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15748. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 12:04:26 AM Message # 15741
Con'd,
Diva was very good about cars, but one careless moment when she probably had getting home on her mind, coupled with not having had an experience on a highway, cost her after 6 years of being very cautious.
Bigger dogs can survive hits, and Sasha was hit at least twice. Mojo may get hit one of these days, but she's generally pretty careful. Car chasing dogs drive me up the wall, but they don't tend to last long out here. 15749. concerned - 7/8/2005 12:10:57 AM Actually, I didn't 'hit' the dog - I sort of nudged up to him real slow and pushed him over at about 1mph then stopped - dumb mutt got off his butt and decided to mosey out of the way after that but I think still sort of resents me for pushing him around that time:) 15750. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 12:26:34 AM Ooooh. We've had dogs sleep in the road, too. Bob accidentally killed a neighbor's dog that way--late at night, and the dog lifted up his head, and that's the first Bob saw of it, way too late to respond. 15751. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 12:27:46 AM ...lay around or sleep in the road, that is. 15752. concerned - 7/8/2005 12:33:23 AM That'd be really scary, if the dog slept in the private access drive, but when I tipped him over, it was daylight he was fully awake, barking away, and determined to prevent my car from passing. I really think the dog is a little short on smarts, being a purebred collie. Mostly what I think I bruised was his little doggie ego - incredible that he had so little sense that he would try to overcome a push by a car bumper but that's exactly what he tried to do and got pushed over onto his side as a result. 15753. concerned - 7/8/2005 12:39:54 AM Btw, when this happened, I was driving a low-slung Thunderbird, not the Tahoe, so the bumper was at the point of the dog's shoulder. I stopped the car immediately when I tipped the collie. Then he got up and walked away. Point taken, I guess, because he never deliberately got in front of my car again.
Real dumb mutt, though. 15754. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 3:13:32 AM I'd heard of cow tipping, but dog tipping is a new one. 15755. concerned - 7/8/2005 3:20:54 AM Heh heh. I had actually typed something in about cow tipping, but deleted it, since I had never done it myself. FWIW, that is the closest thing to what happened with this collie, though. I was a little concerned that I might have created some physical injury at the time, but there was never any indication of such and the dog's still chugging around just fine some four years later. 15756. robertjayb - 7/8/2005 3:27:45 AM Rain! Rain! Rain!
We have rain. Thunder too...
After only four tenths of an inch in all of June it is most welcome.
Whatever Gods there be... Thank you very much. 15757. judithathome - 7/8/2005 3:45:43 AM Robert, we were drenched all day...tons of rain. Dancing in the street, I was! 15758. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 5:04:57 AM Just rub it in, you Texans! I'm so envious. 15759. Magoseph - 7/8/2005 8:42:22 PM It took me some time to train Butch to walk along with me the last two days andfor most of today I was flat on my back with the most intolerable pains on my back, arms, and legs. So, that’s all I’m going to write for today— On my way back to bed. I HATE to be handicapped! 15760. arkymalarky - 7/8/2005 10:45:18 PM Lassie wasn't trained in a day. If you work with him a few minutes a day it will still work and be easier on both of you. I hope you get back on your feet and feeling well! 15761. Magoseph - 7/9/2005 11:16:22 AM Yes, Arky, you're right, I should have paced the training. This morning, though, I feel much better--a strong pain pill, a pain pill, a pain relief gel, plus eight hours of sleep seem to have fixed the muscle pains. I had doubts about the therapeutic effect of the gel at first, but when it was applied, it felt terrific. Butch doesn’t mind when I’m affectionate toward Flexy, but when Flexy is to me, he inserts himself between us while softly growling. 15762. PsychProf - 7/9/2005 1:49:50 PM Try this Mags...
15763. Magoseph - 7/9/2005 2:01:04 PM Oh, great, Prof--thanks a bundle- you're always so nice to me--I'm very touched. 15764. arkymalarky - 7/9/2005 4:20:36 PM I did the same thing after my surgery when I finally started exercising. I could do so much more than I could before my surgery that I was totally amazed, and didn't remember that I would hurt later, so I overdid it.
Mazie's still not doing very well on the leash. I saw the Dog Whisperer on tv last night, and he's very good, but I didn't see a segment where he was trying to get the dog to go, just where he was controlling the behavior or getting the dog to walk at heel with a leash. Mazie just sits there and refuses to budge. She will walk some, but she's still not very cooperative, and I need to be working with her more consistently. 15765. Magoseph - 7/9/2005 5:33:40 PM Mazie’s only twelve-weeks old about, I think, Arky and maybe when she’s older, she’ll be more amenable to the leash’s constraint—my step-daughter counseled us to keep Butch on a leash with a choker at all times, otherwise, she said, he will take off like a bullet.
We’ll have a large fenced area in the back of the house for him, sometimes before the winter. Butch’s foremost a guard-dog and so far, he has shown the instinct to go after people who come close to the property. We tested him in asking a friend to drive over from the next town and when he drove in the driveway, Butch was there at the front screen door barking his heart out and our man friend, a big burly guy, said: Jeez, you better hold him until he knows that I am a friend. 15766. judithathome - 7/10/2005 1:37:53 AM Butch doesn’t mind when I’m affectionate toward Flexy, but when Flexy is to me, he inserts himself between us while softly growling.
This is natural male alpha dog behavior. Klaus does this with Keoni, too.
15767. arkymalarky - 7/10/2005 6:04:52 PM I've only had female dogs, so I've never experienced that. Frodo (my parents' dog) was a male, but he growled at everybody.
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