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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
Here is one I took earlier today of my sweet lady.
Odessa will be 16 in about a month. I got her when she was a little less than 2, from a woman who fostered rescues. Been a long road. She's been having such a good time in our new home, she is practically my grandmother's shadow. Follows right along, scouts ahead a little, they both mostly just stay in the house so it's really funny to watch.
I've made a discovery though I have no idea what to do with. There's a chaise lounge in the house Odessa loves to lay down in. Will sit/lay in it the entire day if you let her. At first it was charming but over time I noticed something change. The lounge scrambles her brain. The longer she stays in it, the more she will misbehave and ignore both me and my grandmother. She'll sit there while folks come and go, doesn't follow along if she's been in it long enough.
I tested this by observing and keeping some notes - if she stays more than two hours in that chaise lounge, she will actually attempt to go do her business in the house at some point. If I keep her with me, she lets me know when she needs to go outside (been that way for over a decade). If she hangs out with my grandmother and doesnt stay in the lounge, she comes and gets me. The more time she spends in it the less she will respond to either me or my grandmother, for anything. I can bring her a treat and she will ignore it. Unless I scooch her out of the thing, then she gets all excitable and does something for the treat (sit, lay down, etc).
I think my dog is addicted to a piece of furniture, is the only conclusion I could draw from this. I have never seen a dog do something like that before, and I grew up with/around tons of them. It's the most baffling thing to me so I have to diligently stop by the room and make sure she is not in that lounge. I feel ridiculous but it's the only thing I've seen work against the spirit of misbehavior the thing seems to evoke.
This is not exactly a pet situation, but a mother deer has been leaving her fawns in our yard all week. This was my view all day when one would come up and explore the porch every hour or so.