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Originally Posted by kjc  Hi Doc! Thought I'd offer an alternative method of hopefully stopping the snarling. My Tinkerbell went through a stage doing this with me and I was at my wit's end as to how to correct this behavior. My final trick was to show my feelings to her. When she last snarled at me, I acted hurt, crying and sobbing, and carried on a bit about how I just couldn't believe that she would be so nasty to me... Lol and to my surprise it worked! She looked at me and her expression had changed from a nasty dog ready to bite to a thinking dog wondering what had she done to her Mom to make her so very sad... She gave me the most tender kisses trying to make me feel better... and has never once snarled at me again! |
It works! my wife was once a Film actress
(cut 26 titles in Russia) and she behaved exactly as you suggested, me with the deckchair and clapperboard directing. Crystal's head went from side to side, like a clockwork toy, completely stunned. After a few seconds of the
'you cannot be serious' look, there followed bucket loads of licking and then by way of a communal rejoinder, general blubbering between the two of them!
Well, what was I to do, I ask you, confronted by such a performance? Responding quickly, I gave a quick rendition of Nessun Dorma, set to the lyrics of 'Old McDonald had a Farm', complete with an accompanying Highland reel, over two ceremonial swords, (
heirlooms from a long gone and well stiff relative relative)! Probably because of delayed shock at both her parents losing it at the same time, she's since been as good as gold and even did did some knitting later on.
I think we've had a milestone moment here this evening - oh yes. Growling and snapping can really bring the 'X' files to life, Mulder and Scully move over! To calm her down for
bye bye's later, I started a new 'goodnight story' as bedtime approached
(she won't sleep without her story).
In a quiet narrative tone,
(reminiscent of Morgan Freeman trying to do Winston Churchill) we've commenced the first chapter of 'The Wind in the Willows', - with so far only the Mole's character voice speaking, which aroused her instantly. So much so, that I got a 'hat trick' of sea-lion nose bump kisses, before she nodded off on my lap.
Later when I moved her to the other side of the bed there were no resulting snappies or grrrrs! Distraction is the way forward it seems, believe me folks - I'm a Doctor!
