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@Canes4life said in Happiness Scale:
you get a lead that isn't too harsh but harsh enough to bring them in to line if required.
Yeah thankfully we just need something light as long as it fits and is escape proof. He's on the small side so is going to be lucky to top the scales at 7kg and I think is made of balsa. Currently maybe 1.5 kg at 11 weeks.
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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.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Canes4life said in Happiness Scale:
you get a lead that isn't too harsh but harsh enough to bring them in to line if required.
Yeah thankfully we just need something light as long as it fits and is escape proof. He's on the small side so is going to be lucky to top the scales at 7kg and I think is made of balsa. Currently maybe 1.5 kg at 11 weeks.
Don't need a lead. Probably fits into your manbag?
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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?
Bones. He won’t want the dog sniffing his bum crack in public. In private might be a different matter. Who’s to know?
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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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