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summer_jackel) wrote2009-06-26 08:05 am
summer_jackel) wrote2009-06-26 08:05 am
This Morning in Dogs
1. The housefoxes' newest toy is this stuffed bone with a rope through it, knotted on either side. This morning, I found the thing on the deck with the knots untied. Any normal dog would use this toy to tug or chew on. My dog? Likes to figure out how to untie knots.
2. I planted stinging nettles a few weeks ago for a number of reasons: nettle greens, attractive native plant, a certain perverse amusement in deliberately nurturing vegetation that bites, (strange and unusual!) and the hope that they might be useful in training dogs and cats...of which you may have noted I host several...to stay out of the planters.
While brusing my teeth, I look out the window and notice Jezzie sniffing the nettles. I wince as she licks them and pulls back with a funny expression on her face, but assume with some satisfaction that they worked. At least until she starts licking and nosing at them again.
At that point I call her off and just assume what I already knew, namely, that my pets are all just weird.
2. I planted stinging nettles a few weeks ago for a number of reasons: nettle greens, attractive native plant, a certain perverse amusement in deliberately nurturing vegetation that bites, (strange and unusual!) and the hope that they might be useful in training dogs and cats...of which you may have noted I host several...to stay out of the planters.
While brusing my teeth, I look out the window and notice Jezzie sniffing the nettles. I wince as she licks them and pulls back with a funny expression on her face, but assume with some satisfaction that they worked. At least until she starts licking and nosing at them again.
At that point I call her off and just assume what I already knew, namely, that my pets are all just weird.
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My Ladybug used to user her teeth in the most delicate manner--she'd use them like a seam-ripper to open up just the seam of her dog toys, and extract the stuffing. She'd spend an hour doing nothing but that.
2. Yeah. Weird. Unless maybe the nettles don't work on dogs like they do on people.
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I assumed that Jez felt something when she hit the nettles, because she did recoil. However, there's a very large spectrum of pain tolerance in dogs, with the working/sporting groups tending to not feel or ignore sensations that would definitely deter more tender breeds. Wolves and huskies are the most pain-tolerant of them all, of course.
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She loved to GO more than anything in the world (except for pleasing people. Yeah, I know, not your kind of dog. :D )
And yeah, Jasmine has an incredible pain tolerance.
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