I have no idea what’s up with Laufey at the minute but he’s decided he doesn’t like going past a certain spot at the end of our road but only on the way out. He’s fine on the way home. Might have to work on it.
In other news, he walked into a car, a wall and me on our walk because he was so distracted. It’s getting a bit ridiculous but I’m not actually sure how to build focus with him
It’s Christmas day and we’ve been on raw for two months.
They’re had chicken, beef, lamb, duck, turkey, pork.
They’re doing absolutely brilliantly and, although they didn’t have anything special for Christmas dinner, they did have slivers off our beef joint before it was roasted. Heaven.
Merry Christmas
I know I’m rather prejudice at the best of times as I hate people bothering us when we’re out but took the poopster and the princess out for a run this afternoon and first off there’s a guy who won’t stop talking to us and wants a picture of MiMi which I just find to be an inconvenience but she needs more exposure to people and dogs under her own terms so we let her go to him. We managed to move on and they were both on their long lines, running around and having fun when a woman appeared with a golden retriever who came bounding over to us whilst another woman snuck up behind us with a westie and a spaniel and the women then proceed to coo at MiMi and make noises at Laufey as their dogs make a lot of noise, scare MiMi and the women and dogs wind Laufey up with one woman STILL making stupid noises at Laufey as I try to calm him down. Is it really appropriate when I’m clearly trying to make him stop. There is no need to say things like “Oh you just want to go play with them don’t you. It’s hard to keep still when you’re a puppy” just piss off and leave us to our nice Christmas day walk. If I hadn’t been with mother I would have probably said something but mother doesn’t see what my issue is.
I was so proud of Laufey it is a bit ridiculous. I took him to the big park and saw rather a lot of dogs with their people, some kids and a dog walker with quite a few. He didn’t run up to anyway and was very easily distracted from them. Said hi to two dogs, one because it came over to us but managed to get him to move on fairly quickly and the other was a ~19 week old puppy that there was a mutual introduction and a small play session before we moved on from there too. He was interested in the ducks but didn’t chase them, stopped chasing the squirrel when I told him AND didn’t jump in the lake..
All I can say as fault is I wish people would clean up their dog mess – both poo and sick! – he’s not a poo eater but did go for the sick, in turn making me feel sick!
But very very proud of him
So I usually wouldn’t be on the phone when walking Laufey because he should have all of my attention but my idiot father locked himself out of his own house so obviously I had to play rescuer. But, whilst on the phone to him, some guy tried to come over to us with his cockapoo (eughhh) and talk to me. I was clearly trying to have a phone conversation AND tell Laufey to leave it and wait and he couldn’t understand the clear “piss off” cues I was throwing out and instead stood waiting for me to get off the phone. I did then let Laufey say hi to the dog because he’d got himself so worked up but I did move us on homewards rather quickly.
Why do some people just not get it!?!?
Well, we’re still at it and I have to say I would never go back. Even if at this stage it’s still a bit hit and miss.
Laufey tried some salmon today and that seems to have been a hit so that’s good. MiMi hasn’t tried much new, she’s on primarily chicken still with lamb and beef thrown in there if what I pull out the freezer has a bit in it. Luckily, she’s on about 100g meat a day and he’s on 200g so each bag has 100g in it and hers it split whilst he has two – very handy. The freezer is ordered for January and there’s currently lamb heart, chicken breast and sweet potato in the dehydrator. We’ve crushed egg shells as neither will eat them whole and there’s a bag of marrow in the freezer too – the bones were going a bit funny before they had a chance to have it all so we pulled it all out to add for them. All things considered it’s going great
I’m so good at updates, not.
Not sure what’s happened to my baby but we’re having a couple days bad poop. He’s currently getting chicken thigh, lamb mince and lamb mince with duck carcass. Very odd. Going to add tree barks powder from tomorrow.
MiMi is doing excellently. She’s still obsessed with trying to eat her own poop but it’s good poop at least. She seems a bit on the skinny side so upping her meals slightly to try and get some weight on her. Mum accidentally gave her all of her meal allowance in one meal today so she’s already had some extra so we’ll see what good it does.
Tried some apple cider vinegar a couple of days ago and they DID NOT LIKE it was quite funny the faces they pulled. But they will eat coconut oil, diatomaceous earth and the tree barks powder.
They have sprats and salmon in the freezer to try as well as bone marrow and pig trotters. I’ve made a liver and kidney offal-sickle for Laufey as it’s about time to start adding offal (once his tummy settles) and they’ve tried lamb heart too
So I took Laufey out for an evening stroll a couple of days ago and some kids (that I dislike I might add) ask if they can stroke him. I say no (a. because I don’t like them and b. because we’re trying to get off our rubbish filled street and away from all the stuff he might eat) and one of them strokes him away! Then she had the audacity to look affronted when I told her to stop. I know these kids. I know their parents. They live down my street. Hell I talk to her mum all the time, her brother is friends with my brother. Yet she completely ignored the fact I had said no like it didn’t matter that time because I have said yes in the past! It’s really no wonder that kids get attacked by dogs when some of them don’t ask at all and others ignore you when they do ask! Drives me insane. I might also add that Laufey was very good, he doesn’t mind kids at all and on this occasion he ignored them and kept walking
On a similar note of testing my ability to not turn into a fiery ball of rage, why is it when you’re walking along and you have to pass another dog, despite you clearly saying “no” and “leave it” and “let’s go” when Laufey is desperate to go say hi (and be very rude about it and it is not a polite thing to do to every dog we spot in the street) WHY for the love of god, does the other owner stop EVERY GOD DAMN TIME until I’ve past and let their dog get closer?!? Whenever I see a dog coming towards us I move as out of the way as possible and keep him close to me but people are oblivious and the only ones who do notice are owners of SBT who then insist on telling me their dog is friendly and wouldn’t hurt a fly! I get it, staffies are misunderstood but my actions have nothing to do with your breed and everything to do with my dog’s lack of polite social skills so please, for the love of god, stop telling me they’re friendly because I know this. I love staffies and would have on in a heartbeat if we had space for a larger dog.
And seriously, stop cooing over my damn puppy! Yes she’s adorable, yes she’s quite an uncommon breed in this area but she is tiny and whilst she is fearless I do not want you to hound her and scare her and you definitely won’t pay her the same attention when she’s grown up (people never do!!) so stop because you are just teaching her bad habits you will be disgusted by in an adult dog!
Ooops! I am seriously bad at keeping anything up to date. Anyway, onto why we’re here…
Laufey is doing really well with chicken, beef and lamb and has had the odd bit of pork. We’re also introducing some duck soon which should be good and he’s having less chicken at the minute as most of it goes to MiMi but this doesn’t seem to be bothering him.
Talking of MiMi, she’s on chicken but has tried a bit of pork and beef and possibly some lamb – I say possibly as mum got confused about the stuff in the fridge on Monday (day 39) whilst I was at uni and fed one of Laufey’s 100g red meat portions (with a bit of added chicken) between them but she’s doing really well so nothing to worry about. Only concern is that she’s got a tendency to eat her own poop – yuk.
Della and the Demons 