Dog thread!🐾

[Nym]

Tomorrow I'll do the "animal cruelty" again. My dog hates me. He constantly associates me with some kind of nastiness - either I try to give her painful vaccinations (for example, against rabies), or I force her into the car (there was a case when the dog cut her paw on a roofing iron and I urgently had to take her to the vet). In general, we arrived at the vet - the dog with a wounded paw, and a lot of blood - from the dog and from me, because the dog did not listen and bit all my hands while I was dragging her into the car. Since then, he associates me with some kind of "torture". Now the problem is that from the front door, where he decided to lie, he got a draft in one eye through the dog entrance, and he needs eye drops. The procedure is painless and the drops are safe, I know them very well and have used them for many years when necessary, giving them to different dogs and cats, but this dog does not trust me, as a result I will be bitten again. Tomorrow I will put on a thick shirt and two sweaters, and a ski glove on my hand, after which I will let him bite this hand and when he bites, his eyes widening angrily, I will put eye drops on him. The result is good, the inflammation of the eye is noticeably reduced. But the dog will bite me again.

Of course, I took measures against the draft, hanging an old warm blanket on the door and putting a chair in front of the door so that the dog would not lie there and would lie where there was no draft, but I still had to put the drops in. Tomorrow we will have another battle with growling and biting. It's good that he only bites my hand and doesn't think to bite my face or other parts of the body.It seems that I don't know how to handle dogs at all. However, okay, this dog doesn't growl at his parents, he listens to them, but they are afraid to put drops in him, because suddenly he will start biting. So I put the eye drops in.This is an Alabai, a fairly serious and large breed, they are usually kept to protect flocks of sheep from wolves and even bears.

And i can't outsmart this dog by giving him something tasty - this breed is too smart and stubborn. If he doesn't want to do something - you can't persuade or force him. So you'll have to put on a thick shirt, two sweaters and a ski glove again. To be honest, this irritates me a little.

Well, at least he doesn't have allergies to vaccines, and I can live with him biting me.
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My weim always got a dose of nasty eye from the dusty westerly winds here. After a few years of battling I trained her before the winds arrived by using a daily treat and a dry cloth. To her it was a game. Everytime she saw the cloth in my hand she got some cheese. Over a few days she soon didn't care about the cloth at all. I then started dropping the cloth on the floor near my feet. She had to come to me to get the treat and since she was now no longer worried about the cloth being used to wipe her eyes, she accepted it as a non-stressful situation. In the end I could 'groom' her with the cloth, throw it toward her, even play very short games of peek-a-boo over her face. She now loved! the cloth lol. Next stage was the damp cloth on her face. By the next westerly wind she was ready to accept warm water eye baths and the application of ointment. Layering like this works for all fear situations and you will boost your bond with the dog.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Can you muzzle train your pup so when you put the eye drops in you cant be bit?

 

[Nym]

I don’t have one atm. And I can’t afford to drive atm. But also I can’t drive because of my meds. At least that’s what my last psychiatrist said. My current one thought I was driving until I told her I wasn’t lol so I probably could ask her. But I haven’t yet. Mostly because I can’t really afford to drive atm anyways. But also the med thing. And I might never be able to again or I might be able to several years from now. Idk. It depends.

My son stopped driving because of a medication he is on. Staying well and safe is the important thing. But I do hope you get to drive again

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

My weim always got a dose of nasty eye from the dusty westerly winds here. After a few years of battling I trained her before the winds arrived by using a daily treat and a dry cloth. To her it was a game. Everytime she saw the cloth in my hand she got some cheese. Over a few days she soon didn't care about the cloth at all. I then started dropping the cloth on the floor near my feet. She had to come to me to get the treat and since she was now no longer worried about the cloth being used to wipe her eyes, she accepted it as a non-stressful situation. In the end I could 'groom' her with the cloth, throw it toward her, even play very short games of peek-a-boo over her face. She now loved! the cloth lol. Next stage was the damp cloth on her face. By the next westerly wind she was ready to accept warm water eye baths and the application of ointment. Layering like this works for all fear situations and you will boost your bond with the dog.

