Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

I guess it depends on what exactly you are planning to do, lir.
Will you be doing the light sanding/washing-down on any walls in that room? If so, I'd be more inclined to wait & do it all at once, then give it a mist coat before a proper emulsion.
It's always better IMO to leave it a bit longer rather than do it too early & have the paint slide off the wall

It's just the moving of furniture I was trying to avoid. . Cannot wait to get the furniture in now, I want to get set up ASAP.

lostinrates

No progress report to night davesnave, as no one turned up to do any work, lol.


Flue goes in tomorrow and they think another half day on the plumbing for the boiler/tank.

lostinrates

Oh, and the pup, is still significantly smaller than he should be for his age. I did a scary online size calculator today and it reckons he will be forty percent. Underweight as an adult.

He is not skinny, and he is playful and happy, but he might just be small.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

He is not skinny, and he is playful and happy, but he might just be small.

Like me, then!

I am not very playful ATM though. Lets just say I'm under the weather emotionally, like CTC, from stuff happening outside my control. We've had nothing but wildly barking dogs every day this week and there's no prospect of this changing any time soon. I've logged stuff over a few years now and I know the pattern.

So, reluctantly, I started what will be a new approach to this problem. I began removing Mr Dog's privacy, which today was actually just the smaller willow trees we need to take out anyway to infill the failed pond, but it has instantly brought our neighbour's property into Mr Dog's line of view. If the racket continues, other, more important stuff will start to disappear as well, so there's every possibility that there could be nothing left in that corner by Christmas....other than the big Ash tree. Hmmmm....

None of this is very nice, but I've run out of ideas. We could reinstate tree cover quickly if things got better, but we are being taken for mugs ATM.

alfie_1

davesnave.......... its actually quite sad that the poor dogs have a life which contributes to barking constantly. what starts as attention seeking developes into habit which has not been altered/attended to by the owner.
if you got the noise people involved, i guess he would just shut them away ! which could be worse. i think id take advise from maybe the rspca [not great faith !] can you see the conditions they live in ??

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, and the pup, is still significantly smaller than he should be for his age. I did a scary online size calculator today and it reckons he will be forty percent. Underweight as an adult.

He is not skinny, and he is playful and happy, but he might just be small.

have you contacted the breeder just to see if this is a normal rate of growth which may rocket off when maturing ?

im assuming it was a breeder with a good CV, so maybe it was just fluke you got the smallest one ?

if hes happy and healthy....

i used to feed my pups Bakers as they did really well in the growth stakes on it.

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

have you contacted the breeder just to see if this is a normal rate of growth which may rocket off when maturing ?

im assuming it was a breeder with a good CV, so maybe it was just fluke you got the smallest one ?

if hes happy and healthy....

i used to feed my pups Bakers as they did really well in the growth stakes on it.

Yes, she is worried he is small too. Her dogs tend to go a little over height, but in case we decide to show him we opted for a very nice loping smaller boy (there was also a pretty but small girl who was heart melting). When I went to pick him up she said she was concerned he might not make height, and we said ok, because all puppies are a gamble really, you can pick the best looking puppy at six weeks and its got no potential at all by sixteen weeks.


In our own litters almost little ones almost always shoot up and overtake. (dog dog was a little 'un, now she is huge,)


Not too worried about showing, if he is too small that's the way the cookie crumbles, but I will be checking with the vet on Monday when he has second vaccs to see what he thinks. I said last time I thought he was a bit wee, and the vet said he thought he was fine, So we'll see on Monday.

rhiwfield

Re small dogs, someone here will correct me but I thought they usually live much longer than larger breeds?

On height my mother says a tall back is a bad back.

So being shorter, smaller seems to be a positive survival trait in a modern ordered society.

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Re small dogs, someone here will correct me but I thought they usually live much longer than larger breeds?

On height my mother says a tall back is a bad back.

So being shorter, smaller seems to be a positive survival trait in a modern ordered society.

Yep, I fear big dog might be starting the beginning of the end, she is six and a half. But breeds should be the correct height for their type.....and eventual job of course!

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

davesnave.......... its actually quite sad that the poor dogs have a life which contributes to barking constantly. what starts as attention seeking developes into habit which has not been altered/attended to by the owner.
if you got the noise people involved, i guess he would just shut them away ! which could be worse. i think id take advise from maybe the rspca [not great faith !] can you see the conditions they live in ??

Yes, it's terribly sad.

The dogs go quiet when he or she gets home; it's like a tap being turned off. Mr & Mrs Dog have it quiet! Sometimes the pooches are shut in the shed, because I can hear them, but sounding far away & muffled. Normally, they're out in two small cage runs in front of their sheds, but they bark at nothing in particular. One starts, the other tries to out-do it.

Since the terrier-type dog arrived, it's much worse. It barks at a different pitch & out of synch, so the effect is like a baboon house. The son used to own the terrier, but when he shut it in his flat all day it wrecked the place... Yeah....don't say it! :rotfl:

We contacted environmental health last February, and as soon as they wrote to Mr & Mrs Dog, we had rubbish and bags of dog excrement thrown into our top field. It was quiet for a while. I fully expect worse next time, but I'll not be deterred. Police have a record of all that went on last time.

Physically the dogs needs are met. They get a very short walk in the evening.

There are people closer than us being affected/ intimidated, but they won't grow a pair, so..... I'm afraid our other close neighbours are no use, as I could detonate a 200lb bomb in the field and they'd not notice! :rotfl:Anyway, they hibernate most of the time. :cool:

I have lots of ideas beyond denuding the top corner of our land, where there are no valuable landscape trees. That's just the starting point. Last year, when I began laying the hedge, 100metres from Mr Dog, he whined that he & his wife had found the 'perfect' house, and now I was spoiling it. The laid hedge meant they could see some ugly barns. :eek: He threatened to breed dogs and make more noise. Despite feeling pretty p*ssed off, we said we'd we'd not cut the hedge within about 35m of his place, so that he could have privacy in his garden, IF we could have peace & quiet.

We haven't had that. :(:(

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