GOOD DOGS stay Outside

[den]

Polly is, as I've metioned before, an Outside dog. But for some reason she has decided the mat just inside the back door is Outside, so it's legal. When she comes inside we tell her to "Get outside!" so she runs and sits on the mat, twitching her tail slightly to show that she is a GOOD DOG. It's possible that's where she felt safest when the rain fell: Inside, but Legal.

My bedroom is the converted Garage. The dog knows this is Outside so it's fair game. When Dad opens the door to wake me ('6am? you're kidding!") I have to move quickly to cover things or I'll get a flying dog in the Naughty Bits. Since I don't have 4 hands I end up with a dog nose in the eye.Then she stands on my chest and barks.

Oh don't we have a jolly old time!

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Speaking of Jolly times, I was wondering what could have poisoned a magpie and cause it to vomit and become paralysed, so I posted a query on a Pet Care forum to see if any experts there could help. Instead of answers I was berated for not taking the bird to an avian vet (the nearest is in Sydney, and it was Sunday anyway), and for killing it, and for using chloroform to kill it. "Just because you're a rescuer doesn't make you an expert." was a comment. "You could have saved the bird's life!" was another.

Yes, thank you very much for you help. I really needed to be made to feel more CRAP than I already do. They didn't help with the poison query at all. I wonder if I should resign as an "Other Animals" expert from that forum.

Comments

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Bwhaha :) Ever notice how there is no snooze button on a puppy? Your Dad certainly has! ;-)

The morning ritual here is rather complex:
Roommate gets up at about 5:15. Assuming pup is not using me as a pillow (she sneaks up in the middle of the night often as not), I get to sleep in until 5:55 when roomate leaves and pup just HAS to share this IMPORTANT event with me.

If Elka has slithered up in the wee hours, I get the Oh My God Roomate is Awake! dance on the bed :) So I can relate on all accounts. I don't have the heart to tell her No for real, I'm just a push over for a pooch I guess... :)

Tip: Rolling over preserves the integrity of the more sensitive anatomical bits. I've got ~40Kg worth of dog to remind me of that fact =:-O should I ever forget.

CYa!
Mako
Occasionally Squished in Zzyzx

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

Fuck them.

I had people do the same thing to me when I got rid of one of my cats...you know what's best for your situation.

Maybe there's some kind of rescue forum somewhere that includes fewer fanatics and more people actually in the field? I dunno.

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of "legal" spots that my dog consider fair game when they're not. My couch is one of them, but ONLY when I'm not home. When I'm home they stand there with their chin on the couch until I give in (or not) and tell them to jump up...


As for magpies... From what I remember from my medicinal chemistry course with a cool professor who tended to ramble on a variety of topics not related to human medicinal chemistry (and all of these off-topics were on the final exam, damn him), he made mention of pesticides killing small birds.

So I did a search online. The USGS web page has a list of quarterly medical data on wildlife (http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/pub_metadata/quarterly/2qt00tbl.html). I scrolled down and found a record for five American magpies that died; the official cause of death was toxicosis: diazinon.

I know from the name that it's a pesticide. This (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/diazinon.htm) is from the EPA web page and gives a bit of information on the diazinon. Organophosphates can replace certain nutrients in the body, so it might cause paralysis. It's also very toxic (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/diazinon/summary.htm) to birds.

Either way it's an idea of what might have caused a magpie's vomiting and subsequent paralysis...

However, if organophosphate insecticides aren't in use in Australia/New Zealand, then.. it shoots this theory in the foot.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Puppies are such fun! *grin*

On the other thing, don't let the assholes get you down.

Want to try my cat on?

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

This morning alone, he bit me in the knee, elbow and hand because I wanted to sleep in instead of playing with him. So he started attacking anything which stuck out from under the blankets.

He also has this game he only plays when you are barefoot. When you walk through the room and enter the hallway to go towards the bedroom, he will come flying out of the living room, rear up and bite your ankles and then run off. He never breaks the skin, but it has scared the bejeezus out of me more than once.

He's a monster!

A Dog in The Goolies

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Pesticides suck when it comes to wildlife. Birds get the brunt of it a lot. Especially from lawn beautification chemicals:P. Sadly there isn't a whole lot you *can* do. Once a bird has eaten a toxin like that it'll be lucky if it does die quickly:(.

The world is an ugly place at times. Would they rather the Magpie die of slow convulsions? Jumping Jesus On A Pogo Stick!!! Sometimes I worry that fanatics will all find wild critters, take them home and try to "civilise" them.Keep hospitals in business a few hundred more years I expect:P.

Poor Batty! Puppies are like small children in one way- they have a very early internal alarm clock which says *I must awaken and/or go *OUT* at 5/6 a/m. Also a school of thinking that says "I'm up, therefore the world should be." Short of having a spare pillow for thwapping and defense maybe you should move the bed:). Yeah, yeah, I know- "Who asked *YOU?!*":D
Does Polly have anything outside she can hide in or *under* when it rains? Just curious.

[mely.livejournal.com]

Hmm... so do you just rescue bats as your job??

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

My animal rescues are all volunteer work. The RSPCA and Zoos are the professionals.

[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

Regarding your "good" dog --- you'd not like my eskie,then. When Simtra comes home from work, she starts at one end of the hallway, clear in the living room, and then rockets forward in a leap that inevitably stomps good and hard on the naughty bits.

Regarding the idiots in the forum --- obviously they forgot that you're in Australia and that most of the time you're going to be all of the help those animals have. I think you did what you could; generally, if it paralyzes, it's got a neurotoxin of some sort in it and I don't think that a bird has much chance of surviving that. They're very sensitve to those things.