GLWR Weim Quotes and Notes

Weim Quotes and Notes

A guide to Weim ownership by Weim owners

Tug!

Life living with a Weim, by their loving owners:

Once Jenny got sprayed by a skunk early in the morning when Joel let her out for her first pee. She ran in the house, jumped on the bed like something terribly awful had just happened and we didn't even recognize the smell because it was sooooo strong (she had a scratch on her nose so the skunk couldn't have been closer.) It was like a combo of kerosene or white gas and garlic - just awful. Well I started getting ready for work and the smell was everywhere in our house, REALLY strong.

I decided to stay home (just called in sick because I needed prior approval for a personal day) because I would have stunk up the whole hallway at the school, not to mention the strength of it in the classroom! My husband left for work, stopped at a gas station, the clerk made a comment about how he smelled strong of skunk and he turned around came back home.

So that day we spent washing Jenny 3 times in the peroxide/baking soda mixture, washing anything she came in contact with, cleaning the carpets, and airing out the house with all fans on (this was in February, their mating season!)

.....We were at the point when we thought we could leave the dogs uncrated. We started with twenty minuets and it got longer from there. They were up to about four or five hours and Jason came home from work to get something and had to run right back to work, needless to say he did not spend more than two minutes talking to the dogs.

When he came home two hours later there was one inch cubes of foam and stuffing all over the living room, Jason looked and couldn't tell what they had gotten into. He knew that Toby had done something because he wouldn't come up the stairs to see him until Jason called him, Tug sat in the living room with a look on her face of It wasn't me this time dad!! and then Jason sat on the couch! Toby had pulled up the back middle cushion material and shredded the inside, and then put the material back in place.

I guess he thought that we wouldn't notice that he tore apart the couch. He was really really mad that Jason didn't spend much time with him.......

....This is my series of "true tests of a potential wiem owner"....if you can still love them and even laugh about it later, then your a good candidate as a weim owner!

- I received a call from my mother, one day while away at college. In a very low voice, she declared

"c o m e g e t y o u r d o g!!"...she had arrived home, to find that our 11 yr old Weimaraner, had become bored while she was at work. He had opened the kitchen cupboards and dragged out a 5 lb bag of flour...into the living room, and proceeded to spread flour all over the room (carpet, couch, chairs, drapes....) then licked it all into a paste into the carpet, which hardened into cement and bonded with the fibers of the carpet (by the time my mother returned home).

It took us 6 months to clean most of the flour out of the carpet...and then we decided to give up and install new carpeting.

- Tye, our Weim puppy (14 months old), had been behaving so well lately, we mistakenly thought he'd earned the right to be left loose in our new (1 yr old) mini-van. We returned to the van, to discovered he had decided that the leather seats, arm rests and head rests were wonderful chew toys and had proceeded to shred them....the entire interior of the van was covered in seat stuffing....to the tune of over $3000.00 worth in damage....did you know that auto insurance will pay for it? (once) ....and yes, Tye is now alive and well at the ripe old age of two! uh oh...the terrible twos......

Owning a Weimaraner is like having a 4 legged, stubborn, pushy child stuck in the 'terrible two' stage for 12 - 14 years! Think you can handle it?

....I wanted to tell you a funny story I have heard from Bay's new family. First, Bay can not be crated, he becomes a neurotic mess when crated and is fine not being crated. So his new family knew this and did not intend on crating him. But did want to use a gate to keep him out of certain areas of the house when they went away.

...Saturday night was their first time leaving Bay home by himself. They put him in an area with plenty of room, his new bed, and a baby gate to keep him in that area. So Bay's new mom and dad decide to back out of the garage and park out by the road and sneak into the back yard to see if Bay is being good in his area. When they looked into the window Bay had already jumped the gate and was sprawled out on the couch all nice and comfy. So they went back to the car and drove back into the garage and open the door to find Bay was lying on his new bed in the gated area like he had been there the whole time. Now how smart is this boy to have already figured out this act in his new house!!

Great Skunk Smell remover!

See our blog article in our Hints & Tips category:

Skunk smell removal recipes to see the recipe for removing skunk smells from your pet, the yard and even your deck or driveway!

Running on....a Treadmill?

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