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lizblackdog) wrote2006-09-08 07:03 pm
lizblackdog) wrote2006-09-08 07:03 pm
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Poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail
Three squirrels, one cat, one Collie cross, one GSD, one big Pit-style Staff and one Jack Russell, all in the same four hundred yards of road? That has to be some sort of record, and I'm not even counting the outdoor Rotties; Murphy's law dictated that all this had to happen as close to their house as we ever get and they were even more hysterically noisy than Spike. My shoulder is wrenched, Spike's brains are leaking out of his ears and poor Squish may be traumatised for life.
I can usually divert Spike from bellowing abuse at other dogs by calming signals, dancing and perhaps a round of leash-tug but it was all too much this time. Call me a bad owner if you like, but I took hold of his scruff and growled ENOUGH! into his ear instead. That worked though.
I can usually divert Spike from bellowing abuse at other dogs by calming signals, dancing and perhaps a round of leash-tug but it was all too much this time. Call me a bad owner if you like, but I took hold of his scruff and growled ENOUGH! into his ear instead. That worked though.