Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

We inherited our black lab from my brother when he passed away from cancer 4 years ago.....Gracie was 6 when she came to live with us and had experience hunting but once she knew the chickens were not for her, she was fine. She's a smart cookie. We bred strong hunting lines in our cocker spaniels and also just taught them they were off limits. Every new chicken they did ask if they could have them but as soon as they were told no they were fine. We just got a new Springer Spaniel with field bloodlines but shes smart and minds. She thinks the chickens are her play toys....the chickens hate her! LOL A couple of the hens try to attack her but she thinks they're playing and puts her rump in the air and barks at them! I won't let her chase them too much but she does trot around asking them to play! They can be taught to get along.

I think that's true for most dogs but I tell ya, I won't ever have a chow again. Some breeds do have a very strong prey drive.

That's all Dusty would do too until the flock was attacked. She's doing better, but I'm still watching her like a hawk. She grabbed that pullet quick. The birds aren't afraid of my dogs, which is probably why the ones that were out weren't attacked. I think the dogs riled up the pullets in the pen and just had to have them. Ganche wasn't as mellow around the dogs as Baby was, so maybe they scared her. I'm shocked they didn't try the guineas, Dusty did kill another pullet months ago. She was playing with it and the pullet would even sleep with her, but it just took that one rough move and she was gone. Just chased 7 dogs off my porch. I'm getting so sick of this.

I don't blame you!

 

[wolftracks]

AC just left my neighborhood. I don't think he caught many, but he was getting attacked by the little ones. Then some woman walked down the street and looked at me and said ""they're taking all the dogs!!!" She was upset, but I didn't even say anything. I'm just hoping that some of them are my bird killers. Bad thing is the 3 bigs ones just walked on down the street while he was being attacked by the little ones. Makayla's friend's dad, let him trap them in his yard and locked the gate, so he could get hold of them. Not that taking just a few is going to do anything.

Sunny, Chows really are different. The saying is "You can never own a Chow, a Chow owns you." I love them though. I had 3 to play with as a little girl. They belonged to my aunt and she'd drive them all over in her big red convertible. LOL

 

[SunnyDawn]

I was just watching AFV and I was wondering what some of our most embarrassing moments were?

Here's one of mine. This was shortly after Steve and I first moved in together. Once we were out talking to the neighbors after work and when I realized the conversation was not going to end any time soon I excused myself so that I could get out of my work clothes and into some jeans. When I came back out I crept up behind Steve and put my arms around him resting my head on his back. It took a few seconds for it to dawn on me that my head was resting on a tank top t-shirt and Steve didn't have a tank top T on when I'd left! Sure enough I lift my head up and Steve and the neighbor's wife are both staring at me in shock. I was hugging the wrong guy! I actually screamed and jumped back I was so embarrassed!!!

Ugh! Good thing they decided to find the whole thing hilarious instead of blowing up at me like some folks might have done! A couple of months later I was out weeding the parking strip of our property and I was making kissing noises at my dogs. I did not see my neighbor right next to me til I heard "Are you saying Hi to me or are the dogs on the other side of that fence"? This time it was the wife. I laughed saying I was never going to live down my reputation as the weirdo next door neighbor at that rate!

OK, I shared, now it's your turn! Hey if we can't laugh at ourselves...

Just keep it clean folks!

 

[SunnyDawn]

AC just left my neighborhood. I don't think he caught many, but he was getting attacked by the little ones. Then some woman walked down the street and looked at me and said ""they're taking all the dogs!!!" She was upset, but I didn't even say anything. I'm just hoping that some of them are my bird killers. Bad thing is the 3 bigs ones just walked on down the street while he was being attacked by the little ones. Makayla's friend's dad, let him trap them in his yard and locked the gate, so he could get hold of them. Not that taking just a few is going to do anything.

Sunny, Chows really are different. The saying is "You can never own a Chow, a Chow owns you." I love them though. I had 3 to play with as a little girl. They belonged to my aunt and she'd drive them all over in her big red convertible. LOL

LOL Knowing how much you love cars I imagine the red convertible had something to do with that reaction! haha No, I loved my dogs but the chow mixes weren't the smartest dogs I've ever owned. The male was seriously as dumb as a rock! Sorry if any of you have chows, my 2 might have been the exception, but I've never owned a dumber dog.

You're right about their different reactions to their owners though. The male really attached to us but he hated almost everyone else. He even hated kids, strollers, vacuums, the globe we kept in our office, pumpkins... a really dumb dog. The female seemed smart by comparison but that was only cause she was being compared to him. She wasn't a super smart dog either.

 

[RulerOfTheSkies]

OMG BDM you changed your avie! Lol

 

[SunnyDawn]

I didn't think this through very well did I? Am I the only one that has had an embarrassing moment they are willing to share? What am I gonna put in my book now?!!!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I have to think about it for a while, Sunny.....my day is laden with embarrassment so i have to think real hard, but im sure i have got one or two really good ones

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I didn't think this through very well did I? Am I the only one that has had an embarrassing moment they are willing to share? What am I gonna put in my book now?!!!

Lol a few come to mind, but making them appropriate for the board would take some very important details out of the stories!

Hey Lacy Blues, do I need to worry about Paella's neck? (My splash andalusian.) Her comb covers one eye and watches everything out of the other, which makes her twist her neck all skewey. I don't know what I'd do about it, though. Prop the comb up with toothpicks and shellac it?

 

[SunnyDawn]

I have to think about it for a while, Sunny.....my day is laden with embarrassment so i have to think real hard, but im sure i have got one or two really good ones

Oh good! Cause otherwise this will be my new most embarrassing moment.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

OMG BDM you changed your avie! Lol

I did! Twice! Didn't recognize me without a glass of wine in my hand? ;D

   I didn't think this through very well did I?  Am I the only one that has had an embarrassing moment they are willing to share?  What am I gonna put in my book now?!!!

Honestly, I was thinking about this and couldn't come up with anything and then realized I'm just use to embarrassing myself daily!

Although I did ask a girl that worked next door to my store, when her baby was due....she wasn't pregnant! In my defense, she was thin but had this growing bump. We all swore she was about 5 months along! Of course, only I said it out loud.