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[Tomtint]

Last September I lost my 13 year old Weimariner. It broke my heart. We were looking around but not 100% sure I was ready and I knew I could not replace my other guy by any stretch of the imagination. Then this guy popped up on a Face book page for adoption. He was about 6-7 months old and I decided to give it a shot. He has been a fantastic addition, when we got him he was a "outside" dog from the south. Not really housebroken and never seen a TV, bed, couch, his own reflection, stairs, a stove, ... nothing but a dog house and a back yard. .. he peed in the house maybe 5-6x before he learned to ring a door bell to let us know he had to go out.. and never once pooped inside.. ever. .. he has made the loss of my best friend bareable and this guy brings a smile to my face everyday.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

BrokefarmerJohn,

Your story of Max sounds very familiar to our first Lab, a black mix we named Smokey. We adopted her through Petsmart when my daughter was born, and Smokey was guessed to be 10 months to a year old. She was terrified of everything at first, especially men. I could be sitting in the living room for hours, with the dog laying on the carpet, and as soon as I got up, she would bolt up and cower in the corner, shaking in fear. She (a lab) had no concept of "play". Just didn't know how to do it. It took years of positive attention and care for her to come around, but she finally filled out and became a true lab. She got over all of her fears and gained confidence, taking her rightful place as the "family dog". She never did get over her intense dislike for darker skinned men. It wasn't something we taught her or encouraged her to do, but she really disliked any man with a darker skin tone. We could only assume that her previous owners must have abused her and she remembered?

She used to like to lay across the door threshold of the front door if I had it open on a nice day. She could look out the windows of our screened in front porch. One Saturday afternoon she was laying there while I was at my desk working, and I heard her give a low growl and a stifled bark. Without looking up or out the window, I just reflexively said "Git 'em". Normally she would just stand up and bark then. But this time all I heard was toenails scratching concrete and she hit the porch screen door so hard she broke it loose from it's hinges, and I heard toenails on concrete again. Uh-oh. Bye the time I could get up and cross the room to look out the door, I could see her half way down the block, running full tilt, white teeth bared and snapping just inches away from the rear end of an obviously terrified young Hispanic male. All I could think about was this guy hurting my dog (lol), so I took off after them shouting her name as loud as I could. She stopped chasing him when they got to the next street corner and turned around and followed me the rest of the way home, wagging her tail. I'm telling her "good girl, good girl" the whole way home. We get back to our house and I see my buddy's car I was keeping for him next to my carport, and the drivers door is standing open. Nothing was taken, and I never heard a thing, but Smokey heard this guy and knew he didn't belong there.

She died of liver cancer at age 11. Broke my heart. I still miss that dog, she was a good girl.

I do believe dogs in traumatic situations remember, I have one friend (tall skinny white guy) that whenever he comes over max goes nuts, he bit me one day trying to get to this guy in my garage because he came over and max was outside, no other dog has responded to this guy like that and he has a few dogs of his own, my only explanation is that guy must remind max of someone.

Even if he's on the property and max is inside he never stops barking or growling, I have to tell him multiple times to knock it off and he never does. This guy is the only person I have seen max get aggressive towards.

I have tried to get them to get together and get along, this guy has been in my house multiple times for longer periods and I can calm max down, he seems ok but when the guy stands up or moves max runs away from him like he's gonna attack him, max turns around starts growling, barking and showing teeth at him. I don't understand it.

I just try to avoid letting max see him when he's over.

That day max bit me, I was holding his collar, is was acting stupid, barking, growling and I pulled him back, even smacked him in the head and told him to stop but he won't, I can hold his mouth shut and he still try's to growl.

The buddy walked up to me and max, he held out his hand to let max sniff him and my Buddy being a D bag he is sometimes jumps just to aggravate max and that's when max snipped my arm when I was trying to keep him contained, it wasn't hard but I was close enough to my buddy that max mistook my limb for my buddies.

It's like he was possessed, he wouldn't look at me no matter what I did, he was only locked on my buddy.

That's the only person he acts that way against.

Slim, sorry to hear about your dogs death, it will be hard when max passes on also.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

That was after I tied max up outside, I let him out last night around 11pm, I shut the door and sit back down waiting for him to bark to be let in and I get an aroma of skunk in the house.

My head dropped, so I walked to the back door and max was standing on the deck, his mouth was watering and I open the door to smell the worst stink I have ever encountered out of a skunk.

