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l think you should take Weezies advice, lt will take some time, but lt will work eventually.
Have also heard about that treatment for an animal, have patience
Know you have lots of lt
Doreen

Today I went to the Dollar tree to get some buckets, and detoured down the "Pet" aisle...
There they were...
...those little doggie antlers!

Me---->

I haven't tried putting them on him yet.....

Cindy

You better wear some heavy thick gloves!

Did you put them on him yet?

G-Mom

Cindy,
Can you pet the dog????
Without him biting you???

Weezie

I just WALKED PAST him to get to the computer, and he bit me!
He's a FREAK!

I'm telling you, he needs drugs!

Cindy

Cindy,

I've successfully used a Bach flower essence called "Rescue Remedy" on stressed out or emotionally disturbed pets (and on me, too! ). It is harmless and, although perhaps not as entertaining as drugs (I had a cat prescribed valium once - he fell off the top of the TV! ), it is effective. Most health food stores carry it.

O.K....first we need to hear about why the cat was prescribed Valium! I need all the entertainment I can get right now!
Especially if it involves somebody ELSE'S emotionally disturbed pet!

Did the "Rescue Remedy" work?
For the pet?
For you?

Cindy

The cat was prescribed valium for FUS (Feline Urological Syndrome) for a few days. According to the vet, it relaxed the ureters so things could flow easier.

I've used Rescue Remedy for everything from moves (my cat had a psychotic break over that one - NOT a pretty sight!) to getting my dog to chill when he's yappy. (That's usually when I take it too!!! ).

Rescue Remedy

And yes, Cindy, my pets ARE emotionally disturbed...Tiddleywinks's, the dog, (I know, I know, how can he NOT be disturbed with that name )favorite pastime is humping the cat - and the cat likes it!!!

O.K. This proves I am not the only one out here who has some WEIRD animals!



Cindy

Maybe YOU need Rescue Remedy, Cindy!

O.K.!
I think I've got this posting under control now!
After 5000+ posts you'd think I'd learn when to push the button!
To hell with the dog...
I want the "Rescue Remedy" for Cindy!

Cindy

No, Cindy, you are not the only one with weird animals!!!

I could tell you TONS of stories - like the morning I had a dream that 26 turkeys were staring at me through my open patio door. When they started walking into the house, I realized it WASN'T A DREAM!!

I was going to post a pic but don't know how.

OMG!
I have a HERD of wild turkeys that stay in a horse pasture down the road...
Now I'm going to have turkey nightmares!

Cindy

no, you are not alone.

I love that part on the new Garfield movie where he tells Odie, "down dumb dog"

okay back on track here. My dog I think is so dumb, she hates a bath, but yet it just seems like she'll go out and try and get as nasty as she can. And I can't tell you haw many times she has chewed up and ate. (yes, not only does she have to chew it up, but she actuall eats it) Like we never feed her. And if there's a stray dog in the yard and I let her out instead of running the other dog off (which to me would be her job) she runs out and sniffs it's butt. She chases the cat (I have 10 cats but she only chases one) the black cat. Like she doesn't know she's black too. The rest she doesn't chase.

I could go on and on

we were teaching Ashley to play baseball this summer, you see who ended up with the toy
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Sorry I'm laughing, Belinda, but that's funny!

And, butt sniffing?
Well, that's socially acceptable in the dog world!
It's just a dog doin' a dog thang!

Cindy

one of her favorite things to do is go roll in the mud after she's had a bath, she won't do it when it's cold, but when it's warm weather, she'll come back to the house looking like a pig.

I'll have to get y'all a picture of that. I could kill her when she does that right after she's dried from a bath. And she's so big she's like bathing a cow.

Fortunately, Freckles didn't do that after a bath...
...because he was completely knocked unconscious by the vet for his grooming!

I could have KNOCKED him unconscious last night!
It was about midnight, I was fixing to go to bed, walked in the kitchen to get a bottle of water and he attacked me like a pit bull! I didn't realize that he was guarding a bag of Cat Chow (again!). I grabbed the cat chow to defend myself with, and he ripped it to shreds, spilling 10 lbs. of cat food all over the place. I was going to take a picture of the disaster this morning (yes, I left it there all night!), but Andy had most of it cleaned up before I got up!
(Hey...it's HIS dog!)

Cindy

that's what I tell hubby when she's whinning to go out at 2am, "she's your dog"

she was really cute as a puppy. She was a shy puppy. Wonder what happened?

Last night Leslie (shamrock316) came over, and unfortunately got to witness H
He attacks me if I get too close to something he's guarding...something that I gave him in the first place! You'd think even a dog would have enough sense to know that the person who gives them the toy isn't going to take it back away from them!
Or, not...I don't know.
It's getting pretty frustrating, not to mention dangerous around here. Thursday when Brennan was here after school, Freckles got in the house while we were coming in the door. It took me an hour to get him out, and poor Brennan was on the dining room table the whole time!

