quote name='Alan']The picture is pretty cool. It is missing one thing though. With that basket in Dorthy's hand, you need the guy with the mic behind you, dressed as Yogi Bear![/quote] :lol: That would be cute! Haven't seen an episode of Yogi Bear in years and years.

YAY!! :D

Lemme try again (Techno retard here! :oops:): [img]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/Bubblezzz_101/CosmictheLion.jpg[/img] [img]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/Bubblezzz_101/UsatHalloween.jpg[/img]

At Halloween! :lol: Dorothy, Scarecrow & the Cowardly Lion: [img]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid193/peef81b9c07b0c797ad94048a42149a8f/f18a9f72.jpg[/img] Cosmic the Lion: [img]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid193/p56ec85b94cb000f9ef1a52151257bd2e/f18a9f51.jpg[/img]

Coalsky, what you said about "equal" attention makes sense. :P What we want is to distract them from each other. We're also practicing NILIF and have put them both back on Bach Flower Rescue Remedy. Hopefully it'll help!

What a sweet, touching story! :D But I'd have to agree with R2 as well. :P Clicker training was immensely helpful for us when Cosmic was a pup and afraid of so many things. Maybe you'd like to try it with Travis the next time he's a scaredy cat? :)

After being with us a few weeks, it appears that Woolly (foster dog) is finally finding his confidence and thus, no longer backing down to Cosmic. :-? We have had dogs in and out of the house from the time Cosmic was a puppy. He usually accepts most of them; wants to play with some, tries to hump others :lol: and ignores the rest. Beyond a few warning growls, he's never been really aggressive. But now that Woolly has been here a while, things are starting to change. Cosmic hates sharing us - and his toys - with Woolly. :P When Woolly tries to get us to play, Cosmic will growl & bark him away. :-? And when Woolly looks like he's having too much fun with a toy, Cosmic snatches it away! So far, warning threats from us have prevented most incidences from escalating. But they have fought about 3 times now. :( Yesterday, Woolly punctured Cosmic on the muzzle. My yells didn't stop them this time and I had to throw a glass of coke (only thing handy! :lol:) on them to stop the fight. They were both placed in a "time-out" after that. The plan now is to isolate both of them whenever they start their nonsense. We're also trying to divide our attention and play with/stroke one each, at the same time in order to prevent conflicts. We also have a spray bottle filled with water & Apple Cider Vinegar to break up fights. My biggest worry is that they might get into a fight while we're gone. :-? I *think* the possibilty is slim, since Cosmic seems to get most aggravated when he thinks Woolly has our attention. Should I be doing anything else? Should I take all their toys away when they're unsupervised? :-? Cosmic is sterilised and Woolly isn't.

What a GOOOOOD dog! :lol: I'm sure he deserves a nice treat for that! :lol:

Thanks for the well-wishes guys. :) No one's claimed Woolly so far. :( No responses to our ads & our internet postings. :( Looks almost certain that he was abandoned. :( Can't imagine how anyone could dump this goof ball.

JM - I can't imagine how you manage. Has Maya ever shown any signs of improving with her recall? How do you guys train her? Cosmic will dance all around the front gate and corridor, but he won't leave the immediate area and comes when he's called. It DID take us months and months to achieve that though (his recall). And we trained him when he was a puppy. I wonder if recall training will work with a older, once-stray dog. :?

This is Woolly: [img]http://www.dogpeople.org/Joey%20Found.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.dogpeople.org/Joey%20Found%20Body.JPG[/img] He was found (by a friend) lying by the side of the road with what looked like an injured paw. (Nothing seems to be wrong with it now.) We think he may have been abandoned. :( He's obviously someone's dog because he came already newspaper trained! :o (That's toilet training on newspapers for those of you who may not know. ;)) He's also very affectionate and LOVES loves loves being brushed. :lol: I'm fostering him for the time being while my friends put up "FOUND" posters and try to locate his owners. If they still want him, that is. :( If not, we'll be re-homing him. Wish us luck!! :D He's a really sweet, dopey fellow. Not too bright :lol: which is why we named him Woolly. As in "wooly mammoth" and "wooly between the ears". :lol: Cosmic doesn't like him much because Woolly plays with HIS toys. :lol:

My new foster dog is an escape artist. :o THREE times he has squeezed past us to slip out the door. Last night was the most HORRIBLEST (there should be such a word) experience we had ever. :-? We live in an apartment block and have one gate and a main door. Woolly managed to slip past us and ran all the way down the street (thank god it was late and there were hardly any cars!!) all the way to a shopping mall nearby!! Bf chased after him like a loony, while I dragged our groceries in, called Cosmic back in and relocked the door in a jiffy. To make matters worse, stupid me left the mobile phone behind and ended up running up and down the block (where Woolly ran previously) for nothing!! :P By the time it got into my head that I should go get my phone, I was already having a full-blown asthma attack. :( Got phone. Called the bf. Sucked up some ventolin (asthma medication). Found out that he had Woolly. Grabbed leashes, walked (Cosmic as well) to where they were and almost smacked Woolly. :oops: I was so terrified and angry. :oops: I know it's not his fault and that we should have gotton a better hold on him BEFORE we opened the gate. :oops: This is the first time I've had a runaway dog - now I can really really REALLY sympathise with and understand what it's like for those of you who have to deal with this on a daily basis. :-?