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Hyper dog – is it because she’s in heat?

August 10, 2008 by Tricia

Midnights been really hyper lately. It’s driving us mad.

We’re having a strange summer here. July was hot humid and rainy and now August is rainy and much much cooler than normal. Since it’s cool we’ve got the doors open. I think it’s driving Midnight crazy – maybe she’s smelling other dogs or other animals because while the door is open she runs around the house whining at us to get outside.

She doesn’t do this all day, but she does do it for a good part of the evening and a bit of the afternoon. She was never like this before so I have to think that maybe the confusion of being in Heat has made her a little wrangy. It’s like she’s been given some of those diet pills that hype you up. She barely naps during the day anymore and just runs around like a nut. Not to mention all the extra gas she’s been having lately!

Have you had a dog that experienced heat? Particularly their first heat? Did the dog act differently than normal – maybe a little more hyper, a little more whiny?

Her hyper behavior is making it really hard for me to work on my sites! I’m taking some courses and trying to participate in the 30 day challenge and it’s really hard to keep up with her wanting my attention all the time.

Over the past week she’s seemed a little bit finicky about her food too. Now that’s unusually as normally when we put out her food she runs over and eats it all up. Over the past week she’ll actually hesitate to eat or stop and leave the room in the middle of her meal. Either somethings wrong with her food or she’s feeling off for some reason. Any ideas?





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy Tagged With: 30 day challenge, acting up, attention, behavior, Blogging, challenge, confused, confusion, cool, diet, finicky, first heat, Food, gas, house, hyper dog, Internet, meal, Midnight, rainy, Summer, week, whining, whiny, wrangy

I’m being gassed out of my home by a farting dog!

August 9, 2008 by Tricia

Ok, I’ve always thought that my Labrador Retriever puppy might be part goat due to the way she eats grass, but now I’m starting to think that my supposedly purebred lab might have a little Bulldog in her too.

Why? Well this weeks she’s been a farting machine!

She’s never been one to pass much gas. Oh occasionally when she’s squatted to do a movement we’ll hear a little phwtttt, but that’s about it.

She was just lying on the floor sleeping near me a few minutes ago and I actually heard her fart five or six times! Stinky ones too!

We haven’t changed her diet (well other than to eliminate Nutro Natural Choice Large breed puppy food about a month ago due to concerns as several dogs have fallen severely ill or died after eating it lately!) or anything else. The only big change for her is that she went into heat a week ago Wednesday or Thursday (10 or 11 days ago). I’m really starting to think that hormonal changes might be causing her gas.

I wonder if her gas is causing my headache? There’s a little more methane in the air these days – in my home at least! Yes – I still have a headache/migraine – it seems to change in severity so I’m calling it a combo. I’ve had this headache since sometime Monday … about the time Midnights farts really started up. See … there might be a connection.

I wonder if you can give dogs Beano? If you can maybe I could add a few drops to her meals for a day and see if it helped? 😉

Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tagged With: Beano, Breed, Bulldog, connection, diet, dog, dog farts, dog gas, Entertainment, Food, gas, gassy, give dog beano, goat, grass, headache, heat, home, hormonal, hormonal changes, Lab, Labrador, labrador retriever, loud farts, methane, migraine, Nutro, phwtttt, puppy, Retriever, severity, smelly, smelly dog farts, stink, stinking up house, Stinky

Dog Farts – Stinky stinky dog farts

August 2, 2008 by Tricia

Over the last few days our Labrador Retriever, Midnight, has had more gas than usual. Stinky gas that produces stinky farts. Ughh!

I have no idea why she’s more gassy than usual. We haven’t changed her diet – well other than to eliminate Nutro Natural Choice a couple of weeks ago (rumors that it’s making a lot of dogs sick!), but she’s on her other regular food so that shouldn’t have made a big difference.

 

Curious Midnight

Midnight says “What do you mean? My farts don’t smell!”

She did go into heat on Thursday. Yeah, we haven’t had her spayed yet. We were going to at the end of August when Chris is on vacation but I guess we’ll have to wait until mid to late September now. I wonder if the change in her hormones might have made her more gassy?

She must have been full of gas the other evening. Chris came home from work, fed her, her dinner and then took her for a walk and when he came back he said that she was farting as she walked. Not only was she farting but she was wiggling her bum around as she walked, I presume to help get the farts out. LOL I wished I’d seen that. It sounds like it was a funny sight and her farts were fairly loud so much so that Chris was looking around to see if anyone was nearby to hear them! I guess he was afraid that someone would have thought it was him.