I'm going to the vet this afternoon to see about getting some "doggie downers" for him. Leslie said my other cousin, who I don't see very much, had a dog that acted like Freckles, and she got some prozac-like drug from the vet to give him, and he was fine after that.

I hope it works.

Cindy

Gee, Cindy...I'm sorry it's not getting any better!

Definitely look into th rescue remedy, I totally forgot about it! We have used it several times on horses, and it has made a huge difference for me...

Umm, Cindy? Did you send some kind of destructive vibes to my dogs?

Messy dogs...

Heck, I probably did!
Everyone I've been sending PMs to lately has gotten the flu from me!

I'd say, in reality, Kricket did it!
Looks TOO innocent!

Cindy

Doesn't she though! That's what I thought too, until I found stuffing in Abby's lips!

Cindy,

Do your turkey dreams look anything like this?!
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Thanks to Geegee , for instructing me how to post pix!

Oh, oh, I thought I did it correctly but all I see is a red X! Try this again!


Whoo Hoo!! It worked!

My turkeys are black!
When you see a real turkey with a head and feathers that's not in a Butterball plastic bag it sure makes you think twice about eating them...well, me anyway.

My aunt had a turkey when we visited Kentucky once for Thanksgiving, and she chopped it's head off and it ran around the yard forever until they finally caught it and hung it up. It was really freaky, and for a kid from the city who wasn't used to the lifestyle here in rural Kentucky, it was pretty traumatic. My sister kept it's head, and cried and cried over it. She ended up (unknown to my parents at the time) taking the turkey's head back to Washington D.C. with us. After a week or so, the stench coming from her bedroom was out of this world, and my mom finally went looking for the source.

She found the turkey's head wrapped in Kleenex, in a little box in her dresser drawer.

Freaky!

Cindy

It's funny how memories pop up now and again. I bet your mother was really shocked, Cindy!

I remember seeing my mother and my step-dad killing chickens in their front yard when I was around 18 or so. I never ate chicken again at their house. To this day, I cannot eat a fresh-killed chicken. I get my meat and poultry from the grocery store all cleaned up and wrapped in plastic. I don't have to watch it running around the yard with no head!

Dianna

Awhile ago after I finished posting that about the headless turkey, I got up to finish vacuuming the floor (it's taken me all day so far!), and look what was on the couch behind me...sleeping like a little baby!

Andy does NOT allow Freckles on the couch!
Andy isn't here right now! That's his pillow!


Cindy

Awwww,he looks sooooo sweet!!!

If they share a pillow does that mean Andy gets flea dipped too?

G-Mom

They both use Frontline Plus!

I am so glad you clarified that...I had this wild thought of you taking Andy and Freckles to the groomers,having them both knocked out and groomed and dipped!!!



G-Mom

...on a leash?

ARF!

Don't forget the muzzle!!



G-Mom

You know how my imagination is..

Great minds think alike That's EXACTLY how I was imagining it too!



Are we bad or what?

oh he is so cute, how can he be so mean.

I think I'll draw a cartoon of that, just for my own personal amusement!

Don't you mean...OUR personal amusement

G-Mom

Cindy and G~mom,
:rolleyes:
:rolleyes:

His cute looks are very deceiving.
Last night we got into a BIG fight over one of those giant Hershey bars. It got ugly.
It's happened once before, so I keep the chocolate in the armoire now, out of his sight. But, Andy left it on the coffee table, Freckles got it, and it took 2 pillows and a big telephone book to defend myself so I could get it away from him.
I should have just let him eat it....

Cindy

***Cindy and ****Dianna,
We used to do that too with chickens, we'd get mail order chicks and keep them in a great big tub with a light bulb to keep them warm, and they were so cute, and then once they got a bit bigger went to the barn and got even bigger, and the hens were kept for laying eggs and the roosters were done for dinner..(*YUCK*) and the men/boys would do that with the chickens and let them run around, I was terribly sicken by it, and it was the girls job, we used to have to pluck them, and it was usually done in the fall time, when it's cold out side and we'd have to soak them in hot salt water to get the feathers to come out easier, and my mother and grandmother thought nothing of doing it, *it was the way it was to eat and survive back in the olden days*
But mine was still moving or twitching, and the smell of that hot, salty bloody water on a cold day, still makes me s!ck :p and I am almost a total vegetarian, and I do eat chicken and my mother and I often talk about it and how we both are amazed that I DO eat chicken after all of that and how picky of an eater I am....
I can remember the chicken BBQ's on the spit and how tasty they were...

