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01-04-2009, 09:33 AM | #1 |
I ♥ Snoopy and Sally! Donating YT Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Ohio
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| Squirrels driving him crazy! Snoopy just goes crazy over the squirrels in our backyard. He tenses up and makes a high pitched whine if he sees one. Sometimes we let him out to bark at them, and he calms back down if they run away. But he can't stay outside, and he goes nuts if we don't let him out. So mommy has to 'make the squirrels go away' (close the blinds...) My question is this: should I try to calm him down? close the blinds? let him go out to chase them away over and over? let him bark at them through the glass? My feeling is to let him out for a little while, then close the blinds if the squirrels are still hanging out. He's my first dog, so I really have no idea.
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01-04-2009, 09:42 AM | #2 |
Love My Little Cuties Donating Member Administrator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charleston, IL
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| We had the same problem with Finnigan. We didn't let him outside until he stopped whining and running back and forth in front of the window. His grandma (my mom) also got him a stuffed squirrel and he would grab that and "kill it" when he saw the squirrels outside.
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01-04-2009, 09:54 AM | #3 | |
I ♥ my Furheathens Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: VAN ALSTYNE
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Aww I dont have any advice for you but Sam wants to come over! He loves loves loves loves squirrels!!! Sam said to tell Snoopy that those squirrels are WIMPS and he can take'em. Sam will come over and show Snoopy how to terrorize them!!!
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01-04-2009, 10:10 AM | #4 |
Love My Little Cuties Donating Member Administrator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charleston, IL
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| Oh, by the way I saw the cutest shirt at Target last night, but it wasn't in Finnigan's size. It said, "Squirrels can't be trusted" under a picture of a squirrel. It was so cute!
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01-04-2009, 10:32 AM | #5 |
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| That is so cute! Was it in the pet section or the dollar section? I want to get it for Smokey!
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01-04-2009, 10:36 AM | #6 |
Love My Little Cuties Donating Member Administrator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charleston, IL
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| It was in the pet section on an endcap instead of in the aisle with the others.
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01-04-2009, 10:54 AM | #7 |
♥ Chip ♥ Smokey ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leesburg
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| I hope my target has one in his size! They don't really have much of anything, but I'm going to look today after work. He looooves squirrels. I might even get one for my MIL's dog... he never used to chase squirrels until we brought Chip and Smokey over to their house... he had never played with another little dog and he Smokey were chasing each other so much that now he chases squirrels... he must think they are dogs
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01-04-2009, 11:03 AM | #8 |
I ♥ Scooter Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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| Scooter goes crazy when the squirrels come out too. He likes to sneak up on them so he lightly scratches on the corner of the door and asks permission to go out. Once you open the door, he creeps out and tries to surprise the squirrel. The squirrels in our back yard taunt him by coming up close to the back door and running a few feet up a tree just out of reach. If you train your baby to quietly ask to be let out, I think all your problems will be solved. I have blinds I can close so he cannot see them anymore and it doesnt work. He has figured out a way to get between the blinds and the window (I have full length windows) and still see out. Training works better. Good luck.
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01-04-2009, 11:05 AM | #9 | |
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01-04-2009, 11:08 AM | #10 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| The squirrels drive my two nuts also. I have a walnut tree in my yard so we always have alot of squirrels in the yard
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01-04-2009, 11:17 AM | #11 |
I ♥ Scooter Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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| Next time we are heading your way, I will let you know. They would love to see each other again. Add a squirrel hunt and it is on!!
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01-04-2009, 12:53 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 11K Club Member | That's so funny! Just today there were squirrels coming up to my brother's glass door and the girls are here and they were going crazy! They wouldn't stop whining!
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01-04-2009, 12:58 PM | #13 |
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| I have no advice , but think that is pretty cute ! I bet you will be able to train him to calm down before he gets let outside, then he can chase those Squirrels away! I just would be a little concerned if one of them had babies somewhere , or had Rabies.... Cause wouldn't they become aggressive then?
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01-04-2009, 01:01 PM | #14 | |
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01-04-2009, 01:05 PM | #15 |
Mojo, LilyGrace & Me Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cuddling with my babies<3
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| I am sorry, but I don't have any advice either.....but Mojo goes crazy over birds and flies! If he sees a bird outside, he will bark and grrrrrrrowl at it because they are in HIS yard! LilyGrace is the same w/ crows and squirrels....when we first got her, she would run from tree to tree after them...we have been working w/ her off leash....these little babies.....
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