The totally off-topic thread

[blackcat20]

Normally that is the situation though the daughter of a friend who is moving from Melbourne to Sydney has scored a house that will allow their two dogs.

Poor Miss Daisy, BC; it sounds like she is coming off worse in any scraps. How does your mother's dog treat Lola? And the cat?

She has no issue with Lola or Bella, both who have been around longer than mum's dog. Just Daisy. It's interesting watching Daisy try to submit to the other dog, who doesnt seem to understand how it all works.

 

[Denali]

If you have a few mins to spare, enjoy the owner responses to negative reviews for the Victory Hotel in SA

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Rest...nkaparinga_Greater_Adelaide_South_Austra.html

 

[love_the_life]

Such a worry BC as Miss D sounds quite submissive. Keeping them apart for the next 12 months is no mean feat.

 

[blackcat20]

Such a worry BC as Miss D sounds quite submissive. Keeping them apart for the next 12 months is no mean feat.

No, hence the trainer. She's the same one we used when Daisy was a pup which is good.
I think the other part of the problem is lack of proper back yard and boredom. Theres a courtyard which doesnt give them much space away from one another or even just grass to chill out on.

 

[Denali]

What about a dog walker during the day that will tire out all of them.

 

[blackcat20]

What about a dog walker during the day that will tire out all of them.

We're already walking them. Mum is home during the day but rarely takes hers for walks.

We're pretty much already doing everything possible to make this work, because it has to work. That's why we have a trainer coming in to see what we can do to help things.

 

[anat0l]

If you have a few mins to spare, enjoy the owner responses to negative reviews for the Victory Hotel in SA

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Rest...nkaparinga_Greater_Adelaide_South_Austra.html

Meh, I want my time back

Like many proprietors subject to a negative review on TripAdvisor, I see this one also prefers to fight fire with fire, though this one is - to the surprise of some - far less acidic than what we have seen before.

I've seen actively hostile replies to even the smallest detail that sounds like a negative (even if it is a four star review), replies which completely miss the detail outlined in the review, straight out curt replies of "you are a liar", personal attacks including those of a racial or religious nature, and death or physical violence threats (this last type was likely censured at some time, but when it was seen, it obviously hadn't been either reported or dealt with yet). Think Basil Fawlty crossed with Donald Trump crossed with Alan Jones (during the Gillard era).

Truth is, it is sometimes very hard to determine who is really fair dinkum - the customer, the owner or neither - and yes, the "natural" inclination is that one must assume the customer is telling the truth (and the natural inclination is that the owner / company always lies?), but in this day in age there is a huge swathe of "customers" who are abusing this trust for unfair and unethical advantage.

 

[love_the_life]

We're already walking them. Mum is home during the day but rarely takes hers for walks.

We're pretty much already doing everything possible to make this work, because it has to work. That's why we have a trainer coming in to see what we can do to help things.

Good luck with the trainer then. Hope a solution can be found.

 

[Milboo]

Hopefully the trainer is a behaviourist and is not just going to tell you about not letting dogs on couches etc, being a pack leader etc.

I would be investing in crates and crate training so they can have their own safe spaces in the lounge (vs on lead) and then rotating them in and out so they all get time with the family, are with the family but are completely separated constantly.

 

[GarrettM]

GarrettM you could get a bigger bed. Little ones love getting into your bed. It doesn't help you sleep.

We've already upgraded to a king. Can't really go anywhere after that.

 

[penegal]

I really do not know why I bother booking travel in advance.

Tried to plan a few weeks ahead, locked in about $6K of airfares and accom... and boom - major changes, cancel everything and start again.

 

[GarrettM]

So whats triggering her night terrors? Her routine changed, she witnessed or heard something distressing, inappropriate TV or story time?

No idea. The only TV she gets is ABC Kids, so that's not it.

I think that age 2-3 that kids change their cognitive thinking and so they realize that their world is not one of complete attachment to an adult but sometimes they are on their own = scary.

I think this is about right. Certainly she's learning more about the wider world. She has been a little clingy of late, which we had put down to getting sick again. But maybe not.

We just took the side off our two-year daughters cot. She falls out at night onto the pillows we laid out but miraculously doesn't wake up even when I pick her up and put her back in bed. We have a rolled up towel under the fitted sheet and I think it helps somewhat.

Fingers crossed she doesn't start to experience these night terrors any time soon, like GarretM's daughter.

We went straight from cot to a full sized single bed, with a trundle mattress underneath in case she falls out. We use the mattress to lie down with her at bedtime. It's worked reasonably well up till now.
No episodes last night thankfully, although she did end up with us again from about 4am. Kicking me in the back.

Reading up on the terrors and it seems they will come and go, and there's not much can be done about it.

She's having her very first sleepover at grandma's tomorrow night, so will see how that works.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I really do not know why I bother booking travel in advance.

Tried to plan a few weeks ahead, locked in about $6K of airfares and accom... and boom - major changes, cancel everything and start again.

Was looking for the sad smiley but there wasn't one.

Lets hope the cost to refund everything didn't cost $6,000

 

[Hvr]

Was looking for the sad smiley but there wasn't one.

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You mean this one? Or this one?

 

[blackcat20]

Hopefully the trainer is a behaviourist and is not just going to tell you about not letting dogs on couches etc, being a pack leader etc.

I would be investing in crates and crate training so they can have their own safe spaces in the lounge (vs on lead) and then rotating them in and out so they all get time with the family, are with the family but are completely separated constantly.

Rotating two dogs through the house for a year is just not manageable, hence getting a properly trained person in to work with them. To be honest, I dont want to spend time with mum's dog. I dont like her, and I dont like being bitten (she's always been a biter). I do however want to spend quality time with my own two dogs.

 

[blackcat20]

I really do not know why I bother booking travel in advance.

Tried to plan a few weeks ahead, locked in about $6K of airfares and accom... and boom - major changes, cancel everything and start again.

We threw a lot of points and money at flights to the US for a wedding...and they moved it up by three months

 

[Bundy Bear]

You mean this one? Or this one?

There is a like button on AFF so you don't have to do anything just like, on Facebook which you may not be familiar with now has 5 options.

like, love, funny, sad, angry

 

[rainbowgirl]

Yesterday we had another evac. I think its 5 for the month of June.

As predicted, everyone wandered off like sheep to get coffee and/or lunch and didnt go to the evac point because they are over it, so I had to threaten them to be read the OH&S Evac policy if they didnt do as they are suppose to do.

We had that problem during a fire drill once. One worker went up the fire escape on his own and then went off to lunch instead of following instructions. The drill was done during the lunch break when half the staff were at lunch anyway. Someone had to cover his position once everyone on the drill returned to work until he came back. It was very disruptive.

 

[Denali]

We've already upgraded to a king. Can't really go anywhere after that.

What about those crib type beds that butt up against your bed? But chances are, she'll just crawl onto you and at some point, youll start eyeing off the crib type bed, wondering if you can fit in it.

 

[JohnK]

Distraction works a treat. "oh, look at that funny dog" - "oh dear, it just scurried away. Maybe it will come back."

Yes wife worked that one out a while back.

Daughter's fingernails were getting long and she was scratching herself. She would scream if wife tried to cut fingernails. But give daughter keys or a toy and she can cut the fingernails.