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Dogsitting

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ILoveOnionRings · 28/08/2012 08:27

We have been looking after BIL's dog 4 times ayear for the last 5 years (usually 7 - 8 weeks a year all in) We love having her and she gets on very well with ours. However our dog eats to live and she lives to eat!!

This time she is on a very strict regeime (sp) as she is on multiple tablets and you can see they are affecting her eg fur has gone thin etc. We do feel very sorry for her and she is getting lots of love but yesterday I did feel that love waver slightly - watching a box set with DH yesterday and after first episode go into the kitchen to find her upto her shoulders in our dogs bag of food. She'd opened the cupboard and pulled the bag off the shelf and had been happily munching for at least 20mins. Her tummy was like a barrel. (she has never done this before and we have moved the food)

This is in addition to the multple wees she is leaving everywhere. We are now letting her out on the hour, but still, the puddles everywhere are driving me mad.

We understand that this is totally out of charachter for her and it is because she is on tablets but still I have found patience waning but hey ho hopefully she will not be on the tablets next time.

DISCLAIMER we are not ill treating her at all and fully understand it is side affects of the tablets but just wanted to rant on here after cleaning up another puddle.

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coansha · 28/08/2012 18:09

Oh bless her, any bit of her a lab ? They will eat the proverbial with hair on it.
You need to move EVERYTHING, even the bin.
I too am dogsitting friends dog, he gets on great with mine, no issues.
I hope they are paying you well, mines a freebie as I offered, but your situation sounds a lot different.
Think it's wine I clock for you.....

LemarchandsBox · 28/08/2012 18:23

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ILoveOnionRings · 28/08/2012 18:39

No not a lab just a very greedy Westie. We have now moved the table in front of the cupboard so she cannot open it. Bin is a tall narrow one so she can't get into it. Our Westie likes to have half of his for dinner and then save a bit for supper but no chance of that, he has learnt when she comes to stay to eat all in one go because if we are not quick enough she eats his too.

BIL did say not to leave water down overnight but we can't do that as our dog likes to drink in the night. No not paid but don't mind this.

She is pooing very well (left a nice big one for DH to get off the lawn Grin. She is still looking like a barrel but not uncomfortable. In fact whenever I go in the kitchen she is looking at me and then her bowl. I've picked it up now. Normally she has breakfast but we didn't give her any this morning.

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LemarchandsBox · 28/08/2012 18:43

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coansha · 28/08/2012 19:14

My sisters old lab( RIP ) ate a 20 kilo ag of food, had his stomached pumped and then tried to eat the vomit!!

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 28/08/2012 19:22

my 2 labXspringers are the least greedy guts ever. their food is left in a container on the floor without a lid and they will not help them selves. they have never been told they cant, they are just not greedy!

my friends lab came to visit and was scoffing as much as he could without us knowing- poor dog was so full her could hardly move! have never seen such an uncomfortable look on a dog!

ILoveOnionRings · 28/08/2012 19:32

Our Westie is the same as your dogs, only eats if wants to, never begs or helps himself. When we give him a jumbone he will lick it for ages and just hold it sometimes for a couple of hours then when he is ready he'll eat it.

Just looked at the notes from BIL 'tablets will make her hungary'....hungary she is ravenous!

I wish it was just little puddles, they are great big wees. Touch wood no more accidents yet today.

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shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 28/08/2012 19:35

haha! if i give mine jumbones he grabs it all excited and runs off down hall way and you hear a 'thud' where he has just lost intrest and just dropped it! hes a sod!

everybodywalkthedinosaur · 29/08/2012 10:56

Maybe putting down puppy training pads could help? If she goes on them they'll soak the wee up. Maybe worth a try?

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