Doo doo doo doo, de-doo doo de-doo...

Dylan Thomas! You scored 66 Demeanour, 63 Debauchery, 58 Traditionalism, and 95 Expression!

Man! Do you love to party or what! If it's not fun, you probably haven't done it in a while. But that doesn't mean you're not serious about some things. You are a person with deep passions and a respect for beauty and craft. The world is a better place for having you in it. Too bad you won't be around that long. Drink up! Your masterpiece is "Under Milk Wood".

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 55% on Demeanour You scored higher than 55% on Debauchery You scored higher than 66% on Traditionalism You scored higher than 99% on Expression

Link: The Which Famous Poet Are You Test written by Torontop on Ok Cupid

Way-heyyy!!! Nicked from azrhiaz.

Squish is singing along to "Walk On The Wild Side", but thankfully only the saxophone solo at the end. He's added Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" to his playlist as well.

Plan for today is to take each dog out alone for short spells. Squish will make a noise when I'm out with Spike, but if I keep it short it won't be too bad. He needs to learn how to cope with it anyway. Also, I spoke to one of my neighbours yesterday and he said he'd never heard any barking, so it looks like the flats are soundproof enough for it not to be a major nuisance. I've certainly never heard the downstairs dogs bark, but they're elderly and staid, even if one is a Jack Russell - I'd been assuming they just didn't bark.

I suspect that it'll be easier to keep Squish's attention on me if Spike isn't there. I think that might have been part of the problem all along. Spike comes ahead of Squish in the pack order and he's entitled to my attention first and Squish knows it. And Spike is the biggest attention whore in the world, so I can't entirely blame Squish for giving up and buggering off to do his own thing when Spike is in my face the whole time.

Fingers crossed. Let's see how it works.

Edit: Some time later.

Cautiously optimistic. I gave Squish a chicken quarter to keep him busy while I took Spike out first. That was a good idea - it was a good five minutes before the earsplitting shrill yelps started. Squish also didn't seem to yelp as much as I expected. Played with Spike for about ten minutes altogether and then came back to swap dogs.

That was where it went a little bit pear-shaped. I dropped the second chicken quarter in Spike's bowl and called Squish to come with me. Spike charged to the door to come with me. Squish also charged to the door, but not before grabbing Spike's chicken. Small dogfight ensued. Broke up dogs, put Spike's (toothmarked) chicken back in his bowl, shut Spike in the living room and took Squish out.

This time, I tied the long line (minus a worn bit at the end where it broke last time) to a lamp post in the middle of the green space, so that gave me twice the length of the line to play with, eliminated the risk to my hands and would have reduced the Peeves tangle factor if Squish didn't insist on making two little circles round me every time he brings the ball back. Some fast footwork was required to avoid landing in the grass with my ankles tied together, but altogether it went very well. Squish is far more attentive to me if Spike isn't there, and when he did get mildly distracted at one point he responded to "Squishy, come!" straight away. Spike watched us from the window up above, and he let out a couple of very small yips after fifteen minutes or so. Dog forbid anyone else is ever the centre of my attention...

So I brought Squish back up. Spike throws a pissy fit at Squish for coming back into the flat. I break that up, and Squish then tries to steal Spike's chicken again. Of course Spike hasn't eaten it. He was far too busy glaring at Squish and I out of the window. He wouldn't even think about eating it until I'd put the ball and the leashes away. That sparked another mini-dogfight, during which they knocked the water bowl over. I'm so glad I don't have a carpet.

That could have gone a lot worse, though. Nothing broke, there were no unexpected cats, Squish didn't yelp as much as I'd feared and he came when he was called. As for the pissiness - they did pretty much the same thing when I first had Squish at Mum's and used to take them separately out to play ball on the front courtyard - sound and fury signifying not very much. They'll get over it once going out separately becomes a routine for them. I hope Squish will get over his need to yelp out of the window at me. I should have done this weeks ago.

Doo doo doo doo, de-doo doo de-doo...

Dylan Thomas! You scored 66 Demeanour, 63 Debauchery, 58 Traditionalism, and 95 Expression!

Man! Do you love to party or what! If it's not fun, you probably haven't done it in a while. But that doesn't mean you're not serious about some things. You are a person with deep passions and a respect for beauty and craft. The world is a better place for having you in it. Too bad you won't be around that long. Drink up! Your masterpiece is "Under Milk Wood".

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 55% on Demeanour You scored higher than 55% on Debauchery You scored higher than 66% on Traditionalism You scored higher than 99% on Expression

Link: The Which Famous Poet Are You Test written by Torontop on Ok Cupid

Way-heyyy!!! Nicked from azrhiaz.

Squish is singing along to "Walk On The Wild Side", but thankfully only the saxophone solo at the end. He's added Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" to his playlist as well.

