Posted on 12/24/2008 3:07:43 PM PST by CalifScreaming
“What is over-grooming in cats?”
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FMCDH(BITS)
I said I thought he sounded bored. My husband said the woman had too much time on her hands if she was having her dog psychoanalyzed.
“Dogs enjoy chasing their tails. For them, it is fun.
If they do it too much, try more exercise. Unlike cats, dogs have massive intelligence and their minds need stimulus else they get bored. Exercise fixes this”
Very true. The German Shepherd is a great example - they have been bred to be active, intelligent and to focus for much longer than most breeds of dogs. If they don’t have something to do, they’ll find something that isn’t constructive.
Exactly! It is so funny we have humanized dogs. Our culture is so obsessed with pleasing others that dogs must be treated as humans. The Mike Vick outrage was one of the worst displays I have ever seen. It was maniacal.
PROZAC? LIBERALS would resort to this.
Well, my dog’s a sled dog by breed, and every time I put a leash on him he pulls me down the street, no matter how hard I’ve tried to teach him to “heel”.
A friend’s Border Collie actually tried to “herd” her kids, hehehe.
“And a few times a week at about 10 or 11 at night, she likes tearing around the house at about 10 thousand miles an hour.”
LOL! When we had cats, that was just the time to sit back OUT OF THE WAY and watch!
Maybe the owner is so boring that chasing his tail is the poor dogs only recourse.
Border Collies and Aussies will herd just about anything that moves. My Aussies try to herd my cats...my cats don't like being herded.
My yellow Lab weighs around 120 pounds.
He doesn't bounce off of the furniture, he MOVES it around.
Mine used to try to herd the cats.
Ticked 'em off big time.
My Choc weighs 45 pounds, 43 during the hunt test season.
I like 'em little -- they can't knock you off the sofa or out of bed, and they can't tip your boat over (well, they can, but it's harder).
Ruby the Whirlwind still gets up enough momentum to tip the sofa over, if she hits it high up on the back.
Friend of mine has a yellow Lab that weighs about 85 pounds. He water skis to the line in hunt tests, and once the dog pulled him off his feet and then stood on his chest to kiss him, and he couldn't get up. The judges were laughing so hard they had to sit down.
I had an 'uncontrollable' puller in my 2nd dog, it took 10 minutes with the Koehler method and she was watching me attentively and not pulling at all. I took her to a training day last Tuesday and one of my friends asked, "When did that dog start heeling?" "This weekend." (that's when the book came in).
The Nordic breeds can be pretty bullheaded, though.
So can the Japanese ones, hehehe.
We have a little Shiba Inu round the corner. His owners keep him inside an electric fence in the yard and he NEVER stops barking. You can hear him for blocks.
I have a barker, but I don't let her bark outside for hours.
Mine isn’t a barker unless he hears someone at the door or is saying “hi” to one of his dog friends. He does have his lil’ howls, though.....just to hear himself, I Think.
He has a deep basso-bark that sounds like it should be coming from a dog twice his size, hehehe.
Ruby (my barking black Lab) barked a big loud deep adult bark for the first time a little while ago -- and you could see she was totally nonplussed - "Did I make that noise?" Shelley (the older Chocolate) rarely barks, but if somebody is at the door she sounds like a gross of Rottweilers. Funny that such a big sound comes out of a little 45 pound spoilt princess.
She is such a schmoozer that the first time she boarded at our trainers she conned her way right into the house. NOW she sleeps on the foot of the trainer's bed. She is an operator. Ruby has no social graces and sleeps in the kennel (and resents it mightily). But she has a buddy in the form of a little 8 month old black Lab female named Boo-Boo. They love to play chase (a game that Shelley is tired of at almost 8 years), and they share a kennel. It's so funny to see two little black noses poking out of the straw piled in a sideways 55-gallon drum on a cradle.
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