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ivyleaf

lostinrates wrote: »

Kiwi on the other hand likes to go everywhere. And he is a prolific marker... Its amazing how one small dog believes he owns so much, Walking around with him is like walking around with a spoilt toddler saying ' mine, mine, mine, that's mine too, mine, mine.......'

That reminds me of the Cat on Red Dwarf, running around with a spray can going "This is miiiine......and this is miiiiine......and this is miiiine.....":rotfl:

Anyone else remember Barbara Woodhouse training dogs on TV, saying briskly "Scent marking is a nuisance and I don't like it, so I don't allow it!"

GDB2222

ivyleaf wrote: »

That reminds me of the Cat on Red Dwarf, running around with a spray can going "This is miiiine......and this is miiiiine......and this is miiiine.....":rotfl:

Anyone else remember Barbara Woodhouse training dogs on TV, saying briskly "Scent marking is a nuisance and I don't like it, so I don't allow it!"

She was not exactly cruel, but she would use negative behavioural stimuli as well as positive ones. Leaving that to one side, denying a dog the chance to do something natural like marking its territory is not necessarily going to lead to a happy well balanced dog.

Doglet is a bit old to learn, and I am patiently trying to teach her not to pull on the lead. The accepted 'kind' way of training is simply to stop when the dog pulls, then go on again when the dog stops doing it. Rinse and repeat, and the dog supposedly learns that it makes more progress through not pulling. Not Doglet! She just looks puzzled and pulls harder. It's very tempting to try Barbara's method of a rolled up newspaper rapped across the nose, but I have resisted.

SingleSue

1.75lbs loss for Josh this week and a 1.5lbs loss for me.

Totals now 1 stone 8.5lbs for Josh (actually more than this as he wasn't weighed right at the beginning ) and 1 stone 7.5lbs for me.

Percy1983

Been test driving prams, luckily for me I know spending more/less has no relation to my love for my baby (the shame I am looking at buying a £250 pram/pushchair).

On more general terms the amount of products I am seeing which try to cash in on paranoria/fear.

ISOfix car seats, yes they are easier to fit and a low chance of getting it wrong. But then the seat is attached to the car chassis so more force actually goes throught the seat in the event of a crash and can rotate forwards so you then need an extra part to stop that, so thats £400-£500 in total.

Or I can get a decent carseat (£100ish) and me sure my wife and I will never incorrectly fit it and actually have slight better safety rating in front impacts with slight less in side impacts.

Then we can spend £200 on a movement sensor for the cot to which will almost certainly give a couple of false alarms and shorten our lives by a good 5 years, I will say am not going to completely discount this if the wife wants one as it can cure paranoia too (or help).

It just amazes me how much is based on making you feel bad/scared if you don't have a X product and its nothing to do with being short of money for us, just saving it for things which will make my childs life geniunely better.

lostinrates

Percy1983 wrote: »

Been test driving prams, luckily for me I know spending more/less has no relation to my love for my baby (the shame I am looking at buying a £250 pram/pushchair).

On more general terms the amount of products I am seeing which try to cash in on paranoria/fear.

ISOfix car seats, yes they are easier to fit and a low chance of getting it wrong. But then the seat is attached to the car chassis so more force actually goes throught the seat in the event of a crash and can rotate forwards so you then need an extra part to stop that, so thats £400-£500 in total.

Or I can get a decent carseat (£100ish) and me sure my wife and I will never incorrectly fit it and actually have slight better safety rating in front impacts with slight less in side impacts.

Then we can spend £200 on a movement sensor for the cot to which will almost certainly give a couple of false alarms and shorten our lives by a good 5 years, I will say am not going to completely discount this if the wife wants one as it can cure paranoia too (or help).

It just amazes me how much is based on making you feel bad/scared if you don't have a X product and its nothing to do with being short of money for us, just saving it for things which will make my childs life geniunely better.

Car seats not moving are fine if you are just using in your own car.:) If you are relying a lot on grandparents or aunts,;) easy fit is really important. The desperation of trying to fit a car seat you don't know how it works between an aunts car an a grandparents for example, has consumed whole afternoons of mine in the past. If it were my kid, my car, no movement till an upgrade, the choice I'd make would be different to if I thought my kid might go for a weekend with an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent or family friend.

Percy1983

lostinrates wrote: »

Car seats not moving are fine if you are just using in your own car.:) If you are relying a lot on grandparents or aunts,;) easy fit is really important. The desperation of trying to fit a car seat you don't know how it works between an aunts car an a grandparents for example, has consumed whole afternoons of mine in the past. If it were my kid, my car, no movement till an upgrade, the choice I'd make would be different to if I thought my kid might go for a weekend with an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent or family friend.

As it is I doubt there would be many situations of fitting in another car and probably none with neither of us present, the other thing being as easy as ISOfix is none of the cars involved have the fitting but can be added. I short I can see the advantage of a quicker fitting (bum not getting as wet in the rain etc). Yet again I am not against it being sold as easier, its the way its sold a safer which isn't true and you don't love you baby/it will die if you don't buy one.

lostinrates

Percy1983 wrote: »

As it is I doubt there would be many situations of fitting in another car and probably none with neither of us present, the other thing being as easy as ISOfix is none of the cars involved have the fitting but can be added. I short I can see the advantage of a quicker fitting (bum not getting as wet in the rain etc). Yet again I am not against it being sold as easier, its the way its sold a safer which isn't true and you don't love you baby/it will die if you don't buy one.

Oh, totally we you on the 'safer/love thing'. Just mentioning the other because its something that has impacted on me and while we view parenting as a nuclear family thing nowadays it isn't always and its worth considering.

SingleSue

We had a car seat known as a carry tot when mine were babies. It fitted easily in the car, was very secure (think we spent an afternoon before James was born making sure we got it right) and meant we could carry the children out of the car and into a house/restaurant /parent's house without waking them up.

It was much like the travel systems you see now except it didn't then fit onto a buggy frame, it was a stand alone item.

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

1.75lbs loss for Josh this week and a 1.5lbs loss for me.

Totals now 1 stone 8.5lbs for Josh (actually more than this as he wasn't weighed right at the beginning ) and 1 stone 7.5lbs for me.

Oh, that's very impressive! Well done you two. Does it help that you are both dieting at the same time?

michaels

We had a car seat that was held in place by the seatbelt and you lifted in and baby out of the car and into the house (where it could 'rock' on its base) or onto the pushchair, which didn't clip in just sat on top of normal pushchair bit that we used when they got bigger. Also used this instead of ever having a pram.