The official EN World puppy/doggo thread

[The Soloist]

End-of-life experiences in animals. Sad and beautiful at the same time. (10 minutes)

"...Based on a collection of more than 100 case histories, I have studied end-of-life experiences in animals, together with my colleagues Pam Smart and Dr Michael Nahm, a leading researcher on human terminal lucidity. We published these results in a paper called Experiences of Dying Animals: Parallels With End-Of-Life Experiences in Humans in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. We were able to group these experiences into specific categories, most of which are similar to end-of-life experiences in people."

 

[payn]

End-of-life experiences in animals. Sad and beautiful at the same time. (10 minutes)

"...Based on a collection of more than 100 case histories, I have studied end-of-life experiences in animals, together with my colleagues Pam Smart and Dr Michael Nahm, a leading researcher on human terminal lucidity. We published these results in a paper called Experiences of Dying Animals: Parallels With End-Of-Life Experiences in Humans in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. We were able to group these experiences into specific categories, most of which are similar to end-of-life experiences in people."

I've seen it enough now that I can tell when the end is coming for my fur friends

 

[Thomas Shey]

I kind of wish I couldn't.

 

[Meech17]

We bought a house in the spring, and the backyard was fenced on 3/4 sides. I finally got around to purchasing and installing the last part+gate this weekend so Archie is now free to run in the leaves and poop without the burden of a leash.

The kicker now however, is that he's afraid of the backdoor. So until he warms up to it, we still either have to carry him out there or put him on the leash and walk around through the gate..

Baby steps.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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We bought a house in the spring, and the backyard was fenced on 3/4 sides. I finally got around to purchasing and installing the last part+gate this weekend so Archie is now free to run in the leaves and poop without the burden of a leash.

The kicker now however, is that he's afraid of the backdoor. So until he warms up to it, we still either have to carry him out there or put him on the leash and walk around through the gate..

Baby steps.

This grrrl was probably the smartest border collie we’ve ever had:

When we got her as a puppy, she was so small that she could have easily escaped under the car gate to our yard.

So for quite a while, we had to take her into the yard on a leash. When she grew a bit more, we tried to let her enjoy the yard solo or with our 2 other grrrls.

But because of the leashed outings, we had inadvertently trained her that yard time had to be supervised. So, you HAD to go outside to get her outside, and she’d follow you inside almost as quickly.

We avoided this with our subsequent border collies by using a 25’ tether attached to a stake placed right at the edge of our patio (a couple feet outside bottom right of that first photo). The puppies could go almost all the way to the car gate, but could also easily come inside for water & shade.

 

[payn]

This grrrl was probably the smartest border collie we’ve ever had:

When we got her as a puppy, she was so small that she could have easily escaped under the car gate to our yard.

So for quite a while, we had to take her into the yard on a leash. When she grew a bit more, we tried to let her enjoy the yard solo or with our 2 other grrrls.

But because of the leashed outings, we had inadvertently trained her that yard time had to be supervised. So, you HAD to go outside to get her outside, and she’d follow you inside almost as quickly.

We avoided this with our subsequent border collies by using a 25’ tether attached to a stake placed right at the edge of our patio. The puppies could go almost all the way to the car gate, but could also easily come inside for water & shade.

My boy Jax was an escape artist as a young doggo. It wasnt until the last third of his life I could let him out in an non-fenced yard and not worry about him taking off. He wasnt so much a trouble maker as he was a staunch explorer at heart. He just wanted to see the world.

I remember one time we went out of town to my SIL's place. They had a fenced in yard with a golden retriever. I saw a small gap between the fence and the house and I asked them to plug it. "Oh, thats not big enough and Jordi (thier golden) has never even tried!" Yeah, it was comical how fast Jax found that spot, wormed through it, and was off exploring to his hearts desire.

 

[Meech17]

This grrrl was probably the smartest border collie we’ve ever had:

When we got her as a puppy, she was so small that she could have easily escaped under the car gate to our yard.

So for quite a while, we had to take her into the yard on a leash. When she grew a bit more, we tried to let her enjoy the yard solo or with our 2 other grrrls.

But because of the leashed outings, we had inadvertently trained her that yard time had to be supervised. So, you HAD to go outside to get her outside, and she’d follow you inside almost as quickly.

We avoided this with our subsequent border collies by using a 25’ tether attached to a stake placed right at the edge of our patio (a couple feet outside bottom right of that first photo). The puppies could go almost all the way to the car gate, but could also easily come inside for water & shade.

My childhood dog was a border collie and he was the best. I miss him a lot. He was very kind, and very smart. I never thought much of it as a kid, but we lived in a semi-rural area, and our back yard bumped up to a large wooded area. I'd take him out at night, and he'd wander out into the woods, do his business, and then just return without being called.

Archie is a good dog, but I could never do that with him.

We tried getting him to come back out on his own. I sat outside with the door open, treats and toy in hand, and he just stared at me from the kitchen and cried like there was a mile wide river between us or something.

Edit: He's got a weird thing with stairs.. I don't know what it is. We don't have any going out the back, but there's a single step down from the kitchen into a landing that turns one way out the back, and then the other way to the stairs to the basement. In our old apartment we were on the second floor and refused to use the stairs there at first too. For the first week or so we had to carry him up and down every time we took him out, and then randomly he just decided they were okay and started using them..

He's a good boy.. But not a bright one.