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Day 2 of hiding the dogs inside from the weather. It's been hovering around 0° with windchill all day, and has started heading into the negatives... and it's only 4pm.
They've murdered their ruffle mats and we've done a whole bunch of training to try and tire them out... will it work? We'll find out around 6.30pm, which is when they start getting toey before dinner and giving everyone a hard time.
[my guess is no...]
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It's cold today, so we're layering.
It's called Fashion, Dahling!
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Guess who just snaffled some sultanas and had to be dosed to make her vom..
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Some greyhounds have a thing called Sleep Startle. Poppy has it. It's basically that they're used to being caged for long periods, and sleeping uninterrupted.. so they sleep very deeply and wake with a "startle" reflex (startle is putting it cutely!)
At the moment I'm solo-patenting because my housemate is in Adelaide until Monday. Mia has been sleeping in my room (she usually sleeps with my housemate), and Poppy is sleeping in my office (where she usually sleeps, away from everything.. so she doesn't get startled awake). I usually sleep with my door closed, but because Mia is in my room I've been keeping my door open so she can get a drink if she needs it.
Last night Mia got out of her bed and curled up under my bed, which she does if she gets anxious or hears a noise outside.. that's fine (apparently I'm the house guard dog). But also Poppy decided to wander into my room and go to sleep on Mia's bed.
I didn't realise until I snapped awake at 5.30am, about 2 seconds after Poppy woke up with a sleep startle which involved leaping after Mia. The fight only lasted a second, and was broken up by me yelling and throwing a pillow at both of them.
But today I'm nursing two edgy dogs, because neither of them understand what happened, and a twisted back because a 52 year old ex-nurse does NOT have the spinal health for bouncing out of bed that quickly.
How's your weekend starting?
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When sirens go past, the entire neighbourhood of dogs howl.. you can hear it coming from blocks away, and the noise of it all gets closer as the sirens move through the neighbourhood.
Ours don't usually howl.. Mia will bark if there's something happening outside, and Poppy occasionally gives out the legendary GSoD (greyhound scream of death) for... whatever reason she decides. But I've never really heard either of them howl before today.
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Poppy just caught two biscuits!
Mia catches treats out of the air all the time, but Poppy just stares at them while they hit her in the face. Today she actually caught two of them!
Apparently today is her turn for the Greyhound Communal Braincell. Sorry everyone else who owns a greyhound... I guess you've had a bad day.
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This anxious peanut visited the vet today to have her grippers clippered. She did SO well! Everyone there loved her.
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Poppy caught her dewclaw running through the backyard in the dark last night.. whenever she poops, she takes off running like she's just expelled demons and they're trying to get back in!
There's no blood, and it doesn't look split or cracked at all... my guess is that she just gave it a yank and she's leaning I to the Dramatic Greyhound™️ trope.
She's not limping (she did for half a beat last night when she did it), but she yelps if I touch it. She's fine when she touches it though.
Anyways, I've booked her in for a vet visit next week to get her grippers clippered, because she's got black nails and I don't want to risk cutting down to the quick.
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Greyhound:
- SCREAMS AT SKY BECAUSE PLANE FLYING OVER MAKES NOISE
- gets brought inside because neighbours don't need thatGreyhound:
- SCREAMS INSIDE HOUSE BECAUSE WASHING MACHINE AND DISHWASHER MAKES NOISE
- gets put outside because I don't need thatGreyhound:
- SCREAMS AT SKY BECAUSE PL... you see where this is going.#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Greyhound #GreyhoundRescue #GreyhoundAdoption #DogsOfFedi
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Feeling snazzy in matching 'jamies!
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There is a push to try and build a greyhound racing track in Orange, NSW.
Please sign and share this petition widely!
https://communitybeforegreyhoundtracks.nationbuilder.com/petition(also, today is Poppy's Gotcha Day—we've had her for two years. It'd be a great Gotcha Gift!)
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Happy birthday to this 5 year old!
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..ever get the feeling you're being watched?
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Sometimes you're on top of the dog beds, and sometimes it feels like the dog beds are on top of you...
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Storms aren't too scary if you have a chicken treat to chew on..
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Things you'll hear me yell into the backyard if you're my neighbour:
MIA, PLEASE STOP I'M TRYING TO THINK ABOUT SOCIAL CONTROL.
MIA, JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS BARKING YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL TOO. BE YOUR OWN PERSON.
