Andy SmithLooking after handsome Silver and shiny Vole for a little bit. My first stay with them. They're breaking me in gently!
Meanwhile Voley did some zooming around the garden and is now snoozing.
Name checks out. 🐿️🐿️🐿️
It's a relief that it's about a month until my next sitting because I'm not sure my shoulder joints can take much more!
And here's why Silver and Vole need to wear muzzles:
Just took them on their evening walk. Saw a lady with a chihuahua walking towards us on the other side of the road. S&V were sniffing in the bushes so I was looking at them. I hear a skittering sound behind us and she's let her chihuahua run ACROSS THE ROAD on an extending leash until it's within 6cm of S&V's arses and trying to bite them.
S&V are reactive to unknown dogs. They both went for it and batted it away.
Without the muzzles they would have got it and probably would have killed it. If a car had come, the chihuahua might have died (it's dusk, and it's a small black dog).
Despite being an aggressive dog, the chihuahua wasn't wearing a muzzle.
Silver and Vole have to wear muzzles, and have people think they need to cross the street to avoid them, because other people own dangerous dogs that they can't control.
Silver and Vole would have totally ignored that dog if it hadn't come close.
I do understand that a large dog that goes for a chihuahua is probably going to kill it whereas a chihuahua that goes for a large dog will probably only injure it, but I have dealt with some very serious injuries from small dogs.
Josh Holland@grifferz small dogs get away with murder
Hugo Mills@grifferz Those extensible leads are absolute horrors. I remember being on a cycle path crossing Southampton Common once. Someone with a small dog sniffing in the undergrowth saw me coming, and politely stepped to the *other side* of the path, lead straight across my way.
If I'd hit the lead, I'd probably have broken the dog's neck (or seriously damaged it).
The dog owner just stood there, gently tugging at the lead... which just sproinged, leaving the dog exactly where it was.
@darkling
We've seen some terrible injuries to dogs and humans from those devices where if for whatever reason the human has had to let go of their end, it's dragged behind a running dog like a weapon of war, spinning and scything into everyone around. Some fatal dog injuries from that. We tell people not to use them.
If a client makes it my only choice then I use my own leash.
We've seen some terrible injuries to dogs and humans from those devices where if for whatever reason the human has had to let go of their end, it's dragged behind a running dog like a weapon of war, spinning and scything into everyone around. Some fatal dog injuries from that. We tell people not to use them.
If a client makes it my only choice then I use my own leash.
Iαn has moved account@grifferz @darkling
A great clip from an Otto film shows one of the hazards https://youtu.be/649mr61HHi4
A great clip from an Otto film shows one of the hazards https://youtu.be/649mr61HHi4
Otto der neue Film - Otto vs. Harras - Runde 3
Voley will have BOTH snakes, thanks.
@grifferz
Oh! They can stand!
All this time I'd imagined Andy moving each sleeping dog to the next position or bed. And laying it in a different position, having only seen the sleeping dog photos. I thought, it must be tiring looking after dogs like that all the time.
Oh! They can stand!
All this time I'd imagined Andy moving each sleeping dog to the next position or bed. And laying it in a different position, having only seen the sleeping dog photos. I thought, it must be tiring looking after dogs like that all the time.
@ianp5a
They don't usually look as cute when they're out and about (except for George in his river) 😀
But in the rare case that I look after another breed of dog it is a shock to the system.
Four walks a day?? A long coat that needs washing after any wet walk??? Praise be the sighthounds.
Doom555