Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Unfortunately she is also the sort of dog who evades capture when it's time to go back on the lead. The owners tell me the only way to get her back sometimes is to bribe her with crisps. Crisps???? I thought salt was bad for dogs? I have bought some salt'n'shake crisps and have successfully got her back on the lead by using them unsalted.

My vets have a poster on the wall which has all kind of equivalents of human food is like hamburger to your dog and cat.


Eg

One plain biscuit is like a hamburger to your dog
Two crisps are like a hamburger to your cat
A cup of milk is two hamburgers to your cat

Etc etc


This makes us laugh. The fact that a hamburg is a standard measurement and that something is the same impact to kiwi as to big dog. And the fact pink whistley cat steals crisps

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Unfortunately she is also the sort of dog who evades capture when it's time to go back on the lead.

As it's not your dog, doesn't like going back on the lead, doesn't actually go far/do anything anyway, might be better to keep it on the lead.

You could try making your own, unsalted, crisps - slice very finely (gadget's perfect), then nuke in single layers, turning... doesn't take more than 1-2 minutes a handful, you could try it with an old spud one day.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

As it's not your dog, doesn't like going back on the lead, doesn't actually go far/do anything anyway, might be better to keep it on the lead.

You could try making your own, unsalted, crisps - slice very finely (gadget's perfect), then nuke in single layers, turning... doesn't take more than 1-2 minutes a handful, you could try it with an old spud one day.

I walked the dog to the shop on the lead, bought the crisps while I was there getting some other stuff as well, and then let her off the lead in the park on the way home, once well armed with plenty of guilt-free unsalted crisps for easy capture. Slicing and nuking potatoes sounds like more effort than I can be bothered to invest, but may well be a useful suggestion for less lazy NP.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Slicing and nuking potatoes sounds like more effort than I can be bothered to invest, but may well be a useful suggestion for less lazy NP.

I've done them in the past, laying the slices out on paper towels .... bit of a faff... and it's the sort of thing (if you're going to eat them) that you'd want to perfect over time (flavours, thickness, length of nuking etc).....

.... but even Lakeland made a gadget for it.....
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/15171/Lakeland-Microwave-Crisp-Maker

Although their crisps look minging.....

Or... being a bit on the posh side, you could make him some oven baked ones

lostinrates

Getting there with the north garden back drop now.




There are about half a dozen roses in boom, all different shades of red to just blush, but today this combination is my favourite. Its definitely the easiest to photograph!

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

I wonder if it's more than not washing the fruit and veg. Perhaps he is a carrier of something, along the lines of Typhoid Mary (although not typhoid, of course).

I posted a couple of weeks ago that I had got an 'emergency' pet chook after losing all but one of mine to foxes.

Usually when I introduce new chooks they stay separately for a couple of weeks to ensure they are not harbouring bugs. As this was an emergency to provide a companion i put the new chook (Eider) in with existing chook (Nessie).

This week we had to take Nessie to the vet, she has been very sick and has been diagnosed with mycoplasma. She has a swollen left orbital sac, was oozing masses of nasty yellow fluid and smelt septic. I thought it might be curtains. However she has had a jab of Baytril and I am medicating her every 12 hours with baytril, the infection has dried up but her face is still swollen and I am bathing her eye twice a day.

Eider is probably an asymptomatic carrier:mad:

For those who keep chooks, if you gave baytril you used to be advised to withdraw eggs for 28 days...advice is now for life. Interestingly we could eat her after 28 days though. Not that we would, she only ways half a kilo as she is a pekin bantam. This is about antibiotic resistance as Baytril is not licensed for some stuff..and I now know we have to keep a permanent record for inspection of all medicines given to backyard chooks.

Eider was named by next doors three year old grandson.
Me ""Jack,what would you like to call the chicken?"

Jack "Eider"

Pause, his mum, gran and I all nod, and repeat "Eider" acknowledging his choice.

Jack "Eider"

Jack "I dunno"

so Eider she is

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Getting there with the north garden back drop now.




There are about half a dozen roses in boom, all different shades of red to just blush, but today this combination is my favourite. Its definitely the easiest to photograph!

That looks fabulous.I would love even a fraction of that colour. It takes effort and hard work though so I will just have to admire pictures of yours.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

That looks fabulous.I would love even a fraction of that colour. It takes effort and hard work though so I will just have to admire pictures of yours.

Thank you, it gives me joy seeing it. I am looking forward to doing more out there, wish the rain would stop!


M'eh, roses are easy. . so long as you learn to love black spot as you might your own flaws.

Climbing roses demand very little really. The longest task is choosing them. One a year tidying them, unless you have some where you can let them run wild. I fuss at them cos I like fussing with them.

The sad thing is the season is SO short. The fuscis ish one there, especially, I have three once floweres in that bit of garden including that one. One will be moving when dormant hopefully ( never defoliated last year so decided not to move it. ) from where it will be planted so that I can train its long tendrils through an old and slightly haggard yew. A young rose would have struggled to get started but I am hoping an established thug, as this gal is, will do well. We'll no longer see her from the house . But each year at this time those using the road will get such a treat.

I love choosing roses. The great thing about this is it will give me the chance to choose a longer term planting for that spot. There is an idea you cannot plant a rose where a rose has been, but you can, certain provisions made.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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Pretties!

Who is Paul? ... and why did he have to write his name on your fence?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Pretties!

Who is Paul? ... and why did he have to write his name on your fence?

I felt sure someone would ask.
.

I have Paul written twice on that wall. It used to be three times.


I wrote it.

Its an aide memoire.