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For the love of Pod

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HangingOver · 22/04/2025 06:55

All aboard Podsquad, it's Pod thread number 4.

In case you were wondering:

  • What is this (surprisingly) long-running thread about? A unique lunatic rescue Podenco, known as Pod. Featuring his pals, Stanley, GentleHowl, BabyPod, GentleBounce, Fastest and Princess and many more.
  • What makes you so special that you get your own thread? See above

Seriously, if anyone is considering getting a teenage/rescued/sight-hound/Podenco/all of the above and has NO idea what they're doing, please enjoy the previous instalments from the day we brought him home, to now, six months later. Posts will oscillate wildly from euphoric to mental breakdown and back again.

Here is thread No. 3 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/thedoghouse/5248472-they-love-a-bit-of-him-podlife?page=1

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

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

Pic of the handsome prick in question.

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HangingOver · 29/06/2025 12:54

If anyone else is struggling with not being able to get a fucking thing done because you have three dogs when you only wanted one, I highly recommend jumping in the car with no shoes on, wearing at least one thing you've slept in and going to the carwash, paying a kings ransom for the longest cycle, and doing some primal screaming under cover of the whooshy jets.

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Bupster · 29/06/2025 13:00

Ah. Extra spaniels still fun?

FeralWoman · 29/06/2025 13:17

Oh no. When is DP returning them to his mum? Why are you lumped with so much of the dog care?

Love the photo on Insta of Pod looking like he’s going to chomp his Pod friends. My DH saw it and is convinced that podencos are dragons because he thinks that they look like dragons. Specifically that Pod looks like Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon.

WiddlinDiddlin · 29/06/2025 14:51

Oh I am stealing that idea to give to all my 'I can't cope with my adolescent dog' clients!! That is genius.

Sorry you're having a shitty time of it!

Sandunesandseashells · 29/06/2025 15:06

Arrgghh, and there was me assuming you were away, enjoying a lovely, relaxing holiday - sorry!

LadyGrillingSole · 29/06/2025 18:59

I only have two hounds, so no spaniel energy here - actually, no energy of any kind. Ours are lounging on their beds, periodically being cooled down with a wipe with a sopping sponge 😊

Sorry to hear things are still tough going in the Hanging household 😟

HangingOver · 29/06/2025 22:47

That day was so funny. They three of them tore around until they were literally dropping then descended into a bitey bundles in the grass. DP says it looks like Pod has just cracked a brilliant joke.

Spanners are adorable but my god Wiggle will not fucking shut up. All I was trying to do was spend ten minutes hoovering the absolute kip that is my car and every time I opened the garden gate she screamed he little head off.

On the plus side my car is now entirely purged of seagull shite. The makers of the free air fresheners at the car wash could make a fortune marketing them as appetite suppressants.

Poor old Pod. He's really trying to turn into a good boy but circumstances are just sent to try him. As has been thoroughly canvassed on here already, Pod really does lose his tiny mind when he needs a shit. We plodded out for his nighttime visit to his favourite toilet piece of grass and before the viral poop had emerged, encountered two extremely small yap yap yaps giving it all that from the other side of the road. He coped really nicely for a little bit but then did some shouting back, which sadly upset the doodle further down the road and a noisy chain reaction ensued. Me and the doodles owner had a short shouted conversation across the road about how our dogs are both "really very friendly!" while Pod and Doodle screamed at eachother in a really unnecessary manner, and agreed that it was all the tiny dogs fault. Thankfully the only cat we saw afterwards had the sense to stay as still as a statue and DangerPod didn't see it.

All of this would have been all in a day's work if I hadn't been wearing flip flops and PJ bottoms that have a tendency to fall down, which gave the whole thing a further element of risk. Hideous!

Big vets appointment tomorrow, hopefully the tail bandage is FINALLY coming off, just in time for next week's dog show. I'm going to take Melty and enter her into Best Old Lady as she is a) not mental and b) extremely pretty.

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OccasionalHope · 29/06/2025 23:33

Good luck to Melty!

LadyGrillingSole · 30/06/2025 10:34

I'm not sure which is braver, Hanging, wearing the dodgy pj's or walking a hound in flipflops 😂

Good luck at the dog show 🏆

HangingOver · 30/06/2025 11:47

I know right why can't I learn!!!

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HangingOver · 01/07/2025 18:19

Oh Podsquad.

I keep waiting to have something positive to update but it's bloody hard to think of anything.