A little while ago she was lying near me on the floor and she was passing gas in her sleep. You know – those silent but deadly ones? I had to wake her up so that she’d move away from me!

I guess I’m glad we don’t have a bull dog (they fart all the time!). At least Midnight only has gas every once in a while, maybe less than my husband does!

Now other than the farts, if they’d stop running those darn acne products commercials repeatedly all day I’d be happy. I think I can probably recite two or three of them word for word by now.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Humor, Our Puppy Tagged With: diet, dog, dog fart, dog in heat, dog photo, farting, farting and walking, farting in sleep, farting while walking, farts, Food, funny, gas, gassy, hormonal changes, hormones, Humor, labrador retriever, Midnight, passing gas while sleeping, puppy, sleeping, smell, spay, Stinky, stinky farts, Ughh, wiggling

Oh Man … That’s gonna bruise

July 27, 2008 by Tricia

It was grooming day here for Midnight.

I’d been meaning to do her nails for well over a month now and it was simply time to get it done. Her nails were getting long and whenever she’d kick out at Chris or I as we rubbed her tummy (doggy tickles) it was starting to hurt or leave scratches. So yes it was time to clip those nails.

I’ve clipped Midnight nails a few times in the past and it was never a problem, but a couple of weeks ago when I tried to do one of her front feet she really protested so I got Chris to help me this time. We got her to lie down and he held her as I clipped her nails and reassured her.

Midnight wasn’t liking this at all. Every time I even touched her feet with my hand she flinched.

As I was doing one of her back feet she decided she’d had enough and kicked out really hard with both her back legs. She was positioned between my legs at the time so those strong kicks landed at the top of my inner thighs near my groin.

OW!!!! OMG that hurt!

She’d already kicked my calf and left a long scratch on it and now I either had scratched upper thighs or bruises developing. Oooowwwww!

Once I was done filing her nails I got up and took a look at my legs and as I suspected I think I’m going to have a massive bruise on my inner upper left thigh. I can barely walk!

So I’m lying here on my side on the couch, typing away, and I’ve got an icepack between my legs! Man is that cold! Darn dog!

I have a feeling that I’ll be limping around tomorrow like the walking wounded!

Has your dog ever accidentally kicked you or head butted you and left you bruised and injured as a result?

Filed Under: Our Puppy, Pulled a Trish Tagged With: accident, bruise, bruised, calf, Chris, clipping, cut nails, cutting nails, Darn, dog, dog kick, doggy, groin, groom, grooming, help, hurt, icepack, icepack between thighs, injured, kicked, kicked in groin, kicked in thigh, kicking, labrador retriever, Midnight, nervous, Oooowwwww, ow, position, puppy, Scared, scratch, scratches, that hurts, thigh, tummy, typing, wound

Just about ready to go to the Canadian Open and concert

July 26, 2008 by Tricia

Well in a little while Chris and I will be off to the Glen Abbey golf course to watch some of the Canadian Open semi-finals and then to go to the Tom Cochrane and Red Rider concert.

We just called the info line at the Canadian Open to find out about parking and the shuttle service that they are offering and we found out that there’s already a delay in play on the course.

I have a feeling there will be lots of delays today because we are under a severe thunder storm watch. We’re expecting severe winds and large hail. Great eh? Maybe Chris and I should wear our swimsuits when we go because I’m certain we’re going to get wet!

Apparently yesterdays concert didn’t start until 9 pm because of delays. Golf play is expected to end between 6 and 7 pm and the concerts start up right at the end of play but because of all the delays the concert started late too.

The main attraction for us is the concert so we are holding off going to Glen Abbey until about 4 or perhaps even 5 pm. We’re also delaying because we don’t have anyone to watch our dog and we don’t want to leave her alone for too long.

I’m almost always home so Midnight hasn’t spent a lot of time alone. of course there’s been times when we’ve been out for two to four hours without her but that’s the longest she’s been left alone. So it looks like this afternoon and evening will be her longest stretch on her own. She’ll be in her crate with her favorite toys so I think she’ll do ok. Luckily she’s not a barker!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Music, Our Puppy, Sports, Toronto Tagged With: afternoon, artist, attraction, band, Canadian Open, Chris, concert, crate, dog, Entertainment, evening, finals, Glen Abbey, golf, golf course, hail, home, lot, Midnight, Music, musician, parking, red rider, shuttle, storm, swimsuit, thunder, thunder storm, Tom Cochrane, wet

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