Took Echo to vets yesterday for his immunisation and examination.Waiting room is tiny and crowded. Echo reaches up to sniff cat basket and old lady screams, now I have Bronco from Hell on the end of the lead and OH is looking for somewhere to hide. Lead Echo into corner - Bearded Collie is looking over in an " Oh who are you?" way which Echo translates as " What are you looking at, EH!".Try to chat happily with boot faced OH and the howling starts. It gets so bad the owners of a puppy come for first injections are advised to  wait in their car - vet is running behind schedule the receptionist says. Bless you, you good woman, for ignoring the Banshee in the corner! Just as I have a settled dog, in comes a Meter Maid and speaks to Echo holding out her hand, as the dog leaps forward happily ( a 28kg dog fishtailing on the end of a lead isnt funny!) - " Yikes, Does he bite!" she squeals and its all too much, so I snap " Why didnt you ask that first, then! Hes frightened and I just had him calm!" Whereupon OH remarks " She didnt know that , darling" Before I can hit him the vet appears and all is well, for he has the magic touch. Echo graciously sat for the vet to give him his jag and estimate his age as 18 - 24 months, younger than we thought. Red faces galore, but at least our daily groom and exam helped him stand for the vet

Sounds like all my trips to the vets with Willis LOL. We even have our own parking space and entrance that means we don't have to wait in the waiting room.

Trouble is, they won't replace the consulting room handle with a round one - and Willis keeps opening it and terrorising passing normal dogs :D :D

Lorelei, you should write a book on your exploits with Echo, you have had so many funny incidents in a short space of time, you've probably got enough to start 2 right now :D :D

Your story reminds me of when we were in the vets a couple of weeks ago and monsterman was laying happily at my feet snoozing, thats his stress management behaviour :rolleyes: when a JR came in, came up to him, introduced himself in the way that only dogs do :P and then proceeded to hump Murf, who didn't even wake up, just yawned, and turned round. Inbetween fits of giggles I tried to get the dog off him and looked at the owner, what did the owner do? Looked the other way and started whistling as if it wasn't happening :D :D I said to him, this is obviously a common occurence, and he said, oh yes, he does it to rabbits and cats as well!!!! :D

Oh boy, Lorelei - how has this helped OH bond with Echo?????  

That reminds me..... 2 aussies & 1 lab due to go for boosters in the next month...... The heavenly choir will no doubt seranade everyone in the waiting room and the sound will waft out into the Kwik Fit Depot next door :D

Margot

I love hearing stories like this as it makes my house sound normal!

Think i may have reacted to boot face that way meself!

Hope bonding is gradually improving.

LOL - makes me remember when Bramble went to be neutered. Everytime the vet looked at him he barked at him - so the vet said could I stay until the sedative took effect. Well, I sat in the waiting room with him and every ten minutes the vet popped his head round the door and after Bramble had barked etc very vocally, he would retreat and try again later. After what seemed hours, the vet decided that he would risk leading Bramble away - despite being nearly out on his feet, Bramble still barked the place down, giving me soleful looks as he was lead away :D :D :D

The next time Bramble visited the vets, he had eaten a large box of chocolate liqueurs and was deliriously happy - leaping from chair to chair in the waiting room, barking again madly :D Even the valium couldn't quell his exuberance :D

Daisy

These liquers, were they a present to him or did he just decide to 'borrow' urs?

Sounds like a muppets sketch the dog barking every time vet popped his head round

I think that the liqueurs were meant to be a present for my mother - but Bramble found them in the M&S bag :D I took him to his training class that evening, thinking that he might be OK (we had only just started going) and had to be asked to leave as he was absolutely hyper :D :D Earlier, the vet had given us a large tub of charcoal tablets and told us to try to get him to eat some. My daughter poured the whole tub in his bowl and he ate the lot in about 20 seconds :D :D He's a super dog - still mad 5 years later - like Echo he is a rescue and we love him to bits. Rescue dogs = particularly mongrels, just seem to have that extra special something :D :D

Daisy

Guess u know what to get him next xmas!

