Random Facts About You # 53

i was going to set the beer further out on the corner. but I think someone might call the bomb squad on it.

 

The first summer concert at the park is this early evening, and although, i love listening to them, i cannot jog the dogs in those big crowds...my dogs are terrible in that situation, so today i have to go somewhere else to jog dogs........very pretty roads, though...and it is a good break.

Every other Wednesday is a concert in the park now. i want to go to one of them and just watch without the dogs.....The Big Band one on June 17th...today is just a high school band.

 

Might just take Champy, the old pug, on June 17th. he loves big crowds and will just sit and listen...only one who does not act insane with lots of people around.....Sully, the golden, is good, too, although big crowds scare him a little.

The others....forget about it.

 

I have a 4 lb. dog who loves crowds. She a Yorkie but we keep her hair trimmed shorter. She's tiny and people want to pet her and play with her all the time. She loves it! It's always highly amusing to me when some wholesome-looking family or group of people are fawning all over her and like "Ahhh....she's so cuuute!! What's her name?" I keep a straight face and say "Lucifer". The looks on their faces are priceless. Every.Single.Damn.Time!

 

My pugs are little muscle monsters.....30 pounds or more for each pulling me every which way and hurting my arms and shoulders. i cannot control them hardly on a normal day if they see a squirrel or something......they do not listen and are the worst pugs ever outside of the house and an embarrassment....and when i gain control of them and their leashes, they attack each other out of frustration of not being able to go to the squirrel or other dogs someone is walking they see. i have no idea why they are like the way they are outside. I see other people walking a pug once in awhile and they are not like this...it is awful.
i turned them into muscle machine mosnters, i guess....exercising them like this from a very early age......

 

I once saw a show that featured a guy with some crazy dogs. They had the dog whisperer guy work with him and he figured it out right away. It was all about how the owner allowed the situation to be. For instance, he always let the dogs walk way out in front of him and that signaled something to the dogs that made them excited. I don't remember exactly what it was though. Something about confrontation maybe. Once the owner started sending different signals...they were completely different dogs.

I know our big dog (who has since died) was never confused about his place in the pack. He knew who the boss was. He would usually walk right next to me with slack in the leash. I remember thinking about that while watching that show.

 

I have often wished I could get the dog whisperer here to teach me. I watched many of his shows and tried some of his tips to no avail.....I pull back and make sure they don't go ahead of me....but that has not worked either. I speak firmly and with authority to them...but if anything else alive is near...all bets are off......I am plumb out of ideas......

 

If I don't exercise them now like this...at night they are insane in the house running around like bandits....so this is the only way to get them calm at night and to sleep well....their daily exercise which is alot for each of them......
I suffer with them at night if i take the day off....which i do do twice every week for my own sanity.....lol...but then I get to suffer in another way.

 

I found the episode I watched. Maybe it will help.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99VE4XWqi_I

 

Thank you, Wiz....... I will watch after today's exercise with them, as I have to get ready shortly...and I will let you know......i am sure there is something in your video that will help....as every day i am practically in tears from these monsters and the physical pain they cause me......
Some days i really wish i did not have them......they are a very spoiled handful......

I am always in a good mood after I go to the new route I am going to today....it is alot of hills, but the scenery is breath taking and hardly anyone else is there........

 

Emma, my Plot Hound/Pit Bull mix, was outside with another dog for the first 6 or 7 years of her life. Now that she lives with us she's learned so much. She's very smart.

After about a year of being let outside to stay in a harness on a cable several times a day, she found that she could back out of her harness. She runs off through the neighborhood and will not come when you call her.

We got a prong collar and added that when she goes out. She still backs out of the harness but the prong collar holds her.

I've also noticed she doesn't try to lead me when walking while wearing the prong collar. It's helpful for strong-willed dogs that need to learn when they are beyond the puppy stage.

 

My dogs have always been pretty well behaved....especially the big dogs. I used to have a German Shepard that was so well-trained that I could snap my fingers and point and she would know what I wanted her to do. Same action whether I was telling her to go lay down, come here, get her toy, get in the car, go in the house, etc. Sometimes I would also tell her what I wanted her to do but sometimes I would just snap and point and she knew. If I wanted her to hurry I might snap two or three times.

She was such an awesome dog but she was dangerous sometimes and she hated cops. I think her being like that was from the abuse she went through before I got her. I rescued her from a neighbors house after they split and left the dog in there alone for maybe a week or more. I could hear her barking and trying to get out so I broke in and took her. She was intensely loyal to me and bit a few people who were walking up behind me...including a cop. She tore him up pretty good. I don't think she would bite if you're in front of me. It was always when she thought there was a threat and I didn't see it. But I bet she just hated cops because she could sense my reaction to being around cops.

 

Someone suggested those prong collars to me once...i never looked into them...though....I may have to if all else fails....as i am getting less and less patient with how things are now...but i will watch Wiz's video first.

Can prong collars cut into the necks? Pugs are pretty neckless as it is...and i would not want to hurt them. they can hardly breathe like other dogs anyway......so I have them harnassed when out and never collared.

 

my friend has a mean nasty shitzou...or whatever the fuck they are called....she told me to be careful it doesn't bite me...

.I told her it will only bite me once.....and then it will be the worlds first flying shitbag....even the boxer stays away from the little fukcker...they also have a 240 [ound st Bernard called ''goober''....it is a very fitting name...what a big goofy mutt...I call him ''slobber'''

 

I am awake. /)

 

note the date in the first line of the song

today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOr60MxIvvE

 

I've never used one before now. They will not cut. The ends are rounded. This one even has removable rubber tips.

 

my friend has them shitzus. they also bite and bark like crazy, nipped at me once, the next time I come there with cholorform soaked shoelaces. here dog, good night dog. never bothered me again..

 

i'm fresh out of chloroform ......

insert rape joke here

 

My pugs are never viscious to anyone other than to each other...so no one would ever have to make pug pie out of them...Change of scenery and routine was great today...hills are a killer on my legs, at times, though....lol...but I get that done much quicker than at the park...no distractions to have to fight with dogs.....have to watch that video still a little later ...