I brought Candy up to sleep with us last night. She curled up on the bed and didn’t peep all through the night. However, at 6 o’clock, we heard her retching. She vomited bile on the bed and on the floor. I haven’t noticed the dogs doing that lately, since I read they sometimes do that if they go to bed on an empty stomach and have been trying to give them a little food before bedtime. She seemed okay throughout the day, though.
Flower follows me down to the basement whenever I go to put anything in the wash. She sniffs around the exercise room and the spare room. I haven’t caught her peeing on the carpet again, but I do try to keep an eye on her when she wanders into a different room. I am glad that she is becoming more comfortable with the different areas of the house and doesn’t seem as fearful as she did a few months ago.
Crazy shih tzus
The dogs have seemed a little lackluster lately, but today, all four of them were jumping each other. Flower was being a little too aggressive with Candy. She acted like she was mad at her. Candy was standing up to her, but I finally said Flower’s name firmly and when she looked up, told her “No!” She came up to me shaking her head from side to side, and I shook my finger at her. She came up further and put it in her mouth, backed away and then came back and put her mouth on my finger again. It was more like gumming than biting. They are way too cute.
Nigel decided it was her turn to be picked on, and tore after her, so she went running. They are getting a little crazy these days. They ran too close to the TV tray stand holding my water and knocked the water on the floor. Thankfully, it was a plastic Starbucks glass with a tight lid.
Later, Flower jumped up on the couch, pawed at me, and then cocked her head back towards the dining room, as if to say, “This way. We need a treat!”
I got my laptop back after being without it for three weeks! Now that I won’t be using a loaner laptop, I need to transfer pictures to it and start putting them up with my posts again. I know they have been very bare without any.
Happy new year shih tzu gang and human family! Einsteing still does that every once and awhile also, he has this tendancy to i think deal with his anxiety by licking himslef to the point where he creates all this acid build up and of course we are half asleep but as long as it is on the duvet cover, well it is all good since i can wash it. But you are right we also were told to give him a small snack before bed so we usually give him his all natural peanut butter treat or all natural “cookie” or just a few morsels of his food that way it is healthy for him and he does not gain extra weight from treats. Also we were told by the behaviourlist to only give him a treat if he earns it, so typically when he follows commands such as sit, down, stay, speak etc. At first we would give him treats for just being [a human behaviour] but after speaking to the vet and behaviourlist we wanted to make sure he would not get overweight and not just give him empty calories that had no nutritional benefits, i think it is this human instinct to treat them like humans but they need boudaries and really they define love with exercise, food and then affection. We also are still working on the indoor accidents, and we have had einstein for a year, so i can’t imagine four einstein’s!!! lot’s of carpet and floor cleaner and time out’s in his kennel for half an hour followed by an immediate okay let’s go outside to pee and then encouragment and a small treat once he does pee. just when you think the barffing and peeing and poohing inside is all done, think again. but he is well worth it as your gang of shih tzu’s are as well.
Hello! I am so sorry it took me so long to reply. I hadn’t thought of the fact that it could be caused by bile. That could be the case. I have tried to give the dogs some of those natural cookies and peanut butter treats and they didn’t like them. Can you suggest a brand? We try to feed them treats that appear healthy, but I am sure we could do better. I have to admit that we haven’t yet tried to teach them commands, which is bad! I intend to take Nigel to a dog training class, and use him as my guinea pig so I learn how to teach them. January was a disaster in trying to teach them anything, especially since I got behind because of computer issues and have been racing to catch up, but you are an inspiration for me to get on the ball! And we definitely have made strides. 😉