NO MIA YOU ARE A DOG AND THEREFORE DO NOT HAVE THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PROTEST.
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My bedroom is littered with squeaky toys laid like boobytraps, which sounds cute until your house is filled with the screams of the rubber turkey you just trod on during your 1am bathroom trip...
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Dog Vet Visit Update:
Both dogs are very healthy.
They both have a little bit of dental tartar and we need to book them in for a teeth cleaning and possible extraction of 1 tooth on each dog. Dogs dental health is pretty much decided by early diet, and both of these dogs are rescues.. so keeping their teeth healthy is an up-hill battle.
Mia was her normal anxious self, but well behaved for the vet. She has a lot of trauma associated with vet visits because of how badly she was injured when she was first rescued, but she's getting better with them.
Poppy was her inscrutable self, just watching everything quietly and vibrating into another plane of existence if anyone looked at her (if you're familiar with greyhounds, you know..). When the vet went down on the floor to say hi and examine her, Poppy headed over to sniff her which is super unusual for her - she's usually very standoffish with strangers.
I'm nervous about the dental cleaning for Poppy. It's done under a general anaesthetic, and greyhounds can be really touchy under anaesthetic.. but it needs to be done.
We also talked about diet, and are going to move them from a home cooked diet to a high quality kibble with toppers, because it'll be easier to balance the calcium and phosphorus they need, which will help counter bone issues like osteoarthritis (which can especially be a thing for greyhounds).
And everyone LOVED Poppy's disco ball shirt.
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We have to take the dogs to the vet today (vaccination time).. which means:
- take Mia to pick up my housemate from work, and drop them both at the vet
- come home and get Poppy, take her to the vet
- have the vet visit with both dogs
- drive Poppy home and get her settled inside
- go back to the vet to pick up Mia and my housemate
- drive home"...a man has to transport a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river."
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She is beauty, she is grace..
When she sleeps she pulls ugly face..#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFedi #Greyhound #GreyhoundRescue #GreyhoundAdoption
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I have allergies, and a deviated septum, and chronic migraines, and tonnes of other reasons that I go through a lot of tissues.
I'm always within reaching distance of a tissue box, I always have at least 98 tissues wadded under my pillow (give or take 6), and it's a running joke between Greg and I how I leave a trail of tissues scattered behind me like some weird chronic illness fairy dust.
Anyways, Poppy has decided that her favourite thing to do at the moment is shred tissues.. and because of my tissue habits, there's no lack of them to be found by her..
Today's number of shredded messes: 4 (so far)
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We have two dogs, one is a greyhound and the other is a mix. They very occasionally bark when they're in the yard, but only when the other dogs in the neighbourhood are barking or if something is happening.
I'm a student who is pmuch always home, so I tend to just bring them back inside when they start barking because not only don't I want to listen to them barking, but I don't want them getting worked up and anxious.
The neighbour over the back fence has loud kids who yell and scream in the yard when they're playing out there, and who hit the fence to work the dogs up so I just bring them in whenever their kids go to play.
Yesterday I noticed that the neighbours have installed a small speaker on a high pole at the back of their backyard, pointing directly into my yard. My guess is that it's one of those devices that plays a sound to "stop" dogs barking.
I don't believe in using punishment to train dogs, but also it feels REALLY fucking creepy and invasive to have a device pointed into my yard without even chatting with me about the issue at all.
I'm not sure what to do about it, because I don't feel like it'll go well if I go and talk to them.. (seeing as they're the type of people who apparently point devices into other people's property without talking to them), and we rent so I don't want shit starting that could end up with them complaining to the owners.
I'm not sure I'm asking for advice, seeing as the only real advice is to go and talk to them..
I think I just want to feel like I'm not being stupid by finding a speaker pointed into my backyard invasive and creepy.
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Woken up at 3am by the window rattling.
It's not windy. It's the greyhound licking the glass.
😐
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I gave Poppy the tiniest little lick of strawberry ice-cream and SHE IS OBSESSED!
She's never really been interested in people food, I think because she doesn't realise anything that I have is food because it doesn't smell like treats.
But after this taste of ice-cream, she's stalking me, she's standing in front of me and just staring, she's trying to use Jedi Mind Tricks to convince me to give her another taste.
Moments like this are so cute because I get to watch her shifting further away from abused dog mindset and get more comfortable with being a pet.
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