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June 18, 2009 at 4:21 pm #73323
.dodger.
Memberbut but black and tan is a lot different to all black ;D
June 18, 2009 at 4:22 pm #73324*Lassie*
MemberGet a shepherd and Daddy will take over, a small fluffy dog not good for a man’s image >:D
June 18, 2009 at 4:24 pm #73325.dodger.
Member[quote author=*Lassie* link=topic=14379.msg268677#msg268677 date=1245342179]
Get a shepherd and Daddy will take over, a small fluffy dog not good for a man’s image >:D
[/quote]true lassie, very true 😀
June 18, 2009 at 4:26 pm #73326kizkiznobite
Memberit not about his image…she wants her own snugglebottom…she wants a wee cutie… 🙂
June 18, 2009 at 6:27 pm #73327Val
MemberHey mean daddy :surrender: thats not what daughter wants she want a cuddle bug a wee one not a yappy herder, she wants it NOW.
Boy you have a lot to learn about us girls she sure won’t want a pup at thirteen :boooo: they only thing a dog is for at that age is for picking up boys :agree:.It’s not what you want you have what you want :ok: it’s what she wants, go on mean daddy, I had my first dog when I was six my grandma gave her to me my first cuddle bug and had my second when I was eight
ValJune 18, 2009 at 7:44 pm #73328dogloverwoooo!
MemberI got my first doggy when i was little too, was the best thing ever ever ever ;D ;D
June 18, 2009 at 7:48 pm #73329.dodger.
Memberi got chose dodge on my 15th birthday but had been begging for my own dog from the age of 9 :yes: Don’t make her wait as long as i did diesel 😉
June 18, 2009 at 8:53 pm #73330kizkiznobite
Memberi got my trixie when i was 4…she was all mine…i didnt have to share her ….i remember it like it was yesterday…i was stringing buttons on the floor in front of granmas fire, it was snowing, and dad walked in with her in his arms and said look what i got you…she is all yours…he laid down the rules about feeding and walking and taught me to train her…she was my best friend 🙂
June 20, 2009 at 8:57 pm #73331Diesel73
Member:scared: you girls are MEAN!…. ::) ……… might be, very possible, obviously, probably right but mean!
quote :mmmm now then….so a nice wee girlie of about 14 ish with a nice wee girlie thats about 1 ish and nice handsome lad about 15 ish having a nice walk just happen to meet in a nice secluded spot in a nice belgian country lane…bless…aint young love grand…….. :scared: ……… NONONO! Young love is…….. :vomit: …. something I did, not something she is going to be aload to until the age of…….. >:( 40 something! Not MY little precious! not until she comes home with someone decent, with someone to my liking, with someone……… i lost already, haven’t i :'( .
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one of the benefits of age and experience of living is it brings wisdom eh val 😉eldest grandaughter who always tried to get out of swimming lessons with the school has suddenly decided she likes going to the swimming baths…mo a bit baffled…been three times this week already…she doesnt like the water…says it ruins her hair…blahblah…otherways to get fit…blahblah
it got nothing at all to do with the pool attendant …. 😉 😉 that she just happened to meet while walking the dog ;D ;D
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:surprise: …… She turning 8 next week… Better NOT let her go to the next 2 birthdayparties she invited too. Both parties for boys….. I know what they are like >:D ….. Better cancel >:( .[quote author=kizkiznobite link=topic=14379.msg268673#msg268673 date=1245342018]
thats easy laura…she already got that…she wants a change …a change that is just hers and all hers alone… ;D good on her i say 🙂
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Well Bev, i like Laura, keep wondering thàt too. I’ve asked her for many times. She not even going to the loo without Diesel or Wodan ::) . When she wakes up at night, she no longer comes to my bedroom. Nono, she calls a boy, goes to the bathroom, takes boy with her to sleep on her bed. I liked that, i wàs like that on her age too. I thought; YES! Another dognut in my house >:D . But now …… ??? now she wants a dog of her own. At that age, i just bonded with the dogs we had at home and sort of made them mine without asking anybody anything. They just becàme mine….. hard to explain, but Bev knows kind of what i mean, because of what happend when i was a kid, right Bev?
