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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 19:18:33 GMT -1
So, Clay the Rottie, is on his holidays here in Cleveden again. With party boy who lives in the attached mews at the back of the house. Obvs the parents are off yet again on their hols sans dog....
Anyway, Clay's no longer a puppy the height of a small horse. FFS, guys. He's terrifying.
Flick on a lightswitch, he barks. Turn on the shower, he barks and howls. Flush the toilet, put a key in the door, walk upstairs at the back of the house, he fecking yowls and snarls the house down.
He also chucks his considerable weight against the connecting hall door, as if in attack mode, which rattles with the impact and winds him up even more. Keeps throwing himself against it. It's really a wee bit scary.
The thing's left alone all bloody day and goes crazy even when the postie drops a few envelopes in the communal hall at oh, 3pm.
The noise is pretty bad, to be honest, and I'm quite a reasonable person. No, honestly!
I think it's maybe that party boy is out so much of the time, he doesn't REALISE the disturbance day in, night out. Also I don't think it's very good for the poor critter to be left alone so much.
Yeah, first world problems, I hear you cry, and you'd be right. What to do, though.
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Post by bormes on Aug 28, 2014 19:26:53 GMT -1
PDSA POLICE COMPLAINT ABOUT THE WEE BEASTIE BEING LEFT ON IT's own,!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 20:06:52 GMT -1
Party boy would guess it was me, though! My lovely upstairs neebs are away at the minute. Last thing I want to do is get some feud going on, Bormes: the guy's generally OK and no problem apart from the odd house party, his taste in music's crap but hey. We're all pretty tolerant around here cos er...we've all done it, have we not.
I imagine the dog's well cared for in its own home: just when it comes on it's hols it's left on its tod all day.
At the same time, we feel like we have to tiptoe around cos when it kicks off it's fucking scary. It's like a mad thing.
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Post by notanimby on Aug 29, 2014 19:39:04 GMT -1
Party boy would guess it was me, though! My lovely upstairs neebs are away at the minute. Last thing I want to do is get some feud going on, Bormes: the guy's generally OK and no problem apart from the odd house party, his taste in music's crap but hey. We're all pretty tolerant around here cos er...we've all done it, have we not. I imagine the dog's well cared for in its own home: just when it comes on it's hols it's left on its tod all day. At the same time, we feel like we have to tiptoe around cos when it kicks off it's fucking scary. It's like a mad thing. Speak to the guy and tell him yer concerns. Make friends wae ra dug when the guy is there, give it plenty of treats etc, that will win him over, let him get to know the sound of yer voices. Easy to say you may think, but honestly the chances of him wanting to eat you up are somewhere between none and fek all
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Post by bormes on Aug 29, 2014 22:02:44 GMT -1
Carry some Dog biscuits, throw him one then feed him a couple, tell him to sit before getting the second one but let him see the biscuit, Good luck.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 23:01:35 GMT -1
Look. I don't WANT to make friends with the dog. I want it to shut the eff UP. It's not face-to-face that's the issue, cos we never see it (or party boy)cos they use the lane entrance to their bit. It's that EVERYTHING we do that makes the slightest, teeniest noise, sets it off wi the barking and yowling.
It's not the dog's fault. But a teeny tiny wee mews flat with very close neebs is NOT, imho, the place to keep a humungous critter cooped up all day.
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Post by notanimby on Aug 30, 2014 6:30:08 GMT -1
Look. I don't WANT to make friends with the dog. I want it to shut the eff UP.It's not face-to-face that's the issue, cos we never see it (or party boy)cos they use the lane entrance to their bit. It's that EVERYTHING we do that makes the slightest, teeniest noise, sets it off wi the barking and yowling. It's not the dog's fault. But a teeny tiny wee mews flat with very close neebs is NOT, imho, the place to keep a humungous critter cooped up all day. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ah kin understand that....but if the dog knows yooz and gets to know yer habits it will cut down on the noise
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Post by bormes on Aug 30, 2014 6:40:06 GMT -1
Correct nota, Our Rotty knows the sound of my vehicle and our friends vehicles, she gives a wee grump noise then runs to the door tail wagging. A stranger arriving has a more startling result though!!
