Steel Icarus
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The dog thread is better than the cat thread, because it features dogs.
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Frankie was getting into a good routine in the hot weather going for a walk around 7 or 8 a.m. and having a crap while he was out. He’d come back and eat about 10. I’d take him at about 6 p.m. then eat at 7. He’d go through the night ok and then out again next morning ….
Unfortunately a couple of days he started taking a dump in the house in the night – has always been on a slate floor so not too much of a problem. So couldn’t hold it overnight. I checked on how long it takes dogs to digest food and sites seem to say 6 to 8 hours. Which confuses me. Frankie’s been happy enough going 24 hours from crap to crap so I’m not sure where the 6 to 8 hours comes in. I’m sure he wasn’t having a sneaky crap in the evening because I had him on the lead when he was out and I'd have noticed.
I’ve started feeding him at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. hoping that’ll put less pressure. He seems fine so far but I’m not really understanding the whole process.
Unfortunately a couple of days he started taking a dump in the house in the night – has always been on a slate floor so not too much of a problem. So couldn’t hold it overnight. I checked on how long it takes dogs to digest food and sites seem to say 6 to 8 hours. Which confuses me. Frankie’s been happy enough going 24 hours from crap to crap so I’m not sure where the 6 to 8 hours comes in. I’m sure he wasn’t having a sneaky crap in the evening because I had him on the lead when he was out and I'd have noticed.
I’ve started feeding him at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. hoping that’ll put less pressure. He seems fine so far but I’m not really understanding the whole process.
I’ve read that a solution of biological washing powder is good for getting rid of the smell of dog pee / poo so they aren’t attracted to the same area again but don’t know how that would affect the carpet. Glad to hear she’s doing well and I hope you get to the bottom of the problem.
Mungo goes out for a poo immediately after he’s eaten both breakfast and dinner, and then also has a couple of poos on walks. He’s fed twice a day. Have you changed his food at all? My friends old dog would pee in the house overnight when she changed her from one flavour of her regular brand of food to another.
Dogs
Good chance that this behaviour disappears as mysteriously as it started. Otherwise, best thing I can suggest is an exhausting regime of taking him for a walk every hour until he has a crap, until his behaviour settles
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Dogs
Good chance that this behaviour disappears as mysteriously as it started. Otherwise, best thing I can suggest is an exhausting regime of taking him for a walk every hour until he has a crap, until his behaviour settles
Yes it actually got worse last weekend. He went out in the garden and ate some apples, not the nice green/red apples but the nasty fucking brown squidgy rotted ones. He wasn't well 
and around midnight he was pacing up and down between me and the front door. I got him outside in time but cue throwing up at one end and explosions at the other.
I decided I'd have to take him outside every two hours through the night just to be sure. It reminded me that this was the exact reason I'd decided not to have kids 50 years ago (mate living away from home and new baby said "you know arthur I couldn't work out why I felt so good and then I realized it was because I haven't got to get up at 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock every night to feed the baby").
Frankie did recover though, and he's been fine the last two nights (although he still keeps trying to eat them
). Concerning though, there's a chance crapping in the house has been setting up shitty morphogenetic fields: once something's happened once it's easier for it to happen again.
and around midnight he was pacing up and down between me and the front door. I got him outside in time but cue throwing up at one end and explosions at the other.I decided I'd have to take him outside every two hours through the night just to be sure. It reminded me that this was the exact reason I'd decided not to have kids 50 years ago (mate living away from home and new baby said "you know arthur I couldn't work out why I felt so good and then I realized it was because I haven't got to get up at 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock every night to feed the baby").
Frankie did recover though, and he's been fine the last two nights (although he still keeps trying to eat them
). Concerning though, there's a chance crapping in the house has been setting up shitty morphogenetic fields: once something's happened once it's easier for it to happen again.
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Ted had a really bad digestive system and wasn’t house trained when we got him so I feel your pain. I was setting alarms through the night to take him for hourly walks and all sorts, but I still ended up clearing up a lot of mistakes. Every now and then, his dodgy digestion flares up again and I always fear a repeat of the worst two occasions that I refer to as the Crapocalypse and Shitaggeddon.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
No dogs, but I just want to sympathise with all of the above, one summer all 3 of my indoor cats that I had at that time got a case of the shits which took about 3 months on a special Gastro-Intestinal prescription food to sort out (no idea what caused it but presumably some sort of bacterial imbalance, nothing untoward showed up on the normal tests and they weren't ill ill iykwim) - for us it was referred to as the Shitpocalypse and for once it was a blessing that we didn't have nice new carpets.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I remember these days when ours was a pup. I was doing some crazy work at the time which meant I already wasn't getting enough sleep and my partner was ill. It was brutal on us, but she got it quickly.
UnderOpenSky
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Willow on Derwent Water
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
We allowed her to sleep in the tent. It's kinda cute, but she takes up a lot of space for a small dog.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
My customers guide dog. Everytime i do the garden he shows off his latest toy. Last week was monkey, this week it's a unicorn.
Meet Tango.
Meet Tango.
Dovydaitis
Official fishco fish groupie
We are dog sitting at the mo, he goes home Saturday. He’s quite a sweet little chap. Had to do an emergency extraction of our dog yesterday as she came into season
Bloody dog has chosen tonight to be At Large. He could be off up the fields which are now owned by new people who may not like him being there or he could be 5 metres away in the garden transfixed on a clump of brambles where there’s a beetle or rabbit. Wherever he is, he’s not coming in to my whistle or banging his food bowl. So much for my training tips
Callie
Pivoting
Thread needs more KaliI woke up Kail next to me on the bed this morning. He's 40kg of American Staffordshire and managed to get there without waking me, quite the achievement given my chronic insomnia.
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He was in the lane, sniffing.
Skim
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Kail as in Edgar Kail?I woke up Kail next to me on the bed this morning. He's 40kg of American Staffordshire and managed to get there without waking me, quite the achievement given my chronic insomnia.
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tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
The very same.
Skim
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Frida in her Junior Rabble puppy days.
She even starred in a Hamlet poster once, when she was caught sniffing the bins at the Tooting and Mitcham ground…
petee
no gods, no malarkey
underanopensky too!
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
There's a pub near me in Chatham that UKIP use for meetings. It's a matter of pride that I've trained Kail to piss on it when we walk past...
Ah mate Frida looks class in the bar scarf, a classic combo.
Ah mate Frida looks class in the bar scarf, a classic combo.
Skim
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tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
Ah Mishi and B.I.G together, dangerous combo.
Mishi and Kail were tight. I don't know if you went to Mishi funeral or wake but at the latter there was a slide show and it had one of Mishi using Kail like a pillow.
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