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10-04-2010, 06:15 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ball Ground, GA
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| They Learn the Darndest Things! I have two IGs who dig in the grass and appear to eat dirt. I used to tell myself they were eating worms, but I have to fess up, it's dirt. Lizzy is three, but I've only had her for two years and five months. In all this time, I have NEVER seen my little cutie pie, my little baby who pees and poops on the patio rather than the grass, who can't walk with a leaf stuck in her fur or poop stuck on her butt eat dirt until today. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! I was cleaning up the yard and turned around to see Liz with her nose in one of their little holes, eating dirt. I blame the IGs. In fact, I think they put her up to it. There must be some kind of Murphy's law around my house that when a dog learns something from one of the other dogs, it isn't a good thing.
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10-04-2010, 06:35 PM | #3 | |
and Khloe Mae's too! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Eastern Washington
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It must be them because our precious lil yorkies don't eat dirt without having the bad influence of another dog
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10-04-2010, 06:51 PM | #4 |
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| Jackson has eaten some nasty things, but never dirt.... until a few days ago! After the rain, there was a huge pile of mud/dirt, and Jackson just took a big chomp out of it and started chewing happily... I was pretty disgusted, hahaha.
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10-04-2010, 07:31 PM | #6 |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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| It went from my house to your house! The first year I had Kacee, she dug little holes all over her fenced-in yard! It looked like I had a mole or something. I didn't think I'd ever get them repaired, but I did and thankfully she stopped her hole digging!
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10-05-2010, 06:15 AM | #8 |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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| It's true! Our neighbor has a bird dog that would come over and sit up on her back end trying to see the birds in a pine tree. She jumped around the entire circumference of the tree doing that. Kacee would sit at her gate and watch this. Who woulda guessed? It wasn't long before Kacee started copying her. She couldn't wait to run out to that tree on our walks and she'd sit up on her rear end and just look in that tree for birds and if she scared one away, she looked so proud of herself.
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10-05-2010, 01:20 PM | #9 | |
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10-05-2010, 01:30 PM | #10 | |
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They don't get much time out alone in the yard as I am afraid to leave them out there without supervision. Liz can't be left out, I've seen hawks around my house. But they still try to get to those holes. I ran Liz off yesterday and asked her what she thought she was doing. Hopefully, she won't do it again. It may not be a terrier trait, but I don't think she is as hard headed as the two IG offenders are.
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10-05-2010, 01:39 PM | #11 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | Tallulah's breeder told me a horror story about one of her pups being snatched out of the new owner's yard by a hawk. My yard is a haven to sparrows, blue jays, and hummingbirds. I will be keeping an eye on ALL of them. |
10-05-2010, 02:19 PM | #12 |
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10-05-2010, 04:52 PM | #13 | |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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10-05-2010, 04:55 PM | #14 |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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| It happens! You should look up the picture of what Sweetapple did to her back yard to try to keep the hawks away.
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10-05-2010, 05:08 PM | #15 |
~Izzie~ My Lil' Sweetie Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: So. California (Santa Clarita)
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| I think I would prefer my lil one eating dirt over eating flys, spiders, crawling bugs...uggggggg
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