Ever have a day when you think...

[Buttholelane]

What the fuck was I on when I bought you?!

My usually lovely dog has been an absolute bitch today, feel like shooting the fucker.

I have god awful chain link fencing that the dog can see the neighbours cats through.

She has constantly just bounced up and down the windowsill whining.
I let her in the garden, she constantly runs up and down, up and down, up and down. When not doing that she is either sat dead stiff staring into next door or standing on two legs leaning against the fence.

The neighbours kids just love to praise her for this disgusting behaviour by stroking and fussing her.
Thanks kids!

I bring her in and she's constantly running and jumping from the door, to the windowsill to the door.
Knocked off and smashed my flower vase
Roared at her and sent her to bed.

Brought her down later and she's at it again.

Then she got locked in the kitchen while my fil came to drop some stuff off and just. Would. Not. Stop. Whining. The whole time.

Then she snaffled the cats food.

Then some neighbours dogs started a barking fest, sounded quite vicious actually, and she tried to bark aswell.

So furious with her.

Buying a load of bamboo screening tomorrow to block the cats from view and going to have go all disciplinarian on her ass as she's obviously forgotten how to behave.

Standing at my windowsill is going to be banned from now on after the death of my vase.

Ha ha! The bamboo screening sounds like a great plan op!

I hope so...

DDog2 hates next door neighbour's dogs and stands immobile at the fence looking for them through a small hole. If they do appear she goes mad and spins in a circle barking. She has flattened all the plants and is, I imagine, quite annoying at 6.30am. My job for the weekend is to cover the hole.

Oh Yeah!
That's another thing the bitch did, flatten all my alyssum that I spent all blasted day planting last week in a border!

She's going to be in for a big shock tomorrow.

maybe if your walked her everyday.........

I really don't know what your issue is with me but you must have one as seem to go out of your way to challenge absolutely everything I say.

For clarification, when my dog was a puppy (less than a year) I walked her 5 mins per month as recommended but varied the length and had one or two walk less days a week.

Now that she is mature I walk her everyday except when my kids are sick, in inclement weather (because my dog hates it not because I'm big willing) and in case of unexpected emergencies.
She was trained not to expect walks everyday but like I said previously, she is fitter and in better shape than most dogs and gets a shed load of exercise so you can stfu quite frankly.

Also, as an owner of collies you should be able to relate when I say that if I was to walk my dog, on and off lead, all day, including a bit of training, brushing up on sit stays, maybe a bit of tracking hidden food, she will come home and not be tired one, teeny, weeny bit and will only settle down if told to.
So it's not like walking her everyday would change anything in her behaviour anyway!

Ah, collies and moving animals! The joys

She sounds under-stimulated, Butt. I say this because I spayed mine last weekend and she's been "rested" since then. Rather embarrassingly for a vet's dog she's removed one of her stitches already, and spent the week launching herself over any obstacles she can find, chewing like an 8 week old, barking incessantly at anything and generally looking for trouble. She's dug holes in the garden, stolen and ripped up kids' toys and terrorised the cat.

She's usually a handful, but I've never known her be this difficult. It's clear now how much difference those walks make to her stimulation, and subsequent contentment.

But my dog isnt a handful?
She's almost perfect and rarely gives me any real grief.

She does like to stare at the cats but usually stops immediately and comes inside when I ask her to.

Just today she has been absolute nightmare.

What I was meaning was that there is obviously a reason for her to be behaving differently today, and under-stimulation is a pretty likely one for most dogs.