They love a bit of him (Podlife)

[HangingOver]

Hello my fabulous Podsquad, here is Podcast Thread III.

For anyone that is new to this thread, it's about my rescue dog, known as Pod.

Here is thread No. 2 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_doghouse/5197068-the-pod-cast?page=39&reply=141216881

And thread No 1 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_doghouse/5177112-oh-my-giddy-god?page=1

for if anyone would like to go back and see how astonishingly naïve and traumatised I was by taking on a fully grown, teenaged pointy dog who seemed determined to destroy me and everything I love.

Theatrics over, here is the Pod in question (obviously I've edited the lead out - I'm not mental).

If anyone doesn't have is Insta handle and wants it, just DM me. A video of me and Pod doing yoga together will appear at some point soon.

I did the thing you aren't supposed to do.

Me and Pod went to Pod Island at high tide (tiny bit of land cut off and only accessible via a gated footpath to play ballie. He was tear-arseing around like a mad thing when I saw someone approaching on the footpath. This is pretty unusual because you literally can't go anywhere without wading so unless you have an insane flight-risk dog there's no reason for anyone to go there. I had a good few minutes warning but Pod was mid zoomies at the time and could not hear me. Thank god the man was nice and the dogs were friendly. I guess we know where we stand on the recall front, absolutely fucking nowhere, that's where.

Pod has forest walk with his new bestie from the Podwalk tomorrow. V.excited.

I've just been having a quiet nap for myself on the sofa under a scrap of vetbed (blankets obviously being out of the question) and Pod the Sod shambled over, bit me in a routine sort of way, then climbed on the vetbed and fell asleep. It's like laying under a bag of cement.

Oh OP that did make me smile. Hopefully it's a bag of warm cement?!

Warm and farty cement that makes dinosaur noises.

Ahhh... most of my naps go like that eventually, minus the routine bitings, but plus quite a lot of hair and someones fat houndy arse rammed in my face (apparently my generous bazoomas are a great place to park a fat houndy arse).

At least it is only the LWBH who does that, the Stick Dog is entirely made of elbows, however she sticks to actual laps rather than balancing on my tits.

Well done Pod for all the good things you've done the last few days... and there are quite a lot I think!

Are you free yet @HangingOver ?? <frets>.

My furry lump is sat next to me, leaning against me and giving me a look every time I stop touching her.

Love Pod’s dance on Insta! Darn tail escaping him. He’s got such long legs!

thank you for the thread

Pod the Sod 😂

Urgh I need you help with something PodSquad.

When do you feed your doggies? Pod currently eats at about 8.45am and 6pm but that means his last poo is between 9.30 and 10pm and he acts mental for about an hour before he does it. I'm thinking maybe 5pm for dinner might encourage an earlier poop and settling.

I've just spent over an hour facilitating his evening poop and I can't feel my face I'm so cold!

I feed mine when I get up so between 7.30-8.30am, at 12.30 and 6pm. Snack at 7.30pm. She does all her poos morning and sometimes early afternoon.

As we live a pretty much nocturnal existance (my fault, I work til 10pm some nights and can't shut the brain weasels down for hours!)... its when we get up so somewhere between 11am and 1pm, and then around 7pm.

Fiddle around with it and see if an earlier meal or even perhaps a lunch and a lighter dinner might suit his Lordship better.

Tread carefully though... I imagine a starving hungry half emaciated Pod early in the morning will also not be a delight and a joy to behold!

I feed mine at 6.30 ( we’re early risers) and 5pm. But his poos are done first thing in the morning then again in the afternoon during a walk or in the garden. None at night.

I’m smiling at the idea of you being a “poop facilitator”. No way would I spend ages on this. If at home my pup gets accompanied to his favourite bushes in the garden, the “busy busy” command is given then he either goes or doesn’t go, up to him but then we’re back indoors in the warm.

He’s on a long lead now when we go into the garden. Used to be off lead but he stared digging holes all over the lawn so it looks like it’s been invaded by a colony of moles.

Yeah poop facilitator wasn't on my bingo card when I got him either 🤣

Trouble is, in the evenings when he hasn't pooped he's a nutcase bouncing off the walls indoors and wrecking things but if I leave him in the garden to sniff every blade of grass forty times by himself unsupervised he shouts his head off. Hence I've ended up spending an ungodly amount of time with him in the garden with a torch silently going "PLEASE SHIT!"

