MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Bitsy_Beans

not met a lab yet who's grown up

plan is for me to train but DS is less stressed when he sleeps with company. Killer cat is out hunting most nights and quite frankly as much as I love my son I do not wish to share my bed with him for the next millennium So the plan is for Luna to share is bed or bedroom to ease his anxiety levels for bedtime and in the morning.
Lets hope it is a plan that works

greenbee

Bitsy - just make sure you take advice on how to train her to share his bedroom. As they are pack animals, and working dogs, they can become territorial/protective if they think anyone is threatening the people in their space. It's not that common, but sadly I have seen it happen where the dog (a lab) who slept at the end of the parents bed went for the children when they came into the room. Luckily girls (no point in typing the correct terminology ) tend to be less problematic.

And they do like to be kept busy, so you can train her to carry the newspaper, or take the post to the postbox, or carry your gardening stuff. My dad's dogs (all gundogs, all girls) have always been very good at taking stuff from one person to another in the sitting room, so you don't have to get up to pass the paper or remote but also are very decisive about bedtime - they pick up the newspaper and start taking it back to the kitchen. One of them used to take my dad's shoes away when she thought it was time for bed! 10.30pm on the dot, every night as far as she was concerned! They are very bright, so keep her occupied.

Sadly my dad's current one is getting on now. Although she recovered somewhat at christmas, she is clearly getting very confused now, so I'm not sure how much longer she will last I'm hoping the weather will clear up so I can go and visit her in the next few weeks. Apparently she is being thoroughly spoiled.

Bitsy_Beans

Good advice greenbee.
I am working on being able to take stuff off her, I put fingers in her food bowl and take it away halfway through but hadn't thought about the bed space. Will look into it unless you have any suggestions

Girls are less of a problem hence the reason why I generally prefer to own the female of the species

Sorry to hear about your dads lab my parents lost their last lab before Christmas but have picked a new chocolate lab puppy today from same breeder

greenbee

Probably best to talk to a professional Bitsy!

Sadly labs are prone to cancer due to the size of the gene pool. One of my US colleagues sent me the data and it was pretty shocking. I'm not sure whether my dad's dog, who is ginger, counts as chocolate (I take it your parents know about their dippiness cute but dim although they may find an exception... Better as pets than working dogs, so you don't tend to see many chocolate labs as gundogs!) or yellow. Black have a larger gene pool, so less of a problem. It's funny though, the different colours do tend to have very clearly different personality types, despite the influence of their human families.

Bitsy_Beans

greenbee wrote: »

Probably best to talk to a professional Bitsy!

Sadly labs are prone to cancer due to the size of the gene pool. One of my US colleagues sent me the data and it was pretty shocking. I'm not sure whether my dad's dog, who is ginger, counts as chocolate (I take it your parents know about their dippiness cute but dim although they may find an exception... Better as pets than working dogs, so you don't tend to see many chocolate labs as gundogs!) or yellow. Black have a larger gene pool, so less of a problem. It's funny though, the different colours do tend to have very clearly different personality types, despite the influence of their human families.

their last dog was a chocolate so well aware of the traits of that strain LOL at the ginger, Jemma (their last dog) loved to sunbathe and ended up with ginger bits :rotfl:

greenbee

It's great your puppy will have another puppy to play with! Although I'm sure your DS will wear her out nicely I do miss having a dog, but I can't imagine dealing with a lab puppy while working full time, so it's probably best that I just borrow them, and admire pictures and stories of their antics!

Hopeful1

Well there are no children in the house, yet I've been awake since just gone 4am :eek: I decided to get up at 5 and coffee myself up The dishwasher is unloaded, kitchen cleaned (it only had a quick lick before I ran out last night) and there's a load in the washing machine.

I need to make sure I have a series of 15 min decluttering spates today as I seem to have a lot of hotspots growing! I have realised I need to let go of my favourite maternity clothes and get them on ebay. They need a quick swizz with the iron 1st.

My mom has given me a box of muesli. It's a great brand with cranberries etc in, but I actually don't like it. Any ideas what I could do with it? I was wondering if some of it might work in the biscotti biscuits?

boultdj

Hopeful1 wrote: »

My mom has given me a box of muesli. It's a great brand with cranberries etc in, but I actually don't like it. Any ideas what I could do with it? I was wondering if some of it might work in the biscotti biscuits?

That's what I did yesterday but you only need 150g of the muesli and it's a very dry dough but the biscotti I did have turned out yummy. hth

Hopeful1

boultdj wrote: »

That's what I did yesterday but you only need 150g of the muesli and it's a very dry dough but the biscotti I did have turned out yummy. hth

ooo yes! I thought someone had mentioned oats, but couldn't remember who - thank you!

Aesop

Morning all, hope those who have been ill are feeling better.

Took DS to get his haircut on thursday and the same woman did it as last time. Last time, it seemed fine, but his hair started growing weirdly at the back, it was sticking out. So I said to her this time, do something about this, she said it is the way his hair grows!

I thought no it's not, I have been getting his hair cut for 3 years, and his hair does not grow like that. DH is angry as she has cut his hair uneven all around. The front is choppy, the sides are uneven. I feel sorry for DS, it looks awful. I said to DH, I could go and get it all shaved or number 1, but it is too cold for no hair. So we have agreed to just let it grow really long, long enough for the back to be sorted out properly, he will look messy but it needs to be, and back I go to his old hairdresser who charged £10 a haircut, :eek:

Problem where I live, we have had lots of hairdressing salons spring up, and I mean lots. They all charge £5 for men and boys haircuts. Each salon has one decent member of staff who can cut hair. The rest take one look and say no. I had this problem elsewhere. A great haircut, the next time I went in, someone else was asked to cut DS' hair, this guy refused and was told to do it. That day DS got really upset because this guy was rough and the haircut was not that good. So I changed hairdresser again! This woman nicked his ear on thursday and didn't even notice!

Poor DS. It's hard enough to get him to the hairdressers, without them knicking him and refusing to cut his hair as they are not qualified.

He had a great hairdresser, she was fab! But she went back to Malaysia