Ice Storm

[Winnie G]

Ok I feel so sorry for my dog.

She may weigh eight pounds witch makes her a obstacle for moving feet and a toy for small children.

Late last night I could not sleep and I heard her crying from her kennel.

She has had a ruff last 30 days so I went to her and she headed for the back door to go out.

She had the runs and spent 10 minutes running from spot to spot.

Im thinking OH she sick again.

She has just recovered from surgery and spent three days in the vet hospital on IV antibiotics.

She contracted {Pie aria} thats how it sounds. A uterus infection. They stabilized her over night and did surgery the next day, removing her complete reproductive system and all infected tissue.

She came home the next day on antibiotics for two weeks.

So she its spunky and back to her old younger self until last night.

Now I left out one important part Bell (as in Taco Bell) is a Chihuahua.

She is not like most Chihuahua she loves people so she not the yappy nasty dog.

She does how ever have a aversion to COLD of course she is a Chihuahua but she lives in Canada.

Every year when it becomes winter she looks at you like its all your fault.

She is shock each year and gives you one of those looks like “You got to be kidding” while she runs out to do her business in turn lifting her paws in turn to keep them off the snow.

So what made last night and today worse. When I let her out I did not know we were being hit with freezing rain. Not only did I get the look but she had to stay out longer then her normal run because she was feeling under the weather literally.

This morning every thing is covered with ice we spent the night like new parents getting up and letting her out. There is nothing worse then nasty looks form a Chihuahua in a ice storm.

[Dr T]

What is the best way to keep them warm? Besides letting them in the house?

[Maureen]

...When I let her out I did not know we were being hit with freezing rain....This morning every thing is covered with ice...

We also got freezing rain in Edmonton. I could hear the rain hit the window in the middle of the night. Our roads weren't too bad this morning. Sorry to hear about your Bell Winnie, hope she's feeling better soon.

M.

[BenRaines]

Oh it is soooo cold here. We can barely get it over 80 degrees today. LOL

Ben Raines

[Winnie G]

When Bell came to live with us, she was a year old and litter boxed trained.

That lasted a couple days, I don’t do litter boxes out she went, yes it was winter.

She has mastered the art of dirty looks.

She is much better this afternoon.

I did not tell you, she likes to sit on my shoulder like a parrot when a stranger comes in to the house.

Her favorite friend out side the family is my husband best friend who talks to her in a funny doggy baby talk.

If she waged her tail any faster she leave the ground like a helicopter. My daughter had a Chinchilla years back and Bell chaste her across the couch so fast to keep up she lunched her self off the end of the couch falling behind the furniture freaking her self out and she started to cry for help. Anything including feet moving under a blanket she goes in to Rambo mode and attacks!

We took our fence down for the move and she has taken up terrorizing the big yellow Lab next door. She may weigh 8 pounds but in her mind, she is 90 pounds.

My husband says she has two brain cells and at any given moment they bang into each other and she has a thought. That’s only when she does something practically dumb.

She went horse once over a ant hill. We just about went horse our self’s laughing at her.

Our neighbors were over for a BBQ so it did not disturb them.

[Latter Days Guy]

You keep your dog outside

We British must me soft as we kept all our dogs inside, I knew one couple who even kept their rabbits indoors because they thought it was too cold for them!

[Winnie G]

OUT SIDE heavens NO!

This is Canada!

She only goes out to do what dogs do, in the summer she has run of the yard witch is fenced in, we are moving that’s why the fence is down.

She die if we left her out side we worry about her paws getting frost bite as it is in the winter months. The only dogs that stay out doors in the winter months are sled dogs. They would over heat if brought inside. My bother had a husky named Yasha he would knock a door off its hinges if left indoors. In the summer my brother would buy blocks of ice and cover them with hay and Yasha would sleep on them.

[shanstress70]

This is what she needs, Winnie...

http://www.littlepamperedpets.com/dog_clot...ow-sweater.html

[Latter Days Guy]

OUT SIDE heavens NO!

This is Canada!

She only goes out to do what dogs do, in the summer she has run of the yard witch is fenced in, we are moving that’s why the fence is down.

She die if we left her out side we worry about her paws getting frost bite as it is in the winter months. The only dogs that stay out doors in the winter months are sled dogs. They would over heat if brought inside. My bother had a husky named Yasha he would knock a door off its hinges if left indoors. In the summer my brother would buy blocks of ice and cover them with hay and Yasha would sleep on them.

So you have a kennel inside the house?

Our dogs used to sleep either on my bed or on my sisters bed (when I left home many moons ago!).

[Marsha]

GB,

I think she means crates or cages. I also have 2 Chihuahua's and soon to be a baby Chihuahua . They are wonderful dogs, mine aren't yappy either. But there are times that they have to go into their crate/kennel for their own safety, like if I am going to be gone for awhile. One is 8 lbs one is 6 lbs.

I also have a Korean Jindo which is a medium sized 45 lb dog. He also goes in his crate at times. It is so cute to see the smaller one chasing the big dog, laying on his head, back and just generally tormenting him.

Good luck with your move Winnie.

Marsha

[shanstress70]

I agree that crates for dogs are a good thing. A lot of dog owners start out with their puppies in the crate in order to housebreak them... they won't 'go' in their crates. They get so used to them at night or when the owners are at work, that the crate is actually a place of comfort to some dogs.

We had a retired racing greyhound that we adopted several years ago. He was so used to living in a crate that we got him one to stay in while we were at work. We would leave the door open and he would go in there on his own while we were gone and at night. Eventually, we got him comfortable enough so he didn't need it anymore, and he would start sleeping outside the crate. That crate was 4 ft long, so we really wanted to get rid of it!

[Winnie G]

Yes, it is what some call a crate I call it kennel it is for travel and when we leave the house for long periods.

I started using one after my German Schnauzer when I became divorced I worked 15 hour days and he became upset and started to eat things. Like books I was reading anything that smelled like me. The straw that broke this Camille back was coming home and finding the three huge phone books by the back door to take to work to recycle and forgot. I came home to find my sunken living room a sea of phone book paper up to the top stir were I found my dog Max with yellow pages hanging out his mouth. With that, look “So I been busy what’s your point”?

So I kenneled him after that the children would most days home from school and let him out. Since then all our dogs have been kennel trained, it also gives them a place to go when they want to get away, nap or hid from strange children in the house.

Its their space and they take comfort in it.

Bell sleeps in there, at the end of the living room were I do crafts and scrapbook.

Its her space. I would never have a dog that was not kennel trained. Bell heads for her little house once we turn the first light off she knows its bed time.

In the morning my husband gets up first and he lets her in to our room to sleep with me for a while.