Haven't posted for while so here are a few

Last week we dog sat my sons two dogs, a spooky Golden retriever called Pickle who is a great dog.
The other dog is Evie, a Fostered dog that was badly starved when they got her, she is frightened of men and it took a long time and lots of treats for her to feel comfortable with me.

Combined with our two dogs which they all got on quite well although the small back yard and out house suffered a bit but it was fun looking after them all.
Taking all 4 of them on the leash was not as bad as it sounds.

Nevertheless like most grandparents we were glad when they returned home.
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Here's a vid I took yesterday - Will and Skye in the winter sunshine.
Skye is the bossy boots.

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They will do this ALL day long. When I work in the shed I end up with a pile of balls at my feet.

Having the flu and resting my synovitic knee by taking turns between the bed and futzing on the computer in the study over the last week built up a couple of towers of used tissues in waste baskets in each room. One by the side of the bed and the other in the study. Most of the tissues have a gruesome multi-coloured looking nasal and/or oral oyster like deposit on them and they got extra colourful after some blood started showing up on Tuesday night.

Last night when I got up for the umpteenth time to go to the loo to I noticed Older "garbage guts" BC (Willow or Willy Coyote) was not in her crate but that's not unusual as she often sleeps elsewhere in the house.

This morning when I went to the study for the first time I found the waste basket over turned, tissue tower had been demolished and every tissue had its deposits neatly gnawed out .

This is the same dog that eats shag and duck poo, and has eaten fresh blow fish and cost us $$$ at the vet to get her stomach pumped. For a while I gave up trying to stop her eating dried blowfish as she seemed to handle them without a problem - once the fish is dry the toxins in them are not so bad. We have now trained her to stop on command if she picks up crap at the park. But she has in turn become sneakier and surreptitiously sneaks away with her morsels so we can't see her. On walks we have to watch her when we go near the river banks or food trailer rubbish bins, etc The other day she found a large fresh looking bone in a grove of trees by the river - what it was doing there made me suspicious and I had to take it from her - the look of despair was priceless when I deposited in the bin. I gave both of them a big bone when we got home.

The dogs have been good therapy while I have been waylaid but hey have missed out on many walks with my knee in this state and with SWMBOs foot problem - no not the horse - she kicked a door frame last year and it plays up from time to time.

Thanks for that image while I'm waiting for dinner to cook...

Jane

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Thanks for that image while I'm waiting for dinner to cook...

Jane

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Pleasure - no pics unfortunately the evidence is all gone - I've even emptied the bin in the bedroom in case Willow wants to try for seconds.

That is why I'm a cat person. Never seen a cat stupid enough to eat the bodily wastes of another animal.

Mind you; our dumb-as-dog-poop black cat Sammy may be getting addicted to cane toad toxin. Every now and again he briefly escapes curfew and twice now we've had to shake toads out of his mouth; then flush his mouth out when he starts foaming. We even bought him a cuddly toy frog to maul instead.

This thread has a "dogs doing gross things" theme so I though I would add to it.

Border Collies are gorgeous dogs EXCEPT when they decide to roll in poo .
This poo was another (yes Willow has done this before) human poo!
She also loves duck poo.

The park where we walk the dos has toilets but they are locked after hours - this does not stop folks from "going round the back and doing their business" which my dog hones in on and loves to roll in it.
This "roll' was pretty constrained as usually she spreads it from nose to tail tips.

BTW photo was taken after scraping most of it off her neck with a stick. The big lump of poo hanging from her collar is poo embedded around her dog tags.
Luckily I had driven them to park in the HiAce van so she could be tied up in the back to get home.
Then I ted her to the garden tap and hosed her off before giving her a bath.
That "look" is also her "I'm in deep doo-doo now"

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We have Aussie Shepherds, and they too love to do the same, although we're pretty good at keeping them moving so they don't often find them and have time to do the spin. One of the most "memorable" was a rather sloppy wallaby pile, that our black tri-coloured one added to her brown streaks; she walked up to it at a decent pace, not thinking about it, just smear from ear to shoulder as quick as you can.

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We have Aussie Shepherds, and they too love to do the same, although we're pretty good at keeping them moving so they don't often find them and have time to do the spin. One of the most "memorable" was a rather sloppy wallaby pile, that our black tri-coloured one added to her brown streaks; she walked up to it at a decent pace, not thinking about it, just smear from ear to shoulder as quick as you can.

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Willow's potential worst was a half a maggoty roo. Luckily it was on a beach and we dragged her into the surf to par-wash her off. Still stunk to high heaven by the time we got back to the car but she was not that bad by the time we got back to camp. These dogs are magic at shedding dirt, mud, even grease etc but they do not shed poo. Pond slime also hangs around far longer than I like.

The culprit,Willow, is well named. She really is a Willow-the-wisp. On our walks. one second she's right next to me and then a couple of seconds later she's vanished. Then she'll be ahead of me and then behind, then right beside me again. Towards the end of the run she dawdles because she doesn't want to leave the park, in contrast at home, when its time to go to the park she hides.

Because I have a recovering broken ankle and SWMBO still has vertigo this is how we exercise the dogs in days of COVID19.

Make breakfast; toast, fruit, coffee
Drive 2 mins to park down by Swan River.
Walk 200m in middle of of a very quiet park and set up chairs.
While eating breakfast chuck ball for dogs till they get slightly puffed - takes about 25-30 minutes.
Pack up and walk back to car and drive home.

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Just spent 2 weeks down on the south coast escaping the incessant Perth heat.
Except for one day when it was almost the same as Perth the average daytime max temp was ~10º cooler than Perth which suited me.

We camped with 3 other families and one had a border Collie (Coco) who we dog sat a couple of times while they went $WD in National Parks etc
I tried to take them all for a walk but although our dogs are used to walking together - Coco (dog closest to camera) is a solo walker so within 30s their leashes were a tangled plait. Untangle and start again - did that half a dozen times times and gave up and went back to campsite. Walks along the beach where they could be off leash were fine.
We took them a couple of times into town to a cafe where we sit on an outside veranda. The dogs were great, after lots of admiring pats etc from passers by etc they just went sleep.

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Got back to Perth to find that the main RCD house circuit had tripped out about 5 days earlier - I worked this out from the Solar Power monitoring software.
Just our bad luck it was this circuit because 3 fridges and freezers were connected to it so we lost heaps of perishables.
The dog food in the freezer on the back veranda was a pongey mush, but we delegated some of "human consumption" meat from the kitchen freezer which was still cold (probably because it had been close packed together) to dog food. It helped that we accidentally left a the Family room AC on so the kitchen freezer never got anywhere near as hot as the outside freezer.

So last night the dogs had Osso Buco, and tonight they had lambshanks. There's a couple of racks of pork ribs, packs of beef mince, chicken drumsticks and thighs, and sausages for the rest of the week.
Next time we go away I will regularly check the Solar Power monitoring software (its connected to the web) and if there's a problem I will get a neighbour to take a look.

Oh that’s not good Bob.

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Yeah, like tonight we're having snags while the dogs are having (thawed) pork spare ribs!

This morning I was emptying the last of the suss glass jars taken from the kitchen fridge that had not been working for 5 days. It was a smelly process so standing up wind I was emptying them into a old bucket on the back lawn and it did not take long for the dogs to appear and they wanted to eat anything meaty. I came across a large jar with the remains of some liquified pickled herrings which looked gruesome but did not smell too bad so I offered these to the the dogs and they just wolfed them down as a mid morning snack.