But i wanted a companion, a friend, and someone to bond with but would never betray me. She wants (and she is my little precious) she wants, something she can hold on a lead, something to pet, something to ….. I don’t know ??? ..[quote author=Val link=topic=14379.msg268696#msg268696 date=1245349665]
Hey mean daddy :surrender: thats not what daughter wants she want a cuddle bug a wee one not a yappy herder, she wants it NOW.
Boy you have a lot to learn about us girls she sure won’t want a pup at thirteen :boooo: they only thing a dog is for at that age is for picking up boys :agree:.It’s not what you want you have what you want :ok: it’s what she wants, go on mean daddy, I had my first dog when I was six my grandma gave her to me my first cuddle bug and had my second when I was eight
Val
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I know she wants one now. She got only thàt from me character……. ::) …… It just…. pffffff. i know i’m going to step in sooner or later. Or have to step in. She just a little girl, so i don’t expect her to take care of little puppy as one should but…….. But you are right Val, i got no idea what moves my little girl about a little dog, i really can’t get inside her head about this.DILEMMA;
sunshine say; any dog coming in to this house YOU will make yours. Thàt IS you. That is whàt you are. Look at the ones you have had and now at Wodan and Diesel. They were yours, just yours alone. Wodan mine now… until you step into the same room as i am.
And she can’t handle more that 2 dogs at the same time when i’m not home. ::)It true :-\….
I don’t want to, but …… I just can’t help it. i already know i can’t keep hand off puppy. Any puppy. :-[
And i know even though i got the best interests……. i’ll still try to form the future puppy, no matter what breed, i’ll still try to find out whàt exactly is IN that puppy :-[ …[quote author=kizkiznobite link=topic=14379.msg268706#msg268706 date=1245358420]
i got my trixie when i was 4…she was all mine…i didnt have to share her ….i remember it like it was yesterday…i was stringing buttons on the floor in front of granmas fire, it was snowing, and dad walked in with her in his arms and said look what i got you…she is all yours…he laid down the rules about feeding and walking and taught me to train her…she was my best friend 🙂
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Thàt’s the ideal hope i got for her. :embarrass: ….. I hoped to train her along with Diesel. I really hoped to teach her aswell when i trained diesel…. But ………My son lurves Diesel to bits, sees him as a companion. Wodan, my son sees as a protecter, a guardian. The tough calm one who puts him to sleep every night. Who watches over him and sleeps on his bed when there is thunder and lightning. Diesel’s his playmate, his playmate who protects him from the male turkeys who might attack him, who keeps him laughing and who’s naughty with him when my son is being naughty…. A partner in crime. 😛 And my son can’t wait until he big and strong himself to train a big fluffy shep himself to work on’his’ birds. 😀
But my daughter…. she want something fluffy girly like with a bow, something she can hold on a lead herself. I asked her if it really matters if it a boy or a girl. She said no…….. ???
So obviously it don’t matter, just aslong as i’m NOT in the picture :-\ .I took my little girl surfing this week on the net. About shelties. Obivously she just wants one of her own. And she willing to wait too. Aslong as she can pick it and she can call it by a name picked by her she ok with it. She don’t even mind if i take it out to herd, just aslong as i ask HER if I can take it out. For some reason, and out of the blue she said:
paps, Wodan not going to be around for ever, and Wodan is mine :yes: (there are obviously things happening in this house i do not know about >:( ) and Diesel is …… well, he going to be Brice’s.