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Post by notanimby on Aug 30, 2014 12:13:43 GMT -1
Correct nota, Our Rotty knows the sound of my vehicle and our friends vehicles, she gives a wee grump noise then runs to the door tail wagging. A stranger arriving has a more startling result though!! When I was a wean, we had westies( on that note where the fuck is she by ra way), anyways my grandparents lived in a short road with a cul-de-sac, the dug would only jump up and go to the window when he heard ma dads car come up the street, patiently wait until he had turned at end and came back and park outside the house, never done it for any other car or rellie. He only barked at the door when it was someone he didnae know. The labrador we lost a couple of years ago was similar, she was very defensively territorial, but only barked if she didn't know you were or caught unawares - the old boy lab never barks and barely opens his eyes when the door goes, if teh door is opened and they come in, he just might come over for a sniff and a clap
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:52:18 GMT -1
Look. I don't WANT to make friends with the dog. I want it to shut the eff UP.It's not face-to-face that's the issue, cos we never see it (or party boy)cos they use the lane entrance to their bit. It's that EVERYTHING we do that makes the slightest, teeniest noise, sets it off wi the barking and yowling. It's not the dog's fault. But a teeny tiny wee mews flat with very close neebs is NOT, imho, the place to keep a humungous critter cooped up all day. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ah kin understand that....but if the dog knows yooz and gets to know yer habits it will cut down on the noise Yes yes, I get what you and Bormes mean! BUT the critter doesn't LIVE here. It's only here a month or a fortnight at a time--(with months or weeks in between!) and so it doesn't get USED to our toilet flushing, us walking upstairs, or opening the hall door! This is the problem!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 18:49:51 GMT -1
Forgot to mention, in all the busy-ness, Clay's away home to his ain hoose. About bloody time. It's just not right that the critter's cooped up alone in a tiny wee flat all day. So, relative peace restored around here. In other West End news, it seems the new fashion is ripping out perfectly good wee front gardens and having them 'landscaped' so as to make them look like a spread from some godforsaken 'aspirational' magazine or other. Absolutely soulless. I SHALL resist, and keep planting my wee bit up with some that fail dismally and others that exceed all expectation. Been here 24 years now: I know everything that grows in my garden, and how to treat if it's ailing due to weather or whatever. I'll not cave in to some estate agent's idea of perfection any time soon...GRRRRRRR
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Post by notanimby on Sept 25, 2014 19:54:50 GMT -1
Forgot to mention, in all the busy-ness, Clay's away home to his ain hoose. About bloody time. It's just not right that the critter's cooped up alone in a tiny wee flat all day. So, relative peace restored around here. In other West End news, it seems the new fashion is ripping out perfectly good wee front gardens and having them 'landscaped' so as to make them look like a spread from some godforsaken 'aspirational' magazine or other. Absolutely soulless. I SHALL resist, and keep planting my wee bit up with some that fail dismally and others that exceed all expectation. Been here 24 years now: I know everything that grows in my garden, and how to treat if it's ailing due to weather or whatever. I'll not cave in to some estate agent's idea of perfection any time soon...GRRRRRRR Why not "plant" some items of household detritus, an old car tyre, a lavvy or auld bath or similar..........
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 20:27:51 GMT -1
Nah. That'd likely just kick off a whole new fashion in competitive 'retro chic' about here.
I hate how folks are ripping lovely period homes apart, ditching timeless features into skips and giving it profit motive, removing all semblance of character out of a place.
Such is 'progress', I guess. I'm thinking of moving, not for the first time recently. Used to be grand around here, a real mix of interesting, eccentric folks but the character of area's changing, all about money, conspicuous consumption and showing off-- and I'm so sad about that.
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Post by bormes on Sept 26, 2014 18:46:51 GMT -1
We are living at Carrick Castle now, sold the house after a week, had four offers and never had time to put the advert in the papers!! Heading to France on Thursday returning November, via Colchester, I have a wee course I am running for an Army unit. Should be an interesting winter up here!
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Post by notanimby on Sept 26, 2014 19:04:10 GMT -1
We are living at Carrick Castle now, sold the house after a week, had four offers and never had time to put the advert in the papers!! Heading to France on Thursday returning November, via Colchester, I have a wee course I am running for an Army unit. Should be an interesting winter up here! Saw an advert today, on www.rightmove.com for two plts of land at carrick castle, with planning permission at@ £400,000 each Jeezo........
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