[guidedogchat] Re: London tube

  • From: "Melanie Akpotu" <melaniemacneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:36:09 -0000

Hahaha!!  Where do you live if you don’t mind me asking?

Mel.

From: Nadine Lattimore 
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 11:41 AM
To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [guidedogchat] London tube

Hi Mel

Thought I better change subject line for sake of others boredom. 
Q is a german shepard cross golden retriever. He is a very solid 40kg, not a 
scrap of fat on him but built like a tank. 
Thats it Leicester square, oh man. 


Last time I was over Quartz would walk on to stopped escalator, but previously 
he would go nowhere near. Clever boy, he knows it could come to life at any 
minute and swallow his tail. 

Nadine Lattimore

On 5 Jan 2014, at 01:05, Melanie Akpotu <melaniemacneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


  Hahahaha!!  Leicester Square is a killer, and Warren Street too.  
  My dog weighs around the 70 lbs mark.  His maximum weight is about 75, but he 
is never anywhere near it and I think would be fat if he was!

  What breed is your dog?

  Mel.
  From: Nadine Lattimore 
  Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 10:15 PM
  To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

  Wow, how heavy is puppy?
  Yeh ive done the escalator walk of shame a few times, hamstead or angel it is 
really steep and seems to go on forever. 
  Then what is the one with the old entrance of huge winding staircase 
Liverpool maybe? Q even stopped for a break on that bad boy. 

  Nadine Lattimore

  On 4 Jan 2014, at 18:04, Melanie Akpotu <melaniemacneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


    Mine never jumps up or tries to get on the furniture thankfully, and if 
anyone encouraged him to do so, I’d knock them flat I think!!  He did half try 
and jump up at me yesterday because we had to go somewhere in London and I 
hadn’t checked the access at one station beforehand, so we came across an 
escalator.  One of them had been turned off but I didn’t fancy walking up it 
since my blood pressure can suddenly drop and I could become dizzy, so my 
husband carried him up and also down on the return journey.  Nyle behaved very 
well, but got excited when his feet were on firm ground again and he saw me 
coming off the escalator behind them.  That’s the first time he’s ever tried to 
jump up though.

    Mel.

    From: J Kimbell 
    Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:51 AM
    To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

    Mine thinks its funny to let Wren get on his lap on the settee. He says 
"cuddles" and she jumps on to his lap, he showed it off to me the other day and 
I got really cross, as I dont want her ont he furniture. I've caught her ont he 
bed a couple of times with him when he's been laying on it but she got a wallop 
on the bum from me and ordered off. Not hard you understand, just a light slap, 
but I really just dont want that starting thanks. Its not fair either as the 
poor dog then gets told off by its handler for doing what the rest of the 
family think is funny. 
    Julia

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: pam 
      To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Cc: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:29 PM
      Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

      hi nadine 
      i know all about partners teaching the dogs bad habits. mine taught 
callie to jump up on him when playing. but when she started doing it to me and 
my kids too we had to nip it in the bud. she has pretty much stopped doing it 
altogether now.
      pam

      Sent from my iPhone

      On 4 Jan 2014, at 14:01, Nadine Lattimore <nadine.lattimore@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


        Vince

        I am curious if you were old enough to remember eating these a la carte 
treats, just how old were you?

        Nadine Lattimore

        On 4 Jan 2014, at 12:47, Vincent Thacker <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


          Children soemtimes do this sort of thing, don't they? or was I a very 
strange child? I can remember eating soil, coal, soap, etc. Not habitually, and 
not more than once very often, but if you're born with a curious mind, all 
sorts of horrible things are possible!

          Vince.






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            Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 10:51 AM
            From: "Fay Marshall" 
            To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
            Cc: 
            Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits




            Well, my dog ate rocks, bricks, etc.  I would think wood is better. 
 (grin)  Never broke her of it.  






            From: pam 

            Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 4:04 AM

            To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

            Cc: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

            Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits




            well my dog has a bad habit of eating sticks which make her sick a 
few hours later and can't be good for her. she only does this on a free run 
never when working. i've tried giving her toys to play with to distract her but 
it doesn't really work she just goes back to eating the sticks. my instructor 
said the only real solution is to find another free run area but where i live 
is all woods so that's not really possible. so if anyone has any tips for me on 
how to resolve this i'd b very grateful. other than that she's a very good dog. 
happy new year :)

            pam 

            Sent from my iPhone


            On 4 Jan 2014, at 02:45, Vincent Thacker 
<vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



              Nadine,

              I can't exactly call them resolutions, but I want to work on a 
couple of things with my dog that spoil an otherwise happy partnership. One is 
scavenging, and the other is improving his recall, which has improved then got 
worse again.

              With the scavenging, I suppose I'll have to go through the food 
refusal stuff we did in initial training. As I haven't got spare food to throw 
around very often because I eat it too fast for it to go off! I'll have to use 
bits of his kibble. If I can get him to walk past some outside, he can have a 
treat. Hmm, food-related problem, rewarding him with food, wonder if there's a 
better idea?

              And his recall was getting really good at one stage, then one day 
he ran off and although there were people about, nobody could tell me where 
he'd gone. He did wonder back towards home eventually, but this was really 
worrying, and I'd called the police and the dog wardens. I'm glad to say he was 
brought home within a few minutes, but it worried me so much he hasn't had a 
free run properly since. I take him around the field on a flexi-lead, and he's 
got the idea now that he can run about quite a bit even with the restrictions 
of the lead, but it's not as good as a real free run. I don't have a pair of 
eyes available to me at the moment, and no longer employ a Personal Assistant 
as I did before, so I'll have to do loads of obedience stuff while he's on the 
flexi-lead in the hope that I'll be able to let him go eventually. The other 
answer is to find a safer place to let him go, but the only one I know of is 
miles away. No doubt we'll have a lot of fun with whistles and treats and all 
that.

              Apart from that, he's such a good worker, I just want to keep the 
good bits. We went to town yesterday and went all around Sainsbury's with Zym 
waiting patiently whenever I stopped to faff about. He was really excellent, 
even among the mad crowds rushing about to the sales or whatever they were 
doing. It was a long walk in and out, well, long enough at about 3 miles each 
way, and he's got a very good idea even knowing which paths to take through the 
park to go in the right direction. When he's good he's very, very good.

              Vince.












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                Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 02:00 AM
                From: "Melanie Akpotu" 
                To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Cc: 
                Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

                Sounds nice!

                Mel.

                -----Original Message----- 
                From: Nadine Lattimore
                Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:29 PM
                To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Subject: [guidedogchat] Bad habits

                Hi to all a happy new year if you recognise the calendar change 
at this 
                time.

                Well it being the first few days of the new year now, I wonder 
has
                anyone made any resolutions to include furry friend- such as 
more
                walks, more grooms, fewer treats etc?

                Had a wonderful Christmas and New Year in Lanzarote with 
Quartz, he
                met all his friends, remembered his routes and had a lovely 
lazy time
                with plenty of love and treats.

                Nadine Lattimore 







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