I asked her why she thought that. She just says, she knows it so. She knows Diesel loves me best and brice second. But Wodan now loves her most, sunshine second and me third.It true, Wodan always been soft with her, from the day she came home from the maternityclinic at the age of 4 days old. Wodan been there. Licking her face, hands, little feet, everything. He always been there, licking her, snugging up to her. When my son was born Wodan there too, but different. Not jalous, but more… he couldn’t care less. Fine by him.
When Diesel came….. my son already born. And from the beginning, the very first beginning at age 8 weeks, Diesel already was teaming up with my son when ever he did something naughty. ::) Britta was right there too but my son is wilder than her and thus was more fun for wild puppy Diesel.
It just…… I think….. She is doing what i do. She can’t live with the thought of ‘her boy’ one day not being there. She sticks to Wodan like crazy for the past time that Wodan’s been retired. She was promissed we go to Eurodisney if she would have a good schoolrapport. And yesterday she asked if Wodan really really really could not come with us to Disney. When i said ‘no’, she decided to take her stuff toy animal (a chiuaua or what’s the name :scared: ) to Disney… As a substitude a guess :-\ .
Also…. we outdoor people. So even if we buy a little one that will not grow that big, we need one who can keep up with us. Who can keep up with the kids, with her.
And i……
I know a lot about the Belgians, sheps specialty, but little ones? NOT-TING!
The main reason why i was tinking of sheltie is because in our village there lives a couple who got 2 shelties. I not know them well. But my kids have seen them many times. And i think to my daughter size DOES matter. I’m just not sure why ??? .
I understand her need of a dog. Even the need to call it ‘her’ dog. But i do not understand why she ……And please PLEASE don’t take this the wrong way :-[ ….. I don’t understand why she would pick something small and tender and MOST of all, something vulnerable over something big and strong and protective. I just can’t.
Her mother, my beloved sunshine ain’t no use either in this case. Sunshine always had small toy poodles as a child. And she lurved my big boys from the beginning. She always saidthey made her ‘feel so safe’. What ever that means. :-\I just don’t get it. My daughter… she has expressed many time just how much she would love a litter of puppies in this house. Which is my WORST nightmare as i could not NOT let 1 puppy go. (cause who could possible take better care of one of my dogs than me and blablabla :crazy: ) So is NO no no way going to happen, EVER. ….. I don’t know. It almost al if she want a dog to protect instead of dog protecting her. All the time she goes like; But wodan aload to do this and that cause wodan old and wodan sweet. She makes up excuses for him, she feeds him, pets him, …
When Diesel’s naughty than baaaaad Diesel, but when Wodan’s naughty it aaaall ok ::) .
Yeah ok, little playing factor too is……. i too fear that a puppy small enough to fit into my pint will oneday rule my house due to the women who will let him :'( .
Thing is my precious as contradict as can be on this. When i showed her shelties she wanted one. A mini Wodan she called them. ,She compares every dog to Wodan. So why not a Wodan?
June 20, 2009 at 9:53 pm #73332kizkiznobite
Membershe doesnt want to be ‘mothered/ cared for’ by a dog…she had that…she wants to ‘mother’ a dog….she wants to feel the dog needs ‘her’ so she wants one of her own….and she wants one that is comparable to her size….in size ratio terms adult/big herder…kiddy/small dog…she a bright wee las..she accepts that dogs have a life purpose like herding….so she wont mind if you ‘borrow’ to herd because she understands that a dog has to do…but it has to be on her terms and say so…of course you will have to step it …at some point…occasionally… but the difference is you will be helping her raise her pup not her helping you to raise yours ….
dont over analyse 🙂
and anyway…tell me…how can she find a decent boy to bring home if she not allowed to go out and find….and if she doesnt experience the not so decent how can she compare to one that is… 😉 :-* have to let them make mistakes hun….i remember nic falling for a …well…a girl that errm was rather..errm experienced…he was 15 …we was all fired up and worried when she accepted his asking for a date after dangling herself for a week…but didnt let him see it…just told him she will eat you for breakfast etc…she did in a real nasty way too…Mo had to go and and sort her out in the end :scared: he learnt that lessson… 🙂
you will do fine…stop panicking ….dogs and kids already ‘rule’ your house….that is your lifestyle..its what makes it a home 🙂
June 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm #73333*Lassie*
Member. I don’t understand why she would pick something small and tender and MOST of all, something vulnerable over something big and strong and protective. I just can’t.