Plan for today is to take each dog out alone for short spells. Squish will make a noise when I'm out with Spike, but if I keep it short it won't be too bad. He needs to learn how to cope with it anyway. Also, I spoke to one of my neighbours yesterday and he said he'd never heard any barking, so it looks like the flats are soundproof enough for it not to be a major nuisance. I've certainly never heard the downstairs dogs bark, but they're elderly and staid, even if one is a Jack Russell - I'd been assuming they just didn't bark.

I suspect that it'll be easier to keep Squish's attention on me if Spike isn't there. I think that might have been part of the problem all along. Spike comes ahead of Squish in the pack order and he's entitled to my attention first and Squish knows it. And Spike is the biggest attention whore in the world, so I can't entirely blame Squish for giving up and buggering off to do his own thing when Spike is in my face the whole time.

Fingers crossed. Let's see how it works.

Edit: Some time later.

Cautiously optimistic. I gave Squish a chicken quarter to keep him busy while I took Spike out first. That was a good idea - it was a good five minutes before the earsplitting shrill yelps started. Squish also didn't seem to yelp as much as I expected. Played with Spike for about ten minutes altogether and then came back to swap dogs.

That was where it went a little bit pear-shaped. I dropped the second chicken quarter in Spike's bowl and called Squish to come with me. Spike charged to the door to come with me. Squish also charged to the door, but not before grabbing Spike's chicken. Small dogfight ensued. Broke up dogs, put Spike's (toothmarked) chicken back in his bowl, shut Spike in the living room and took Squish out.

This time, I tied the long line (minus a worn bit at the end where it broke last time) to a lamp post in the middle of the green space, so that gave me twice the length of the line to play with, eliminated the risk to my hands and would have reduced the Peeves tangle factor if Squish didn't insist on making two little circles round me every time he brings the ball back. Some fast footwork was required to avoid landing in the grass with my ankles tied together, but altogether it went very well. Squish is far more attentive to me if Spike isn't there, and when he did get mildly distracted at one point he responded to "Squishy, come!" straight away. Spike watched us from the window up above, and he let out a couple of very small yips after fifteen minutes or so. Dog forbid anyone else is ever the centre of my attention...

So I brought Squish back up. Spike throws a pissy fit at Squish for coming back into the flat. I break that up, and Squish then tries to steal Spike's chicken again. Of course Spike hasn't eaten it. He was far too busy glaring at Squish and I out of the window. He wouldn't even think about eating it until I'd put the ball and the leashes away. That sparked another mini-dogfight, during which they knocked the water bowl over. I'm so glad I don't have a carpet.

That could have gone a lot worse, though. Nothing broke, there were no unexpected cats, Squish didn't yelp as much as I'd feared and he came when he was called. As for the pissiness - they did pretty much the same thing when I first had Squish at Mum's and used to take them separately out to play ball on the front courtyard - sound and fury signifying not very much. They'll get over it once going out separately becomes a routine for them. I hope Squish will get over his need to yelp out of the window at me. I should have done this weeks ago.

Everything looks good tonight

Very Kinky You are 33% pure

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 18% on purity

Link: The 100 Point Sexual Purity Test written by ocicat on Ok Cupid

Nicked from someone on stupidpetowners - no, she didn't post it in there, I just clicked back to her journal in a moment of mild curiosity.

Perhaps I ought to enable the thing that sends you an email whenever you get a comment. I don't normally keep it switched on, because I generally have a tab open and I just flick back and forth between my own journal and my friends page, and I generally see them all. But occasionally people add comments to older entries and I miss those completely. I was randomly reading old entries this morning and discovered a tiny drama moment and an anonymous commenter whose IP isn't familiar - look!

I feel so very special! Am I going to have to disable anonymous comments and make my journal friends only now?

I'm wondering about registering with OK Cupid, where the meme above came from. The Trekkie dating site is all very well, but it doesn't look like it gets a lot of traffic. I shall think on this further.

Everything looks good tonight

Very Kinky You are 33% pure

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 18% on purity

Link: The 100 Point Sexual Purity Test written by ocicat on Ok Cupid

Nicked from someone on stupidpetowners - no, she didn't post it in there, I just clicked back to her journal in a moment of mild curiosity.

Perhaps I ought to enable the thing that sends you an email whenever you get a comment. I don't normally keep it switched on, because I generally have a tab open and I just flick back and forth between my own journal and my friends page, and I generally see them all. But occasionally people add comments to older entries and I miss those completely. I was randomly reading old entries this morning and discovered a tiny drama moment and an anonymous commenter whose IP isn't familiar - look!

I feel so very special! Am I going to have to disable anonymous comments and make my journal friends only now?

I'm wondering about registering with OK Cupid, where the meme above came from. The Trekkie dating site is all very well, but it doesn't look like it gets a lot of traffic. I shall think on this further.