Defective Dog

LarryD · Sep 25, 2005

It seems our 8-week-old Lab is defective.

While taking our early evening stroll, she poked her nose in the air to sniff something. It was a deer standing less than 30 feet away and she never even saw it. Siena was looking the opposite direction when the deer moved off, but she still had the scent./forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Of course earlier she came running back when a bunny spooked her at the tree line. She has teeth like a piranha and has shredded my hand, why would a little bunny scare her?/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

The shot is of her apparently thinking she needs a nap after all this excitement. We need to work on the endurance thing.
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JimR · Sep 25, 2005

Cute pup you got there Larry. Don't be so hard on the little poch. It is only 8 weeks old.

Highbeam · Sep 25, 2005

I discovered my chesapeake Bay Retriever couldn't swim out of the box. Imagine that, the dog is born to retrieve and can't swim. Didn't take long to figure it out though.

tillerkiller · Sep 25, 2005

Yeah, I remember when I thought my dog was defective too.

Now, he thinks that I am defective.

ps... how can he tell the difference between when I am putting my shoes on to go run an errand (ALLLRIGHT! he says!! Let's GO!) and when I am putting the same pair of shoes on so that I can mow the lawn? (Wake me up when you are done, I'm gonna take a nap here by the air-conditioner vent.)

LarryD · Sep 25, 2005

How could anyone get mad a face like that? She comes to me like I'm some kind of savior or somthing. As soon as I lay down on the floor she comes running. She's laying at my feet as I type.

Highbeam, I had the hose out today cleaning off my boots and she kept biting at the water. So I sprayed her and she went nuts. Had the nozzel set to shower and she loved it. Now I need to take her to a pond.

Highbeam · Sep 26, 2005

It is hard to get mad at that face... until it turns that whitish carpet into fragments or a mud path. But even that will be tough.

I set that chessie in the water and watched it slip under the surface. His eyes had switched to the amber from blue, weird chessie thing, and those eyeballs opened wide until I snatched him to the surface. The next step was a sploosh sploosh sploosh as he tried to swim vertically out of the water and then when I pulled him forward to get some motion things worked just fine. This took a couple of days at a lake out by Shelton, Mason Lake, and was a hands on deal. Maybe if I just wet up to hansville at the beach he may have eased his own way in to get a ball.

Pitching a ball into the water is great fun for everyone. It is also how I bathed the greasy breed. In to wet, out to lather, in to rinse, and then play until he's tired. I imagine that lab has the webbed feet for swimming? He'll love it to burn off the extra energy.

GaryM · Sep 26, 2005

I feel sorry for you and being stuck with a defective dog and all. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I just started a shelter at my place for such defective dogs, and I may be able to find some room for yours!

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PBinWA · Sep 26, 2005

It's amazing how the frozen deer can evade detection. It frustrates the **** out of me when I want my dogs to chase off a dear and they can't see it even though it's frozen right there in front of them. It's all about the chase with my dogs. They need the movement.

I hate those deer - I really do! Now my dogs are even tired of chasing them. They'll give them a little rush and then just let the dear bounce lazily away. Sorry, I just had to vent after the deer came right up next to the house and dog area and ate a bunch of plants while we were inside lazily sleeping away.

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chucko · Sep 26, 2005

my lb does the same type thing.I was thinking it was because she was a blonde (yeller lab)

LarryD · Sep 26, 2005

<font color="blue"> I imagine that lab has the webbed feet for swimming? </font>

Mom and Dad are both active duck dogs so swimming runs in the family. We are good friends with the owner and as soon as the pups were born, the lovely mrs. was over there every day. I knew I was in trouble at that point. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

This pup is a replacement for my best friend of 11 years that passed away 2 years ago. It took the mrs. that long to be ready for another dog, they never are easily replaced.

Right now, she gets to stay at home. She just got her second vaccine and Becky doesn't want her around other dogs for at least 30 days. After that I know of a good sandy beach where Siena will get her intro to swimming.