10 Comments on Before you look at the Christmas Tree…
We had to fence in our Xmas tree.
Our dog likes to go from room to room pulling the Kleenex out of the box.
While training my beagle I had to crate her in a metal cage for the short times I would have to leave and not be able to bring her with me (like food shopping) and even then she ate a 2′ hole in my carpet, the foam padding, and was just making some headway through the plywood into the sub-floor when I came home. Needless to say, it was a trying time!
We endured it though because this particular doggie was brought back to the shelter by 3 separate families for doing similar thing to their homes and was facing a death sentence from the shelter if nobody else would take her, so like the soft-sell I am, I took her. It took 5 months but we broke her separation anxiety and now she is a good girl and waits by the door for our return with no more incidents of chewed up stuff and house-wide disasters to come home to.
All it takes is patients and the ability to be smarter than your dog for you to tame ANY shelter pet, so adopt and save a life.
God Bless and Merry Christmas to all.
Those eyes will melt down your heart…
Dogs take a little effort and patience at first, but that effort is returned by way of a friend and companion for life.
LOL I can see that happening with my dog! So far so good.
We had a little old dachshund who was a rescue from Katrina. We gave her a good life after the storm. She was several years old when we got her so I’m nor so sure how old she was when we eventually had to have her put down. She probably would have done the same thing with the 🌲 because of her blindness. It wasn’t unusual for her to walk directly into the pool, usually in winter.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Mrs. R keeps the Christmas presents (including the dog’s) in the corner of our bedroom, wrapped up and covered with a sheet. One day, a week before Christmas, the old boy trotted into the living room with is new toy in his mouth. I sure miss him.
Dachshunds are little, but their personalities are big enough to fill a huge dog 🙂
Another Christmas, he knocked over the Christmas tree while snooping around looking for his presents.
We left the wolf alone with the tree one year when she was a kid. She knocked over the tree. Broke all the glass stuff and ate all the chocolates out of the gift boxes…didn’t make her sick at all. The little stinker.
We had to fence in our Xmas tree.
Our dog likes to go from room to room pulling the Kleenex out of the box.
While training my beagle I had to crate her in a metal cage for the short times I would have to leave and not be able to bring her with me (like food shopping) and even then she ate a 2′ hole in my carpet, the foam padding, and was just making some headway through the plywood into the sub-floor when I came home. Needless to say, it was a trying time!
We endured it though because this particular doggie was brought back to the shelter by 3 separate families for doing similar thing to their homes and was facing a death sentence from the shelter if nobody else would take her, so like the soft-sell I am, I took her. It took 5 months but we broke her separation anxiety and now she is a good girl and waits by the door for our return with no more incidents of chewed up stuff and house-wide disasters to come home to.
All it takes is patients and the ability to be smarter than your dog for you to tame ANY shelter pet, so adopt and save a life.
God Bless and Merry Christmas to all.
Those eyes will melt down your heart…
Dogs take a little effort and patience at first, but that effort is returned by way of a friend and companion for life.
LOL I can see that happening with my dog! So far so good.
We had a little old dachshund who was a rescue from Katrina. We gave her a good life after the storm. She was several years old when we got her so I’m nor so sure how old she was when we eventually had to have her put down. She probably would have done the same thing with the 🌲 because of her blindness. It wasn’t unusual for her to walk directly into the pool, usually in winter.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Mrs. R keeps the Christmas presents (including the dog’s) in the corner of our bedroom, wrapped up and covered with a sheet. One day, a week before Christmas, the old boy trotted into the living room with is new toy in his mouth. I sure miss him.
Dachshunds are little, but their personalities are big enough to fill a huge dog 🙂
Another Christmas, he knocked over the Christmas tree while snooping around looking for his presents.
We left the wolf alone with the tree one year when she was a kid. She knocked over the tree. Broke all the glass stuff and ate all the chocolates out of the gift boxes…didn’t make her sick at all. The little stinker.