I think an earlier dinner and a regular round the block before bed is the way forward otherwise I won't survive the winter.

Our DHound gets fed at 7am, although she did let me have a lie-in this morning until 7.10 am and then again at 5pm.

Poops after breakfast, around 11 am and again after tea. It's unusual for her to have a poo later than 6.

Lurcher girl gets fed when I get up around 7.30-8am and shortly before 5pm.

However, I hold back some of her dinner till bedtime. I was tired of her waking me up in the night because she was hungry.

Touch wood that's working so far.

My dogs have always had breakfast when I get up and dinner about 4/4.30 although they try to shift it earlier by declaring they are starving from about 3.30 and will be dead by 4. Current pup goes under my desk and bashes things from about 3.15 then pretends it's not her when I look down!

My DSis used to have a DHound that would go into the kitchen and keep banging their bowl on the tiled floor like a huge gong going off. If that didn't work he would fetch the bowl and keep dropping it at your feet. Was equally convinced he'd die if he had to go 2 minutes more

Mine gets fed on school days around 7.30am. Dinner at 5. On weekends breakfast is later. He's an easy boy in the mornings and sleeps until we get up. And isn't that interested in food that early. He poops on his walks usually, very rarely poops in the evening after his tea. Good luck!

Our greyhounds get their scrambled eggs (and lowsalt ham) after their morning walk, at 6.30am ish. They get lunch at 2.30pm and tea at around 8pm.

I think Pod getting an earlier tea and bedtime snack would definitely help you both. One of our hounds gets hunger pukes if she doesn't get her bedtime snack, so forget that at your peril 😫

they try to shift it earlier by declaring they are starving from about 3.30 and will be dead by 4.

Oh yes! I was manipulated into earlier and earlier dinners. However, she had to spend a week in kennels when I was on holiday and I took the chance to recalibrate. This time I'm holding firm. 😐

She's never had any bother with poo times. Two or three times on our mid-morning walk of about an hour, another in the shorter afternoon walk. After that it's more just a couple of quick five or ten minutes walks in the late afternoon/evening and she rarely does anything then.

One of our hounds gets hunger pukes if she doesn't get her bedtime snack, so forget that at your peril

DHound is the same. She has a cube of dried fish after her bedtime wee at 9pm.

Forget this and she wakes at 5am puking 🤢

Gosh, so Pod is a bit of a champion pooper by the sounds of it. He goes twice on his morning walk, once on his afternoon walk and once before bedtime. The bedtime one is very, very necessary as he gets possessed by some sort of evil spirit shortly before he does it.

Poor Pod had a bit of a challenging walk this morning. We did his ninety minute loop, which was fine to start with, apart from a bit of the usual tobogganing down muddy slopes with him in the role of sled-pod... and the bit where we have to cross an open section of sand which SENDS him for some reason... dig dig dig and on-lead zoomies (I am getting the hang on this though - you can sort on lunge him like a horse)... but by sheer dumb luck on the last stretch back to the car it was dog soup. Dogs to the left, dogs to the right and there I was stuck in the middle with Pod.

He dealt with it fairly well, but it culminated in a big black lab running up and vigorously shagging him and covering him in foamy spit, which he found a bit scary and by the time we got back to the car I think his stress bucket was full.

We've played football in the garden for 20 mins and he fell asleep mid way through some fairly volatile negotiation over the sofa cushion. Poor ol' Pod. I always know when he's super stressed because he falls asleep halfway through being a dickhead as opposed to circling into 'tiny prawn' mode first.

Mine still has lunch but it's gradually getting smaller. First meal half seven, though he often doesn't eat it till we're back from the morning walk at about nine. Lunch is at 2-ish, and dinner between 6 and 7. He poos before the morning walk, sometimes on it; at the dog park between 2:30 and 4pm; and then I take him out for a late walk when he asks between 7:30pm and 9pm.

You might not have to do the earlier dinner if you do the regular round the block - Bill hates pooing in our gravelled backyard, especially in the dark, but seems prompted by the grass in the dog park (which in fairness must smell very strongly as an okay place to poo...)

I just burnt my lunch because I was reading about everyone's dogs toilet habits!