Max hasn't been in the house since lol, he will spend a few days outside before I plan to clean him up, he has food water and a dog house out there, he's tied to the porch by a 25ft cable I used to use on him before I got the wireless electric fence (collar has a dead battery).

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Ok, skunk.

Best thing I found was by accident and desperation. Tide granular laundry soap works fantastic on getting rid of skunk. Many (30-35) years ago, we lived in the rural mountains of High Rolls, NM, and our dogs cornered a pair of skunks inside our woodshed. Of course this was at 11pm on a week night, and it was over an hour drive into Alamogordo to a store (which were all closed anyway). So we had Tide (w/ bleach if I recall), and tried that after the dish soap (which didn't do anything). The Tide worked amazingly well, just barely any scent left to them at all when we finished. This was on both a short haired pure bred boxer, and a long hair britney spaniel.

As to your "buddy" and Max. Are you sure Max isn't trying to tell you something about this guy? Both my big yellow and our chocolate lab are VERY good at judging character. I've learned over the years that if either one of them don't like someone, that there's usually a pretty good reason and to "trust" the dog's instinct. And I think I would have let go of Max and let him tear a patch off of the guy if he did that to me while I was trying to protect him from being bit. Teach your "buddy" a lesson.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Last September I lost my 13 year old Weimariner. It broke my heart. We were looking around but not 100% sure I was ready and I knew I could not replace my other guy by any stretch of the imagination. Then this guy popped up on a Face book page for adoption. He was about 6-7 months old and I decided to give it a shot. He has been a fantastic addition, when we got him he was a "outside" dog from the south. Not really housebroken and never seen a TV, bed, couch, his own reflection, stairs, a stove, ... nothing but a dog house and a back yard. .. he peed in the house maybe 5-6x before he learned to ring a door bell to let us know he had to go out.. and never once pooped inside.. ever. .. he has made the loss of my best friend bareable and this guy brings a smile to my face everyday.

It's always hard when one of our 4 legged buddies passes on. Our old black lab Smokey passed over 10 years ago and I still miss her. Love our current 4 probably more than most people, but still miss the ones that have gone on ahead.

That is a good looking fella you have there Tom, he looks happy to have a permanent home.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Last September I lost my 13 year old Weimariner. It broke my heart. We were looking around but not 100% sure I was ready and I knew I could not replace my other guy by any stretch of the imagination. Then this guy popped up on a Face book page for adoption. He was about 6-7 months old and I decided to give it a shot. He has been a fantastic addition, when we got him he was a "outside" dog from the south. Not really housebroken and never seen a TV, bed, couch, his own reflection, stairs, a stove, ... nothing but a dog house and a back yard. .. he peed in the house maybe 5-6x before he learned to ring a door bell to let us know he had to go out.. and never once pooped inside.. ever. .. he has made the loss of my best friend bareable and this guy brings a smile to my face everyday.

You have no idea how much I envy the short haired companion lol.

Sorry for your loss but glad you found a new buddy to pester.

 

[GLyford]

I have had dogs get hit by skunks several times...resist the temptation to hit them with the hose right away. That just sets the smell.

The "nature's miracle" skunk stuff works pretty good. Read the label, it is used full strength on a dry dog, do not wet down first. It is an enzyme, and you want the enzyme to bond with the smell before anything else.

Also, that internet recipe of dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda works pretty well, but the same caution applies--it is not soap, do not wet down the dog first, apply the solution and let it oxidize the smell before you start adding water.

Last encounter my aussie didn't just get hit, he got his revenge, and might have gotten a bite on the lip in the process. He got a rabies booster and a two month quarantine for his trouble. Even though the skunk carcass tested clean, the rules are strict enough that the quarantine did not change...just that the vet was no longer worried about him, and the town never came by to double check. We did postpone a vacation since he couldn't be boarded.

 

[Dftodd]

My mini dachshund would try and kill any critter that came into the yard. Except.... for a skunk When it comes to a skunk, the bone head would try and sniff it's butt instead

This would usually go on for a few days till I could catch the skunk out in the open and dispatch it. He would try to sniff the skunks butt. The skunk would spray him between the blinkers. Then he would do a fish flop across the yard and almost drown himself in the grand kids kiddy pool.

I second the nature's miracle skunk remover. Works really well

 

[TomSeller]

. He would try to sniff the skunks butt. The skunk would spray him between the blinkers. Then he would do a fish flop across the yard and almost drown himself in the grand kids kiddy pool.

About spit out all my beer reading that !!!! Very funny.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

It is a good time of the year for my dogs.