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05-05-2011, 08:16 PM
Originally Posted by KateM 
Hum, well it goes a bit like this...
car draws up, i exit car, i start telling the dogs to shut up before I've got the key in the front door (via vent in from kitchen to driveway).... battle with shopping bags/work files etc into the hall still telling dogs to shut up... greet cats on stairs... tell dogs to pack in leaping against the door...oh and to shut up...
Open kitchen door and fight way through baby gate whilst the 4 members of the mob twizzle around, generally bounce up and down and try to get my attention, oh no, wait, not quite, 1 will try to get straight into the shopping bags and at least 1 other will race through to see if there is any chance of getting a cat.
Herd dogs back into kitchen, shut baby gate, go back and fish the puppy back out the hall and move in a vauge shuffling way through the dogs now determined to trip me up towards back door, tell dogs to be quiet, unlock back door, remind dogs to be quiet, open door a crack, and shut straight away as dogs are not quiet.... eventually open back door... dogs rush out into garden.... I tell them that they have a different definition of the word quiet to the one i know.
When they've done what they need to in the garden and have come in again (after i've threatened Gretchen with all sorts of things unspeakable if she doesn't shut up) they get a fuss.
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05-05-2011, 08:17 PM
Parker puts his head in my bag to see if I've been to the charity shop on the way home from work and bought any toys for him!
If my husband is working night shifts and is home when I arrive back from work I do go and give him a hug first!
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05-05-2011, 08:22 PM
Originally Posted by Tillymint
bedlam then!!
luckily I have very tolerant neighbours who themselves have extremely noisy children... I don't moan about the children, they don't moan about the dogs, works quite well in practice.... that and between the hours of 10 pm and 5.30 am (when neighbour's son's carer comes in and wakes up my dogs in the process) there is complete quite (usually!) from the dogs.
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05-05-2011, 08:27 PM
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05-05-2011, 08:36 PM
Then I go in and say "Boys! Boys!" in a mock-exasperated voice, as they both vie for my attention and barge each other out of the way. I try and always make sure I greet Tai first, and I will say to him "My best boy!" and give him a great big cuddle, and then Ben usually does his dive through my legs and out the other side, which is exactly what his father used to do to me, and I then grab him and give him a big cuddle and kiss and tell him he is my worst boy!! I then pour myself a huge glass of wine!!
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05-05-2011, 08:37 PM
Originally Posted by Ben Mcfuzzylugs
Afraid my neighbours calling the police and all the hassle of last year means I get no greetings now
I just ignore him
hate my neighbours
used to get happy whiny yips with a full body wiggle and them him zooming off to find toys
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05-05-2011, 08:37 PM
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05-05-2011, 10:00 PM
If he's not crated I get met at the door by a wiggly dog and the routine generally goes like this. "Let me in, come on, back up, no, not upstairs, in the front room, let me in, get your head out of the bag" and then once I'm in and have put down anything I'm carrying I make a fuss of him.
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05-05-2011, 10:27 PM
If no one is home then they stay quiet until let out then run around in circles moving towards the kitchen.
ATD x
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