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Kimbertalkls
11-28-2008, 07:15 PM
A great book for all dog homes is "From Riches to Bitches ans a Cadillac for your vet." It talks about things that only a dog person can appreciate..but what happens when the non doggy family collides with your household?
Relatives can be total idiots. My girlfriend has two dobes. The female has high ball/frisbee drive. She will leap, run, never get tired. Bea's brother-in-law comes for a week and they tell him to just leave the dogs alone. Well, Bea is in the kitchen and she hears the female barking frantically and here is Joe Smoe in the backyard with both dobermans, where he was told not to be, and a ball and he is pretending to throw it and then tossing it up and catching it. The barking is getting more demanding and Joe is taunting the female...you know the drill. My friend tells him to stop because the barking will disrupt the neighbors AND the female is about beserk AND Please come out of the yard. Joe holds the ball out to the dogs, tosses it above the females head to catch it and yeap!!! she leaps up and gets hands and ball. But wait, just a few punctures, a little cefadri in the wound and it's okay. So Joe goes out early the next morning and starts fake throwing again. My girlfriend says she is laying in bed, hears it scrambles to the window, sees Joe waving the ball , closer and closer and wham female gets his forearm as he is waving it over her head. Five stitches this time. Joe's wife says, "Don't worry your brother's lab got him this summer too." What??? You married him why? What does he do for a living? Anyone want a practice dummy? Alright, anyone have a relative and your dog story??? Anne

Kane08
12-01-2008, 02:16 PM
I have tons of family..and 2 large doggies..not always a good combo..I get irritated sometimes cause I get tons of drop inns and they are like.."can you put the dogs away?" uh.no..i try to tell them..please knock and give me a moment to get the dogs situated (try to teach them manners) but no..they walk in and are like HI!! of course Sheeba (lab) jumps all over them..she is 70 lbs and I understand this is not fun..and Kane (dobe) barks at the intruders (they did just walk in un announced)..total madhouse. Why cant people listen. Then they have the nerve to tell me my dogs are misbehaved!! How can I teach them anything if nobody listens to me..ggggrrrrrrr :mad: I do admit that I need to work with them on the way they say hello to people..I watch Ceasar Milan and Victoria Stillwell all the time...I try to get them to sit just in the living room while people come in..then I release to say hi..I tell them (people) not to yell at Sheeba as this just excites her more but to turn around and give her their back..Do they listen..no...lets not get started on the children.....