Aren't doggies brave!

[Auntie Helen]

The dog (Lucy Locket) just ambled in from her evening fossick around the garden and we noticed she had blood around her eye. Uncle James pulled a giant hawthorn thorn out of the corner of her eyelid and now she's happy as normal and bouncing about.

We pull a thorn out of her foot or back at least once a month, there's often a bloodbath, but she never seems to mind. When I'm playing the piano she'll often stand underneath it (it's a grand) and I'll hear her raise her head and bang it really hard on the underside but she doesn't seem to mind.

Contrast this with a child who falls over onto their nappy-padded backside and wails for hours. Aren't doggies brave!

 

[Night Train]

Doggies are lovely and very brave except when bigger doggies are out causing mischief and Daddy is there to hide behind.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Just to lower the tone, Lucy after an operation wearing a Starboard Mark (for those sailors among you out there)

 

[Cathryn]

My parents' cat Isambard was operated on this week to pull a 4 inch thorn out his nose!! Sneezing blood everywhere over Christmas. But did it put him off his food? Did it heck!!

Love to Lucy. She's BEAUTIFUL!

 

[Auntie Helen]

She's talented too, here she's helming our boat

 

[Crackle]

Don't they have less nerve endings in their skin?

 

[dan_bo]

Enry used to know that limping about etc. and looking sorry for himself would get him attention and, more often than not, food. you'd look out of the corner of your eye after turning your back on him and he'd be trotting behind you! turn around again and the limp would suddenly be back. Hilarious.

 

[ufkacbln]

Hadn't heard "fossick" for years, not sice my time in Kernow!

 

[ColinJ]

This is probably obvious to every dog owner, but it's worth mentioning... (I've been throwing sticks for dogs for 40 years and never realised the dangers)

Twice this week I've read warnings about how dangerous it is to throw sticks for dogs. Apparently hundreds of dogs are killed or seriously injured by impaling themselves on them every year. Even less severe puncture wounds can be fatal because of the nasty bacteria on dirty sticks. Throw rubber balls or frisbees instead.

Here's some good advice on dog safety .

 

[Auntie Helen]

Don't they have less nerve endings in their skin?

I don't know about that but it does sound plausible. However I still would have thought that when she bangs her head on the underside of the piano or a table (and this happens regularly) that it would hurt but she doesn't ever seem to notice it!

 

[Auntie Helen]

Hadn't heard "fossick" for years, not sice my time in Kernow!

Boris Johnson said it on HIGNFY or something some time ago, I noticed it then...

 

[Auntie Helen]

This is probably obvious to every dog owner, but it's worth mentioning... (I've been throwing sticks for dogs for 40 years and never realised the dangers)

My labrador had to be sewn up a couple of times after stick-related incidents. There was no way that you could avoid him picking them up, he was obsessed by them, so we carried on throwing them. I did know at the time that it was inadvisable but I thought he had to have some fun in his life!

 

[Piemaster]

My parents had a diabetic dog, was being injected daily for several years.
Had to keep something sugar laden to hand as well for the few occasions it started getting a bit wobbly (whatever the proper term for it is), so there was usually a few small bits of mars bar (vets recommendation) in the fridge. Dog would sometimes get a bit 'wobbly' so be given said mars bar and make a quick recovery. A suspiciously quick recovery on some occasions. Made you think was that for real? Or did it just fancy a bit of chocolate?

 

[fossyant]

Dogs brave..nope stoopid....... try taking something out of a cat...the owner is on a death wish........

TBH cat's rule............

 

[Night Train]

Don't they have less nerve endings in their skin?

Nah!
Haven't you ever teased a sleeping dog, or cat for that matter, by tickling their fur? Makes their skin twitch so they must be able to feel even the slightest touch.