The next Christmas he ate a very large box of Belgian chocolates, a large box of chocolate gingers and two advent calendars :D :D :D He is only 18kg :( We had been trying SO hard to keep chocolate out of his reach after the episode with the liqueurs - but this lot came in a large parcel and got left on the worksurface (we didn't know what was in the parcel). Fortunately, after having his stomach pumped out later in the day, he was none the worse for it :D :D :D

Now he is older and wiser and he hasn't stolen anything for about 3 years :D

Daisy

Thats terrible altho guess he learnt. 

Smarter than me, ive drank lots of wine and some hangovers are bad but.... i still drink!

My dog is normal yipee I thought only she behaved like this.
Mary

Abby is a Dobe isnt she? Well, Echo has Dobe in him which is where the singing, whining and barking in temper and refusal to let Mum out of his sight come from :) Old Silverback ( my husbands pen name) and Echo are getting on better. Hes sleeping in the living room with the dog on floor beside him, and now Echo is testing him out.. He says it was the noise and lunging at other dogs that gave him a shock, as he hasnt had my advantages of being around Dobes for training. That teaches you to focus a dogs attention on you pretty quick and to develop selective deafness :) Hows Abby getting along now?

Abby is still in the Kevin stage monster, she is still on a lunge line the only time she is off is when a few of us rent a enclosed field for all our Kevins so I am walking a lot more, at least this way she is safe. Her tummy problems are under control at the moment touch wood.
When are we going to see pictures of your baby?
Mary

edited to say yes she is a Dobe

Daisy, have pity on me and tell me how you stopped Bramble theving? Echo helped himself to spaghetti bolognese out of the pan on the cooker last night - fortunately switched off. That liquer story really made me laugh:D Manic Morse and I were also asked to leave classes BTW as his natural state was wired to the moon :D Describe Bramble for me?

Bramble is a half-size GSD lookalike - with rather too large sticky-up ears (hence the Transylvanian Bat Hound breed name - which is another long story :D ). Goodness knows what breeds are in him, apart from GSD. He is very clingy, very bright and hyper. He is at least 6 (we have had him for 5 years). He is manic about his ball on a rope. The food thing just died out. We always make the dogs 'work' for their food/treats - they have to go to their beds and then come, sit, wait before they are allowed to eat their dinner. Similarly, if they have a bone/treat etc, they must sit and wait, give a paw etc. It did take a few years before Bramble stopped thieving - he ate 12 mine pies one Xmas (just out of the oven), the only reason that he didn't eat the other 12 was that he couldn't reach them on the work-surface :D :D Tara is totally different, she has never stolen any food :D We are lucky tho' because Bramble is obviously smaller than Echo and so can't reach to the back off work-surfaces :)

I'm sure that Echo will be fine tho' - it just could take some time :)

Daisy

My five year old bitc puts on a great bouncy show of bravado woofing and being silly, then once in with vet bounces all over him licks hima nd asks to leave double quick :D  I have to firmly get ehr to sit down and then she just cavbes in, as if to say 'Ok do your worst'

I know now why I am a member of this site - you all makes me laugh :D

Where are you lot with these dogs when mine are showing me up eh? why am I only surronded then by people with dogs so perfect - I swear they are stuffed ;)

lorelei said
"Well, Echo has Dobe in him which is where the singing, whining and barking in temper and refusal to let Mum out of his sight come from"
Don't you believe it - GSDs do this too :)
As for not liking dogs staring - this is Khanu's pet hate at the moment. Makes visits to the vet and other meetings in confined areas *interesting* shall we say :D
I have been reliably informed that this is a stage many adolescent GSDs go through and there is light at the end of the tunnel, although at the moment it seems a dim and distant pinprick :rolleyes:
Although I have to say this is his only let down (but its a bit of a biggie eh?) god my life was boring before him, lol