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Sometimes no matter how much you love and care for your dog bad things sometimes happen. Gretchen and I are always checking on our little buddy. If I can't see her I will call out for her. She will usually answer back with one short bark. When she does I'll say "Good Dog!"
A few days ago we were working on the second garden which is about 150 feet away from our house. By working I mean our usual work for 10 minutes and sit for twenty. Dolly was in the shade most of the time. She's always been good at politely letting us know if she needs something or if something is wrong. Sometimes it's a matter of guesswork as to what it is. She did not do that on that particular day. One of the bad things about a dachshund is that they might want to do a certain thing but when they go to do it they may all of a sudden decide that they don't want to do it after all. This can be very exasperating at times.
We did not discover that Dolly had gotten too hot until we went in for the day. Instead of jumping up on me and sleeping on my shoulder she went straight for the bedroom and laid where she got the best breeze from the ceiling fan. One of the best home improvement projects I have ever done was those ceiling fans.
When Gretchen went in to check on her she had a hard time waking her up. That's very unusual because she wakes easily. She did wake and she was OK but Mrs.G and I decided that she was exhausted from the heat. This happened in spite of the fact that we had ice water over there for all of us. When Dolly needs water she comes to us and we let her drink from a bottle. She loves curling her tongue up and sticking it inside the bottle to drink while we tip it for her. She also seems to enjoy getting her water in the same way her humans do.
We decided that the next day we'd train her to go back in the house for a little while to cool off. It turned out that she trained us instead of us training her. When she needed to cool off she started coming to us and barking AT us one time. We would then say"Do you want IN ?" She'd then wag her tail and head for the door. Another thing she did was if she saw someone going back in the house she'd go in with them. She'd stay inside anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour then bark to go back out.
Yes sometimes no matter how well you know your dog these things happen.
A few days ago we were working on the second garden which is about 150 feet away from our house. By working I mean our usual work for 10 minutes and sit for twenty. Dolly was in the shade most of the time. She's always been good at politely letting us know if she needs something or if something is wrong. Sometimes it's a matter of guesswork as to what it is. She did not do that on that particular day. One of the bad things about a dachshund is that they might want to do a certain thing but when they go to do it they may all of a sudden decide that they don't want to do it after all. This can be very exasperating at times.
We did not discover that Dolly had gotten too hot until we went in for the day. Instead of jumping up on me and sleeping on my shoulder she went straight for the bedroom and laid where she got the best breeze from the ceiling fan. One of the best home improvement projects I have ever done was those ceiling fans.
When Gretchen went in to check on her she had a hard time waking her up. That's very unusual because she wakes easily. She did wake and she was OK but Mrs.G and I decided that she was exhausted from the heat. This happened in spite of the fact that we had ice water over there for all of us. When Dolly needs water she comes to us and we let her drink from a bottle. She loves curling her tongue up and sticking it inside the bottle to drink while we tip it for her. She also seems to enjoy getting her water in the same way her humans do.
We decided that the next day we'd train her to go back in the house for a little while to cool off. It turned out that she trained us instead of us training her. When she needed to cool off she started coming to us and barking AT us one time. We would then say"Do you want IN ?" She'd then wag her tail and head for the door. Another thing she did was if she saw someone going back in the house she'd go in with them. She'd stay inside anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour then bark to go back out.
Yes sometimes no matter how well you know your dog these things happen.
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