I really feel quite fed up with my dogs this morning:  does anyone else feel like this from time to time?

Our routine has always been that the housedogs out first, for a good 30-45 min run - with 1st one  off  the lead, then the other - then back inside, and  are given fresh water & left in the kitchen/utility room whilst OH walks 2 of the others for a good 30-45mins & I take last 2  out for a quick (10min) pee break - routine is that they get their longer walk later in the morning.
I then prepare dogs' & our breakfasts then & have my shower & dress for work.  They are changed over every month/6 weeks, so unless someone suddenly needs extra TLC, the routine is pretty stable.

Loki & Vinnie are the current "housedogs" - they are generally quite well behaved and can be trusted, but this morning, in the 10 mins it takes me to shower & dress, they have absolutely TRASHED the kitchen - one (or both) of them, has been on the kitchen table, knocked  off the sugar bowl and coffee pot (filled with coffee), knocked the wok off the cooker (breaking the glass lid in the process) opened 2 cupboards, spilled rice & pasta over the floor, dragged the toaster off the worktop  AND climbed onto a windowsill and knocked my plants off - trashing them in the process.

I've shoved both of them in the utility room and stomped off to work, leaving OH to clear the mess ;)  I feel like phoning Battersea Dogs Home - but there again, if I'd stayed at home with them - the pair of them would be phoning Aussie Rescue :D

Now then - going free to bad homes - 2 very bad girls (no, not really, but I do feel soo fed up with the pair of them - I couldn't even talk to them, I felt so cross with them ;(

Now I'm not sure whether they stay inside for the next 2-3 weeks, or whether they get sent down to the kennels early - I don't want to start associating the kennels with punishment, but I'd welcome other people's views!

Margot

isnt this fairly typical aussie behaviour?

my advise is to buy some rescue remedy FOR YOU!

Yes, I do get like that. Not so much since the danes got older - they have calmed a lot! But the muddy garden is what drives me mad. They go out, fight, run in, straight through the kitchen and Willis opens the door and the baby gate and stamps all over the carpet.

That said, I wouldn't change them for the world. Even though Willis has learned that pinching the camera by the strap and running off, swinging it side to side, is a sure way to get my attention :rolleyes: :D

hmm yes I get this feeling sometimes, the other night both came in from the garden and trod big thick muddy paw prints everywhere (including the sofa) - but it wasnt muddy outside one look outside helped unfold the story - there was a huge hole in the garden which Fagan had dug and a little one next to it where little Alfie had taken his first digging lesson

Cant stay cross for long though, they do make me laugh, im sure Fagan was trying to bury Alfie :p

No help to you Margot but you gave me a real laugh :-D If this is out of character I don't suppose you could have a mouse that they were chasing or a bird got in??

Anne

thats what I was thinking, between the cats and dogs they turn my house upside down when one of the cats brings in a live mouse or bird :(

Oh dear, I do sympathise ;) I think that they all get their regressive moments, no matter what age or routine that they are into.

Murf has access to the whole house when I am out, never had any reason to distrust him until recently, when he has been going into the bathroom, dragging out all of the dirty laundry, chewing up my best underwear and OH's shirts :rolleyes: and he is 2 1/2 years old!!! Then to top it all, he makes himself a nice bed out of them all and goes to sleep on them. I now have virtually no underwear left and OH has to wear jumpers to cover the holes in his shirts :D :D And just before Xmas the great lump threw himself down against the bathroom door and it fell off its hinges on top of him, Murf, not OH that is (damage to door, not dog) So we don't even have any privacy anymore as we haven't got around to buying a new door :D :D

Don't you just love 'em? ;)

Rescue remedey - good idea - but I think I'll have a bottle of brandy instead:D  These are (generally!) fairly well-behaved Aussies - and Loki is 5, and Vinnie 2, so they are old enough to know better!!!   Okay - after Purdey's influence, they will always check the rubbish bin (and of course, if it is available, the cats' litter bin!) but destruction on this scale before??? not since all 7 puppies piled out of the puppy room (or as it was called at the time, the poopy room!)

I did wonder about mice - but they had been in for a good 20 mins or so - long enough to cadge bits of bacon & toast with Purdey whilst I drank my coffee - and there was no mad sniffing around cupboards etc then, which I would have expected - and the cats had been in the kitchen overnight (they had all gone out to have their brekkers in the peace & quiet of the summerhouse).   

I think that the wind just "got up their tails" as my mum would have said - but I think I'm taking a leaf out of Nik's book - I'm going to show them pictures of the latest fashions - fur collars (like Vinnie's ruff) are very "in" at the moment.........

Margot (who hopes to go home to find that peace reigns again at Madness Manor....)

Poor Margot :( Can't say that it is normal Aussie behaviour here :D I have a very well-behaved Aussie (despite her other faults :) ) - she has never stolen anything, not even from the bin and, although she was an awful chewer as a pup, since giving it up when she had her first birthday, she has never destroyed anything :) Must be my older one's good influence :) :)

Daisy (who having said that is now dreading coming home from work tomorrow, as there's bound to be an almighty mess that I've deserved having sung her praises :D :D :D )

Well, just in from work, kitchen is (sort of!!) cleared up - little bits of glass still stuck round by the edges of the units, along with grains of rice (how come men miss these bits???)

Vinne & Loki do seem a bit "oh boy - she was mad at us this morning - we'd better behave" - but they're NOT getting any treats this evening!!

Margot

Poor doggies - I bet that you don't stay mad with them very long :D :D

Daisy

Well you put a grin on my face.  I expect everyone has a story to tell like with me the first time I left my two on their own, youngest was about 5 months old at the time and elder must have been about 18 months old.  Only out for about 1/2 hour to get some bread and milk and came back to it having snowed - they had destroyed the sofa.  Dont know how they managed it as it has a washable cover over it but they destroyed it good and proper.  They had chewed four shelves off of the TV cabinet and one had managed to cock his leg up against my OH beloved amp and sound system.  Luckily that wasnt destroyed.  The sofa had to be sorted of repaired for about the last six months and they havent touched it since.  The new leather sofa arrives at the end of the month.  Hopefully this will last longer this time!!

Claire