***And Cindy,
That dog looks sooooooooooo ANGELIC when he's sleeping!!!! They just had the cutest dog beds on the QVC yesterday...sm, med, and lg.
I wanted one just for me to curl up on they looked so comfy and cozy!!!

Weezie

Well, I'd buy him a dog bed, but Andy had a little "talk" with me the other day about my credit card spending (last month - $984.46), so I guess Freckles can just sleep on the couch, with his head on Andy's pillow!
(An hour before the "talk" I had just put $86. worth of parrot treats on the card, which I failed to disclose during our "talk". I wanted it to be a surprise next month!)

G-Mom, You KNOW you would get to see it, too!

Don't lion tamers usually use a whip and chair

That's the fun part...
He won't notice because the pillow cases are just about the same color as Freckles!

Cindy

ROFLMAO

G-Mom

what a thought!

It's just a "thought" over the internet!

It's "reality" here!

Cindy

"SMELL Factor"!!!!



G-Mom

Well, one of them smells better than the other one...
...but I'm not saying which one!

Can I flip a coin? Hmmmm...the only problem is who's head and who's tails!

G-Mom

UPDATE ON FRECKLES

He's a "man" now!


Cindy

I'd hide from the neighbors if I was you!

Did it at least put him in a GOOD MOOD?

G-Mom

Sue for stud service first!

Dianna

Good idea!

I told Freckles that when his kids started coming up into the yard I was gonna shoot 'em with the BB gun!

G-Mom, he is in a MUCH better mood. He wants to stay outside all the time!

Last night I made him come in before I went to bed. He sat in front of the door and cried. Right when I was dozing off he starts howling. :p I could not get him to shut up, and finally he woke Lola up and SHE started howling. I let him out and he took off straight down the hill to Fi-Fi's house.


Cindy

Fi-Fi and Freckles

At least they share the same monogram

G-Mom

I think we can safely say they share a little bit more than a monogram!

Poor guy is out there right now, howling for his lady! They must have her locked up now (a little late!)


Cindy

Had a 911 visit to the vet today with H Hound, aka: Love Hound now.

The neighborhood dog gangbangers attacked Freckles.
He almost lost an ear.

Sorry to the people I was PMing at the time...I just came up missing all of a sudden!

Cindy

How Awful! Did you file a complaint against the owners of the other dogs?

It really grates on me when people let their animals run loose. We have a problem with a pit bull in the neighborhood...it HATES our little Bassett mix. We've been sitting in our yard with Sophie and this other dog has gotten loose and come straight after Sophie...had her on the ground by her neck. IN MY YARD! The owners always say that they don't know what got into their dog...she's sooo sweet and gentle...YEAH RIGHT!!!!

G-Mom

I live in Eastern Kentucky.....does that answer your question?
They'd laugh me out of the courthouse!
They'd probably ask me if I made enough money betting on the dog fight to pay the vet bill.

Cindy

So how is Freckles handling these new injuries?

Poor thing...he just got over his previous injuries...now this

Is the Vet giving you a frequent visitor discount?

G-Mom

Are you kidding?
They charge me double because it takes three of them to muzzle the He!! Hound and hold him down while they work on him.

He's not feeling too good today. Just laying on the couch sleeping.

Cindy

A friend of mine gives a mild tranquilizer to his dog before he takes her to the Vet. His Vet gives him a few to have on hand for those occasions(vet,groomer,etc)when it might be needed.

G-Mom

I guess they know better than to give them to me.
I'd be the one taking them.

I didn't think about that!

G-Mom

Oh l so Freckles with all he has been through,"Enjoy yourself boy before Cindy has you neutered". Offspring dont worry mum will take them in
Cindy you are so like me, we take these animals in and do not give up on them. My husband battles me all the way, l always win Then he weakens and l triumph. If l didn't know you were A-OK would send some money to help out, but lf you need lt would be willing to help out.
Lots of Doreen.xxx

If it had been up to me, he would never have "enjoyed" himself thus far!

I'm a firm believer in spaying/neutering!

Cindy

Cindy, we have just had Whisky and Mitzy neutered yesterday aahh, yes l feel guilty, but at least there will not be unwanted kittens running around unloved and fending for themselves.
But glad that Freckles at least had a last burst
Doreenxx

Hey, we just got one of our kitties spayed.. and the neuter comes in a couple weeks for the boy kitty. It's a little late.. they are 8 months already! My time flies. I got them when they were just teeny tiny babies! We'll get the 3rd one spayed after the other one is all done. His appt. is toward the end of the month. In the mean time, she is spending lots of quality time in the bathroom. :rolleyes:

Meg