Not exactly teachers pet but we’ll take it.
Post Your Doggo [woof]
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iman29
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Despite all her quirks and somewhat timid demeanor I taught Shelby to take a bath when she was pretty young.
She is normally not allowed up on the top level of the house where the bedrooms and bathroom are unless it’s bath time. She saw me getting the towels ready and heard me running the water. When I opened the bathroom door she was sitting outside the door in the hallway waiting to come in. Since she’s supposed to only come up on command I sent her back downstairs.
Then I called “Shelby bath” and she scrambled up the steps and she jumped into the tub before I could even follow her. Doesn’t even try to get out or get nervous with the blow dryer.
Even with short hair takes like 5 towels and the blow dryer for 15 minutes to dry her off.
All clean !
She is normally not allowed up on the top level of the house where the bedrooms and bathroom are unless it’s bath time. She saw me getting the towels ready and heard me running the water. When I opened the bathroom door she was sitting outside the door in the hallway waiting to come in. Since she’s supposed to only come up on command I sent her back downstairs.
Then I called “Shelby bath” and she scrambled up the steps and she jumped into the tub before I could even follow her. Doesn’t even try to get out or get nervous with the blow dryer.
Even with short hair takes like 5 towels and the blow dryer for 15 minutes to dry her off.
All clean !
iman29
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Sigh.
So you know how your photos comes up with a memory timeline. Well I just happened to check it today and it included a picture of my old girl Delilah.
We had her before we had kids. I rescued her in 1996 after someone dumped her out of a car on the GSP and someone we knew scooped her up and couldn’t keep her. She was about 4 months old when we got her and had some trauma from being abused. I spent many many hours training her but it was rough and at one point my wife nearly had enough and considered bringing her to a shelter but I couldn’t do it.
Then one day 6 months after we got her she just started following every command. Stopped crying in the crate. Walked perfect on the leash. Was the perfect watchdog while I was spending long days at work in NYC while the wife was home alone. She even got out of the yard a few times and when I called out to her at the top of my lungs she would come racing back home.
She watched carefully over my 3 boys when they each came into this world like they were her puppies. She moved to 3 different houses and went on a ton of car ride and park adventures with me. She made it 17.5 years with us until we had to send her across the rainbow bridge.
This was probably one of the last pictures I had of her before we had to let her go. It took me over 6 years to get over it and consider getting another dog. Shelby is great in so many other ways but Delilah was my first true furry partner in crime.
💔🌈🐶
So you know how your photos comes up with a memory timeline. Well I just happened to check it today and it included a picture of my old girl Delilah.
We had her before we had kids. I rescued her in 1996 after someone dumped her out of a car on the GSP and someone we knew scooped her up and couldn’t keep her. She was about 4 months old when we got her and had some trauma from being abused. I spent many many hours training her but it was rough and at one point my wife nearly had enough and considered bringing her to a shelter but I couldn’t do it.
Then one day 6 months after we got her she just started following every command. Stopped crying in the crate. Walked perfect on the leash. Was the perfect watchdog while I was spending long days at work in NYC while the wife was home alone. She even got out of the yard a few times and when I called out to her at the top of my lungs she would come racing back home.
She watched carefully over my 3 boys when they each came into this world like they were her puppies. She moved to 3 different houses and went on a ton of car ride and park adventures with me. She made it 17.5 years with us until we had to send her across the rainbow bridge.
This was probably one of the last pictures I had of her before we had to let her go. It took me over 6 years to get over it and consider getting another dog. Shelby is great in so many other ways but Delilah was my first true furry partner in crime.
💔🌈🐶
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
They are all weird, and needy. She’s upset that she didn’t get a walk today.
John the Plumber
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Buttercup has been with us for 6 weeks. American Dingo. On her 5 th week of socialization and training. She has been trying to behave. 2 nd. Rescue the last one was a senior which she gave us 5 great years. Buttercup is more of a handful.
serviceguy
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Very much the same process as Bailey...NOT! Bailey's bath included several stages: 1) luring inside the bathroom 2) try to lift her inside the bathtub 3) pee all over the bathroom floor 4) actual bath requires 1 hand just to hold her inside the bathtub (and she'll pee whatever is left in the bathtub) 5) chasing her all over the house while wet (you know that means her shaking and dripping water all over the place) 6) drying 7) about 1 week to recover from the traumatizing experience...needless to say she doesn't get bath very often. Now that I think about it it's not that different from trying to get her on the scale at the vet...right now she's pissed because yesterday my wife did not take for her 'long' walk...well excuse me but it was pouring. Yes, weird is right.
iman29
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It wasn’t automatic it certainly took a lot of patience and consistently repeating it.
Meantime Halloween and July4th are such torture for her I feel bad. She’s wiped out.