Shelties are tougher than you think 😉
She is growing up Diesel, the need to nurture will help her raise your grandchildren 🙂June 23, 2009 at 8:13 pm #73334Diesel73
MemberYou are right :confused: . You are both right.
quote :dont over analyse 🙂Yes… i’m doing that again, am i not? ::)
quote :she doesnt want to be ‘mothered/ cared for’ by a dog…she had that…she wants to ‘mother’ a dog….Which actually means puppy will be able to push limits to …….. no end 😛 . She’s got her mother patience. Seems endless :-X .
quote :and anyway…tell me…how can she find a decent boy to bring home if she not allowed to go out and find….and if she doesnt experience the not so decent how can she compare to one that is… 😉 :-* have to let them make mistakes hun….yeah, i know but……… :-[ …. i would be a lot less upset if my son would come home with ‘not qualified material’ than if my daughter would. Him, aslong as he ‘plays it safe’, i wouldn’t be so worried about. But her :scared: ………. if i could, i’d lock her up in a golden cage with 7 Belgaboys to guard her 🙁 0 .
We, her and me, are both in trouble when she’s going to reach her teenyears :death: .[quote author=*Lassie* link=topic=14379.msg268789#msg268789 date=1245604276]
. I don’t understand why she would pick something small and tender and MOST of all, something vulnerable over something big and strong and protective. I just can’t.Shelties are tougher than you think 😉
She is growing up Diesel, the need to nurture will help her raise your grandchildren 🙂
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She does nuturing with her little bro too. Drives my son nuts few times of every dayhahaha 😀 .quote :but the difference is you will be helping her raise her pup not her helping you to raise yours ….:confused: … Ok, i get it. Or am starting to. I see the difference.
quote :you will do fine…stop panicking ….dogs and kids already ‘rule’ your house….that is your lifestyle..its what makes it a home 🙂Hmm, you right again ::) …….. :-* .
It my little precious her birthday today. Promissed her that we are going to buy the biggest book we can find with dogs in it. Told her to put a piece of paper on every page of dog she likes, and than we take a look at it together. You were right Bev, perhaps i’m overanalyzing and taking thoughts way to far. I’lll just wait and let her go through the whole book and see what she comes up with. Atleast i should be able to see some resemblance in the dogs she chooses.June 23, 2009 at 8:34 pm #73335SuzAndTheDiva
MemberDiesel happy birthday to your little one :-*
And let us know what dogs she chooses ;D
June 23, 2009 at 9:05 pm #73336Val
MemberHappy Birthday to precious we need the whole list to help in the hunt for a cuddle bug
ValJune 24, 2009 at 9:43 pm #73337kizkiznobite
Memberhappy birthday to precious one….here is a few ‘tips’ for you that daddy will help you with… 🙂
1st…..decide how much time YOU have to spare for care…as in grooming and training
2nd…..ask daddy and mammy how much time they have over and above that to help teach you any extra bits you need to do
3rd…..remember puppies dont stay puppyies for long ….so decide what size the end dog is that you like best…not what size puppy is
4th…..think that you will have this dog for a loooonnngggggg time….until you are all grown up so whatever you decide to do while you are growing too has to be considered….
5th…..if you get stuck with stuff….then dont be worried about asking grown ups for help….they may say odd stuff like ‘i told you so’ or ‘it is your dog what do you think’….smile and say ok…but think ooookkkkherewego….while listening to what they say… 🙂
many happy returns lass…hope you get your wish 🙂
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