State of the Zia

[zianuray]

Got CPR and First Aid certified yesterday as part of the schooling;
Two tests last Thursday, B on one, "pass" on the other (pass/fail)
Business test Thursday coming up (5 May June)
Retake lowest score test on Tuesday next week (10 May June)
Final 12 May June
EEK!

We're watching a border collie for friends for a few days -- Cooper was going to be a Service Dog, but was temperamentally unsuited --aka, he's turned unpredictable and mean.  He tried to eat DH 3x today already (and went for his humans' college-age daughter AGAIN  yesterday!), so he's in the pen away from the house and on a cable-tie so he can't get at anyone.  Most likely, they'll have to put him down.
He's had 2nd level obedience training and the non-aggression training, and I KNOW these people, so it's just something with the dog hisself -- genetic maybe.
I'm nervous around most dogs anyway, and this one has been no exception, so...yeah, I'm staying away from the pen. 
Actual serious suggestions welcome, "OMGHOWMEEN U R NOT A GUD PERSON" shite will get you banned.

Weekend coming up is the "City-Wide Yard Sale" and I'm planning to put out a couple of tables of stuff from the house and from storage.  Hey softpaw, are you gonna sell that day too?  Wanna bring stuff over and we can take turns watching it?  (If you're not selling, wanna come over anyhow?)

Need to pack three or four of the smaller glass items to go to Jeff City and get them appraised for the estate, and a couple of the paintings, and make a CD with pix (as detailed as I can get) of much of the rest.   Seems some of it might be worth a little bit.

The cat is afraid of the laser pointer dot -- she hisses at it and runs!

Someone wants to keep a couple of dairy goats in the field out back -- and I'm gonna let her, but she has the full care of them.  I know nothing about goats and I've tried the milk and don't like it.  She gets to put up the fence and all that.  NOT MY GOATS.

Comments

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

Border collies are very protective of those that they perceive to be part of their 'herd'; that's why they are sometimes used as service animals. They can be over-protective if they see a danger, but if the daughter has been in the house, she should have been part of the dog's 'circle'.

If this one has turned opposite in manner and disposition, I wonder if there is a health problem to blame, perhaps a tumor or something else. That seems rather unusual for a dog to change that completely, unless something else was going on, hidden away inside.

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

He's been pretty thoroughly veterinarianed; he's been _over_protective all along to the point of lunging at the UPS guy while Sis held his leash and ordered him down. I asked about "puppy Valium" to see if a short course of that might allow hi to figure out what's going on and settle down, but the vet didn't think that would help.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Is he animal-aggressive? If he is not, perhaps he could be schooled into being a herding dog. Sometimes, dogs that are people aggressive are taking out their need to get more exercise on their people, and if he could get out and get exercise on a farm herding sheep and doing what he's "supposed" to do, perhaps he would be calmer.

It is something for them to think about before they put him down, if they want to try something else, anyway.

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they've asked about that anywhere -- I'll suggest it!

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[brotherwilliam.livejournal.com]

NOT MY GOATS.
So if we are going to get your goat, it will have to be another one, Huh?

duknrun
brother william

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

I don't have goats, I don't want goats. Nyah.

[aoifemacewen.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean June 5th and 10th?

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*







thank you

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

It's sad to have to put an animal down. But that doesn't make you a bad person/failure/OMGWTFBBQ.