I think Pod now sadly counts as a 'reactive dog'. He's still a friendly derp-head when he actually greets a dog, but from a distance he's started reacting to just about EVERYTHING. Last night DP took him for a rare walk just with the two of him and he screamed at everything, saw two cats and almost ate one. Today it's been more of the same, shouting at dogs who are only little dots in the distance and screaming in the car whenever a dog goes past. Because he wags when he's yelling being in the car has meant the wound on his tail has already started bleeding again so I expect we'll be back to bandages soon. Wiggle stares at me in an unnerving way whatever I'm doing, trips me up and jumps in my face whenever I bend over. Wiggle and Pod squabble over toys. I'm completely covered in horsefly bites and in spite of the hot weather the spanners somehow manage to be constantly wet and muddy so the whole house honks.

Urgh. Dogs, who'd have em.

One trait about the spanners that is seriously funny though is their tendency to hoard thing. They've systematically taken every single toy, bone and sock in the house and put them in a large pile in their room, shoving the best ones down in between the sofa cushions. Melty sits proudly on top of the piles and wags innocently, furry little theif.

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HangingOver · 01/07/2025 18:21

Oh and I'm covered in horsefly bites. Send help!

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HangingOver · 01/07/2025 18:21

Oh and I'm covered in horsefly bites. Send help!

Not nice. Wash well and apply copious dab of Germolene ointment (the only stuff that works for me with horsefly bites) to all affected areas.

BruceLeTerror · 01/07/2025 18:36

Is he just a frustrated greeter?

HangingOver · 01/07/2025 18:54

BruceLeTerror · 01/07/2025 18:36

Is he just a frustrated greeter?

Yes I think it is mostly, unless it's a GSD in which case it's a fear thing because he got roughed up by one once.

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LadyGrillingSole · 01/07/2025 19:23

It's so sad having to send sympathy for both of you, for goodness sake why is the universe being such a twat to the Hanging household 😠

Pod's gammy tail, horsefly (wtf, never seen one 😬) bites???

eggandonion · 01/07/2025 21:11

If horseflies bite my experience is yousee them doing it, but don't react fast enough to prevent them biting.
Is there a spray bandage thing that would cover and protect the baggy tail a bit? We used to have elastoplast spay bandage.

Pashazade · 01/07/2025 21:34

My neighbours dog has got very reactive again recently it seems to be cyclical. I’m afraid it did make me laugh when my cooking alarm set her off though. Beep, woof, beep, woof, beep, woof. I was sat in the garden with all the doors open, she didn’t stop until I silenced it. 😁 Horsefly bites sounds grim though. I think the hot weather doesn’t help anyone either. Hope things calm down again soon for you Hanging.

HangingOver · 01/07/2025 21:46

eggandonion · 01/07/2025 21:11

If horseflies bite my experience is yousee them doing it, but don't react fast enough to prevent them biting.
Is there a spray bandage thing that would cover and protect the baggy tail a bit? We used to have elastoplast spay bandage.

Yes, I've just ordered some to see if it will help. We both survived his evening poop walk thank goodness. Spanners have passed out in a muddy heap with their nighttime chewies.

Yes, they're these large brown flies that you don't feel land on you until there's a sharp stinging feeling. Pod gets bitten by them too. The girls are too furry but I'm constantly pulling ticks off them. I found one the size of a sweetcorn inside Wiggles ear yesterday I nearly barfed.

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Scampuss · 01/07/2025 22:10

Oh crikey you poor things Flowers

Can you smother yourself in insect repellant? I'm susceptible to them and react badly so copiously spray myself every time I go outside at the moment.

Keepingthingsinteresting · 01/07/2025 22:37

Try using smidge @HangingOver , and or neem oil (though you’d have to be ok for smelling faintly of curry for the second one) . I’ve found them both very good biting insect repellents, the smidge even worked on Scottish midges.

LadyGrillingSole · 02/07/2025 06:22

Christ-on-a-bike 😱 My stoopid brain imagined a tick the size of a corn on the cob until some smarts kicked in 😳
My skin is crawling! I thought it was the poor Aussies that had the crappiest creepy crawlies in the world, didn't realise how many tiny nightmares we have 😳

HangingOver · 02/07/2025 09:07

Hahaha imagine how unobservant I'd have to be to miss a corn on the cob with legs sticking out from under wiggle's ear. I hate the way their little legs wave when you've tweezed them out like they're laughing at you, blergh!

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