I agree eith this to. Teaching a positive association when they knoe something needs to be done

 

[ShrekDawg]

My son stopped driving because of a medication he is on. Staying well and safe is the important thing. But I do hope you get to drive again

Thank you!!! I hope so too but I understand if I can’t. It just sucks because I used to take Brew hiking all the time. And we went camping once. But oh well.

 

[Pasha838]

My weim always got a dose of nasty eye from the dusty westerly winds here. After a few years of battling I trained her before the winds arrived by using a daily treat and a dry cloth. To her it was a game. Everytime she saw the cloth in my hand she got some cheese. Over a few days she soon didn't care about the cloth at all. I then started dropping the cloth on the floor near my feet. She had to come to me to get the treat and since she was now no longer worried about the cloth being used to wipe her eyes, she accepted it as a non-stressful situation. In the end I could 'groom' her with the cloth, throw it toward her, even play very short games of peek-a-boo over her face. She now loved! the cloth lol. Next stage was the damp cloth on her face. By the next westerly wind she was ready to accept warm water eye baths and the application of ointment. Layering like this works for all fear situations and you will boost your bond with the dog.

There is not much dust here, and a draft... Our dog usually sleeps in the utility kitchen, and so that he can come in and out whenever he wants, a square about 50x50 cm is cut out at the bottom of the front door (the dog is big). The square itself is covered with a rubber mat (with artificial fur) sewn into it. But there is a bit of a draft there. In the summer, this generally doesn't bother anyone, because the door is wide open all day anyway (the area itself is surrounded by a high fence, and there is nothing special to steal from us, so we don't lock ourselves in), but in the winter the door has to be closed. Well, the weather was really nasty - wet snow and a cold wind, it blew into this entrance, the dog slept on the floor and caught a cold in the eye. Well, I have to put special drops in her eye so that the inflammation goes away faster and there are no complications.
I think he will get used to it, especially since the treatment process is not long. Even if he doesn't get used to it, by that time I will have finished and left him alone. And the rabies vaccination is still a long way off, we did it in September, here it is customary to do it once a year (there are a lot of foxes in the forest, so if rabies appears, it can spread quickly, so vaccinations are done every year and not every 2-3 years), i.e. a new rabies vaccination will need to be done no earlier than next September (2025). Of course, he will bite me again, but the vaccination is done only once, it is not a whole course of eye drops that are dripped for a week.
It's just that this is a rather angry breed of dog. They guard the house and the herd well, but they don't like familiarity.
That's why I do rabies vaccinations myself, and the vet doesn't go near the dog, it's dangerous. At least I'll tolerate the bites easier ) The vet only notes in the dog's passport that the rabies injection has been given, but I give the injection myself.

 

[Pasha838]

Can you muzzle train your pup so when you put the eye drops in you cant be bit?

This should have been done a little earlier, but now he is an adult dog with established habits and character. In principle, there are no special difficulties, I just get a little nervous every time. He growls very menacingly, although through two sweaters and a thick shirt he bites not until blood. And as soon as he understands that eye drops have been used or a vaccination has been done and he is left alone - he immediately calms down and does not growl anymore. True, then for some time he does not trust me and watches whether I am planning something else mean.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I made Brew a pumpkin latte thanks to @Ilovemychicks08 making one on the other thread

I forgot to put the treats on top though LOL but he ate it at first but then stopped eating it. He was not very impressed with all my hard work.

Also he was not growling. He was licking his lips lmao

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

This should have been done a little earlier, but now he is an adult dog with established habits and character. In principle, there are no special difficulties, I just get a little nervous every time. He growls very menacingly, although through two sweaters and a thick shirt he bites not until blood. And as soon as he understands that eye drops have been used or a vaccination has been done and he is left alone - he immediately calms down and does not growl anymore. True, then for some time he does not trust me and watches whether I am planning something else mean.

You can muzzle train and train any dog of any age. He has learned his behaviors because they are being enforced. He knows yoh are nervous

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

I made Brew a pumpkin latte thanks to @Ilovemychicks08 making one on the other thread

I forgot to put the treats on top though LOL but he ate it at first but then stopped eating it. He was not very impressed with all my hard work.

Also he was not growling. He was licking his lips lmao

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Aww! He looks like he liked it but didnt.