Defective Dog

[LarryD]

It seems our 8-week-old Lab is defective.

While taking our early evening stroll, she poked her nose in the air to sniff something. It was a deer standing less than 30 feet away and she never even saw it. Siena was looking the opposite direction when the deer moved off, but she still had the scent./forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Of course earlier she came running back when a bunny spooked her at the tree line. She has teeth like a piranha and has shredded my hand, why would a little bunny scare her?/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

The shot is of her apparently thinking she needs a nap after all this excitement. We need to work on the endurance thing.
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[JimR]

Cute pup you got there Larry. Don't be so hard on the little poch. It is only 8 weeks old.

 

[Highbeam]

I discovered my chesapeake Bay Retriever couldn't swim out of the box. Imagine that, the dog is born to retrieve and can't swim. Didn't take long to figure it out though.

 

[tillerkiller]

Yeah, I remember when I thought my dog was defective too.

Now, he thinks that I am defective.



ps... how can he tell the difference between when I am putting my shoes on to go run an errand (ALLLRIGHT! he says!! Let's GO!) and when I am putting the same pair of shoes on so that I can mow the lawn? (Wake me up when you are done, I'm gonna take a nap here by the air-conditioner vent.)

 

[LarryD]

How could anyone get mad a face like that? She comes to me like I'm some kind of savior or somthing. As soon as I lay down on the floor she comes running. She's laying at my feet as I type.

Highbeam, I had the hose out today cleaning off my boots and she kept biting at the water. So I sprayed her and she went nuts. Had the nozzel set to shower and she loved it. Now I need to take her to a pond.

 

[Highbeam]

It is hard to get mad at that face... until it turns that whitish carpet into fragments or a mud path. But even that will be tough.

I set that chessie in the water and watched it slip under the surface. His eyes had switched to the amber from blue, weird chessie thing, and those eyeballs opened wide until I snatched him to the surface. The next step was a sploosh sploosh sploosh as he tried to swim vertically out of the water and then when I pulled him forward to get some motion things worked just fine. This took a couple of days at a lake out by Shelton, Mason Lake, and was a hands on deal. Maybe if I just wet up to hansville at the beach he may have eased his own way in to get a ball.

Pitching a ball into the water is great fun for everyone. It is also how I bathed the greasy breed. In to wet, out to lather, in to rinse, and then play until he's tired. I imagine that lab has the webbed feet for swimming? He'll love it to burn off the extra energy.

 

[GaryM]

I feel sorry for you and being stuck with a defective dog and all. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I just started a shelter at my place for such defective dogs, and I may be able to find some room for yours!

Let me know about travel arrangements. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[PBinWA]

It's amazing how the frozen deer can evade detection. It frustrates the **** out of me when I want my dogs to chase off a dear and they can't see it even though it's frozen right there in front of them. It's all about the chase with my dogs. They need the movement.

I hate those deer - I really do! Now my dogs are even tired of chasing them. They'll give them a little rush and then just let the dear bounce lazily away. Sorry, I just had to vent after the deer came right up next to the house and dog area and ate a bunch of plants while we were inside lazily sleeping away.

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[chucko]

my lb does the same type thing.I was thinking it was because she was a blonde (yeller lab)

 

[LarryD]

<font color="blue"> I imagine that lab has the webbed feet for swimming? </font>

Mom and Dad are both active duck dogs so swimming runs in the family. We are good friends with the owner and as soon as the pups were born, the lovely mrs. was over there every day. I knew I was in trouble at that point. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

This pup is a replacement for my best friend of 11 years that passed away 2 years ago. It took the mrs. that long to be ready for another dog, they never are easily replaced.

Right now, she gets to stay at home. She just got her second vaccine and Becky doesn't want her around other dogs for at least 30 days. After that I know of a good sandy beach where Siena will get her intro to swimming.

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe it was that rabbit from the Monty Python movie in scene 21. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

I think they should be called duck dogs, not hunting dogs.

You should have seen the hair stand up on the back of mine when I put the fake deer target together. She was barking and growling, I was in tears.

This weekend we were out getting wood and I heard a deer move into the brush maybe 20 yards away. She sat there with her tounge out over a stick looking at me. We went around the brush pile and she freaked at the scent on the brand new tracks.

 

[tillerkiller]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Maybe it was that rabbit from the Monty Python movie in scene 21. )</font>


"Would it help to confuse the rabbit if we run away more?"



ps... if you go rent "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" then you have no idea what you are in for. Neither MossRoad nor tillerkiller can be held liable for your like or dislike thereof. (you will love it or you will hate it.)

 

[BubbaJr]

You have a defective Lab, and I have defective deer. I came out to the barn this morning and a doe and her two fawns that have been around all year, were walking out of our east woods into our backyard. I was coming down the hill in the driveway, out in the open, so I froze in my tracks. All three deer looked at me like they were looking right through me, then continued their leisurely pace across the back yard, all the time within 80-90 yards from me.

I've done that before and also squatted down so I had a much smaller profile, and they just ignore me. If I make even a slight movement, they are off like a shot. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ejtaylor822]

Tillerkiller and Mossroad,

“that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!”

“I soiled my armor I was so scared!”

Add me to the "love it" list.

 

[ejtaylor822]

Congratulations LarryD, she’s beautiful. You guys should be very proud. As you know, you are in for a real treat - enjoy.

When I brought my chocolate lab home he was defective as well. But, he got somewhat better….

The first time I took him swimming was after a bad day at work and took the afternoon off to take my new little buddy swimming. I started easy, just tossing the stick in the edge of the water and worked my way out to the deep parts, but he would not go much more than chest deep. I was bummed. I remember walking back to the car thinking about my crappy day and how I had the only lab in the world that didn’t like water/couldn’t swim.

A few days later, that weekend, my wife and I took him back to the lake. We get to the waters edge and my wife flings a stick out as far as she can. “He won’t go get it”, I said. But, to my amazement he swam all the way out, got the stick and brought it back to her. I’ll never forget the look he gave me coming out of the water and the little trot he had taking the stick back to my wife. It was as if to say - “that’s for getting me neutered, buddy”. That's the honest to goodness truth.

Anyway, we can’t keep him out of the pond now and he has gotten much better with retrieving sticks out of the water – see attachment. When he did this, he would go about 15'-20' out, stick his head underwater then thrash about. I would have given anything for a video camera. It took a couple of trips but eventually he pulled this off the bottom somehow and brought it in.

His nose is still pretty defective when the deer, ducks and geese are running around - hope yours does better. But, he makes up for it by having a real keen sense for finding cheeseburgers, pancakes (his favorite) and for flushing popcorn out from under the couch.

Eddie