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Nice choice of thread to put puppy in @bones. Oxytocin hit must have kicked in, along with some serotonin and dopamine. It's difficult to get too down when there is a puppy around.
As @gt12 says, harness, rather than collar, especially when young. but no doubt you are on to all that as a new "parent". We were also told to give puppy as much exposure to everything as possible. Lots of contact with people and different experiences. I wasn't sure about it (didn't want the wee girl to get frightened) but apparently it stops them becoming wimps. She certainly isn't that now at 5 years old. Put her mutt muffs on her and take her flying, she just sits there unperturbed or goes to sleep.
Like the "Iggy". Italian greyhound pup, nickname has to be Iggy Pup. No doubt a real wild child with a lust for life.
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@gt12 said in Happiness Scale:
Beautiful color mate, looks very cute.
7Kg is a pretty good size (ours is 4.5).
Buy a puppy harness for now, then later on another bigger harness, and then when he basically grown buy a slip collar.
Whatever you do, don't let him jump on or off furniture for a while (legs very easy to break), and if you are crate training, strangely enough watch out for them wagging their tail too fiercely and breaking it (doesn't seem much you can do about this, but IGs with a strange bend in their tail is a thing).
If you buy a pillow that he likes, go buy two or three more, so that when that one is buggered you can wheel out a new one. We had a bitch of a time with ours destroying new beds - she had one type of pillow that she loved and only wanted one like that. She thankfully grew out of that.
They are fucking weird little dogs but heaps and heaps of fun.
So yeah he's a red, which apparently is pretty rare. Quite unique black markings on the ears, eyes and nose too which are cool. Bonesetta wanted one of his blue sisters but couldn't be happier with our choice now. Handsome fella.
Cheers for the steer on the collar, we've got the smallest harness we could find and it just fits at it's tightest.
We've been looking for a dog for probably 4 years so yeah we do our research, funnily enough IG was probably the first type we considered (I think due to one of your posts) but ruled it out for some reason until seeing a 4 year old recently at a cafe in Cornwall that looked like a puppy and acted like an angel. Anyway second day at home he got free on the sofa and jumped off, then started limping around, pretty easy to swiftly figure out it was just a sprained "ankle" and he was right as rain after a couple of days. Living up to the drama queen tag.
Think we turned a corner yesterday with more structure in his day and crate training, getting positive results and feeling better about things.
Brief visit to the vet today to get his nails trimmed only to find out we're helicopter parents and need to wait. Weighed him in at 1.35kg.
I'm sure I'll hit you up for info soon!
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@Snowy said in Happiness Scale:
We were also told to give puppy as much exposure to everything as possible. Lots of contact with people and different experiences. I wasn't sure about it (didn't want the wee girl to get frightened) but apparently it stops them becoming wimps
Yeah man we're straight into puppy class as soon as possible and already got family members popping over to meet him. It's classic, he's a bit of a growler at first but warms up pretty quickly.
Been for a couple of short walks around the neighbourhood in the sling. Nervous breed eh but we want to be able to take him anywhere (mainly to the pub) so going to expose him to everything as much as possible. Both our brothers have dogs too (lab and sprocker) so planning for them to meet on neutral ground once he's a bit bigger, he'd currently fit inside the lab's mouth in one go.
And yes, so much phrasing.
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@Snowy oh and the mutt muffs sound hilarious, like that idea! He's already met the vacuum cleaner and was curious but just had a sniff and steered clear a bit, wasn't fussed eventually. Shat himself when I was drilling and banging putting up shelving though.
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The greyhound family have a delightful nature. My (half) greyhound is affectionate, sensitive and is either 100% or zero.
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to contribute to @Bones project Uplift the Bored, at long last my big mouth bought my eye a beautiful, fat smack.
Got it at a serious discount too after overbidding for so many years. Fair play, it was an exquisite piece of work and my knuckle donor had the good manners to call to apologize the next day. Not that it’s made the ol peeper look any less like Oprah’s vag.
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Not gonna lie. Need a translator.
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@Catogrande got punched in the eye for talking shit. Now my eye looks like a famous African American talk show host’s vulva. Probably.
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@Smuts said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande got punched in the eye for talking shit. Now my eye looks like a famous African American talk show host’s vulva. Probably.
Did you throw one back at least ?
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@scribe said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones
Oh and don’t forget to shower regularly.Are you talking about Bones or the dog?
If the dog one hopes it isn't a golden.
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@Smuts said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp hahaha. Openside. Basically made a career of laughing off punches, boots and the odd headbutt.
And of course there were no longterm side effects.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Snowy oh and the mutt muffs sound hilarious, like that idea! He's already met the vacuum cleaner and was curious but just had a sniff and steered clear a bit, wasn't fussed eventually. Shat himself when I was drilling and banging putting up shelving though.
Not me, my plane or dog but you get the idea.
Our girl has serious issues with vacuum cleaner, actually cleaning equipment in general, brooms, mops, etc. Goes into full attack mode, barking, tries to tear the head off them. Hilarious and relentless. Drills and hammers, just leaves the room. Gunfire turns her into a quivering wreck.
Will be interested to hear how he goes at puppy school. I found it hugely entertaining. Some very interesting personalities out there...both the people and the puppies. The puppies were generally more predictable (and nicer).
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@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
@scribe said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones
Oh and don’t forget to shower regularly.Are you talking about Bones or the dog?
If the dog one hopes it isn't a golden.
He does that to himself.
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I'll stick this here as it seems the most appropriate place.
Family funeral yesterday. Larger than life husband of Mrs M's uncle who had friends all over the world and in stage and television. Typical funeral but full of hilarious stories of some of the outrageous things he got up to (wearing fishnets and high heels when he was cabin crew in 1st class to see if any celebs noticed...), tributes from friends and more laughter than tears. Uplifting more than sad. The wake was something else.
But the thing is, as family while we knew and laughed at that part of his life we'd never really seen it. We saw a different Phil, who was quiet, kind, thoughtful, strong, great in a crisis and the first to offer support. His outrageous camp persona was real as was the quiet family man we knew, though.
He was just so comfortable and happy in his own skin no matter where he was. He had it sussed and maybe that's the secret.
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@Victor-Meldrew sorry for your and your missus’ loss. Her uncle sounds like a legend.
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